pharmaceutical companies there, they're on the verge of discovering wonderful stem cell research that will cure a lot of cancers in our lifetime. you're going to see some cures come out of mission bay. we're doing the right thing, we're creating this wonderful, exciting innovative spirit in the city and we're doing it, not just with the companies locating here, with the people that are here, we're asking employees of the company to step up, through our sf city, our tech chamber of commerce, and volunteer their time to improve things that are not working as well as we'd like in the city. we have on-line ability called improve sf that allows people to come on line, tackle a lot of the issues that the city faces, allow for some c)eative thinking, people who can't spend a lot of time in meetings with us, that can actually offer their ideas on line, and we take those ideas very seriously. so we've been working on things on like how to make muni faster,

how to bring fresh foods to low income poverty areas of the city, and our newest one, just to given you a sense, we wanted everybody to help us develop and design a new library card. talk about civic engagement. 2,000 submissions on line for a new designed library card. that leads me to a challenge that i would like to announce, as part of this night rover challenge, and that is we have been asking ourselves a question, along the lines of energy use in the city, something that has been hard for us to figure out. and that has to do with what would inspire you, as someone who lives in the city, to give your data of your own energy use in the city, like your home energy use? all that data about when you use it, what are your hot times, your cool times. how about if we try to find some way to inspire people to give us

that]h data, in some coordinated way. because if we understand that 20 to 22% of our emissions comes from1ar residenl use, you can imagine if we had that data coming from every household use in the city we could break that data down with involvement of creative people like yourselves, and then try o see where there's patterns where we could lessen our carbon footprint and talk about better energy use. that's perfect for us. that's what we're going to ask this challenge to present for our next improve sf challenge for the city. and that's what we'd like to engage people in. and then hopefully, some time after this challenge is announced, and if we can get the best ideas out there, we will be engaged with you to select the best answer. and if there's an idea out there that can answer that question

about how to inspire people, then hopefully wq can go into november a hack-athon sponsored by green biz and others to develop an app that everyone can use. that's a great challenge. that's going to be so worthy of contributing to a goal that we've had about reducing our carbon footprint as a city. it's not just the households. once we get that data out we could look at the data from a community.re level and look at e data from a citywide level to >> a lot a ton with the community and we say to

ourselves, there is this one and this one. we all compartmentalize them, we have our own agenda. our agenda is to create great work. if you are interested in that, you are part of our community. >> hello and welcome to brava theater. >> we are trying to figure out a way to make a space where theater and presentation of live work is something that you think of the same way that you think of going to the movies. of course, it has been complex in terms of economics, as it is for everyone now. artistically, we have done over 35 projects in four seasons, from producing dance, theater, presenting music, having a full- scale education program, and having more than 50,000 visitors in the building almost every year.

a lot of our emerging artists to generate their first projects here, which is great. then we continue to try to support figuring out where those works can go. we have been blessed to have that work produced in new york, going on to the edinburgh festival, the warsaw theater festival. to me, those are great things when you can watch artists who think there is nowhere else that might be interested in you being a woman of color and telling your story and then getting excited about it. that is our biggest accomplishment. having artists have become better artists. what is. sheri coming back to brava, here you have this establish, amazing writer who has won a clue -- slew of awards. now she gets to director and work. even though she is this amazing,

established writer, the truth is, she is being nurtured as a director and is being given some space to direct. >> the play is described as ceremony and -- where ceremony and theater me. in the indigenous tradition, when you turn 52, it is like the completion of an important era. the importance of the ceremony is to say, you are 52. whenever you have been caring for the first 52 years, it is time to let it go. really, here, they have given me carte blanche to do this. i think it is nice for me, in the sense of coming back 25 years later and seeing personally my own evolution as an artist and thinker. the whole effort to put the

chicano or indigenous woman's experience on center stage is, in itself, for euro-american theaters, a radical position. because of the state of theater, it is a hard roll to hold up in institution. it is a hard road. i am looking at where we are 25 years later in the bay area, looking at how hard it is for us to strive to keep our theater is going, etc. i like to think that i'm not struggling quite as hard, personally, but what i mean by that, the intention, the commitment. particularly, to produce works that would not be produced in other places, and also to really nurture women of color artists. i think that is something that has not shifted for me in those 25 years, and it is good to see that brava remains committed to that kind of work.

