Item 9 b, executive director reports. The first item is report on trip port staff took to the netherlands. I hope i say the name correctly [inaudible] sponsored public works tour in conversations to the nether lrds as part of the bay area resilience by design and selected brad benison and steveal rule who go on the trip. There were 6 other bay area officials and many private sector folks joined the trip. The goal is explore dutch solutions to Climate Change and we can learn much from the dutch who have been living with water for a long time now. It was a three day tour and took place october 17 to 19th and stephen is going to tell some of what he learned but also he and brad will offer a brown bag for those more interested in diving deep so that will come as well. Let me turn it over to stephen. Good afternoon commissioners president adams, public and port staff. You just took my opening slide. [inaudible] project manager engineering division. Brad benison and i had the pleasure to go on the trip spawnsered by the dutch government and want to point out [inaudible] our delegation leader, right there, is here with us today. Jokey and jan in washington dc put together a fascinating and awarding program that focused on Climate Adaptation and presilience project and emphasized group discussion, learning and deep friendship. We started off in amsterdam which is one of the worlds great cities and absolute leader in bicycle and flood protection infrastructure. Wuchb quarter of the country is below sea level and the dutch mastered Flood Control with shore line defenses designed for the 5 thousand year flood. Within the city itself, Climate Change is cause said increase in high intensity rain fall called cloud bust and focus on managing the threat called rain proof amsterdam. We toured project including roofs rain gardens and parking lots to focus on managing the water where it falls rather than snding to sewers. Those small scale projects have a impact if they reach critical mass. The San Francisco through the puc is also looking at these projects and San Francisco and amsterdam are sister cities in this regard. Switching scales, the nether land has major rivers that are impacted by intense rain fall. To combait the flood risk, the dutch government create adprogram called [inaudible] for the river, which is a great name. It has the goal of increasing river flow by 10 percent without increasing the height of the dikes. One of the Major Projects is located in nimeen, where a bottleneck exists on the rirfb wall. The project created a bypass through the bottleneck creating a island and major new recreational water park for the area and this is the before and this is the after. The historic city is on the left of the river. That island is envisioned to become a new part the city and connected by two visually stunning bridges that were also part of the project. Someone who spent quite a bit of his career designing bridges i was fascinated with bridges and the fact that there was such design skill and architecture devoteed to these bridges. It added to the space and the project. Significant community and Stakeholder Engagement was a key part developing the program and Building Support to move for flood protection forward before disaster strike jz allows to make decisions what you want to build and how you tpt to look when you take action before disaster strikes. We also saw Port Infrastructure in transition in amsterdam and rotterdam. These show a reuse of ship building building in amsterdam. Not unlike the buildings we see at pier 70. We visited the coastal area of haigh to provide Coastal Defense from the north sea. A project called, sand engine uses currents to replenish beaches every 20 years than every year. Another project is called a super levery levy that serves for flood protection and develop coastal lands. Everywhere we went we commented on the ingenuity of the architecture whether food hall, [inaudible] crowd funded pedestrian walkways. Thish this project is a water square. Functions as a square in sunny days and collects storm water from the block after rain fall slowing down the demamd on sewer infrastructure. It is also educational which is a large benefit of the project. One of the most interest areas is rotterdam [inaudible] home to Higher Education and Research Initiatives and innovations that will contribute to a smarter port. The port of rotterdam is the largest port in europe, one of the largest ports in the world and it moved towards the north sea and the older Port Infrastructure is repurposed and it was fascinated to see what was being done. It is a Innovation District and making use of the historic architecture and port buildings and facilities with brand new interesting architecture, reducing regulations, bringing startups in and education and Multinational Companies all in one place really fosteredhad quite a feeling to it, it was amazing to see. The last day back in amsterdam for a tour of the canals. It was a incredibly rewarding trip. The group was very engaged, our hosts were fantastic and looking forward to the decompression party, which is next week. With that, ill wrap up. Thank you. Thank you, stephen. The next two items are about two conferences that happened in the same city at the same time. October 2326 in new orleans. Speaking of serendipity i wanted to attend both and they happened in the same city with Hotels Across the street from one another. The first is city accelerator cohort convening. This is the second meeting of the cohort and the purpose is hear the progress of cities involved trying to tackle difficult Public Finance questions and hear from experts that the Living City