missouri our vice president mr. alzheimer's and when i was 22 i came to those neighbors and like you all we envelope in love with our waterfront i'll actual 6 years ago when i ran for office i had hundreds of constituents many of r whom are here saying what is the city going to do to fix up our piers our piers were pa fatally into the sea we had had pier 35 and the neighborhood associations came together with w working with the develops developers and the city staff and the board of supervisors we brought the best science perfume museum on the west coast piers 17 chp we brought the best sailing race last year with the america's cup and used that to make sure we

move forward legislation and a hundred million dollars of investment to build the best cruise ship term on the west coast we're seeing today we need to establish the grand entrances from the world we have san francisco airport when the folks get off the plane that's their view into the port and not only just so a green this we're going to be hanging out with our families and kids and let me take a moment to thank all the folks can we give it up for the men and women of labor that helped to build it this building (clapping) and, of course, the men and women of you l y u to make sure we're bringing in millions of

san franciscans thank you. i l y u (clapping) let me close with one minimal of no foundation men and women coming off the gangway coming out to the city and some 22 years old is going to look at san francisco and saying i'm going to be a port commissioner and i'm going to be the next mayor that's because of what we did here in 2014 that's part of the story and who we are congratulations this is our story (clapping). >> thank you very much president chiu and so your words of supervision and your words i look forward so another terminal coming down next is my pleasure to introduce a woman in the private and public sector a

community advocate and now a strategic consultant and buildings a small group of thoughtful committed group of citizens can change the world please welcome president of the port commission and former commissioner leslie kate's (clapping) thank you. >> thank you moonl i want to thank mayor ed lee for his leadership and comboiblg making sure we had the investment to make this incremental possible and president chiu and the rest of the members for your leadership i want to say to at all all of you welcome to our brand new jim writing i didn't a. herman cruise ship terminal

(clapping) you're going to here common themes of coming together of being a beacon of creating signature sites and places along the waterfront but i think most importantly and we've all this i would have this it's our people the people that mobbing make up the fabric felt city from the members of all the different commissions and boards to all the residents that are so active in everything we do to the leadership from our workers and various labor unions that have already been strong to the businesses that support us in all the creative ways we approach our work so i want to let you know we're appreciative to all of you perhaps many of you don't remember we tried

before to get a new term and this time we have asked her one it so leap of faith the port envisions a new terminal but now we've done is a team effort but today marks the culmination of effort to build a new term and no one would expect that today we'd have a state of the art friendly and absolutely beautiful building with over 5 acres of parks and public access along the waterfront here on top of that mayor ed lee mentioned some of the sustain building features i won't go into all of them by the with you have gray water that will fuel or provide the water into our toilets our beautiful park we're harvesting that on the roof and if you're unable to

see it from above you'll see the functioning of the water collection it's low energy we have all sorts of sustainable features go to our website it is built for standards and has daylight savings time and bird resilience material on the windows so bifrdz won't eastbound hurt i don't want to give a list of facts i'll direct you to the program but suffice it to say it is xooerd what has been accomplished we're finalizing what's been done and we've worked tirelessly many, many people have helped to make today possibly and certainly enough time to thank you all it's not

there ensue the staff and a myriad of leaders and today's commission played a part in insuring the project came to frustrate shotgun and commissioners were instructional in that i want to thank you all i'd like to thank that i'm joined on the stage but you have to call to monique commissioner adams, commissioner brandon and commissioner murray and wyoming how that are lucky to be here i know it's hard to thank everyone but stu thank you to the port staff 80 that went above and beyond john and peter and john and tom and carter and his group and dan and others thank you all

and so many others of the important staff (clapping) of course, the leadership tenacity and sleep also nights was wording if we'd be able to pay for this and our director has been the driving force her commitment and that of her leadership team to this project has not wavered and with the combined effort many of you have been mentioned your we're they've to monique for this (clapping) you beat me to the bunch i punch a project like this is on time and budget is really k30ir8d give her another hand, please (clapping) our commission and the port

staff worked hard for the progress in our community to the waterfront from the restaurants to the ball parks to the museums to entertainment venues and now to the first cruise term off o on the west coast to one of the bitter births available and now an addressed new jewel i wasn't going to say it it will be quiet a spectacular party our new terminal created a designation that serves our visits internationally but serves our local communities as well this cannot have happened without the work of our partners that come together from the i o y and metro core our community

