room and the central office and on us in the living rooms having conversations with the black children what our responsibilities we're supporting him and he's supporting us a mutually beneficial balance the budget but this past week had the critically honor of attending the california african-american superintendents of the ministry leaders convening in sacramento studying deeply this topic one the prelsz that struck me some come i can see from california that development an strurmd this instrument you can put in the el cap and look at this in this session they say word

african-american and went through the entire el cap guess words african-american never showed up once they put in other school district and african-american didn't show up once and another one it showed up device and much to my chagrin they put in san francisco unified school district el cap into this particular tool it was over 200 and 48 instance of african-american specifically coming up in our el cap and aggregated they showed the work tied to funding going to african-american student achievement and initiates if you remember i want the public to be aware we are unabashedly pitting it out there but cannot have the priority if you don't tie the

funding to the priority in san francisco we may not have walked a the way we're walking the walk and putting dollars behind that work we've on this just begin so watch where the money gets spent and hold ourselves accountable for making sure that we're doing what we want to do and that's the kind of transparency we want and need from you to work with us to support landon and his team we make a difference for african-american children thank you, very much. for your presentation. >> a measure that is important and i'll add that a lot of black students go to the schools the same once if kindergarten to high school if they're leaving one school is there a loss of

time between if it they have a sat to follow them that will be an important thing to track also. >> thank you very much for your presentation. >> (clapping.) >> and calendars resolution, there is none tonight. and votes on see consent calendar which was moved and seconded under section f. >> you want to take the vote an consent calendar. >> please thank you. >> ms. fewer on the consent calendar they can't hear the vote calling the votes open is consent calendar ms. fewer ms. mendoza-mcdonnell on the consent calendar. >> yes. except for item one item.

>> president haney can we - >> yeah. we'll take 30 seconds to people - >> what did he want to do here are you waiting. >> we're going to wait a few seconds ms. casco. >> all right. we'll vote on the consent calendar. >> ms. fewer ms. mendoza-mcdonnell except for item k-2 it is

retroactive truly badly. >> i'm sorry, i need to ask the with an that was corrected and make thank you dr. murase ms. norton mr. walton ms. wynns mr. haney 6 i's. >> consent calendar resolution severed for the action, there is none tonight. introduction of superintendent proposal i'll introduce the following proposals policy 41 hundred for the policy 42 clarified board policy 4 three hundred and drafted by management and classified supervisor 91 phone call at

public combrsht expenditure funds for 2017. >> yes. president haney can i ask we have that particular proposal for the combrsht fund expenditure the deputy young can say one word. >> quickly thank you superintendents so commissioners you have been provided copies of the spending plan that is associated with the first reading and would just ask that if at all possible if everyone can look at at least spends a little bit time reviewing the spending plan that will be one of the subjects i've lost track of but that is going to be a substantive discussion about the spend plan it will be greatly helpful in commissioners can

spend a little bit of time looking at this and the materials you've been provide and per discussion that took place at the budget committee family commissioner norton and part of your report out but on the topic the extending plan if commissioners can comment prepared with your thoughts give us direction and reacts racks about the first reading and especially ms. fleming will be ward's over the next few weeks to basically respond 0 all the feedback you'll collectively give us for the second reading. >> if i ask add to that president haney because this was a discussion we had at the budget committee what we're trying to avoid is feedback creeps is if everybody can allow

staff it in about it we have the same information at the same time it is important. >> do we have a hardcopy of the information. >> no it is like a 68 page report has that been printed. >> i believe well make sure you have i thourpts provided hard copies we'll make sure you will have those. >> thank you. >> yeah. if we can get a hard copy is pretty detailed thank you. >> thank you, commissioner. >> all right. so one of 3 dash sp one referred to rules committee with all of

those expect for the speaking of and 7 referred to the ad hoc personnel so one through 4 and then one of 3 dash open space 8 the resolution is received that takes place on march can i have a motion and a second? so is it policy one 41 hundred to go to personnel and labor >> yes. >> and those other ones are rules. >> all of them other than this iowa's one as rules. >> so moved. >> second board members proposals, there is none tonight. and immediate action, there is none tonight. outstanding committee reports can we have a report from the

building and combroinz committee commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell. >> i was absent can i defer to mr. walton. >> thank you commissioner mendosa-mcdonnell we have a couple of informational items at the last building and imprudence an update on the former youth park and the demolition out to by evidence we have a abides last week so more information been coming firemen's in terms of who is selected and had an information update on the 2011 facilities bonds and local hire program where we saw the status i'll be working with the trades they'll doing great we'll continue to monitor that in a nut shell and the next meeting is commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell do you know

