yeah, you can have a hat. but you have to give it back though. i think you will have to step forward. dan is standing really tall and proud. you are not going to be seen. let the commissioner in there, would you dan. you can all scoot more towards me, i think there is still room. george isn't against the wall yet. >> thank you for listening to me. i know, i appreciated that. [applause] >> all right, and i have a bunch more hats for those folks not here today. secondly then of course is the group that did the banners. and the banners are really incredibly amazing. the concept of the banners was again to remind people how they

used the waterfront today. and it's been surprising for people to recognize that they are at the waterfront and didn't realize they were at the port. and so originally i think there was a lot of discussion about what these banners might look like. and how they be a simple reminder of you just driving along in your car. we had a lot of fun -- i shouldn't say we, damon had a lot of fun getting criticism and did an amazing job. unfortunately they are bio degradable, so they won't be with us forever. they are gorgeous, and we plan to put them into merchandise that can last forever. and to be commended for that, i would like to ask damon to come forward. and this is damon burdette, his

hat says: banner's crew. [laughter] we are not done yet. you can stay up there. and so then the last person who has to give the other hat is our own dan hodep that lead all the creativity. that took on everything from getting the idea solidified. and drafting the people and regulatory permits, a million things. and did so a lot in his spare time and that of his team. dolores raise your hand, doing the pylons past midnight. and he's got his own hat, that says banner and pylon crew. dan, if you would come forward. [applause] and so i want to read what i got as a comment on the banners, just again solidify that

moment. as soon as i find it. the message i got which was lovely, a hand-written message that says, thank you, thank you, i passed past embarcadero and saw fish on the port, and after all of these years, i saw a banner, saying fishing at the port. i have begged and what it would cost for years, yes the tears of happiness is flowing. that's some of the reaction that a lot of people, except john who is making a face. seeing something that touches their lives so prominently displayed and i want to command all of you for your amazing talent. people are stunned when i say it wasn't a high-class design firm that did all of this great work. but the work was done by our maintenance team. it's been amazingly great.

and if i could beg from you one last rousing applause. [applause] thank you very much. i didn't mention it -- >> for the public, you may want everyone to stand back on. they are off camera. >> go back. >> the pylon folks too. >> i think they departed rather quickly. >> i should done it opposite order. if you stand by the podium, you will be on camera. >> just want to be sure that the public acknowledges the talent we have too. >> that's wonderful. thank you. and it gave me a chance -- [applause] oh, thank you. i forgot to mention something that dan said, in coming up with these ideas. dan's vision was to celebrate the 150th we should have party

favors for our guests, and we have attempted to do so with the banners and pylons. and so my thanks to all of you again, congratulations. and quickly staying on the 150th. i wanted to thank president woo ho on doing the radio spot translated into mandarin. and we are pleased of that. this is a great advertisement in the newspaper for maritime day. and hopefully you get a chance to grab one of these. that is the advertisement for all black presentation that will be here at pier 1 on sunday. a lot of great things are happening, we are excited about celebrating the rest of this

week. and today -- what do they call it. the oracle u.s.a. 17, which is the second of their ac-72's was kristcris cristined. >> thank you. and i want to say on behalf of the commission, others want to comment. we are really excited about the 150th anniversary this week. and there is a lot of exciting events starting with the ballpark and tomorrow the gala and the media reception. and just so many things going on sunday. we kind of made the port hopefully come alive for san francisco this week. and at the end of the day, what the port is about people. and this wonderful work we have seen, again we want to commend house. again i had not realized it was

all done in-house, and so impressed with the creativity. and working with the staff and my little bit with the radio interview and the volunteer time. most impressed that this is above and beyond of everyone had to do with the port to make this visible and worth celebrating. and most importantly we are excited about the future going forward in celebrating the past and present. >> thank you. >> just i concur with my colleagues. just recently showed the cards that had been made to mirror the signs to a friend of mine that is an artist. and i didn't realize those were done in-house and she said that is spectacular, you should mount them and display them all. and that's from someone who works at most prestigious museums in the country. >> hopefully some banners you

can exhibit inside and available for the future. even bio degradable. >> we are trying, and i noticed that san francisco announced they have bio degradable banners but we are credited for being the first. >> public comment. on the executive director's report. hearing none. >> item 9-a, authorization for qualifications soliciting three contracts each in the amount of $1 million, totaling $3 million. >> good afternoon,

commissioners, i am andre, the contract manager here today. today we are going to present to you the request for your authorization to advertise request for qualifications and solicitation for as-needed environmental services. i also would like to introduce the project managers on this project. they are lauren isel and sharon alfer that are here with us today. the purpose of this contract is to allow the port to provide a pool of contractors for services. the contract under the authority granted under chapter 6 of the administrator code. quickly, the terms of the contract, there are three contracts awarded to three firms that make up the ad-needed pool. each will have a contract for a

maximum value of $1 million, so the total contract authorization is $3 million. the term is for three years, with an option for a fourth year. there is a 22% ld eagle. and each of the projects under these contracts, there it will be a contract service order issued for the contracts. and projects will be limited to $200,000 or less. funding will be drawn from a combination of operating funds or capital funds, depending on the project. and the funds will only be em m emcumbered when we issue a cso. such process will follow standard city's policy and procedures. come included an initial screening of the proposals. we initiate the rfq and they

