doing the actual [inaudible] beginning from the application until the conveyance of the property. i also have experience [inaudible] taking classes with city college working [inaudible] i did an appraisal on a single family residents in mountain spring and [inaudible] which i had from the [inaudible] and i also have done the private trust with other conservativeship and also a conservative for the city

listed here in san francisco but i didn't do the [inaudible] i would be happy to join this group and based on [inaudible] and based on the facts and do the research for it and hopefully this is [inaudible] and i hope to be with this board [inaudible] and thank you very much for your time. >> thank you for your presentation and think you answered the question i was going ask you which is how you would approach the role and i was looking for someone for this role and body on facts, making sure everything is done fairly, transparently in concert with all the other members with the

assessment appeals board so glad you brought that up on your own. supervisor mar >> i want to thank you for meeting with my office and your long time neighborhood work in potrero hill and bruno heights. your volunteer with various neighborhood association. it says something about your professional work as a appraising which you meet the minimum qualifications but [inaudible] pg & e energy audits to open space work with open space committee and involvement with lots of different community organizations, i really find that tremendously commendable besides you meeting the minimum qualification. your expertise and work as a appraising makes you well qualified for this seat so i'm proud to support you.

>> supervisor cohen. >> i'll be supporting mrs. bryant as well. >> just a question so you are able to make all the meetings for the assessment appeals board? >> [inaudible] i would like to be able to [inaudible] be able to work with people and i'm pretty good with that. i'm very good with the public and communicate and don't have no issue for [inaudible] >> i mean my question is, are you going to be able to atened all the meetings? are you going to be able to attend all the meetings? >> yes >> i know there are quorum issues so want to make sure-- >> i did have a question because i'm also involved with the commissioner [inaudible] also [inaudible] but that is one hour once a week.

>> alright. okay, thank you very much for your presentation and interest in serving. at this time we'll open up item 3 to public comment. any members who wish to speak on item 3? >> [singing] [inaudible] hope you do good good with all your dealing [inaudible] in the sky keep on [inaudible] good luck and [inaudible] >> thank you very much. any other members of the public on item 3? seeing none public comment is closed. at this time we have a nomination? >> i would like it nake a nomination to

move kristine nielsen to seat 2 and mrs. bryant to seat 5. >> second by supervisor mar, take that without objection. congratulations. can we resend that and send forward as a committee report. >> we take that without objection as a committee report. now item 4. >> item 4 is hearing to consider appointing to the food security task force, there is one seat and one applicant >> thank you, if we can-i apologize if i mispronounce your name [inaudible] >> good morning board of supervisors. i'm honored to be nominated for the food security task force. my name is [inaudible] and i'm the nutrition services director with the mu turnl child and adolescent helths

program with department of public health. i have-as sth nutrition service director i oversee the supplemental nutrition program for women and children known as wic and oversee the work for snap ed program known as [inaudible] here in san francisco that provides nutrition education to cal fresh [inaudible] also in my career i have worked with vulnerable populations, specifically women infrant and children at most risk for nutrition issues and being a part of the task force i have attended several meetings so far. i think i bring a voice for our most [inaudible] folks within the community and

really bring up not only food issues but also issues as they relate to nutrition and health, so you know, that is something that i passionately believe in and really have worked for my career. if you have any questions- >> you mentioned the focus you would like to bring to the task force if appointed particularly regarding nutrition and health, can you expand on that a bit? >> yes, currently there are a lot of projects involving nutrition, providing meals whether it is through cal fresh or delivered meals and there isn't a big focus on women infant and children. [inaudible] i do a lot of work related to breast feeding and there is

a different dimension to food security piece because you really dont see it as a food security issue when it come tooz infants but it is a critical piece that first year and it is something i really feel that needs to be brought to the table and that is something i plan to work on. >> thank you. glad you mentioned that. i think that is incredibly important. supervisor mar. >> i want to say mrs. rein is extremely qualified and love the passion toened hunger and your work within the department of public health for food stamp education to maximize people qualifying for food assistance and the work with wic. you didn't mention [inaudible] >> that is how i connect with the folks that i have worked with. you know, i

have a 8 year old son and he definitely inspires me and through that i can really see how difficult it can be. i mean, i have been blessed with [inaudible] in my life and the participants we are serving may not be there and still taking care of these children so yeah, the passion goes to a different level when the mother [inaudible] >> i know that with tarry oly and food task force members focused on seniors and people with disabilities, the children and families issue is really critical as well and know the school districts and [inaudible] are working but i think you bring a lot of valuable expertise. your work with immigrant

communities and food and hunger is another great area, but i'm happy you will be joining the task force. >> thank you very much. so, i dont see any other questions or comments so at this time i'll open up item 4 to public comment. >> [singing] [inaudible] security food task. they are taking away your ham burger and i hope [inaudible] security, food, task, security, food, task, supervisor mar we are going to fix that big mac. >> thank you very much. any other members of the public, we are closing public comment for item 4. we have a motion and with a nob nub >> i move we epoint [inaudible] to seat 10 on the food security task force

