Those volunteers and members who went out there that day. Only other remark i wanted to show our appreciation. To you commissioner veronese for this program. Item 6, commission report. Report on Commission Activity since last meeting october 9, 2019. Commissioners ill call for Public Comment on this item. Any member of the public wishes to give Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Any announcements that you would like to make at this time. Vice president covington. Vice president covington i was thanked to thank commissioner veronese for his ongoing support regarding the stress unit. I think its very admirable. He pursued money and training for the peer support group. I thank him for that. I wanted to say that i know that the president of our commission was there but the commemoration of the 30th anniversary was outstanding. It was just absolutely wonderful. It was very uplifting. I would think it might be a somber event, actually we laughed a lot. The st. Francis fire boat was there. The mayor did a wonderful job as emcee. Supervisor stephanie was there. There were people in the department who has been in the department who had time to speak as well. It was heart warming. I saw little bit of it on sfgov today. Commissioner veronese i see your name on the roster. Commissioner veronese just on commission activities. We had the Fire Department hosted a pier support training. There were about 30 members. The training was put on by the International Association of firefighters. My foundation, the National First responders paid for it. It was a Great Program. I stopped in the very beginning of the program to say hello. Sat through an hour of it. Its a Great Program being offered. I look forward to doing as many of these as we can. There were three or four different departments from all over the bay area that jumped in on it. Which is great. Theres more money there to keep doing these things. I hope that the department well do some in Southern California as well. I look forward to the department and other departments contributing to it and with their people. I was really pleased to see it was a good show. Well keep doing them as long as people show up to them. The credit goes to the thousands of contributors that contributed to the fund and everything that everybody that was part of that. Thank you for that. Commissioner hardeman. Commissioner hardeman this will be brief. Had celebration fleet week the day after the last meeting downstairs. George schultz was honored. His 99th birthday, former secretary. There was charlotte, his wife, who has been so good about hosting things. Shes having a hard time getting around. It was a very nice performance. I didnt see a lot of first responders. I think there was an invitation that went out like the day or two before. I think lot of people were missed is what i was told. I was representing the Fire Department. We were there. I enjoyed it. It was fun. Thank you. President nakajo thank you very much. Commissioner hardeman. Commissioner hardeman on monday november 18th we have our retirement scheduled at headquarters at 4 00. Just as a reminder. I wanted to comment as well on the ceremony. I believe chief anita bradley, she gave remarks. I tell you that was some really inspiring and enjoyable comments. Shes got talent. It was just enjoyable how real she was and how honest she was and how she brought everything in perspective. I really enjoyed that. To cap it off with the Vice President we had an opera singer that was really fantastic to be able to add to that and the atmosphere. She said something about us san franciscans everything and we celebrate earthquakes as well. Its the resilience of everybody within the department and city and county of San Francisco. I know everyone is prepping for the next one or trying to prep for the next one. I wanted to remark on that as well. Thank you for all of that. I appreciate it so much. Madam second . Item 7. Agenda agenda for next and future meetings. President nakajo call for Public Comment on this item. What do we have for the remainder of the year . It was confirmed today ems6 presentation with captain payne. And a closed session settlement. President nakajo that is for the Commission Meeting november 13th . Yes. President nakajo we have two more Commission Meetings left in the year. December 11th will be the last meeting of the year. Commissioner hardeman commissioner cleaveland wonder if we can put the grant writer position on. Give us an update on whats happening with that position. Perhaps share if it has to be in closed session to discuss the candidates for the position. I think this position is so critical to future funding for lot of things that our department needs. I like to have that on the agenda and get an update from the department on whats happening. President nakajo well have the chief of the Department Comment on that. Updateed. I gave Vice President covington some of the applicants who we are going to get their reds resumes and who we want to interview. Ill be happy to talk to you about it. President nakajo thank you very much. Madam secretary. Item 8. Public comment on item 9 on all matters pertaining to item 9b below including Public Comment on whether the item 9b in closed session. President nakajo any member of the public that wishes to give Public Comment on this item. