constructed in 1917, with two dwarfs twowharfs -- two wharfs. what happened is that we had planned through our budget process to do repairs in this area, and when our maintenance team began to do the repairs, they found that the damage was more severe than anticipated, so we are having to rethink of those repairs. we are having to seek permits from bcdc. we are going through the process appropriately, and we are making accommodations for the public parking that occurs on that here as well as for the fisherman, so so far, we have only had to relocate five vessels, and as we do the work, we hope to be able to rotate, but if necessary, we will make

sure they are versed for anyone that is impacted. said the extent of the repair is still under development and still needs to be fermented. we are mobilizing in making that a very high priority. next, we are pleased to talk about a new itinerary for 2011. i know that we have talked before about all the changes in cruising that are going to occur in 2011. for example, we're going to have two calls from disney cruises, which we have never had on this coast, as well as crystal cruises and others. princess cruises has also made some changes to its itinerary. they are going to experiment, for lack of a better word, with a seven-day cruise on the west coast. most of the cruises out of san francisco on 10-day cruises, which means it is attractive to a very small segment of the market. the seven-day are in fact the most popular, so they are going to be a total of four.

a terrorist in 2011, the first is a five-day trip from vancouver to los angeles, and the other three are seven-day, which starts in l.a., go to santa barbara, san francisco, sonata, and then l.a., so we are hoping this is a very popular cruise. we hope it will be of the 10 million cruise passengers around world, i believe 80% are americans. i know that san francisco is still a very desirable destination, so we're looking forward to seeing how that works and hoping it can continue in the following year. i'm sure you'll be seeing more of it as 2011 evolves. next, on august 6, 2010, on pier 14 at 3:00, we will have the ribbon cutting ceremony, which you heard all about at the last commission meeting. it is, as you know, a piece of art owned and managed by the

black rock arts foundation, and it will be installed at here 14. the rocket ship itself will be 40 feet high, some very similar to the last black rock arts foundation peace we had, which was called passage. the rocket ship will be there for 14 months. artists are a team of bay area artists, and the rocket ship first landed, so to speak -- very cute, dan. where is dan? first landed at the dam in to us tonight and has subsequently appeared at nasa and subsequently in san mateo and the makers fare, so i did hear from a lot of members of the public when it came for with that the rocket man was going to be coming here, that they are quite thrilled about that. the piece is comprised of a single rocket ship for a typical run to a nearby stellar destination, also written by

dan. i could read you more of this beautiful prose, but i will move on in the interest of time. we're looking forward to that. we expect it to be a lot of public debate, which is the whole point. if you can come out in -- what? 10 days before that? when will they bring it in? yrah, so what -- yeah, so when they brought the passage, and it was quite amazing, so if you can come, it will be quite a treat, but most importantly, please come friday at 3:00 for the ribbon cutting. no permit necessary. next day, dpw, the port of san francisco, mizzle transportation authority and other agencies kicked off summer sweet at the wharf. the department of public works has had a program going this summer where they go for a week long clean up in different neighborhoods of the city. i believe fishermans wharf will represent their fourth

neighborhood that they are doing, and that got kicked off today with graffiti removal as we speak, and tomorrowspeakdpw will beat -- tomorrow, dpw will be steam cleaning trash cans, painting receptacles, and the court will be out repainting treatises making sure they are filled with granite, doing graffiti removal, and if they pick up, and the public is encouraged to join all of us this saturday at 9:00 a.m. to help sweep pick up and unify the neighborhood. we're doing this in concert with the fisherman's wharf community benefit district, said that is just phenomenal for us, and we thank everyone for volunteering to help make this an attractive aspect of the port's portfolio and of our city, so that is exciting news, and we thank dpw for choosing us as one of their sites. also, we have the 26th annual regatta of the plastic classic in the baby book club, which is

