The approval of minutes for the november 14th, 2023, Port Commission meeting. So moved. Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor . Aye. Aye. Any opposed . Motion passes unanimously the minutes of the november 14th, 2023, meeting are adopted. Item three is Public Comment on executive session on. We will now take Public Comment on executive session. Seeing none in the room. Do we have anyone on the phone . There are no callers for Public Comment. For callers on the line, please dial star three. If you wish to make Public Comment. 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 three if you wish to make Public Comment. Thank you. Public comment is closed. Next item please. Item four is executive session and there are three executive session items. One Public Employee hiring and two conferences with Real Property negotiator as agendized. Can i have a motion to go into closed session . I so move. Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor . Aye. Aye. Motion passes one nation under gott, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Use of cell phones and other sound devices are prohibited during the public. A member of public have up to three minutes to state themselves. Public comment must be in consent to the agenda items. The commission will take in Public Comment. For remote Public Comment dial 14156550001 and enter access code 26623575367pound pound. Then dial 53 to raise your hand for items discussed. If youre we watching this meeting on sg goff tv, there is a slight delay. Item 8 is items not listed on the agenda. Is there any Public Comment or items not listed on the agenda . Seeing none in the room, do we have anyone on the phone . Clerk there are no callers for comment at this time. Thank you, Public Comment is closed. Item 8 executive directors report. I could put the slide deck up police. Good afternoon, mama diagram brez im elaine forbes, the executive director. Today i would like to spend time in the report looking at this yearly 2023 and kind of taking stock of what weve accomplished. We have a lot on our plate and with weve 4 a lot to meet mission and Commission Strategic plan. I would like to talk about what well come up in january for 2024 but to give a signal going forward. Im first and foremost really excited to present this information on behalf of port staff. We did a great job. We went really first and foremost hard on the commissionn making the port a great place to be with the clean, safe and vibrant planning and youll see that came through and made a huge difference. Staff has worked hard on planning, execution, working with other city departments. There has been real effort to get interinvestigations on the ground and they have gone above and beyond hitting above our weight here at the port of San Francisco. I would also like to attribute a lot of the success to commission leadership. We have the gift of a Strong Commission. Your strategic drr you have diverse interest in understanding. Youre transparent and model accountability in excellence and that comes through through our Leadership Team into port staff. I cant thank you enough for that. I could talk about each of you but there is a lot to present today. To say that were thankful for the Strong Commission that we have. I would like to get to the data to look at the numbers. We have some very positive numbers. As you can see, weve made a huge impact this year. We welcome visitors across our waterfront, especially at major attractions. Commissioners whatever, pier 39. Crews right away first and foremost of the pandemic came back safely and that has persisted and year seeing bigger years here and this year we had 115 crews called. 375,000 passengers. This creates jobs for long shore, provisioning, Small Businesses and restaurants et cetera. Ive had many tell me that cruise passengers made a big difference in the past year. Weve also continued to receive granlts outside funding sources. For key improvements that we need to make, totaling 81. 5 million. A banner year in resources from other sources and getting our state and federal and local delegations to care about our investments. We earned 125 million. 28 million this year. And our fund balance is above precovid levels at 156 million and thats a strong position. We awarded 6 o of our contracts to local Small Businesses. Always looking at prosperity in the way our economics can bring into us and contribute to this great waterfront. On economic recovery, our first and Foundational Mission since covid has been to make the port a great place to be, that attracts people. We have targeted all funds towards Safe Community vibrance. Weve understood this is Guiding Principles for economic recovery. Some things to highlight, we completed the waterfront land use plan. We have see ceqa documents, an active plan. This is six years of effort. Three on planning, three on delay. We came through with some of the most complex events, apec, the third annual and fabulous event that keeps growing. Popups on plaza. We continue to work to bring people here to show what beautiful promenades and public facilities we have and its showing. The numbers are here for us. I want to speak about southern waterfront activation. Southern waterfront is a jewel in our necklace of public places. We need to remember that and continue to seek to improve the properties so we make meaningful contribution to the area. We aim to make it a destination and weve made progress this yore. We had rec and park bringing people in to the center center. This is the second time of the Music Festival at pier 8 o. Its an exciting festival. Building 49 activation is moving for the park. This will be an important public amenity and weve done a lot of exempts in krenco park. It took a white to figure out how to pay for it baw its a great facility due to all that work for the community design. To the wharve. As you know, the what are of tells a story of a fishing visit and were making it revitalized. Restaurants have struggled. Many reopened but many have not. There are other issues post covid, homelessness, kroim and unlicensed vending. We worked hard to make this a successful public complais and this year we gave a boost, 2. 