the dates for the next meeting. >> currently it is schedule for for the fourth mondays. >> april 25th now. >> thank you. >> committee as a whole once again we had a super exciting communities lastly last week, a update on the empowerment and strategies moving forward a good conversation and the planning for that the 2016 bopped recommendations what we'll do a lot of public comment with certainly communities tomato see so those conversations will continue. >> on the budgets and business services. >> yes. the budget and business services met march 2 i gave the report on the students with incarcerated parents and heard the charter position for

peck we sent that back to the board without recommendations go seeking a little bit of information and had a short and interesting presentation if our assessor-recorder carmen chu about her office and tax collection and the subject was important that care about revenue coming out the city and we heard the h.r. budget review a long discussion and we are continuing to work on budget development for the 2016-2017 school year one thing hopefully you were provided it is helpful to start to keep a chart of budget priorities we've identified collectively or individually and keeping take which ones are funded and likely the funding

will come from if you don't get a copy of the presentation we'll impose on deputy superintendents to send it around or ms. casco the next meeting a wednesday april 6th thank you commissioner vice president walton again. >> thank you president haney excitement was the air yesterday a curriculum meeting our first action item to grant or deny for the arts and technology high schools we forwarded without recommendation the second action item disposition of the boards policy and the high school graduations requirements we this posted with a positive recommendations by the general convention and expectations we farther without representation

and encouraged students to exercise they're voting rights and forwarded would you tell us recommendation and received a brief update open is index and the full update on the lgbtq protective courses and excited about continuing the program and hopefully that happens and over next curriculum program committee meeting is on april 4th and that had been a night to remember that's correct. >> your sold on overseeing committee meetings show up board member report. >> commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell. >> thank you. i have an appointment to make on the pta i'll be appointing leah who is a parent in your district as well

as is guess services director for the academies of sciences and i want to thank all of the no timeers we we have closed and we're excited about they've be recognized at the gallop for spark and remembered folks an annual yerba buena fair for all the young people 16 to 24 it is schedule for saturday march 26 at the youth usf campus think mission bay is please join us from 10 to 2 on march 26 and i'll announce if about great the fair i think richard you mentioned

you say resource trail; right? okay. thank you. >> scomploern i want to announce i have open seats an is bye communities council and looking for candidates in anyone linking or the members of the public have a candidate you want to recommend recommend for the bio - i want to mention the next personnel meeting is on march 17 and it will be in this room the board room and 6 o'clock and i want to say i had a wonderful experience at sunsets elementary schools also at alamo elementary schools and lafayette and also to piggyback on what the superintendents said on saturdays march 5 a wonderful

parents summit that all the parents attends emancipation proclamation the it was raining and the superintendent and i attended a microi didn't celebration graduation alters adjoining merit elementary schools we have been going to those graduations where apartments are been trained think how to use chrome book and given a chrome book thank you 40 for is donors for making the connections and also to our great development team headed by laura thank you. >> commissioner wynns. >> i want to record a positive vote on the consent calendar for (laughter) to step auto a minute i want to announce the next rules committee is march 16 at 6 o'clock and urge everything at

the table and large numbers all the legislative proposals are in no way and changes many of them but the deadline is pass this is the meeting this committee is authorized to take positions this 11 positioned we reviewing all the legislation this is your chance to be inside and outside of the board of education you mind to be involved for public education this is hallway you u how you do it locally on march 15 the day of you are committee as a whole next tuesday is the vaccinecy day in sacramento your urged to make a trip to sacramento and i too have

openings on the bio lingual committee and would be interested in suggestions i'll we could use for guest i don't mean they're all white but certain there is a small language group that is not recommended etc., ect if you want to talk to me about that i'll be happy to do that thank you. >> any other reports. >> all right. no informational items no memorial adjournment and since no closed session oh. >> so resolution for the. >> we rae convene. >> oh, sorry all right. all right. okay

a report of closed session actions the closed session reports of march first, the boards board of education by a 5 to two absent turf approved 3 certify presses and a 5 two absent approved the certify of employees the board by and vote of 5 i's two absent commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell and turf approved the releases of two certifies employees this meeting is now to order.

>> commissioner willie adams, here. commissioner kimberley brandon, here. commissioner lesley katz, absent. commissioner aleenan kounalakis, here. commissioner woo ho, here: approval of minutes for february 23, 2016 meeting. >> all in favor say aye.