effectively across from the old navy -- the bayview boat club, which is effectively across from the old navy building. there will be a kind word to elegance as well as a race. they will have jazz in the afternoon, and you can watch the race from their great debt, so i encourage anyone who has a little free time to go out there, and while you are out there, think america's cup, what a great vantage point that might be. at least you can start to get a taste of it starting this saturday. next, i wanted to announce that we will have to cancel our regular meeting of august 10 and rescheduled for august 19, which is, i believe, a thursday. is that right? so i hope that can work for everyone. thank you, commissioners, for making yourself available for that. almost done. two more to go. the director of climate protection initiative in the

mayor's office was hoping to be here to talk about the next item, but she also had another commitment. that is the announcement that the port of san francisco run an award, our first ever award for our work on our climate action plan. so just to give a little background, as you know, approximately two years ago -- maybe a little more than that -- the mayor put out a directive asking that each of the department's create a climate action plan. so this year, rich and many members of the ports that an environmental team spent a lot of time updating our action plan, and we have quite a number of great projects, which the port ken lay credit to. one is a terrific storm water management plan. another is the short side power project that we are almost completing, and, of course, all

those different recycling and composting measures that the port and our various tenants have under way, among many other things. johanna explained that the panelists look at giving out these various awards. there were six awards total given, and they had a long debate whether to give the award in the name of a department or an individual, and they determined that they really wanted to name the individual, so rich berman is the individual named on behalf of the port, and we just want to thank you for your tireless work. and that of many others. from carter in the maintenance team, etc., for the great work. very proud of this, and it is very critical to our mission. thank you all for that. so i'm going to applaud him. you can help. do you want to add anything?

excellent. ok, so there we get to the part i'm not so enamored with. all of you know our esteemed jennifer, our senior project manager in the planning and development commission. she had abandoned us for the glory of retirement, and she had left us with an amazing legacy of worked in the 18 years she has been with the port. it is incredible what all the she has done for this city and the port in her time. she joined in december of 1992. looks like a few days before christmas. i still wonder who does that, but jennifer did, and she came in the real estate division where she spent approximately six years, and then, she moved over to the planning and development commission where she spent the remaining 12 years. i'm 18 years she has been here, she has been promoted six times,

so that is a great batting average. jennifer, congratulations. jennifer, as you know, is responsible on the port side for the project at 1.5, 3, and 5, which is spectacular. simon, wherever you are, we're taking all the credit for that project, so congratulations, wherever you are. also for the exploratory project that is coming to us at pier 15 and eventually 17, says she has as two great projects under her belt as well as numerous other tendencies and projects under the way. it is unimaginable that she would consider abandoning us in this way, but she has, and so, we will look hard and high and low into all of you in the room to try to replace her if we can, so with that, i would just like to say a heartfelt thank you, jennifer, so much. god bless for all you have done, and good luck to you in the next

chapter of your travels. [applause] >> jennifer, the commission has a plaque here for you, and i will read it. i accretion for your 18 + years of hard work and dedication at the port of seven -- an appreciation for your 18 + years of hard work and dedication at the port of san francisco. in addition, there is something i want to present to you, and is kind of a pictorial resume of your work at the port, signed by all your friends here, and if you get chance to take a look at it, and has a little piano keyboard of here for your love of music. i will present this to you, and i know probably some folks from staff and the public might want to make comments.

>> commission, any comments? i'm sure there are some staff members who would like to say few things. >> commissioners, i am with planning and development. i had the privilege, a very rare privilege for the last three years of working with jennifer. senior project manager in the 333 batting average, six promotions in 18 years, quite do it justice. in some ways, you could say she

is batting 500 being involved with the six major development ports done. i would personally say that my experience with jennifer not only has to do with my term at the port, but i believe we started work together in 2004 on the exploratory project, and i have to say that's personally, i would like to thank jennifer since she not only is the embodiment of implementation of the plan, but i think she has done more than any single staff person to try to make that happen, but i feel that personally, i have learned so much from her, not just as a colleague, but a mentor and a friend. i would like to say that not only is she professional and thorough being on schedule and on task on a project, by is