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Vote on whether to conduct items 9b in closed session. The commissioner may hear item 9b in closed session to code section 54957b and administrative code section 57. 10b. President nakajo in terms of this motion to go into closed session, commissioners . Second. President nakajo we have a second from Vice President is that a motion commissioner hardeman. Theres a motion. Is there a second . Thank you very much. Vice president covington all in favor say aye. Thank you very much. We are completed for this evening. We are adjourned. Thank you very much commissioners. We have been without a major seismic event for over 20 years now. Will happen at a moments notice [ ] today we are practising the activation of our Department Emergency operations center. This is really an exercise for us to train and we are using fleet week and the entire the italian heritage festival as the exercise. We have four different sections that are working today. There is operations, and operations basically is our contact with people out in the fields. They are finding out how things are going, and if there are problems they are letting us know and we can identify through our action plan what what resources are needed and dispatch those resources. They will fill out reports and then the report gets to planning you will identify if Additional Resources need to be happening over a longterm timeframe and then they will provide for that by talking with our Logistics Staff. The logistic staff Logistics Staff is the one that will order labor, materials they will do that, first of all looking within our own organization, then if we dont have that within our own organization, they will contact the p. O. C. And then they will look at getting resources to us. And then last but importantly as our finance staff. And they are here to make sure that we first of all fill out all the paperwork so in an actual event, when the federal government will be reimbursing s. , then we are following the proper protocol, and they are also making sure the money is there in place. Today in the field we have the Environmental Service is following the parade, and doing the final cleanup of the parade. And an emergency situation they would likely be doing something similar to this, only with debris. Also in the field is the inspectors from the mapping. They are doing some live streaming. There is an intersection of beach making sure that everything is safe for our public, our visitors, and everyone participating in the event. There will be so many different departments working during a seismic event or any other kind of emergency. They will all have a separate action plan, and we are here making sure that for public works the action plan for that emergency event is actually followed through. Engineers will likely be doing Damage Assessment of roads bridges overhead passes, architects and engineers as well would be doing Damage Assessment of facilities and buildings. Building repair it would probably be doing some immediate repairs to make facilities operational, especially things like shelters, street and sewer repair as the urban forestry crew also has Big Equipment that can help clear the roadways. [ ] we have been without a major seismic event for over 20 years now, so it is important that we are ready, we know the roles that we need to play, and we are able to act quickly because it will happen at a moments notice so that is one of the reasons why we do this and again the more comfortable we feel in our roles, then the better we can respond quickly to emergencies. For an Emergency Planning communication is very important and so i cant stress enough the importance of figuring out a communication plan for your family and for the department. That is why we are practising today how we communicate and interact with each other how we share information, and how we use that information and then for the city as a whole, so that the city as a halt knows what is going on as well. Second. All in favor. Aye. The motion to not to disclose what we discussed in executive session. Second. All in favor. Aye. Onto item 6, pledge of allegiance. I pledge 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. Item 7 aannouncements. Please be advised the use of cell phones, and pagers and other sound producing electronics are prohibited during the use of this meeting. Please be aware members of the public have up to three minutes to make a Public Comment on each item of the agenda unless otherwise stated. Onto item 8 Public Comment on items not on the agenda today. Is there any Public Comment on items not listed on the agenda . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Thank you. Item 9a, executive directors report. Good afternoon members of the public and port staff, im elaine, the ports executive director. The first item is i wanted to report on fleet week, which was october 7 through 14, where the port was a very proud sponsor of the event. It was exceptionally well attended. Its an event honoring our services. The city participated in disaster debris management exercise which dem felt was extremely helpful and important to exercise our own planned removal and opening of major roadways and also to process with our federal partners was very helpful. We also had several joint military civilian exercises as well as the parade of ships and of course the air shows. But what i want to do is thank port staff that put so much time and energy into making