think as most of you or in ated in columbia and came to san francisco in 2008. and has this will be its 6th year visiting the bay view in the dog patch and this particular sunday street is the longest one in the city and it is 3 and a half miles of car free space and so the people are encouraged to bring their bikes and roller blades and any kind of wheeled vehicle hopefully many of you will avail yourselves of that opportunity. and it is a lot of fun, and our very only port staff will be hosting a booth to help them and the community to get to know the port better and we will be going thank to the barn and the team and we will be going out this year sunday from 11 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and lastly i think that i saw larry peoples come in and would you sit maybe towards the front.

we have another retirement, and this one is accommodation for larry peoples who you can see walking forward and come on up front and he is a general laborer, and he is joined the city in 1976 as a general laborer out in the san francisco airport and he worked there for about ten years and you can sit right here next to peter. and then he came to the port in october of 1986. >> so, he got to be here for three blessed years before we had the big earthquake and then he was here ever since. mr. peoples has been at the port for approximately, 28 years, and he is well known up and down the water front because one of his many jobs is to keep it crystal clean, and he can be seen most mornings, mostly before many people arrive at work, coming in and riding the street sweeper to make sure that the sidewalk is clean and pristine and welcoming.

and so, he has teased us many times that he is going to retire, but this year he actually did it and i think that he has been back several times and he came on valentines day and gave us treats which we greatly appreciated and so we just want to say, very, very special thank you, larry for your 28 years of service, it is phenomenal, and we enjoy seeing your friendly face and i know that the community enjoys seeing your friendly face as well as some of the special work that you do with hope children, with our communities aoe veerry affected by hiv aids throughout the world and we appreciate that. so we will not be able to celebrate with you and we offer you a happy 80th bather day and hope that you come back and we thank you for your service and the legacy you are leaving with us and so join me in thanking larry peoples.

[ applause ] >> public comment? >> good afternoon, port director for maintenance and today we are here and honoring larry peoples one of the most lovable port employees. if you ever spent time as director moyer said on the embarcadero north of the ferry building in the morning i am sure that you have met larry out there keeping the embarcadero clean. and he took pride in his work and he was dedicate and hard worker, and he but never too busy to stop and to help out a visitor, or to greet all of the folks along the embarcadero that make the way to the work in the morning he was a true ambassador to the port in the city in the way that he dealt with the public but for me larry is a gentleman, and he was always very, very nice to me, and he was a person of

wisdom who i drew many insights and we shared many conversations and also beneficial and making my days here at the port productive and to really know what was going on out there in the field, and i really enjoyed listening to his wonderful life stories he shared, many many of those with me and once that i can't share with you folks but they are very, very, very enjoyable. and one day we were sharing stories about the work experience and larry i hope that you remember this he said to me, he says carter, he says, when you leave i am leaving with you and i am glad that you didn't larry. i am glad that you got to leave on your own time, and when you wanted to. we are going to miss your smile and your laugh as you can see, he has a wonderful smile and we will be missed seeing him and

greeting folks it was comforting when i love up in the morning and there was larry doing his work and made me feel good about working at the port and larry, i really wish you and hope that you enjoy your retirement thank you. >> thank you. >> >> good afternoon, commissioners lavina hr manager for the port, i just wanted to say from an hr perspective, mr. peoples is really one of the best employees and his supervisor says that he comes to work on time every day and does his job and i wish that i could say that about every employee who has worked here at the port and i am sure that any hr manager and any organization and so i just wanteded to say on behalf of those ladies who received, 100 boxes of chocolate every valentines day at the port that you finally

get your own. >> thank you. >> so much. and for your service, to the port. and after all of these years. [ applause ] any other public comment, anyone wishing to speak. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> colleagues? >> mr. peoples, i think that it is, and it has been captured very well and i have never seen you without a smile. so you will definitely be missed you have been such a tremendous ambassador to the port. and you are the someone of the face of the port when the people are coming along the water front and it really makes a difference and i always hear good feedback from my friends and i have nothing to do with the port when this say that it

