scal year 2013, 14. >> okay. >> [inaudible] senior project managerophorous of economic and work force development. i will glance over the sides we already reviewed. get to the exciting information. in terms of bench mark 1, management planverses annual budget. on the land side we did see a variance with respect to side walk beautifulication and order. this is explained to a increase cost of parking control officers to help address pedestrian activity only jefferson street and increase ambassadors along that

areas as well. in terms of management plan verse annual budget, on theport side the fishermans cbd was well within the 10 percent range. with respect to bench mark 3 for the fiscal year, assessment receive new they well exceeded this expectation as well. and then in terms of budget to actual for land side we did see a little bit of a skew on district identify and street scape improvement by 3.4 percent and on the port side 2 percent increase. let's see, this is explained by expenses related to hiring a new employee and war fest 2013 which was a event that helped replace the fleet week events

that were sequestered. in terms of careee, we plan to careee over 56 thousand dollars into the this fiscal year and will work closeically to insure the funds. we want to the insure every cbd including fishermans warf and expanding the funds that was approved by the voters. i will bring up troy campbell that is executive director of fish ermans warf that will talk about the programmatic accomplishments >> good afternoon, hello. i will go throw some of the programs, the initiatives, the things that we worked on in the 13, 14 fiscal year. i want to

point out we are 2 cbd, a property base land side and that is area in green and a business base port side which is in purple. we have committees, marketing, transportation, [inaudible] peer safe which is acronym for partners [inaudible] here is are the highlights. we redesigned and printed 300 thousand brochures to visitor centers and 850 towerest site in the bay area. we provided sponsorship for the [inaudible] as the 2013, [inaudible] we hosted war fest as a place holder which is now a annual

event and increased the majority of businesses on [inaudible] and sold over 850 tickets to the beer gaurd squn first ever clam chowder comtitian. for the month of october we received twebt thousand visitor tooz the site that doubled. the average. [inaudible] 5 we also helped produce that year the holiday life and [inaudible] with scibt votes from the fishing fleets and saint francisuate club at pier 39 and hung [inaudible] and provided lights for the sport fishing fleetsism we produced the second annual crab fest which included [inaudible] reraised nearly 4 thousand

dollars which we donated to local non profit. that year we are designed the website and home page. we optimized the search engine and rebuilt the template to a responsive design. having done that we started setting records and highs starting to reach over 30 thousand visitors a month which you can see by this graph is way over the average that we had over previous years. we also designs 2 microcytes, one is [inaudible] and we designed that tobroid a better place sfr the community geet information about these c berks d and delineate between the commune tay pages and public pages. we also designed, the horet website is fish ermines warf events.com. it shares information about events and

meetings at the warf and listed the venues. we kicked this off with a launch party. we had over 200 people representing the venues [inaudible] local media. we were also able to get facebook and this took years to do. [inaudible] that means our posts are getting more engagement and became a valuable marketing asset. we also rezerected our news letter which receives about a 37 percent rate open rate, which is good. it continues to grow about 12 percent per year. one of the big things we did that year and this happened ath the beginning of the fiscal year is the fisherman warfs crab sign was in jeopardy of being red

tagged by the port of san francisco. it rusted out so we irk would the muchant association and the port and at a cost of about 115 thousand dollars it was replaced and we replaced the incandescent lights with led lights talight it up. for the first time ever we hired a marketing manager and she created a marketing plan. we were able to get that out to the district and a lot of businesses use that as a boiler plate. we expanded the ambas door policeman which is invaluable tr the district. it helps do out reach and is a vital part of the community. the program is well receives and we emerged the cleaning and hospitality into one

ambassador. you'll see the stats here. some of the biggest is they removed 15 thousand pounds och trash and helped over 20 thousand people with directions and hospitality. we worked with town square this year as a community internet site where we share information. one of the main things that we worked on here was for muchant to share information about shop lifters, people that they are having issues with, they can share that information and provide a alert. if someone shauf lifts in one store, they can [inaudible] we ran a [inaudible] program that year and our tb officer issues over 200 citations and made 7 arrests. we continued-we lit

