Item number one is roll call. President brandon. Vice president adams. Commissioner gilman. Present. Commissioner woo ho. Here. Vice president adams. Madam president , you have a quorum. 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 Justice for all. Item number 3, approval of the minutes of july 14th, 2020 Port Commission meeting. I so move. Second. President brandon. Aye. Vice president adams. Commissioner gilman. Yes. Commissioner woo ho. Aye. President brandon the minutes have been approved. Clerk announcements for item number 4. Please be advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make Public Comments on each agenda item unless the Port Commission adopts a shorter period on any item. Please note that during the Public Comment period, the moderator will instruct dialin participants to use the touch tone phones to register their desire for Public Comment. Ought yo prompts will signal to dial in participants when their audio input has been enabled for commenting. Please dial in only when the item you punish to comment on subpoena announced. A reminder for our meeting presenter and participants, please do mute your microphones and turn off your cameras when you are not actively presenting. And item number 5, is Public Comment on items not listed on the agenda. President brandon thank you. We will open the phone lines for members of the public who are joining us on the phone. It will be our operator and will prprovide instructions for anyoe on the phone who would inaudible . Thank you, president brandon. At this time, we will open the queue for anyone on the phone who would like to make Public Comment on items not listed on the agenda. Dial star 3 if you wish to make Public Comments. The system will let you know when your line is open. Others will wait on mute until their line is open. Comments will be limited to three minutes per person. The queue is now open. Please dial star 3 if you wish to make Public Comment. President brandon do we have anyone on the phone . Yes, we have one caller on the line at the moment. President brandon thank you, please open the phone lines. Opening up that line now, thank you. Hi, my name is stacey and i live in patrero and im urging you to close the embarcadero to public traffic. As you well nope, were in the midst of a Global Pandemic and the safest place for people to be, other than home is outside. The west side of San Francisco has access to the newly opened great highway but the eastside of town has very few parks, very few open spaces, very few successful implementations of slowed streets, we simply don have the amount of space that is available on the west side of town for people to safety enjoy outside. With school approaching, it would be nice if we had places for people to be without the fear of cars. For a way for people to travel thats not taxing muni or has people in cars. By opening up the eastern embarcadero lane, if not all of it, we might get through our city faster without burning the environment as well. I know that you may be concerned about the businesses that are suffering along the embarcadero but i would invite you to look at valencia and how that area has sprung to life as the cars have been asked to leave, at least 2 of the Time Thursday through sunday evenings. Just two blocks and the change is absolutely traumatic in terms of getting people out to safely enjoy the businesses that have been suffering for so long amid the covid19 shelter in place. I know that you are concerned about how these businesses will succeed but i assure you that by opening up the embarcadero to people, and close particular to motor vehicles, that these businesses will likely have more opportunities for business than they have to date. One of the big issues has always been with the water bar and epic steak house and vehicle access for them. And where would they have outdoor dining, since the em embarcadero. Could you close off part of the embarcadero sidewalk area and that could be a spectacular outdoor dining. Much like tavern in the scene on new yorthe green innew york cit. Can you imagine dining under the lights. Im begging, you please, open up the area to people and see what might spring to life. Thank you. President brandon thank you, stacey. Really appreciate you calling in. Are there any other callers . President brandon, at this time, there are no members wishing to make Public Comment. Public comment is closed. Clerk item number 6, is the executive directors reports. Welcome members of the public and port staff. The port executive director. For my report today, i will share updates on the cities another effort for gradual reopening and savory opening and the on covid19 and i will also introduce tony autry the equity and opportunities manager and opportunity for all and ill end me report today in recognition, another sad day, where we say goodbye and congratulate, byron rhett on the occasion of has retirement. First to economic reopening and port recovery. The reopening effort is on pause as a result of covid case spikes and hospitalization numbers in San Francisco. In surrounding communities and in the state. The city is working very hard to keep San Francisco safe and suppress the spread of the virus. And each of us is responsible for doing our part due to practice of social distancing, six feet apart and the port is following the citys lead