supervisor avalos: good morning. welcome to thursday, june 9, 2011 meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors meeting. my name is david campos. i am the chair of the committee. we are joined by president david chiu, as well as a mark farrell who will be here shortly. we want to thank sfgtv staff who are covering the meeting. madam clerk, do we have any

announcements? >> i would like to announce to please turn off all riinger volumes on cell phones. and--- ringer volumes on cell phones. supervisor campos: thank you. if you could please call item one. >>item 1, hearing to receive regular status reports on the america's cup. supervisor campos: this is something i introduced with supervisor mirkarimi. we want to make sure that we provide the necessary oversight in the implementation of this -- of the various agreements that are implemented, and more specifically to make sure that

all of the interests of the city and county of san francisco are protected come into the extent that there are certain obligations that those are met not only on the city part, but on the part of the cities involved. we have been joined by committee vice chair supervisor farrell. with that, i will turn it over to stop. >> good morning. mike martin and office of economic and work force development. i am pleased to come before you today to update you on the progress towards achieving the ambitious but exciting projects outlined in the host and the new agreement for the 34 america's cup event. -- and the venue agreement for the 34th america's cup event. i have documents describing the

even-related obligations. broadly speaking, these are the associationthings associated wie event itself and focuses away from the real-estate and those types of things. obviously we can get into more detail on each item in the memo or the presentation itself. with that, i will turn to the slide. i see that it is already up. a quick overview of the presentation. we will start out with a background for those who want to know more about what the event looks like it's self and what it embodies in terms of bringing those events for work. we will go through the organizational structure between the parties and swell as the intergovernment parties and the agreements. describe the permiting process, which is obviously a critical part of achieving what is proposed, and must be completed

before any final decisions can be made. a set of plans that are called for under the agreement, as well as additional plans relating to the events that we feel would help make clear operational needs of what needs to be done to achieve, to create the picture we're trying to create. lastly, i would like to go through topflight description of the federal and state court nation of birds along the key aspects of bringing these teams and the vent stack to san francisco in the way that is called for in the event the agreement. -- and event staff brcoming to n and cisco and the way that is called for in the event agreement. the america cup protocol was

signed that detailed the rules bringing the 34 america's cup for work. the host agreement is the america's cup organizing committee. that is a locally-formed non- profit corporate group. they are mainly charged with partnering with the aca in bringing forward corporate partnerships and other funding mechanisms for the partnership and local fund raising, a philanthropic efforts to cover $34 million of public cost of putting on the events. as i mentioned, there is a memo that describes in more detail the city obligations that are called for under the host venue agreement. i think the key backbone of the city's obligation of the ball around three things -- revolved around three things. completing the ceqa process.

completing the plant, which i described earlier in will explain further as we move forward, and secure federal and state permits for authorizations. also, the event activities themselves on the event days. a little background on the proposed event timeline. there will be an initial series of what are being called the america's cup world series events. these are in effect a tour of things that do not linked directly to the competition of the 34 america's cup, but incorporate the same teams, 45 foot version of the 72 boats coming in for the america's cup events, and are designed to start giving people a good picture of what this new era of america's cup racing will look like with fixed sale, solid-wing

sales, and incredibly high speeds. a very exciting prospect. the first three races -- locations have been set for this year. and portugal, plymouth, and late in the year in san diego, california. next year there will be several even, two of which are planned for san francisco. those would be somewhere in july-september. most likely one even in august and one in september, but that has not been totally finalized. in 2013, we will have the america's cup event itself. starting with the wethe louis vn cup event. then it likely the oracle a bench. then in september would be the america's cup final, the defender against the challenger

for the america's cup and a set of best of nine races. this diagram depicts the race. that has been proposed. -- this diagram depicts the race area that has been proposed. this is generally the box they are looking at. i think actually based on the kind of racing action they are looking for, the races themselves will be confined to a much smaller area, which obviously has benefits in terms of facilitating traffic around the races while they are happening. as you can see, they will be close proximity to the north and water in san francisco and islands of the north bay, which obviously accords spectator experience that has not been seen at the america's cup in pass defense. -- in past events. the shows the proposed locations for the 2013 events, which

include facilities a log the port waterfront starting at the south at pier 80. pierce 30, 32 were proposed to be improved to be the team of bases where the boats would be serviced, taken in and out of the water. moving north from their, you would have potential in affect back office or team logistics operations, 26 and 28 right by the bridge. pierce 19 and 20 would be even to increase operations as well as media operations. -- would be events and med logistics operations, as well as media operations. there would be other thing supporting the events, some even seating and other things.