con rad square, a dark park that receives a lot of crime, we lit the park because it has no outside lighting. we held work shops on sustainable fishing where we get the restaurants to remove one red item and replace it with a sustainable item. we also held a free human resource work shop and during this year we held the second annual job fair where we had 20 different businesses participating and many businesses hired at least 3-4 people. advocacy, we worked with [inaudible] we

continued to advocate for the e line and the extinegz fort mason and continued our promotion and advocacy to jefferson street which we feel is very important for the vitality for the area and recent numbers show every a 6 month period our 3 cameras on jefferson street that we have up now, compared to the 3 most heavily trafficked areas of time ger, from septto february, fishermans rf wahas [inaudible] >> thank you for your presentation. supervisor christensen >> i just want to say you know i'm a big fan of the bid, cbd concept and what fixermans warf and uniier do is fantastic. we hear a lot of bad news, it is great to hear

oof the appreciatements and the way the organizations are augmenting the cities efforts to take care of ourselves [inaudible] it deserve as wider audience and more balloons and confetti you are getting, but the reports speak for themselves >> i will echo that. it is showing to me the-this is a perfect example of what cbd should be doing and i wish all the cbd's in the city were as wealthy--that is the main thing. thank you for saying that. one question from [inaudible] that i had about this and i'm always curious because we only have one cbd in the district, but are trying to get a second, and i always

wonder what the cbd's do for vaeckancy? do they get involved with when dhai see vacant store fronts and so forth? do they try to bring in business somehow? >> each is different so they are governed by eemp of the management plans. some of sth plans are resfricktive where some can only be focus odon clean and safe and there are some that have economic development as a part of the marketing program. there are a handful of cbd's that focus on filling vacancy. i know troy explained to me that many of the commercial vacancy it is hard to attract retail and offices to the space because of transporpation to the bart line is extremely slow and

infrequent to fishermans warf so that is something i want to help try to tackle with them in the future >> thank you very much. thank you for your presentations. this is very eyeopic and seeing what you guys actually do with the funding. [inaudible] any public comment? no public comment. there is a motion on the floor motion passes. is there anything else? >> no further business >> meeting is adjourned. .

>> a hi, i'm karen fry a project manager and sfpuc and the bureau of environmental management honestly i've not considered a public sector job i realized this was an opportunity to work on large capital projects from san francisco all the way to our hetch hetchy and the yosemite national park i work with engineers and city attorneys and scheduled and we all work tom nolan e together on the project. >> the excavations are in red we'll have the interference to go under the street. >> my next project is the largest project in the water system improvement program this is the southeast plan that involved a lot of kworpthsdz with the community groups and

public when 9 commissioners such the planning commission and the board of supervisors or this ftc commission they help us in city hall this is a beautiful building it really is the inner workers of the building you feel you're in the heart of government and it's exciting to be part of that >> director heinicke director rem mel, director rubke, director nolan will not be at today's meeting. item 3, prohibition of sound devices, the use of pagers and sound producing electronic devices are prohibited alt the meeting. any person responsible for one

going off in the room may be the room. also please know that cell phones set on vibrate do cause microphone interference so the board respectfully requests they be turned off. item 4, approval of the minutes of the march 3rd meeting, you have a member of the public who wishes to address you on this? >> any board members first have any comments on the minutes from our last meeting? >> yes. i had a question about the motion on the second motion that was month rkts after we

discussed the study and having looked at how things were going, doing the before and after survey, that we would -- we would have a chance -- that we would talk about in general, reconsider it but i didn't think we were asking for the exact project to be brought back to us 12 months after, and that's what i don't recall, and the way that we approved this motion. >> did you have a chance to review that case? >> yes, i went back and looked at it and because i was aware that a member of the public was also interested in this. the motion in the minutes is exactly as stated at the meeting that you all voted on. >> and my understanding is that it's -- and correct me, director kiez k*in, this would bring it back after the full

