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because they had to keep us in their. by the time i got out of the sixth grade, there were a few issues i remember my mother telling me -- boy, do not make me come get you. when we build this building, we want to make sure that we are planning together, building together, making money together. i do not want her to say boy, do not make me come and get you. let's be in let's not wait for egypt and jerusalem. -- let's not wait for egypt and jerusalem. let's be in the forefront. let's make san francisco a model for what it means to live together. >> please give it up for mary
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helen rogers' family. >> good afternoon, everyone. thank you for coming out. i am so proud of the partners that came to the family and worked with us to make sure that what my mother had wanted in this building was going to be there. i am so proud of them and i thank them. when my mother first came to the city and started fighting in this community, we knew that she was not going to be home as much as she should have been. but we did not mind. we had a bigger brothers and sisters that would whop us what my mother would " bust.
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-- whaop us. they keep telling me to keep this short, but i am a talker. what can i say. how member -- how many members of the family are here today? [applause] my son, my daughter, my niece and nephews, generations of the rogers family are here today. i wish that you could come here and speak. where are you at them in pushing you. get up here and -- where are you at? get up here and say something. i am pushing you. no one knew her better than you. >> i do not want to take advantage. but i am family.
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i know that i am family, unlike a lot of view -- except for dexter, george, minibus at very lean days during the black power era, mary helped us. all of the other stuff that she did was great and wonderful. but feeding us in those days when we had no money and were tired of bologna and cheese, she looked out for us. let me say some things about her that may not have been said. if mary told that the redevelopment -- told you that the redevelopment regulations said a certain thing, she was never wrong. she knew what she was talking
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about. all of that material that the agency would send you, mary actually read all of that. i did not read it. she read it word for word, line for line. if it were not for mary rodgers, what you see in this community -- yes, we talk about the out- migration of african americans, i would like to remind the redevelopment agency -- since i have the microphone -- that it took a lot of money and an entire agency to the black people out of here. i would like to say to the agency and city officials, it will take an agency and money to keep african-americans and get some back in here. this is america and you cannot do it for free. that is what mary would tell you. she would give you her favorite
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line right now. she would say -- let's make sure that we do not have different strokes for different folks. anyone remember that? let's make sure that everybody is treated fairly. to treat those -- you have got to give them more than you have given the other folks or they will never catch up. that is just the reality of life. that is just the reality of running the race we are in called life. we are excited. we want is not to be the end of the last project in the western addition. it may be the last thing that the redevelopment agency pays for, but it is not the last of the work that we have to do in the west of the city. to bring charity and to bring people the kind of life that they deserve. i will say it.
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i am through. i hope i am not to offensive. i really want to say this and i hope that you can get it. the reality of life is that white people in san francisco are too comfortable for black people to be doing as bad as we are. we have got to make sure that folks know that we are hurting and not happy about. and that we are calling for change today. mary would not stand here and give you a namby-pamby's speech with all of the problems and troubles, the violence and the hurt, the lack of education and lack of advantages in our community. she would tell you about it when she got to the microphone. in channeling her right now. this is not really me. do not get mad at me. thank you. douglas you. i would like to introduce my baby brother, michael brother,
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this is my baby brother, paul. he wants to sing a song for my mother. >> ♪ overtime i have been building mike castle of love -- my castle of love. although you never knew that it was not you that i was dreaming the sandman has come from too far away come back some other day although you do not believe that they do dreams do come true open my dreams when i look at you, baby if you
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could be here you two might be overjoyed over love over me because i and my heart -- in my heart i have painfully turned around just to find what i saw i discovered i have come out too far for you not to say that i would have to throw my castles away. dreams do come true, though we do not believe that they do when i look at you, baby, if you
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any more members of my family would like to speak. any of the grandchildren, and i would appreciate it if they would come up here and say something. >> i'm angela, her youngest daughter. i just would like to say -- i would just like to thank everybody in the community for coming out this day, rainy as it is, and how beautiful it is to see that people still care. i just told my brother earlier -- he was like, "what should i say?" i told him just to tell people to love one another. that was my issue. my mother really showed her love in this community. i walk down this community now, and i do not live here anymore. i moved back from texas. i see people who do not smile,
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people who walk down with their heads down, and that was not married. she always said, "keep your head up high. hold your head up. smile." that is what i like to see -- people smiling and enjoying this community. it is beautiful, although i grew up -- it was different. if you did something wrong, by the time you got home, you had five people whipping you. you do not have a community anymore like that. so i just say grow together and love. that is basically what we need. that is all i wanted to say. thank you. [applause] than at any more members of the family -- >> more members of the family? that is it? thank you. one more hand again to the rogers family. this is why we are here today. [applause] i think that is it for our
