farrell will be the person to submit the property automate and supervisor wiener would be on point for the proponent arguments for the drug points and with regards to the opposition argument for the retiree trust fund we not include anyone on that and then for the washington measures i'm the person on that and for the drug purchasing proponent argument no one will be listed on that because we're not moving forward on the family friendly ordinance. let me see if there are are any thoughts on that increase seeing none, can i see a motion >> without objection it passes. and then on the undertook lying motion as amended can we do that

same house, same call. without objection the motion is approved as amended >> madam clerk please read the memorials. >> on behalf of the supervisor campos for the late ms. alicia kerry. >> i want to thank you. this is the last board meeting before our august recess and i hope that everyone has a good recess and i want to thank the public and want to take a moment for sfgovtv and for the staff. and what that any more business for the committee >> no, that includes our

business. >> with that madam clerk and everyone that includes our >> good morning. ludes our thank you for being here. i'm here this morning with the mayor of south san francisco, mayor pedro gonzalez. i'm here with supervisor scott wiener, with our treasurer jose cisneros, our city administrator naomi kelly, representatives of mayor kwan in oakland, from our sfnta john haley, members of our work force and economic development teams and our assessor recorder carmen chu, along with our department of human resources mickey callahan.

also to my immediate left here is california state secretary of labor, marty morgan stern. this morning we have come together to talk about the need to reach an agreement on our bart system. the whole week, and certainly weeks in the past, i have engaged people working in our hotels, in our coffee shops, in our restaurants, small businesses the like. i couldn't even get a burrito without confronting somebody who asked that we take our stand object behalf of the public. that we need an agreement and not a is strike in our bart system. and that the public rider ship, the 400,000 people who use bart, need a voice at this

table. we need to make sure that both management and labor have as their objective when they are meeting to negotiate out an agreement that they need to know it is no longer a matter of inconvenience to the ridership. it is hardship. it is hardship for people trying to get to work. in many cases people trying to get to two places of work. it is hardship. for parents who need to get from work to their child care centers, to make sure that they make it on time. it is hardship for people and working class families who are screaming by -- screeching by to make sure ends meet, and yet are subject to have to pay high prices for parking a car that they would not have had to use if the system was working for

them. and, so, on behalf of the rider ship, working families, parents and others, we together today standing solidly to give them a voice. this weekend, bart management and bart labor negotiators have to negotiate to an agreement, not to a stand still. we've already seen the negative impacts that a strike has, and it is hardship. it is hardship for everybody. i feel it. that's why i'm here today with all the bay area -- as representatives that could make it here today, they needed a voice at this table and they need to remind people very strongly that it is not about inconvenience any longer, it is about their hardship and we need to focus on their dependency of a very serious investment that we've all made for years and years, and that is investment in our bart

system. and, so, that is one point that we need to make. and i want to put a face on the ridership for all of us that we care about, the working families, the people that are every day struggling with their lives to make sure that they know we are representing them, to insist as strong as we can, negotiations should not be about presenting to the public the differences that they have so much as using that time to reach an agreement by this weekend. this is the opportunity we have. we cannot waste that time. we have to get an agreement by everybody. that is the objective that we want to represent. it is incredible that we have to spend so much of our time these days planning for the

impacts of what a strike will do. all of us are working overtime to prevent the hardships that are going to happen, that they have happened for the 4-1/2 days last month. to the tune of over $70 million of cost to all the bay area. all of us have also been in communications with the secretary's office and the governor's office so that we want to continue to make sure that every opportunity of communication is open, but also that everybody do their job, which is get an agreement. and i want to then turn this over to present the secretary of labor for the state of california, marty morgan stern. marty. >> thank you, mr. mayor. i'll be very brief. governor brown shares the concern of mayor lee and the

other public officials that we do not need yet another bart strike, that this is a great hardship for the people of the bay area and the economy of the bay area, for everybody who works here, lives here, goes to school here, travels here, and that the negotiators on both sides should be making every possible effort that -- we don't expect them to leave the bargaining table without an agreement. i asked and they agreed to a 30-day extension of the contract. they've had another 28 days so far. we expect that the next couple of days that they will succeed. failure to reach an agreement will be a serious failure, one that leadership should not -- should not abide.

the governor has set this as a top priority. we've had two of our best mediators in there for the entire time. we've had the head of the public employment relations board, our highest public official in this area, working daily on this situation. we've done everything possible. i've stayed in touch with them. the governor has been apprised of the situation. we have done everything possible to help these bodies reach an agreement. now it is up to them to see to it that they find a way to reach a contract that's fair to workers, fair to management, and fair to the people of the bay area and the state of california by not closing down this vital transportation needs of the area. thank you. >> we'll take whatever questions people have.