>> aye. >> pub lecomment >> any public comment on executive session? public comment is closed. >> executive session. >> so moved. >> all in favor say aye. >> aye >> o >> move to reconvene in open session. >> so moouved, and second. >> all favor aye. opposed? okay. >> move to--we recess closed session and william -will reconvene. >> item 6. >> pledge of allegiance. >> 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. >> item 7 rfx the ringing and use of cell phones pages and similar sound producing devices are prohibited. the chair may order removal from the meeting of any person responsible for ringing or use of cell phone pager or similar sound producing electronic device. a member of the public has up to 3 minutes to make a pertinent public comment. public comments on items not listed on the ajnda >> i have one card, david

santose. >> good floon, thank you for the time. i am here in regards to a previous meeting regarding landing right agreement between city and count aef san francisco port commission and south beach harbor [inaudible] it specifically is for increased insurance requirements and i believe there wasn't input through the public sector and would like to have information to who to speak with at the city and county level risk management office. i contacted different port e-mails and haven't received a appropriate response to who to contact. thank you for your time and you have my name and phone number as a port [inaudible] for the last 22 years >> you may want to talk to

[inaudible] is our director. she can refer you in the right direction. anymore public comment? if not, public comment is closed. next item >> item 9, executive director report >> good afternoon, elaine fords interim port director. we are welcoming our 5th port commissioner on the commission, ambassador kounalakis is a business woman with experience as aland developer in sacramento and diplomate. she served as the ambassador to hungry and received two awards of honor. she wrote a terrific book called madam ambassador [inaudible] this wonderful

story includes a wild bore hunt, dairy hel copter rides and explains how diplomacy provided guidance with hunggarian nationalism and antisimptism. ambassador kounalakis holds a fellowship at [inaudible] a senior advisor at stone bridge group and serves as a chair thof cam advisory council for international trade and investments. she serves as a [inaudible] where she received mba in 1992. kounalakis and hoar family live insuch and luchbs her city. she isn't new to local service. she served as a trusty at [inaudible] and member of california state world trade commission and the first 5 california commission. the ambassador is a proud first

generation greek american. her father immigrated here and started work as agriculture day labor. she was a advocate for interfaith cooperation and served for religion of peace and in recognition was awarded the metal of st. paul which is the highest honor the greekoth dox church in american. committed to the advancement and understanding of democratic ideas she servess a a advisor to the new york times and [inaudible] it is international womens day today and befitting to welcome our 4th leder to the commission. congratulations commissioner kounalakis, we are so proud to welcome you. [applause] >> thank you very very much for

that gracious introduction. i think the only thing that you didn't mention because i am sure you didn't know is 16 years ago all most exactly my husband and i were maried and had our reception in i think this exact space because it was the former world trade commission and you may have heard about big fat greek wedding, we had about 800 people crammed into the world trade center so this building is special it me but i love my city, i love san francisco and anyone who loves san francisco has to be passionate about the water front because there is so much that goes on in the 7 and a half mile stretch plus other parts of the water front but there are so many activities and so many things to do with your family and so many reasons to come down and enjoy

it. what i already? yoied is having the opportunity to peal back the ungen and earn and understand more not just about the history of the water front but all the contemporary issues that the port commission deals with so it is a true privilege and honor and something that is very exciting to be part of this. i also want to thank my new fellow commissioners for their support during my #2345u78ination and confirmation process and reaching out with history and context and friendship and collaboration and everything that i know is so important to have a healthy and well functioning board and you have my commitment to put in many hours and as much energy as necessary to live up to your standards of being a engaged and committed commissioner. i

any all of you. thank you so much ghen, it -again, it is a honor and privilege to be here. [applause] >> okay, i would like to give a update on the water front land use process. if working group will meet march 9 add pier 1 from 6 to 8 and entopic is port finance. megan wallace and i willprint the port budget and financial process. i would like to thank the port commissioners for all the attendance you served in coming to the working group meetings to date. we heard feedback and sharing your insights is helpful. -broader city regional water front planning efforts particularly as it relates to making the water

reziltiant. the working grouperize well ateneding. today port staff briefed the working group on the goal andpologists of the water front plan, two port guv nrns by state and local law jz regulation and 3, maritime industry and water dependent use that plan their home at the port. wednesday we'll do the port finance training and the next two working sessions in parallel with the port commissions review of sea level rise, the port commission march 22 and working group march 23 and then on the port sea wall structural study results and that for the port commission is the 13th. in the spring the working group will focus on the historic pier district, open design and open space and this will provide the framework to get

started in part 2 that happens summer and early fall and the working group will tackle the trade off, priorities and make internal policy recommendation. they hit parlt 3 of the process to address south beach and northest water front side and the working group will come to the final meetjug come with recommendations how the water front plan should be updated. we are excited about the process and the level of commitment from the working group and the partners. we want to let the public know that all the reports, powerpoints presentations vid yetapes are whether available on the port website, sf port.com. on the final piece that march 1 the boardf

