Sea level rise and so the question came, how do we protect it . We put together a bond that went to the voters and in 2018 to say, we have risk, we have trouble, help us. The leadership behind me made that bond happen. With that bond, we began to work and advocate that same year, we amazingly got a new start from the army corp of engine and say said we will study this problem, well figure how to fix it and if we find federal interest well build with you to build the project and today we are celebrating the draft plan that has come out of that process. It involves 6 years of work, very deep analysis and investigation. This is not a easy problem to solve. But now you will see and it the public will see this work lead to key answers to the puzzle of how to protect this waterfront. The remarkable leaders behind me took very very very bold steps with persistent commitment to the long game and to addressing sadly what we must address, to make this day possible. We mark this milestone as a great achievement and i want to acknowledge the people behind me. Speaker emeritus nancy pelosi. Thank you. Mayor london breed. Lieutenant governor kounalakis. State senator scott wiener. Board president aaron peskin. U. S. Army corp of engineers South Pacific commander, colonel james hondora, and eventually city administrator carmen chui may join us. So, thank you. So, i want to talk about what this plan is. What this draft plan is. It analyzed the flood risks and effects the Sea Level Rise from aquatic park to [indiscernible] port jurisdiction. It shows where to build the flood defenses, how high to build the flood defenses, and how much space to take in order to have those flood defenses. It is up to us, the city, our partners to figure out what will go back on top, which to make a beautiful waterfront. Befitting of wonderful city and county of San Francisco. The waterfront of the future has to be as least as majestic as the waterfront of today. The plan is expensive. It is expenses has a price tag of 13 billion at this time. When we move forward on projects the federal government will pay for 65 cents of every dollar it cost. 65 percent contribution. That is a big benefit to city and county of San Francisco. Because we know Sea Level Rise is happening, but we dont know how it happen or how quickly this plan is adaptive and smart how to build to changing and unknown condition. It is also unique in terms of how it addresses the waterfront across. It is a major mile stone but there much ahead. Much that will be ahead. This plan will be implemented over many decades. Many decades and the phasing and implementation strategy as will be very important because we want to leverage other Public Infrastructure investments, private investment and other investments that make federal interest and city interest come together in a important way. It is time for the public to engage. Thats what we are announcing today, the public engaged to date. The public needs to please keep engaging on the plan to build an amazing waterfront , we need that engagement. We are working on things we may not see. All these projects but the future generation will see and paving the way for important works so they are prepared. The projects are prepared to implement. I mention im surrounded by the leadings who made this happen. Both through the larger army corp study we are sharing and through proposition a, the earthquake safety bond so i like to first introduce speaker emeritus pelosi who served San Francisco and county with such distinction. She is in fact a National Treasure as we know. She and senator feinstein are the reason we got the new start army corp in 2018. Without this new start we would not have this discussion in any way shape or form because it began the flood study in the deep partnership with the army corp of engineers. With the passage of Infrastructure Investment jobs act and Inflation Reduction Act there is no one who has worked harder to address Climate Change then speaker emeritus pelosi. Also, in 2020 and again in 2022, the army corp looks at cost versus benefit. The San Francisco cost include seismic cost which are substantial when you build anything, in particular on the utwaer front. We have terrible seismic conditions. Those cost will drag down any hope of us having federal interest and it was Speaker Pelosis team that saw through many technical and legislative amendments so we can compete and in fact there was a finding of federal interest. Without this finding we would not have this conversation. It was with great honor that i introduce her and thank her for sharing in this milestone. Thank you, thank you so much very. San francisco port director Elaine Forbes. To you and your staff congratulation what is happening today and thank you. As you could tell from the prezen taiz of the director this is complicated initiative. When she talks about new starts, we had to fight a initiative of a previous occupant of the white house who didnt want anymore new starts and if there were new starts we had to be one of them. Again, attribute to senator feinstein in the senate was such a important part of this. We are here because of a vision of the people of San Francisco. Im honored to be here with the family, mayor, senator wiener, kounalakis, aaron peskin, carmen chui and the big homa here today is United States army Corp Engineers colonel james hondura. This is the moment because i cant tell how many times in the years in congress where people all over the