submit their proposals. and an initial screening to check if they meet the minimum qualificatio qualifications. if they do not, they are out. and next a panel will be empanelled to meet the proposals. they will score those, and they need a 70 to advance to the next oral interviews. in the case of the oral interviews we will take the top six of those. if we have more than six that score 70, we will only take the top six to oral interviews. the same panel will conduct the oral interviews. and they receive a score and ranked and the top three, we will sit down and negotiate our contract with them. so just briefly, the timeline, we have coming out there, starting out with the authorization we are requesting

today. next will be the civil service commission, which is scheduled for june 3. once the civil service commission approval is granted. we will issue the rfq probably the next day. submissions will be due in july. and selection process which includes reviewing the minimum qualifications. and scoring the written and the oral panel will all happen july. we will come back to you in august. this will be after we finalize negotiations with them. for authorization towards the contracts. and we expect then for the new contracts to be in place by september. this concludes my presentation. >> thank you. is there any public comment? hearing none. comments/questions commissioner commissioner

commissioners? . >> do we have in-house environmental people now? >> we have environmental staff of six. and what we use these for is because we are looking for specific skills and expertise that we don't have in-house. and that either doesn't exist elsewhere in the city. or if it does, there is such demand for it, that we can't get it in a timely fashion. often we use the contracts for things that we need a quick response to. >> yeah, i know with the planning department it takes forever to get the environmentals done, for years sometimes. would you provided you pick the proper company and you do all the vetting on that. would you put a time on that? the turn-around time? for them to come up with the report? >> yeah, depends on the project.

>> we need a response or depends on the scope of the project. >> there are environmental surveys of the properties or potential clean-ups, things like that. believe, correct me if i am wrong, when we a project that needs an eir, the department works with department of city planning. okay, we do not pick the consultant ourselves. this pool is like the eir, and carol you can give the type of work. >> and is this a renewal of something we have done in the past? or is it a brand-new selection process here? >> right, good afternoon commissioners. i am carol bach, and this is not

exactly a straight-up renewal. but it's a repeat solicitation process. we have had a pool of as-needed environmental consultants available in the ports in-house. environmental staff for as long as i have been here. it's every three or four years we have to renew this process and get a new pool of three firm to work with. and the kinds of services we need, because of the really wide range of activities that go on here at the port. there are very specific specialties that you may need only once, every three years. but it's something that only a few people can do. so some examples are underwater sound monitoring during pile driving.

that is a highly technical type of sound monitoring. we have to do marine mammal monitoring during pile driving. during almost all projects we need certain types of construction inspection and -- what is the word i am looking for, monitoring during construction to ensure environmental compliance with regulations. for example, dust monitoring, you need certain equipments to collect ambient dust to comply with the city's health code. there is a really broad range. many projects that involve construction require characterization of the contaminants. so we need consultants and laboratories with the equipment. >> these are part of construction? >> we would use the services

during construction in many cases, yeah. >> thank you. >> so i had a question, given that we have been hearing about some of our other litigation issues. we had some issues, not necessarily with the consultants that do this work. and i see that references are discussed in the oral interview. it would seem in the initial side you want to get satisfactory references whether they work with the city departments or private agencies. so we have a sense of satisfactory performance with other parties or the city as part of the selection criteria. >> yeah, we review that, it comes in, in the final phase. when we go through the oral phase, we are going through the other process, and eliminating people on there. and we are following the standard city policies and

procedures. on how they -- >> which means you only do it at the end? versus asking them to provide up front? >> we do it at the oral interview phase and that's when it's scored in those phases. and again we are following -- >> is that mandated by city policy? or something that we have -- so we can exercise judgment in terms of how we want the process? >> you want to answer that? okay. >> good afternoon, commissioners, elaine, support staff. it is not mandated, we have discretions of how we treat references. one is to treat them in the process of minimum qualification review. wherein you score, administratively score whether the firms can advance to the oral interviews or alternatively

have the staff provide a check and provide to the panel so they can score it and use in the scoring evaluation. i prefer the latter, and that's how this is structured. administrative staff will perform the reference check and provide to the panel to use in the evaluation. >> okay, and that administrative view and not that we want the details. but it seems like we have learned from previous issue. and to be sure that we understand. this is not related to the technical skill but we have other issues in terms of how they perform, and if they are ontime in budget on contracts. and that's something that we need to keep learning from so we can get smarter about it. >> absolutely, and one way to be responsive to your recommendation is to ask specifically reference checks from another municipality or government agency.

