and the ability to increase our resources, staffing resources and equipment resources in trying to be able to maintain our exclusive operating agreement. so i was just wondering because it's not been made clear to me that there are plans to make changes. i know this chief is providing some information of what's necessary and i'm assuming we are just waiting for that or are we, do we know if we are going to make appropriate suggestions in the mayor's budget this coming fiscal year? >> thank you for the question, supervisor. so the exclusive operating agreement is essentially an agreement with the state that allows the city of san francisco's ambulance to have full jurisdiction over 80 percent of the calls and we have go other private providers in the market. it

requires that we meet 80 percent of the call volume of medical transport. it has been brought to the mayor's attention by the chief and by others certainly, by you supervisor and others in the fire department that we are not fully meeting that 80 percent of call volume, and the mayor has asked the chief for her best recommendations about how to achieve that. as you know it is a policy decision for the city to continue with that exclusive operating agreement. both the chief and the department of emergency management have advised the mayor about certain risks that might occur if the city were to open up the system to private providers and they have made strong recommendations that

the city main that -- maintain that exclusivity. the mention that the fire department provided to the mayor that in order to provide this level of service, they believe it would cost approximately $9 million a year in addition to their current operating budget. the mayor asked that i go back and work with the fire chief, work with eem to sharpen the point on those numbers and look at what options existed in terms of either phasing that in or other options to kind of balance the cost with the goal. in terms of timing, which i think is also part of your question, we will, as with all of these things, as we move a little bit further into budget balancing project we'll know more about how

much money is available and the mayor will have an opportunity to direct me and direct departments about what his priorities are and what he's going to be able to include in his budget. and that work tends to happen in later april or beginning of may. but it certainly is one of the things that he's paying close attention to and we are working on now to determine whether it will be something we can fund or not. >> okay. thank you. >> colleagues, any further questions, comments? okay. so can i have a motion to table this. what i will say in advance as we continue to start our budget season we'll have an updated 9-month report and i know the controllers office is working with the mayor's office to go over

this item. can i get a motion to table no. 26789 . we can file that. any objections. we'll take that without objection. >> okay. madam clerk. do we have any further business in front of us? >> no we don't. >> thank you, we are adjourned. [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> >>

>> would you go ahead and call the order.

roll call. commissioner adams. commissioner brandon. commissioner murphy. commissioner ho is traveling and excused. approval of minutes for the march 14 meeting. second. so moved. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. all opposed. public comment on executive session anybody. vote own who to hold the executive session and all in favor, say i.. >> did he have a motion to reknown. all in favor, say i. i move we not disclose anything in closed session >> all in favor, say i.

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speak up to 3 minutes unless otherwise stated. . item a public comment on items not listed on the agenda >> any. seeing none, call next. the executive director's report >> good afternoon port staff and members of the public i have a fun executive director's report i've been preempted so i'll get it that but i wanted to first start that the san francisco giant are planning a new special event they're getting it flaw in terms of the approval process i'm sure you're aware of we have a license with the china basis for the operation of what's known as a lot to the port part of that

lease which was included in 2012 includes the ability to do special events up to 90 days and they are many events the cirque de soleil but the combiebts are looking to do the activating the west corner of lot a with more of a ongoing special event that would be a temporary pop up village kind of like the america's cup village on piers 27 and 29 it will be repurchased cargo containers so long as the decking and miserable furniture and other nationals. the purpose would be to showcase local food and beverage providers and create a unique base so it's being envisioned as

an opportunity to activate the space for something other than parking and provide important community grashths in between the events like cirque de soleil. so in you'll looked like it will come back to the port commission for the motion passess approval but the conversations are public the commission must be aware they're having the ideas we're excited and hope you'll be hearing a lot more about it as it get more definition. looking at that he picture the announcement of the water taxi i have that point to point service but intended a hop on and off

service we have two water taxi operators that are from a abiding process since 2012 you had a presentation they're a point to point call service in other words, you call and they pickup you and they drop you off at one of they're landing facilities similar to a taxi. the san francisco water taxi will have the hop on and off like a bus service maybe pier 40 or hop off at the pier excuse me. high streetcar harbor to san francisco water taxi was selected at the same time the highlands marine was selected person able to get the first of their boats certified by the

coast guard bear with me how many folks they served 47 passengers on saturday and 55 on sunday. this past weekend because of the what was going on they say more visitors wanting to move towards fisherman's wharf and the ballpark but we expect to see people moving up and down and our goal is to move people further south and san francisco water affect has the landing right to fisherman's wharf and pier one and a half behind the lamar restaurant and over the same landing points that the highlands has. we're looking forward to their operations going full fwrd

they've purchased 4 both the and one is certified as the will little taxi this is the picture. but obviously it was a beautiful day to be out on the water. and the plan is to have 3 boats operating snaenl by august the ticket prices are 5 to $10 with an all day hop on and off for $15. we're looking forward to getting and developing the marketplace. so hopefully as we have more water taxi landing put many as pier 16 we'll be adding to the places were you, hop on and off. dave thomas it the owner of the san francisco water fair market i think you remember when we

initiated this contract as the emerald lady out of pier 39 she hold 39 passengers and ran 35 thousands passengers with the one so we're hoping to get a lot of ridership we're pleased to welcome him. you can see what the vessel looked like you'll see her out on the bay. let's see next, i wanted to mention again due to a loss of agenda items we're scalding our april meeting so it will be in april 22nd and march 24 the small property owner exchange

