Were n all in favour say aye . Aye. I move not to discuss anything closed in closed session. Second. All those in favour. Aye. Aye. Madame secretary . The pledge of allegiance. I pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Please be advised that the ringing of the use of cell phones, pagers and similar soundproducing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advise that the chairman ordered the removal from the meeting room of any person responsible for the ringing of or use of a cell phone, pager and other soundproducing electronic device. Please be advised that the member of the public has up to three minutes to pertinent Public Comments on each agenda item unless there is a shorter period on any other item. Item eight on Public Comments not listed on the agenda. I dont have any cards. Is there any Public Comment on anything not listed on the agenda . Being none, Public Comment is closed. Ok. Item 9a, executive director report. Good afternoon, president adams. Vice president adams. Members of the port commission. Happy new year to you all. The item id like to update you on is the resilient by Design Competition. This is a non notforprofit led Rockefeller Foundation sponsored yearlong Collaborative Design challenge, bringing together residents, Public Officials and locals, national and International Experts to develop 10 innovative communitybased solutions that will strengthen the regions resiliency to sea level rise, severe storms, flood, etc. The teams there are 10 teams if 10 locations. Our location has been defined as islais creek. The port is very pleased that it was selected. The city really recommended between three Sites Mission creek, fisherermans wharf and islais creek, but that was our favourite so were very pleased that it was selected. We will learn january 11 who our design firm will be. When we do, it will be posted on our website. This will be a very collaborative process with local residents and Community Organisations. These design these conceptial designs will be innovative and will allow us to really think about ways in which we can adapt to sea level rise. So were really looking forward to this. We are a key stakeholder as the landlord of this area, of this location. And were working closely with the resill resiliency by Design Competition staff. The next item is on pier 70. Id like to let everyone know that the port has made the decision to reissue the r. F. P. For the shipyard at pier 70 and we have a target of coming to this commission for approval february 27 of the year. So, very soon. As you will recall, we issued an r. F. P. August 15. We received three proposals, but only one was responsive and that was vigor of portland, oregon. As we work to clarify the response with vigor, we saw that we would need to repackage the r. F. P. And put out, broaden the scope of the r. F. P. In order for a firm to for the facility to be economically viable. And given that we learned this, we wanted to put it out again to offer the other shipyard operators who did not come in with the responsive propose told think again and perhaps bid again. So that is the reason for that decision. We remain very, very committed to seeing the shipyard up and operational again. And hope that this new r. F. P. Will yield a very good, responsive bidder. As you all probably woke up to know, on january 4, we got an Early Morning earthquake out of berkeley. It was initially reported at 4. 7, but was downgraded to 4. 4. Though we knew right away, given the size on the Richter Scale that probably we did not suffer damage. We did deploy our staff, full did a full deployment in order to test how we inspect and respond to earthquakes. We know this is something that will be in future and we want to be prepared. So by 7 30, we had 10 teams out. Five in boat and five on land. Really the entire port staff participate from engineering and maintenance participated in the exercise. It was a really, really high tide that day. So formally we would havened whated to go under the piers to inspect but because of the high tide it was not safe so we did perimeter reviews. The thaied was at 2. 5 feet and by 11 00 a. M. It was at seven feet. So it was impossible to get under the pier. We did learn that perimeter inspections are excellent. We were able to get all of our results in by 1 30, which we felt was a very, very good result. We identified nine issues, none of which the earthquake caused, but were very, very good issues to know about and we also realised that we are getting good at deploying our staff. But prioritizing what work to do first is something we need to work on with protocol and im thankful to rob iwashda and tom carter of our executive team, our chief arbor engineer and Deputy Director of maintenance who ran the maintenance and diana better tram. It was very well done. There were 34 staff involved. And i just want to remind the public to please also practice your emergency response. There is lots of good, Cognitive Research that says if you dont practice something, you dont know how to do it when youre worried, people will dial 411 in a catastrophe instead of 911 because theyre used to dialing 411 so practice, practice, practice. I have the great privilege of aunderstand noing that our own Deputy Director of maintenance tom carter has won the mvac award with paul defreidas. This special event for the awardees will be march 21st at 5 30 p. M. In city hall rotunda. And they won this award for the warm water cove encampment resolution and the Navigation Centre at 25th street. So, as most people familiar with the port last year, we were going through quite an unsurge ens and we were seeing more and more people on port property