>> second by supervisor cohen. >> [inaudible] >> yes. >> alright, thank you. without objection, congratulations. item 5 >> item 5 hearing to consider the quarterly reports of the shelter monitoring committee. >> alright, thank you. i think that we have some representatives to present on this item today. >> good morning, my name is jonathan bunoto and chair the shelter monitoring committee appointed last year by the local homeless coordinating board and just became chair a couple mointh uzago so bear with me, not completely familiar with the quarterly report and this is my first time here. so, with regards to the quarterly report, and the-we did 20 site visits this

first quarter of the year and what were looking for are issues such as the facilities cleaned, bathrooms stocked recollect adequate bedding, storage, adequate meals, signage and ada accommodation and reasonability information. there are 43 total complaints during the quarter and that is consistent with previous year where we were averaging around 40 complaints per quarter and a break down of the types of complaints, 81 percent were staff related issues, fallowed by facility and access issues, 9 percent. health and hygiene, 8 percent. ada, 1.8 percent. so that is a

summary of the quarterly report. do you have any questions regarding the quarterly report? >> um, thank you. i just wanted to-i had a chance to read through it before hand so you mentioned the number of complaints for the quarter was consistent. it looked like a very high percentage in terms of complaints that are staff related, is that also across the board across the various reporting periods? >> i'll let howard answer because he has been doing the quarterly reports. >> good morning, supervisor, howard chen, policy analyst on the staff. what we have seen is typically there is a pattern of complaint about staff being the biggest issue with client complaint. >> and can you elberate a bit on what that entails? >> sure, the staff category is one of the broadest categories of complaints we take and that can range from

staff not having id badges to potentially using disrespectful language while speaking to clients and it can be something as serious as non maintaining a safe environment. the staff category is very broad so as a result you receive a lot of complaint in that category. >> have there been anything done to address that issue then, especially such a overwhelming percentage of complaints are based on that category? >> when clients come in and file complaints with our office, what we do is we track the names of the staff being named and the complaint and if the new trend with specific staff receiving a unusual amounts of complaints, what we do is send that information over to the contract monitor, but from what we have seen so far, there haven't been that

many individual staff that continuously we see complaint. it is different staff receiving complaints from different clients. >> okay. thank you. >> i had a question, mr. chin, it looks like next door is the site of 25 complaints and i'm wondering and looking at the narrative of-could you just explain-it seems like that is where some of the concentrated complaints are and how that was resolved? >> so, next door is one the largest shelters in the city system and so as a result we do see they typically receive a more complaints than some of the smaller sites. that would also be true for [inaudible] south and providence as those are some very large sites and typically they do receive more client complaints. >> one was no smoking sign not posted in spanish, how-are smoking

complaints a common type of complaint at a number of the shelter? >> there isn't a complaint we receive a lot of. for that particular instance i can't recall the exact details of that complaint but that isn't something that typically comes up very often >> thank you. >> maybe that was from a site visit where we observed there want a no smoking sign in spanish because they are required to have all the signs in spanish and english. >> alright. thank you. any other questions from committee members? seeing none i just look forward to continue working with the shelter monering committee, human services agency and of course providers as well in term thofz policy regarding people involved in domestic violence incidence so thank hsa helping work on that in the past wreer changing that

policy so hope we can continue making improvements on that. >> i also thank hsa for their support and assistance as well as you, supervisor tang and the board of supervisors for passing the resolution back in december. there is a additional item which i wanted to bring to your attention and that is the shelter monitoring committee has some legislation recommendations and one of them has to do with the standser of care number 12 which is there should be two clean sheets and some [inaudible] they don't have laundry facilities, so the recommendation that we are making is that they be aloud to substitute a clean blanket for a clean sheet and not get written up at violating a

standard of care item. and the second recommendation we are making has to do with the board of supervisors seat 1. currently this seat has to be sfiled by someone who is homeless person or homeless 3 years prior to appointment living a homeless child or the recommendation is living a homeless child under the age of 18. it is issue for the committee to find candidates who are currently homeless with their homeless child, not to find but to keep them because if you a homeless and trying to care for a child it is very difficult to be going on all the shelter inspections we do each month and it is difficult to attend the committee meeting and any subcommittee meetings, so we would like to

recommend that this be changed to somebody who has lived with a homeless child under the age of 18 at some point within the candidates life time. we believe it will make it easier to keep someone in this position. it is currently unfilled on the committee. and the third recommendation is that the terms of each committee officer, they are two years, but we ask that they be staggered so half rupointed on a even year and half are appointed on a odd year so we can have consistency in the committee with experience. thank you, if you have any questions- >> thank you. and so just in terms of the 3 recommendations sound good to me. i just wonder does department staff want to weigh in on this and let us know their thoughts?