completion, it is not a commitment to action or inaction, it simply is bringing that back to the board. >> that was my understanding, correct. >> more on informational -- >> because -- that sounds like -- >> it would be bringing back all of the data that we collect in those 12 months after implementation and the set of additional parking and traffic changes for the board's consideration. that's what i understood that motion to be. >> director borden, does that sound more in line with what you were thinking is that it comes back after the study? >> it is just an item for action or not action by the board, it's not -- because that was kind of -- you know, as much as -- >> we all discussed not wanting to have the same hearing all over again and i just remember

that we had really talked about all that kind of other -- looking at now and into the future and the grand scheme of how we were achieving our goals and other things so i felt like the spirit of the motion didn't capture quite the dialogue. >> yeah, that's good, i'm glad you brought that up you know we have that feedback now and we know when that does come back, we have an idea of what we're all expecting and i think we have a member op of the public as well. >> and madam chair, just for the record, in the original staff in the resolution, there was a discussion about staff bringing back the study about the economic impact of construction and all of that, so that is -- that was separate -- that was in the main resolution, this was something very specific, so that study will come back at a future time. >> director borden, are you okay with that, or do you want

to -- >> yeah, it's one of those things where you feel like you remember it differently, so it concerns me. >> it was a long meeting. >> but i think we should -- if members of the public want to -- >> why don't we hear from members of the public. >> dawn trenart. >> two minutes. >> thank you, commissioners, i also remember that conversation going a little bit differently in the essence of the conversation. the essence of the conversation as i had understand it as i read in the newspaper the following day was that after a 12 month period of understanding what the economic metrics and the modal shifts would be, there would be a grading of how well did we do what did we do well, what didn't we do well and then things, decisions would be made from that point but when i

read back into the printed minutes, i see that it would be no longer than 12 months after the completion of the project from -- ms. boomer, 12 months after completion of the projects so it would be directing staff to come back to the board with traffic modify cases that were include ined the categorical exemption as described in the city and planning department to continue the bicycle improvements by either protected bike lanes or raised cycle track on the east side of polk street, the [inaudible] in order to reduce impacts on business and project costs within 12 months after the completion of the project, and you've got some differences in the way things are written, it's in time to coordinate with the public utilities project and it would be no longer than 12 months after the completion of the project but the motion is now recorded as within 12

months after completion of the project, which could mean one month, six months and anything less than 12 months and, again the spirit of the conversation as i heard it, as i understand it is let's see how we did and give ourselves a grade after the 12 month period, after the 12 month period, not let's race ahead and see how much more we can do within 12 months. thank you for your time. >> thank you, and thank you, director borden for bringing that up. i do agree that it was the intent was i think the discussions that we always had was in order to see how a project works you do need 12 months at least to see how it works so i believe that is the spirit of the motion. yes? >> and i would just say i agree with that. i think also a spirit of this motion and this whole process is we're not going to do anything without significant public input and that alone will require significant time, this is not something that's going to happen without us

going back to the public the way we have. on a procedural point, i will say especially with this understanding and very much appreciating our fellow citizens coming in on this, on a procedural point if ms. boomer has gone back to the tape and that is what was said, i don't think we should be in the practice of rewriting minutes after the fact, it's enough to have minutes of what our understanding was, but if that's what was voted on i think we ought to respect the sbegtd of that and not change the minutes, but i think we're all on the same page as to where we're headed, so with that, i would move the minutes. >> let's have a vote, all in favor, aye? >> aye. >> opposed? >> no you're not opposed? >> i'm opposed. >> alright, thank you. >> item 5, communications, director, please be advised there will be no discussion of anticipated litigation in closed session today.