supervisors voted unanimously to approve the ports first infrastructure financing district and financing plan and that is around the development area. the city and state will contribute future property tax dollar for 45 years in this area. this contribution equals about $49,000,000 nomally over the term which equates to 18.3 million in project sources. the ifd plan includes repay the port and developer for public infrastructure and small bond issuance of [inaudible] park. this secures 18 million dollars signals the cities willingness to allow us to use the powerful financing tool and addressing the back log and

livering critical infrastructure. this is a work in progress for 10 wreericize i proud to announce we have our first infrastructure. >> any comments? >> 9 b port commissioners report. >> commissioner [inaudible] >> nothing to report. >> mr. katz >> want to well sxh our new commissioner. delighted to have you join us. known you for many years. i know for your cunl passion and public service so think you will be a valuable new addition so welcome aboard. >> vice president brandon >> yesterday i had the opportunity to attend the swearing in

ceremony for kounalakis and it was a wonderful sair mony, the mayor swore in 18 people and the commissioner had her own dedicated cheering section. she has a lot of sport and it will be wonderful working with her. we had a great contijant here from the port so welcome and look forward work wg you. >> when i first heard ambassador kounalakis name and was scared to say the name. i got to speak and feel very honored at the rules committee and she had a great rn out and the respect she had from nancy pelosi, [inaudible]

ambassador kounalakis, art agonis and iow and came down and commissioner katz was there with me and her skills are impeccable but she is a true humanitarian. it was 16 years to the day she got mar raed at city hall. i'm happy. we are 5 now and i guess you can see the gender balance up here. i want you to see that. brad looked at me so you can see i'm out numbered. welcome commissioner kounalakis and glad to work with you in your new expertise. thank you. next item. >> item 9 c, informational overview presentation by to the executive directorf sosan francisco ethics commission regarding the department education and enforcement role in city and county government.

>> good afternoon commissioners. my name is leon pelm and i am in my 9th week as the executive dretherf osan francisco ethics commission. i appreciate the opportunity oo be here today to introduce myself very briefly and tool perhaps reinduce theectics commission. you may know my predsering was in the possession for 10 years so any organization that made a transition i think you also are familiar with. this is a great opportunity to be able to get out and introduce ourselves. i'll let you know about the priorities and support we hope to provide and solicit your feedback and continuing interest and let us know how we can support the work you are doing on behalf of san franciscan's. i have a very brief powerpoint presentation. there were copies on the

counter outside. we don't have a audioo visual but have copies in hard form. i want to introduce pat peter son. pat is in the blue jacket and is our outreach and education officer so she is busy ramping up the efforts to provide information in the most timely and effective way for those covered by our regulations. first of all i want to recap that the ethics commission as you may remember was created by san francisco voters in 1993 and as with many ethics commissions around the country, the commission was established by a vote of the citizens in the city county and established to do a broad range of responsibilities. we have a broad raisk of problematic responsibility within the area of government reform and public

disclosure including campaign finances, conflict of interest, lobby disclosure and registration, registration ofcome pain consultant and a variety of roles in the governmental ethics area. we work closely with office of city attorney and providing guidance and advice but our funchgzal duties are housed in the commission are [inaudible] we provide public diz closure for these areas. we provide education and partner with the city attorneys office. our job is also look at policy to make sure it is actually strong and workable and enforceable in practice and that is area we are trying to increase our effectivalness in. we also provide assistance to agency to help employees and public officer tooz understand the rule jz help provide the tools you are subject to. when we find people have over stepped the laws that ally to us we

have a investigative function. one question we get is where on r the standards we all have to live under, where are they expressed. as you know the state in 1974 passed a political reformant act and that set standard for government officials up and down the state from large to small cities so it is the foundation for our work. that is built upon by city law. the voters in san francisco are active and supportive having strong and extensiveictics laws so we have a campaign and governmental conduct code which has a lot of provisions we help folks understand and comply with. we [inaudible] sunshine ordinance and departments in the city have

statements of incompatible activities sethese are laws public servants have subject to. the port has its own statement of incompatible activities. in termoffs the information and education role that we play recollect, there are a number of disclosure rirenlts that applyment we have forms and disclosure information we try to provide people so everybody and understand the rule thofz road and understand how to comply with them and our job is really to provide the resources to help understand the rule jz tools to comply with the rule jz also providing nrfckz that equipts the public to hold us all accountable. one thing pat will tell me if i dont find out today is come april 1 public services have a financial disclosure requirement. commissioners department heads and other employees who

