the streets from city hall will start to close at 7:00 on friday night, june 24, and will not reopen until 6:00 a.m. on june 27. the event is sunday. on the main stage is sandra bernhart. kinds of acts. the state opens at 11:00. we have the city of refuge choir, which is pretty awesome. we have a 15-cast production number from "tales of the city." it is full of good and interesting stuff. be there or be where -- beware. that is my comment. president newlin: any others? commissioner meko: director kane, refresh my memory.

last meeting i believe you reported on supervisor weiner's intention to introduce legislation loosening up the -- you have done research for me. could you explain the legislation again? >> sure. supervisor weiner is working on legislation to amend 1070, which covers extended hours premise says. at the moment, it requires -- premises. at the moment, it requires security for late-night eating establishments just like you would for a place of entertainment. there is a restaurant in his district that had issue with a security plan requirement and asked him to investigate removing that. it is still being discussed, the legislation, and the form which

it takes, whether it removes it altogether or could remove it from certain types of eating establishments and not others. when we get an actual piece of legislation, we will share it with the commission. commissioner meko: so this is a list of all of the restaurants that have afterhours place of entertainment permits that incidentally require a security plan? >> there is a list of all of our current licensed extended hours permits. you will see nightclubs. you will see doughnut shops. you will see pizza parlors. only knows what is on there. there is roughly 115. some come and go. you may have people who have recently closed. that is updated by the tax collector every six months or

so. those give you a sense of the universe we are talking about. commissioner meko: that helps. my other question, i believe, was how many violations have we had with regard to any of these venues in the seven-plus years? i only recall one pizza place that kept coming back when commander dudley was our frequent guest at these hearings. >> that is about right. the things do happen. fights to occur occasionally in front of -- but for the most part, the majority of those on there, you will not recall ever having been reported to the commission for any kind of problem. commissioner meko: all right. this list and that information should be useful to supervisor

weiner. >> no problem. president newlin: anybody else? any public comment? final item, new business request and future agenda items. seeing none -- vice chair joseph: i have one. i would like to ask my fellow commissioners -- when should we schedule our elections? election time is coming up. we can do it on june 28 or we can do it the first meeting in july, which is what date? am i going to be here? the 12th. i will be here. i will be here if i get reappointed. it is up to you. if it is going to be the 28th, we should let staff know now. and it is good to be in july, we

should let staff know that as well. july? july, july? i am asking for a first meeting in july to schedule elections. thank you. i am done. president newlin: anybody else? seeing none, thank you, everybody. this includes the regular meeting of the entertainment commission for the city and county of san francisco.

is called to order. roll call. commissioner crowley: present. katz here. >> in two, approval of minutes for the may 20, 2011 meeting. commissioner brandon: all those in favor? and the post? minutes are approved. >> item 3, public, an executive session. commissioner brandon: any, on executive session? >>

>> second. >> all in favor? move not to disclose any of the items discussed in executive session. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> item six, please be advised that the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers, and similar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. 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 similar sound- producing electronic device. be advised that a member of the public has a to 3 minutes to make pertinent public comments on each agenda item unless the port commission adopts a shorter time on any item. 7a, executive directors report. >> good afternoon, president brandon, vice-president lazarus.

welcome to the port. welcome to staff and probably many others i have forgotten. it is, as was said earlier today, a joy to see all five of you sitting up there. commissioner crowley, you are one lucky dude, man. use it on the only port commission in the country to have more women than men, to have female officers, a female executive director, and a female cfo, thank you for breaking ground with all of us. we are honored to have you. most importantly, we are honored to welcome you, commissioner ho. commissioner ho comes to us with 35 years of banking experience, which is going to be terrific for us. her expertise includes a lot of things that we do, such as small businesses, commercial real estate. i love that you have experience

in construction lending. i think that will be helpful for us. retail lending as well. some experience in marketing and branding, which is a never- ending challenge for all of us, and my favorite part is that you have experience as a guest commentator at cnn bluebird radio, which is now one of our tenants, and the famous cnbc closing bell and squawk box, so we look forward to having you do some commentating for all of us -- guest commentator at cnn/bloomberg radio. it is terrific to have you as well as all of the members of the commission, so, welcome to the board. today, we have mostly happy news. the first is, as you know, n.a. is our busiest cruise month of the year, and this year is no exception. in may, we have had 16 calls between may 3 and may 30. i cannot think you will see

present any of the maritime staff as we have been really busy. in among those 16 calls, we have had two ship calls. for the month of may, we expect 40,000 passengers just in a single month. that is stunning for us. it gives us a total of the anticipated cruises for 2011 on a calendar basis of 63. which is more akin to sort of our high numbers. put it in perspective, last year, we have only 41 calls. recall that that had a lot to do with some changing economics in the alaska and mexico itineraries. so far in may, we have seen eight different cruise lines, which might be a record. we have not checked yet. one call each from norwegian, arcadian, seven seas, radiance of the seas, two each from crystal and regatta, and six from princess.

