they end up with tainted evidence. he has to strike a deal to get it out. that is done properly. and then passes on to the mayor. here again i believe we have the influence of willie brown where they were at supper with their wives. it he said that you would have to dismiss the mayor. all of this is to deprive the people of the decent sheriff who was the champion of the people. >> i respect how difficult this is going to be for you to make. the thing that is clear is

misconduct. i hear people making accusations that have not been found dead. if a man loses his job because he makes a mistake, it is a poor day in america when the cycle of abuse is continued by depriving them and his ability to provide for his family. [applause] >> good evening. i work at san francisco general. my first meeting, wait for me. i do not even remember what we were marching for. wait for me. what a great guy.

he has shown me what an ethical, humane person he is. he has really taught me that lesson. just last week i was talking to him. is that what you did? i am so guilty. we had many fights on the way to the mall over 10 issues. i turn the car around and went home. i like to call myself a good parent for that. he said that this was not a laughing matter. what i did was wrong. by and never going to forgive myself for that. not to treat this like it is a laughing matter. to take this as seriously as i can. that is a true ethical person. that is true humility right here. how do we not let something like that happened in our share of tax from the city side we heard

this over and over. it is the city's will to have him as our share. give us our sheriff back and give theo his daddy back. >> hello, commissioners. i served for 10 years on the relocation appeals board under three different mayors. four years as its president. i realize what a lofty decision you have in front of you. i work on similar matters of displacement for 10 years. i have been a member and an

officer of the localization of the naturalization of women for the last 30 years. i am on the equity advisory committee for human rights commission. i have r knownoss mirkarimi for more than 30 years. i have known lopez said she moved here. i was there for the baby shower and the birth of theo. your position as such over reached. it is so beyond the pale of what a commission or board should be doing. it is political payback. one thing i am taken by, i have been involved in san francisco politics for 30 years. i apologize for my brooklyn

accent. the folks in this room come gay, latino, the labor council come se upnioers and disabled people like me. they are all here tonight. they have been here for five hours. they are pretty much unifying saying that this is over reach beyond what anybody can imagine. i hope you take that into account when you look into your heart and your soul. [applause] >> hello, commissioners. i will be very brief. it has been a long afternoon and a long night. my name is josephwe. have been small business owners for over 27 years. i consider ourselves more civic

minded. i even considered aspirations for politics. seeing what is going on in this city with this particular case is really in nauseating. it is the same that is going on in the country with the right wing trying to steal the next election. i will ask you and plead with you to do what is right. to reinstate this man to his job. i am very upset by the fact that one of a vote and i do not want somebody to disenfranchise my vote, as has been done with the second term of george bush, when the u.s. supreme court -- excuse me, the people's vote was set aside and he was appointed by the u.s. supreme court. i know on a social level it is very liberal.

politically speaking with what is happening now with the hijacking of the sheriff's career is the same old backroom politics with what has happened before. politically speaking, san francisco is not progressive. you have the illusion of being the progressive minded city. i recommend that this man be reinstated to the job of sheriff and let the people decide. we are the ones that voted for him to be sure of. but him run his term. if we are satisfied, we know what to do. [applause] >> online name is rebecca. i am here to support these gentlemen right here. you have a family like everyone have family. what we do in this country is

horrible. we see a lot of police killed and we do not do nothing. he is holding his wife and you guys are judging nothing. like he has no values. you guys look at him. his family is not here. we have to do our part. we see what is going on. it is spending five hours and spending our taxes. we are judging him. its is just fighting. it is not time to be here spending time and doing nothing important. we have better things to do. our economy is horrible.

we do have crime. let's do something else better. time is precious. >> good evening. i want to thank you all for being here. i am a constituent in district 5. i worked with ross mirkarimi 4 several years as a supervisor. we have several people in the overflow. the room was filled up in overflow. we are speaking for people who cannot be here. i will speak for one of them. he is a professor. he is an adjunct professor. he is a professor of ethics. as a professor of ethics, sound judgment must include the basic principle of law, making the punishment fit the crime.

