>> good morning. i've got my giants cap on because i'm celebrating today. if i was going to be running today, i would probably have this cap on as well. good morning, people. we are here today to kick off what is the 100th anniversary of our data breakers. 100 years ago, bought in 1912 ran the first cross country race in san francisco -- bob. he won the race in 44 minutes and 10 seconds, i think it was.

100 years later, we are still celebrating that run. the neat thing about it is we have not only kept the new history of this, but we understand that bob's grandson, bob burnett from houston, texas, in celebration of his grandfather's run 100 years ago, will also be running in this year's beta breakers race for the first time. wherever you are, we will see you at 7:00 on sunday, and hopefully, you have a fantastic race because it will be one that i think will be a very celebrating race with our new sponsors and all of the volunteers we have. today, i want to present to you a host of people that will be speaking about not only this race but the excitement we have in hosting this wonderful base to continue making it part of the tradition of san francisco -- the fun part of san francisco. what i also want to let you know is that while we have some new

rules to share, we are also instilling a number of exciting things that we want to make sure the people who registered and the 100,000 spectators, the 55,000 registrants already experienced just a wonderful event in the city. at the start at 7:00 in the morning. that is what i call golfers time. but it will start a little earlier, but it will also end up at the speedway medal in the golden gate park. that will be the new and where the party any handouts will be had in the same tradition, so it will not end in the beach. it will end at speedway medals in golden gate park. this year, we are emphasizing it will be fun. it will be in true -- in the tradition that the beta breakers always has been, and that is that you can wear any wacky uniform that you want.

unfortunately, my wife got rid of my spider-man out a long time ago, so i will not be able to do that, but i will be watching all the fun that all the people have. and, of course, we will have our people in the blue costumes this year, watching out for everybody else and their safety and making sure it is also the safest run we have as well. i wanted to take this opportunity to present to the executives of the beta breakers race this year a proclamation declaring it to be bitter breakers weekend in san francisco. come on up. angela is our new general manager this year. to kick it off, i wanted to make sure she got the proclamation that declares this -- there are a lot of whereases here, and you will not be able to read as you are running in the race and it.

angela is here today along with executives. she will be speaking in a minute. we also have our public safety department, our police department. they will be talking about new rules. i also want to make sure that you hear from representatives -- members of our alamo square neighborhood association, and, of course, our red cross is here as well. i think to take off with the rules chief. [applause] >> thank you, mr. mayor. i have to bring it down a little bit and be the rule back, and then we will pick it up a little bit again with happy talk after that. i love the bay to breakers. we have policed the beta breakers for a long time, but to make sure it is here in another 100 years, we have to be safe and considered of everyone along the route. this year, alcohol and flows

have been banned. they pose a significant safety hazard and negatively impact the neighborhoods. they contribute largely to that, and we have to be considered to everybody along the route. to keep everybody comfortable, i know when people are running, it is a long ways, but it is only about a quarter of the link the marathon is. if you have to go, you have to go. please it one of the 1200-plus for the parties that will be along the route instead of going in somebody's garden. zero tolerance for public drunkenness or the public consumption of alcohol. we will be exercising with as much discretion as we can strict enforcement on anybody that is influencing anybody else's good time or their neighborhood. the news's behavior has got to go away in favor of good, clean fun. so have a blast. beta breakers. [applause] ed lee -- mayor lee: beachy is

pretty cool about it. he is not at all heavyhanded. come on up, angela. >> thank you. i just want to thank everyone here today for working with us over the last year to put together what we believe is going to be one of the best, the most fun, and memorable occasion for this race. in honor of this 100th running, we would like to give to mayor ed lee the bid #100 in commemoration. [applause] mayor lee: rostov mirkarimi -- ross mirkarimi has been steadfast in his participation on this. robert is here to say a few words on this.