it has been a terrific month, and we have been pleased to welcome all these passengers. if we could have a little more sun and heat, things would be magnificent. i want to take a moment to thank, even though they are not here, the members of the maritime division. they have been just tremendous in meeting these calls morning, noon, night, weekday, we again, and doing so in the midst of a lot of other city events, which include the terrific giants as well as now my next item, which is international how well. -- international powwow. it is a conference that meets once a year in the united states. a targeted 2000 domestic and international organizations and bookstores around the world, and

the organization represents approximately 70 different countries. it is being hosted by the san francisco travel association with sponsorship from a number of entities, including the port of san francisco airport office partners, who run the building at pier 39, or lower, number of poor tenants have participated as well as major corporations and entities throughout the city. as you may know, they counted approximately 5500 attendees, which has been a terrific thing for the city. there has been a lot of collaboration in the city to be ready to host all of these delegates. on sunday, the conference kicked off here at the ferry building. before participated in a media brunch for more than 450 international and domestic journalists, and we had a table,

which included a lot of information about our peer 27 cruise terminal project but also had a very coveted america's cup trophy. as you can imagine, ours was the most popular table. so attendees lined up to take their pictures in front of the cup all morning long and take a little bit out san francisco maritime home with them, i want to thank the golden gate yacht club and members of the america's cup event authority for their assistance. following the brunch on sunday, there was a tour on the waterfront with some of the journalism attendees, and that was led by zahn king of "the san francisco chronicle."

that went very well. i will say that the attendees on the tour were more domestic and international, but we did get some international. later sunday night, i think you went, commissioner lazarus, to the event at alcatraz followed by the party at pier 39. there were a number of events that continue tonight out in golden gate park at the california academy of sciences and, of course, the closing festivities tomorrow night at city hall, and as i'm sure mike martin can attest, city hall is looking very -- i don't know. what would you call that? again, hopefully, the weather will improve. it is looking very tropical over there at city hall. an oxymoron, but nonetheless, it looks very cool.

the pow wow is expected to generate more than $250 million in tourism. it is considered the biggest tourist event possible. i know it has brought in a lot of work for a lot of people, and we were honored and privileged to participate, so we are really happy about that. lastly, i just had a request. if we could adjourn today in memory of aurora, a port employees who recently passed at the very young age of 61. she retired after 26 years, the last 10 of which she was here at the port, and unfortunately, we lost her rather soon, so if we could, i'd love to adjourn in her honor. >> thank you. that is really exciting. i am planning on attending the

closing tomorrow night, so i look forward to seeing all the international and domestic travel agents. i also want to welcome commissioner ho to the port commission. it is wonderful to have five commissioners sitting here. has been so long. welcome. is there any public comment on the executive director's report? >> items on the consent calendar, 8a, request authorization to advertise for competitive bids for construction contract to 752. 8b, request authorization to advertise for competitive bids for contract 2723. 8c, request authorization to accept and expend $45,000 in 2008 infrastructure protection program for security grant program funds from the department of homeless security for maritime cctv system

security improvements at the port of san francisco. 8d, request authorization to accept and expend $551,552 in 2010 infrastructure protection program port security grant program funds from the department of homeland security for mass notification system security improvements at the port of san francisco near the ferry building. >> so move. commissioner crowley: second. >> is there any public comment on the consent calendar? all in favor? resolution 11-31, 11-32, 11-33, and 11-34 have been approved. >> 9a, information presentation on the port and san francisco bay conservation development commission's out reach to waterfront stakeholders regarding the waterfront special area plant and proposed

amendments to the special area plan for the proposed pier 27 cruise terminal and the 34th america's cup. >> i want to welcome you to the commission. special projects manager with the port. i want to introduce this item by introducing the senior planner with the bay conservation and development commission. we have been working with bcdc staff on this project for about nine months. i would say that we are at the midpoint in this project. i want to start my presentation by giving you some history. we're here to talk about the special area plan for the san

francisco waterfront. most people are not aware, but the special area plan is really the companion document to the waterfront land use plan. without the special area plan, much of the great adoptive reuse we're seeing on the waterfront could not go forward. i do not know how well you can see this slide, but as you all know, the waterfront land use plan was adopted in 1997 unanimously by the port commission, and conforming amendments to the waterfront land use for the nets were adopted unanimously by the board of supervisors. but the special area plan lagged adoption of the waterfront land use plan and specifically the problems that the port problemsbc portan -- and bcdc

