comment is closed. >> i want to ask a couple follow up questions to the president of the board. >> yes, supervisor. >> thank you. it really does concern me some of the things that have been said in public comment. let me begin with some of the vendors and contractors, the fact that people have been involved in these events are saying some of the things irrespective of the individuals comments. that is a concern that so many people that have been involved that are saying things. i'm wondering if you have any thoughts or response to that? >> you asked me earlier. the overall production is created by many different people. our contractors have a great role

in the production and as well as our cochairs. i being one of them. one thing i will do, i took a lot of notes this afternoon and i will definitely share this among my current board as well as the board elect once i'm there and it's being determined on sunday. i think i definitely there have will have to take this back and share with my fellow members of the board. the concerns and comments made this afternoon. unfortunately i don't have. >> i appreciate that. the one thing i would say in respect to the specifics, the fact that he is the coming out in this form is good and bad, it's good because we want people to come

out and speak up. but as an organization, you don't necessarily want involvement by the board of supervisors to know what your vendors and contractors think. if there are concerns that they have, whether they are right, legitimate or not, you want them to come to you. so that is a real concern for me. supervisor wiener? do you have something. >> not a question. >> okay, then the last question that i have is with respect to the election and the number of boards members that are being elected, number of seats, how does that happen from going from 12 to 10. that is a ledge concern. i'm wondering if you can talk about that because if elections are coming up

shortly i know i would be worried about that. >> the election coming up with the board as well as our legal council as to how we came up with the no. 10 directors. we wanted to be able to have 10 individuals and also appoint more later and identify individuals who had the skills to be able to fill. but in terms of how it went from 12-10 , >> i don't know if your legal council can talk about those things. i don't think he can because it might be

attorney-client. let me make this point here and i will turn it over to supervisor wiener. this is just me, i have a simple mind just making this point. i would think that if you have the ability to have 15 board members, as an organization i want to have as many board members as i could because you are volunteers, and the more people you have, the more work that you can do. in my experience with every single non-profit that i have worked with is that the issue for many of them is that they can't get enough people who want to be on the board and they are dying to have people on the board. if you have the ability to have 15, i personally would have 15. it's your choice but i don't know why you would limit yourself to 10. if you have more people that want to be

involved. the more people that are involved, the better it is for the organization. that's just simple me thinking. i just want to put that out there because i don't understand how that happens. >> i understand. >> supervisor wiener? >> thank you. i'm not going to express a view on the side of the board. i think there are boards of 10 or 12 or 14 that just function 15. but i do want to say that some of the issues that we heard today and this is general comment, you don't need to -- thank you. in terms of that there are outdated bylaws and procedures that should have apparently been updated a long time ago, haven't been. we have the situation which has been resolved thanks to a lot of

hard work but probably shouldn't have happened in the first place to have significant turnovers of executive directors which is not just recent thing but happened in the past as well. we see problems and apparent low moral among contractors who make the actual parade and festival work every year. and to me whether the comments whether the structure, it's a challenging organization. whether you talk about an organization that is responsible for really this public trust, ensuring the pride parade and festival

happen every year. i respectfully disagree with miss oliver in terms of anyone's role in commenting on it and having a strong view on the governance structure. this isn't just a private thing. it's not about a private entity and how dare you suggest that they should merge or a different group should be responsible for the parade. this is a concern and should be a concern of the elected representative of the community as well as the community itself. i think it is an open question in terms of the governance structure because we want to make sure that this parade and this festival continue to get strong and are not jeopardized or weaken the structure that are some of the problems that i have outlined

and outlined during the hearing. i will say, i know there is an election coming up and that will be conducted pursuant to the organization's rules. i have no idea what the result will be. that is what it is. i actual low don't know that even if there is some sort of change of leadership in the board, m in my mind i'm not convinced that it will address any of the governmental situations that exist. for me whether i or anyone else favors the incumbent director, this is about structure of this organization which i think a reasonable argument can be made does not necessarily serve the critical need of -- insuring