♪ >> when people talk about the reflection of the community, we can only go from what we have on our staff. we have a south asian managing director, south african artistic director, latino community out rich person. aside from the staff, the other people, artists that we work with being a reflection of us, yes, the community is changing, but brava has always tried to be ahead of that trend. when i came in, i tried to make it about the work that shows the eclectic mission district, as well as serving the mission. those are the types of things that i feel build one brava is

>> commissioner katz is probably on her way so we're going to start. >> i move we reconvene in open

session. >> second. >> open session. >> also, [inaudible]. also we cannot disclose anything discussed in executive session. >> second. >> okay. please be advised that ringing of any cell phones, pagers or similar electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised the chair may order the removal from the room of any person responsible for the ring big of or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar sound producing electronic device. please be advised that a member of the public can have up to three minutes to make pertinent public comments on each agenda item unless the port commission adopts a shorter period on any item. item 7a, executive director's report. >> good afternoon, port commissioners. ment members of the public, members of the port staff, welcome here today. i just have a couple of very quick and happy items to report

on, starting with milestone update on our pier 43-1/2 project. you may recall that that is part of the bay trail and lays atop the seawall in fisherman's wharf between where blue and gold sweet calls and the san friscan restaurant. constructing a new waterfront concrete promenade from powell street to the franciscan restaurant. our contractor there is vortex marine. they have been working rather diligently including saturdays most of the last month and will continue to work saturdays through thanksgiving with the goal of completing the project to substantial completion by thanksgiving. so far, 92 two-foot wide diameter concrete piles each of which are 100 feet in length, support the new wharf deck and that deck will go along the

promenade there and come around behind the franciscan restaurant replacing old deck that has been condemned sometime ago. in addition and very importantly, over 500 feet of the timber seawall has been replaced with reinforced concrete wall and rock armor stone. this is a very important project for that area of the waterfront. on october 4th, friday, october 4th, the contractor began laying the cement pre-cast segment. so, part of the concrete will be poured in place and part of that concrete will be pre-cast and delivered. and, so, three of the pre-cast segments were delivered via barge and set into place saturday, october 13th. and the remaining 11 segments have been cast and are in transit to the job site for placement in the next two weeks. this past week at 1:00 a.m., 42 cement trucks arrived to pour the remaining concrete of the area that's cast in place. and, so, that was really rather cool. they came out 1:00 a.m. and were finished by sunrise.

so, it was a very busy night, if you will. they poured 9,000 square feet of 15-inch thick concrete deck, about 380 cubic yards. that represents about 40% of the overall deck material. so, the remainder will be cast -- pre-cast, which will be delivered by barge. the next few weeks we'll see the remainder of the pre-cast deck panels placed p. topping slab placed, railing placed, lighting, and land side paving. so, this project is moving along with an expected opening date and time for thanksgiving on the opening of the crab season. so, that will be really perfect for all of us. i just want to take a few moments to thank all of our partners in the fisherman's wharf community for their patience with the project and the department of public works for their assistance in project management and, of course, members of the port staff ranging from port engineering to port real estate, port maintenance, pretty much everybody has been involved in some fashion. that's a very exciting milestone for us. a second one is right here next

door and i hope if you didn't get a chance to see it on your way in you'll get a chance to see it on your way out. on saturday half the pier disappeared. it's gone for the most part. it's 90% complete with no serious issues or concerns. there are a few isolated structures which you might be able to see one is up against the pier 1 building. a concrete structure. as well as some of the very, very old ferry floats out towards the back. the project will be substantially complete by the end of this month, which is the middle of next week already. and that is several months ahead of our obligation to complete it by march of 2013. and you may recall that this is an important aspect of our permit with respect to the americas cup and pier 27 cruise terminal project. the pier item was bid out under the fourth amendment to the turner's pier cruise terminal contract. the total project is $1.3 million with $1 million going to a local lbe construction