taking a job and a career related to a misdemeanor unrelated to job performance is not right. i believe this obvious fact should result in the ethics commission resulting that there are no grounds for dismissal from office. the lack of journalistic integrity in the media has clouded the community standard and judgment making any truly fair hearing is doubtful. this is setting a bad labor precedent. [applause] >> my name is larry. i am probably the first out black person that ran for mayor in 1989. i know that a ba mayor brown

will get an award for what he'd did forlbgt. i never wanted children. it scares me what you would do to a great man like this in the city of san francisco. you will make everything that we ever stood for look terrible. one little incident on new years. you get drunk and do something on new year's eve. i graduated this june. the violence in c is aycle. this is not a cycle. if you are going to make this world a better place, we have to do the right thing in san francisco. we have 108 people on medicare

in the city. we have 800,000 people in this city. you are harming elders. our future depends on thisi. f you don't do the ethical and right thing, it is time to move forward. women cannot vote 207 years ago. you would have been burned as witches. move this ahead. [applause] >> my name is jerry. i am a member of sciu. four years ago i was laid off of

my job. when i am listening to these lawyers, i am listening to what she is doing up there. the cost of keeping all of this going. we had a contract and we were trying to keep our insurance not too long ago. imc and all of this money for something that i don't understand. it is like a circus. this should be done. we don't have money for the people working for us. a lot of people cut down on their pay. luckily, we were able to keep our insurance. maybe in 1914, we get a raise. then we have to pay into our

retirementp. aying them a lot of money, i do not understand it at all. i know you have a hard job. it is a circus. we fought for everybody in the city. i thank you very much. i hope you do the right setting. >> thank you all very much. it has obviously benefit all night. i thank all of you who have been here. the lawyers for advocacy and the court reporter who has worked very long with very little break. before we adjourn we want to do this. >> i want to thank everyone for your respectful comments.

because it is so confusing, i want to explain that we have this job because the vote her'spass --voters passed an initiative that approves this process. it created teh checks and balances. we believe we do not have a choice to cut that short period we have to do what the voters created. the one thing that we would be unanimous about is that we are all doing the right thing. we have to go through the staff to figure out what the right thing is. i want people to know that we cannot walk away from this. this too is a voter-passed

initiative. voters thought this was the best way to protect the city and county. >> we need to make a motion to pass the decisions that we made this evening. i am not going to recount them all. assuming the motion passes, we will issue a press release that fully explains the decisions that were made. >> s i willecond it. all in favor? opposed? hearing none, the motion passes.

is there a motion to adjourn? >> so moved. >> second. >> the meeting is adjourned. >> ok. call the meeting to order. >> [roll call] item 2. approval of minutes for the may 8, 2012 meeting. >> so moved. >> seconded. the approval? all in favor?

>> item three. public comment on executive session. >> is there any public comment on this item? >> executive session. conference with legal counsel and real property negotiator. >> i move that we reconvene in open session. all in favor? i move that will not disclose anything discussed in executive session. >> second. >> all in favor? aye. i would like to move public comment on all items on today's agenda be limited to two minutes each. >> second. >> all in favor? aye. the motion has been passed, thank you. >> 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 of 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 two minutes to make pertinent public comments on each agenda item unless the port commission adopts a shorter period on any item. commissioners, with your permission, item 9b will be taken out of order and will be heard first. >> it is agreed to. >> 7a, executive director of report. >> thank you for joining us today. i have just a few items on the executive director's report. the first is with respect to the grand celebration of the 75th anniversary of the golden gate bridge. the port was happy to participate by welcoming the uss decatur, a 105-foot destroyer. she was at pier 31/32 in

celebration of the golden gate anniversary. as part of her being here in san francisco, there was a change of command ceremony, which is a very official ceremony in that the navy and other armed forces undertakes when the commanding officer is relieved by another commanding officer. that was a very exciting weekend for us. she sailed out today. equally exciting was the arrival of the uss nimitz, a 1092-foot aircraft carrier. she has visited us several times before. she had on board between her breasts all staff and aircraft staff 5700 men and women who were able to come ashore for some well-deserved leave and visit our city and participate in the 75th anniversary. we are proud to be able to effectuate that. the uss nimitz will be leaving tomorrow. if you have not had a chance to see her, please take the chance.