participate in government decisions so that is something our office workwise your staff to accomplish. we want to get as close to 100 percent full accurate compliance. we have a online filing system that enables department heads and commissioners and elected officials to file the statements on line and hope that is a wie to do it simply and effectively we are working to bring unthe other filers that are about 3 thousand employees into the same system over time to make it easier for them as well. that is also one of the educational tools that with the information the state provides and the information we can provide to staff and you to help with compliance we also have information the public is able tolook at to insure decisions are made fairly and objectively in the city so it is a tool to avoid conflicts and tool for the public to hold us accountable. i want toologist

draw your attention to one thing we are trying to do more of in the coming year and months, the ethics commissionworks with the city attorneys office. the city attorneys office as done a slnt job putting together a government guide that is a strong resource for everybody about the laws that govern our activities. from this we also work to develop smaller shorter timely and practical sheets information that we can send out when it may be most useful. for example, this is the first of the inaugeral fyi from theectics commission. we try to make sure folks are aware of the rules at a time when it most relevant so we issued one of these at the end of january to remind of the city and state rules. we hope to do more of that and welcome your ideas but what may be topics

that are useful to you and your employees in the department. in terms of enforcement, statements of incompatible activities each department has in edition to the standards we are held to engaging in activities are empermissible can subject city employees to sanctions. it is a very strong statement in the city and if t is something our office takes very seriously. we have a charter mandate by the voter tooz investigate issues brought to our attention and initiate investigation when the fact and law indicate something needs to be looked at and also require today treat these conconfident. we don't want

concerns raised in our office or issues investigated to turn into political footballs. people have reputations to be protective of and until there is a reason to determine someone violated a law. the saczs that aplay under the law can be crim nm or civil sanction squz the commission has the ability to levy fines up to $5,000 for ethics laws or 3 times the money improperly reported or taken. there was a charter requirement we work with the city attorney and district attorney so complaints are required to be referred to them, but it is most important i think that you, your employee squz public knows there is a place to levy and raise concerns and it is part of our job to make sure we treat those fairly, seriously and resauvlt cases objectively and thuryly and timely as we can. where the law and

facts take us is the gome to make sure we resolve them in the most effective way. lastly i would say that we have a broad mandate at the outset with a variety of problematic areas and function and the blue print for our organization is something we are working to strengthen and build on in the coming year. we are being aggressive as our commission starts the new charter we want to look at operations and be responsive to questions we can provide advice and strengthen a look alt the law tooz make sure they are workable in practice and enforceable and insure our enforcement is fair, proactive, thorough and consistent. we'll do a lot of work in our own house to up our graim and strengthen the role in supporting your job which is critical and

challenging one. in a time we are asked to do more with less it is critical creteivity be alouded to happen and the extent we can be a thought partner or support to make sure the issueerize tackleed in the most ethical way we are happy to play that role in support of your work. if there are questions i'm happy to take them and provide information that may be of use to you but appreciate the chance to say hello this afternoon and just say on behalf of all of us at the ethics commission we look forward working with you and supporting you in the work. >> thank you. any public comment on 9 c? director pelm. seeing there is no public comment, public comment is closed. commissioners, mrs. kounalakis. >> no comments. >> thank you for the wonderful report, it is great to get a refresher

and congratulations on your new role. >> i want to thank you for coming and speaking to us. i appreciate the refresher and it is nice toknow the city is doing it right so thank you for being here and welcome to the city. >> commissioner woo ho >> thank you for the are minder and good to know we have to file form 700 and appreciate we continue to express our core values throughout the city with various commissions and think that is important as something that represented san francisco at its best. >> thank you so much for coming today. i was the one that requested it. your ethic is important. the public is always watching and there has to be high level of transparence and say this without apology, this is the best commission in the city, the

port commission and we have to have high standard and one must be aware of conflict of interest. you can't be up [inaudible] people are watching and there has to be transspairns dw need to be reminded ask you have to do the right thing, so we as commissioners, this is the best commission and have to carry our suchbls that way and make sure the transs paerns is there, the public is always watching and there r people are look frg something and want this always to be a commission the public and everyone can have faith and interest. once again, thank you for coming. with that being said, you want to call the next item >> item 10 a, informational presentation on national flood insurance program and draft san francisco flood insurance rate maps. >> good afternoon president aedms and

commissioners. brad [inaudible] director of project here to present on the national flood insurance program. like to kick off the presentation welcoming director of risk management as the city administrator matt hansen and we will describe the role >> we as the city administrate strairt aifs collect chbly and individually for naomi kelly is the flood plain manager for the city and support all departments and enterprises and working through us with fema in your individual concerns are issues that you have with the program or may have and comments and appeals. the comment period, the maps were actually started in 2007? yeah. before my time, but it

