would probably swallow that. but the two most important like you did with 332. we need to be at the bargaining table with you. and we need to contact the other members of the harbor. thank you very much. commissioner ho: ok. >> thank you, commissioners, for listening to us. i would also like to thank peter daly. my name is paul and i am on the board of the advocates for south beach harbor. i will not repeat everything that has been covered here. but i would like to take a look at this. i think barry did a very good analysis.

i have been tasked with looking at the calboating documents and loans. and there are some issues that need to be taken into consideration their. -- there. we are already short on parking. another item is that the part has to be available to all on an equal and reasonable basis. and that means reasonable terms as far as parking, as far as electricity, as far as berth rates themselves. so, the calboating loan is alone from the state and is

specifically targeted to recreational boaters of california. again, this goes back to an equal basis. so, everyone has to be treated equally. , like, said, i won't repeat anything else. i am going through the calboating documents. i am still looking for some. we did a freedom of information request. a bit more time would be helpful. commissioner ho: brian. >> she will be right back. commissioner ho: ok. we will go to joe. >> good afternoon. thank you for allowing me to speak. this is important for sailors.

operations for our motivations. we have a very good relat ionship with the board, and we appreciate that. we these relationships make our programs.

our main concern is parking. we have people come from all over. we understand parking is very tight. we encourage all of our members

and carpool whenever possible. -- to carpool whenever possible. to take transit. parking in the area -- if you have special needs, it can be very hard if you do not have access. thank you for your support. [applause]

>> are good afternoon, commissioners. i have the votes at south t beach harbor. -- i have a boat and south beach harbor. i do hear there is some concern that this is a harbor in san francisco. it is owned by all the people of california. we should not even considered that as an issue. as far as residency. early on, when it was apparent that the port was going to inherent this, i talk to jim morale is, who was the counsel

for the redevelopment agency in an attempt to get the current mailing list so that the tenants could be notified that things are happening. jim was going to do that and then it became part of the city and therefore have different rules for getting information. made a public records request, tried to talk to jim walter into speaking me a list. that did not work. it is so important that we have come up 500 + tenants. some people have fleets and so forth. the people do not know what is going on. it is going to fall back on the port. it is not going to fall back on any but -- anyone but the port.

this does have to go to the board of supervisors eventually. i really cannot plead with you enough to come up with the way that we can communicate to the entire tennessee. i do not see how you are going to be able to make all the pieces come together between now and september. one of the issues i am pretty familiar with, you currently get your power from puc. and by california puc, at energy commission, you cannot become a utility. if you are putting meters in, they have to be put into the san francisco puc. they have not talked to ports at all. they were unaware of this going on. i am trying to say, there are so

many loose ends that you cannot possibly get it by september. if you put that as a deadline, it will make it difficult for the staff to dig down the enough to come up with the solution. we need to have access, it be able to give you something to send out to each and every -- i never opened my bill. so that we can reach out to those people. we have enough time to do this dance like whether it is parking more power and so forth. -- loose ends like whether it is parking or power and so forth. >> susie smith. >> i am here because we have a family boats at pier 40. i am also here to plead for more

time. a lot of people are unaware of what is going on. we have some people who are residents of the city, some who are not. i know people are up here reaching for solutions and they are saying, we were on the list for 15 years. the thought that suddenly, we're going to hand 100 people -- have people $100 a year, it is like me having to pay an application fee at every school. hopefully, we can be fair about it. hopefully, the pier 40 residents, if we have more time, we will have something we can do collectively as a group. i also want to reiterate that the parking system is not broken. there is some occasional abuses.

that has been parked there with yellow tape around that. that is a space we could use. oat;-if you could give us a lite bit more time beyond september, so we could come up with viable solution for everybody. thank you. >> that is the last of the speaker requests. we are still open for public comment if anyone would like to come up to the podium. >> i am the vice commodore of the bay area association of disabled sailors. ++30 pt

some need accommodation with parking, some have placards, do not. we have volunteers and participants that come from sacramento, stockton. there really needed to drive to get here. we could not run our programs without them. if we have to pony up $600 a year for six or more parking passes to accommodate the folks that need to help us put down our programs for the disabled, that puts a big hole in our budget. when the state passed its budget and dissolved the redevelopment agency, i can guarantee you having been an aide to the board of supervisors, the intent of the state was not to blow a hole in the county's budget. there must be something missing from this equation. that $800,000 either is stuck at the state court is coming to the

city or it is coming here and we are not getting credit for it. that is the second thing. the assessment that was done was faulty and did not take into other south bay marine as. my personal boats is an oyster point. we are very open to solutions. sorry for speaking so fast. three minutes those in a real hurry. for the boats that do not go out, the port is now in the small craft harbors in business, a tremendous revenue generating plant would be to be

able to -- the folks that want to be a part of the south beach harbor, make it available, use some underutilized port facility to pull the boats out. at a western point, there is an additional charge if you want to live aboard your boat. the last thing, a sliding scale. this is a publicly owned facility. a sliding scale would go a long way in addressing -- we have some retired folks. there is a lot more discussion

that needs to happen. talk to people who are it marina businesses. to expand what it is support is providing coverage thank you very much. >> you already spoke, but our rules are that you cannot speak again. >> commissioners, i have been a partner in a sailboat at south beach harbor for seven years. under the proposed parking plan, my partner will get a free parking pass he will never use because he does not use the boat. i will have to pay $600 for a

special parking permit unless my partners pass is transferable. i would like to say this about other partnerships. there are many partnerships and this marina. some consisting of three or four families. they take a weekend of the month to enjoy these waters. the well-being of these diminished partners is not protected by the port's parking proposal. unless the single permits can be transferred among the minor partners, to use the boat.