2 million grant for fishermans warve has worked well. There are pier parties and trolley dances that people want to see. Bringing the scar star wheel to the triangle parking lots had been a wonderful success. Were waiting to see what the public and neighbors thought of it. We hope its a future success. In addition to being a Great Attraction and beautiful, it helps us with the site conditions. It works on regulation of site with the queuing and other opportunities and helps us address unlicensed vending. Were also going it make investments in off the boat fish sales. We need facilities bet for ever the public. Youll a see is that implemented in 2024. The sole source fishermans what whataref. We have it set up to fill the vacant restaurants. Its a key Facility Management strategy. Were working hard in that regard. That brings me right to it. Youve helped us in the post covid environment figure out how to deal with the dig changes in our real estate portfolio. The first was leasing. We knew it wouldnt be successful after covid so we now have the contracts in place and the solutions on how were going to broker, bringal restaurants to you that come up to the top and negotiate the leases. Chrisman and wakefield and we have a successful plan for piers 33. 5, the butterfly restaurant, pb and collectos we hope that these we get other successful opportunities for this commission. We have approach in the contracts in places and 2024 well see the strategy working for us. On construction and development, our Engineering Team has been hard at work. We started to design 15 projects this year including piers 96 wind power prep and piers 52 boat launch and more. The designs first and foremost well need to spend the funding that we have to do Infrastructure Improvements to the nern rescue funds. And we have other projects in which we have funding and we want to move long. This helps us improve our sites. We have the redevelopment of our land moving forward. Our sites, the Amazing Mission rock project that continues to expel during covid. We received three of the four vertical building certifications of pansy. Occupancy. The project has recent leasing successes. Five retail tenants plus office space of 30,000 square feet at building a. Were proud that this project has continued to move forward during covid. Its one of the few in the city under construction so were proud. Pier 70, developers executed nine lease agreements including a brewery, bakery and others. It is expected to begin opening in 2024. Okay. Mission number 2, after making the port a good place to be and clean, safe and vibrant is maintaining our facilities. Our operating budget is projected to be very constrained. We are not projected to have adequate investments to maintain our facilities. And we cant accept this outcome because our facilities is the asset at that were maintaining and i commissioners and wonderful staff has done exceptional advocacy work to earn what we call opm other peoples money. Because there is city, state and federal interest in our success and maritime facilities. That coming through. Funding from our state and federal partners is into the tune of 18 81. 5 million. 18 would have been a good year in the past but were at 81. 5. That includes freight, infrastructure and awards of 21. 5 million for pier 8096 modernization to make the facilities modern and resilient. This year we got state legislation to support the commissions plan for a Public Private partnership on piers 30 32 to provide benefits and Infrastructure Improvements. Resilience its a big 2023 has been a huge year for resilience and 2024 will be bigger. We achieved a major, major milestone which is the release of the draft plan coming in january. This proposal will be a multimillion dollar plan and if approved by congress and the city will address coastal and provide flood risks to the shoreline. This is a major step for partnerships to stabilize the shoreline. The federal government would pay 65 of the costs of the final recommended plan. Weve done resilient pilot prossments like the living seawall and its been good to test designing with nature concepts. This is something that the Seawall Program offers to improve by water quality. There is so much news coming forward out of resilience including a federal interest in raising our beloved Ferry Building and thinking about what that will cost and how to accomplish that in this urban rel. So its a huge undertaking and its wonderful that the federal government has interest and we can move it along with the city because it will take time 20 do it right. To equity, we have secured parks legislation to add an additional 2 airings this year. 12 acres are coming on line next year with the new park the Bayfront Park which will be a wonderful addition to our parks network. To our equity program. Were really doing a great job this yore providing opportunities to young people that were sought through. Organized well, intentional, and just really a great job that staff dl including the rise tide summer internship program. This is the second year. Its a mentorship and internship program, its a partnership with the State UniversityMaritime Academy and the Philip High School provide 11th grader students with a weeklong experience and they immersed themselves in the culture of the maritime campus and had a five week paid internship at the port. It was a Wonderful Program and im proud of it. Pier 80 during the weeklong event. 