grappled with. that basically meant in shorthand that if you wanted to do a peer rehabilitation project, that you either had to remove half of the pier or convert half of it into a park, and that frustrated most proposals to do new projects with these old piers on the waterfront. additionally, bcdc had water- oriented use restrictions, which basically meant just maritime uses or recreation passive enjoyment of the day. bcdc did not that acknowledge the broader sweep of public trust uses we have in our projects now. over a three-year process, led jointly by bcdc and eight port

at the time -- and the port at the time, the resolution was adopted in 2000, essentially lifting the water-oriented use restrictions and allowing a broader range of public trust uses and replacing the 50% phil will with a plan level approach to deliver public benefits along the waterfront. those public benefits being filled removal, major clauses for the benefit of the public to appreciate the day, adjacent open water basins where there would be limited primarily recreation-oriented maritime activities but not industrial maritime activities, and then public access. the special area plan lays all of that out in a great deal of detail, and we follow those rules whenever we do mixed use

development project along the waterfront. we did not amend the special area plan for our project until very recently with the explora torium project. there was in the special area plan a requirement to remove most of the valley. the exploratorium have proposed moving less than the entire valley area and providing for some will between public access between the piers. we address that issue relatively late in the approval process, and i think that there wasn't feeling from some of the original special area plan stakeholders who had negotiated an agreement over such a long

time that the port had -- and our product sponsor had traded that as a bit of an afterthought. we agreed that it projects coming down the pike need amendments to the special area plan, that we should engage the public early in the process and not at the end of the approval process. the project that is coming is really the pier 27 cruise terminal, and there are fairly significant is is at the site. we would love to see a series of stakeholder interviews with people who had been involved in the 2000 special area process. there were about 40 years overall, and the interview process went from about august

of last year until about january of this year. we had the benefit of two very professional interviewers in the process. first, blake stephenson, who was the former general counsel for the commission. very knowledgeable about the waterfront. had issued some of the public trust consistency findings. later in the process, a commissioner on the san francisco commission on the environment was hired, and very familiar with waterfront issues, to complete the interview process. we are really grateful. it is an honor to work with people who have a real appreciation of these plans and who could engage stakeholders in a very thoughtful discussion. we also appreciated working with lindy and joe.

no one really wanted to engage this process. i was sort of a cheerleader for it. i think that the 2000 process was fairly difficult for people. it was hard to reach agreement, said the discussion about amendments or changes tends to be difficult for people. just want to give an overview of the issues prompting outrage. i mentioned the pier 27 cruise terminal. we had been talking about a possible adaptive reuse project at pier 23, which i think is beyond staff to handle when we have so much going on right now. not something we are actively pursuing. network of parks and open space, primarily prompted by the 2008 neighborhood parks bond. we identified a range of options

up and down port property. we have run and piles at pier 64. looking at how to remove those blighted areas from the waterfront was another issue that prompted this. i am going to go over the major findings at a pretty high level. we are going to drill into these issues in further detail as we go into next steps, but we talked with the participants about how they would like to see the agency's approach planning on the waterfront. what has been done in the past is really to look at the entire stretch of waterfront. it took seven years for the land use plan and three years to approve a special area plan, so

i think we walked in thinking we have that base of information, and planning could be more site- specific. that view was not necessarily shared by our stakeholders. there are still people who want to see the waterfront and dressed as a whole -- addressed as a whole. some people are open to the idea of looking at distinct sub areas like fisherman's wharf or the area between pier 35 and pier 38. as units, they have different and definable needs. but we found that almost across the board, people do not like trying to plan amendments in the context of projects. they prefer some plan level you before you pursue amendments. another theme that emerged is, not surprisingly, that the port as an enterprise agency looks to our development projects as the primary vehicle to deliver

public benefit. i think that we at the staff level often view this as a given, that the way that we improve the waterfront is we attract private investment. that is what yields open space and public access and all the things that the public wants to see -- historic rehabilitation. for stakeholders, and to view us as being development-driven. i think that we had some public education work to do about how much we have been doing over the past couple of years to attract public dollars. with respect to the role of bcdc, i think that stakeholders previously viewed it as a strong defender of the special area plan and may be viewed the relationship as to close now. respectfully, we view bcdc as

being fair but firm when they issue permits. we do not exactly see eye to eye with such stakeholders on that issue. with respect to the pier 27 cruise terminal, that site was really plan for a major plaza, an adjacent open water area, and major public access connection. there are some who view the cruise terminal as providing a major consulates -- major conflict to the planned park and open water basin, and that came out in the interviews. some other things came out in the interviews. we have been worried about the inherent policy conflict between the maritime access. you need to, for homeland security purposes, close the apron to protect these