so when we call, we can learn about their performance from another public entity. and we can add that to the requirements. >> thank you. >> can you tell me, what are the minimum qualifications? >> what i can share with you is the minimum qualifications from the last contract. which we are in the process of reviewing. but probably will establish, use most the same ones. we are sitting down with staff and amongst ourselves and see figu ing if we are going to change them. and the prime consultant and the jb has at least seven years. and the key personnel of the teams appropriate safe california or other required licenses. identify single project manager or program manager as the primary point of contact for the

port. current, local and state, and federal regulations. demonstrate experience with regulatory or personnel in a vary of regulatory agencies, that would impact the port, such as ecdc and fish and game and air and water resource boards. those are the ones we have right here. >> could i suggest, i am probably cautious here. but given what we have experienced lately. is it possible that we can ask who bids on it, to disclose that they are a plaintiff or defendant in any litigation? >> we can, we can add that as a qualification. >> how would you score it? there is a difference between asking for it and scoring for it. i think that the city has a rule about that. >> we can ask for that

information, disclosed. and we have on other procurements and not score it but get that information as advisory. >> i assume that all of these studies are for development projects. and who pays? is it the developer or the port? >> these aren't just for development projects. >> what kind of projects are they? >> it could be if we are just doing a standard construction project and we find there may be hydrocarbons in the soil. and have someone come out and test there. if we are doing certain work like driving piles out to a pier for repair. we need to monitor the sound, so we are not disturbing whether it's marine mammals. if we are going to be doing roof work, we need to inspect that there are no nesting birds out there, that are covered by international treaties.

or if there are, we need to get a plan to remove them. some could are related to preliminary development work. but usually if we are in with the developer, that's usually part of the -- >> the developer performs that work. so these would all be for our own account. >> okay. >> one thing we noted, we have the 22% lbe subconsulting goal. but given the small size of these contracts, this is really an opportunity i think for some smaller businesses to get a foot hold in performing this kind of work. i know that 22% is our goal. but i would like to say it would be nice if we could really encourage whoever responds as well as who wins the contract to really consider expanding

opportunities. to bring in businesses so they can build up their resumes, so to speak, for this kind of work. but these are the sized contracts that enable that to happen. >> yes, commissioner. >> i was going to ask, i know that the respondents will receive incentive credit for names lbe's. but what we are doing to know that they are actually hiring b -- lbe's and meeting the goal? >> we monitor them a quarterly basis, every invoice, and monitor on a quarterly basis in terms of how that comes in. and as part of the cso process, we identify the subs and who are lbe's. when i sign off on a cso, i am part of the signing process.

i am looking at how much lbe credit they have done. how much lbe they are putting on that particular cso. >> cso is? >> contract service order. each time we ask them to work, we ask them to issue a contract service order. and that's the process. i am looking at that, and if i am not around, simbar is around and will review those as well. >> and cmd and rh are? >> contract monitoring division, which is kind of what the human rights commission, the enforcement portion of the human rights commission for a lack of better word was spun off into the contract monitoring division. >> i think that's great. but i think what i am trying get at, i think we do a great job of monitoring and hoping to make sure they meet and exceed the goals. but sometimes they don't.

i want to be sure that we are not continually giving firms the opportunity that are not meeting their goals. i don't know if there is something to do in this process. >> it's something that we can look at. >> also add, when the respondents coming in with their proposals. they will have a team of identified lbe consultants. and they will see that they are responsive to the 22% goal, which a requirement. and upon entering the contract they will have a team of lbe's for the scope of the contract. and each scope of work is executed, we will look to see that participation throughout. so if they are not responsive, if they do not come in with a way to meet that 22%, goal for

local business enterprises. >> i have a question, carol mentioned sometimes you have specific environmental consulting needs. since three firms, two questions. one, how competitive is this field? i don't know. do we have 50 firm in -- firms in the bay area you and select three. and it sounds like you award the contract to some master. and if they have to go out and get the specific expertise that carol mentioned in the example. they have to contract out to someone that specializes in that environmental assessment analysis. i am trying to get in the past, what is your response rate. is this a wide field? very competitive or 10 firms? >> yeah, so these tend to be

very attractive contract opportunities for environmental consultants. environmental consulting in the bay area is extremely competitive. and many environmental consultants like to work for government agencies. and particularly for the port of san francisco, because they consider our projects sort of hallmark projects and very visible. and they like to have their name and expertise attached to the kind of work we do here. it does tend to be very c competiti competitive. i am trying to think, the last time we did this, four years ago. we probably had a dozen or more respondents for the pool of three. >> but they have to have general capabilities. and then be able to subcontract out. >> yes, they identify those

subcontractors up front. and then they go out and find somebody. they have to bring their whole team to the table during the selection process. >> so you outline to them the kinds of things you are looking at now. >> exactly. >> the inventory of needs at the moment. >> exactly. right. >> any other questions? can i have a motion to approve? >> so moved. >> second. >> then this resolution no. -- >> public comment. >> oh, sorry. oh, i am sorry. i am today -- public comment. i don't see any public comment. no speaker cards here, any public comment on this? otherwise i have a motion to approve. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> resolution no. 1317 has been approved. >> item 10-a, information on

projected port revenues from the james r. herman cruise terminal operations. >> good afternoon, deputy director of finance. today i am joined by nate cruise, one of our financial analysts, and peter daley of the maritime division and john daul. the three of them make up the team for pier 27 cruise ship terminal. so as the commission is aware, the first phase of construction of the james r. herman project is complete. and the authority is using the facility for the village. and phase 2 includes a build-out of security offices and other maritime