[applause] >> so thank you. thank you so much. it's really great to know that you all are here and paying attention and one of the things i love most about the port is the fact that we don't have to have [inaudible] like most ports and airports do and we do allow people to get up close to the water, and unfortunately sometimes that doesn't go as we planned, but thank you for making sure that when particularly susan didn't get the response you were looking for the firsz try that you just kept trying. we're all the better for it. i have something else to report that occurred after the agenda was made public. as i'm sure you've seen in the media we had a tragedy occur friday in fisherman's wharf. a family was visiting us from utah. they were not staying in san

francisco, they were staying across the bay. they were walking across the west side of jefferson street. the family has three children and the youngest boy was attracted to a statute that was placed in the doorway in the sidewalk of one of the vendors there on jefferson street and he climbed it and the weight of the body caused it to topple over on top of him. i think the statue weighs about 300 pounds. his sister tried to prevent the accident, but unfortunately she wasn't able to prevent it. the passers buy immediately called 9-1-1 and we got a group of officers dispatched out of central station. one of the first responders was officer john [inaudible] and came to the scene immediately

and did a heroic effort in obtaining the ability for the paramedics to arrive at the scene, calm down the passers buy and as you can imagine these kind of events cause a lot of spectators. keeping the scene calm is really important. the little boy was dispatched to general hospital. when he arrived he was believed to be in critical but stable condition. sometime in the afternoon, captain david lazar decided he'd visit the family. he went to the hospital, went into the reception area and learned that the family had just left and he quickly went back out to the parking lot and was able to locate the family in the vehicle. he approached the family and introduced himself just to check on the boy and see if there was anything he could offer and that's when the

family advised him that the little boy had passed of several hours of surgery. as i mentioned the family was staying over in alameda and so captain lazar took it upon himself to arrange that they would be able to stay in san francisco and he was able to get them lodging at the jw marriott in union square and they donated two rooms to the family because one of the senior family members was also flying in. captain lazar also took care of their other needs and they were able to provide meals to the family and any other assistance they needed. the family drove back home to utah on saturday. we haven't had communication with them since, but they have established a website in memory of the little boy whose name is

casen shelton and they are accepting donations to pay for his funeral and other costs. it's a very, very disturbing turn of events. we in property management try to be very diligent about what is allowable on our sidewalks. most -- it's a very difficult task, is the easiest way to put it, whether on jefferson street or elsewhere. the sidewalk attracts a lot of people in all kind of forms and most of the time that's really really fun. on this particular day it wasn't and so we will continue to be individual lent. individual lent. the mer and we are prevailing upon our merchants to take precautions and to take our rules seriously. we hope that they will. and we are also very grateful to the san francisco police department that responded and

the paramedics who responded and to the captain who showed incredible humanity to a family in need. i'm pleased to report that today the fisherman's wharf community benefit merchant association donated $500 to the police officers association so they can continue to help families in need and for all of you who are listening and touched by this story, if you get a chance to thank one of your friendly police officers, i'm sure they would commit because as you heard today, our colleagues at police and fire go above and beyond every single day and they don't get knowledge or credit for it. we like to spend a lot of time on mistakes and not so much time on all the good things that happen. and i don't know where this family would have been without the police department to help them.

and so commissioners, if i could, i'd like to recommend that you adjourn your meeting today in memory of casen shelton and his parents, scott and tony shelton, and his siblings. thank you. >> commissioners. >> public comment. commissioners report. okay, call next item please. >> item 10a request approval of [inaudible] from the james r. herman known as the james r. herman tribute and associated [inaudible] and approval of display of james r. herman cruise terminal at pier 27. >> good afternoon commissioners. my name is [inaudible].

tonya, i'm with the planning and development division at the port. i'm going to propose the james r. hermantribute. here's a picture to the international long shore and warehouse union, also referred to as the lwu local 34 water front division, along with several other chapters and members have commissioned a piece of art to give to the port as a permanent installation for the new james r. herman [inaudible] 27. commissioner james r. herman

was an advocate for maritime industries and job creation. he was very active along the water front, working in a variety of warehouses and plants and involved in several bargaining and enforcement activities. he started his career at the age of 17, going out to see as a member of national union of marine cooks and stewards. commissioner her man was appointed by appointed and served as a port commissioner between 1992 and 1998. on the screen is a list of commissioner herman's accomplishments outside of being commissioner. he was honored as laborman of the year. the lwu have formed a james r.

herman memorial committee to fund raise for this tribute. this committee has [inaudible] non profit status and its members are listed on the screen now for you, which include congresswoman nancy polosi. floating point was selected through this is an art and design collective based in brooklyn, new york. to finalize the tribute design. where will the tribute be? on the first floor of the new cruise terminal, the lobby in the front, which is referred to as lobby east, which is basically the first room closest to the embark dare row

is where this will be housed. this is an audio and video installation that is integrated with the interior of the first floor lobby. it features an approximately 10 foot high by 15 foot wide wall mounted steel sculpture that represents waves on the bay. placed within this is a touch screen monitor that allows visitors to scroll through images and bigraphical information about commissioner herman. the installation also features a directional sound system that provides highlights from commissioner herman's speeches. when a person is in close proximity, the ambient pattern on the sculpture will respond to their presence, the touch screen will prompt spruers to interact with it and various quotes will appear on the

sculpture. this is what the tribute will look like when no one's near it and then this is what it will look like when someone comes near it, it will animate. the port that james r. herman and floating point collective have knee gauche yited gift agreement that provides the terms under which the port can accept this unconditional gift. this gift agreement will give the port the following authority -- full ownership of the tribute, and secondly the approval of the content and any content changes. this agreement also contains customary releases and waivers for the committees and artist rights to allow the port unrestricted use for the tribute. in order to accept this there is a process. it has an estimated value of 250,000.