>> did you mean the staff from or hsa? >> either one >> we [inaudible] shelter monitoring officers quarterly so we work through these changes and agreement with all of them. >> great. just for the record [inaudible] >> sorry. >> great. [inaudible] >> howard chin, policy analyst. [inaudible] assistant to dweckter of health will coordinate with dpa and hsa. he is out of town but can forward questions or concerns over to him. >> thank you. colleagues any questions or comment? that thank you so much for your work and department staff. we'll open up item 5 to public

comment. i think mr. walter left. no members of the public for item 5. this was a hearing so if we have a motion to file this hearing. >> so moved >> thank you. >> second by supervisor cohen. the hearing is filed mptd mr. clerk do we have any other items before us? >> no more items, madam chair. >> okay thank you. meeting is adjourned. [meeting adjourned] top of the

well. >> top of morning. >> all right. all right. . >> elected officials i have a lot here and where are all the supervisors and the police department and the police chief and police chief and all the people are part irish the city attorney and the consul general and there is supervisor oh, farrell what happens to the o on behalf of the mayor, i want welcome this on the underlying the irish flag and the kickoff of that long but wonderful celebration of salesforce it is a few days off; right? and also welcome the fwrand marshall and also the court committee for our

city i see sow many wonderful places out there that come every year i guess you drink it or use it rich cream you're a day older so thank you all for being here we love underlying the flag the irish leaders and communities that are up here during the gold rush and some of you are still here when our first mayor was born in richard and had a lot of irish mayorss with sheryl we register and gavin newsom doing his job he had another irish baby so i don't know why he named him duchess so you look at around san francisco and see all the streets named for wonderful irish americans that made san francisco what it is mclaren

park and o'farrell street and ongoing so, now you're keeping up the tradition with the police chief and the police and irish and the sheriff he she is part irish and your part irish; right? >> yeah. >> so we honor all of you by underlying our flag in front of our city hall and starting the clock there is a word they use your mayor was named the river river lee it is my great pleasure to introduce our lord mayor, mayor ed lee. >> thank you charlotte i want to extend my warm itself welcome to all of you and the elected officials here our deciding tars and supervisors our assessor-recorder came in nice green carmen i have no problem finding my green tie it says

when you are going to wear it yelling at me i want to say congratulations to everyone including the labor unions i say mr. o'connor and some of the labor union it remind me how our city has been built with the history of the our irish americans throughout many, many years and this is a time an opportunity not only to celebrate the staifrz but to review what the community has done for this great city over many, many decades that is incredible you look at the history of our city and how people have built this city and make sure that it reflected the diversity and history where people came from i know that consul general will mention things we are reminded about the easter rising centennial or the

hundred and 605 anniversary of our parade and efforts the city that is another great history for the 32 celebration of our sister city and again, i want to say thank you to the united irish community for leading the efforts and the parade and having the graushd mr. boim and others that are here today and being part of volunteers that keep our celebrations alive and the history alive over the jim considering the john boyle's or the deferring admit our part of our celebrations of the sister city and charlotte said earlier anita and i have a great trip on behalf of the city to celebrate the sister city and treernd things that help our city for example, the first direct

flights between san francisco and dublin e bin gosh what wonderful (clapping.) and from what i hear it is more successful than we knew that was going to be a groundbreaking thing it is more successful and continue this wonderful flight and it brought kids from other parts the city to help us with technology and help exchanges culture exchanges it has brought trade and more cultural and educations challenges and, of course, through that all we're able to have the t kenny come and visit, of course, timing mike hig goes on and several carbon monoxides with him and the cultural center and talk about the international significance of those exchanges that is so many things have

happened as a result of the the sister city work and the united irish communities i want to say an is eve of our salesforce to have leadership on the board like supervisor farrell leading not only the board celebrations but work with the board and i get to do and use the talent of our irish american communities to help us building on the wonderful history to also have fun with the things you're going to see the irish dancers and like the pipers who i got to invited to the kickoff like the mayors cup and have a great celebration there those are all wonderful things happening with our irish american community from building our city, inform celebrating the cultural to having wonderful talent of people help me run it from the public safety to the elected officials i'm proud of

