>> my name is michael thompson. i'm a business representative for teamsters 665. we believe that impark is a reputable company. local 665 believes that impark would be an excellent choice to manage the /kraoutz terminal parking assignment. >> thank you. >> how you doing. thank you very much. i'm here representing the iow. labor prevails here in san francisco.

we've been here a long time and it's good too see that there's another /kpaepbl bargaining for this position. it's good. but more importantly we have to stay focused on labor here and my question is to both parties. are they going to continue with union labor and what will happen with the events that they're talking about /stph-b will that also be union labor? you have the events for the [inaudible] plaza and you also have a lot of gearmen here. i'd like to know if there will be steady hires [inaudible] and then the events the same. will thereby local hires out of iow? >> thank you.

>> good afternoon madam president and fellow commissioners. my name is patrick kim and i'm a proud member of the iowu for the local 75 for the past 20 years. i represent the work force that works at security and does the screening of all the cruise terminals in san francisco. iow has been in /kpeuls /tapbs since 1979. i reached out before i came here and i was told [inaudible]. local 75 has been the metro's work force for many years. also san francisco is the only port in the usa that employs us

as /skrao*epblers of the passengers at the cruise terminal. we look forward to working at the james r her man terminal, pier 27 when it opens in the summer of 2014 and forever. also for the cruise aspect and the special events. >> thank you. after david hill, stan. >> my name is david hill and i am the vice president of local 34. i'd like to ask the commission to inquire of the two bidders here today a couple of issues that remain a concern for the iowu. the first one being we would like to know what the intent is of the two operators as to how many full-time jobs they'll be hiring, including the category

they will be hiring under. the second question, how many iowu will be hired during the /e /srepbtds and what category would those fall under. and third, what other unions, if any, would be involved in the operation of the cruise terminal. finally, i have one question for metro cruise, and that is is what the structure of metro cruise? >> thank you. >> good afternoon commissioners. i /praoerpbt the opportunity to come before you and speak. we are the super cargoes and supervisors on the dock during operations.

we handle all the passengers, bringing them in two and from, help with the stores, keep logs, time, et cetera we've had a relationship with metro, who's offered us an opportunity to speak to them. we have not had quite that opportunity to talk to ports america. i will tell you that it is extremely critical to maintain relationships together and conversations that need to happen need to happen before you guys make this /khoeuls and they're not happening yet. so we would like you guys to ask the questions that -- hard questions now on who's going to be representing the operator and come directly and speak to the uow labor and the rest of the labor. we'd like you to ask them to do that prior to this selection so we can have some sort of relationship with them. we ask you to make those inquiries like david hill asked

today. thank you. >> mike. good evening, madam chair, president and commissioners, thank you for the opportunity to give an aspect of labor's point of view on this bidding process at pier 27 and all cruise ship facilities in san francisco. we have a great on tunety to enhance the cruise ship business in san francisco or not. throughout the history of labor in san francisco we have been the moving force on the docks to help build the water front and the city. you have heard different presentations from metro and ports of america. either [inaudible] /kpaepbls get the

bid, we will be working with them and the ilwu, will be working on the docks and the ships. as you know, we've had labor /tkeuls /paouts throughout the history of the ilwu because our aspects of work is safety and making sure the job gets done well. with metro we have met over the last few years and have had disputes over jurisdiction on the ships. it is real important to us to maintain our jurisdiction on these ships and not have foreign crews come off the ship or work on the ships doing our traditional work that we have done for over 75 years as the ilwu. all this cargo is revenue making cargo. it is put on the ships through the storage lock /erls and that is to a safe space for sailing.