is down there and everything seems to work for the port just seems nice and i know that they are referring to you because you are the one that they see and you will definitely be missed and we want to congratulate you on your birthday and wish you a very, very, i am sorry, congratulate you on the retirement and wish you a very, happy birthday and we hope that you will please come back and visit us, often. >> mr. adams? >> larry you probably don't remember, but i run every morning and you and i would always talk and i live as a commissioner and i just would go up and we would have a conversation and i would ask how do you like this job? and how are you can treated we just talked and he was nice and we told me about his younger days and stuff like that and i tell you you look well and you look real well and i think that you keep working and it keeps the people alive and i think

that people retire and die because of the change to the system because it is a shock to the system and i think that it is keeping you, and i want to thank you because i think that lately said that have you been the ambassador and the positive spirit and i would just really want my run down the water front to enjoy talking because we would just talk and i know that you are working for the port and i thafrpged you several times but i want you to know as a commissioner we were just talking as two fwies and it was just pleasant to talk to you every day. and it made me think about i, myself a lack borer and just in good to talk in you a saw a lot of traits and i maoekness and a man with a lot of sense and a lot of wisdom and it evokes the things that you can take for the people that the best gifts that you can get from people you can't buy and they give them to you i just want to say thank you.

>> well, larry, i never met him today and i hope that i look as good as straights you did at 80. i really do. tom said that he mentioned a couple of times that you were a real gentleman and you know you are old school and i am old school and i really respect that and so i hope that you have a great retirement. why did you wait so long? >> why did you wait so long to retire? >> well, maybe, i like the job and i like the people. i just, (inaudible)

>> all of the people that we have been hearing recently that have been retiring and we hear a lot of kind of hard core things of what is going on with the port but at the end of the day it is the people that make this organization come alive and it is very special people even what you do every day, and which kind of greets everybody and makes the people feel whether they are going to have a good day or not and i think that is so important and i think that you and with what we have here last time and you are the true mascots that we hope to keep it alive and you have a long legacy and i have to say that you look spiffy today. thank you. >> and now i want to present to you, with a plague and presented to peoples general

neighbor, october 1986 to february, 2015, with the appreciation for your 28 plus years of outstanding service, congratulations and best wishes on your retirement and the port of san francisco, calling so you will join me. perfect right there. >> i enjoy my job and all of

the people on the street and that is what kept me going all of the time just the people like bob palebs and when i walk in there i would say, hey, soda water, water, anything. and the people out there have the strappeds, oh, we got fruit for you today and all of those people made me kept going and i love them. and actually i will drop by smao time just to see them and say how are you all?

and you are doing and you helped me too. and there will be shawn, and all of you all with me and, we say that we got your back and thank you very much. >> thank you. >> >> thank you so much, larry and it has been an honor and you are an inspiration for all of us truly. >> that concludes my report. >> thank you, i need any other public comment on the executive director's report. >> seeing none, public comment is closed. >> okay. >> and item 10 a, informational --. >> i am sorry. okay. >> commissioner's report. >> yes. >> port commissioner's report. >> next. >> commissioner? >> i don't have any reports. >> i just briefly want to mention, that we have the opening of the yard down at the

bridge and it could not have been a more beautiful day to show case our port in the water front in what we are trying to do in terms of brining the people down to the water front and not just to that area not just when there are ball games going on but all throughout the year so in partnership with the giants they have opened up, and a new pop up if you will, called the yard and they have anchor brewery down there along with off the grid and representatives from sf made, and the north face and it will be rotating the opportunities for the different food trucks and others to come in from the pizza coffee to the hump rey seeus cream and a few things down there as well and there is bbq and it is quite the destination p so they opened up officially paf of the friday and encourage you to head down there and enjoy the water front and the local business and we

are pleased to have seen that opened up. and one of the things that i was particularly excited about as well, is that it is using repurposed and recycled materials and so it is taking advantage of finding ways of putting old materials to good use again. and a pleasure to be down there and executive moyer spoke of the opening as well and i look forward to spending many in the afternoon and in the sunshine and possibly listen to the music down there and encourage you all to go and check it out. >> and with that, i think that was it for my report, commissioner adams is going to make more of a report next meeting. >> all right. >> so, thank you. >> is there any public comment? >> seeing none, public comment is closed.

