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SFGTV Port Commission 71216 July 18, 2016

That motion carries. Pledge of allegiance we dont have a america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, planning code are prohibited at this meeting. Match please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room the meeting room ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar soundproducing electronic devices. Please be advised that a member of the public has up to 3 minutes to make comments on agendas items unless a commissioner asked otherwise. Any Public Comment on the items not listed on the agenda if there is have a card and come up to the mike twice. Public comment is closed. Next speaker, please. Item 9 closing arguments. Good afternoon commissioner adams and a commissioner Vice President brandon and members of the commission and members of the public and port staff im eileen the intern port director and pleased to announce the San Francisco simple inform will have a free concert here at the james r. Herman in cruise terminology park on sunday july 24th from noon to 2 00 p. M. For the viewing public the cruise terminal is pier 27 on the embarcadero at the foot of the lombard the symphony held a simplify last year, it was a success and this year edwin at water and the orchestrate will perform a russian music on the festive oh, it is your and concerto number 3 beginning at 1045 and visit the simple informs please plan to attend and bring a family and friend a blanket and picnic in cruise Terminal Park and various food trucks will be available as well as a water philips station bring our Water Bottles and vendor booth for various organizations excluding including the part r post will line up our own port 33 and bring use Public Transportation they offer alternatives to parking it will be scare and bike riding is strongly recommended and wed like to have a valet bike park to make bike riding a preferred choice thousands a free public event no tickets are required mark your calendar now and join is for a special sunday this july 24th with the russian simplify he waters edge that concludes my presentation. By Public Comment on the directors report Public Comment is closed. Pursue. Next speaker, please. Madam secretary. Item 9 Port Commission report. Colleagues id like to go first. I have a heavy heart today, this last week in our nation has seen a nation on edge a country i think on the vertical of a nerve break down today in dlasz president of the United States with their to the Memorial Service of the 5 Dallas Police officers that were killed i wishes and prayers to the mayor of dallas chief brown we all mourn those tragedies but also, we mourn the shootings of the gentleman from louisiana for over and over opinioned from stalling minnesota and patrick and michael and Sergeant Mike smith and corporal is 7 people were wounded. Right now no our nation fear and anger how do we spread and rack to injustice in our society in violence theres a lot of work i think that has to be done not about ideas it is about action either summon the angles of our character not atmosphere at this time, id like to have a moment of silence so for the 5 Police Officers and the victims killed by Police Violence in st. Paul and louisiana. silence . May they rest in peace. Id like to get on with my Police Reporting after the last meeting went to washington, d. C. Had meetings with congressman john and talked about transportation for the port of San Francisco ferris and Sea Level Rise, also meet with congressman Jerold Hoffman talked about the sthamgz and leader pelosi chief she wanted an update with the parks agreement the ferry and how is the process going to the new executive director for the port of San Francisco two days literary later on a sacramento with the speaker reardon and invited him to take a tour of the port and assemblymen david chiu to talk about 70 infrastructure and Assembly Member chiu not to see more ferries to deal with the infrastructure and congestion we have in the port of San Francisco and looking forward to coming to a meeting to talk about ferries and his ideas how to take more traffic off the streets and deal with the congestion and how we have more ferries with the ferry many mission bay or ferry to Treasure Island maybe more water taxis but more efficiency to zeal with the i think flux of people moving to San Francisco two days after that i attended a conference in england i was there for the citizens of england voted 52 percent to leave the european process and theyll be leaving the eu i sat in a pub in england and licensed to the people that was extraordinary what is happening in elgd a lot of people feared that england pulling out of the you think like spain and france maybe germany will follow suit a mass exodus but the people spoke a lot of frustration there was a lot of anger and talking because that he felt like a lot of people were only traded on the one percent the rich and everyone else was left behind that was good to be there at that time, as you may know David Cameron tomorrow will be his last day in england for the second time in the history having a lady as a new Prime Minister and wished him well lease on an ally of the United States and also good do think how people are thinking throughout the word will and the frustration and the anger with the status quo and wanted to be part and not feeling left out i have a letter to read dear willie i want to thank you eileen and peter and david and michael for the exciting waterfront developments of San Francisco on june 4, 2016, please also convey my appreciation to the San Francisco police for the refreshing boat ride i treasurer the experience for the port of San Francisco in balancing commercial and Public Interests in merchandising the planning for the future and leveraging publicprivate partnerships San Francisco and hong kong are woimd renowned cities by the water and hong kong the hereby is a prim time a unique asset our Waterfront Commission has Telegraph Hill pursued new initiatives to enhance the waterfront for the tourists to enjoy ill encourage my colleagues in the Development Bureau to keep in touch and carry on the challenges that are maturing beneficial i look forward to welcoming you and your colleagues to hong kong and reciprocated your hospitality ms. Kari the chief of the government of honk do know o Congress Region we appreciated having her here that connection was made the conversation of commissioner woo ho and secretary lamb and visited and toured San Francisco at the last meeting ive talked about that the agency spent one billion dollars other than the cruise it is out in the middle of no where its the best cruise terminal she wanted to know how we operated and enjoyed the spaces in San Francisco the parks and dog parks how we operated and, learn from the port of hong kong and they can learn from the port of San Francisco my last feeling is it for those of you who dont know as well to the public the transparency were undergo a search for. A executive director this the brochure we hired reliance and right now we are going through the process to accept the applications and started at the end of june through july 29th we have a website that is you on the website of the port of San Francisco the city of San Francisco and you can go to reliance website if you want to apply the posting is sf port dot com jobs and opportunities then the citys website and also you can go to alliance www. Dots alliance rc. Com that concluded my report. Any comments from the commissioners. No. You said it all thank you for the remarks on the recent tragedies i want to note on july 20th well have a group of minute stares from the government of india to visit the port once before they did this the group that went back was president this group gets the same exactly as the same before the tour kudos for all of us being prepared and it highlights after what commissioner adams read about the tour with the representatives from hong kong port we have become a worldclass designation and equity entity that used the model how to figure out the integration in a larger setting weve gotten the reputation and actuary as a place that needs to be visited to get angle understanding of improvements and opportunities that the can take back to their own injured thank you. Madam secretarys. Next speaker, please. Items on the consent calendar request approval the 20162017 monthly rental rates and special rates. So moved second. Is there any Public Comment on this issue going once, going twice. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues is there any comments. Okay. All in favor of resolution all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . That motion carries. Item lovingly request the approval of the operations with Chevron Incorporated with the richmond, california refinery as a Foreign Trade zone for a term of 5 years with 3 options with 5 years each. Good afternoon, commissioners peter daily from the staff it is great to be in the cruise terminal were asking approval for on practitioner agreement with chevron but ill make my port comments brief with the program was as i understand into law in 1934 by Franklin Delano roosevelt to create opportunities by providing businesses with economic advantages to International Trade the intent goes on today years later in 1934 Foreign Trade was somewhat of an interesting unknown survives and today your walking into costco and a Department Store but nonetheless ftc are to promote integral trade by reducing unintended costs for u. S. Trade flaws and the fcc is a federal program fascinated by the port and the port of San Francisco was named the Franklin Delano roosevelt and negotiation was number one, of course, and new orleans and we fascists the program for the National Government and the fcc board is chaired by the secretary of treasurer im sorry the secretary of commerce and the concert of treasurer is on the fcc board we the port of San Francisco has impacted the program and with the agreements with the sfo and the mayor of sfo and the refinery with the rodeo and chevron as a fcc for the last 18 years an work of their benefits is that chevron supplies jet foul to International Airlines and sfo and the petroleum is put on flights that are four International Designations and it is due to the exempt basis considered not considered export outside of u. S. Boarders the most recent agreement with chevron inspired in 2015 a number of meetings the port wants more classification to the program meant to the community and region and asked for more outreach to the region as to the fcc program the Commission Approved two 67 month expectations to get that work done and the fcc agreement over the port is expiring in a couple of weeks we have expanded our Public Outreach with a half hour day forum from 65 companies and cities and regions around the region and last october the port staff made an informational presentation to update the Community Outreach and id like the candidates and that meeting the commission requested the idea of a good Corporate Citizen clause into the agreement the good corporate concept with the Foreign Trade in washington, d. C. With a good Corporate Citizen agreement with future fcc operating agreements with the Port Commission and vet it with the fcc board and worked with chevron our internal attorney and staff has grafted the language for the agreement with chevron. The fcc board and u. S. Custom services have the originate for the grants for the submittal of approval in terms of local discretionary the fcc board mandates that each zone is operated as a puc and the grantee shall have the furthermore treatment under like conditions the equal treatment provision of fcc law mandatory a grantee like the port must provide access to zones and manufactures on a n nondiscriminatory basis it could route in a fine to a thousand dollars and day and loss of the city fcc grant in the case of chevrons request weve granted the status to other repeating va letter and in 2014 2, 3, 4 approved it is also pursuant to the revised agreement with the good corporate language on file with the secretary of Port Commission and worked diligently to companies in the region and made numerous meetings to the municipalities and others government organizations and still up to the federal program the good Corporate Citizenship by the fcc board and added to the request of the commission this fcc program meets the ports Strategic Plan by improveing the vital of the Northern California economic knotness with that ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. So moved. Second. Public comment cairo worthy. Gym lads is next, bob from the Building Trades and others. Hello my name is cairo the executive director of for richmond the chevron organization to date we have with the funds own 2 million on chevron has invested and be able to place over one thousand young people and adult into employment some at the refinery and other refineries and some at the multiple entities throughout the city of richmond and be able to provide 50 young girls historically black cologne experience that focusing on stem criterias and building a park that formally had nothing for the neighborhood to do and most recently been a finalist for the boom grant to build and have pop up next to housing in the city of richmond after our six months planning process were appreciative of chevron were able to provide outcomes and actually talk with Community Members that speak first hand how Port Richmond has assist them not only with their children but themselves so thats what we have in richmond any questions. Thank you cairo. Jim San Francisco chamber of commerce. Thank you, commissioners jim lads and first commissioner adams thank you fewer moving comments in louse us to share in the moment of silence for the tragedies the country faced we represent 25 hundred businesses including chevron and the Foreign Trade zone is an for competitive piece of the economy and the ports provides a Great Service for many businesses throughout the region thank you for operating that Foreign Trade zone and making it available to chevron and othery financier throughout the bay area it is a major historic presence in the city and besides have a maritime focus obviously serving that refinery through San Francisco San Francisco bay area and any businesses that call the port of San Francisco their home i want to thank our staff and the community and labor that got together to create the good Corporate Citizen provision that is in the draft contract im sure will be a model in other foreign agreements in the future we urge you to adopt the resolution and presented by the staff thank you. Bob. Good afternoon. Im bob liley with the local 2 i represent the Building Trades council as well im here speaking in support of chevrons 5 year trade zone operating agreement as a citizen of the bay area i think this Foreign Trade zone is a terrific one to maintain the competitiveness not only as a labor person but a member of the community we supported the objectives and applaud chevron richmond to bans the local economy to produce high paying technical jobs in the bay area and this supports others businesses and enhances the tax base we provide those valuable services this is not just today but far into the future chevron develops craft workers and technicians by supporting our

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