the uss iowa was also towed out this weekend out to its new home down to the port of los angeles, where she will be turned into a museum. the uss iowa was a world war ii battleship, and an important one to the defense of the pacific. it is sad that she is leaving the san francisco bay area but we are happy that she will be having a good new home in the port of los angeles. very happy about that. i would also like to report on our big triple header that we had on mother's day may 12. we had four princess ships in port, three that were passenger carrying vessels, a fourth and went into dry dock. we think that is a fairly uncommon event, especially here on the west coast. we are proud to be hosting these

four ships. we had two birds at pier 35 and we are most grateful to our friends, neighbors, and colleagues who helped us to accomplish that. there was one birth at pir 31/32, and other at piers 70. combined, there were at 18,400 people involved with these ships. that included all the passengers and. there were over 2000 passengers on each of the three vessels. we needed to employ 300 longshoremen, 100 ground staff, and over 150 contractors. all told between the crews, passengers, and services provided, 18,400 persons were at our waterfront on mother's day. it was a great event and again, we appreciate all the support we

got from our community, other tenants, and the city family. i wanted to make sure that everybody knows that our very own vice-president kimberly brandon is the honoree at the san francisco business and professional women's club sojourner luncheon in two months' time. the san francisco senior club of the national association for negro business and professional women's club issued a charter under that name in 1970 and they have selected commissioner brandon to give us -- honor us as the professional woman of 2012. i hope you would join me in congratulating her. you are always our women of the year, just so you know. perry much appreciate everything you do for us.

that is it, believe it or not. >> thank you. >> any public comment on the executive director's report? >> item 8 a, approval of travel for two representatives of the port commission to newport, the rhode island to report best practices for hosting the 28 -- 34 of america's cup in san francisco. >> so moved. all in favor? aye. resolution 1249 has passed. is there any public comment? >> item 9 b. request approval to appoint the office of economic and workforce development as lead negotiator on behalf of the city and port in all negotiations with respect to the proposed warriors or arena project at piers 30-32.

>> this is a resolution that is to formalize the working relationship that we have had with the office of economic and workforce development for some time now. most successfully, best known, was our recent negotiations for the last two years on the america's cup bid, host and the new agreement followed up by the lease agreement and eventual events. that model has worked well for us. a number of these projects until a great number of departmental into core operational and interagency cooperation. we usually coordinate with more than a dozen agencies, regulatory agencies, on any given project, as well as a half dozen departments. in keeping with the informal model we have had for some time

, this resolution would clarify that the office of workforce development would be the lead negotiator with port staff for the large products pending before us at this time, which could be the two pier 70 project, the water redevelopment project, as well as seawall lot 337 project with the san francisco giants, and the proposed project at piers 30-32 with the golden state warriors. the office of workforce development is here. did you want to say anything? >> good afternoon, commissioners. thank you, monique, for the introduction. the mayor has recently asked the office of workforce development to play a lead role in developing pier 70, the potential for the warriors arena

on seawall lot 30-32. really, because these are extraordinarily complicated projects that require multi jurisdictional corporation to meet the time line and goals of our partners. the idea here is, in order to successfully see these projects through, be it the planning department, mta, public utilities commission, department of building inspection, all need to be pulling in the same direction as the port. oftentimes, these transactions contain complicated financial structures and the mayor wants to see the full weight and potential of city resources being brought to bear on these projects. these projects are, first and foremost, on port planned, but they do envisioned expanding or creating new neighborhoods or adding real infrastructure to neighborhoods that affect san francisco as a whole. what we see is this is a real partnership.

the port will obviously be an integral partner in all of these negotiations looking out for both the port's best interest, as well as leading conversation with regulatory agencies that directly interface with port, like bcdc, and state lands, but also avoided opportunity for city versus -- resources to be better brought together and coordinated as we try to create these complicated deals. successful complicated deals. >> thank you. >> do we have a resolution? all in favor? aye. -- so moved. second. to we have any public comment? >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am not sure how i feel about this a formal arrangement.

having worked on the seawall lot 337 project for several years and pier 74 more than 10 years, i get the fact that interagency cooperation and coordination is really critical. if the mayor's office has a better chance of knocking heads together, great. i hope everybody remembers that you are not just negotiating with the developers and with other agencies. the community needs to be involved in this. all of these negotiations. the port has done a really good job, whether or not today is really going to show it off, at community engagement. o we w d