>> meeting to order. commissioner to renew. >> here, kimberly brandon. >> here. willy adam. >> present. >> item 2 approval for the august 20, 2013 meeting. >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor. >> i. >> i. >> item 3 public comment executive session. commiters before we go further, item peer 38 under legal council has been taken off the calendar. vene a session. >> second. >> move all in favor. >> i. >> i. >> i move to not disclose

anything discussed in closed session. >> second. >> all in favor. >> i. >> okay. pledge of allegiance. "i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." >> please be advised that the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar electron devices are prohibited at this meeting. be advised to the chair may removal from the meeting room of any person responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager or 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 terminal. we're glad we're been able to participate. it

was populated if ever by the public in this way. really excited about that. the bike lane has proved successful in some ways. it's hard to measure just kret. he pushed hard to have the bike lane to be for two way traffic. the bike lane is open to two way traffic. there's signal to if you were riding your bikes you would come off which would warn you when to go into an intersections depending on how the lights have changed. we've found through the reports of the americans cup event authority that the bike line lane lanes have produced so many people. they were happy this was a successful way to

get to see to the america's cup at pier 27 through 29. on the non weekend days we haven't seen nearly as much bike traffic as we saw on the weekend and as we saw for the week for the america's cup event last year. this is a pilot program, we're using the america's cup event to see how it can work and we're learning from it and we'll have a more detailed report we think after the events are over, but i wanted to share some thought was you. the current bike lane will continue on through this coming weekend. and be final as of september 15 assume that the race goes that long. stay tuned. more to follow on that. the next item on my report is to talk about the brandon street warf project it just opened to months ago and it has been singled out for its first award. it has awarded the project of the year by the

american society of engineer. the american is the oldest society in the united states and san francisco sector runs from monday ray to oregon and out through the valley down to fresno. it's a sizeable area and to be awarded the project of the year for either airports or ports is a high honor indeed. the award will be presented september 19th at the regular meeting of the american society of civil engineers which will held at the city club in san francisco. and again kudos to all of the team members on the project which included port staff and dan and wendy proctor and a million others. jackry and company and do construction and landscape and numerous other consultants. it's fun to see people enjoying the park and we hope

to get many awards. we have two days in september with are we encourage people to come out and help clean out our port property and our coastline. the first is the annual coastal clean up day. as you know that is actually an international event. particularly popular in all of california. in 2012 over 65,000 volunteers were moved over 700,000 pounds of california beaches along and the port participates every year. we're going to have opportunities at five port sites which including harris park, warm water cloefb park. the miss works with the east county which is a woman name lorena and we volunteer to provide resources such as supplies and track pick up and they do a lot of the trash pick

up as well. it's great event and it's happening saturday september 21 from 9:00 to 12:00. warm water cove. creek park, or mission creek park. if you missed that one, the following saturday you can join the department of public works, what do they call it, community clean team event which is this year in coordination with with the world champion san francisco giants, last february the mayor and the department of hope works and the giant launched the giant sweep which is a campaign that partners with resident and community groups and schools to keep the community beautiful. mayor lee, supervisor and clean team will be cleaning in district 10. volunteers will plant

trees and paint over graffiti and clean up litter around the neighborhood. the port senator staff will be participating related to our 150 anniversary. the clean up is from 9:00 to 10:00. we'll meet at the park on car dpoe way. we hope that all of you in this room can join us and help keep our water front clean for everybody. and commissioner, that includes my report. >> thank you. before you move on, i had a comment. i was down there on saturday and sunday. you mentioned the bikes and i noticed a couple of times these pilot -- the racks were 100 percent full, so the feedback, if people were dropping off pikes, there was

no place. that's feedback for them. that's not a good experience to drop those bikes off without a place. >> i know you're here. yes. thank you commissioner. i think lessons learned from the previous weekend is more bike storages required. but a great success and really what we wanted to see was multi people. and we seen people coming and walking off the water front. we're pleased by that. i'll pass that back along. >> is there any other public comment on director moyer's report? okay. >> thank you. >> item 9 b information my water emergency transportation authority over view of system and plans for extension. >> my name is jaime with port