advisors committees and our commission and several these others and the entire family we've demonstrated what can be accomplished when we come together another terminal is you've already seen the up stick and not only to help the port but bring in an influx of visitors to our beautiful city and waterfront so again san francisco set an example of our diversity and our ability ability to work together to realize our various visions and thank you for making cruise ship terminal possible thank you. (clapping.) and now it's my great pleasure to introduce synonym that has been here from 9 insepgs session international concert of the i o

u and community leader willy adams has been part of the first blue ribbon terminal committee he was pointed out by mayor ed lee to the port commission and has further shaped today's fervently i want to take a moment to reflect open mr. herman and how lucky we are to know about jimmy herself map i was lucky enough to have met him and willy adams resembles the man compassionate and educator and strong and kind i'd like to introduce my friend and colleague willingly adams

(clapping). >> first of all, i'd like to guess i'm very glad that the members of my family the i o w are here but when he when we stand on the holy ground remember 1934 you wouldn't know that 80 years later the longshoreman the police and the national guard we were frooith to try to start a union for the wagd it's about process there is is a struggle moving forward and the same people that were fighting we're all here together that's what san francisco does we get beyond our differences and in 2006 mayor newsom had a vision put a blue ribbon

commission together he said i don't want support anyone can pat you on the back i want commitment it means action and today that commission was formed in 2006 and we made the representations to the mayor and the board and we didn't know how to pay for it but put the recommendations forward and director moyer along with the lady from the city should say has the guts of a gunslinger let me tell you (clapping) the reason why we move forward is like our present mayor, mayor ed lee has said on many occasions the future belongs to the city and for the city this size we might be the waerment weight of our size but we believe in this city when i

think about james herman he was a working-class guy but this represents all the workers in san francisco we decide has a as a commission frankly, i didn't lee and joe and others on the commission redd map turn man, bruce, john martin and steven one thing we agree san francisco is a world-class city the world looks at to us we're the standard from which every other city raise the bar we've raised the bar in san francisco the average age in san francisco is 27 years old we have a repeals

as an in the city this city thinks outside of the box the heavens and earth shock this morning that this cruise terminal was opening up it speaks to our culture and history and the proudness we have in san francisco this terminal belongs to the citizens it belongs to the world we're a city we may have the olympics we're acy stone the move we make no apologizes in closing i'm to is i'm going to introduce a man that not only is a friend and mentor but robert is a 42 mentioned member of the international longshoreman and bob came from the docks of vancouver washington he's married his wife sally and children and grandchildren are the love of his life he's one of the

military lerdz throughout the world in 2006 he rows to the holy grail we becoming the sixth international president of the longshoreman union and he's commented to the port and to the city he has a big job he oversees alaska and hawaii and the parenting ma he's a visionary and a true working class leader ladies and gentlemen, will you please give a welcome to the international shore man bob (clapping.) thank you very much there was a couple of things you don't

fellow willie in a speech mayor thank you and a lot of people to thank on this occasion but i want to thank one person monique i've committed myself and the i o w keep in mind equipment to make this cruise terminal to make sure people enjoy their trip we'll hit bumps but whatever it takes thank you (clapping) so here we are a lot can be said we're in the beautiful city of san francisco today with this beautiful cruise terminal named after a beautiful man jimmy herman i knew him he was a great and giving guy he gave of himself and to the

city of san francisco for those who knew him there's a lot of i o w union guys we knew jimmy he was a beautiful beautiful very beautiful man he was appointed to the port commission by feinstein reappointed by art agnos and reappoint by willie brown so jimmy herman was quite the man's of san francisco he give gave of himself to the city and to the flip erect system and to the kitchen and dozens of charities we would go down the street and give people money he would pull out a 20 and give it away i knew jimmy back in the day 42

years i got to know jimmy that was a great guy i remember one time we had a strike the picket lines at the greyhound it was a violent picket line so back in those days, i was in good shape they pointed out me with another guy and said don't let anyone get to jimmy you know what jimmy gave to the i o w it was his family james russ johnson herman was very giving now that he's gone he is giving back to the i o u and jimmy is still here his name is on the wall it's now the james russ johnson henry herman cruz

tenor and i o w thank you and thanks jimmy herman thank you (clapping). >> that was terrific thank you very much commissioners kate's and adams and to everyone that is part of the i o w u and related to the unions thank you very, very much it's at&t's an incredible journey to work with you so thank you for that it's now my turn to credulous e correct my fumble i want to recognize consul general of japan our public deferred and city attorney dennis herrera and i saw supervisor yee come in thank