this includes the gift for installation and replacement parts for a 20 year period. this subject to acceptance under the board of supervisors under the city's administrative code. todz i am seeking the commission's acknowledge of this gift and approval of the gift agreement that is attached to the staff report. with the commissions acknowledge of this tribute gift, it can be presented to the board of supervisors. so the next steps are presenting this to the board of supervisors and then the artist, the floating point commitment submits [inaudible] approve this building permit once the city accepts is gift. and assuming and 85 day

installation and fabrication period, we can have this tribute inside of the cruise terminal by this october. and the audience today is the chair of the james james r. herman memorial committee and shawn farly would like to make some remarks now about james r. herman. >> thank you very much. just one little thing we wanted to add. jimmy was president for local 34 from 1963 to 1977 and then was the international president from 1977 to 1991. just wanted to kind of give you guys a sense of how this committee came together. this committee is a cross section of everybody who's a san francisco citizen and it's a cross section of everybody who was supported and mentored

and taken care of by jimmy her man. . a man who was amazing. as you look at the people who were on that committee and every one of them when you sit down and have a committee meeting, people talk about jimmy and some people are close to tears when they talk about him and his legacy. we thank the port commission and the staff for the ability to do this tribute. ultimately we came together and we had the assistance of auto desk and i want to make sure that people understand that this tribute would not have been possible without their assistance. they helped us find our artists, they helped us through communicating what our design and wants were directly to the artist and set up all of our initial meetings. we had roughly five different artists who came in with a broad base of different

projects and we had a very clear mandate that we wanted one to reflect what jimmy was about, his values, his history, his legacy, social justice movement that he participated in and his time here as a port commissioner. all the facets of who he was in his life. with that very, very large grocery list, we also had to take in concept with what pier 27 is, a cutting edge facility, a world class facility. when you walk into the facility, a tribute that is commence rate with that facility and we think we've done that very, very well. i want to give credit to floating point. usually in the lwu and our different committee meetings there's discussion and arguments and rarely anything comes out with 100% consensus

with virtually no debate. last point, we expected 90 days for the completion of in. during this time we'll be doing additional fund raising to support this project and we thank you for the opportunity and ask for your support in the vote. thank you very much. >> can can i get a motion and a second. >> so moved. >> second. >> public comment?

>> hello, maybe i was on mute. any way, i think it's very moving to hear about this tribute and obviously we've known that this terminal was going to be named after him for some time, but it seems like it's been continuing celebration about jimmy herman and what he represented for the city of san francisco and what he did for the water front [inaudible] here in san francisco and so i think we're very [inaudible] tribute of this nature will keep his memory alive and i think the nice part of understanding this tribute is it's a very dynamic tribute, not just a bust or

statue where you just look at it, but very much of the digital age, and it will be very much current in what today's generations and young people and the future can play with it and that's very exciting to hear. i think we're very supportive here and very pleased we have this opportunity and thank all the parties that are involved with auto testing and others that have contributed to make this happen in addition to what you all have done on the committee. thank you. >> i too want to -- is my mic working? i want to thank shawn and the committee, auto desk, and floating point to help with this gift. james r. herman is a wonderful person and did so much for the nation, the city, the port. this is just such a wonderful gift and it's so nice to be able to accept this gift. we love gifts here at the port.

[laughter] i just want to thank you again and i can't wait to see it and i'm really excited about this. i did have one question and that is, what happens after 20 years? >> basically the term of the gift agreement is for 20 years. during that -- after that period if there was a need to do something different, we would be coming back again to address that period afterwards. but once the gift is given it belongs to the port so our goal long term is to make sure it stays relevant and make it up to date constantly. so 20 years you guys will be going, wow, we still love this. but that's basically it. it's just we needed a term to look at a useful life of all the components so that's what the term is, tabt useful life of components and addressing

that piece. >> once the gift is given to us the port can do what it wants to it. it can turn off the sound if it needs to when in's a cruise ship visitors in or have the components featured differently, but for the life of it the port can do what it wants because it's an unconditional gift. >> it has a 20 year life span or i'm wondering after 20 years will the port be responsible with the upkeep and will we continue to make it relevant. the >> is port isn't obligated to maintain it in the state that it's given, but the committee has formed a [inaudible] and they're going to continue to fund raise to keep it up to date and keep it current. >> great, thank you. >> i want to say i'm very proud of the committee for all their hard work.