started in 2007 and not until this past november do we have draft maps and they are put out by fema and we have a chance to comment and appeal those decisions they made on engineering basis. the staff here at the port will give a deeper presentation on the effects it will have on developmented and what they are attempting it do to work with us through fema to make sure it is a transparent process and that we have the opportunity to comment on these findings. second thing, we are coordinating outreach and sure there will be more information from brad but with each of our effected departments and enterprises there are specific stakeholders communities that may or can be effected by these mapping tools and what happens then is that

we worked with or work wg all the public information officers to make sure we have a coordinateed rft city wide, we speck with one voice to fema in that each area of concern has a opportunity to address their concerns. that is our role, we are coordinator facilitator and [inaudible] staff at the port have been very engaged and it has been a pleasure to work with them. >> thank you so much, matt. i will make this presentation with [inaudible] from the engineering division and let me start up the powerpoint presentation. okay. this is

our first opportunity to brief this commission about the national flood insurance program. as matt eluded to, the process started in 2007 where fema published draft flood insurance rate map frz the san francisco area for the first time. san francisco never has been mapped by fema for flood hazards, coastal flood hazard in particular so there were many presentations to the port commission in 2007 and some to the board of supervises and we are at a point in the process now where we are beginning those efforts again to make sure that the commission tenants and

other effected state holders understand the meaning of the map jz the rules that we'll have to follow going forward. so, what is the national flood insurance program? it really consists of 3 parts. building standards that fema requires for construction activities in flood hazard areas, flood information, sharing with the public analysis that fema has done that predicts where flooding will occur and those are on the maps that they publish. and then insurance requirements and the federal government offers a federally backed flood insurance program that is available to participating communities so that really adds up to the flood risk management strategy that congress envisions with the national flood insurance program. congress

acted first in 1968 delegating the lead agency responsibility to fema. when fema goes out and maps flood risk in the local community it sets the clock in motion for a decision as to whether or not to join the national flood insurance program. and to join local community has to adopt a flood plain management ordinance with building standard acceptable to fema and attach to that ordinance on the maps that show the flood hazard-air yuz. san francisco because of the prior mapping erfts made a decision to join the flood insurance program in 2008. the -it was adopted at the time was amended in 2010. we haven't had a lot of flooding in san francisco and haven't experienced a lot of flood damage along the port and coastal areas, but there

are areas inpland where the combined sewer system backed up and residents now can tap into the federal program to purchase flood insurance which is a great benefit to those residents. >> the flood plain management ordinance the port had a lot of participation in the drafting of the ordinance because the concerns they will describe more about. it establishes standard for building and flood plain jz those requirements are reflected in theport building code. they were reexisting of the building code. generally the rule is build above the elevation of base flood elevation so that is the total water level in a hundred year storm. the city admin strairtd administers the ordinance and [inaudible] recognized in overseeing the port building

code. there in that ordinance important variances for historic structures, important to the port because of the historic piers and for functionly dependent use for maritime use the rules are strictest in those zones and a zones which are high hazards. the maps that i mentioned earlier map the location of the flood hazard as they are really a look at current flood risk, it isn't looking forward to sea level rise, the information that we are learning in this will help us understand sea level rise better. they are looking at hundred year storm which is 1 percent chance of happening in any given year. they are also looking at the 500 year storm, which has a.2 percent chance of happening in any gichben year and much stronger storm. the uses of the maps are to set

insurance premeiers, higher has rbd areas, generate higher premiums and also to attach to the flood plain management ordinance. matt mentioned also the schedule. fema issued the pleliminary flood insurance map sfr san francisco in november. we are in a protest period right now . they are getting ready to publish the existence of the map in federal register and that along with the local newspaper notice will trig ar90 day formal appeal period. we will talk about issues we may want to engage in that period and flood insurance rate maps will be effective in mid-2017. i'll turn it over to [inaudible] now. >> president adams and

commissioners. my name is [inaudible] assistant [inaudible] principle of the port. thank you brad, for explaining a lot of terms so that makes my presentation easier. as brad pointed out, in 2007 for the first time in ports history, fema came up with a draft flood state map. [inaudible] which didn't consider [inaudible] flood protection, structures such as [inaudible] also the ports historic sea wall and a wharf structure. [inaudible] also known as the fema [inaudible] based on

comments submitted by the port and the city. latest draft maps which were issued by the fema in november last year now recognizes the [inaudible] provided by the break water structures. a number of areas, for example [inaudible] finishermans wharf and south beach harbor are less [inaudible] fema has also indicated they are willing to consider the raise of flood protection [inaudible] sea wall if we can get the sea wall section certified by submitting the calculation and analysis that supports sea wall can withstand the wave and [inaudible] louds. also,

