of san francisco california prize for service in common good. the event will be 2012, november 12. it recognizes the good will the giants have created. proceeds will go back into scholarship programs. they are being commended for their work in the community and for their junior giants baseball. the junior giants baseball program serves over 20,000 boys and girls in 85 different communities. the community fund is for the public awareness campaign, organ donor awareness night, as well as other opportunities.

i wanted to commend them on being such a great partner for the city in the port. and that concludes my report. >> is there any public comment? >> i wanted to comment on one item that came before the commission, attending the world series america's cup, we are here to give you a brief report on what happened. not only were we able to watch the races, but we also met with the executive director of the america's cup for rhode island, a state official. we also had a chance to spend time with race management.

we actually visited the team based to understand the stand-up -- set up. of what we saw was a miniseries of what could be expected. we were there for two days. i think that the headcount on friday was up to 10,000. it gave this a real sense of what to expect. i think that i want to say, on the race itself, it was set up stadium style, where you could watch it from the shore. it is hard to watch, unless you understand, so we watched it both ways. it was pretty exciting, because he could see what was happening on the boat itself. newport is much smaller in

scale, not only does the race, but the city itself. what we are building here is greater. there was some excitement and one of the boat capsized, it had to be repaired overnight. i appreciated a lot more the variables. for those who do not know, that is the variable for sailing, much greater than a race car or horserace. the adjustments needed to get down to what you are supposed to do. i think that the other thing to be found in terms that team basis was what we have heard about in terms of seeing 120 in

of stuff being set up. it is quite amazing. it all gets packed up and they moved it from site to site. everything is self-contained. we visited the back, we saw the front in terms of the media set up. it is an enormous amount of effort to put on these races. finally, the venue management, which is what we would be tasked with in san francisco, in terms of how we manage the people and the traffic, the venues and retail, there are two things that i picked up that i thought would be useful. they used water taxis very actively to move people around.

was enjoyable. they also had an exploration zone that families and children could visit. i think that that was good, for the crowd and families to visit. third, they had a lot of retail merchandising. they could have done more. i think that that was very useful. i am going to ask more to the commissioner, because i am sure that i missed a few things. >> great job. it was a great experience for us. it probably took us a full day to understand who was doing what. it was fascinating, once you got engaged and understood what was happening. so, we stayed at a hotel that was on america's cup boulevard. it had been there since the

1800's, apparently. everyone was so family and helpful, in gauging. there was also set up inside the fort, the expiration area, -- exploration area, we thought that was really great. we wanted to have that here, somewhere. they put a lot of focus on sustainability. but they are making efforts to make sure that the event is truly sustainable for all that come to enjoy it. it was worthwhile, as well as a pro went trip. it was beneficial. we brought pamphlets to share with you guys, said the experience in little bit of what

we did. >> one of the things i wanted to mention, the tremendous use of volunteers. i think it will take a lot across the waterfront. the volunteers in newport were all friendly. we also heard from the director of the america's cup and the effort that goes into organizing those volunteers, training of volunteers. there were a lot of lessons learned. hopefully, we can leverage them going forward. i also wanted to spend a minute to comment, as i would like to give a chance. we did not have a chance to shape -- to thank her.

she has been a very dedicated and diligent person. i enjoyed working with her. i want to just take a moment to commend and thank her for her service on record. >> i had the opportunity to serve with her for eight years. i always thought that she was just such a wonderful, levelheaded, fair person. even though i might have been here longer than her, she was so pragmatic, so smart, we are really going to miss her. if anyone wants this in letters to the board of supervisors on her behalf, prior to next tuesday, please do. >> i will echoed those comments. i have known airport many years, from before she served on the

commission. working with her on the commission, she was so welcoming. she will be very mixed. i think that the board of permit appeals will be lucky to have her fault on this on that commission. she will be missed here. but public comment -- >> public comment on the president's report? any questions? >> moving on. sevenc -- 7c, information update on the june 20, 2012 pier 29 fired them port response -- fire damage and port response.

>> midafternoon. my name is wendy proctor. i am here today with the port consultants to present an informational update on the fire that occurred on wednesday, june 20 at, at 1:50 in the afternoon. in the face of this tragedy, we are fortunate that with the expert help of the sentences of fire department, the damage was contained within the bulkhead. that it had been vacated.

there were no occupants or injuries. the america's cup events will not be impacted by the fire. immediate impacts posed by the fire are falling building hazards, like the embarcadero, not, and power outages in 33, 29, and the cruise terminal project. you can see, by the photo on the upper right hand side, a fair amount of debris fell into the sidewalk. the immediate response was to close the promise not immediately. at the end of the day, i saw a line of 24 trucks coming from pier 50 with all of the equipment and provide generator

power. also, immediately, court staff initiated two contracts. the second one was with the architecture and engineering consultant, for structural engineering and historic, architectural expertise. the port has insurance coverage for the damage, for construction in kind, plus upgrades required for anything needed in current codes. now, i will turn it over to reinhardt for details on the

structural portion. >> thank you, wendy. thank you, commissioners. thank you, monday. i am on the third slide, which is the emergency response. the chief engineer contact us on thursday morning. construction talked to me about the issues faced by the port, and the immediate concerns that we had to take care of during a part of the building had collapsed on to the embarcadero, nod. there were questions and concerns about building stability on the promise not. they wanted to open a promise not to pedestrian traffic as soon as possible. our emergency response commenced

that morning. we have been involved since the 21st of july. it continues to go on today. emergency contracts, resolution, prepared by the commission. we are under contract, all those under contract. building stabilization, that commenced on the 26 and continues today. a staff member was on site on the 21st. they have been involved from the beginning. they install the temporary electric power to replace what was lost. i will talk more about that. electric power equipment, that continues today. this diagram on pier 29 shows

the relationship to the cruise terminal on 27, under construction now. that is where the superintendent was involved from the beginning and transferred over. we worked with him for the first week or so of the project. this diagram illustrates here, the orange area, no. 29, the bulkhead. the most intense part of the damage occurred there. it did work well, as i saw the fire, most of the damage, there was some smoke damage, water damage i and thisshed building -- theis shed building.