>> [inaudible]. >> [speaker not understood] will consider all the options. >> [speaker not understood]. >> i didn't hear the question. was that a question for me? >> yeah. my understanding is that bart is looking at possibly trying to get managers formally trained -- >> you'll have to address that to bart management. >> [speaker not understood]. i was hearing yesterday 45% of the 22,000 city employees use some form of public transportation [speaker not understood]. what would be the impact on city operations? >> that is correct, and john haley is here from our mta to talk about the details of how we're preparing for it. but i'll tell you, it is a use of time that we shouldn't have to do, but we have to do it. and this is part of the burden

that all of our cities, whether it's oakland or san francisco are facing, is that we've got to help our ridership get around the city for very necessary transportation needs that they have. and, so, john, if you're here, you can talk a little bit about the preparations that we're doing to get people around here. i know scott wiener is also engaged with public -- his ridership and the small businesses in his district as well. john. >> thank you, mayor. as the mayor said, we are prepared to do everything we can. in particular, our plan includes beefing up transit service in key corridors, in particular the balboa park area which means extra trains on the j line, extra service along the mission corridor which we saw last time was heavy. we're also -- some of the things that we learned from our first experience, we will in the afternoons, for example, increase the hours that we

have, parking control officers to help with traffic flow to and from the bridge and along the key downtown streets. we will also expand the casual car pooling areas down there to help people get around. and our work force did an extraordinary job in coming to work last time to allow us to provide the extra service to help to ease some of the hardship that we're talking about. but we're prepared to do everything we can. we'll have our management team out as ambassadors to provide information. so, we're committed to helping to ease the pain as best we can, but clearly expect crowding and there will be pain and no one will have -- going anywhere in the region who will have a normal kind of day. we can be assured of that. but we're prepared to do everything we can. >> [speaker not understood].

>> well, we will -- we are going to be ready as early as possible. obviously we're very aware of what's going on. we'll set up -- we have all of our plans in place. we learned, again from what we did last time, so, we expected people, in the event of a worst case scenario, we expect people will start come intion very early and we'll be ready for that. >> [speaker not understood], does this lead to the governor to be more inclined to allowing transit workers to be able to [speaker not understood] what they have here in san francisco with muni? >> governor brown is concerned with avoiding a strike in this situation and he's concerned with neighborhood management finding a solution to the problem. that's where we are at this point. >> mayor lee, would you propose something statewide? >> you know, i focused on this

weekend. i said it over and over again, there is an opportunity here to reach an agreement. negotiations should not be prolonged. they should definitely come to a conclusion with an agreement that both sides can live with. that's the goal. you know, we do have a system here in san francisco where there is no strike clauses and it's been helpful. labor piece has always been beneficial particularly with transit system. but at the same time we have an opportunity this weekend to voluntarily do that with incredible investments that the public has made, and that's why i think we need a voice for the rider ship to really weigh in on the people at the table. we need an agreement to reflect all this effort, not ended up in the kind of economic hurt that all the families are trying to avoid. but they're speaking about it, the tremendous concerns for the quality of life here. >> second, do you feel like

we're closer to an agreement now than when you started this 30-day cooling off period or do you think we're further apart? >> well, they haven't reached an agreement yet and that's my concern. the 30 days, there's been mediation. there's been involvement of officials all over the state and the area. and yet we haven't -- months of negotiation besides this month, and they haven't reached an agreement yet and that's our concern. closer isn't good enough. they've got to reach a deal. >> [speaker not understood]. >> excuse me? >> would you give them another 30 days, more time? >> we don't want this to drag on. we want this settled already. as the mayor has already explained, there is expensive -- there is great expense getting ready for these potential strikes. we don't think the people of the bay area should be kept on pins and needles forever. it's time for this to end.

