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 the parallels they had a Multiyear Program to plan design and build. And one of the things their project team said is you cant design and implement as fast as the world changes. Theres such a far lead time on the effort to plan a capital work like a seawall replacement. The other thing we learned which many people might think is obvious is you cant replace a seawall in the same place the seawall is coming out. The seawall has to continue to do its job while you construct the new levee and protection. So we cant say we are keeping the line of defense because the line of defense will be different with the new seawall, just from looking at construction very, very interesting for the team. They had a lot of coordination with their community and stakeholders. And we could talk more about that. But they have a lot of homelessness issues and concerns around new waterfront that has just so many parks and open spaces and how that will be managed for the benefit of the community and how to deal with some of the issues that frankly we are having in San Francisco too in creating a waterfront for everyone thats safe and secure. And they, interestingly did already what we are thinking of doing, which is the tax to businesses and Property Owners adjacent to the waterfront to pay not for the seawall construction, that was geobond funded but for the billion dollars of improvements to create parks and open space in connection to the waterfront. And they had a tax rate that acknowledged the closer you are to the waterfront, the more value you were getting from the improvements. And they taxed condominiums and homes as well. The person in charge of the project marshal buster said he still has some scars from negotiating that special tax. But it did get approved and its very supported. They took a while to get there but its a major Funding Source for their improvement. And we are planning to do the same with our downtown cfd. So that gave us a shot in the arm that its possible. Okay. Lets go to the next slide. Thats it. Okay. So it was an excellent trip. And we think in terms of next steps, we are going to want our commissioners to see the seawall in seattle to bring the project here or bring you there. There are excellent parallels and Lessons Learned from our community our sister city up north not true sister city, but seattle up north who really has a lot of parallels to what we are going to undertake. Thank you brad. Next i would like to talk about the American Association of port authorities conference. President brandon, from the Maritime Association and i attended the conference october 14 through 16 in Norfolk Virginia. This association, American Association of port authorities has 130 members all public ports. And it was founded in 1912. So it is the biggest association of ports. At the convention a longterm ceo kurt retired after 34 years. And we welcomed in the new ceo, Chris Connors who was a shipping and logistics veteran. The host city, Norfolk Virginia is known as americas first port. It is a settlement dating back to 1607. So its rich with history in terms of the james town settlement. It is the Largest Naval base in the country. Its the sixth largest containerized Cargo Complex in the United States. President brandon and mic and i were very impressed with the tours that we saw. Theres a robust shipbuilding and repair industry a thriving export and roll on, roll off and cruising. So really kind of an he can electric itan activeport. The conference is interesting. There was an excellent panel on coastal resiliency. There were other topics related to Economic Development and green port. We had an unparalleled opportunity to network with colleagues across the country. And we of course got to receive i already announced the aap Communications Award for the embarcadero seawall campaign. So it was nice to be there and see our own staff awarded an honor. The next convention will be held in september in quebec city. This is an important opportunity for us to network. I want to thank you president brandon for leading this effort. Its important to show San Franciscos best foot forward. I have a late breaking announcement. Im happy to share at the 14th biannual state conference just today the golden gate society and port of San Francisco received an award for outstanding Environmental Protection for the wetlands and upland Habitat Restoration of pier 94. The project was recognized for an exceptional degree of Public Engagement and having aa tenyear agreement allowed for investment in the project. I want to give a shoutout to carol and david who is here. And hanson who really donated a lot of materials to help us with the work and graciously accepted Public Access to their adjacent to them. That concludes my report. Thank you. Is there any other Public Comment on the executive directors report. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner gillman would like to make an announcement. I wanted to make an announcement that actually many people recognize the great work of the port for fleet week. I had the honor to close the fleet Week Celebrations on october 14 to represent the port with betty, the commander at the navys regional southwest sector and the committee that puts on the fleet Week Celebration presented the port which i will give to you to hang this plaque. They wanted to recognize all the work we do every year to welcome hundreds of thousands of visitors and Service Members to the port. It was a lovely closing ceremony. And they wanted to make sure they recognized the port for all the work they did. Thank you. This afternoon we move item 8 to the end of the nights agenda so well move onto item 11. 11a is an informational presentation on citywide resilience efforts. Were having some technical difficulties. So for people using the laptop today page up and page down. Good afternoon president brandon, commissioners brad benson the ports waterfront resilience effort. Im here to introduce two presentations today. Everything that we are doing in the Waterfront Resilience Program is nested within a broader citywide policy framework. Back in december of 2018, a port and city staff presented some of these citywide efforts to the commission. And we wanted to provide updates about two of the efforts. First we are going to have adam garett, the Deputy Director of citywide planning provide an update about the double rise vulnerability and consequences assessment. And then we have brian strong, who is the citys chief resilience officer here to speak about the hazard and Climate Resilience plan. These are two very important plans for the city for understanding about hazards. The city is facing and how we can be more resilient in the face of them. And so no further ado ill invite adam up to present. Actually i think this is in the opposite order. So lets have brian start. Sorry. Just page down. Good afternoon commissioners. My name is brian strong. Im the chief resilience officer and director of the office of resilience and capital planning. Its very nice to be here. I appreciate the opportunity to come and talk with you. A little bit more than well, not quite a year ago, i think it was in december i came and did a presentation on this hazard and Climate Resilience plan. And it was all the things we are intending to do. So its nice to come back some ten and a half months later saying most all the things have been completed. And ill give you an update on it. And we are beginning to put together the strategies and get ready to submit this document to fema. So it does work. There we go. By the way, this is a recent picture we got. We shared it with some of our Public Information research. A lot of people are talking about. Im the last person that should be marketing San Francisco. Its why the chamber of commerce never invites me to anything. So im jealous. However, this is more in the area of what i end up dealing with from the citys perspective, which is how are we preparing for hazards. And now weve been doing this local Hazard Mitigation plan. Its a fema requirement. If you dont complete it, you are not eligible for fema funding. General assistance funding after major disasters, that includes Hazard MitigationGrant Programs of which the city applies for a number of them that we receive on a regular basis. So its a very big carrot that they have for us to get this done. So we will get it done. And in the past, it was really it came out of the department of Emergency Management and it was really more reflective of some of the efforts in our capital plan and some of the approved plans instead of reflecting on whats happening as opposed to what we think sets some strategy for where we want to go as a city. So thats how we are changing it this year, trying to make it more forwardthinking. And there is state legislation as well, sb379 that rerequires we do a Climate Action plan. So you no longer think of hazards as just earthquakes and major things but