country come to me and say, can you influence the army corp of engineers to certify, to putto give [indiscernible] no. They have a independent process that they use. It isnt political, it is factual and determined. For us to haveelaine, director forbes, very clearly described everything so i wont go into it so you enable us to respond time on other remarks and i appreciate that, but this from the army corp of engineers to this extent is remarkable, and we should be proud of that and this period of Public Comment is really a model to the country as well, because again, we want to be factual and thoughtful and practical about what we can get done. It is really a honor to be here. The century old Embarcadero Sea wall provides a Crucial Foundation for our city protecting families, businesses, you know all that and streets from flooding. Flooding. We face intensifying Climate Crisis and possibility of earthquake risk, the draft today, the release of the draft plans brings us a step closer to shoring up our sea wall. The Climate Crisisrising sea levels is a consequence of Climate Crisis is a existential threat of our time and our first future depends on taking action now. This is why the draft plan is so critical to protecting the city sea wall from earthquake and flooding risk. It has been my privilege to fight in congress along the way to help investigate how to strengthen our sea wall including in the president infrastructure law 5 million to continue these studies. It is one step at a time. When we talk about 13 billion, 2 3 will be federal. 1 3 state and local. But, in order to get that we have to demonstrate as we always do in San Francisco that we are a model to the country, but we owe it to them, we owe it to them to make sure, to make sure we do this right. Thats why im so excited to be here with everyone here and all of you, but current handora, he is making all the difference in all this. But he couldnt do it without the Foundation Laid by our port, our mayor, port director, to the staff, thank you for making this day possible. Thank you all so much. [applause] so, in this journey it is very important for leaders to be willing to invest in something that takes a long time and the benefit occurs to future generations. It takes a lot of dedication. A lot of commitment to being prepared and being safe. And mayor london breed has been that leader and steadfast champion of this work since she became mayor and in 2018 it was her first bond, thtosesupport m forward on studying this problem and being prepared. Since proposition a passed, she lead her departments to Work Together. I see director tumlin from the sfmta here and so glad to see him because we Department Heads had to Work Together to figure out how these projects will come into fruition in a successful way and she urged her departments public works, planning, rezil silience. Brian strong, Capital Planning sfpuc engaged and deeply impacted by these proposed projis easy especially for elected leaders is when there is things that they bring forward, including myself, often times we want the grat fiication. It is easy to look at Something Like the sea wall and say well, i wont be here so why should i care. I wont be alive potentially, so why should it matter. And the fact is, people like the ones sitting behind me today, they are not choosing easy. They are choosing hard. They are choosing to think about future generations and Climate Change and Global Warming and Sea Level Rise and choosing to do the hard thing and that is bring people together in order to talk about the challenges that exist, the real impacts and the next century by the end of this century, 3 to 7 percent of the waterfront will be covered in water here in San Francisco if we dont act now. If we dont talk about it. If we dont accept the opportunity that we have before us to put forth a visionary plan to address Sea Level Rise in one of the most constructive ways possible, because when we pass this bond in 2018, we were putting everyone in the city and in the country on notice that we are putting this on the top of our list as a priority. We truly appreciate the army corp of engineers for making the hard decision to choose to work with San Francisco to draft this plan, and to one of the first times ever, to use exwuty equity and talk about communities disproportionately impacted by the harms of climate in the past, by the harms and injustices of bad decisions in the past and how we need to insure that this comprehensive plan includes all communities and that it doesnt negatively impact and thats why we are talking about 7. 5 miles of waterfront which goes all the way into the Bayview Hunters Point Community as well. So, im excited about what we are doing here. This is extraordinary. Again, when you Start Talking about water, pipes, all these infrastructure things that you are asking people to support and pay attention, this is going to be better for future generations, folks are like, what is better for me now, but the thing about san franciscans is they care about Climate Change and care what is happening in the city and this is why the voters overwhelming supported the bond in 2018, it is why so many here today who have been responsible for helping us to draft this plan are with us and we couldnt have a better fearless leader in the house of representatives then our speaker emeritus nancy pelosi. Not only does she help bring home resources for our park open space, transportation. San francisco has