. >> call the meeting to order. >> (inaudible). >> so moved, second. >> all in favor, aye. minutes are approved. is there any nub comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. is there a motion to --. >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor. opposed? we will now move into closed session. .

>> motion to reconvene in open session. >> second. >> all in favor? aye. >> i move not to disclose anything discussed in closed session. >> second. >> all in favor? opposed? reconvene in open session and not disclose the closed session. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. please be advised that the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised the chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any person responsible for the

ringing of or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar-sound producing electronic device. please be advised any member of the public may have 3 minutes. item 8, public comment on items not listed on the agenda. >> is there any public comment? seeing none, public comment on items not on the agenda is closed. >> item 9 a, executive director's report. >> good afternoon, commissioners, members of the public, thank you all for being here today and port staff, delighted to see a houseful, a room full of people today so thank you for that. i have a few things to report, commissioners, starting with the fact that our next regularly scheduled meeting, which would be two weeks from today, february 24th, will be canceled. it is unfortunately the same day as the annual california maritime symposium

which is held in sacramento and members of the commission and the executive team will be attending and the maritime team will be attending that symposium, so we were not able to find a suitable second meeting date so we've elected to cancel it and our next meeting will be tuesday, march the 10th at our regular time in this room. >> i am not going to eject my colleague for the ringing. put it on silent. >> next on my report is a piece of happy news. as you know, the fisherman's wharf community holds an annual crab fest each year and each year they recognize a member of the community that has in some way benefited fisherman's wharf. i myself was so honored to be recognized last year. this year was their 12th annual crab feed and the fisherman's wharf

merchant's association chose to recognize the san francisco police department central station under leadership of captain david lazarr he has been posted as captain of central station for about two years, i think. and he has made a world of difference in the time that he has been there, together with officers john van call and officer ken warrell, who walk the beat in fisherman's wharf, among many. last night at the annual crab feed they were recognized for their incredible service to the community. as you can imagine the san francisco police department works 24/7, fisherman's wharf sees, we think, about 15 million people per year so they have a very busy schedule there. they have been incredibly helpful to the port and to the merchants and to the community and fisherman's wharf. captain lazarr himself has really

brought a community spirit, i've been to the hospital to visit guests of fisherman's wharf who have had injury at fisherman's wharf with captain lazarr, he's a very personable man and has really taken the issues of fisherman's boif very personally for the benefit of all. so we are very pleased to be part of the fisherman's wharf merchant association in recognizing the men and women of central station with captain lazarr and with particular thanks to officer van call and officer kevin worrell and we congratulate everyone. next i want to mention, and hope everyone knows, this is the hundredth anniversary of the pan pacific exhibition 2015 from 1915. as you may know the panama pacific exposition was a world's fair in 1915 which celebrated the completion of the panama canal and was also

used to remind the world that san francisco had recovered from the 1906 earthquake and was up and running and a welcoming place. it was a year long party or almost a year long party in 1915, marked by the very fact that the ferry tower -- where's the camera? there it is -- the ferry building tower, which was only a couple years old in 1915, was still a teenager, was lit entirely and remained lit for the entirety of 1915. and so to commemorate the 1915 exposition the ferry tower will again be lit for the entirety of the year, running through i believe december 4th of 2015. the lighting is made possible by sponsors and donors led by taub nraupb throw pee, platinum advisors, the friend family, sterling bank, auto deck, the mabeck foundation, michelle and chris meany and pier 39. so there will be a ceremony in

which the ferry building tower will be relit on march 3rd at 5.30pm, everybody is welcome to come and join the mayor, the port commissioners, the california historical society and all of our sponsors in counting down and lighting the ferry tower by should be a really fun event. again, that's march 3rd at 5.30 pm, right here outside the ferry building. great news, february 5th, last thursday, we got certification from a company called sea to cradle that dry dock no. 1 is officially completed the project to recycle it and dismantle it has been successfully completed. sea to cradle as you may recall, is an environmental ship recycling

