francisco is one of rapid spurts of growth. it's a story of new industries and steroids that brought people more than most places santa fe san francisco has represented. over the time we grew west and south turning cemeteries and a sand dunes like the western edition and the sunset. today, we grow in places like the shipyard and the new transbay district or along our waterfront like pier 70. whether it was the irish who come to pan for 0 gold or the african-american who came to work in the shipyard or latinos

with who fluid for work or lgbt 0 who came seeking freedom each new wave of newcomers has come with this tension but my fellow san franciscans our city hasn't been a postcard frozen in time never been a city to slam shut the doors of opportunity to those who came after us when we tried to stereotype a group of people they've been the ugliest chapters in our city. so today as our population again grows in numbers and our skyline groups i call b upon us to grow as well. my friends keeping this city a place for everybody to live

whether you've been here or 60 days it's a challenge we must confront together. so as unthinkable it was mr. king who said it best we may have come on different ships but we're in the same boat now. it's a challenge we must confront by insuring every san franciscan that can work has a job. it's a challenge we confront by assuring every san franciscan is a afford to stay here it's a champ we confront by improving our schools and transportation system and keeping our streets safe. we're one city but we celebrate the success of all our resident and we share in the responsibility of those who are

left behind. it's that same city that thousands will come up or come out to support a kid who soufrd from cancer and was bat kid. to find new opportunity i say get involved. you're now part of this city and must be part of the solution. acknowledge our impact and make it a good one that were understand that the homeless man you see sleeping in the doorway thought at one time was inevitable too but you may also one day find your that way. help clean up our local park and respect the history of those who were here before you break bread

with your neighbors. because it turns out san francisco changes us more than any other group of new conforms will ever change san francisco. it's the opens our ideas and new ways of thinking it makes us special and at the cutting-edge if not more so than the late. my fellow san franciscans we've come a great distances and there's still too many in our city owe too many we have to help to insure this will be their city as well our work is far from done. nelson mandela taught the world a thing about bringing up people together and reminded us that after climbing a great hill one

only finds there are many more hills to climb and we may take a moment to rest and look back at the distance but only for a moment we have responsibility we dare not linger our long walk together is not ended. let's go forward together in 2014 and keep the state of the city vitality and strong and insure that san francisco remains a place where everyone can afford to call home. thank you and go

>> hi. welcome to san francisco. stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. let's look at common earthquake myths. >> we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. we have 3 guest

today. we have david constructional engineer and bill harvey. i want to talk about urban myths. what do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance? >> he's sleeping during those earthquakes? >> have you noticed him take any special? >> no. he sleeps right through them. there is no truth that i'm aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. >> you hear the myth all the time. suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something >> i hear they are aware of small vibrations. but yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes.

>> today is a spectacular day in san francisco and sometimes people would say this is earthquake weather. is this earthquake weather? >> no. not that i have heard of. no such thing. >> there is no such thing. >> we are talking about the weather in a daily or weekly cycle. there is no relationship. i have heard it's hot or cold weather or rain. i'm not sure which is the myth. >> how about time of day? >> yes. it happens when it's least convenient. when it happens people say we were lucky and when they don't. it's terrible timing. it's never a good time for an earthquake. >> but we are going to have one. >> how about the ground

swallowing people into the ground? >> like the earth that collapsed? it's not like the tv shows. >> the earth does move and it bumps up and you get a ground fracture but it's not something that opens up and sucks you up into haddes. >> it's not going anywhere. we are going to have a lot of damage, but this myth that california is going to the ocean is not real. >> southern california is moving north. it's coming up

from the south to the north. >> you would have to invest the million year cycle, not weeks or years. maybe millions of years from now, part of los angeles will be in the bay area. >> for better or worse. >> yes. >> this is a tough question. >> those other ones weren't tough. >> this is a really easy challenge. are the smaller ones less stress? >> yes. the amount released in small earthquakes is that they are so small in you need many of those. >> i think would you probably have to have maybe hundreds of magnitude earthquakes of 4.7. >> so small earthquakes are not making our lives better in the

future? >> not anyway that you can count on. >> i have heard that buildings in san francisco are on rollers and isolated? >> it's not true. it's a conventional foundation like almost all the circumstances buildings in san francisco. >> the trans-america was built way before. it's a pretty conventional foundation design. >> i have heard about this thing called the triangle of life and up you are supposed to go to the edge of your bed to save yourself. is there anything of value to that ? >> yes, if you are in your room. you should drop, cover and hold onto something. if you are in school, same thing, kitchen same thing. if you happen to be in your bed, and