jimmy herman was a true working hero. he wasn't a bureaucrat. he had a third grade education, grew up in the streets of newark, new jersey. he went to sea as a young man, was a cook on the ships, and it's amazing he used to lecture college kids. he thought them what common sense was, taught them what social justice was and about responsibility, but thought them the art of you can be whatever you want to be and also his work with the lansing street, with the two burton brothers, jimmy was very instrumental with that. jimmy marched with cesar chavez. i mean, today if jimmy was alive his accomplishments are so much he wouldn't want any recognition. he left his townhouse to a person. he just donated because he was the type of person that didn't

believe much in money. he was the type of person that believed your mark is what you left behind, how many people that you helped in your life. i think jimmy herman was like the maya angelo of the water front. even with the lansing street when it was over up at cathedral hill, pacific heights, people in that area didn't want the street there so jimmy, as president of the commission and him and the [inaudible] and leroy king, they were able to get delancey street where it was at. he said if we're not wanted over there we'll go where we're at. he said everybody in life deserves a second chance. and jimmy felt that. and even within our union we had a time where drugs and alcohol was very rampant and

jimmy stepped out and said just because a person's an alcoholic or drug addict, they deserve a second chance in life. he set that program up at shipping companies so people could go and get help. today we have one of the largest program of recovering alcoholics and drug addicts in our union that are sober 20, 30 years because jimmy herman said give the average person a break. give them a chance because they got a family to feed, they got kids, and jimmy was a guy that was for the little guys. i'm really happy and say portive of this. i want to say a very special thank you to the committee and also to director moyer. this thing got off track more than once and [inaudible] fruition. 30 years ago i never thought we'd have a world class terminal and it's here now.

anything worth having in life, you have your ups and downs, gets off track. everybody stayed the course, veronica sanchez, peter daily and people who just kept pressing on until this day happened. i want to thank everybody involved and not giving up even when we agreed to disagree. this is a part of the process sometimes. sometimes just 'cause you don't agree on everything, that don't mean you're not on the same side. sometime you have to have three or four different looks until you get it right. >> thank you so much. thank you for your kinds words. the last meeting, he's just been remarkable and this is not his day job and contracts between the port and anyone are not intuitive, they're not simplistic and they're not

always fun and shawn has always brought his great sense of humor and commitment to it and put himself in a position of having a second full-time job out of his hov and respect. love and respect. and the fact he's wearing a stunning suit today, jimmy would be so proud. thank you for all you've done and your committee and veronica and all. and we're really excited by the art. >> thank you shawn and dave and rene. all those in favor of resolution 1349 say i. >> i. >> opposed. >> resolution 1349 passed unanimous. [applause] next item. >> item 11a, request approval of contract terms and authorize staff to execute a contract with dock wise in an amount not

to exceed 2.97 million for dry dock number one plus $270,000 incurred at loading subject at board of supervisors approval, a waiver of competitive sitting and other city contracting requirements. >> good afternoon commissioners. daily with the special projects group here to present on dry dock number one. i'll start with some background on the project. it's been with us a long time. dry dock number one was constructed for the world war ii shipbuilding effort. it was in operation for a little over 60 years, declared unfit for service in '99, coming up on 75 years old. said on its last operational

lift. we've been trying to find a proper home or final disposition for it ever since. we caught a break in 2009 with the assistance of minority leader, congresswoman nancy polosi and the department of defense to assist us with our effort. and set aside over the intervening years, $3.8 million to complete the demolition of the dry dock. so where the money came from in the beginning was a complicated matter and this speaks to why we are here now after that and why it came about in 2009. initially it went to the department of defense, but moving from square one to square two in a year to fight the right agency to administer it. from there, finding a federal

agency to execute it between the [inaudible] and the u.s. navy it took almost that amount of time again. once we got there we had a great project manager, a great project team. they contracted with titan salvage. , their previously competitive bidder [inaudible] sub contractor who we have long relationship with and who does great work. a little bit of work, what you're seeing here, just to get a sense of the scale of it, those are four backhoes on the side of it. and then hauling it out at what's the future site of pier 70 where we had some room to dispose of the end sections. unfortunately it is about 12 feet too narrow to handle the mid body or we'd be doing that

right now. phase one took the dock down from this original length down to 408 feet which doesn't seem like a lot for half the project budget r but bringing the foot brint down is the critical component of phase one because it opened up possibilities for phase two. the key part of phase one was the close out report. out report. we requested that they [inaudible] are vied provide us with technical information of what to do with it once they're done. the most economic option with the least technical risk overall continues to be semisubmersible dry tow rarely found outside the united states. we took that recommendation and proceeded forward given the expertise behind it. in fact they made that recommendation not only once, but twice.

the first time we reviewed all the alternatives and said please look at more and this was still their clear first choice. so the scope of work for that, semisubmersible dry tow is a service contract and really for sale of the asset, transfer of title and for transportation to an appropriate site overseas, but for purposes of our contract, the contract terms, the key elements are that it transfers all liable from the port. . from the time they pick it up it is no longer ours. that's a particularly attractive point for me. what's going to pick it up? the vessel that we have in mind, there are only a few of them globally that can handle this kind of work, are the [inaudible] vessel operated by dock wise