Of february 9, 2016. All in favor say, aye. Aye. Any opposed . Item no. 3. Pledge of allegiance. 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 and justice for all. Item no. 4, Public Comment not listed on items on the agenda. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Ooul item no. 5a. Executive directors report. Good afternoon, president willie adams, elaine port director. I would like to say thank you for being appointed to the port. This honor has a particular significance to me. A significance that i will carry through this transition period and will call upon times when times are harder. She has left an organization with many contributions. Now im leading this Incredible Organization during this transition. Outgoing director left us with this Strategic Plan. This Strategic Plan is a road map of a very tangible achievable commission for the port and we will use this guide throughout the period. Since the announcement last week, i would say that i received nothing but encouragement and offer from help from port staff. The port has the gift of exceptional professionals and leading this group is a truly a privilege. Port staff also understand and treasures the importance of our seven 1 2 miles of our water front and its the importance of the water land activities and peoples point of views that really create the experience of this water front that is really oneofakind. We welcome people here because they only understand what our water offers. The Strategic Plan will guide us to build upon this very vibrant place. I take great pride the Port Commission has the latitude to complete a nationwide service for this port organization. Because that means this organization has the bench internally to provide for this seamless transition and we are very proud of that. Thank you very much for your confidence in me and i will not let you down. With that i have an aside item. I would like to provide in memoriam for maria chen. Maria was born october 1957 in hong kong. She passed away february 11th, 2016, at the very young age of 61. She came to San Francisco and she and her sister came across the pacific. They married and they had a daughter and son. Justin and abigail. Maria began to work for bank of america for a short time and then worked at muni as a 1446 secretary but she quickly transferred to the port in 1998 where she was promoted to executive secretary on may 1, 2000. She retired july 17, 2015. One of her talents was singing. She loved singing so much that she decided to give Chinese Opera a chance in 2005. It was one of her hobbies and eventually became quite an avid performer and she even had a Chinese Opera costume. She also took every opportunity to travel. In 2013 she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Unfortunately in 2015 her cancer reoccurred and she lost her battle. She was survived by her family. A funeral mass was held by her family and attended by many including the port. Maria will be very very deeply missed. Maria had a wonderful personality and loved by everyone and all who knew her enjoyed their time with her. She was a great person. Staff would be very grateful if the commission can close in her honor. Next, i would like to talk about a competition that the city has engaged in. Megan wall ace is going to help me out. Im very happy that they have led the charge in the citys San Francisco seawall to the living citys competition for the city accellerator cohort. I know those are a lot of words together but what the cohort provides is financial opportunity for the city. Its in its third round of the competition. We are competing against five cities, pittsburgh, providence, washington d. C. And st. Paul. Three of the collaborators will be selected and if we are selected we will get 18 months of Financial Assistance to figure out how to finance the seawall project. The project is not yet defined and coming to the Port Commission of the mayors budget director realized the final question will be grand. So i would like Megan Wallace to show the website. The part of the competition is engaging the public and informing the public and have the public vote and leave comment on our application. The website address. Www. Governing. Com city accellerator. We will have a link on the website for people to participate. I would encourage everyone to see our story and leave a comment. Megan, can you please walk the commission and the public through the website . Sure. Good afternoon, commissioners. Megan wallace. Just as an introduction, there is a link that she mentioned will be on the website. But the opening page is an overview of the Overall Program and then you can click the link to go directly to San Franciscos presentation. You might find this picture familiar. Overall, this is called the story map. The program is an energy based program that all participants created a story, presented the outline of this various projects we are all competing to share with the accellerator program. And overall the map is laid out giving the background of the citys seawall of the swauleawall and in proportion with the mayors plan. You can scroll down the pages. To the side, this is a general opening overview of what the project is. So to talk about different things, the water front today starting off to click on images. It will show what the water front is all about. And then we talk about what the really Critical Infrastructure along the water front. This is looking at all the