you rollover your bed, it's not a bad place to be. >> the reality is when we have a major earthquake the ground shaking so pronounced that you are not going to be able to get up and go anywhere. you are pretty much staying where you are when that earthquake hits. you are not going to be able to stand up and run with gravity. >> you want to get under the door frame but you are not moving to great distances. >> where can i buy a richter scale? >> mr. richter is selling it. we are going to put a plug in for cold hardware. they are not available. it's a rather complex. >> in fact we don't even use the richter scale anymore. we use a moment magnitude. the

richter scale was early technology. >> probably a myth that i hear most often is my building is just fine in the loma prieta earthquake so everything is fine. is that true ? >> loma prieta was different. the ground acceleration here was quite moderate and the duration was moderate. so anyone that believes they survived a big earthquake and their building has been tested is sadly mistaken. >> we are planning for the bigger earthquake closer to san francisco and a fault totally independent. >> much stronger than the loma prieta earthquake. >> so people who were here in '89 they should say 3 times as strong and twice as long and

that will give them more of an occasion of the earthquake we would have. 10 percent isn't really the threshold of damage. when you triple it you cross that line. it's much more damage in earthquake. >> i want to thank you, harvey, thanks pat for >> i think that we are ready to proceed. roll call, wo o, he. >> here. >> brandon. >> here. katz. >> amoval for the december 12, 2013 meeting. >> move approval. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> okay. >> pledge of allegiance.

>> please be advised that the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. be advised that the chair may remove from the meeting room any person responsible for the ringing of or use of the cell phone, pager or other sound producing advise. a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent public comments on each agenda item unless the court commissioner has a shorter period on any item. >> item five, public comment on items not listed on the agenda. >> we have item five.

>> woods? >> good afternoon commissioners happy new year. my name is corine woods. and i am a water front rat. i follow port development and other projects for many, many years. by now, you have either seen the letter that the state lands commission wrote to the city attorney, or you have probably at least seen the chronicle article about that letter. i think what upset me most about this very simplistic water front initiative is that it basically trivializes though sapeds of hours of community involvement, in planning. and not to mention the thousands of hours of staff and

commission time in long range planning. it ignores the very difficult balance between the public trust, obligations that the port has, and the economic viability of trying to fill a two billion dollar capitol gap. even worse is the fact that what these 15 seconds sound bites, of a political campaign the people most directly affected, the port, are not allowed to respond to correct the errors, to say what is really important. and i really hope that this does not go through. sea wall lot, 337, pier 70, we worked for years to get these

going. we don't know if a delay of going to a vote of the people will make them economically viable. we don't know if they could kill these projects altogether. and the port cannot afford that. i think that it is really important to get the word out somehow. that this is not the inocuous measure that height is not everything. that there are so many considerations that need to be made in any project to help the port move forward. thank you. >> is there any other public comment? >> thank you, corine. >> item 6 a, election of port commission officers. >> i am going to pass the gavel to kim brandon.

>> i now open the floor for nominations for the port commission president. >> i would like to nominate katz as the next commission president. >> are there any other nominations for port president? are there any other nominations for port commission president? >> are there any more nominations for port commission president? >> seeing none, all in favor? >> move to second, first. >> second. >> i can't second. you have to second. >> second. >> i get to close the nominations. >> i now close the nominations for port commission president. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> commissioner katz has been elected president of the commission. >> we will call for nominations

for vice president. >> no, when the nominations... comment on it? >> thank you very much for that nomination and election i'm excited looking to the year ahead, but most importantly i want to thank our outgoing president commissioner wo oho it has been quite a year for the port and she has guided us with diplomacy and quite a bit of wisdom through some very difficult and high profile items not the which of was the america's cup. we had the opening of the exporatorium, the opening or the ground breaking and the completion of at least the first phase of our cruise ship terminal on time and on budget, which was historic, and so many other things that have occurred

under president dorine woo ho's leadership and everything that you have given to all of us and i know that i have certainly learned quite a bit from watching you and i hope that i will be able to continue with all of the good job that you have set forth for the port commission hearing. and be able to continue that kind of role and responsibility that you have even viewed to the positions and so i want to thank you for everything that you have done during the time as president and just applaud you for just an extraordinary job, so thank you. >> i too, would like to thank her for her commitment and all of the time that she has put into the commission over the past two years. having met with her a lot of the time in the various meetings, i know the hours that she has put in and the commitment that she has to our tenants and to our various projects and to so many things that are happening here on the water front and commissioner katz names a lot of them and she has just done an incredible job and thank you so much for

your leadership and it has been a pleasure serving with you. and i would like to congratulate commissioner katz and i look forward to working with you and looking forward to your leadership with all that we still have to do this year and so congratulations. >> thank you. >> i am going to pass it back. >> no. >> could i pass it back? >> no, i keep it. >> okay. i would like to call some nominations, i would like to call for nominations for the port commission vice president. >> i would like to nominate adams as the commissioner for the following year. >> second. >> are there any other nominations for vice president of the port commission? >> are there any other nominations for vice president of the port commission? are there any other nominations for vice president of port commission? >> are you sure? no one wants to be nominated, right? okay.

