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work for the fisherman waver. she has been piloting a boat and she is now 834-year-old. she's taken 1 hundred and 50 thousand people out on the peer and she has donated her boat to various charities and she's worked tirelessly. she's been to numerous state and federal hearings as well as to congress to testify on behalf of fishing of salmonella. she has since been taking people
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out to sea but she's worked with tv broadcasts to bring the outside activity to the public's attention. if you see her, please congratulate her. a more difficult issue is to remind our project is coming along wonderfully. on friday night it was just shy of cement trucks dumping concrete every few minutes. now we're going to repair the sea wall and it requires one of the use of the lanes. the work is being quickly
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accomplished and it will be occurring over the next three weeks so from peer 38 to bryant street will be closed for the next three weeks to be opened again on monday march 4th. i think it's important to repair the sea wall and protect that area from rising sea levels. we beg everyone to be patient. and then lately it's with great pride we're nearing completion of our terminal. we'll have a completion of the building and it will go forward to host the 34 cup appears on 27
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and 29. i hope everyone can join us at peer 37 with the ribbon cutting with the america's cup. we looking forward to seeing everyone there. and congratulations to all the work crews that have helped to get us to this point. i hope everyone enjoys the building as much as i do. that includes my report >> any public comment? hearing none, we'll move open >> and the 1 hundred and 50 selection in the maritime port. >> commissioners i'd like to introduce our public relations
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officer and he drew the straw to lead up our efforts. she's doing a terrific job >> i'm the public relations manager and it's my pleasure to announce the ports 1 hundred and 50th anniversary. in 18 sixty-three it was accomplished then and it oversaw the sea wall that continues to serve our great city today. just to provide some prospective. it followed the gold rush area
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during president lincoln term and during the civil war. during the lifetime it includes the city's forefathers and the finger ports that were developed. did say 1906 earthquake and fire was citywide. the panama canal opened in 1914. and a san francisco generally strike on the ports wall side occurred in july 18, '34. the bay privilege opened in 1936 during world war ii the port
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operated almost exclusively for military purposes those were the years during 1945. and in 17969 the port was returned to the city. these are just a few of the historic events that have taken place and the port has continued to transform in the 1980 and so forth. throughout the ports 1 hundred and 50th anniversary the port will be acknowledging the past and present and our vision for the future.
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beginning in april and throughout the remainder of 2013 the port has planned to have activities on the water front that highlights the culture history. we'll use the 1 hundred and 50th celebration to remind the public about the port what we do and how we intersect with the public's daily life on wednesday on april 24th we'll start the day with a big bash. at this media event peer 34 will present the port with a huge
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birthday cake and provide big selections. on sunday april 28th the port will host a daylight celebration along the water front from the high street peer in the north to the peer 38 in the south. these fun activities will include boat tours, bicycle rides. art delays and special offers by constituents and the public on port property. i have more to talk about in terms of ongoing selections but i'd like to might have dan up to
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talk about our port. >> good afternoon, commissioners dan with the planning division. i'd like to tell you about a couple of art exhibits. one of us will share the ports rich history and another that speaks to today to illegal - illustrate how people can join in. the first is to add pile ones 3 feet tall and crafted out of the tubing by the ports engineers planning. and it will include a second panel on the pile ones will tell
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an interesting fact called did you know which will be a a short informational passage we will want to share with our friends. the pile ones will be very noticeable and will help celebrate the ports history. the second pile on will be the images that will be displayed on polls and possibly on websites. their colorful and will be easy to remember. both those pile ones and the banners are up on april 1st for
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seven months along the water front. >> thank you. commissioner there will also be an ongoing activities that will happen throughout the year that happen throughout the remaining of the year including protectors and a film festival. we might have the public to join in and invite all ideas to help enhance the celebration.
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we'll also have manufactures on sale for the public including replicas of cool banners. manufactures would include caps, mugs, postcards etc., that would be available for sale to the public. and besides demand and myself i'd like to acknowledge more people who are hard at work that includes jerry from maritime and a cough of people from our finance division and dave from maintenance and megan stevens from public relations. we hope people will join us and
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continue to participate in our ports selection. >> thank you renee we do have some public comment. >> commissioners my name is francisco and i'm here to make a few comments about this celebration the one-hundred and 50 years that the port has been here. first and for most you must remember that all this land from california and san francisco and not california and it's totality
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but san francisco belongs to - the director is monique is sensitive to this issue so therefore somewhere we have to factor our respect to the first speaker so their san franciscans. secondly, the national park service can aid you all in giving some respect to the buffalo soldiers our black soldier who were here the 9 and tentacle very all of them stations at the prey side but who used the facilities over here. the coast guard captain i do
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have a few photos of him. commissioners the 7.5 mile area that you see here is public trust land. and many people do not like to study the language that goes into the public trust land. this land belongs to all californians. and therefore we have to reach in some measure, you know, there are some tv stations in sacramento that reach everybody in california to bring to their attention about this great occasion we're celebrating. finally, we have 5 women who saved the bay.
