was done for 2050, and is that sort of a down payment for what has to follow for 2100? in other words, if we think about it, you know, you do step one and then you do step two, and one thing, you may not be able to totally answer that question and just saying it on the approach and the second thing is that it is a huge problem, right? if you talk about the arena and if we were to extrapolate projects that are current on the water front and the upcoming leases and the projects like the arena if you start to bite at the apple so to speak, could have the whole thing address and trying to address the whole thing at once is a daunting task and the last piece, i guess was, you know, we are not only, the only ones worried, about, it regionally, but there are obviously federal, land, involved here, and in marina green and fort mason and all of that area, and they have to face the same issues and so i guess how we are coordinating with either the federal or state level in

terms of other areas that are related to area. and something that was jointly, you know, the plan and if we can't agree upon whether it is 35 inches or 55, it does not seem to matter, you have to agree upon a plan first and then technically you have to decide how far you are going to address the rise. so that is a lot to swallow, but those are the thoughts that were going through my head as we were talking. >> to answer your first part of the question, we are taking the steps, in particular, the project as you know, we tilted the deck, and you know, that made the deck higher at the water's edge. and which kind of eliminates or mitigates the sea level rise, effect, to some extent. but, i don't think that solution takes care of the 2100, sea level rise. and all of these other projects

that we have, that these are projects on the water front. and i'm working at it whenever you know, people talk to me, you know, we want to make sure that they are addressing the sea level rise issues. you know? and you know, they have to have some kind, because they go to the bcdc, and down to the area and the david asked the same question, what are you going to do? lease it for 60 or 70 years? and we will have some problems, beyond 2050 for sure, and so, taking care of the problem, for the rise and the 2050, and it is is completely independent of what we are going to do for 2100. and 2050 solution, involves building short walls, you know, the curve walls a long the piers but the 2100 solution we are talking about building a new sea wall, which is completely different and we have to find, you know, you have to think about what are we going to build it in front of

the pier or move it father out. >> and one thought would be as we look at the specific leases that will be, and that go up to 2050 or beyond, and i am just wondering as a portfolio, when we should worry about the charge or the reserve to build up, the funding and we are not going to fund it entirely ourselves but if we don't start building something and that could be called out in any leases a it is a sinking fund to help us address, whether it is a 2050 are the 2100, i am just saying as you have to substantially start planning what you can do. >> i agree with you, in some places we may have to remove some of these piers as part of the plan and even removing these are not cheap. they cost $50 per square foot to remove these. >> i think that where we are, is you adopted your capitol

reserve policy, which says just to satisfy exactly a sinking fund where we aren't is where we have not watched the sea level rise and what that looks like into the capitol plan and which is what the fund is to fund and while we are sitting and we are achieving goals of getting to the moneys that could be expended for these types of infrastructure projects and we have not a clear plan of how we are going to spend them >> and the solution and we described with the curves at the end of the piers need to float. and i think that is right, because that is sort of from the port perspective, but i think what i am saying goes a little bit of a step further of letting our tenants know. >> yeah. >> we are not... we have to help in terms of a little bit at a time and that is up after, 15, 20, 30 years. and so, we are doing internally restructuring it and yeah, we need to get. >> so we need to explore how

that effects what we charge for rent and get back to the commission on that. like we did when we set up the water front charge and we ended up do that out of our regular rental rate and not calling it as a separate line item and in this case we might do something different and let's explore it and we will come back. >> on the existing concrete piers were they not designed properly to withstand, the 50 inches. raising the piers and anything is possible, but it is going to

be a huge expense and i mean that is an expense, and also, one thing that i would like to point out, the concrete quality, you know, these piers are almost 100 years old and you are constantly repairing these piers and the rebar and this will continue and eventually, when you have a situation where you have a limited construction window, because you are entire level is going up, and so, with the current technology, i can't think of any way to repair these piers. you know? >> why couldn't you pile section and then, rephrase them with, you know, (inaudible) nwe can. i mean that we can, it is possible. >> at the same time, raise them and possibly raise. >> raising is a huge challenge. >> there is a pier at a time? >> you know, they would have to be raised at well. and you have to cut the pier at the top of these piles and then