as you move north along the northern waterfront to you will have a number of public access areas that the authority is seeking to basically program, put in attractive things that not only enhanced the visitor experience, but also to manage crowds expected. the start with national park service plans at fort mason, moving through the city's and to christie field and the west. moving north from there, there will be some hospitality corporate sponsorship defeneven likely at the national park service plans. potentially a hospitality event at alcatraz. that would not be a spectator area obviously for the difficulty of access. that is generally the picture for 2013. i think for 2012 you will see a similar picture except for the waterfront areas.

those areas will be under construction. we're trying to move through that as quickly as possible to spread out the excitement a little bit, but also give a more attractive place for the teams and spectators to come to. our are reached to datout reachn really exciting. even those that would like to see the things improved in the current plans. we have had 3500 merchants and businesses. i actually just came from a liaison committee with a lot of excitement talking about the various opportunities for san francisco. obviously this is a key part of bringing on the promise of the america's cup. as i said, i think engagement in community feedback has been strong at the meetings and by written feedback. we have had a number of written documents posted on the web site, as well as posted at

americascup.com/sanfrancisco web site. hopefully this will start acting as the attraction for people that are hoping to come and enjoy the events. we also have a facebook and twitter page. we work with them to make sure the city is well-represented in terms of the things we're working on. this slide is hard to see. i put it up not for the details, but to show we have a pretty complex and thus far pretty complex organizational structure in terms of the federal, state, and local partners, as well as other initiatives that are focused on the parties of the host and venue agreement. the next slide will break this

off into a clearer picture each. i wanted to get a sense that all of these individual activities are rolling into a progress, the america's cup or nation committee. the representatives from each of these boxes report on what has happened in the past month in the next thought. >> president chu, do you have another copy of the presentation? -- president chiu, do you have another copy of the presentation? >> i am sorry. that may get back on thlet me ge slide. these are interagency task forces that have been set up across a number of areas. obviously we need a great deal of coordination. from left to right on the top line we had the initial meeting of local bay area governments

this past month, which is very exciting, and i think the pressure it being involved in the process. the next one i will talk a little bit more about the interagency coordination at the d.c. level and authorizations from federal law we will need. the public safety committee, which includes law enforcement and fire and emergency medical services. transportation committee, which includes not only city stakeholders, but also several meetings with the regional transit committee with the regional partners trying to make the regional transit strategy a centerpiece of making this as sustainable as possible, and i will talk in more detail about the people planned transportation strategy later on in the presentation. the next one, event venues. this is planned -- programming at the park lands and programming of the waterfront, and also, what we would like to do is expand the breadth of that conversation to other places.

with public access, views of the bay, and economic opportunities where we really want to see the economic promise brought home. the last, but certainly far from the least important, it is the water cord nation. the u.s. coast guard has taken a leading role in been extremely collaborative, and we appreciate it. they have led a number of meetings, including presentations at the harbor safety committee. convening of marine task force and shipping and recreational boating interest, as well as the neptune coalition of law enforcement agencies. i think we have already seen a great deal of cooperation across those platforms, and we look forward to doing that in a way that not only brings these grievance forward, the safeguards the bay as a key way for commerce and recreation as well as commuters and transportation.