Group bringz. We had a great delegation from San Francisco. It was rewarding to have time together to talk about the sea wall. That is a third component of the value of the living city praij ethand will turn it over to Megan Wallace who was a del get. Good afternoon. Megan wallace, finance and procurement manager and had the pleasure to atened this conference. That really is a unicorn and a peg sss on the right. I saw it with my own eyes. First of all, i want to remind you that living city are the City Accelerator Program is run by living citys to bring governments together and think about ways to improve primarily economic wellbeing of low income people. The City Accelerator Program focus on specific ways of getting to the issues. Prior cohorts addressed Public Engagement for example. This particular cohort is looking at ways of funding large infrastructure financing challenges and we clearly fit the bill with the seawall. So, the team that is representing San Francisco for this cohort is city accelerator includes director forbes, myself for the port as well as the mayors deputy chief of staff kate howard and director of Public Finance and brian strom the Capital Planning director. It was a two Day Conference and the first day actually was a tour. I love the fact that this item is up after discussion on the trip to the nether erlands because we were two groups looking at issues related to waj u water managements. They took us around the city of new orlens and talked about what happened with insfru structure post Hurricane Katrina and got to see the canal system and talked about the history of how the pump system worked to remove water from the bowl that is new orleans to get it back up to the mississippi and lakei know i will say it incorrectly pons train. Here are just a few photos showing the canal cyst squm the photoon the bottom right is difficult to see. A great deal of subsidence that occurs in the new orleans streets and without major hurricanes coming through just the amount of water in the ground work of new orleans really is difficult for a city to sit upon. What they did is told us a story of how the federal government is providing approximately 4 billion of investment in new orleans to rebuild the levy system as well as support a new Green Infrastructure paradigm. They are not investing show much in gray infrastructure which is regular sewer system type management, but thinking how do they create fields to maintain water rather than dump into the canal system. Really they focused a lot on not investment but thinking what are they doing with their communities as a result of this investment. One thing i took away that hit home is it would be a incredible loss to have that much money flowing through new orleans and not invest in the people. Rather than hire consultant to come in and improve the water infrastructure. Create a new system and train the people in new orleans and have a Sustainable Way of managing water and ongoing workforce. The next day of the cohort was more of a conference style where the different cities came together and really listened to a series of presentations and talks about thinking about major Infrastructure Projects and ways of thinking about going into these projects. This one which is quite beautiful also highlightsyou have things in a long term whole system equity based scale as highlighted in the multi[inaudible] chart. It helps you think about what are the different outcomes you want to take away from a project. Do we want to just recreate a seawall or think of ways to improve the transportation and think of ways of making sure that we are providing jobs to our local communities as we go through our contracting process. These are all things that the group was mulling over. Another presentation that really aligned well with that discussion was the story about the land of beltline. There was a gentlemen named ryan gravel who had done his masters thesis thinking how to recreate the atlanta beltline in a way that created more community. Here is a area that was car focused and had a old rail line that separated people of different economic backgrounds and a lot of areas that were just blighted. He inventioned a new atlanta that brought people outdoors together and included sustainable modes of transportation and reenvisioned atlanta. For this particular cohort there will be two more that our team will be ateneding, but this particular convening i think the big take away i believe elaine and i both shared is trying to imagine what is our vision for the seawall. That is the project we are trying to particularly address through the exercise. We will be able to apply it on many projects through the port but in this case of such a large scale, in addition to addressing seismic risk and adapting the Sea Level Rise, how do we improve the environment rsh Sustainable Transportation measures and think of bringing job tooz the community is a big one that really was well defined through the process. Thank you, megan. Across the street was the American Association of Port Authority annual conference. This was the 105 annual conference and president adams, vise president braden, peter daily and i represented the port. The program featureed a port director only discussion which i participated in. Port directors were eager to talk about best practices with boards and commissions and Public Engagement. The Conference Also featured discussion of anticipated trade and transportation policy for the upcoming year. Industry outlook on supply chain and governments evolving role optimizing good movement. Perspective on port financing, investment and development initiative, anticipated impact of