jack it up. >> yes. >> and then maybe it is possible. >> but, i don't know. >> that could be done off the barges. >> yes. >> it is possible. >> it is possible. >> and so... >> a lot of the old, cities especially in europe, or the most recent one that i have seen was havana in cuba their sea wall is you can actually walk along the top of it, it is 6 feet wide but it is also about 4 feet off of the sidewalk. and so at some point, they raised it. all of these ideas and, they don't have the problem with the piers sticking off the edge of the sea wall and so we have a very unusual situation here in san francisco. >> so you can raise the pier but you have to deal with the sea wall issue. and irrespective. >> and you know that on the map that he was showing. and in our neighbors are on the liquid soil and one of the

things that we learned in studying in is that the sea level is that there is more higher ground water that will effect our neighbors. it is going to be in entire t toddress this. >> they are also studying it as part of the development project for treasure island and so there is a lot of information and there is no plan yet. and so, i think that it is great to have this presentation, and obviously to keep this in front of us, because it is a strategic issue to have to be dealt with. and right now, it is huge, and it is almost how do you get your head around it and so many different parts and the time line and the funding, so i would like to suggest and i guess that i willisen to what the staff has to say that we should have this periodic update on where you are in making progress because it is going to be a step at a time and going to take a long time and we are not going to be here in 2050, and at least we can

have... >> but, let's, at least make sure that our grandchildren don't have to worry about this and so i think that we just want to ad least, start getting this and so i would like to suggest that you all can come back, and tell us not just to give us an update, because i think that each time you give us an update, hopefully you will answer a few more questions and a little bit more about how to approach it and what are the solutions and the options that we can are considering. and so, i will leave it to the monique to figure out what would be the right interval to hear about this. but i think that we want to keep it up in front of us. >> okay. will do. >> thank you. >> i just hope that one last thing, i hope that all of these great minds get together and they don't spend the next ten years spending our money coming up with all kinds of goofy ideas that they will save some of the money to actually do the job. that would be my suggestion. >> i agree.

>> and several meetings back, we would raise the issue that just insuring that if we have items come forward that the staff in general tries to factor in the impact of climate change on those items so that we are mindful of this and this is a broad overview on a more microlevel we should be looking at each item that comes before us with an eye towards the impact of climate change. >> thank you. >> and one last thing that i would also share, is that bcdc has published a draft strategic plan and in that plan, the sea level rise is a primary component because it will effect all of the jurisdiction which will include twot airports on the water and so we will be coming back with more information as it develops, but i don't think that six months from now, for example, there will be much in the way of answers. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> okay. >> it i am ons on the consent

calendar. request approval for the port deputy director of maritime to report to the port of san francisco as a voting delegate on the american association of port authorities annual convention of port canaveral florida, on october 14, 18, 2014. item b, request approval for the san francisco port commissioner to travel to the port staff to osaka japan. >> could i vote that they be voted on separately. >> are you making a motion? >> yes, please, is there a second? >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> we will take 7 a first. >> all in favor? >> it is a public comment. public comment? >> hearing none, 7 a, all in favor? >> aye.

>> 7 b. commissioner katz is recusing herself because she is the commissioner that would be traveling, are you ready to make a motion to approve? >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor. >> aye. >> and the motion number 1 335, and 1336 have passed. >> 8 a request authorization to execute an amendment to the construction manager general contractor contract with turner construction company to decrease the total authorized contract amount from $104,496,202 to an amended amount not to exceed $100,107,601, which reflects: 1) a contract increase of $1,741,662 to complete phase 2 construction of the pier 27 cruise terminal project; and 2) a contract decrease of $6,130,263, for reduced scope and cost savings in the america's cup infrastructure projects; resulting in a net decrease of $4,388,601 in the total authorized contract amount (resolution no. 13-37)