>> thank you, everybody. >> good morning, everyone. i'm tailor stafford, president and ceo of pier 39 and on behalf of our grateful water front family, it is my privilege to extend a sincere thank you to the port of san francisco for all that you have done, and continue to do to build the best water front in north america. pause plause [ applause ] >> from at&t, home from the world champion san francisco giants to the building, to the new exporatorium, and new cruise ship terminal to pier 39 and all of the restaurant and businesss in between, we are all proud to wish you, the port

of san francisco a happy, 150th anniversary. today, project such as the new warriors arena establish the port as a world class destination, due for large part to the vision of mayor ed lee and monique moyer and as well as the dedication of the port commissioners and staff. it is now my pleasure to introduce honorable ed lee, mayor of san francisco. [ applause ] >> good morning, everybody. happy birthday. i just want to make sure that you know that if you combine the ages of myself, or president chiu, and monique moyer we might get to 150 years, maybe. but i'm down here to have fun, today, get out of city hall, go

to bubba gumps and make sure that i spend it with other people who love to have fun like our port commission and hers directors and the staff and the rec and parks here and i know that the fire chiefs had to lessen her fun time and go to a three alarm fire and thank you to her for being vigilant for the city. and we would rec and park they have discovered yet another great partner to find water front open space that we can all enjoy, both in terms of getting our public to understand our bond program better, but also to create new spaces. so thank you, phil for being here as well. our port commissioners extend not to present but to past for commissioners and he knows that and i saw mike and others, because it takes generations of people to create things along the water front. it is incredibly expensive to restore a lot of our piers and

monique is the first person to know that intimately and historically but we do have persons and entities that want to continue this fabulous water front experience and to make investments, where there is jefferson street, brandon wharf and pier, 30, 32 and the exporatorium this wonderful opportunity. i want to thank, past and present port commissioners, and i see them here now. that they have earned the title of being the greatest stewarts of our water front and so thank you for your ongoing effort to do this. [ applause ] >> and the work incredibly well with the other agencies. i know that because this is pier 39 and one of the most

iconic travel destinations, i understand that is why, john martin was here, because while he flies airplanes he is part of an incredible transportation center and we all know that and we all share in that wonderful experience with being clearly, the best nation for so many, millions of people, every day. and as we do this, we reinvent and reinvest and find other reasons for people to enjoy themselves here. and those projects like the exporatorium and like the bay lights and renewed effort to create more water-base theds transportation to compliment the bridges that we build. we will create more bridges on the international level for our city. so, all of that in the context of a great anniversary, 150 years, there is going to be throughout this year, more stories to be told about what this 150 years means to our

city, because, there is a lot of generations of people who came to this city, many, many years, built communities, built their small business and their livelihood and hopes and helped us to establish the fisherman's wharf and help us to establish all of the maritime that they have created life times of reasons of why people want to continue visiting our city and we need to acknowledge all of that history. and all of it has not been easy, there have been difficult things and we have had fights over what is proper, and what is not proper, but we have always had in our sites in all of these different struggles, the success of our city, the golden gate bridge and the hope that it brings to many generations of immigrants that is what our city is built on and the honor that we have with all of our labor partners who

also jimmy herman and the cruise ship terminal that they are honoring and built it through years of generations of struggle but also great celebrations that we have. and so this is wonderful year, and 150 years of history. let's learn it all and continue to appreciating, but let's look forward to the next 150 years, because we are building the infrastructure to do that. we are laying the foundation to do that. we are creating partnerships among the agencies, but also public, private partnership to create it, because i will tell you that someone who is going to invest, $250,000 to $200 million on the piers it is an incredible to the faith that they have in the city and it is about investing confidence and why we exist in such a great wonderful city and so thank you monique and the port commission and to all of your wonderful partners and staff for working so hard with the entities like

pier 39 and others who will continue to invest in the confidence here and along the water front and thank you to the labor and all of your partners thank you to all of the other agents for being here, happy 150th anniversary, to our great city. >> thank you, we wish to continue your success. also, here with us today is the president of the board of supervisors, and the supervisor from our very own district three, david chiu. [ applause ] >> thank you, tailor. mr. mayor, if it is okay, could you and i just declare it a city holiday today so we don't have to go back to work and hang out here on pier 39? >> i want to thank all of you who are the incredible diversity of the community that is the port. the community that our water front peers and our wharfs. this is the story of our city.