and our commission wanted us to do something positive and respond with compassion and this group of folks got the work going. First we did clearing of the encampments and focused on Compassionate Services to people. Then we identified the Navigation Centre as city policy is the best of breed in providing care to the Homeless Population and we found a site at 25th street and we even got the local neighbourhood residents and the Community Organisations to support the Navigation Centre. It was a long process, but it was a very, very rewarding one. And the awardees spent many, many hours doing the hard work that is involved in encampment removals so were very proud that they were given very prestigious award. I would like to announce that were having a special meeting january 30. This will be at the the open session will be at 3 15 at pier one in the bayside conference rooms. Thank you very much. There any Public Comment on the executive directors report . Any Public Comment . Being none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners report. Are we showing these slides . You want to start showing them now . Yes. Go ahead. Staff has prepared some photo images of our be loved mayor edwin lee. We know the port commissioners would like the say some words about our former mayor. Why dont we have the slide show first to kind of just is that you wanted to show the public, right . I was just goinging to go through them as you were talking. Oh, all right. Ok. Fine. I guess ill start, president adams. Thank you for giving me the privilege of going first. I have two parts to what with id like to say about mayor ed lee. First is the personal. Weve known my husband and i have known ed lee since 1989 when he joined the government and when my husband joined as deputy mayor with art agnos. And they also they also lived five minutes away from us so we were in the same neighbourhood and we frequently got together over the years and certainly when he was mayor for dinner. So, we have a very, very close, personal association. And along the way there were other intersections, its funny how life is. Theres always six degrees of separation. Ed lee is an alumna of Boden College and my son attended boden so they had that connection between them. And my soninlaw then went to high school with breanne fa, his daughter. So, we had that connection, too. So, this loss is very, very personal to us. Not just for the city, but personally. And he was such a humble man and i think we all remember his tremendous sense of humour and his corny jokes and none of us remember his corny jokes, we just know that everybody would start laughing because he would start laughing. He was enthusiastic about his own jokes. He was i have traveled with him and i guess talk a little bit about on the civic side of what you know of him and the public side as far as the mayor is concerned. I know when he asked me to join the port commission, which i accepted and as we can see over the years he was a tremendously vibrant supporter of our waterfront and all of our projects and i think all of that is known and documented with starting with all the things that he believed in first with the warriors and pier 70 and mission rock and all those projects which i dont need to and im sure the other commissioners here may talk about. But i think that i still remember, too, to make sure that as he transitioned to be mayor and at the time with monique moyer, we had several breakfast meetings and at the tomb i was president and he wanted to ensure a smooth transition. As i recall, he was probably more involved as a mayor with the port than some of the pred se sorts. Predecessors. He wanted to make sure that we were on the same agenda. And he also had people from a city hall standpoint and i think it was very important that he took the time and we used to have a few breakfast meets toing talk about what was going on at the port and that worked out well and i think the transition worked out well. The other part to me is related to one of my other activities in the city. Im on the board of the San Francisco opera. One of the things that ed lee was honourary chair of the chamber as a bridge between asia and china. A bridge between american and asian culture and he was a tireless champion. He traveled with me at least three times to asia to make sure that we were able to get it not only presented here in San Francisco as a world premiere, but also in hong kong and eventually last september in beijing. It was an absolute first to get this to china given the state of chinas very nationalistic to get a foreign import to talk to them about one of their great classic stories. But he went to beijing. He talked to the mayor of beijing. We talked to the minister of culture. The minister of cultural visited San Francisco. These are all absolutely revolutionary firsts. The fact when the flags were held halfmast not only here in San Francisco but in washington, d. C. And other places, i think speaks to the respect that ed lee had across the country and internationally. I know that within four hours of his passing here, the news was flashed in china and all of a sudden my husband and i started getting Text Messages all over the place. My husband was in the hospital room with anita the night that he passed and was very, very sad. Unfortunately i was in minneapolis at the time. But it was something so unexpected, as you know, and i think we just it is very difficult. Im still trying to comprehend that loss and ed lee saw the dream of the red chamber and relates back to how he saw San Francisco. He saw it not just of his chinese heritage, but as San Franciscos cultural gift to the world and it is a gift that will