and Current Health data and science will guide our reopening efforts. At the last Port Commission hearing i reported that we have approval for full return of maintenance staff at pier 50 and to open the port South Beach Harbor offices. Weve scaled back in light of the situation with the virus, right now 40 occupancy to 60 occupancy theres a backlog of work but were prioritizing the urgent things. We also have a return plan of the South Beach Harbor offices of 50 of staff and we have training over several weeks and phase in row opening of the South Beach Harbor office to 50 . The safety of or employees is paramount. Tim and joe riley are working closely with staff to employ measures recommended by the department of publichealth required by the Health Orders and to achieve a safe workplace in covid19. Per the most recent health order, workplace practices include that social distancing, face coverings and daily health screenings. They are learning together and practice new behavior and reinforce behaviors with one another. I want to make a special thank you to the ports health and safety team who have some of the best expertise and experience in our entire city and theyre with us in Occupational Health and safety and thats karen tailer and george bibben, thank you so much for your work and from monica from engineering who worked so hard on this effort. Were following in the citys policy for those who work at home to do so. Wwe will extend work from home o the calender years. Theres no return of the Port Commission hearings inperson in this calender year. Now to the economic recovery and Financial Stability of the port. Covid19 remains uncertain in terms of the timeframe and which we adapt. And the timeframe under which well have a World Without covid. Post vaccine or some other form of health intervention. Staff is really struggling to plan and position port for the best and most sustainable economic recovery possible to protect our waterfront, our staff, our residents and our stakeholders. We understand that context of where we are now and our Financial Performance and quite luckily were able to use fun balance and savings and department of capital and we have a budget before the board of supervisors this week that is balanced and can pull us through a twoyear period. We understand the Financial Performance of what the port can accomplish in a world post covid. But its very difficult to understand what is in between and how long the situation will last and how long it will take port to recover. But we do know several things. One, we were not economically perfectly stable before covid19. We always struggled financially and this reality persists. We know that tourism will be hit hard because of the social gatherings component and likely will not reopening soon. And we know office space faces some instability. That signals difficult times ahead for the Port Organization as much of our portfolio relies on tourism and office space. But we have a lot of strength too. We have on going interest from developers and others around port opportunities. You will see request to enter an e. N. A. And you will see today updates on the Renice Priebus 70 project and how staff and partners persist to see that through. They are active and creative and you will see today on calender a shared prosperity recommendation is that staff worked through with our restaurant and retail tenants and other relief that support our most vulnerable and partners and tenants. This organization knows how to adapt well and been in the adaptive reuse business for some time and treating our facility as a portfolio and recommending making some very strong recommendations and two programs to protect vulnerable populations so we have a smart, talented and experienced staff that knows how adapt and we have plan with our policy body to advance policies and decisions that protect our port today and midterm and in the long run. As i said, weve adopted the approach to mirror the city in our publichealth experts around the pandemic and we have paused and we are watching and protecting our workforce at our 06 up to 60 occupancy and its going very well and per able to provide recommendation to this body and to the public on how the port positions itself for a successful recovery. Id like to thank president brandon for her advocacy of the support for the Racial Equity work and they reap pushed us challenge used to engage in the hard work of building a more just and equitable port. They have long been committed to building and sustaining a diverse and Equitable Organization and you can see that commitment clearly in the commissions priorities in our Strategic Plan and staffing and in partnerships and agreements aimed to include communities of color and port opportunity and prosperity. The port focused attention has needed many notable success and has laid important action and frameworks but the work is definitely not done. There is much more work to accomplish and i am so excited that we have hired tony autry to be our new diversity equity and opportunitys manager. She will guide us through this important work. She sits in the Directors Office in the external Affairs Division and will be part of our senior team and she will da guide the Port Organization all its divisions and work with our external partners in extremely important equity work. She has experience