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if they had not acted in the manner much of what you see today would not be possible. i will write something and send it to whosoevers in charge >> thank you. any further denominate? commissioners. >> very exciting and i want to thank everyone for they're hard work behalf the posters and it really shows off our port. i want to know how long the pile ones will be up and can we put them somewhere that is permanent? and the prior speaker i think made some important points about recognizing the work along the -
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the activities along the shore that the people undertook. i know we're finding a lot of discoveries. the pile on will be up for seven months and they are a have an internal frame and a graft around them they can be moved to any place their, their fully engineered but they can be moved to another location should the port commission desire to use those in another spot. the previous speakers comments
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about the 3 ladies that saved the bay we have those on one of the pile ones and i'm looking forward to getting more information. i welcome the public for that >> and on one of the other pile ones we have a reference to the first people's being there and we've also nieftd the head chairperson to be on our host committee but i don't know if we've heard back. >> we've got a lot of credit to be given to you as well. >> on the celebration of the 28 on the maritime day will be that open the streets?
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>> it will be a daylong celebration on april 28th we will not have 3 closures but we'll have activities along the 7 and a half stretch. again it's family orientated and we might have the public to come >> and also comments about getting into the state channels in sacramento it seems like a good idea. >> i agree and i'm the right person for him to contact and i'll be in touch with him. >> i'd like to take the opportunity to point out on maritime day we're looking for guest lecturers and anyone who
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is listening in the 1 hundred and 50 years there's not a group we haven't touched. so we're going to be reaching out to harry and several people >> i know i have to wonderful books we might reach out to the different authors from the books. >> yeah, i was thinking the mission bay book. >> yes, we do have a couple of lectures schedule. i forget the full title.
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>> we should get some future people on board. >> first of all, i want to say i really appreciate this presentation and it's breathtaking to think of the accomplishments. we've connected the past and the presence and we think the city people should come out to this port. every ethnic background should come out. and this port has been transformed and i think the history and the people who accomplished a lot of these
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things should come out. i appreciate the brother here speaking about the indigenous people whether the native americans or who were here before they were all americans. everyone made a contribution so i appreciate it. and let our kids know about it. i'd like to see a lot of kids come down to this port and get educated. because a lot of times children only know what's going on in their neighborhood and they need to know what's going on in this great city and the port. really when you look at they're going to benefit >> i think we've got great
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recommendations and especially i think that is an excellent idea. i want to thank you and dan i'm glad it's a yearlong celebration. so thank all the staff for all their work >> i think i agree with all my fellow commissioners and it's gastrogreat to see this celebration of all the things that have been done. i want to mention a couple of things i'm sure it's on the list but if we could get the c lcs to
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get involved so the work goes out to all our community and neighborhoods. and i guess in the maritime day my question is just because you say maritime but hopefully, some of our other retailer people are going to get involved. maybe something that's a little bit more outside and people will see a difference in terms of coming down. and echoing the kids getting involved and maybe we can have an outreach. i know we don't have anything particular that the port kept for history but maybe we can get the kids out. i don't know and i know it's a
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lo low to ask but maybe the - could they do something they would be a great magnet for people to come and help and particularly join in and highlight this so the venue so to speak to get the kids down here as well. >> commissioners thank you. i want to mention we've reached out to not only the unified school district but we've sent letters and we've got great responses back. particularly we do want to get the children involved and regarding your comments about
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other port and constituents we're working closely with not only the restaurants etc., but we're working with the exhibit in the coliseum and the various stakeholders that everyone is aware and has an opportunity to participate >> and my last comment is we're celebrating the rich past and they should know we're so busy today carving a new future and the 7 and a half miles whether it's the music or the open space of whether it's some of the major real estate projects and hopefully, this celebration we can portray the water front what
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it means to the city. and we're redeveloping the skyline so hopefully, we're con varying that exist of what we'll be doing over the next several years >> following up on chairmans comments. i can see in the future this city is going beyond san francisco. everybody this is going to be - we'll no longer be san francisco. everything in this water front will be in the bay area. what we have here in the bay area everybody will benefit. they don't have a crews terminal
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but it will be named after the president of our union and we have a great leader in the union and he's given back. and as the future we're creating mayor lee this will be a part of his legacy and our legacy and also the young kids legacy. thank you >> thank you. moving on >> we request china 13 caffeine and making the ports conference for the support staff.
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>> i'm sorry commissioner adams your recusing yourself from this. and you should make the motion to recuse >> i move that we recuse commissioner all these. >> now we go back to actually is there any public comment 1, 2, 3, 4. we go back to approve the commissioner to attend the china conference. >> so not. >> second. >> all in favor? resolution 1302 has passed. moving on >> item 10 a