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meeting. >> so low. >> second. >> motion -- all in favor. item three, public comment on executive session. public comment on executive session? item four, executive session. >> so move. >> all in favor? executive sessio. >> commission voted to approve 4a1a and moved not to disclose any other matters discussed in executive session. >> item 6, please be advised that the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers, and similar some producing devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any persons responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar sound producing electronic device. please be advised that members
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of the public have up to three minutes to make pertinent public comments on each agenda item unless the port commission adopts the shorter time and any agenda item. >> moved in light of the popular loss of a quorum to public testimony to two minutes. >> second. >> any public comment? all in favor? >> items from the consent calendar, 7a, second quarter contracting activity report fiscal year 2010-2011 for the october 1, 2010 through december 31, 2010 reporting ton. b, requests approval of the biennial operating budget for fiscal years 2011/2012 and 2012/2013. c, request approval of the $21.7 million capital budget project for fiscal years 2011/2012 and 20 12/2013. d, requests approval the executed contract modification
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with dfpf corp. doing business as fine line foconstruction to extend the original contract duration of 120 days. -- buy an additional 34 days. e, request authorization to execute a contract modification to extend the original contract duration of 200 days by an additional 113 days. >> so move. commissioner crowley: second. commissioner brandon: public comment? all in favor? we have accepted the order consulting contract activity report resolution 11-08, 11-09, 11-10, and 11-11 have been approved. >> 8a, informational presentation regarding the annual update to the 10-year capital plan for fiscal years
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2012-2021. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm with the special project group and executive division here to present the senior capital plan, beginning 2012 through 2021. first, the legal and procedural. city admen code sections 2.3 and 2.31 require that all city departments create a 10-year capital plan and that it be approved by the mayor by may 1. this is not the normal timeline we are under this year. normally, with the city's capital planning committee, the department are to submit their capital plans by november. the port had a lot outstanding, and it warranted a delay. you will see on this timeline that on march 7, t capital planning commission will consider for adoption this plan one day before it will come back
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to the port commission. be reassured that adoption is conditional on approval by the port commission that will then move forward. the plan will still be introduced to the board on the first, and supervisor chu will then introduced eight -- introduce an amendment. there were a number of changes this year over prior years. the big change to our process, some schematic changes, and the bottom line changes to our estimation of need, which changes year to year as well as with new sources of revenue. i will follow that up with working for the waterfront talking about where we are spending our various colors of money across the waterfront, and then, highlighting the sea wall. so this is a terrible slide. i know of the thought -- i know
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that this is completely a little, but i wanted to put it up anyway despite advice not to because it shows you this is the end result of the new process we undertook this year with the two-year planning process for the capital budget, which i think you just approved on consent. the medium term plan, and then our 10-year plan. first columns on the left are the budget, and left half of that is the medium turn -- medium-term plan. that spread sheet, which is really about this big, is how we found a home for all the projects submitted through the process, whether they be through for funding or other funding. i had to put it up there because it was not going to see the light of day otherwise. so the next slide is not a lot better, but for your one, the top of this to the right here is how we dished out all the capital funds for the budget for the first year. an interesting story here -- below the line, at the very
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bottom of that, where we enumerated the other funding sources, it shows you how we are leveraging federal dollars. in this case, the patch for the central basin dredging project and the disposal project are both included in our budget of top. the other budget sources below. that was the end result of this long process. what that process was really all about was changing the two-year budget process and planning process from one were different divisions were essentially, you know, vying for funding advocating on their own, to one that was really about consensus. representatives from each division got together, agreed on the criteria we would use, how much those criteria were worth, and as we went through is courting the project, what those scores were, so there was a great deal of consensus all the way through, and the end result was everyone was pretty happy with it. so one other change and process
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i will note is where's previous jurors had been in the financing administration, now is in the federal projects group. some larger thematic changes to the plan really also came from the idea that we wanted this to be a more rigid planning document and be a better tool for the for moving forward as opposed to an assessment of what we really need but do not have -- a better tool for the port moving forward. to that effect, used to be splashed all over with red, and that has been taken out, really, again, a focus on what we can accomplish and how we are going to do it rather than a focus on what is missing. also, a note at the bottom of the slide, we made a subtle change of policy on size of need. -- seismic need. we had been explicitly astray of the city's convention for seismic, which is the needs are only assessed up to what is
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warranted by code, we had a higher standard than that. while this plan moving forward, we are only program and funding, being realistic, really, up to what is required of us by code because there are so many outstanding needs. the bottom-line -- our costs went up by less than they have in the past, but really, this morning, i was looking at how the total need has changed over time for the last six years. so much of it is driven by the cost escalation that the city, the first few years, they were between 6% and 8%, so looking at a $2 billion capital plan, if we increase the need by 8% a year, the notion that we could come up with nearly $200 million in additional revenue every year just does not really work out that way.