the event another smashing success. Staff worked evening and weekends every week and much of their work goes unrecognized because they are behind the scenes making sure nothing goes wrong. So first joe riley and ken were on security. From the maritime division, we had our team making sure the vessels came in and were safe and secure aaron, bren don dominick, michael and edgar. And in the Maintenance Division we had lots of crews out before during and after making sure our waterfront looked wonderful for our guests. So i would like to recognize the laborers division, the truck drivers, ironworkers and specifically tim, alex, oscar dave, kevin and del. Thank you for making us shine once again. A quick update on the safe embarcadero navigation center. I wanted to update you on the Advisory Group which is to advise us as this process and as the center gets cited and services provided. I have appointed Rick Dickerson and alisa rogers as chair and vicechair of the Advisory Group. I seah alice is in the audience. Rick is a former cochair and we know ms. Rogers, she is the cochair of south Beach Rincon Mission Bay Neighborhood Association and the chair of sea wag. So thank you for serving. The next meeting of the Advisory Group is coming this wednesday at 5 30 at the South Beach Harbor room. They will get an update from homeless and port housing. Theyll be announcing who they selected as a provider. Five keys operate the center which is 128bed facility and we hear very good things about five keys. The Public Works Department will provide an update on construction. If youve been by the site the insides are being constructed now. The Police Department will be providing an update on Police Incidents within the safety zone. Theres good collection of data, incidents in september totaled 90, which was showing a continued downward trend since june when 125 incidents were reported. So getting the baseline for the area is incredibly important. And that is something the Police Department is going. I would like to report that state senate bill 451 the state Tax Credit Program has been passed. This is something the port worked for some time on. The historic state Tax Credit Program can be used in conjunction with the National Program of course with tax reform the value of the federal program is lower than it was before the Corporate Tax rate went down. But having this Additional Program will be very important for our piers youll be hearing about today and 12a potentially a financing tool for our historic piers. The program has a cap of 50 million with a 10 million set aside for smaller projects. The projects will be screened by the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee to demonstrate return on investment. Of course all projects will have to conform with the secretary of interiors standards. The Tax Credit Program the federal one has helped other Pier Restoration projects and historic restoration. So the timing couldnt be better for us. And i want to thank mark brad, mayor breeds legislative staff for supporting this effort. So congratulations to everyone. Another tool for historic preservation. Now i would like to talk about the San Franciscos chamber of commerce trip to seattle. Brad, will you play that for me, please. So brad and i joined the chamber of commerce for the city trip to seattle september 25 through 27. We were excited to join the new ceo of the chamber, rodney. We were also joined by many business and electives and a great delegation. Ill wait until the slides come up. Great. That looks like the second slide on the first slide. Yep. Okay. Great. So if you could go back one slide brad. So the first slide shows the delegation. And brad and i went. We also had some of our consultants who were on the seawall team, specifically cmg who was the urban designer. We had two representatives from cmg. And you can see here its a variety of elected and Business Leaders on this day trip. Next slide. We kicked it off with me and brad and some of the consultants talking about the Embarcadero Seawall Program and what we are trying to accomplish portwide. It was a great way to start because we framed for the delegation what we are trying to accomplish in San Francisco and then proceeded to look at whats happened in seattle. Seattle has a lot of similarities to San Francisco. Its earthquake country. When we had our big earthquake the freeway had a collapse issue. When they had their big earthquake in 2001, their seawall failed. Their double decker freeway stayed up, but their seawall failed. So they began a very aggressive effort to replace their seawall to deal with seismic risk. It was fascinating for us to see the parallels in construction of a seawall in earthquake country, to see a historic seawall and some of the decisions they made in terms of keeping the piers open through construction what they did about water levels and their historic fabric and the state actually pulled down that double decker freeway because of earthquake risk. And now the community of seattle is engaged in a multibillion dollar effort to really connect their city with their waterfront in the way we have a connected waterfront with our city. So it was very, very interesting. I have to admit i didnt realize how strongly parallelled our experiences would be and how much we would learn from this trip. It was very very exciting. So some of the points that brad has highlighted here is