consultant who we hired as part of our contract with dock wise. document already wise came and shipped her to china where they have been working diligently to recycle her in a safe and environmentally friendly manner and i'm happy to report she has been officially dismantled, it is all done and i would really like to thank our incredible team, led by daly dunnun and a whole bunch of other folks including maintenance staff who i haven't mentioned. it was a group effort but really pressed forward by daly dunnan, so if you will join me in a round of applause for daly, then continuing with our good news, i would like to introduce jay ox who was a regulatory environmental specialist in our

maritime division and jay is going to give a very very quick update on our maritime air emissions inventory which i will not give away the punch line other than to say it's good news. so jay. >> thank you, monique one moment please. okay, so as you may recall, in 2005 the port did an air emissions inventory, a maritime

air emissions inventory. this was part of a larger bay area port -- series of port emission inventories. this was to get a handle on air pollution contributed to the bay area by the maritime industry ie, ports. in this past year we've been working with the same consultants to update that, using year 2013 data, and we have really great news to report. this is a sneak preview, the report is still in draft form, but will be ready the end of this month. so the good news, and there's two lines here, they are both good news. our emissions are down hugely. the bottom row is really the final number. the top row of minus numbers is direct comparison of 2013 to what was totaled up in 2005.

the bottom rolls in shore side power and some additional calculations that weren't done in 2005. we came up with two different sets of numbers so we can compare apples to apples first then add in the shipyard, but the reductions are great. minus 34 percent in nox, or nitrogen oxide, minus 61 percent particulate matter. this is zeal particulates and from a health standpoint it's the most significant number of all. the sulfur oxide is down 89 percent and the reduction of about 16 percent in green house gasses. really great news overall. there's lots of numbers behind it and i won't go through these, these will all be in the report.

in this table, though, there's buried some really interesting information down at the bottom there's port of oakland emission numbers again from 2005. they redid theirs in 2012. it shows they have made big reductions also and comparing the port of san francisco to the port of oakland you can see that we generally have about 15 or 20 percent of what oakland has in terms of emissions. also buried in this table is the fact that the tm, again, the real health issue in all this, the equivalent reductions is 61 percent that we achieved. that's about the same number in terms of tons of particulates as was emitted in the last years of the operation of the hunter's point power plant. so, in essence, we have managed emission reductions about equivalent to taking a power plant off-line, so these are not trivial numbers. the report will go through

different categories of sources at the port, trucks and other land-based equipment, cargo handling equipment, harbor craft, which is ferries, tug boats and excursion vessels and then . >> dry dock. this shows that cruise ships in blue are a significant source but more importantly at this point are the harbor craft, tugs and ferries. they have made reductions, there are a bunch more state regulations that will be coming into effect in reducing these more in the future. so, again, really good news overall. great reductions and that's it. >> thank you, jay. so i just wanted to also thank you, the commission, for your leadership and your support of many of our

projects including our two shore side power projects one at pier 27 which during the 5 year period was offline for quite a while, while we were building the new cruise ship terminal, and the other at the pier 70 shipyard. so in the next few years i would expect to see that blue line decline quite a bit and we are working on some ideas for the red line of the harbor craft. it's been an incez bli quick response in the 5 years and we are thrilled about it and i want to especially thank jay for his leadership and dedication on this. jay is retiring at the end of the month, which you will hear more about, so this is his going away present to us and i really appreciate that and hope all port staff as they leave the port have great presents for us to leave behind. but thank you, jay, for that, and congratulations. (applause). >> can i ask jay just a quick question before he --? ?oo

sure. >> in terms of such tremendous numbers could you highlight just one or two of the things you see of what we did that had the biggest impact? the executive director mentioned the shore side --. >> the shore side power both at pier 70 at the shipyard and at pier 27 both had profound effects. surprisingly, the system at the shipyard is about equal or maybe even more emissions reductions coming out of that, primarily because the ships when they are in dry dock or in the shipyard are there for weeks at a time as opposed to just coming for 8 hours or 10 hours at a time. a lot of the other reductions were, frankly, not of our own doing. there are some state regulations that reduce the sulfur content in maritime fuels and those had a real significant effect statewide and you see those in emission