been the beneficiaries of extraordinary federal leadership and this is exactly the type of example the work she has done and will continue to do to insure San Francisco is at the for front of addressing so many issues we face and Climate Change with our Climate Action plan and with the work we did to focus on the waterfront, we are opening up the doors to the public to provide input but more importantly open the opportunity for the funding necessary to not only talk about the plan, but to actually implement the plan and im looking forward to seeing the work and at least get started in my lifetime so we can get the job done and we can all feel confident that we did something to impact future generations and we have set the seed for them to also think about how we take care of the planet and leave it in better condition then we found it. Thank you all so much. [applause] we hope to get projects in in your lifetime, mayor. Well try hard wont we team . Okay. So, in a program like this you definitely need federal state and local investment. It is too much to bare on any particular entity. We would eclipse the go bond program if we lean on the local source. I is a wonderful leader to introduce who knows about leverage and worked very hard to see ports get investment. I want to introduce Lieutenant Governor of the state of california kounalakis. Prior to being the first woman elected to the officer she was our port commissioner. [laughter] that was a important job because she was here when we were just Getting Started with resilience and she pushed, she saw what we needed to do so it was wonderful to have her there. She also oversees the state Land Commission which is one of the most collaborative and transparent agencies. It is a Wonderful Agency and she is always assuring ports have resources and it was our Lieutenant Governor who got us rescue funds when we lost 40 percent of our revenue and we were in terrible terrible shape. Without her leadership we would not be here today. Our operations would have gone down as our tenants and we really thank you for driving economic recovery and wellbeing and with no further ado, i like to introduce Lieutenant Governor kounalakis. Thank you director. Thank you so much director forbes. It really is a honor to be here with all these great leaders to recognize the work that has gone on over the last 5 years to deliver this very important plan for the future of the San Francisco waterfront. As director forbes mentioned, i am a former port commissioner for San Francisco and we would regularly push back against the authority of the state lands commission, so it is somewhat ironic that i head that body today, but what it is, it is the Jurisdictional Authority for the land about 850 miles of california coast that is held in the public trust of all the people of this state of california. And we know that our coast line from the very top of our state to the bottom is fou extremely vulnerable to the rising Pacific Ocean that is brought on by a warming climate. The fact that San Francisco is so far ahead of the game in creating this plan is really lotable for everyone involved and i also want to recognize the presence of you commander because it was essential the army corp be very closeclosely working with the board to develop this plan and that we know that there are infrastructure tools and Solutions Available to protect the city of San Francisco, the jewel of california and the west from the rising waters, which we know are going to happen. Finally, i would just like to also recognize, because Elaine Forbes gave me credit for the rescue funds, yet again that was Speaker Pelosi who made sure it was written into the relief funds during covid that the port of San Francisco would be able to access those funds so that the many businesses here that were struggling would be able to stay solvent through that time. So, the people who are here represent a team has been able to deliver a plan. What is ahead of us is the construction of that plan and im very confident as the mayor said that we will see the projects come out of the ground to protect what we know is the most beautiful city in the state and the world. Thank you. [applause] thank you so much. Now i have the great distinction to introduce our representative from the army corp of engineers but before i do, i want to tell how great the team has been to work with. There has been several members of leadership that have come out to San Francisco to really understand this problem. This hard urban edge that provides flood protection to so many assets and resources. It really really understanding the situation. Willing to add things not just cost and benefits, but comprehensive benefits for community that hits on some items the mayor spoke of related to equity and also just to design in unknown conditions so we couldnt ask for oo better group of engineers to lead this process, and so with that, i would like to introduce the South Pacific division commander, colonel james hondura. [applause] good morning good morning. Beautiful day to be out here. I want to just thank the port director for coordinating for this beautiful weather. Once again, round of applause. [applause] special day today and one on sunday. There is a little game sunday. Go 9ers right. Should be a good weekend. Thank you director forbes and your team at the port here for setting up todays event. I want to acknowledge and thank senator wiener board peskin, city administrator chui. Great t