it is high enough-[inaudible] for a majority of the sea wall section the top of the sea wall is higher than the base accept for some exceptions . one exception is along the sea wall section at pier 14 where you get annual flooding. the water tops over, so the port is working with a consultant to prepare a package which includes the coastal analysis and alsoa analysis that shows sea wall and the wharf are strong enough to withstand. [inaudible] we are working with matt hen sons office to get fema's feedback about our approach whether they would like something else. based on their

feedback we will update our packets and once we find something which is acceptable to fema we'll try to submit it before the end of the appeal period. so, all the structures in the flood plain are subject to the fema regulations. these reguless are also part the [inaudible] building code. this slide which applies to new construction fema [inaudible] they do not allow any new construction on the [inaudible] high tide. if it is a [inaudible] and also coastal [inaudible] if you are in a mapped [inaudible] zone which is high

flood area you cannot have new construction unless it supports maritime function or water dependent use. this slide applies to the existing piers. most of the existing piers we are allowed to do improvements and repairs and the repairs and improvements which exceeds 50 percent of the market value of thstructure, we are required to xum ply with the elevation requirements for fema regulations and for the building code and also the flood proofing requirements. there are certain structures which brad pointed out, historic structure jz structures supporting the maritime and water dependent use, they are not required to comply with the requirements.

also, the structure has to have 4 recalls walls and roof on the top. i would like to opponent out one structure at pier [inaudible] doesn't have structure on the top so it isn't insureable structure but if we try to build something on the top it may consider a new structure and then we believe at this time we will be allowed to do a new [inaudible] supports anything other than maritime use or water dependent use. so, we are exploring these issues and also seeking the fema feedback to see how we can -if in the future you want to do anything on the top of pier 32 how we can accomplish that. another example is [inaudible] i think

it could be considered existing use and any improvement all you need to do is elevate the structure or do flood proofing and i dont see problems in pursuing those projects. so, next i will try to explain some the features in the fema flood maps. fema mapping for based on the flood hazard which delineates extent of flooding in a hundred year flood. it is a flood with 1 percent inward chance. i

would also delineatearea subject to 500 flood. [inaudible] during 100 year flood event are called a [inaudible] as explained in the slide. subject to high velocity wave action and storm wave heights greater than 3 feet are mapped at a v zone. [inaudible] subject to 1 percent flooding with waves less than 3 feet are designated a zone. flood rate maps also show the base flood elevation, that is the elevation of the water expected during a hundred year flood event. the total [inaudible]

includes not only the storm surge but also the height of the wind driven waves, which mostly comes from the southeast directions. this slide summarizes the entire-we have like several panels for the fema map. this slide tries to capture the entire set of maps in one slide. one thing i would like to point out, as you can see, the dark blue is a v zone and the light blue is a zone. there is a brown colored area is 500 area subject to flooding with 500 year flood event. in 2007 when they came up with the flood maps tide

waterfront was dark blue. since then based on our appeals and comments they listeninged to us and they updated their analysis and it is much better than what we had in 2007, so it is a good progress. [inaudible] work with fema to kind of see if we can certify other structures like sea wall and the wharf structure that ties to the sea wall. this slide is another interesting slide which compares the pier deck elevations with the base flood elevation. as you can see, the most of the piers at this moment are out of the base flood elevations. and we have about

12 to 18 inches of the [inaudible] is the difference between the top deck and base flood elevation. under climate adaptation perspectives most of the piers have 12 to 18 inches of the sea board left. it looks like the water will be over the deck. when we talk about the climate [inaudible] these maps and graphs are helpful to understand how much time we have left. also like to point out the stretch of the waterfront from pier 26 up to pier 28. as for fema, the pier deck elevation is below the base

flood elevations. they [inaudible] under water. any type of project we propose to do we have to elevate the deck. that is the only way to make it work, otherwise the most of the projects in that section of the waterfront-elevating the deck i dont know , it may cost tons of money and the money will be feasible or not thats not something i'm sure of at this moment. here is a interesting slide, this shows the low lying areas along the waterfront. once again, when we talk about the climate adap tation strategies the strategies should attack these areas first which will buy us

time. these areas include areas along mission creek [inaudible] and also one stop near pier 14 and i believe the one area near pier 15 also. next i will go through some slides which gives you some idea of the amount of [inaudible] we have for some key piers. what did i do? --the first one, pier 1, this is mapped at a a zone in fema flood maps and the dark blue color shows

the high water which is about 6.2 feet, the tide level that you see on a day to day basis, that's the deep blue and the light blue shows the fema based flood elevation. you can see the deck elevation is about 1.7 feet above the base flood elevation so we have quite some time before it will be subject to flooding during the hundred year event due to sea level rise. >> king tides, right? >> king tide, want to make sure the king tide is below the base flood elevations. usually when you talk about king tide we are talking about the flood elevation this could be something of 7 and a half feet,