reduction numbers for all the california ports. >> thank you. >> sure. >> and thanks for all your hard work. i'm disappointed to hear you are going to be retiring. >> he's a young guy, too. >> i am not disappointed in that announcement. >> did i out you? i'm sorry. two quick things to report, commissioners, one is that the pop up, the public space at seawall lot 337 across from the ballpark is rapidly rising from the pavement and there was some happened to catch an interview on kcbs today and i happened to get a good look at it and it's looking great. so that is under construction and should be open in time for opening day, which is fast approaching. also sunday, march the 8th, which is coming up before our next meeting, is the kick off of the city sunday streets program. it kicks off, as you know, at the embarcadero so that will be sunday, march the 8th along the length of the

embarcadero. and then lastly i wanted to mention some news about one of our long, long-term tenants, frank sabella: frank sabella was born in 1912, one of 12 children born on francisco street right across from the port, to his parents and he had long been the owner of sabella and latora restaurant on fisherman's wharf. they serve lunch and dinner and also has a crab stand that sells calimari, among other things. he was born in 1927 right in the roaring 20's period and frank acquired it right after

world war ii and ran it for many many years. it's now being run by the fourth generation of sabellas, which is very exciting. in january, frank sabella passed away at the amazing age of 102, which just goes to show that you eating crab is really really good for your health and crab with san francisco sour dough is even better for all of you who are conscious of your carbs, knock it off. so we want to celebrate his life and his legacy at the port of san francisco and i would ask you to consider adjourning in his memory today when you adjourn your meeting. so that concludes my report. >> next item. >> public comment on the executive director's report. seeing none, public comment is closed. item 9b, port commissioners

report. >> commissioners. commissioner? >> i want to comment and thank you staff for sending us the maritime report which is very good to summarize everything. i also wanted to comment and i will add something to new business later, but i had, i think we're the victims of our own success. so i happened to happen to be asked on saturday to go pick up my brother-in-law and sister-in-law at the cruise ship terminal and i have to tell you it was a nightmare going down embarcadero. so i think as commissioners we all need to understand what it is to walk in the shoes of our, of the public and the clients in terms of the facilities that we have provided. it took about 45 minutes to get from folsom down to pier 27 and i would have to say the way -- and there was just a sign saying, expect delays. we have to do a better job. there are definitely, i think, things we

can do to study the traffic situation to improve the congestion. as it happens that day there were two ships, one was a 3,000 ship star princess and the other was a 2,000 people qe2. so there were 5,000 people trying to get off the boat and 5,000 people trying to get on the boat. initially i thought it was people trying to get to fisherman's wharf but it wasn't. but the whole flow of traffic even once we get inside so i think we need to do a better job and study this more carefully. unfortunately i did not see the san francisco's finest directing traffic as well as i think they could. there were a lot of people, there were a lot of policemen out there, but they were not helping the situation. in talking with the executive director she also had a traffic engineer out there and commented on the same.

so we want to get more passengers and more cruise ship terminal stuff, but the way we're going, this is not the way we can go forward. so we are the victims of our own success in getting more cruise ship passengers but we have to do a better job in terms of -- and i think there's a lot of things i would like to recommend and we'll talk about in the new business in terms of things maybe we could look at and have the staff look into in terms of getting a report on what to do going forward. the one last thing i want to mention because i asked my relatives in terms of their experience, one thing we could make a suggestion to the home land security immigration people is that they don't have global entry kiosks. i think it took them over an hour to get through immigration. so i think there was congestion inside the terminal as well as congestion on the street. and i think that all these people who cruise they are frequent travelers so global entry kiosks could be something they could consider adding into the terminal which makes it easy for people to get through, but

i think that may have been a very off, unusual day to have so much traffic but i think when you stress a system is when you need to look at solutions. so that's my report, to say that walking in the shoes of some of our actual public out there in terms of what happened on embarcadero. >> thank you. commissioners? nothing? any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. next item. >> item from the consent calendar, item 10 a, request approval of travel for member of san francisco port commission with members of port staff to shanghai, china, to attend a 2015 conference and visit the newest system port