the small business exchange we're featured that the weekly periodical it's the port of san francisco diversity abounds and martin was interviewed and i was interviewed about the different contributes of our racial diversity focusing a lot on the diversity both gender and russialy of the commission itself and the senior management of the port all the way down and talking about our history with diversity and policymaking with regard to opportunity for all types of folks especially those represent by contractors. it's a nice article not

everything was reiterated successfully the way i said it but we're proud to be profiled. we're very pleased to be profiled in this months march edition of organized labor you can see us here on the front cover it's a wonderful profile of local 34 the carpenters and bridge workers union. 6 sorry 7 of our 16 pile workers were profiled and it's a great piece on them it surprised me i don't know if renée knew about it i have not seen this done where a particular union was profiled in debt. the pictures they're showing are the crews working down at the pier 96 i want to read a key

tidbit they took the 7 of them and let me see if i can find the camera. it's profiled mike who is a pile worker and kevin who's the dive supervisor and dan who is at&t's the pile worker and bruce is a pile worker and anthony and some of what they had to say was worth share. many the words of mike replacing piling is a lost art and most ports are now built out of concrete by san francisco wants to keep the tradition of heavy wood we drive you appeals from 35 to one hundred feet long. per ronnie also says what comes

up must come downed i've been taught to keep my head up and bruce said underwater you do

so they've welcomed a million ticketers but they have one and

a half acres of free space there's not a count of how many people have been out the to the the pier but america's cup people hung out and why people want to walk through generated fog but i'd like to welcome dpw's to say a few words he's a education and policy expert the head of the auditorium and he's a stanford ph.d. a good guy one of the p.h.d's who can explain things to children. so, please join me in congratulating the moratorium and dennis (clapping) >> thank you, commissioners. and executive director mirror

and the port staff. indeed it's a privilege for me to come and share a few facts and figures about our almost first year and some really existing facts to share. as monique mentioned we have our one millionth visited show up on march 15 we're heading towards 1.1 and 2 million visitors in the first year are this is the busiest time of the year. our overall attention is 2 1/2 times more and those numbers would be unconceivable without those facilities. we're seeing twice as many school field trippers and, in fact, we've seen 25 percent more and the reason why we're seeing more school field trips is

because of the number of buzz on and off the embarcadero. everybody was surprised seeing half of the field trips are by public transportation so if you get a chance to way. up and down the embarcadero you'll see tons of kids dressed up in hats or whatever it's remarkable especially in the springtime and what happens we've also we would 15 thousand school kids as title one students through pg&e one of our sponsor. be able to come to the polar to your memory 3 that percent of our audience were people coming

to the explore to your memory first, the first time and 51 percent a.m. came by means other than the car. so again, this transportation has been a game changer

as well as the triple amount of revenue we've earned from your global studios work $6 million a year from our contract work with other institutions around the world we grow from $30 million a year to $48 million a year here at the home and janitor $50 million of revenue in our first year so indeed we're cash positive which is very existing and important to us. if i may i'll mention that indeed we were so dmrltd about a month ago to get a plat tomb certification something we thought was impossible with our rehab it speaks about our level

of lead platinum we're extremely proud. i'd love to mention it is my honor to do that i have to is from the moment we signed the lease through the 2 years getting ready to go and naunt our day and be able to open on prevail 17 within the first year we exceeded our highest exception what an incredible sponsoring we have at the port you guys are amazing and have gone beyond the duty we've dokz docked many ships and we invited did full core it's a privately

owned research vessels owned and operated by eric smith and this was important to the dock, however, we didn't royal every boat had been a government boat so there's a whole regulation that's different that's a foreign flagship we decided to do this thirty days before it arrived and we discovered that the coast guard we needed to work through execute a process that takes 90 days everybody worked triple time and we put it together in thirty. this exterminate fizz an amazing supportive relationship we've experienced or experienced with the port staff.

i want to publicly acknowledging how much of this partnership is genuine and true and working from our prospective beyond our wildest imagination thank you for the report >> you're welcome. >> are you done. >> so dennis thank you very much i know the feeling is incredibly double sited we enjoy is and love the folks your bringing our way as well as the old friends and thank you for welcoming the ship. it's part of the cash and they have of not common to see the groups of kids in other ports or places they're not fences so it's been a great partnership you've brought to our waterfront so we're equally pleased and honored i can see the kids

coming a mile away when they go up the waterfront and it's fun they're still after wearing themselves out they're still abuzz with energy so we're so pleased to have you and help us getting ahold of the desk and at the bench people the value the waterfront. with that, commissioner president katz >> i too want to thank you and everyone at the explore to your memory it's extraordinary what you do but highlighting transportation and encouraging that kind of uncle for the school kids and others to come to the space like the exposure

to your memory is exceptional. kids that went to the old site and the camp counselor that used this i know what a wonderful opportunity it is for children to come through and what on impact it makes on their lives and the new site is beyond extraordinary, however, when i take my dog across the bridge with the fog he go bulked and it's great you achieved the award and buildings can achieve that high standard it's equally extraordinary and i want to thank you and bone above the port of san francisco recognize your anniversary but welcoming the one million people to the site it's helped to activate the waterfront for all of us and

drawn a new core of visitors here thank you for that