have a legacy that goes on and not only hopefully in asia, but other parts of world. He used to champion those things. He saw San Francisco as the gateway to the world. I think through what he did in technology, in San Francisco, enhanced the citys International Reputation and we had such respect from other places in the world and, as you know, on the domestic front, im sure the people will talk about how he was the champion of housing in the city and the mayor that has achieved the most units of Affordable Housing than any other mayor in the city and that goal still hasnt been met. Hes only been 11,000. I just want to say that he was a quiet, unassuming man and i know there was a lot of criticism on issues in this city. As soon as he left us, i think we realised how great he really was and the legacy he left us is an amazing legacy for city of San Francisco. And for me personally, a tremendous loss. And my husband loved to have dinner with him and one of the things that they used to like to do, which if you knew ed lee, he loved to smoke a cigar. So, as my husband said at one of his. Ss, he lost a buddy to spoke a good cigar with after dinner. Thank you. Commissioner katz. I think many of us in this room go way back with mayor lee and it certainly came as a shock to me when i served on the board of supervisors. I used to call him my goto eds. Ed lee and ed harrington. That anything i wanted to do i went to one of the two of them because no matter what it was, even if it wasnt in their official area of duties, they thought it through and they understood the impact on the city and cared about making a difference. And i remember having many conversations with then director lee at both the Human Rights Commission and at the department of public works and then later when he was city administrator. About issues impacting the city that went far beyond his scope that he knew how the city is all intricately intertwineded and he cared so much about it. It certainly was a shock to all of us. I know at countless event and whenever i would see him, he would ask about some small detail about the port. When we were having dinners, at other functions, he always came over and asked something specific and wanted to know what was happening here and he paid a great deal of attention to the port and i think he cared very deeply about the city as a whole and also what was happening at the port and this is one area that he saw as a significant legacy of his in terms of whats been transpiring athrong waterfront. I also know he took it upon himself when we selected a new port director. He really took it upon himself to mentor elaine as a new Department Head and we certain have seen how well thats come out. I think we owe him a great, great deal of things for taking that extra time to go above and beyond and make sure everyone was successful throughout the city. Thats something he fell very strongly about, working with people, to give them the opportunity to be their best selves and to soar. We can all tell a lot of stories and i certainly have quite a few about something that i personally appreciate. He didnt have to do this, but he spearheaded erts with the u. S. Conference of mayors to support the lgbtq community. So much so that the Human Rights Campaign sent out a press release regarding hises paing and what hes meant to the community nationally and how he spearheaded those efforts to bring other mayors to fight for equality for all communities. And i think that speaks volumes of the kind of person he was. I know as many of us look back on his legacy, i think we will appreciate even more how he quietly got things done. It is often an ungovernorable city but he managed to push things along and it will all reflect well on a lot of the work that he did during his ten your. Tenure. And he will be missed. Again, i said the before, but our hearts go out to his wife anita and his two daughters, losing a partner and the father at such a young age is really hard. So, we thank them for lending him to us . For as long as we had him. Vice president brandon . Its still so hard to believe that he is gone. I think i first met mayor lee back when he was with the department of public works and i would see him at different events throughout the years. And then when the opportunity for him to become our caretaker mayor happened, i thought he was a perfect person because i thought that he wasnt political. He just, you know, wanted to do the right thing and create a fair and level Playing Field for everyone. And then when the run ed run campaign started, i jumped on the bandwagon because i thought he was perfect. Although he said he wasnt going to run, i was happy that he did. Working with him over the last seven years has just been absolutely wonderful. He has been so engaged and so involved in our port activities. And just from the creation of the bond measure that will be ton ballot in november and from everything that weve needed, he has helped us with and he has just been there to guide us and as commissioner katz said, regarding our new director and taking her under his arm and making sure that she is successful, he has just been so wonderful to work with. And were all going to miss him very very much and we all had the opportunity to attend his Memorial Service at city hall which was done so elegantly. So wonderful. So lovingly. Which was just his character. All of what he recommends. So it is really hard to believe that he is gone and were definitely going to miss him. Thank you, commissioner. Executive director forbes. I think mayor lee was an exceptional human being. He was just such a good man. And that really did come through more after he passed away, what w