>> good afternoon commissioners, my name is kim vonn blon the director, and we have a technical issue here with our battery critically low for our presentation. we request additional funding unnecessary to accomplish that work. and the projects that are almost finished and what remains of that is pier 64 clean up and the installation

of the off spray platform. and the phase two, the cruise terminal project begins in november of 2013, at the completing of the installed for the america cup events and the project will run nine months with the substantial completing with the end of july and the final about two months later. the goal of 22 percent, and 46 percent, for the small business enterprise on phase two of the project, and these are lbe percentages of the total subcontractor costs. and the project is on budget, by deferring certain project components which i will talk

about shortly and then the request before you, is for the additional funding for the certain shore power components that we have identified later in the project. this is the view of what it will look like and the remaining portions in the work in phase two include and the northwest plaza shown on the north side in green and the north point of the left-hand side of the picture and the ground transportation picture between piers 27 and 29 and the repairs and such as the mobile gang way system and the provision of the furniture and

equipment and the historic walk, required by bcdc, but the pier 29 in the park bathrooms will be deferred pending a planning study to determine their location. and in the meanwhile, temperature restaurant facilities will be provided, in addition the build alone building, shown in the left top left-hand side of the drawing. came in and actually at 1.8 million in the bid and if included would have exceeded our budget, and so therefore, it will be delete fromed this scope, and instead be located within pier 29 where the temporary facilities in the pier 27 area.

now they are extending the hot tub well over the side of the ship and i will show you the problem that this creates in the next couple of slides. and the canopy that connects to the cruise ship and on the right-hand side after you walk through the tub and this connects into the terminal building and this structure has ramps that are sized in length to attain the ada slopes and are required for many conditions that a ship and elevations and title elevations. and just one of these ramps? >> they connect together.

and so they form the blue boxes that represent the tubes and then on the right-hand side, the ship and then you can see, in the magenta color and in the light, hanging over the side of the ship and the problem that this creates is the ship is not far enough off of the wharf phase. with the waste or the hot tubs or all of the above. so the solution to that is to move the fender system which

are the... you can see it on the picture here by the at the transition of the ship and the wharf and the round, tube looking thing. and so these have to move further off of the edge of the wharf in order to create the clearance required for the ship and the bang way system. >> that counter lever thing what is that made of? >> where it ex-at the extends close to the ship. that will be a piled in structure and so there will be a series of piles. >> all wait around? >> there will be at 9 different locations where each of the fender are and those are offset from the face of the wharf and connected by a brace back to the wharf itself and so those fenders in turn, or those piles

in turn, support the floating fenders, okay. >> okay. >> the effect of moving these fenders upward is that the existing shore power system cables are not long enough. and this is a ceremony and 2010, showing our first hook up to one of the princess ships, the blue structure in the center is the dabit system that supports the power cables which are the black cables hanging down, and connecting through the door on the ship on the left-hand side and so these cables have to be ex-tenlded in length and the dabit system itself, at the top where there is a horizontal beam has to be

extended to provide the reach over to the ship. and we estimate the cost for this will be about 1.3 million dollars, and we are in the engineering phase right now, with the company that originally installed this system and will working with them to see exactly what we have to do to finish this. >> okay. >> as i mentioned previously, this there was american cup work tied into the turner contract for certain facilities required for the 34th america's cup event. this scope to work to turner was reduced by assigning some of the work to the port maintenance and by reducing the deck and pile work scope at piers 3032, by actually proving the strength of the deck by the low testing and so this, proved

out, optimistickly, some of the engineers more pessimistic calculations and saved a lot of work this resulted in a final contract, price of about 8.6 million dollars which was 6.1 million dollars less than was originally approved. so in conclusion, the america cup project and this will be taken by the port main nens and phase two is on project and schedule to meet the completion in august of 2014 and finally the port staff recommends this contract amendment. and i will take any cres questions that you may have. >> so moved. >> second. >> see public comment? >> if not, all in favor? >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> thank you.