it is quite important -- you've heard some of the problems with the carnival lines and part of the problems is the crews doing maintenance and repairs on the ships, plus serving the passengers and they work up to 20 hours a day. there is been some changes in the rules to reduce that time and that's part of why metro and the ilwu have made an agreement to put us back on the ships. earlier in year we have been put back on the ships, working the ships, loading the stores and cargoes to the last point of rest and some of that has to do with this bidding process and also has to do with making these ships sail on time. and they have been. and so our concerns have to do with the seemless operation of transitioning from an event to a cruise ship terminals. it's quite important that we're

involved in both aspects of it. and my fellow brothers and sisters from the ilwu have asked some questions that are quite important and where do they have us in the plans on these event staff and when they're transitioning to terminal from a cruise ship terminal to a party. i'll close up. it is important that we look at all the aspects of the cruise ship business. 120 /reuz sits or more, we need to look at 35, 37 and also 32 and 30 to maintain that as a cruise ship terminal that can use it for our military also. i would ask you to think hard and wise on either one of these companies, but they both have quite experience and in san francisco i would say metro has had more experience and have served a commitment to the city, in the hospital just in the cruise ship business, but we have seen it in the bulk

party business so i /praoerpblt those questions asked. so thank you very much for your time. >> /tpha*pbg you. now we're open to questions or comments from the commissioners. mr. adams. >> i've got two questions. at our last commission meeting on april 23, we had two ilw members that said the relationship between ilw went from bad to worse, basically dysfunctional and i saw that if the presentation by metro this they had good relationships with ilw. clearly that's not true. also i wanted to talk about ports of america. you took over the contract in la in to 10, but my understanding is

that metro is doing [inaudible] is that true. that is of concern to me because one thing that metro has shone that they can do it, but i want to know that the ports of america people in la -- if you won that contract, how come you're not doing the

>> other ancillary services at the moment. we are fully capable of providing the stevedoring. >> i have a couple of questions and comments. in terms of the marketing of the cruise lines. the responsible -- with the port, how does that work? and i think both companies can re/spopbld to the question. >> good afternoon. the marketing efforts are in fact conducted very much jointly with the port of san francisco. the port of san francisco is member of cruise line

association. we travel to events once or twice a year. together we do marketing events jointly. on a regular basis. we have a business development marketing plan. i touched on some of the elements of it in the early presentation. you don't want to be too /hrepbl /th*eu with it, but certainly have a well arctic /hraeupted /pweutdz [inaudible] >> if you'd like to re/spopbld to the question ports america -- how you see this marketing effort.

>> good /afrpbl. my name's [inaudible] sanchez. the marketing efforts has to be a realistic approach, combination between all of us. we can develop [inaudible] in come /phraoeupbls with the [inaudible] attractive in terms of length knowing the american market, the interest of taking shorter of occasions /-fp that /phaoepbls five, six or seven day products can be sold easier than a longer product. so we have developed these short cruises that we can share with

the cruise lines. we will offer those products, we will assist the cruise lines by developing a marketing campaign. we will analyze the mar /k*et in the northern /kra c california area. with will issue questionnaires and have a realistic approach. so /aeu it will be a combination effort. we cannot do everything ourselves without involving everybody. and more than anything we have to involve the cruise lines. as one of our members mentioned, we have to be realistic. there will be a

time when we will not be able to attract business for different reasons. we have seen the growth in the west coast market, the california coast [inaudible] are coming more attractive with the opportunities there. they are doable and more than anything they are in compliance with the passenger services so having a good understanding of how that works, we can reach success. we cannot say we will reach 120 calls in such a such time, but we will definitely work together with the cruise line. [inaudible] what is done on the west coast -- sorry, on the east coast. we will engage the key players, the destinations and we will showcase these product. we want to offer a product, not only san

francisco, but this will be the point of origin and we will show them what they can do using san francisco as a hub. so we feel con /tpeu /tkepblt that we have a plan that we can present to the /kph*us /phers. >> thank /kwroug. i have two other questions and i'm going to mention them so you can think about the other question. >> do you see the events being mostly corporate or some personal events like weddings. what do you see and how would you attract either one of them? i guess it's corporate versus consumer. >> correct. the split will roughly be 50/50. you'll see a larger degree during [inaudible] from convention

trade shows like oracle open world. other times of year you'll see more social events such as grand openings, fund raisers such as meals on wheels that was just held down at fort mason which was a huge success. /tkpepbldz ing which is