Public Infrastructure that is supported by the seawall in this area. It talks about the historic elements of the water front. In here, engineering staff particularly the seawall project manager came up with the story of how the seawall was created and build. Would you like me to show and demonstrate . Its a graphic of the different steps that went into the seawall. Then talking about the evolution of how we get where we are today and thinking about then the impacts and the risk of seismic activity along the water front. The bay area is a high seismic area and this is a map of the area along the water front that would be impacted. The study under way is showing the various levels of showing impact in the event of seismic event. So we do talk about seismic activity in the short immediate term and then Sea Level Rise in the longterm, but those being reasons why we are concerned about improving the seawall. Then thinking about the future and what the future generations are going to want out of the seawall and thinking about how the overall funding need, how great it is and that we are going to need to call on future generations to pay for it in terms of issuing debt. Thats what gets to the heart of the accellerator program is to come up with Innovative Solutions to try to come up with this infrastructure need. Then this talks about the property taxes and just the areas that would be impacted in the event of an earthquake and Sea Level Rise. Like what areas of the city are interested in their general vulnerablity and what we are doing to protect the seawall. The Mayors Office wanted to emphasize how this particular project is just a start on thinking about the vulnerablity along the water front and there are Major Projects and trying to come up with Financing Solutions to address the needs farther down in those more southern regions. And then thinking ahead for future generations that we benefited from the work that our ancestors did many years ago in San Francisco and continue those benefits and to bring forward those decades and centuries down the road. Megan, can you also show how to leave a comment and rate the project and competing against five cities in the competition. When you click on our citys link, you can also scroll through it and serve a more compressed format. Then you see stars pop up and it just indicates generally how people have voted so far. So we have a whole a lot of five stars. Just a couple and i think those are from other cities, probably. And so here my favorite. You click on it above. This is the area you click on and you vote and you highlight the number of stars and you can leave your comments and rate. Thank you very much, megan. We are very pleased that the mayor submitted this and sphere headed the submissions of this application. We encourage everyone to take a look at the website and take a look at the storyboard and vote. This is not only collaborating with the Mayors Office and Capital Planning but the way we will engage the public in this financing question. Thank you for your time and that is the directors report. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Next item . Port commissioners report. I just want to say thank elaine for stepping into the role for acting executive director. Its a daunting task, im sure, but pleased that you are willing to step up and do that and thanks to all the port staff. I know this is going to be new as we embark on a new direction. I want to thank you for your involvement and stepping up to the plate in this next phase of the ports evolution. Thank you. Elaine, yes, i would like to follow up on what commissioner leslie katz said. I know it will be a lot of courage to make strong decisions. Dont worry what people say about you. Make no apologies and just lead. Knowing you, you have a lot of integrity and you will do the right thing. What i want to say, on friday night, i want to thank everyone who came out to farewell to director moyer. I know we give dedications to people who pass on. I would like to extend there to the public. Monique will still be around. As people see her around, there is a plaque. Which says in tribute to Monique Moyer this will be down at pier 27. [ applause ] with that . Next item, please. Item no. 6a information presentation by the San Francisco parks and Recreation Department on india basin open Space Planning and the Inter Agency Coordination between recreation and parks, the office of economic and workforce development, the port, pg e and build inc. Thank you very much. I would like to discuss this park and open space plan where the park has collaborated with them on an open Space Planning along with several other city agencies. This is a continuation of a collaboration that weve had with recreation and parks and a number of others in the area including their leadership of their leadership of the india basin park which includes small port lots and we have collaborated in the early 2000s and with partners on education and volunteerism where we have programs at parks and recreation. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is phil ginsberg. General manager of recreation and parks. Its a great time to be here celebrating dr. Moyers tenure and welcoming eileen. Its a good moment to celebrate the topic which is in the basin which is a project of partnership. The most important reason we wanted to be here today was to thank the commission and to thank the port leadership and staff for incredible partnership as the port has moved more and more into ensuring adequate open space and recreational opportunities along the water front. We had the pledge of working together on two parks bonds in 2008 and 2012. Elaine and i were in the war room for 2012 together. The cochair with the campaign and park president mark buehler. We have come together with some of the citys most iconic events including the super bowl. We worked so closely together on americas cup and we are working together and Environmental Stewardship and programming and its great to have the collaboration that we do. Today its about the update of the basin. As david introduced, its been a Long Standing Partnership and pretty aspect collar with a lot of partners in the fold. Im going to start out with a little bit of a big picture. We have great partners and a robust partner team and shes going to take us through the details and discussion the competition which happened. These are some precedents for the opportunity that we have. I wanted to speak just a second for creating more park space particularly in the southeast neighborhood of San Francisco. Both the port and recreation and parks have been working very closely at the leadership guidance of the economic Workforce Department and the planning development. We are all acutely aware of the data from San Francisco. We have 36,000 people who already live by the basin area. 23,000 people who already work nearby, and then it was just pointed out a second go in a prior presentation, 20,000 new households being built by 2040. 50,000 new jobs being created which the Planning Department estimated all new jobs being created through 2040. 675 acres of open space. So we have before us an opportunity to create a true legacy Water Front Park and india basin. A process frankly which was originated and started by the port. But if you put iv in the context with other legacy parks you can see Brooklyn Park which had multiple land owners and created the open water space, the seattle water front was a similar construct, the hyaline in new york city, christy field and all of the forwarding large coordinated efforts similar in scale and slightly different in scale here in at india basin. I wanted to know where this fits in with the larger context of the blue greenway. As you all know its along the water front which the port has taken the lead in implementation and Inter Agency Coordination that dates back to many years. I would like to talk about the greenway essentially a necklace that connects a series of different pieces of open space along the water front. What we are hoping today for the india basin one of its special jewels. What makes it special . Its industrial heritage, its water, its dynamics. These are all what makes india basin water front a really really special open space and legacy park for the city. Perhaps the most important reason and the reason why we are here is connectivity. There are eight unique sites around the basin including the bay which we consider to be part of it that has 1. 5 miles of continuous shoreline. Its really rare in San Francisco and even in the bay area and it really creates a very special opportunity. Im going to walk you through them very quickly. Within this stretch, there are seven individual pieces of parks, trails and open Space Properties with the exception of the port, all of these are in some stage of development or needing some development. So we have this opportunity to plan on a larger scale, one that not only provides necessary water front access for the Bayview Hunters Point Community but for people dropping from surrounding neighborhoods to drop around the amazing water front. The properties are numbered from 17. Im going to talk about each one but they include haerns head, and the Shoreline Park, the Recreation Department new line property and no. 5. No. 6 is the recreation and parks india basin open space and seven is the project of leonard urban size park. We will start with herns head which talked to support parks and open space along the shoreline. This partnership is the most direct opportunity for our departments to Work Together. In 2000, the port built herns head. Its home to some of the best bird watching in San Francisco, salt marshes, native plants and some amazing partnerships with organizations such as the Bay InstituteAquarium Foundation and atri. The piece of the partnership which im most excited about is our green ageers program. Not, i dont get to spend that much time and i dont know how much this program is discussed here at the station, but this is an Awesome Partnership between us. It offers 9th and 10th graders to improve our green spaces and supports projects, workshops, teen building exercises, environmental education, Community Engagement and stewardship. In fact, both port staff and recreation and parks staff have recently completed the graduation of our fourth cohort. If you have not been to a graduation, come next year, it will be our fifth. The kids and families are so excited. They have to work a 9month program. They work three saturdays a month. They have to show up and they get a stipend for the work. Its pretty remarkable. All right. Moving through the presentation here now focusing on our piece of partnership and haerns head now focusing on Shoreline Park. India basin was a project completed with tpl. Trust for public land which is a partner in the india basin effort. Between the recreation and parks and