but base flood elevation is 10 to 12 feet. usually we don'tee the hundred year flood. it is like a earthquake, we never see the earthquake which i think some people say 1906 [inaudible] we never see the [inaudible] but it could happen. especially with global warming and climate change it could become more frequent. with pier 29 we also have 1.6 [inaudible] and the next two slides, this is the area which one the low lying areas in mission creak ek. pier 27 is a map in a v zone which is high hazard coastal zone and we have a lot of [inaudible] base flood

elevation, so it looks like [inaudible] by 2050, this could be subject to the [inaudible]00 year flood event. pier [inaudible] is already under water. so, just to summarize my presentation, new constructions are not allowed on the sea water in high tide in a v zone and coastal a zone. i hand this over to brad which will go over a few remaining slides and then at the end of the presentation i'll be available along with brad to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you so much. just as

reminder we have there variance procedures for our historic piers and maritime uses that we can rely on and all of the issues we talked about we are now in a place where fema is publishing the maps and have a lot of specialist available to communities to help navigate the implementation #3r5uss process so we'll engage with fema ovthe coming weeks and months. just insurance, this is another component of the program. flood insurance becomes mandatory under certain circumstances which fema maps special flood hazard areas whether or not local communities join the national flood insurance program, so there is the federally backed insurance. it generally subsidized product

but congress is trying to move away from the subsatize and encourage more private and self insurance. there is a published flood insurance manual that shows premiums higher in high hazard areas, but there may be some breaks for structures built not substantially improved before 1982 and a lot of our piers are a lot older than 1982, so-an important issue for us is that the law requires federally backed and regulated lendsers to require flood insurance when they make loans so that may have implication for lending in the development project context and that is something we'll get a lot about and report back to you on. matt is

a insurance expert and wim help with that research. so, just in closesing next steps we feel a obligation to reach out as quickly as possible to port tenants in the special flood hazard areas particular those on long term ground leases so we can explain the public process and how fooengage and what we are doing about it. as [inaudible] mentioned we are doing analysis about piers. we think many piers are above the base flood elevation. could they be remapped on the map so they are not shown in flood hazard areas? it is something that boston pursued and we hope we can copy. we are going to meet with fema regularly to discuss the appeal with matt's help. we will research those insurance option squz come back to you before the appeal period is closed to report back

on all of our learnings and i do want to say the city administrator office has a ton of information on the website about the flood insurance program. the link is here at the bottom of the slide if you want to find ought out here and we are here to answer questions you may have. >> any public comment? seeing none public comment is closed. commissioners. >> i learned more than i think i will ever hear about flood insurance. i will say i got a little lost in the weeds there. what i would like to know and know you are not asking for approval from us is what do we think the outcome the study will be and whether it will change. whether we are-i guess there was mention towards the ends about the impact of sea level rise which i think is more realistic to us that we need to figure out and may

not have been taken into consideration in previous reports. i hope we can get back-i'm not sure i understand we are doing this like ground zero studying everything, what change we expect out of this and you say there is a appeal process so i want to know what the key take away after hearing all this really are. >> key take aways are fema is publishing the maps whether the city likeatize or not and those maps will get attach today the cities flood plain management ordinance and a hazard area shown on the maps are going to impose new regulations on new construction or repairs to existing facilities that are at least half the cost of the value of those facilities. generally you have to build above the base flood elevation. two, people need to

by insurance in certain circumstances where there is a family backed loan there is a requirement to get flood insurance and we need to work with people to make sure we understand all the options available in the market for that. and three, we communicate important flood risk to the general public. there are low liar areas thatd could be subject to flooding in a very severe storm and it is important duty to let people know about that hazard. >> so, you mentioned and showed maps of where we think there are existing flood risk that is already in the existing flood plain that is already there that fema already recognizes. [inaudible] do we automatically tie this because i'm sure commissioner kounalakis will mention something but this is standard if you are on a flood plain you

must have insurance and that is a standard real estate term. [inaudible] when we do our outreach there won't be a surprise, it just says we may have added a few more into that because most of it is already mapped hopefully. >> so, the city flood risk map attached to the ordinance don't show most of the piers in a flood area largely because we know the decks are higher than the base flood elevation. there are a few shore line areas that are mapped as flood hazard areas, so what would be considered a hazardous area is expanding under the fema maps. we do have lease insurance requirements and also have the ability with the risk manager to wave those insurance requirements where there is no commercially reasonable insurance product available. i didn't get into it because we are learning more about the insurance market th