to think of something to say first thing it is on you this time (laughter) working at the port has provided just great opportunities for me projects i've done i never could have imagined walking in the door doing them but they have been a number of things coming along on someone that didn't like doing the same thing twice when there's a exchange i go for that i can name things with pg&e (laughter). >> was night mary for a long time we paralyzed with help from the chronicle in a first page article

but frankly short side power the first time at pier 27 i know it was going to be the most difficult project i worked on and fortunately it quoted my exceptions really the number of different pieces that had to come together were outstanding the best part i think was out of nearly $5 million project we had about $4 million of external funding the port got a $5 million for one million dollars or a little bit less we beat la to by getting our system online three or four months before that he got obama they paid $50 million for anyway, thank you for the opportunity to work on a bunch of fascinating projects you get

involved with city government on a number of levels to get involved with way too many federal and state regulars getting involved that the maritime i gave a talk at sfaftd and the maritime ports have responded to the issues and the maritime industry is fascinating it is huge it is i describe it to people as a kind of secret society it's humane out there no one understands it everything on their house was on a ship 80 percent of products were on a ship at some point the maritime industry and the iowu are profoundly important in

making that in the economy and getting to appreciate that and learn to get to know people on the shipping side and the ports not only throughout california but up and down the woovts and east coast it really, really great i'm appreciate for all the opportunities thank you (clapping.) >> any more executive director report. >> that's it. >> any if you remember public comment on the chorts. >> seeing none oh. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> item 9 port commissioners report. >> i don't have any report. >> just a few quick things one i just want to echo congratulations to elaine and peter and john and john for that

their impact awards so well deserved so thank you, director mirror for nominating them we're proud of the team there and second not sure you mentioned it but the jimmy russ johnson herman tribute on march 6 people are invited to see the unveiling of the art that was actually was mentioned in acknowledging making sure so the late jimmy herman the former commissions and the iowu and the fabulous persona tribute to him and at exhibit and the installation will actually be an zach so, please join us then it is at the 65 p.m. on

march 268 and lastly people want to ask if we can get an update new business on the 20th street status of where things stand at the pier 70 we'll bring that up under new busy that's all i have. >> any public comment? public comment is closed. >> next item please. >> item 10 informational presentation on the taxi operations at the port.

>> commissioner president katz and commissioner adams and commissioners jerry mr. chairman margaret manager for the port of san francisco today, we're at a milestones presentation circling san francisco water technique business which consists of two operators quickly a bit of background remember back in 2012 during the simmer we did a request for

qualifications that led to select the interviewing of 6 qualified bid irons and with the group of 4 patent lift two from the staff one on marketing side and two from outside the port for example the san francisco municipal transit authority and the mayor's office panels the original qualification was seeking an operator to come in and run is on scheduled regularly scheduled hop on and off technique service along the shore line the port controlled on that panel the consensus was

the water taxi, however in the interviews with the marine throughout on a original concept the panel felt that was worth pursuing so we asked if we couldn't enter into an agreement with a second operator would be operating is on call as needed taxi services between points in san francisco and points in the north and east bay that was approved by the commission and we staff get the authority to enter into agreements in 2012 after the first year of operation for tida marin in 2013 they were looking at to build up their fleet and had investigators come back to the commission in 2013 and asked to extend the term of their lease in 5 to 10 years it was grandioso what that did the

position in 2014 to have two operators up and running the highlights of the 2014 are that san francisco water technique launched they're first vessel it's called little taxi and that was in march of 2014 thankful only operated the staff package reports on just the things that happy in 2014 so san francisco water taxi only operated 9 months out of the year of 2014 but turned in close to $3,000 in rent to the port and served almost 8 thousand passengers they also have begun sea trials on the speed vessel as their presentation will show you they're also working on the vessels they want to incorporate into their system shortly

tied line marin launched their second and larger boot it's a 41 passenger boat and for the year of 2014 they generated revenues of close to $10,000 i want to point out one error if the staff report i showed 6 hundred plus there were 0 actually, two payment we didn't know how to apply so they were applied to the wrong year that is is almost $10,000 and served over 11 hundred and 57 passengers both of those operators were invited to the presentation open the state of water taxi so the water taxi industry your invite for both operators to speak