contractor, which is the sacker company which is a subcontractor to power engineering. so, we're really very pleased about that, and this is the project that's been on the books for a very long time and my kudos to everyone involved, which is too many people to mention. thanks, very great view of the bay there. motorcycle parking will be restored by the end of the month, which is something that people are concerned about. and from this hopefully we'll be able to restore the seating area as well. lastly i wanted to report on the grateful americas conference that occurred may 11. pete daly traveled to port commission with willie adams. there was a record attendance of 12,500 participants and the portmanaged, manned i guess is a better word, an exhibit for the couple of days during the conference. metro ports which is our steve

adore company, had a boost and we hosted a cocktail reception for our key suppliers. our customers, if you will. and we also joined by not only commissioner adams as a member of the iowu international secretary treasurer, but also by mike vigilante who is in the back rooting for the giants there. and also james plato who came from the local [speaker not understood], a new approach that we took, it was extraordinarily well received, and together the port and iow delegation met with many of our customers and one on one came home with some good results. and, so, if i can, i'd like to defer over to commissioner adams to see if there is anything he'd like to highlight or share your perspective on. >> thank you. first of all, our going to houston is very historical. by the fact in the past only the port would go. but this time the port went and

the iow, and i tell you, the customers it was a different approach. we were there working together [inaudible]. and the secretary treasurer, i'm also on the port commission. and we met with different customers. in fact, our biggest customer that goes into pier 80, they're building 10 new ships at $50 million a ship. and they have tried to corner the market. what they're saying is we want to bring double the amount of cargo going into pier 80. we need a good reliable work force. the port and iow have a good working relationship. we have the best working class workers coming from the iow to get the ships in and out, safe and productive. but also to, we said we want to partnership with you. we need to get together every three months. we need to meet. we want to bring more cargo to the port of san francisco, it's

a maritime port. we realize that. and i just want to say a special thank you to peter daly and jim malony, they worked very hard, they were very professional. but as i said, when we sat down across the table and had breakfast, the guy was just like, wow, i'm just relieved to know that labor, port are working together and we're looking into the future. we want to go out together. and one of my commitments as a commissioner is to go on these trips and to take labor and go with the port. and we want to bring more working class jobs, what the community really needs is jobs. they're not doing a good job in d.c. getting jobs. we want to do it here in the port of san francisco. and i want to thank the support of my commissioners here, president doreen, kim, and leslie, because we're committed. in the future i would just like to say before i'd like to have mike come up and say a word, i think we need more presentations on maritime and our clients. i think it's important. i think we need to be abreast. and we know this is a port with

a lot of diversity in it from stadiums to maritime, to exploratorium. we all can coexist. madam president, i'd like to have mike come up and maybe jim wants to come up. i appreciate their efforts and hard work and professionalism [speaker not understood]. >> hello. thank you, madam president and commission. i appreciate the time. and willie, all the rest of the staff. i want to tell you, it was quite interesting for me. houston, texas is another world. california was -- [laughter] >> that was humidity, right, getting off the plane for sure.

we were well received. and, again, i'd like to comment on the port, jim and peter and willie, we worked as a team in the sense our common goal is to bring work to the port of san francisco, develop the brake, boat and bulk facilities that we have and that are still vital maritime docks that we could enhance. speaking to the shippers, they received us in a way that was quite interesting to me because, excuse me, they were surprised, quite surprised. and a lot of the vendors that were in the exhibit were quite surprised that labor was there, especially iowu labor. we're going to make it a point of continuing our proactiveness in encouraging work to this port and to the bay area because it's quite important for the middle class of this

country to enhance it. i want to say, though, it was interesting in this social venue that was -- took place, some of the exchanges. some of the best deals or the best ways to communicate are at these because it breaks down -- it breaks it down for these guys instead of being in the business atmosphere, there was a social atmosphere and they got to know us a little bit. and that's real important to put a face behind the organization or faces, and it was key. it was quite an experience and we're going to be doing it into the future in 2013. so, thank you and i appreciate the time. >> jim? >> commissioners, thank you for, first of all, for supporting setting commissioner

adams and mike and james to houston to support us at the brake boat conference. i think one thing mike said is really key. i think business these days, business continues to be all about relationships and developing those key personal relationships and having an opportunity to sit across the table one on one and talk with -- these are the issues we have, these are the -- this is what i'd like you to address, allow us to want to do business with the port of san francisco. and i think we had an opportunity to talk with saga force carriers, bbc chartering, rick mers line and other carriers they'd like to call here and talk about these are the issues that we have. labor is an extremely important part of the conversation. i think its was very powerful you september commissioner adams have iowu represented and port commission represented at the conference. and i look forward to doing -- having future opportunities to work together with all of us