there is work being done out separate it from the bulkhead. that way the shed can be turned over to the tenant, who i understand is the america's cup event. this slide illustrates some of the fire damage. the upper left shows the fact is you can see daylight through the roof. there was a lot of damage in the roof, behind the portal, that acted like a chimney, concentrated in that area. there was a lot of damage caused there. upper right shows the damage to the south wall. that is a stability issue. the lower right shows the shot

that day, from thursday. our engineer was on the left, thursday. the danger is on the southwest corner of the embarcadero wall. there are additional photographs of damage to the roof, damage to the frames. behind the entry portal. there was continuous construction in the removal on thursday. the demolition contractor mobilized on thursday and friday until 8:00. it was continuous, until saturday and sunday. the promise not was open to pedestrian traffic.

we thought the building was stabilized, late in the afternoon. shelling of west elevation of the building, the good -- showing the west elevation of the building, we have good records of what we had in the fire. de company will restore the building. this is the south elevation, which faces 27 and the cruise ship terminal. we had to file permits for the work that was being done. i put this diagram in here because of this concern about public safety control. we did secure the sidewalk. the court did have securities that. this was before we were able to

open it to the public. there were staffed and traffic control issues the whole time. when we review the plot -- project and discuss our plans with at the end of the contractor, we thought we would have to beed and the contractor -- ed and the contractor, we proceeded with this plan in place, with the construction permit their for the removal. to restore the public's safety. these diagrams, these pictures illustrate the demolition you can see the upper right hand picture, showing the debris on the embarcadero and the public security fence on a curved line.

this is just different progress. the contractor had remote- control demolition equipment that he was able to operate from the cherry picker. worker safety was in order to protect the workers. putting up a scaffolding to do more with the electrical equipment. we started to put that in on the 26, tuesday. we started having meetings with the contractor in the insurance company on the 26. last week, last tuesday, there was another one scheduled for tuesday. there is a team meeting every

week to get everyone plugged into the progress we're making. the contractors working through that last friday, trying to get that done so that we could get a demolition contractor who worked on the stabilization for him to get that work done. and all of the power that was served came through. this equipment, as you can see in the upper left-hand corner, the assessment of that equipment is going on now. there has already been a preliminary review.

work is going on to offer temporary power of what those needs should be. this diagram shows you the temporary emergency generators operating with diesel fuel. there are five generators located a round of the wharf area. they go from 29 through 227. they serve different operations there. including some sewage injection pumps at 31. >> this diagram shows the part that was removed, this was completed, this part was added last friday. this photograph shows you how much of the roof is built on.

like i said, there was scaffolding put into a lot of that construction. looking at what will be done with this stabilization that has removed the stock fell and architectural features. and the upper right hand corner, we thought we would take that thing down. we thought it would be done by that first weekend but as things went along, we decided to protect that and embraced that structure so that we could restore things around it.

that diagram illustrates what we actually ended up with, final demolition. i know structural removal. this is what we are going to lead to the public. as we have the repair and restoration documents done. we are evaluating the cost of temporary power, trying to get them to bring in permanent temporary power, rather than running the diesel generators. we are trying to get that facility up and yelling.

building stabilization, we are completing the plans. that is part of the stabilization process. we're looking at remediation on the shed. hopefully that can be done in several months. restoring this is a long-term project. it will not be finished in 2012, i am fairly certain about that. nancy will come out to talk about 2012 issues. >> mine starts with the one under the flag of historic building preservation. the company was also out on site

the day after the fire. our initial focus has been to consult upon demolition and salvage activities. this has changed. this has been an ongoing process, as you can see from the photos, left. things change, from week to week and day to day. it is important that we are out there assessing what is going on. i was out there last thursday. it was the last fragment of the ventilated cornice on the building. it had to come down because it was no longer stable. then the contractors were able to save a piece that we had as a record to a desk in accurately

restoring that element of the building. we have been salvaging the protection activities, which have primarily involve the windows and elements of the fragments i just showed you. some of the windows have been salvaged and placed in a protected area in the shed. the remaining windows will be protected in place. that will make sure that the building as well but and up and provide protection to the remaining fashion frames. donald lee to some of the glass still intact. " i'm currently, -- hopefully to some of the glass still intact. currently we are determining the criteria needed, and we will be

working with the port to determine which ones of the most appropriate for the building. we will also be reviewing historic documents, such as drawings and photos. we are very lucky that the port has very good drawing documentation of this building. that is an interesting photographs. it shows end of the met -- locomotive from the belt line railway in front of pier 29. also, a carefully documented in the salvaging elements, we will be reviewing the coded analysis being prepared for adequate usage.

finally, the next steps in restoring the building, we will be working with structural engineers back to make sure that the building structure is restored accurately. we have good documentation for the building structure. we will be reviewing any new elements that need to go in to make sure that those codes are appropriate to the historic building. finally, the fun part will be the reconstruction of the missing areas of the building. >> so, that include -- concludes our information update. the america's cup authority is the tenant coming in. they were not