about their future vision and their plans and where they see the san francisco water taxi going the loose thing important note of 2013 is the port staff completely all of the installations for a 3 part water taxi signage system that was designed and positions with a lot of input from our planning department so it meets all the sign guidelines and sign criteria we completed those installations early in 2014 and the 3 parts of system are we have location banners that show where water taxi landing is there and the banners hang on the light poles controlled by the port on the situation side of hurricane lake and the second part of the system are the way wanting

arrows once you look at a banner if you look at the water you'll see a series of water that points you to the landlord you catch the craft the third is the signage that is installed on the front gailt gate to all of the landing right where you board the craft once complete he operators have over a year experience they're here to talk about they're what they've learned and their future vision so the first, i'd like to introduce is captain taylor lewis the executive director of tied line incorporated a can corporation so - >> you want me to -

>> go ahead. >> thank you. >> commissioners exclusive staff and port tenants it is great to see two water taxi operators in this commission i remember 4 years ago i would monitor this conversation in the demonstrative of the waterfront it is exciting the top of the schedule which is exciting as well (laughter) congratulations to sf water taxi we look forward to more existing years to get going a lot of new faces a general overview in october of 2014 which many of you would nice enough to see our second vessel speaking based on the environmental issues around the port it was inspected in less than 2 weeks they're the most eco friendly engines and

possible for commercial vessels so substantially they've gardened demands in the demographics we are along 3 port warrant water spots exclusively in the north bay and east bay and south bay to accommodate the services we have a difficult service our first year was based on understanding the services the water ways in which we operate and the conditions annunciation with our union partners we're excited to know we have one hundred safety record and operate twenty-four hour we're here to help with the needs of drinking and driving and things we see everyday this vessel work in conjunction with our vessels it's a 6 passenger vessel and together we're offering two lines of

service currently on demand the san francisco, california staple is based on the people's schedule like the taxi trying to use the domain name we are operating a bay loop services that works as a $30 ticket with incentives drop down to $25 you jump on and off our vessels we help to utilize the port facilities so like the merry run community likes to see the waterfront from other view so people can jump on another port carry we're here to drive people to access areas that normally wouldn't be done this is our bay loop serve wireizing using that an fridays we will add different

days our service will match the events like san francisco street festive up and down the embarcadero we changed our route to accommodate visitors we're adaptable in the activities whether in san francisco or not last year i'm not sure your familiar we ran a pilot program for the social network copy facebook that was great to travel people to locations at a sal obsolete other outside other jurisdictions additional one spot on the pier 40 we were excited we got to pay more revenue our ridership was great so we provide similar services we're having all the right kinds of conversation with the

maritime companies. >> our ridership so since we last spoke during our port presentation we asked to extend our contractor as we were privately funded entity and this is san francisco where it's a startup industry not so for water so this was a thank you to the port commission in helping us to present something to our investigators to help to build this out since that time since we last spoke our ridership and the budget of that ridership is local resident we see the residents using our services in conjunction with event we contribute that to our local residents they were filling gaps with hotels and the different events like the giants we ran a service helping people get through traffic it was

successful people got back to the bay in event or 15 minutes it is growing we started up it was a civically started business we launched the world series with the golden gate bridge outages has increased our ridership by 45 percent through march we've taken 9 hundred and 35 passengers to port location and our numbers don't capture what we do outside the port this is the winter season we'll be looking at maximum demand as your marketing get engaged so the rooichd trend is the first year of our business that is understanding the meaningless and how water can be utilized in this area the rid arrow to the

highest ridership primarily one one half and pier 40 locations immunizing we see less traction from san francisco, however, we're going to see that in the landing spot in berkley and other positions and our landing spot is an exciting one with lawrence livermore we'll provide transit options for the transit centers we're excited about that partnership again, just duo to reiterate our launch from our new vessel we've seen the limited martin we are understanding the logistics in the new controlled an increase in our ridership and excited about the day view plan and the new website our crews is hedge fund percent of m m rp it is an important decision they've

supported relocating our vessel that was a great in a case and notes the attentiveness out of san francisco bay area the website have philosophical about the ideas of matching we're seeing new york city you can make receive vacation and we're bringing it up you to help riders understand where the service is coming from how for a away is the vessel and you'll see the push noifgz that will alert the riders when the vessel is close we'll should you where the boat is we're not iceberg we're matching the services that help to flag the general direction the port is going to go it is aning conserving people that on

