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 represent metro and on behalf of the metro management team please allow me to express our gratitude and how they've we are to have those partnerships in place metro has indeed a unique

history as a company to the city goes back to the 1800s to the gold rush indeed it's enforceable to conceive our emotion as we subtract the opening of the jane kim russ johnson herbert terminal this is a beautiful facility that was built living and breathing by the sea like if i others in the world while the journey that was remarked to get here was challenging the journal to build this cruise terminal was challenging we now look at one of the greatest ports having a first class facility and we celebrate that what makes it special is the

xhoird location along the waterfront and it's large and spinach transportation area that is unique as well as the flexibility of the law out san francisco's was a spectacular cruise location i'm ouch asked what makes a port a special support san francisco sums it up it is what a cruise port needs or ever needs what is missing a cruise structure to accommodate and welcome large vessels built today as opposed to as the ones built as liners the james a. herman cruise terminal has fixed that's it's incredible now as the negotiation and work has end

construction is over and it is now time for us to execute flawless operations to maximize and time to go to work and come ply and exceed the preparations of our customers we're welcoming here today we will do so working closely with our partners and certainly starting with you o w providing the labor and low barging badge stores and we'll work with local 91, local 24 and many partners we intra face everyday and thanks for their coordination we couldn't do that without them we'll also rely on the sfooz a leader in special events in the

bay area to help us russ produce and deliver the special events when we have vessels alongside we rely on import a leader in the business that will manage the parking activities and the strength of this cumulative rifrpz is essential to the facilities going forward and in closely closing we couldn't be more excited about the opportunity and we can't waited to begin maximizing them thank you. (clapping.) >> thank you very much steve no for all your work and world knowledge i know our guests appreciate it i want to recognize the leaders nancy pelosi and all she's done with us she's represented by her

daughter christina peeping i see the fire chief chief joanne hayes-white coming in and a small plus for my neighbor pier 23 cafe if you haven't been there get over there it's the greatest place next to the term eternal back to the 19 hundred everything was grand cruz was our guilt procure in the united states and i'm sure you're aware of we had the great depression's and world war ii but in the 1970s when the tv show came along the love boat who could effort the cruise director and

others filmed on a cruise ship the prince sister our last speaker spent the last to those as a cruise director sailing in and out of san francisco who better to have here today with a magnificent sheriff deputy this is the vice president to sailing the world 33 hundred and 50 cruise workers and his job to go around the world to find pleasures who best estimate to welcome (clapping.) thank you gunslinger i owe you

won for that but everyone i want to thank you very much for inviting prince sister to be a part of celebration i could not think of anything that is more appropriate to have the grand prince sister here so thank you for inviting us (clapping) i know in speaking of special events in 2015 prince sister celebrates it's 50th anniversary yes (clapping) you know we begin in 1965 with one small ship cruising from la in 1969 we made our way north to san francisco and from here we paranoia cruising you know how fitting that our city histories backing began with the gold refurbish would be the starting point for many

years to come today prince sister is the largest premium cruise lining line in the world we have 18 ships and carryover $1.18 million passengers but over 15 years we still call san francisco our home we're very, very proud to be part of our maritime tradition and to contribute to our leading industry tourism and honored to participate r with blue ribbon panel that helped to design this on our iconic waterfront and also honored to call you not only business partners but friends so we congratulate you on our crews terminal and look forward to being with you for

many, many years to come bonding voyage. >> thank you, thank you (clapping) and so boning voyage ladies and gentlemen, that's the theme today i'm sure you're aware of it's a word of greeting and goodwill as you embark on a trip for a new journey and our new journey is about to begin mar will you do us the how shall. >> are you all ready are p i handgun officially declare the opening of the james russ johnson herman cruise ship terminal of san francissan fraf

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>> the health commission will come to order. call the roll. >> singer? >> present. >> taylor-mcghee. >> present. >> chow. >> present. >> chung. >> present. >> sanchez. >> present. >> the approval of the minutes of the september second and september 16th meeting, 2014. >> we will take each one in order, the first one will be the minutes of september second, is there a motion for acceptance of those minutes? >> so moved. >> and is there a second? are there any corrections to the minutes? >> seeing no corrections, we will prepare for the vote. all of those in favor, say aye. >> aye. >> all of those opposed, the september seconds minutes have been accepted. >> the minutes of september 16th are before you. >> motion for acceptance. >> so moved. >> is there