any other -- >> introduction of new or unfinished business by board members. >> i have one thing, i would like to congratulate director ramos would was renominated by the office to continue his service on this board of director, i know you have many option of where you're willing to spend your time, we're happy you're continuing to spend it with us. >> anyone else with new or unfinished business? >> item 7, director's report. >> good afternoon, madam chair, members of the board staff and the public, just a cum of quick things to update you on, the first is that last week, the board of supervisors land use and transportation committee adopted a resolution which they have forward today the full board for their consideration next tuesday that urges the sfmta board or to this board to adopt a requirement that

applicants or participants in the commuter shuttle pilot -- or the commuter pilot program, now a pilot, demonstrate that they have conditions of labor harmony as a part of their permit application, so we'll see, i presume that will go forward to the full board next week and likely be approved. i think it came out of land use unanimously. we will be working with the sponsors of the legislation and the city attorney's office as well as our own program staff in termser of what options we have with that regard and we'll be coming back to you once we have something developed in terms of following the spirit of what the board of supervisors is likely to be urging this body to do. >> can we have a moment on that one before you move on with the rest of your report while it's fresh in anyone's mind. i wanted to check to see if

anybody has anything on that. >> yeah, i do have a question so in terms of the people who applies for the permit, is it the transportation company or is it the -- >> it's the -- so in almost all cases, the employers who are using the shuttles are doing so through transportation companies and it's the transportation companies that are the permit applicants, that currently that are the permit holders. >> and is there a definition of harmonious labor -- >> there is not. >> so, director reiskin. >> i believe the board of supervisors was intentionally not trying to get too prescriptive in that definition to give us some discretion and leeway as to how we might define it. >> my point is even with contracts, people will come and there doesn't appear to be harmonious relations at the

time as we hear it, i understand why they are trying not to be prescriptive, at the same time, they are, so i just feel like it really opens it up for the ambiguity opens it up for exploitation in some ways is my concern. >> understood, and i believe that, you know, the work that we have ahead to work again with members of the board of supervisors with the city attorney's office and our staff would be presuming the board will want to go forward with this to try to put some definition around it. it is, you know, it is a very vague term, but part of what i would be striving to do before bringing something to you would be to try to put some definition on -- around it something that our staff can actually work with and it's legally defensible. >> just to be clear the motion is directed at labor harmony at

transportation companies, not jenentec, etc., right? >> i don't have it in front of me it was basically attach today the permittee which happens to be in almost all cases the transportation companies and that was the intent. >> thank you, so it sounds like there's no action that this board would be taking on this until there's a little bit more clarity and back and forth and the board of supervisors have -- >> right so i would potentially be bringing you a proposed modification to the transportation code that governs the process that you already established, that would be one way to implement this, so correct, there's no action for you to take until we formally bring something and we agendize it. thafrjts's different than anything i've ever seen since i've been on this board so it's encouraging. no other questions from the

directors on that one? no. >> there's wonderful things happening in the world of transportation that we haven't seen before. >> the only other item that i wanted to let know *f you know, the construction of the spmc campus, the hole up at van ness at gary is proceeding and will include the construction of a tunnel going underneath van ness from the west side where the hospital's being built to the future i think it's a medical office building across the street. it will be deep below the ground but the construction will require some closures of van ness avenue, cpmc has been working with caltrans and us to develop plans for these closure, they anticipate right now three of them in this calendar year, the first one starting the second week of april, april 10th and 12th, they will be -- there's a lots

of information, i don't think i need to go through all of it. the access will remain open for emergency vehicles and transit vehicles, but it's still closing off van ness to general traffic is a pretty significant undercharging so we've been working with them to make sure that the streets where the traffic is going to be diverted to are ready to a company that spent a significant amount of outreach, they've been doing the cpmc contractor is hired an outreach firm to help them with this, so we'll help them in the lead-up to that first weekend where this will be happening, april 10th through 12th, there will be a lot of public information going out to ensure that people can adequately plan, so our folks have reviewed and are providing guidance on the traffic management plan, we'll be deploying extra parking control officers and facilitating the com