>> item 10 a, informational up date regarding visitors to the fisherman's wharf and phase one of the jefferson street public realm plan. >> if i may keep this up while troy gets set up and this item and the next one were the idea of president katz as weed a little room on the agenda to try to get back to show casing some of our tenants and partners and it corresponds with the survey results that troy on behalf of the fisherman's wharf has coming forward which i hope that he will talk about and doing a little introduction of troy and before i do, i just want to add my welcome to former commissioner fong, planning commissioner and we still regret that. and also, my thanks to jay edwards and all of the work that they do in the northern water front area and i want to

recognize lisa, from the office of workforce and economic development and i don't think that i know your title, but i think that it is cbd czar and she has worked with us with respect to the cbd and soon to be. >> and while troying is getting set up there, troy is a fascinating guy as i hope that you will get a sense of today, but he has been with the fisherman's wharf district for about, almost five years, and for the last coming up on 3 years, he has served as the executive director and so he will be celebrating the third anniversary in that role in another month or two and before that he was a manager i believe of the marketing sector and now, of troy's responsibilities, he over sees the cbd market research work and the brand and destination marketing and the sidewalk operations and beauty and

emergency preparedness and they just won an award which i reported on and they were recognized for their work in the area of community preparedness, and the nert program. and the cbd as you know, and i recognize that the data that it will still shock you in a positive way, and troy served as a vice president as the board of directors for the san francisco international ocean festival but he also has had

careers, as a photographer, with the c73 media, and he has done the product development for a couple of different firms and he has done the event planning and a park ranger, and so the only thing that i could not find in your background is that you have been a fisherman and i suspect that that will be next and others you have covered almost all in a chef, maybe.

fisherman's wharf is the top destination, and supports over 8,000 jobs and generates 68.8, and rents to the port and payroll and property and hotel and parking tax and there are 11 parking garages that generate, parking tax and has

13 hotels with over 3200 guest rooms and the highest rates and the daily rate in the city and in this fiscal year, the busiest day was on october 11th and that was 92,22 apeople and enough to fill at&t park twice, and in september, with the 1.1 visitor and all of this going on while the district is home for an active fishing fleet. san francisco and the bay area and make-up 49.2 percent of all of the over all visitors to fisherman's wharf and the remaining is other usa and 30 percent are foreign residents and out of that foreign, foreign visitors the top country is the uk followed by canada and germany and australia and japan and china was actually number six and

just barely behind japan and the top domestic feeder markets as you guess, that san francisco and oakland and la and river side and orange county, 72, and ak men toe and number three and san diego number four. and who are the visitors? this some of these stats really kind of shocked me at 67 percent of the visitors that come to the wharf come to sight see, and actually 10.8 had no specific reason for going to the wharf and we know that many of the visitors and the vast majority say that the reason that they come is that they like the views and the ambiance. and the mean age is 40.3 years and the mean income is 92000, and 59.2 percent have completed college or graduate school.