our port has really defined our past as i think that we all know, the first 49ers came right here to this spot to build this city, during world war ii, our military ships were recommissioned, right here from our port. we know that our friends from labor as the mayor said, built our city, starting here with this water fort and this is the story of our city and we also know that the water front in the port defines who we are and it is amazing in 2013, if you just walk along the water front in my district, you will start at the fisherman's wharf street scape improvements and to the cruise ship terminal that we just cut the ribbon for and you walk down to the terminals and the ports where america's cup will entertain a million, international visitors within a few months. walk down a couple more blocks

to piers 15, 17, where we are going to see a half a million kids come to go all the way down to what we know that will be the next site of the warrior's arena and down to the ballpark and the water phone and the port is our city's present and it is our city story. but we also know that this is a story that is going to continue and one of the things that we love in pier 39. if you come here any day you will see the boys and girls playing with their parents who will come back a few years later as teenagers and young adults. and young men and women, flirting on the peers, dating each other, who will come back a few years later for their honeymoon, who will come back a few years later with their kids. and so, the cycle of the story of our city continues and that i know that in 50 years when we are celebrating the 200th birthday of this blai, when monique's grand daughter and ed

lee's great grandson, are helping to run this city, they will look back on to the city leaders today, who are represented by all of you. and say, you know, in 2013, our city forefathers or city foremothers thought it appropriate to invest in our port and make sure that we are building a 21st century port to last, happy birthday. thank you. >> i think that we all look forward to that moyer lee, administration. and finally, our good friend and dynamic leader, the executive director of the port of san francisco, monique moyer. [ applause ] >> thank you. >> okay, so raise your hands, how many of you would like to be me today? i am so humble and honored, what a great fortune to land my term right on the 150th year because the one thing that i will tell you about being 150

years old if you realize that your time is really short and insignificant, and if i were to dare to count how many port directors there have been before and how many there will be after it will become more of a second time, but, i get to be here with all of you and so many of you who have been here at this water front for decades, all of you from fisherman's wharf thank you for coming today, because of you it is our water front that has evolved ahead of everywhere else in the world this is a perfect place to celebrate. because here we have a little bit of something of everything, in fisherman's wharf. it has been part of the port since its inception that is how we ate, and how we did commerce and how we paid for the fish we ate with gold but nonetheless we subsifted on fish and the agriculture that was born around the bay and san francisco to feed the miners who were farmers and to create a new economy for san francisco and haven't we brilliantly and

completely made new economies and so many knew that we have to name the latest new economy of the economy of invention and creativity and isn't that what we were doing in the gold rush and so it was stunning to be here with all of you who have made this possible. in 1900, the community worked with us to move up here in this area of a water front, and more of a lagoon area where we could congregate better and save the area where fisherman's wharf had been for the commerce that was needed to sustain our city. as the most of the logistics changed and as the needs changed as a community it was fisherman's wharf that helped us to envision what could be the future. in almost 50 years ago, the discussions began, how to enlifen our water front and how to keep it a working water front as we have here with all of us, as visitors, as those folks who are enjoying the great suit that they have to offer and the wonderful open

space and also the working ferries that are helping to transport us around the bay and are here for us in times of emergency and celebration and so that is bha we stand for in san francisco, and this is a terrific place for us to celebrate, and i could not be more honored to be here with all of you, to celebrate those generations that went before us. and as mayor lee, and president chiu said so eloquently, those generations that will come after us, it is a tremendous honor, and i thank you for being here to share in that honor and please happy birthday, to all of you, and to the board of san francisco. [ applause ] thank you, monique. >> and now the moment that we have all been waiting for. the birthday cake. >> i would like the speakers to gather on the cake and lead us all to sing happy birthday to the board of san francisco.

♪ [ applause ] >> good morning today's july 30th, 2013, well, to the transportation authority i'm supervisor a