40 kids per day participated in the inspire learning program. We had the south beesm Yacht Club Sailing program. This is a partnership. Its sponsored six students to participate in the sailing program. In the equity area weve accomplished a lot too internally. I believe a Culture Shift is underway. That tells me so. Its really because of your hard work of thinking offer a vision of an Antiracist Organization and what that might look like that weigh began this long journey of cultural change. And its had major opportunities in terms ofl improving transparency, improving clarity and openness of decision making. Getting rid of hierarchy in ways in which we can do in thinking about and being intentional about our workplace and what we offer in terms of promotive opportunities, in terms of training, it mean rees sourcing our h. R. Department. It means creating an h. R. Department that provides services to employees, not just compliance related to our public contracts. And it involves Psychological Safety which is creating spaces where people actually get it know each other better. I want to share that i just read something in the Harvard Review that looks at employee satisfaction. The think that is most associated with work performance is affirmative heans to a question teens i question i have a friend at work. Thats the highest association to work performance. Were intentionally getting to know one another better, supporting each other and understanding the work that we face and spending a good amount of time in understanding our mission. All of these things are making the place a much more exciting place to work and i will say port staff loves the port. They take care of this organization and theyre our best asset, but they are a Skilled Group of people with a range of skills that understand how to take care of this complex little city port city here. Its extraordinarily important that our staff [indiscernible] in closing i think i missed no, i think i got it all. In closing, we have a report and this report talks about all of the impacts of the various areas in far, far more detail. I want to say that we could not have achieved so many important outdhoms year without the commission support. I also want to mention that our port Leadership Team, our chief operating officer, division directors, Human Resources director, Commission Affairs manager, our legal staff. Our General Council really its the best Leadership Team a director could ask for. I want to thank each of them for this work and i hope everyone has a look at the impact report. And im excited to see what we publish next year. Thank you commissioner. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment on the executive directors report . Seeing none, do we have anyone on phone . Clerk there are no other comments at this time. Commissioner lee. Lee this is a great report. Ive only been here a year and a half, i guess, and its amazing how everything gets done and how everything is so selfcontained. Its great that what weve done so far in 2024, looking for what the sky wheel coming in gives a big opportunity for Small Businesses to have incentive to come over. I think now days, weve been looking at rebuilding our economy based on prok. Product but our product has to be based on experience. The sky wheel, i want to work on creating a sale and fish for the boaters. Especially when we lost our outdoor restaurants. We were pushing the craft sales from the restaurant and we dont have anyone complaining that the fishermen are taking away our business. We should be supporting them. I see the piers that need to be repaired. It should be a tribute to our history. Fishing and shipping out fresh fish. So that and just, again, the overall experience of the port and keeping it clean. I know that creating the experience more, Small Business entrepreneurs will come in and lease the properties from us. I guess we just have to be patient. Great report. Im glad im here. I kind of accomplished what i coined ever set out to do is help the port with their Small Business assess. So thank you. Commissioner harrington. Thank you madam press. All kinds of exciting things and its only a few months it seems. Im still learning but thanks so much. I am particularly looking forward to seeing the army corps of engineer work and putting that in movement. A couple of things the 2. 2 million grant for the fishermans whatever could we talk about where we are with that can make a difference on the discussion. I was reading about the fbi investigation. Its clear that the staff here were trained and managed in a way. That allowed someone to say thats not white and im going to do something about that. That starts with the person in charge and all the way down the chain of command that there is a place to talk about how things are supposed to be and it mawks a feuj difference in terms of people as respect to us and the ability to believe and trust in us. Thank you very much for that. Thank you. Elaine, thank you for a great report and illustrating all of the hard work i want to thank you you, your team and maintenance