for development. item 10c, request authorization to amend contract with langan engineering and environmental services regarding termination to ground leases and to (inaudible) south beach harbor, lincoln park and other improvements and related financial terms due to the the repayment of the south beach harbor revenue bond. >> can we bifurcate item 10a from 10b and c public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> i move for approval. >> what one are you on? >> 10 a. >> so are you pulling -- you are voting on 10a and that was public comment just for 10a >> yes, sure. motion to

approve of 10a >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor, aye. opposed? 10a carries. . >> while we're waiting, i would like to disclose that regarding item 10c, that the delancy street foundation is a client of mine through morgan stanley and i consulted with the city attorney's office to make sure there is no conflict and i have been told there is no conflict. >> thank you. so now public comment on items 10b and c seeing none, public comment is closed. motion for approval of items 10b and c >> so moved. >> all in favor, aye. 10b and c carry. >> 11 a, informational presentation from the mayor's office of housing on city-wide

affordable housing plan. >> good afternoon, president katz and vice president adams and commissioners. my name is (inaudible) i'm a development project manager in the development and planning division of the port. thank you, president katz and commissioner woo ho for directing us to invite the mayor to make this presentation. it is a timely presentation given that the city is in a state of what i call all hands on deck to address the pressing need for more affordable housing in the city. the purpose of this presentation is to provide an opportunity to inform the port commission and the public about

housing city-wide affordable housing program that development project pipeline and the distribution and location of key affordable housing sites, including the potential affordable housing site at the port and an update on the proposed affordable housing development on seawall lot 322-1 at the corner of broadway and front. the housing office is continuously looking for strategies to meet the affordable housing need of the city. i hope that the mayor's office of housing presentation will elaborate on these strategies and the collaborative effort in implementing these strategies. there is a director of housing development and sophie aword

policy of the mayor's office of housing are here to make the majority of the presentation. i will be handing over the presentation to them. in the end, i will come back to wrap up on the presentation. so at this point i'm going to turn it over to sophie to start her presentation. >> good afternoon, president katz and commissioners, i am sophie hayward from the mayor's office of housing. thank you for inviting us to talk with you about the affordable housing pipeline. i am joined by teresa yonger who you know as director of development for mcd i will begin today by

summarizing the mayor's housing goals, as well as the proposition k that was passed in november and presenting the recommendations of the housing working group, then teresa will provide you on an update on mcd's pipeline including the geographic distribution of sites through the city and then talk about the housing projects at the port. as you know, in january of 2014 the mayor outlined a 7-point housing plan. his goal then, as now, is to secure housing for 100 percent of san franciscoans. the plan focuses on neighborhood preservation and increased production of both affordable and market rate ownership and rental housing. specifically the plan focuses on eviction prevention, preservation of existing units, doubling down payment assistance programs for first time home buyers, revitalization of public housing, building more

affordable housing and expanding house options at all income levels and then of course streamlines processes. commissioners, i know you are aware that the housing crisis is real. it's affecting a brought swaugt of our city from the working poor to those who are solidly middle class. the mayor set out a goal to produce housing at all levels with a total of 30,000 units with over half of those within reach of -- with 10,000 affordable units and over half of those in reach of our low and middle income residents. we are on track to produce well over 10,000 permanently affordable units, including traditional affordable units, financed by mocd utilizing state and federal tax credits. those units allow us to leverage local investments at a rate of 2 to 1. we are also rehabilitating close to 4,000

public housing units, constructing new public housing units through the hope sf program and stabilizing at risk rental units. we're tracking our progress toward meeting the mayor's goals and we're actively working with the planning department, the office of economic and work force development and other public agencies to ensure that we're working as effectively as possible. as you also know, in november of 2014 voters overwhelmingly passed proposition k proposition k reflects the mayor's housing goals, that 30,000 unit number you keep hearing, with its affordable housing ratio, and then further proposition k sets a city policy that the city will attempt to ensure that 33 percent of all new housing produced in rezoned areas will be affordable to low and moderate income households and that funding strategies will be identified to fund new a