>> >> 13-37 has passed. item 9, informational presentation of the status of the port's blue green way project. >> david with planning and development and at the commission's request, i'm giving an update on the blue green way. as you know it is a city project to complete the bay trail and bay area water trail from china basin on the north to candle stick park on the south and i thought that i would start out looking at just how the blue green way fits within the context of the ports water front wide open space system including the various bond projects that have been delivered and the differenting projects and the future bonds. here is a map, illustrating the blue, green way which should look familiar, china basin on the right and candle stick park

on the left and while this map is comprehensive and illustrating the entire blue green way, i recognize that not everyone is able to envision what the blue green way actually is. and so, it gave me a moment to pause and think about an interesting way to describe it and the project that i thought was very similar to the blue green way is the emerald necklace in boston which is a series of parks, that are all connected by water ways, streets, roads and pathways. and the description of them, emerald necklace is that each park is a stone on the necklace and the chain holding the stones are the roadways, and water ways, and walkways. and with that, i thought that i would just show how that is illustrated, on the port's, and the port in the city's blue, green way and so here is the water front, between mission creek and candle stick point and here are all of the parks,

along the water front in the blue green way. and so these are the jewels in the necklace and the roadways and the walkways and the sidewalks are the one that connect it in the chain. and so that generally what the blue, green way is from the water side, and we have the water landings, and the water trail, that connects the water landings. and all of these combined, equate to what we call the blue green way. so, the blue green way is a series of parks that all have their own unique identity and experience, but are connected along a 13-mile system of open space and linkages. and with that, would i just like to give a brief update on the various blue green way project and starting in the south and in august of last year, we opened up heran's head park the new 50,000 square foot

intention of the park and the new entryway which has been enjoyed and received a lot of accolades from the community from both the dog walkers, picnickers, and residents, that are enjoying it every day. and at the same time that we opened up, the heran's head project, we also did a ribbon cutting for the cargo way bicycle lanes and these were the city's first cycle track and protected by the bicycle lanes in san francisco and they have their own signaling system, and lasering signaling systems that texts the bicyclists and was recently highlighted in an examiner article about one of the better open space and improvements in south east san francisco and again, it is received a lot of accolades from a lot of walkers, walking up and down the system as well. and the next project, that should be coming in front of

us, pretty shortly, is the public art project on the pier 92, grain silos and this was the final concept by the artist group that the commission approved a few months ago and it is called the bay view rise. and this is the mural that will be painted and visible during the day. and in the evening time, when red, green and blue lights are illustrated on it, this is what will be animated in the evening time. and depending on what lights are projected on to the silo. and a few weeks ago, we did a mockup on the silos and this is actually two lights, projected on pieces of the mosiac to make sure that the concept worked. and the current plan is to have eight lights so that there is a better spread of the lighting across the silos that you can see that silos are well lit. and here is a view on both the north and the south face as

well. where during the evening i actually drove around the neighborhood and i went up to various spots, including hunter's view where i approached a cul-de-sac of people looking down and appreciating the show. and moving north, we then have the bay view gateway and this is at the corner of third street and cargo way, and it is the new, open space, project, directly adjacent to the fire house. we have been working with dbw on the plans, and to get the authorization to put out this, and to put this opportunity out to bid for construction it includes new landscaping and sight sperptation and cargo history and the community. and the new site furnishing and public art.

again, moving north, we have the coper crane and which is on the creek on the term inus of indiana street and i was before you about a month ago, requesting approval to get a coastal grant and accept a grant for $680,000, and our designers are under way and are as-needed and the engineers are under way developing those plans and we hope to put that on the to bid some time this fall or early in the spring. and we are working with the crane, labor landmark association members, and sfmta to do the site-wide interpretation on the muni adjacent bus facility. and then we have, the park which is between third street and illinois street. on the northern line of this creek and it is actually kind of a connector part that allows you to circulate between illinois street and third street. and our engineering department, mas come up with the unique

design where you will have an over, the water walkway experience, all of the vegetation, that is out there will pretty much be removed and replaced and it will clean up the site and make it more appealing and safer for the users to walk through. and enjoy. and next, is moving north cranco park and this is 9-acre park that we have been working for about two years on the community planning process. this is the latest iteration where we were taking the site which was a site and opening it up for a park use and it is generally between the streets, and the program developed and been opened against a mixed green and where we bring up the site to the adjacent roadway and create a lawn that could be used