In San Francisco, and thank you for joining us [inaudible] inspired by mr. Bennetts duet said album. Please enjoy and have a great day. Good morning everyone. Im elaine forms interim port director. Welcome to pier 80. Thank you for coming out today. We have much to celebrate. We are here to celebrate a 15 year terminal Management Agreement that will bring maritime actaveties back to the port as originally intended. The pier was built in the 1960 as a cargo shipping container port. By the mid1990s we lost market share to oakland and made a decision to stop cargo shipping and move to [inaudible] initially it was strong but [inaudible] couldnt recover from the 1990s recession and many here remember those jobs that were here and saw the economic decline and the impact that it made to families. It was heart breaking. I see there are Many International long shoreman weir house Union Members here. Bob mu cell rath. Officers from local 10, 10, 34, 91 and 75. I see don marks from the master mason pilots. This is really a day to celebrate labor. [applause] thank you. It has known this is for industrial maritime. The city understands these type of opportunities keep our workforce and city diverse and it is something we need to be intentional bout and fight for. We need to fight for the workers and working families. The Port Commission is here today. I see president adams, the vise president brandon, lesley katz. The Port Commission has been fight toog bring back shipping to this pier and fighting hard. I also see members of the southern waterfront advisory committee. I see kevin gibbons, shirly more, cechben law snl, memberotches the commerce advisory committee, ellen johnck [inaudible] veronica sanchez. These groups have been fighting to bring back maritime to this facility and today everyone we can celebrate. The city commissioned a study and found due to our location and rail issues auto import export was the Perfect Match for this terminal. This industry had been on steady growth spirt since 2009 and the port staff went on a search and hooked the right partner in john pasha. We founds a Business Partner that operated at other ports, san diego [inaudible] and had very very good success. But also found the right corporate flus aef. A partner who is a Family Business and cares about local community and cares about investing in employis. Our partner agreed to offer 50 percent of Employment Opportunities here to the Bayview Community and district 10, and that is a huge success. [applause] i want to acknowledge the family, George W Pasha opened his first automotive facility in 1960. Here in San Francisco at fort mason. While he is not here to see the return today, his children are as is his life partner janet pasha his wife is here today along with his children, george the forth, maureen, michael, jane, mary jane and john. Welcome home to San Francisco, we are so pleased to have you. [applause] the pasha group will build a import and export business that will include preferation of these automotive automobiles. The vehicles will be trucked from pier 80 to Northern California dealerships. The row off row on vessel facility will grow over 3 to 5 years. At full capacity mr. Pasha expects 96 vessel [inaudible] and that translated to about 150,000 vehicles. 50 long shorman [inaudible] and up to 150 additional employees detailing those automobiles so a real Economic Opportunity returning to pier 80. Thank you so much for being here to celebrate this partnership. I know there are pleny fathers and mothers and too many to name but i want to give a special shout out to mow neek moyer, our outgoing director. [applause]. Monique played a vital role insures this agrooment comes together. I like to thank peter daily and his team and roana sandler who drarfted the agreement and renee martin who put this incredible event together so thank you port team. [applause]. With that, i would now like to the introduce a person who has provided exceptional and steady leadership to theports and creates jobs and Economic Opportunities to all san franciscans and who absolutely believes enour world class water front from north to south, mayor ed lee. [applause] thank you, elaine. Good morning everybody port of San Francisco pier 80 this is where things are happening . You know, beforefirst thing i got to do is thank you the iow drill team. What a great performance thank you as soon as i saw these big hooks i ought to say it first because they can pull me off those hooks real fast. What a tradition. Iow and i learned a lot and learning more all the time, i engage with president willie adams and the commission. What a proud member he is and leader of the union. A lot of history with our city and that is partly why we are here and i know mayor willie brown and former supervisor sofy maxwell we always talk about the promises of the city. I always love saying, we aint making new promises, just keeping the old ones and this is what our Port Commission and education leaders here today and Community Based organizations, this is the what the port of San Francisco is revitalizing these places. Not too long ago we were designing americas cup boats right here in this shed and we used that investment to really make sure this building was in tip top shape and want to say thank you to monique for her leadership on that. It was the port staff and the commission and her leadership that brought that investment to the city and we wanted to make sure we continued this invesment. We are making investments across the water front. Look at the new