you for running over after our committee my apologies to everyone there are hundred and hundreds of you next my pleasure to introduce a man that apparently never sleeps he's decked outs in a nice suit but this afternoon he'll be in a green vest and tonight if it rains again he'll be driving around making sure our streets are safe for all of us, please welcome our director of public works mumd. >> good afternoon, everyone and thank you for inviting me to be part of the great event today san francisco public works which is the did i want run we're truly digested excited to be part of the project a modern

cruise tenor for the 21st century waterfront thank you. (clapping.) >> here in this beautiful city son one side we have telegraph hill and on the other side the bay we're weaving together the present and future we delivered the state of the art working cruise terminal as you've heard on time and on budget and created a wonderful new park where visitors and residents can watch the cruise ships sail and come back and also enjoy our waterfront all year round this is a project that we can all be proud of

it's going to booster important hospitality industry going forward and building it with san francisco is a great achievement that is being one of mayor ed lee's corner stone to provide the local jobs we've not only create those jobs but exceeded our goals for local businesses and local hiring a few people utilizing i'd like to recognition our city architect mr. lopez and city engineer two project managers cindy and oscar who worked everyday to make sure our project was here and delivered on time and many of our construction managers and

landscape designs contractor administrators and staff from our materials testing lab all part of the organization part of this project in bringing this beautiful building here and a special thanks to calvin did care sing from turner construction we worked colonel's with them on many projects but this one was a very, very excited one you'll hear from him in a minute when i'm done speaking but most importantly the strong partnership moonl i know under the mayors leadership i worked in the city for many, many years but under east side leadership the puc and mta, planning and others all of us working together to make this city the beautiful city and the

city that works so it is a great day today, i'm thankful to be here and with all due respect i'll ask the gentleman from sing to come up thank you very much lp. >> as lucky has it i get to follow the national public speakers i'm only a contractor but first, i'd like to thank monique mirror because some recognition is generally not offered to contractors first (clapping) i knew i was going to be following all the great speakers i'll wrote notes but i'm going to try to wing this one a couple of years ago i was at the port commission's meeting when a contract was ratified i got to speak and said for us at

turner the project completion under budgeted and on schedule a given but the journey is more important we hope the journey is a memorable one and i was shopped short and said thank for good memories most of us associated with the project are going to have fond 34e78z this is an example of cooperation and not unhappy by accident i was trying to recognition why this was unhappy under the leadership of the moumd the city is implementing new contracting method idols and therefore educating a business environment that allows us the contractor and community to build those on time and on budget i also want to recognize the

city architect victor lopez that is really breaking a businesslike tlooud attitude this creates an investment that creates projects like this and the psyche i also want to thank oscar and, of course, clients kim and i believe the new city engineer thank you very much for being great consumers and 81 thank you to our staff cliff watkins and others and lastlyly i'd be and i miss if i didn't thank all the contractors the labor and, of course, the architects led by c in the right direction m.d. and thanks bryan stevens and others for the great

piece of architecture and the public for letting us be at our service thanks (clapping). >> thank you - there's so many important people so we'll get it that in a second thank you mumd for your kind words and the public works staff it's been a pleasure to welcome you into the port family we wish you could stay wusz it's been a great endeavor and turner construction to see this run ring with the harmonies of liberty; by so many women at the port commission and turner construction has been a great step forward and as part of exist of our city we've been really, really fortunate and can

only be going on without recognizing the architects jim and peter and others we've been very, very fortunate this is fantastic they've designed on the go we kept evolving and evolving and skrufl u evolving and the park got bigger they were tremendous so thank you to them if i could have an round of applause for all of them (clapping) so a couple more notables i'd like to announce choorltd did i get it right the director of portfolio but ms. linda and mark fuel and our director of the domestic violence of public

utilities and nadia gave us some money thank you nadia and so many more it's an how shall to work with all of you our next speaker an interesting guy he has cruising in his blood a sea captain from italy and has sailed around the world and worked for 3 cruise lines and now the president of the metro shore services please welcome steve no (clapping.) >> thank you, monique as opposed to the prudes speaker i brought notes and that i'll follow them good afternoon mayor ed lee and distinguished guests i'm honored to