>> executive session. >> second. aye. >> pledge of allegiance. use of

cellphone or pager or other electronic device. please be advised that you have 3 minutes on any item. you'll item a a executive directors report. >> good afternoon,

commissioners, staff. i'm sitting in for monique. i'm deputy reynolds for real estate. adams is away on business. jim maloneey is attended the conference in china. it's the largest gathering of it's kind in asia of carriers, importers, exporters that are involved with shipping cargo that bring into pierre 80. in an effort to develop new business or

maintain our cargo business at the port. this trip will include a visit to beijing to visit customers. staff michael are attended a ship conference in florida. this is an international exhibition and conference serving the cruise industry. this trip includes meeting executives and planning trips to san francisco and the james r herman cruise terminal development and pierre 70 and seek to grow our business relationships. the second item if any of you participated is a debut of the bay lights on the bay bridge.

it debut march 5th and about 25 thousand led lights were turned on as part of a massive light sculpture on the western span of the bay bridge. mayor ed lee and lieutenant governor attended the event. the bay lights, an $8 million privately funded project were well visitors near the bridge for at least the next two years. each night between dusk and 2 a.m. the lights will appear to move along the north side cables generated by artist villa real. the computer is located on the

central anchor of the bridge. the lights can be seen from the northern side of the bridge along the water front from a boat on the bay but not from the decks of the bridge where they might otherwise distract drivers. the water front was packed and the sidewalks were filled with visitors. the hotels will be promoting various packages in the coming weeks to promote the bay lights. the cables was what attracted him to the project which was installed for the bridges 75th anniversary and took more than two years to install and test. the group over seeing the project said even if the lights remain

passed the current two years, they would likely have come down with the cal trans repair scheduled maintenance in 5 years. zero waste week at fisherman's wharf. march 22nd zero waste week. during this week thousands of jurisdictions and businesses worldwide will be celebrating zero waste week. the recycling association and the grass roots recycling networks. it will include tours, receptions and all

centered around zero waste. they will attend fisher man's wharf and will include a movie trash at the bay theatre. the sploert tomorrow is a finalist for the real estate deals of the year. the san francisco business times is honoring the best deals on 2012 on march 20th at the western saint frances. the bay area has seen an -- array of significant deals in 2012 from land to affordable housing. san francisco time will honor the most creative real estate deals done in the bay area in 2012 as

well as the deal maker of the year, broker of the year and deal of the year. the finalist for the best real estate deal of 2012. and now i would like to introduce dr. heart ik executive director of the california historical society who will make a short presentation on their new exhibit chairing the bay. at 2011 thank you so much. i'm

honored to be here on behalf of the trustees and staff and members of the volunteers of your state historical society. i would like to tell you briefly about our next exhibition and part of our project and from agency to another. being founded in 1870 we are only 14 years behind. agencies like yourself to help celebrate what we are calling the bay. i don't have to tell you in this room to san francisco bay, but it's a thrill to be a part of it. we launched the year of the project. you might have seen this historic skooner sailing

around a hundred bay point when you are were designating that part of the bay trail. we came in right after you and took her down where she was built and we don't think she had been down to hunters point in a couple of decades. a wonderful fellow non-profit called history pin which is a uk bay to mesh people across towns and through history. on november first we kicked the project into gear here at the echo center and as you know in its day, the power of that place, the power of your port to produce goods and

change ways of living. curing the bay which opens april 7th, from here we'll take the whole notion on what it means to cure. this is a camp at 100 bay point from 1922. this is a much earlier version of 1858, same and close to the area. while we have a lot of information about our material and collection, what we are asking people to do digitally is to ask information. what did the port especially in the bay used to look like. how many times has it changed. we open drawers, we have a vast collection. i

opened a drawer the other day. some of you might know the trustees of the association of the port of san francisco but we certainly we have this little -- we know nothing about it. this is what we'll put online. who are these guys? aren't they great? we have a half a million photographs. they just say port of san francisco 1907. when you come to the gallery you will be taken through a series of experiences that will help you get a sense of the varieties of the environmental history and the natural history and the people's history of the bay. some of our partners including you might know craig crinkle from mayor time. it's a wonderful project. it will be open labor day weekend and

about 15 different organizations including the port has put images online at you are the year of the bay.org and you will be able to see many photographs and talk about the picture or comment on anyone of the thousands of images that are up now as we kind of crowd towards a new relationship with the bay. i hope that you all join us on april 7th. the public event is for the 7th. i hope it's a beautiful day as today. thank you for all you do and all we do to keep the port history alive. i had the honor of editing the text. if it looks funny, are you can blame me. i would be happy to answer any questions. i really appreciate

the opportunity. >> thank you. finally i want to remind that our san francisco giants are holding the baseball classic on 17, 18 and 19th. that conclude my executive directors report? >> thank you. do we have any further comment on the directors report? commissioners, i come here from time to time, and you just heard a presentation which speaks about what i would say not along ago. 10 thousand years ago, we did have people