and partner to work together to get business for the port. so, thank you. and again, thank you for your support. >> thank you. >> [inaudible]. >> go ahead [inaudible]. >> in conclusion, i was just going to say thank you very much, commissioner adams and mike and jim, for your time and your effort in doing this with us and your pragmatism. it paid off handsomely. madam president, that concludes my report. >> i think there is a groundbreaking at the park. i was wondering if we can share those details with the president. >> i will do my best. you can nod or shake her head. we are hoping to have a public groundbreaking of the new area at the park, acre and a quarter that was added, reported on a couple meetings ago.

this next thursday, next week, november 1st at 10:30 a.m. at the site to celebrate the opening of that important project. and, of course, that is going to be open to the public and i believe invitations will be going out. we just got confirmation today. >> so it is confirmed. >> yes, it is confirmed. >> madam chair, i just want to say [inaudible] when i said in the future i would like more presentations on our maritime clients, i thought it would be helpful [inaudible]. i just wanted to make sure. thank you. >> okay, thank you. we do have item 7b, which is an informational presentation. >> do you want to do public comment -- >> sorry, public comment on the executive director's report. thought we had some already. is there any more? >> [inaudible]. >> one thing you may not have included in the report is one of our largest tenants had a big victory -- [laughter] >> so, congratulations to the

giants on making it to the world series. glad to have them as a tenant. (applause) >> and to that end, we are working tirelessly to make the next week a great success in every way. so, that effort started interestingly enough. >> to, that do want to thank our staff and dpt and others for working well with the giants, the division series games as well as the championship series games. and now we welcome the world series. i think all of us all working together, it really showed. and i think there are nothing but good things about moving the people through all the games. having talked to some of the folks at the giants, really praised executive director for stepping right up and making sure that everyone was on the same page as we [speaker not understood] get things set up. so, thank you. >> thank you for sharing that.

i was very gratified by the wonderful beautiful shots of the city we received during all of the days, including our newly repainted port logo on pier 48. we're very proud of. so, more to come with the new projects contemplated at piers 30/32. >> moving on to the next item. >> item 7b, informational presentation on employment and economic impacts as a result of recent infrastructure improvements at the bae-san francisco ship repair yard. >> here is an update on the bae. everything great, what's going on at bae which is a combination of policies and investments led by bae supported and participated in heavily by the port. they all just culminated, whether it's a banner year, we wanted to share that with all of you. and jay is going to make that

presentation supported by jerry of our maritime division. and [speaker not understood]. so, congratulations to all of you. >> we'll make the presentation if we can contend with unfamiliar technology. i'm not -- i don't know -- yeah. >> [inaudible]. >> it's not that. >> [speaker not understood]. >> second. >> i haven't used this touch pad before. i'm jay ock in the maritime department. maritime regulatory and environmental affairs manager. this that capability i manage the port's dredging program and quality air program. i'm here to talk about the programs how they work at the shipyard and how they work

together to promote not only environmental enhancements, particularly air quality enhancements here at the port, but also to provide increased revenues for bae, which means increased revenues for the port, and also increased union employment here, maritime related blue collar employment. now, testing 1, 2, 3. okay. the genesis for this was the completion of shore side power at the dry dock. this was a requirement environmental mitigation for the americas cup to proceed. the port contracted, in essence, with bae to do this work. bae performed admirably. got it in and got it done days before the first ship came in and connected, which was matthew perry. the matthew perry is still in dry dock there.

it's been -- didn't get my update in terms of power usage, but it's been hundreds of thousands of kilowatt hours, the equivalent of a couple hundred household use of electricity. it's been a massive amount of power. this came about, in part -- in large part, due to the fact we had previously constructed shore side power at pier 27. and i wanted to just touch on that for a moment because with the exception of commissioner brandon, this port commission hasn't been here during that project. that started way back in 2006 when we applied for our grant, which came through from the air district in 2007. we subsequently applied for and received additional grant funding which resulted in a project with a