and a great background and she is hitting the ground running and im proud to introduce her. I believe she would like to say a couple of words, tony. Thank you. Good afternoon, president brandon and good afternoon, president brandon. Government policy. I am honored to be a part of the ports redress of misguided government policy and the impact it has had on historically disadvantaged communities. Id like to share a few updates on the ports equity work. First, the office of Racial Equity has mandated all city departments to complete and submit a Racial Equity action plan due by december 31st, 2020. Last month, in july, the office 6 Racial Equity released a framework for phase 1 of the Racial Equity action plan. Which included the following seven focus areas. One, hireing and recruitment, two, retention and promotion, and three, discipline and separation, Organizational Culture of inclusion and belonging, and seven, boards ex commissions. In an effort to advance equity the port formed a Racial Equity working group. Made up of representatives from each division. Who will work to support the development of the action plan. Over the course of the next couple of months, all port staff will be asked to provide input in the specified areas of the action plan framework to develop goals, objectives, metrics and a timeline for our departmental implementation. The Racial Equity action plan will be presented to the Port Commission late fall. At the same time, we will be reviewing organizational efforts such as the southern waterfront beautification, workforce agreements, and commitments to share port prosperity he can whitney to develop a plan for Port Commission review and comment. The Economic Policy work to make for a comprehensive approach. I plan to engage the Port Commission on a routine basis, along this journey and provide updates through director forbes. Thank you. Thank you, tony, im very excite today yoexcited to have. I would like to provide an update for all. This summer, we hosted three interns through the program. This program in access to Career Exploration and Workforce Development for San Francisco youth and young adults and as mayor breeds own initiative and programs, it provides youth with paid internships, mentor ships and pathways to employment including job readiness, Career Training and apprenticeship for age 1324. Focusing on equitable access to opportunities to workforce connections. Support and job resources for both jobseekers and employers alike and the three interns we hosted were paired with Staff Members and three divisions, port engineering, communications, and race equity. Congratulations to them and to port staff for providing excellent opportunities this summer. Now, this leads me to my final note, announcing the retirement of byron rhett. Byron is a giant at the port of San Francisco and has built a legacy here. He has served the port since 2000. First as the Deputy Director for the ports Planning Development and until 2017 when he was the chief Financial Officer and over that 20 years, he oversaw plans that changed the relationship to the waterfront for the rest of the city and made the port a regional and worldwide attraction through projects that include the explore to be yum, piers one and a half through five, the james r. Herman cruise terminal project, the brandon street work project, seawall at 337 and pier 70 master plans which led to mission rock, and brookfield developments, the wisher mans warf promenade. He brought Extensive Knowledge from his 21 years of work as a Senior Development manger and his background fits with the needs of the port to support its maritime and public trust mission along with the diverse need of interest of many other many front economic and community stakeholders. By bron greater to see his ability to listen, to engage with people of all backgrounds and embrace perspectives. He humanized government and he draws people together to work towards shared recommendations and actions. In his 41 years of Public Service to San Francisco, byron knows the pitfalls and opportunities to realize successful partnerships, public and private partnerships that enhance communities. His season council and guidance to port staff, Development PartnersCommunity Members has been invaluable and he inspiress us. He brought these strength and shared his perspective and experience leading the ports race equity working group. In the work to develop the ports first race equity plan. He has provided the port with its strong running start in this work and his mentorship and guidance to the team will keep us on path. We really want to celebrate and thank byron for all of his contributions to the effort to the Port Organization, to our waterfront, and to the people who work here and have had such a great opportunity to know and collaborate with bu byron and to benefit from his wisdom, council, guidance and support. Its really something he should be proud of. What he has done for our organization and we wish him well on his wellearned retirement, that concludes my remarks. Thank you director forbes and before i would like to give the staff. If anyone wants to say anything, please just jump in. Hi, president brandon, this is chief harbor engineer. Byron, i just wanted to thank you for the time spent talking with me about the port. I appreciate your casual and insightful quest