we have 2014, and we have seen a lot of movement, and the biggest one that we have seen is the people walking from 2006 to 18.6 to 28 in 2014 and automobiles still, is in the top, and even though it was number two, it has risen from 2008 and 2010. and kind of shockingly in the last survey we found that both the street car and cable car was down. and so whether those people are driving but most likely walking instead, it is the theory, and i also included that 35 to 50 percent of pier 39 visitors arrived by car and they have over 900 parking space theres and i also have the numbers for the fisherman's wharf parking lot but i am going to touch on that later, i am going to move

on to the employees and how do the employees get to the wharf and they are struggling a little bit and they have shared that they have count on the public transportation to get them to and from their jobs and we have 59 that responded and 274 employees have had to leave the jobs in the last year because of the challenges that they have in getting to work, for the 30 businesses, 52 percent, say that they are experiencing problems with the achieved staffing level, and 23 of the businesses shared that out of the combined, 657 positions and this is something that we are going to be focusing on and working to help to remedy and because with the increasing rents in the city and driving the workers to the suburbs and further out with the higher minimum wage and i think that we are on par with the minimum wage in oakland and seeing that most of the employees comes from the

northwest part of the bay and we have a bit of struggle in the tracking employees to the wharf. next, bikes at the wharf and this was very interesting, fisherman's wharf is a point for bicycles and it is only two percent of our visitors arrive by bike but over 400,000 bikes are rented between the over a dozen bicycle rental locations within the wharf and on average, and in the peak times of the day, there are 2200 bikes and that equates to 360 bikes per hour and six bikes every minute. and the jefferson straight phase one and two uses the shared street concept and there are many times and with the

street parking eliminated on the two of the five blocks at the wharf and the visibility has increased and so the dangers of the people getting hit by the cars pulling out of parking spots, and the doors opening into the bikes and into the bike way, and parallel park has been a non-issue and on three of the blocks at the wharf. and we have also worked to curtain the deliveries, and that is that businesses on the two rebound blocks of jefferson street are not to received the deliveries after 11 and that correlates with the street and that the spike in people happens at around 11 and starts to taper off at 5 p.m. pedestrians at the wharf and this was the one that i was excited to share with you on average, jefferson three, most heavily impacted area have more pedestrians than the time square three busiest areas and

so back in july of 27, the fisherman's wharf has three cameras installed and one at budeans and one across the street at the wax museum and a third one at jefferson and hide. and these are spring board counters and the same technology that is at times square and the same reporting and everything is apples to apples and so pulling up the pedestrian counts between september and february. and comparing them to our three cameras and we have three and they have 20 and comparing those to the fisherman's wharf has 12,000 more than pedestrians at that time. and the counters also count and they basically count the foot fall and an algarhythm that figures out what the pedestrian is and just counting the foot falls, the north side walk from july 27 to march 12, had 3.9

million and we added a fourth camera at jefferson and jones in november the total so far has been 11 million foot fall counts at the wharf. >> so a lot of people. and we are tracking phase one and the impact that it has had on the community and that is what i want to share with you right now. >> impacts of jefferson street one and we track 18 businesses on the block of jefferson street from july to november of 2013, this will be the first months that the street opened and we could really gauge how it was having an impact and when impairing the gross sales to the same period in 2012, businesses increase month to month and between 10 and 21 percent on average they generated 1.5 million more han

the previous year and added 150,000 more in sales tax during that 5 move period. >> with the changes to the phase one and how the signage was accompanying the street and the parking lot known as the triangle parking lot, and with the parking control officers in place from june to august and restricting off of jefferson street the public is accessing a lot from the sources like powell and taylor streets and in 2013, there was an increase over the previous year with more cars on the lot and it continued and 7300, more cars and year to date and in 2013, 27,150 more cars than in 2012, in comparing october 12,

october of 2012 to 13, verses 13, and 14, the triangle lot has a gross increase of 236,000 and this makes up for the loss of 218,000 that was reported to this commission in 2000 which would have been the loss and the parking stalls on jefferson street, so conceivablely that money was made up with the increased numbers at the parking lot, and triangle parking lot. and we continue to track 8 businesses the number that i just shared with you were both port and those from the cannery building and anchor square and we continue to track 8 business to see if the trend continued with the exception of two months, where the things stayed the same there continued to be increases as much as 33 percent in may of 2014 as well as 11 and 10