>> thank you very much. supervisors at the coastal commission today and was not able to make it, but he asked me to pass on a few words. first of all, thank you very much to the city and race organizers for doing a fantastic job and getting people ready for this race. also, it is a wonderful thing that we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of this race. racers will spend most of their time in district 5, and ross is excited about a happy and fun and safe sunday for everybody involved, including athletes, families, children, and all the attendees. just wanted to pass that on. mayor lee: i understand ross is not here because he is practicing his speech so he can make that speech during a race, right? ben ellison, come on up. >> thanks so much for having us.

i represent alamo square neighborhood association. we got to get to this year and formed a big group of nine neighborhood associations, and i want to read those to you because i want you to know of the community involvement that was there. the panel labour association, alamo square neighborhood association, hayes valley neighborhood association, lower haight neighborhood association, coal valley improvement association, and a sunset park neighbors. we got together after the race last year, and we formed a big group, and that is when we sort of made a lot of changes for the race. we got together -- you know, the mayor's department, supervisor mirkarimi, the police department, the beta breakers organizer, and all the neighborhood groups, so we got

together and formed some new rules and all that came out with all the help of the organizers, and we want to thank these guys so much for all your help that you did for us. as the neighborhoods, you know, we were a little bit mad with what was going on the previous years. we just wanted to set a little bit more rules. we want to thank the police officers also came in. captain o'leary, captain max, and our new chief here. anyway, we just want everybody to come out and have a great time with the race. we are there. we're going to have ambassadors running around meeting and greeting everybody, so thank you so much, and had a good time. mayor lee: thank you. i know that you have at heart while we have a great event, we also have neighborhoods it is running through, so we want to

make sure that this race protect everybody and is sustainable for all the neighborhoods in san francisco that it goes through. i want to thank everyone for being here. it is about fun. we have over 155,000 people -- spectators and writers -- in the race. we expect that this race will continue. this is the first of a five-year commitment from zazzle, and that is a great name for the people sponsoring this race. the red cross will be out there helping our police and army, and our department of public works will be out there cleaning up everything. hopefully they do not have to work too hard. let's have a great bay to breakers race. [applause] thank you, everybody.

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>> meeting called to order. [roll call] item two. approval of minutes from april 26, 2011 meeting. all in favor? item three. public comment. item four. executive session. >> so moved. all in favor? >> move to reconvene in open session. >> second. >> all in favor? any opposed?

move not to disclose any of the items discussed in executive session. second. all in favor? many oppose? -- any opposed? >> please be advised that the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers, and similar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any person(s) responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar sound- producing electronic device. please be advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent public comments on each agenda item unless the port commission adopts a shorter period on any item. item seven a, executive directors report. >> good afternoon, commissioners. thank you for joining us. i have a couple of things on my executive director's report to report on a couple, of change dates. the first one is interesting.

one of the port's on armed security contractors employees have been selected by the second and scope police department to receive a medal of valor. they changed the ceremony to may 12. that is being given to patrol supervisor ryan jones, who i mentioned as one of our contractors working for cyprus security. you may remember seeing in the news, a man attacked eight older gentleman in the fisherman's wharf area, bringing him to the ground using somekarate expertise. it was ryan jones to help the attacker until the police could respond. so that the san francisco police department is recognizing him with a medal of valor for his efforts that day. we are passing out along and for

staff will certainly attend the ceremony. we appreciate very much to be able to assist in the matter. may 22 mais national maritime day. it is initiated by congress every year. in honor of this year, the port of san francisco, in conjunction with the san francisco bay marine exchange and maritime association are holding an event in honor of national maritime day. that will be at 4:30 aon saturday. mayor edwin lee will also be naming the day national maritime day in san francisco. this is an annual party that we host and we are proud to be selected to celebrate national maritime day. we hope to see you there. next week we will begin our budget process with the board

of supervisors. as you know, the board typically hear proposals from the enterprise departments and then the general fund department. enterprise department hearings will begin next week. currently, the pork is noticed as the second apartment. we will proceed in that order, although sometimes supervisor like to take it out of order. our two hearings will be may 18 and may 25. we expect to have a budget analyst report next week. more to follow up on that. pow wow, which i hope everyone knows about now, but it is a national u.s. travel association's conference to get people to certain american cities, to help them on their tourist industry. it is back in san francisco on

may 25 and may 21. the ferry building and pier 39 will be participating. we are expecting 1200 international tour operators, travel wholesalers and agents from almost 70 countries. as well as 400 domestic and international travel journalists. we hope to engage them in our news crew ship -- new cruise ship area. finally, we are working on our planning and design guidelines for the blue green way, which reported on before. the next community meetings are coming up on may 25. there has been another date change, to june 16, at pier 1. these will be community meetings being held.