always done with a recollection of what we're doing the project and in good humor, that it is a fun thing to do, and always keep our eyes on the prize one we are with jennifer. with that, i would like to congratulate you on moving on, and i'm sure you will find challenges in other endeavors in the future. thank you. [applause] >> planning and development director. we worked with jennifer 10 years now and working on the various developments, but i just want to say briefly about the exploratory and development because jennifer works very long hours. drives her husband crazy. he is a big proponent of this retirement. [laughter]

but i join exploratory negotiation team a few months ago, wrapping up the last of the lpda negotiations, and experienced those kinds of ours. we were committed to those negotiations, and our negotiations ended with the bart schedule. we had to leave so that we could catch the last train, so i have experienced firsthand the kind of hours and dedication that jennifer brings -- brought to the port and will now bring to other endeavors. congratulations on your retirement. [applause] them of commissioners, i'm also with planning and development division, and jennifer's retirement does not befits someone as well as it does for you for all of the -- jennifer, retirement does not fit someone as well as it does for you for

all of the work if you have done. i think that what jennifer means for many of us here is that there is no one with more heart , and the way that she personally throws herself into her projects is ridiculous, but we are really, really grateful for it because of all of the human factors that she brings into the managing of her projects, trying to be thoughtful about the public's understanding about that as well, and also, i think that it is worth noting that jennifer really not only puts her heart but her money where her mouth is as well because i do not know of any other port staff that is a bondholder twice in the two issuances of the revenue bonds the port commission had the opportunity to do. one in the -- what error. 19 -- when we were refinancing our dead back in the 1990's. and then this one most recently,

so i am in aewe with the level f dedication, and i wish you the best. thank you. [applause] >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm always very proud of everyone i work with at the port. the level of accomplishment and level of commitment done and the level of what gets done at the fort, and once in awhile, someone like jennifer comes along and just bombs that bar of a few notches and does it in a way that she is always fun to be around -- just bumps that bar up a few notches. thank you, jennifer, for all those years and all the work that you have done. [applause] of famine commissioners and guests, susan reynolds -- >> commissioners and guests, susan reynolds from the real estate

department. personally i'm going to miss you. we have been through a lot of ups and downs, and on behalf of the real estate department, you left a legacy there also. i've never come across a dead deal that jennifer worked on. she carried her professionalism and her grace from department to department. i just want to say that i will personally miss you, and i'm sure that everybody in the real estate department will miss you, and we wish you the best. i hope that you will continue to watch our efforts and our accomplishments as we try to implement all the work you have done. thank you. [applause] >> commissioners and members of the public, brad benson, special projects. there are just a handful of people who have had such an input -- impact on us.

it is really amazing. i have had the luxury to be able to work with you closely on many of the project -- i've not had the luxury of being able to work closely with you on many of the products you've undertaken, but i have been watching closely. for the public, the development projects -- they are obviously works of art. it is also enormously complicated, all the entitlements, and they are released herculean efforts that stretched over years, and the way you are able to grab all of that information can be on top of all of it and marshallese projects to final completion is just stunning. so great works of art already accomplished. we look forward to seeing the next work of art, and we really hope we can continue to pick your brain over time, so thank you so much. [applause]

>> grace park, a deputy city attorney. i had the pleasure and honor of working with jennifer for about five years now on exploratory and transaction. about the same time i have been here at the port, and it has been amazing. i think the best way to describe her -- she is like the energizer bunny. she does not stop. it boggles my mind. i have never met anyone with so much energy. if it were not for the bart schedule, as byron stated, i think we would have taken those meetings on until 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning. but i mean, it has been truly an honor, and i think it is great to have someone like jennifer retire, and also, i want to thank gary for all the patients that he had throughout the endless -- i think months kiri she has worked until midnight