here who traveled our bay waters and where the ship rights built their buildings. they too were aware of people that preceded them. now, some mention is made of the chinese in a very indirect way. they were here earlier than 1850. i'm here to stress once again whenever we talk about the bay, we have to give some respect to the first people. we just can't begin when some strangers came here, forgetting that the strangers were welcomed by the

first people and they turned around and bit the hand that fed them. so when it came at the beginning for example or whenever they came, their only life and i represent them, i'm not native-american but i represent them, their base closure, infrastructure and of course the bay. we would not have the bay as we know it today had it not been for 3 white women and if you watch pbs, that wonderful documentary. so what i'm saying is do not come into somebody's

land, do not enter their living room and rearrange their furniture without their permission. let's be respectful with honoring our first people. thank you very much. >> thanks for the comment. >> item 8b informational presentation revitalization act related to the multipurpose venue of pierre's 32. >> good afternoon commissioners, special project's manager. i'm here on behalf of the broader pier. we have jennifer matt, deputy director of plan and

development, diane is not here nor are some other wd staff and there is city attorneys office. eileen and council bill white. we are here today to talk to you about proposed legislation by a member phil in relation to the 32 project that deals with the matter pertaining to the public trust. >> so, this legislation ab 1273 was introduced about 10 days ago and i believe today assembly member king is amended what was initially a spot bill and so we wanted to provide

both you, the commission and the public background information about this bill. it's a very important component of the multipurpose venue for proposal for pier's 30, 32. the way in which we obtain public trust consistency determination from the state and there is a variety of ways in which that happens along with the city attorneys office have done a preliminary public trust analysis at the staff level which we'll do today. there is prior legislation in relation to pier 32 and then some next step and we are at the beginning of a fairly lengthy public process related to this legislation.

so, we have done detailed presentations in the past, the staff report for this item provides the website location on the port's website to get some of that information if someone is interested in more detail. but essentially the public trust doctrine exist in common law and a few other areas of state law. the port is really support to use these lands to promote meritime commerce and navigation, fisheries and the common law trust exist through a series of court cases, california court cases up through the california supreme court and california attorney general and the state land commissioner and we have the director of the state land commissioner, jennifer is here

and i believe she'll participate in public comment. those three entities, the state lands commission and the attorney general's office and the california state system has common laws and rules for this state. there is rules in the california public resource code on how agencies like the court manage our property. one of the big rules is that we have to keep revenues from these land separate from the city's general revenues. where the state has handed over title to trust property to local agency like the city and county acting a the port there is a legislative trust grant. in our case in san francisco we have the burden act passed in

1968 and how the port has to manage this property. rules i will go over. the public administer by a public local agencies. so, there is a range of uses that are generally recognized as being permissible. first these water oriented uses port activities, marina activities, more recently i think there has been an awareness about the need to sort of protect the marine environment so habitat and ancillary or other use of

property. if you have cargo operation and you have office space that is associated with that cargo operation that would be considered ancillary use that is permissible and then you have the publicen enjoyment of public trust lands. in the burton act we manage this property on behalf of the people of california. people can come to the port, stay at a hotel, eat at a restaurant and shop and those are all determined to be consistent with the public trust. so when we do major projects along the water fronts in almost all cases there is an interest in making sure the state greece agrees that what we are proposing is used with public

trust. sometimes that's what the authors want to make sure things are appropriate. the major project that we have built for the land use plan. and in each case we've, with the exception of the cruise terminal have gotten a letter written by the executive officer of the state lands commission. we've gotten commission vote, state land commission itself consist of the state's controller, the lieutenant governor and the governor's director of finances so the commission can vote after hearing it or we pursued state legislation. and where the port has pursued legislation is pier 30-32 and

whether venues is appropriate at this sight was the transportation access to the site. it's within walking distance of all the major regional transportation hubs. of course it's a very walkable site. we have one of the best pedestrian walkways in the city and people would be able to attend the event and walk down the promenade and experience the bay and there are certain water oriented opportunities at this site. pier 30-32 was established in 1912 for sugar

import activities. unfortunately there was a fire that destroyed the historic sheds in 1984 that led the deck as we know them today and they are pretty bad. we know more about this pier probably more than anyone. there was a land lease development proposal for mixed cruise terminal authorized by the state legislation that i was referencing earlier. they after a fully entitled project walked away from the site and we have a real sense about the deterioration of the pier. there is limited truck access

to the pie r. it would be cost-effective. as we know we've had these failed development efforts which is why we think it's important to look at the multipurpose venue project in the context of what has been tried and failed in the past. what would happen with the pier if we did nothing and what we are fearful is that the pier would have to be close. it provides an opportunity and project and funding to be able to address these conditions. so, in the public trust analysis of the current proposal there are really four that we are looking at in the

staff analysis, meritime, public access consistent with the requirement, the public assembly use and consistent with our mission to attracting people to the water front and some ancillary trust issues and we have to look at all these issues together. first, we are looking at a range of meritime uses, the exact meritime program isn't settled yet. but the first and major meritime component is that the fire boats need a new home. they are located at pier 22-and-a-half. they include oil response. the fi