Energy Market and presentations addressing Effective Communication strategies and environmental stewardship. The pored of new orleans hosted a very very successful event. I thought the most valuable part for me is the ability to meet other port directors and find those other 8 women, actually 7, i think im the 8th, but it was very good also to think about San Francisco as our port in comparison to our peers and think about how many ports are moving to diversify their port foal dpoio which we did some time ago because cargo is consolidateing and there are sur plused land in many port in the United States so very very fascinating to have conversations about diversity of use and it was just a wonderful experience being part of our port delegation with the commission officer. President adams or vise president brandon would you like to add anything further about the conference . I thought it was a great conference and like you, it was wonderful meeting other commissioners from across country and talking to them about best praths jz what they are doing and it really gave me insight that we are really doing a good job here. There are things we could do differently but having the discussion with other commissioners across the country really enforced in my mind how wonderful we have it here. Commissioner adams and i had the opportunities to take a private tour by water on the mississippi of the port of new orleans which was very very informative and think they said there are 34 ports along the mississippi. Just in lieu ease yan yeah. On the tour was brandy christian who many know from the port of san diego so that was really nice thing and there were a lot of greatthe program was wonderful. They have a lot of great panelist. They had one that was very interest ing on congressional insight on trade and ports and the panel was with three republic u. S. House representatives so that should have been a sign of what is to come. But i really enjoined it and next year the conference will be in the port of long beach in california. I think commissioner brandon hit it, but what i think was good is there were so many different ports there were large ports like la, long beach and boutique ports like San Francisco and san diego and every port is different and not one size fit every port. In that Political Forum we had, one was a u. S. Senator from lieu ease ase yania and not running again and he is on transportation. To me ports of a bipartisan issue and life blood of the economy. I asked him and said president obama in the state of the union talked about ports 3 time in his speech and i go, how is it that we dont get to talk about ports other than when the iowu and pma are in west coast negotiation and ports should have more oof spotlight because we got ferries and a lot of things happening in the ports and need dredging in the ports and a lot of things going on in the ports and i go, we need to talk about it more and he goes, willie, that is important to talk about ports because here in San Francisco if you think about it, our largest [inaudible] is the giants, but yet we got cruise and ferries and boutique and restaurants, we have a little of everything here in San Francisco which makes our port really unique and so we think it is important. The port of long beach is a green port and i know that we are looking as we want to build the seawall and go after these things that we need to go after t we will need that federal funding and i think that we are not going to get as much money from federalfunding as we think and may need to do more bonds and may need more private partnership said to get done what needs to be done because so many times things get done after there is earthquake. I just got out of a earthquake. I was in new orleans and got back last night and was at a conference in well mgten and had a big earthquake, 7. 8. They are going through the same things we are going through here as far as Sea Level Rise, infrastructure so this is happening to ports everywhere so this is something we need to think about and we are all graphicing gralfing with the issue and may take thinking outside the box and having different partner ships. Thank you. The next item is opening of crab season. Im very pleased to announce that crab season has opened especially in consideration of what occurred last year. This last weekends fisherman and Fish Processors agreed to a price of 3 a pound and of this morning the fisherman were allowed to deploy the crab pots and the first haul will be retrieved thmpt opening is point reyes. [inaudible] concern of elevated levels of dahmsicacy ed north of california boarder is predicted to open december 1. 52 crab boats are fishing from hyde street and wishing our crabbing community well. The next is update on water front plan update. The process is move toog the next phase of the work. Very important work and our civicly engaged volunteers continue to really work through this process. After a extensive orientation, the group has created three subcommittees focusing on land use, resilience and environmental stability and transportation. The subcommission discussions will be reported to the full working group and will develop a port wide policy. The 7 Advisory Teams are supporting the work in providing additional expertise. All of the meetings are listed on our waterfront web page and we encourage members of the community to get involved. We produce a video to get the word out more about the really important issues this group is tackling and how we want public involvement. World wide for the atmospheric waterfront. With spectacular view said are framed by piers and sites and souths are constantly changing. We