on may 25, our goal is to review revised concept plans for the port blue green way open spaces. project cost, draft prioritization based on available funding. then on june 16, we will review concepts for the blue green way, linking cited for the error and furnishing standards. those will be important steps as we proceed along our planning process. we hope to have a document available by may 20 on our website at sf port.com. we hope that you can attend. i think you are going to attend, commissioner brandon? >> we will take a look. >> that concludes my report. >> thank you. >> is there any public comment on the executive director's

report? >> consent calendar. 8a. request authorization to accept and expend $1,612,357 in 2007 supplemental infrastructure protection program port security grant program funds from the department of homeland security for security improvements at the port of san francisco. 8b. request authorization to accept and expend $7,783,556 in 2009 infrastructure protection program port security grant program funds from the department of homeland security for security improvements at the port of san francisco. 8c. request authorization to advertise for competitive bids for construction contract no. 2749, heron's head park improvement project. 8d. request authorization to execute contract modification with cochran, inc. to retroactively extend the substantial completion date by an additional 150 days, to march 30, 2011, for the installation of a shoreside power system for cruise ships at pier 27, contact no. 2722.

>> so moved. is there any public comment on the consent calendar? all in favor? resolution 11-27, 11-28, 11-29, 11-30 have been approved. >> 9a. informational presentation on the preliminary design concept for the expansion of the downtown ferry terminal. >> good afternoon, commissioners. dan hood.

we are here to provide an informational update on the expansion of the downtown ferry terminal and to present ideas for your review for the upcoming public discussion. of how to improve public in circulation spaces around the ferry building. last fall, the port has been working in close partnership with a water bird is the transportation authority, weta, to develop a design for the expansion of three facilities and related passenger improvements. the ports partnership with weta is formalized through a memorandum of understanding authorized by this commission that provides a framework for our joint planning efforts. under a contract with weta, we will provide an update to you and then present new ideas for the public spaces surrounding the ferry building.

to develop the concept show today, we consulted with the forepaws primary users of the area, and for the office partners, fplp, who controls the bac plaza, golden gate ferries, and the managers of the farmer'' market. we also reached out to other organizations. following today's briefing, we will proceed to design review with the waterfront as an advisory committee and bcdc design group at pier 1. we will awesome the speaking to various citizen committees in the next months.

it is expected to be complete in the fall of 2012. in the future, the port commission will be asked to approve designs as we proceed towards a permit with bcdc and four option for funding the commission. the commission all asko for direction on how the ferry building should be managed as well as consideration for their maintenance. so in number of policy questions that will follow up. we will present other updates. now i want to introduce my partner. i will be available after the presentation for comments as well. >> it is a pleasure to be here. just to give you a quick update. there are two parts to this presentation, similar to the reports you received earlier.

one part deals directly with the improvements related to the ferry terminal expansion, and the other part deals with the enhancement of the public spaces and other opportunities in the area. i will go relatively quickly, but certainly, i am available for questions along the way or at the end. the project area extends from pier 1 to pier 14 and on the bay side of the embarcadero and looks at all the improvements in the area. just a little recap. since the freeway came down, there have been a whole series of improvements, so this project builds on the history of what has happened here and the major efforts that the port and city have undertaken. if you look at this orange area, a significant amount of the area has already been improved, but there are other improvements

that are still needed. one of the major components of those earlier efforts undertaken by the port was the construction of gate b, e, and the breakwater at pier 14. this was the first phase of very building improvement. it was done to meet the needs of the ferry terminal but also to enhance the qualities of the area so that future redevelopment of the ferry building and public spaces could also be undertaken. quickly, the map showing you the improvements that were made at the time, what it looks like today. these were all completed in [inaudible] currently, we have