south beach marina -- there are 670 holders. there is approximately 406 hundred minor partners. we're talking about a community of 10001100 people at that are not represented -- 1100 people that are not represented by the advocates of south beach harbor, which is an organization that represents 150 people. proper notice has not been given to the community at large. i am asking what everybody else

is asking. the 1000 people affected by the decision by the commissioners and the port be noticed of what is going on. i further prayed the commission will entertain an amended parking plan were all partners are treated as equal financial players and not as cash cows, the 500 people that are not represented in this proceeding that somehow they get proper notice of what is going on and that the transference of the parking permit among the owners of the boats be addresseduñó%!. i read your e-mail and it did not clarify who exactly could

use the permit. >> thank you. >> i have one more thing. >> your time is up, i am sorry. [applause] any other comment? >> thank you for allowing me to comment on what is going on. >> please identify yourself. >> i have a slick at south beach harbor. i have been here for almost 30 years. i have a sailboat. what i see here is when i became a tenant, i signed a lease and included the i would get a slip and parking. i have been paying for that ever since. now we are talking about taking the parking away, reducing my services, increasing my face, and putting electrical services.

i think this is unfair, it could be considered illegal. if you are going to reduce my services, why are you increasing the fees? i happen to be a homeowner and the rent part of my house. if i took away the garage from a tenant, he would call that a reduction in service and i would have to reimburse them somehow for that reduction. in this case, i am not getting that fair shake. all the tenants better currently -- that are currently renting slips have not been given the opportunity to discuss these issues with the port commission. that is unfair and we have to have more dialogue and we have to have more representation so that we can be treated fairly. [applause] >> any further public comment?

>> i have to open my mouth to represent the sailors. i am a nurse, my husband is retired. we have a spectacular privilege to sell out. -- to sail. we go to the tenant advocates meetings and they speak for us. we appreciate their volunteer work. [applause] >> any further public comment? >> hello, commission. i'm a resident. i am new to the harbor. i was able to get a slip as of november. this is the third harbor idea that a boat, and the staff, the

communications is wonderful. there has been a disconnect as far as being able to notify all the tenants. trying to push ahead with this seems to be a little bit of a problem. with the loan from the california boating division, that money that comes from that is part of -- that is excise tax money. it comes from gas tax and voter registration. -- boulder registration. there are restrictions on what can be done with that money and what can be done with the project. there are some legal ground that needs to be looked at because that could be problematic. you are looking for additional funding sources. there needs to be some work done at the harbor. the one area that the boating department is under state parks, state parks wanted to

steal some money. part of that deal is that they have grants available to be able to upgrade and improve the facility. that is another area that can be left out as far as a funding source. -- looked at as far as a funding source. >> further public comment? commissioners? >> i have been there for almost 20 years. i haven't dort the construction of the ballpark and paid -- i have in georendured the construn of the ballpark. i have a partnership, even though it is a small boats and i

could maybe get $8,000 if i sold it, the management and upkeep is more than i can afford. so i have a partner. the additional cost of $600 for a parking fee would be very difficult to spread across our partnership. almost unaffordable. it seems to be there is an assumption that all boat owners are rich. this argument came up a lot. i attended a lot of the america's cup early discussions and that was a fear that bring the america's cup to san francisco, that the un wealthy would not benefit and be squeezed out. that is how i feel right now at south beach with my 30-foot slap been increased by 41%.

if a residential rent increase was presented, there would be riots in the street. some earlier comment about low hanging fruit. that kind of hit the target. there is a lot of income about to be available to the city with the america's cup. there is a lot of people who would have big boats that could afford whatever rent increase because they want to be here in the center of the america's cup activity. that -- i am a season holder at the ballpark in the bleachers seat and i pay my $20 and now the world series is coming to town and their people willing to pay $200 for the seat and i'm

getting squeezed out. for a long time, it seems a very unreasonable and it smells of creep. thank you for your time. [applause] >> i have a nonprofits. we operate out of south beach harbor. we're not a very big organization, but we do a lot of work. we clean up plastics and ocean trash. over the last few years, we've brought in over 2600 volunteer hours. i want to request that there is some consideration, a special meaning that addresses the conversation with the port the hd e

services. hd e [applause] >> it looks like we have no further public comment. peter? >> a couple of quick words. i do apologize is outreach is perceived to be poured -- poor. this meeting tonight was noticed in their newsletter. i know you do not open your bills, joe. >> does everyone read latitude?

>> we are going to do a special outreach to all the tenants. we will have been another town hall meeting in the next couple of weeks. we will have our staff call e . we will do everything we can do to reach out to everybody. our website is a great location. we will put signs up down at the harbor. relating to someone's comments that the port was the dillydallying on sending out list of tenants. the request was sent in by e- mail to the ports, who sent it to the city attorney, who came

back to us and said that information is proprietary and against the law to send it out. we will explore it further. we are reacting to a specific legal opinion from the city attorney. if there is a way to get around it, we will try. but i do not know how. i do want to thank the advocates for south beach harbor. we do have a good relationship. we will continue to meet with them on a regular basis. it is not easy. there are some difficult questions. regarding the america's cup, that is an opportunity. we are housing five or six of the chase boats for the race that will be happening next week. they will be here for a number of weeks.