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for that reason, i should note that four capital planning commission, all these are in current dollars and not escalated out to the end of the plan. two major changes here were here 70, we had a place holder, $40 million to do hazardous materials abatement. that was in the last five years. over the last year, some new information about what is there has allowed us to reduce that down by quite a bit. that was unfortunately more than offset by the result of our new aggressive utility infrastructure program, so you see the adjustments no. there. the third one down is usually a negative number because we got this done, but the one-time the cost estimates were just eclipsed that. on the funding side of things, most of the story is about the 34th america's cup and the
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infrastructure investment that would be made at some of the port facilities as well as another reason why the plan was delayed, was because we through this under inspection program -- we were finally able to meet with the puc only about a week and a half ago to determine how we might work with them to use some of their assets to help us take care of this problem. i will expand on each of those briefly. the america's cup is $55 million. infrastructure where it is mostly 30, 32, and 37, although i'm not sure it is completely nailed down at this point. we reported experiencing some loss of revenue bonds capacity. we are in an ongoing conversation with the city's capital planning committee about how we can replace that. this makes a strong argument for us to be included in general obligation bonds. unlike the 2008 bonds, which
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were the first time we were ever included in city-wide gm bonds. the puc has agreed to assist us with $34 million in financing. a lot of that, we are hoping -- we hope that it is most of that, actually -- will be tied into the eyes hillary water supply system, which was passed by the voters just recently. that is tied into the fire broke, and its access to water at the end of our peers. the puc will consider it as part of that program. we are eligible for our general obligation bonds, which they have a lot of for this project, and are largely and spend. where that will not work, we are in talks with them about rate adjustments to offset the costs of addressing this, and they are
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going to help us out with great sensitivity studies. on the federal funding side of things, we have been engaged with a couple of different entities long enough that we are starting to sense a pattern. a few years ago, we were able to get $3 million for some work at pier 70. we got another $3 million for the department of defense for demolition of the dry dock, and we asked for about $8 million, but they gave us $3 million again in committee last year. the same is true on the army corps side. to be brief about that, the story is that we have really gotten into a pattern with them, something we can rely on over the long term. it is a good change. the waterfront maps will move from right to left. the colored squares you are looking at here, the insert from the maps.
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memorize that slide. starting from the north, the fisherman's wharf area, the little spot of green you see there is there is really two sets of revenue bonds reflected there. there is a 2010 series revenue bonds, and we have another set, $40 million worth, which we are looking to issue soon. this one would be in 2014, about the about thej9 would be taken -- about the time the j9 would be taken care of through this mechanism here. ne waterfront, you will recognize the crows terminal there. that big trade bloc is mixed uses because it has a number of different sources going through with a lot of money. i should note that unfunded or lack thereof is one of the mixed sources going into that project.
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of course, the vix bought a blue there is the exploratory and project, which i'm very happy about -- the big spot of blew their is the exploratorium project. another change in these matters is that and in prior years, we had noticed where we might program infrastructure financing, district funding, the volatility in the market has had a not specifically program those funds over the last two iterations of this plan, so that follows here. south beach, that stack of camouflage there is the army corps of engineers, which we have engaged to remove pier 36 to make way for brandon street wharf. this is now on a very short fuse with america's cup and meeting our obligations there. then, the big piece of red is no longer unfunded. that is now the america's cup.
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these two revenues, the sears 10 revenue bonds, and the move is something we're looking at the new capital plan process for the next round of revenue bonds. those are actually two separate funding sources. then, the southern waterfront, which has a big triangle, camouflage, and the lower right is the central basin, which the court has been looking for help to dredge for a long time. we have been gauged the army corps of engineers on that project, and it is moving forward and looking positive -- we have engaged the army corps of engineers. the last project wanted to talk about is the sea wall, which
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seemed like the ultimate long- term capital plan. potentially a humongous amount of money, and the legislative process moving forward to address that problem -- the project is very long. the path forward first requires a study of 40 and then a steady appropriation, a construction authority, and construction appropriation. problem is that the authorizing vehicles for these kinds of projects only, once every seven years or so on average, so we miss one of these deadlines, and the whole project is set back coming up on a decade. most importantly is that no. 5 on the list here, which is that if repair of the sea wall comes back at $120 million, and it could -- it could come back much less than that -- the city and port have to come up with 1/3 of that theory to come up with $40 million to contbu
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