months on end. sometimes i wonder if. it is not humanly possible, but she did it, and we are really lucky to have her, and i am really sad that she is retiring, but at the same time, i think it is very well deserved, and i'm sure that she will tackle lots of other projects with as much gusto as she did with the exploratory and. [applause] >> commissioners, i am one of the project management team -- one of the project managers on the project. with me is the project director for the exploratory him. she will have a few words to say. as want to thank jennifer 45- plus years of 100% commitment to our project -- for five-plus

years of 100 percent commitment. we could not have gotten here without her. when the project is complete, i think she should feel a real sense of pride that she was as much an author of this project as any of the authors associated with it. on a personal note, i will say -- my job it's very easy when i'm sitting across from someone who is maybe physically sitting across from me but mentally and psychological and strategically is sitting next to me as a true partnership on this deal. i have spoken to jennifer two or three times a day for the past five years, and it really is true. she is enormously committed, so thank you very much for your mentor ship and good management practices, and one to emulate here at the port. [applause] >> again, i'm christina wolsey, project manager, and i'm here representing the whole expl

oratorium. you have warned us out just a little bit, but you have kept us going and set our bar high. even though you have many other projects, you always made us feel as though our project is the important, and we appreciate that. i bring a note with best wishes from our chief architect, the executive director, and others at the exploratorium. there are some photographs of the project that i think you'll enjoy, and also bring a record available to everyone on our store -- [laughter] , but it is a report of our work at fort mason in terms of our outdoor pedagogy, so that is what we're really excited about, so this is the chapter that we hope they will support more work at the pierce, but now, i will have an opportunity to extend this period and then also, a poster. you recently had an in house event. we are moving. what is interesting, some of you

may have seen that we have the old palace of fine arts from 1969 with a photograph of frank oppenheimer, said this was a piece at pier 15, where our current director was with him, so for you, thank you very much. [applause] we look forward to seeing you at the site. >> i have one speaker card. then the commissioners, members of the public, thank you for letting me speak today on this. i promise i'm not here to speak about anything but jennifer. jennifer and i work together for six years. i think six or seven. it probably felt like 60 years. but from 2000 through 2006, and when i met jennifer, it was the

third lease i had done with support, and i can tell you, having done the first two, with nick dempsey, it was a different experience. [laughter] i can also tell you that from when i met jennifer, and you had the good taste and good sense to award, she had -- she did a very good job for you because what we ended up signing was three times what we originally offered. so jennifer was -- [clears throat] i remember when we went through 16 agencies, three and a half years of entitlement, and jennifer made me initial every single page of that deal. also, remember i did not have gray hair when i mention ever.

but, seriously, i think she it minimizes -- together, we put together a private public partnership, which will in your and is fair and is good for the pork, good for us. she worked us to death. she worked herself to death, and what i wanted to say about jennifer is that she has all of the elements that a partnership needs. she has integrity, passion, trust, humor, and a little madness. but today, i would like to recognize her, and i did not bring the new post that i told you at lunch we were going to give you because i cannot remember anything anymore, but we have a new post that has the state of california in favor in it, and it has her name on it, and i forgot it, but thank you very much. [applause]

>> [inaudible] [laughter] >> one more comment. i worked at the court from 1997 through 2001, and one thing that people have forgotten over the years is that one morning, the planning and development staff came in and found that here's one through five had been read tact, and we were going to lose those buildings. the tenants had to move out. the engineering staff agreed that they did not have to move out immediately, that the red tag would become effective at the end of the year, and development was faced with quite a challenge because everybody was fully committed to their other jobs. this is a time jennifer really stepped up. she knew that she had no time to work on it, but she also knew that if she did not, if people

within the group did not step up to do it, then those peers would fall into the bay. people often think of people like jennifer as being a super confident, but the super committed to the public good is also very important.

opportunities we have had to deal with the hotel site -- lots of controversial project. she was one of the few. no matter how many tomatoes were thrown at the port, she always had a smile, and afterwards would consult with us for hours. we had a professional person to help us. i congratulate her on her future and thinker for all she has done at present. [applause] president fong: any additional? >> jennifer, i just want to thank you for all you have done. you listened to the