planning and development staff. i'm here to introduce this item which is an information by the emergency transportation authority. with us today and seated behind me is nina, executive director of the weta or weta along weta's planning manager kevin and mike. kevin is going to make a presentation in a moment that focuses on the history of the agency and its current operations and their plans to the fair terminal. a bit about their response to the recent disrupgs services. before i bring kevin up. i want to say a few things about the relationship between port and weda. kevin will describe the weda covers the bay. it's the downtown fairy terminal which is located on port

property right here in the fairy building. as such weda works closely with maritime staff to coordinate their operations in san francisco. they're a port tenant with the office located at pier 9. for the past several years the port have been working with weta to understanding between the port and weta that was authorize the by board. kevin will provide an update, but i like to say it has been a good working relationship that we have developed between the two agencies over the past few years and we look forward to build on the progress and make improvements to the fairy building area and its transit in the coming years and i'll turn it to kevin and i'll be available with port staff to

answer any questions you may have after his presentation. >> thank you jaime and thank you port commissioners for inviting us here today. i'm going to go through a short presentation and introducing people. a lot of people have been introduced to our service not by choice but because of different events going on in the bay area. i'm going to talk about that as well. our network really stands the bay. we're in the central part of the bay in veleyo. the -- we're going into construction next month. a year from now we're going into construction

which is alameda and downtown expansion of our service here in the city, i'll talk about in detail later. background of our agency, so 1999 the state legislature created something called the water transit authority which is a planning organization which was passed with generating a system for san francisco bay. this is a result of the earthquake and awareness that fairies can do a lot in terms of surface after events. we adopted implementation operation plan in 2003 which was working throughout the bay area including san francisco area charting a course of fairy services in 2007 we had the water transportation authority. and we immediately started discussions with the two independent fairy operators at the time in the bay. the city of alameda which we started

their service in 2012. the idea was there was efficients realized my agencies at the time. that has been realized as you're going to see. in 2012 we opened up the first news service. we want cost efficient service in the bay area and meet demand with the resources. we have a lot of demand these days and we don't have enough resources to meet that demand but there are plans under way to really expand what we're offering. if you're not familiar with how we operate at the fairy building, our services on the right side, that have lay yo. that center component is golden gate service and on the southside that's the services to

southside san francisco. in terms of our rider ship where we've been going, before july we were experiencing double digit rider ship on all of our services and july from this graph, it skewed everything up because of the bike strike. we're up in terms of our rider ship over a one year period and that's a trend that goes back to three years where we've seen quite a bit of increase in rider ship causing good problems for us in terms of parking, impacts on the east side of the bay as well as queueing and crowding and we have to lead behind all of our passengers in these days. i'm going to talk about what we did this summer. so what we did this summer was do a lot of service in response to a lot of emergencies. may 31st there was a collision that happened at 2:00 in the morning. we were able to double our

service. that's the value of a service is you can respond quickly and ramp up what your service offerings are. the first week of july, bart went on strike and that week we went from 7,000 riders to 21,000 riders a day so we tripled our volume. we offered every boat we could, more cruise and we saw more and we were the only transit option crossing the bay and two weeks ago with the bay bridge closure we saw 90 and 100 percent increase in our volume. we responded to the need and this is sort of what a fairy service can do. we're doing one of our three part service which is provide emergency services and

consolidate services and provide a day to day service which can be reliable for the city of san francisco. our expansion plans divides it two categories. there's projects that don't have any identified funding but they are in conceptual stages and that's in the straights, martinez, hushg lease red line cities. none of these projects are possible without an expangs of our city at the fairy building. that's a key part of our program. it's a central component of our program. this is today's fairy terminal and for those that don't know, there's gate b. there is no gate a.. gate c an