the water in a modern way we're excited about the technology and proud to be the first small vessel operators to use it outside of san francisco the tied line members have been involved in the commenting in our local areas we support educational outlets and help with the sal obsolete they're working on their terminal to help to work on the policy we're trying to learn about the techniques and how to help that so one of the new features our live tracking system it is similar to uber we to accommodate all people we have a mobile site anyone could a use it go to tied line.org you'll hit the live map and our vessel shows up you can see the different hubs it is a great way

to communicate with rider and open the access a little bit more as we go forward our goal to oneself capitalized our services in in conjunction with the port as 38 opens up and pier 52 our clients represent is financial institutions and large entities that do a lot of work in the city we've been they've be coming to show case those tied lines is a place to support entities working in the bay our commuter services is gaining attendance we're excited about that growth pier 27 we help the people on the waterfront we're having at which time cards we help to affiliate some of the congestion in the crews liners and have people directly board our vessels to get that off the

embarcadero we have relationships up in noah valley we are trying to get more people in conjunction with the smart line our new line service in the north bay and hopefully show case what is going on in the port the port has been great with signage, however, bans our ridership and the volume of ridership we're looking for additional signage in education to let the community know that service is here hence our hours of operation and other ways of incentive vision zero people and looking at to transfer discount in you use bart or blue and gold red and white usf you can make that more enter chashl we're tracking our ridership we have different codes open the back of our cards had the paerlgz enters

it thrills their data so the next time we meet we'll talk about the insight we look forward and appreciate the ports efforts and endorse all of you to come and jump on our boat. >> thank you thank you. >> sure. >> can i answer any questions at the junction and do i want to

have public comment or do both. >> thank you very much for your time. >> thank you. >> thank you taylor and the next representing we're explaining what santa fe san francisco water taxi it up to say dave thomas the sole proprietor of the san francisco taxi water company dave come on up. >> hello commissioners excited to be here it's been a interesting year i bought a small portion of our navy down here to see the process and

realized how series we're about making this happen i think we'll go forward the thing that got us the initial offer to get out and do this under the guidelines this was our bicycle and working on it since then invent a copy san francisco water company when we did this we were faced with tough questions we had to vicinity it did we need small or large boats how many people how much fuel if you go over a certain size how many crewman we're not new york we can't run that like in baltimore or run high-speed boats like in mexico i decided to do all the above we

first came up with a mission and haven't figured out we're about the imagine we want an iconic imagine we want no mistake who and when our talking to people we take pride in our company to build it like building a new waterway this is exciting of 3 fleets the first fleet a mid sized flywheel e fleet we're unfortunate to have boats all over california we bought them anothers fairfield and completely rebuild them and put them in the water if they worked they worked magnetically thank god wore to hand approximately 14 to 18 passengers that stops a

lot of regulations if i go thirty feet we have more regulations the second fleet i used to call it is mosquito so we call it our expressway those are much faster we can cut the travel time down to 5 minutes and tyler also a good responsible button and the third fleet we had no idea when we get several years of data we'll know exactly what we need more san francisco if we can't buy it we'll measure it we're talking with the company they went up to canned candid and trying to buy them to manufacturers a larger fleet we'll break down the

northern and simply route everything has to be done in payers one boat when a sister ship comes in line we'll run the other route we choose height street from pier one the harder thing to teach the captains are the bus and the schedule we'll talk about that later our ticket prices are modest $10 hop on and off and $5 for a local i do id and the san francisco place has grown sunnyvale is part of san francisco and we get the conscionable pirates and the demon busy and the demon busy don't get in as much trouble in the first calendar year we've

done shy of 8 thousand passengers that came on board now here's our ridership numbers it shows a typical curve that goes for a year at this point we did in august september was filling strong and october came around and the combination of bad weather and mechanic issues we had to make a choice and put some of the taxi boats over to another company because they were funding the entire boat human resources here's where the people are getting open mostly at pier one and a half and a lot of them are doing pier trips pier 39 we got the letter of sense or acceptance a regular stop in the next thirty days here's where they're getting off