cruise ship terminal at pier 27 and that is a another example. You see all the open spaces. We working constant with rec and park and see the blue green way we are still completing all the way down here. Again, a promise for many generations. You see a constant invesment and i know that director forbes and i, the commission are already talking about how we can make the long Term Investments to make sure that sea wall is protected because thereat what we got to do for the entire city of San Francisco. We are here today to make this announcement and want to begin by saying thank you to had pasha family. To their returning to San Francisco to many generations ago but also returning in such a glorious way where a promise that was made to the residents of bayview and district 10 can be actually kept with this 15 year contract, hopefully many years from now. A lot of Community Folks and Agencies Service the bayview are here today to see the promise begin and the jobs that are here with a opportunity to work with our office of economic and Workforce Development. I know michael car is proud with city build, a program sofy helped start and to now see it in its really concrete fruition touch lives like [inaudible] here as a trainee of city build along with the 10s and scores of others who will get these great jobs. These are jobs for our present and future, they have been working class jobs and ones we always said we will bring back to San Francisco in manufacturing and all the other ways that we are doing. It is not just tech jobs and hotel jobs and hospital jobs, these are good paying local jobs of our unions on ships like this. Ships that you see every day crossing the panama canal bringing goods both ways and this site will be import and export. We hope that in the very near future, the folks that are working down here will be exported tesla motors out in the hundreds. Out to the rest of the world and bringing a lot more income for our residents with our engineering and design work. All the electric vehicles. Maybe a lot of driverless vehicles will be export from here. This is what we get to do in the great city of San Francisco when we collaborate and Work Together and fulfill old promises as we use new technology to do so. I want to say thank you to this investment by the pasha family and generations that are here. Thank you for helping us revitalize the port. Thank you for work wg city build. Over 50 percent of the jobs that we will create, over 50 percent will be targets for residents of bayview. That a hew mungs promise that has been something that we have always wanted to do. They are getting the training for that to happens a well, training through the jobs programs that are right here. We want to say we dont want to train people to train people, we want them to get the real jobs that are the promise of this city. Im happy to be here to enjoy the moment and make sure we do all the right things to acakeen our communities and while we do that i will continue building more Affordable Housing down here as well to increase that. The workforce we promised can own their own homes or be residents orphthis very neighborhood ft i will say this to mayor brown and others and the stof sofy, hold on to your property because the investments we are making in this neighborhood will be so attractive everyone will want to move here now. It is little cooler today it is always 5 to 6 degrees warmer than other parts of the city. I will say again, thank you to all the parts and thank you to the port of San Francisco and all the people that work there. This is proud moment for all of you. I know that for the commission as well. When we Work Together for the infrastruck investments we will do the right thing and see the people that benefit are the people we promised for many generations to be here. I look forward to the canon burst and walking not the plank, gene ann, but these are vital ships and want to see more of these in addition to cruise ship liners lining up the water front and do all the great things in the great city. Thank you very much for being here. Congratulations. Thank you, mr. Mayor. I now would like to introduce a person who has been on the team here since 1951 and has been a champion for labor and working families. He served 30 years in the state assembly and became our 41 mayor of San Francisco, the first African American mayor and he is known as a celebrity beyaunds city boundaries. It is part of the leadership that really understood you need intentional zoning, planning and business twement to make industry strive along with supervisor [inaudible] so please help me introduce mayor willie brown. Im sure you are wondering why willie brown . I actually represent all of the previous mayors who had a challenge of trying to do something that ed lee now gets the sole credit for. [laughter]. Just think how much diane and agnos and jordan and nusem all resent that, ed . You sit up here and laid out the whole program and i am just delighted i received a call to come and participate because when service as mayor. Mayor lee, you recall we started the business of breaking the cargo once they [inaudible] all the business of oakland and the recession came as indicated by mrs. Forbes and the whole thing changed. And you and your administration did wonders. I stand as a member of the long shoremans union. [applause]. Now, i know many of youyou look too dam small to be a member the longshoremans union. I was inducted on the hairy bridges, bill chester, lee gallblat and [inaudible] curtis, pursy and a