the parade. we need to continue to have this amazing iconic and unique institution in our city. >> thank you. supervisor wiener and again i want to thank all the members of the public who have come out to speak about this item. i also want to thank the members of the pride board, president of the board, the general council and their acting executive director for being here today and i want to thank the members of the public, of our community who are involved in doing this and i also appreciate from the vendors who shared their experiences. what i want to say to be completely fair what we heard here was in many respects was a mixed bag in the sense

that there was the positive development on the issue of the finances of the organization and i think we need to give credit where credit is due and we are grateful to the board and the staff that worked so hard to make that happen. i think it's something we should be very proud of and lisa williams who made that happen. but there are comments that i heard that there are issues that remain around governance, around transparency and around accountability and when you hear from these vendors that are largely responsible for the success of this event when those concerns are raised. it is very troubling to me. it's very troubling to me that it seems that it took this forum for these concerns to come out. i think that's a scene of something. -- sign of

something. i don't know what exactly. with thatten mind is what i would ask that we continue this dialogue. my hope is by the time we have a follow up hearing that we can get more specifics about some of the things in the report that unfortunately i know for a lot of reasons we couldn't get today that will provide that opportunity. i hope there are other things we can discuss including some of the issues that were raised today by the vendors and also some of the issues raised by other members whether you agree with the comments or not. that there is even an impression that there is still compliance with rules and regulations and that there is no accountability or transparency. whether it's true or not, the impression itself is a problem. i think we owe it to ourselves and to the community to get to the bottom of it. i'm a big fan of brook

oliver and i believe a lot of the stuff he said especially around the city to providing more resources for this event. i agree with you professor wiener that we have a responsibility in city government to get this right. it not just criticizing but also putting our money where our mouth is and i'm committed to making this happen. thanks everyone and thanks supervisor wiener. can we make a motion to call this to continue to the call of the chair. we'll let you know when the next hearing takes place. >> mr. clerk, do we have any further business? >> that concludes the items on

this agenda. >> meeting adjourned. >> >>

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other similar sound producing electronic device. a member of the public has up to three minutes to make public comments on each agenda item until. item 8, public comment on those not listed the on agenda. ? >> any public comment? hearing none. >> item 9 executive directors report. >> good afternoon commissioners. members of the public, port staff, thank you for being here today. especially missing the second part of the great race day, although i understand they executed their one time waiver so we had one race today. i have a few things on my agenda report and i'm going to ask my staff to stop talking i'm talking if you don't mind. the first thing is great story to tell which is about the urban

air market which took place on august 18th. i reported this it is last port commission meeting but it's part of our goal of rerehabilitating peer 70 and getting a chance for most of the city to experience the great buildings that are there and the site it has been. august the 18th there was an urban air market hosted by ford city at the peer 70 development which is the first time that building 12 had been opened to the public since 1941 so i like to invite jackie and tell us what the air market experience and how the members of the public were available to enjoy pier 70. >> thank you director moyer.

>> president wuho and other members of the commission, it's my pleasure to be here to talk about something that is in plans and paper but something that happened in reality. just -- we've talked about this before, i think forest city is unique in the real-estate development. and we're focused on long term parks and infrastructure but with he think there's a part to play in activating the pier 70 sites, it creates momentum for the planning process that we're engaged in. it engages with the community in a way that they can understand what we mean when we talk about the type of activities in culture that will -- that we hope to bring to pier 70 and that

creates value in the land. one of the opportunities that came across our door was -- is urban market which happens two or three times a year in his valley. it's an outdoor market sustainable design, home accessories, furniture, clothing, jewelry, all local art sins and they were interested in being our guinea pig with us to try something in building 12. we weren't sure what was going to happen. but it was a great opportunity to test it and we had been hoping to get -- to draw 2,000 people out to the site. there's a little map right here that -- so building 12 is what's labeled as urban air market and it's about two or three blocks from third street. light rail in the main part of dog patch.