and i close the floor for nominations and call for a vote. all in favor? >> aye. >> commissioner adams has been elected vice president of the port commission. >> oh, and now i will hand the gavel back. >> now that i have it back i can say a few words before i pass it on to my success or leslie katz and i could not be more pleased with the election and i would like to say a few words before i pass it to her. number one i want to say that it has been an extremely rewarding two years working in an exciting time with so many important initiatives and it has been mentioned and i will not go through the list all of those who have been associated with the port know what we have accomplished in the last two years and it has important working with the fellow commissioners and i want to thank, commissioner brandon who has been key and she has been

the voice of wisdom and in the past she knows the community and has brought her perspective and to which we answer our discussions and i want to thank the interns for the reactions, and we obviously had another dialogue. and what comes before you in the commission and just how the port operates and things that we can be considering in terms of improvements and just, and to make the port stronger and capable of handling the challenges that we have been having in the past year and i think that we have more ahead and that is exciting for us to proceed and i know that i leave this to the very capable hands with commissioner katz and icon grad you late her and i think that when we will continue to support that agenda. >> and every day, just as we heard, you know we have had

unexpected things today and we got the headline, and it is never, it is never a dull moment and i know that we will continue to work. and i want to also thank all of the staff that i have worked with over the past year in terms of along with a lot of questions and comments and meetings. some of that will continue, as we kopt to go forward, but obviously as the commission, you know, it is involved sometimes in trying to understand the background of things that are going on and the fellow and the commission as well and allow the commission to look forward to look sideways and to sometimes look back in the passed because we have issues that we often do and we have to figure out how we will move forward and it has been a great time and i really enjoyed it and i know that we are in capable hands and i want to thank everybody and i want to thank all of the community voices, and corine and others like her that come forth and have been helpful in going

forward and just for that, i want to sort of mention to fully support what is going on here and hope that we continue to move for the rest of the year. now we will pass it on and she is now talk. >> thank you. past president, thank you. >> again, thank you for your leadership and i also want to thank vice president brandon, i was thinking of the different words that come to mind when i think of kimberly and there are so many things that she has provided to this port and her longevity as a port commissioner, stability and continuity and also for me mentor ship. to both and kimberly who really served as mentors for me in terms of how to guide an organization and work with so many of you and really, they have set an example, and i think of how to run a commission well and how to be available for the public, in

very interesting, and sometimes difficult times. so i just want to thank both of you for your service, and your guidance and your wisdom. and as commissioner brandon mentioned the amount of time that both of you have put in has been extraordinary and so on behalf of all of my colleagues and i know that commissioner adams and murphy were not able to be here today and they are both out of town and now i speak for them in thinking you for everything that you have done during this past term. just want to again, looking forward to serving on behalf of the commission as president and i want to make sure that i am having an open door policy and i know that i gain a lot from public comment and people like corine, who i can begin to thank you for all that you offer to the port in terms of your comments and i also want to thank, our executive director moyer for what she does to get us all prepared and briefed along with the staff

and so i am very much looking forward to the coming term and i want to thank you for the honor that you have placed in me. and i would like to open it up for public comment, if there is any. seeing none. okay, do we have plaques? >> yes, thank you. >> if i may, congratulations, president katz, and i will have to get my tongue around that, so congratulations and that is terrific news and my congratulations to all of the staff and president adams that may motivate him to not miss meeting careful what happens or you will get elected when you are not here. >> he told me that he would not turn it down. >> good because i am hoping that he is not going to be taken back. but i do want to echo a lot of the words that have been said already. on behalf of all of the port staff and especially on my own behalf and that of amy because our commission secretary.

and it has been an incredible two years working with the two of you and while we have worked individually with you both, we have worked so closely with you both as a team that when i was thinking of what i wanted to emphasize and how to say thank you, it was hard to really separate the two of you. and so, if you don't mind my remarks for you both, and you very far been beyond generous, with your time, and your dedication and your commitment. and it has already been mentioned by both president woo ho and president katz and brandon mentioned it as well, more than i think that i have seen in my tenure as executive director in terms of all of the different things that the port has had going on but the engagement with which you both came to help with the staff is really why we were