whole collection of long shore people who are operating at that time. They selected me in the middle 60s when all other members of organized labor looking some other way and they embraced and started the 30 year career that you talked about and it was because of my ongoing work and relationship with the people who worked on the port of San Francisco and how they conducted themselves and how much they meant to every church in the city of San Francisco, every African American church. Every neighborhood in the city and county of San Francisco. Literally the basis of the income for organized labor working on the port and being a part of the weir house operation meant so much to the economy of this city. Hopefully, hopefully, district 10 with this incredible achievement that this Port Commission under this mayors leadership is producing, we can begin to see the city and county of San Francisco no longer going down on the African American population, but going up again to where it was at one time. You are right, mr. Mayor, it takes a culmination of jobs and all the other things that go with it to make that possible. This represents the very first set. Your office of Workforce Development , all aspects of the organizations that will be a part of, it will be 50 percent, but if we work it right, well, somebody looking closely it could be 75 percent which is a way we really ought to do it because if we are to achieve what needs to be achieved on behalf of the people in this city and the economy of the city to keep this city diverse, clearly this family that obviously been successful in san diego and the state of washington, it could now be successful in the state of San Francisco as i call this place. I can just see it and all ill do is watch very very closely because when they off load a lamborghini, it will be one of the items they will accidently miss. Congratulations now i like to introduce another man of the how, john pasha. It is john pasha who is Senior Vice President of the pasha group and has all the enthuse amp and drive andnition vision to understand why they successfully built auto roll on and hauf plans in other jurisdictions and why mr. Pasha will make a successful venchier here. With that, help me in welcoming john pasha. [applause]. Thank you director forbes and how on earth will i follow willie brown . It is a absolute honor to be here representing Pasha Automotive Services as we ainaugurate the new pier 80 today. Pleased to share the moment with the city. Particularly mayor ed lee and his office. Supervisor malia cohen and our partners at theport. We worked so hard so many months to put this together and pleased especially to share it with your pasha family. Our employees here in california, hawaii and globally and my immediate family including my brother george, president and ceo, sister maureen who put many years of experience in automotive opraigdss running the facility here at pier 80. Also thrilled to share the moment, my murthder janet, brother mike, sister mary jane and all their families. A special thank you to my wife aaron and kids for their emens support as we go the business just a little bit more. [applause] today is a bit of a home coming. In the early 40s my grand father george the second started a flying a sunchs station at bay and van ness across the street from fort mason. He then expanded the business to provide storage for privately own vehicles of ww 2 personnel. In 960 my fatherer opened the First Independent port processing facility on the west coast at fort mason and built a body shop on fishermans wharfed to provide a show room ready product for auto dealers. Today pasha automotive provides prosand Distribution Service as the port of San Francisco, san diego, grays harbor, baltimore and man tee florida. As a company and as individuals, we are committed to insureing that maritime uses are supported and our countries valuable waterfront assets receive the investment they need to Service Commercial purposes. This means supporting economic development, job creation, commerce and trade. Our economy is dependent on healthy coastal and ocean resources especially when you consider that 14 percent of u. S. Counties ajais tonight the coast produce 45 percent of the nations gdp. 90 percent the nations consumed products have once traveled by water to this great country. At pasha we are also committed to good paying jobs, which is why we are so pleased to partner with city build and residents of district 10 to bring employment and training opportunities to the area. [applause] and we are commit today providing customers with the services they need to build and grow their operations and Customer Base which is why we are investing in this key piece of port property. With the reopening of pier 80, pasha automotive customers have additional options for their railroad cargo with a consistent demand for auto in the u. S. , we see growing opportunity here in Northern California. By 2020 won in 4 cars driven will come from mexico and San Francisco a hub to serve the import market. We also see Great Potential in the alternative Energy Vehicles which are ink baited and designed here and a intgle part of the World Automotive future. Today you may sit oen folder chairs in a open d somewhat dilapidated parking loss i ask you to look at the future. When operating at full capacity pier 80 wilg handed up to 96 ships and 1 [inaudible] autoabilities annually. [applause]. We are hopeful they employ at least 50 longshoreman per shape and up to 150 jobs for processors many will be fill by