it's funny when the organizationer sent out the e-mail to venders, they got responses like tell us about this. we were nervous if we were going to attract people on a day where there was other things happen nothing the city. at the end of the day, one thing we were really lucky. pier 70 displaced its best colors. it was totally sunny and warm. there were 5,000 people that came out to site. they were pouring down onto the site with bikes. we were with the bicycle coalition and there were 400 bikes parks. it was an amazing success and one of the things that was probably on -- one of the lessons we've learned the most was a victim of our own success is we needed more food trucks and bathrooms

and places to sit. there an area set up -- there was an area set up. they partnered up and they set up a pop up galore inside of the building. there was kid play areas with hula hooping and there's an organization called scrap that set up tables for the kids. there was live music and an area for people to enjoy that. i'm going to show you pictures and i'm going to read off the notes on my phone. >> this is what the inside of the building looked like with the vendors. it's a really amazing space for this type of

market activity. on the bottom right you see the beer garden and you can see the area on the bottom left where the -- this is actually early in the day. that is at 11:00. the mayor came out and spent an hour walking around. he have was really excited about what was happening out there and about the opportunity to see these first glimpses of transforming the ports properties into these amenities for the community. one of the great things that we were able to do is engage with a bunch much people who had not actually been participating in the public planning process so we had all of our presentation boards out and we had probably 1,000 people come and look at these boards and actually give us feedback on the picture on

the left was a big comment sheet and also what does an open city look like to you and getting people to provide feedback and what does the city mean to you. here you see an example of the vendors and the food trucks. one thing that's interesting for us is we've done some research on who are the entities that are these entrepreneurs that run the food trucks, that are the vendors in these stalls and what we found is that 66 percent of the vendors are first time business owners, 55 percent are minorities and 31 percent are women. so this is fantastic

not just because we're generating activity in a new location but it creates a low cost of capital for these entrepreneurs to start their businesses. here you see some more of the kids activities and the music. another thing, we actually did a survey of some of the businesses in the adjacent neighborhood of the dog patch and a couple of them were kind of slammed. they knew this was happening. we were told that their traffic in sales was between 25 to 50 percent higher that day and a couple of the businesses had record sales so this is, you know, the -- seeing the first examples of pier 70 of how the ports property is going in this part of the city. and then of course we talk a lot about

making sure that we're tying the culture of the place to the creative and design components and so you see the buildings, temporary galore space, there's a local galore called a work shop and they set up a booth and you see them on the bottom right, their vendors. that's it. it was incredibly satisfying to see the place come alive. it's something that i think from the fact that 5,000 people made it out there, demonstrates this is something that has legs. we're working with the port to find ways to keep making this possible and i would like to thank the leadership of director moyer and the staff that really worked hard with us to make

this possible that included byron and benson and lamb. so thank you very much. >> thank you jack. con congratulations to you all. >> is there public comment. >> jack, can you tell how far do you think these 5,000 people came? was it more than just a dog patch or all over the city. is there any way for you to know? >> one of the lessons is next time we need to find out where folks were coming from. it was clear that folks were coming over all san francisco. there's 500 in the dog patch itself. one of the reasons that we were able to be successful is we partnered with an organization that has a draw. it's a brand that people

will travel for, so people were coming from all over the city. >> it sounds like you might repeat this again. >> that is certainly our goal. our goal is to be able to support an ongoing series of activities like this that could include a flea market and farmers market. so that's what we're working with -- working with staff to support that model. >> terrific event. thank you. >> i was going to say thank you for the ways you guys have reached out to the community and if you remember one time you were here, the artist was saying that you guys hasn't been talking a lot and it's good you had them highlighted here and they reached out and you're working together. and i wanted to say it's hands on and good to see that the mayor came out and like i said this project is really going to

blossom and we're really going for our community and thank you for the invite. thanks. >> thank you. >> and thanks for your support in this. it's truly helpful. >> thank you jack. thanks for coming down today to share that with us today. >> commissioner, my second item is to talk about the america's cup to date and particularly to note for the benefit of everyone that there is a bike lane that has been posted beginning of the intersection of washington and barcardara and running up to pier 23 which is the corner of green street. the american's cup events to date for the final match which began saturday september 8th have been very fun, very exciting, despite the fact that the us is trailing. its still been an event that has attracted people to the water

front to have the pleasure of being on the water on sunday and could see that the pier was packed in the free areas which was part of our vision, so you could see people behind pier 16, 17. you could see people behind -- at pier 27, 29. you could see people around pier 29 and fisherman warf and watching the race. a stream of people coming on the non race days so eve opinion dprat -- graph gratified. dominating in natural courses and the port's property including our port of san francisco sign on our