-- that not only brings these events forward, but safeguards the bay as a cs a key way for commerce and recreation as well as commuters and transportation. the left-hand column, operational domains, really focuses on marketing sponsorships from the event authority perspective. communications, thing coordinated across all the different means by which people are trying to get the message out about the plans we are bringing to san francisco. staff and visitors services, which incorporates a lot of different pieces, including the people that are coming to san francisco to work for the event authority or teams, as well as facilitating different obligations in terms of the pose venue agreement.

most of these is the youth involvement. that is a key obligation of the authority that we're working with them to develop an inventory of the opportunities to leverage the great progress we have here are ready for youth involvement towards this very attractive waterfront focus of sailing, learning to swim, educational initiatives, and that sort of thing. we have work force development for small businesses, again harkening back to the economic issues i mentioned earlier. we have had a number of meetings with art associations, and we feel that would be a very exciting opportunity to highlight the city's cultural scene. the last box is sustainability planning. i think all of the entities, parties to the host agreement share a desire to make this event as green as it can be, and i think we have a lot of exciting input from non-

government organizations, ceiling organizations, people that the opportunity to set a new standard, not only in terms of racing on the bay but how you -- but how you have a clean event. moving on to the permiting schedule. this is the biggest challenge we face. we have an environmental review process that is compressed into a year, when typically the last several months longer than that. we have assembled a lot of information in a very short amount of time, and we continue to do so. the draft will be in early july, which if we do pull that off, would potentially put this on track to have a comment in response period which would qualify for the certification of the c.i.r. in early november. obviously this compressed schedule place a premium on early and effective agreement

with the colder. -- if we do pull that off, with potentially put this on track to have a response period, which would qualify for the certification of the e.i.r. in early november. other plans through this process will give people a place where they can see what the affirmative plans are for mitigating the impact in the environmental review document, and i think the goal of all of these things is to come together at the end of the process to not only create the informant review that is needed, but create a clearer picture of where we will take the environmental review analysis to create the events that san francisco wants to see. supervisor campos: could you characterize the feelings of the committees assigned to the

inventor must -- environmental impact, and how they're feeling, and whether we will be able to address -- address those issues in the next couple of months? >> those issues in conversation tubs are solid-- those conversations have certainly begun. i think we are looking at how best to do that in the context of the ceqa process, but they have been very helpful in being a productive part of the conversation. what we would like to do -- they gave a very detailed set of comments in the detailed preparation that we've taken close to hurt in working through the project description, and i think we will continue to work to try to find solutions with them before giving documents out that seem to be filed so people feel like they're being heard in there is an engagement there. -- and there is an engagement there.

but may go back to the slide presentation. -- let me go back to the slide presentation. moving to the calls -- the plans i talked about earlier. there are nine of them. these are set forth in the first two bullets. this was the best way to convey the information. the initial draft of the people can come security plan, wis management plan, advertising plans, submit to authority and posted on the web site at the end of march. the work force development, youth development, and lead sustainable even management plans will be due at the end of ceqa. work has already began on each of these. i think this will really help us create the picture of what this will look like going forward. and we really want to try to replicate the model of giving people opportunities to review these and give them the opportunity to see them ahead of when they are put forward. we will really try to work on

that time frame. the last bullet is additional plans under consideration. i think in conjunction with our efforts on the ceqa process and how we transfer that to an ample plantation plan that works. -- to an implementation plan that works. one is the access management plan. this is one place we can look for the policies that unifies how we are addressing the impact of spectators coming in large numbers to these park areas. as well as other public access areas that are not necessarily the ones programmed. i think this kind of planning can help us not only spot issues, but also plan budgets, understand who was responsible for what, and really create an accountability matrix in effect that says these are the things we need to check off and this is what we will do to make the event successful. spectator venue education has

been spearheaded by the national park association. early in the conversation they pointed out the need to really link these events to their mission in an educational way, and that really resonated with not only the city folks but also the event authority. we would like to create a spectator the new education program that really allows people to learn more about the place they're at, besides the water, but also what makes an francisco special. that is definitely taking place. i am not sure what shape it will take, but i wanted to highlight this for the committee today. next, i want to talk more in detail about the people plan, which has been the highest- profile plan so far. we heard early on in the comment process that transportation and congestion- management issues were top in mind for a lot of san franciscans.

people plthe people plan that we released -- that was released at the end of march has been talked about. it has been spearheaded by the mta. they have been fantastic at developing our strategy is coming hearing input, and strategizing that into improvements of the plan. the plan itself has been posted at owe.org. it has four principles. we wrote this in reference directly to the people plan, but as become guiding principles to all of our planning efforts. the purse is resources efficiency. that is looking at all of the assets we have now and the benefits we have with mta overseeing a number of different aspects of how people will get around the city to get to the different events,