the irish history with that, i'd like to provide the celebrations this morning with a declaration to be given to the city council and to, of course, president of our irish united irish communities first to consul general phillip grant and hereby calory this to be relishing or irish american friendship in the city of san francisco consul general. >> (clapping.) >> and to the presidents of our united irish societies let me am come up lee yum . >> (clapping.) >> of course, the greatest

cast is my irish and, of course, on the eve of salesforce i've got to say aaron go before this is a translation of salesforce, of course, when i first asked about it i had to explain that is not a professional women's soccer cry but salesforce and give it back to charlotte. >> thank you, mayor thank you very much top of the morning now i introduce supervisor o farrell. >> (clapping.) >> he's somewhere. >> thank you charlotte and mayor ed lee and everyone for being here that is a proud honor to be the mc this irish celebration outside of city hall to carry on the tradition of a supervisor that does it inside

of city hall as mentioned over irish community has strong roots in san francisco for generations going back to the gold rush we continue to sustain the city we continue to work in that and be part of the community. and enblaensz but the cultural center out in the subject and so many things we had a a community in san francisco i'm very much proud to be part of it and have irish heritage and proud to spend on year nature with - and here to be with the celebration i want to start off by introducing someone with us a number of years a greatest friend phil grant was with us since 1992 prior to the poivent appointment of consul general overviews the spokesperson tore the media residents for the

foreign ministry for 4 years and in san francisco in september 30th, 2014, when it overviews sworn if with us a number of years and we've gone through not only i'll say the normal course from the irish community buses berkley a rock for the community thank you. and want to welcome you >> (clapping.) >> >> (speaking foreign language.) >> good morning and thank you to mayor ed lee and supervisor farrell at the board of supervisors and everyone who has came here first of all, on behalf of myself and the council thank you to the grand mash for this week and the we lost two important people of the staff you know worked for the

consulate for years here funnel is here our thoughts and prayers with her family that time of the year is one we encounter a lot of the people the community that passed away and i find it especially touching because the tragedy that enveloped our community in berkley and before talking about the parade and event that is the opportunity i have i want to extend the biggest thank you to all of you i want to name a few people without them and their assistance and coordination our students and their fascinates and everyone when was involved in what happened in berkley on the 16th of june would be difficult i would like to thank charlotte schultz her team working closely did miracles to make sure that we could bring

our students home together with their families and on a happy day i don't know if there is is a better report in america they couldn't have done more for us thank you to the police chief and the chief of fire services thai provided honor as the cove i think so went through the city the chief of the fire service helped us in berkley the police and fire service out of the hearing aids for a week the middle of that trauma i'm sure none has managed to say of a foreign consulate will arrive on your doorstep with the immigration center with a one volunteers their students and families and the counselors i don't i don't think there was a door i had to open for myself or

get food for myself i don't have to travel the police and fire services in san francisco did everything so on my and your on behalf of a real appreciative to all of them thank you. >> (clapping.) >> i have a long line of these in my office some to the 1950s 60s you wonder their words but do they mean anything we found out how much they mean there is a lovely festivity photograph on the facebook of one of the mothers that lost her child in the blockage collapse and her cousins what elita and a photograph of them and airport with libya arrived to start her

students and the missouri's pink to hold open to in leave is each other i want to say thank you to the city of san francisco to the people of san francisco and to the wider bay area for holding on the us in a difficult periods the lives of the irish community here in the be sure so thank you all. >> (clapping.) >> we're 6 weeks away from marking the one hundred anniversary of the declaration of the proclamation and the easter rising and that was a similar event in irish history that changed the relationship on the 0i8d of the ridership and great britain and the relationship with the united states and relationships with europe i'm conscious it means different things to different people while the irish know

about that the refreshing americans know and most americans with not familiar with was it stood for i've tried to find the colonel why it is important for everybody and our prayed marks that occasion how to ties to the communities here in america and particularly in san francisco and the word i'll use is in justice what caused the men and women of eastern 1916 to stand up in refwhern a minority and they were told to stay home by something compelled them to take to the streets and even as a time the conflict with the world-class 1 remaining and later on have any rich americans and serving with the american services what compelled

them to act that was in justice a history of centuries of injustice of being third class subjects to some other people and that resonated very much with the irish experience in america coming here to the first great republic if you read the words finds proclamation they echo the words finding declaration of independence to find the majority of them spent time the america and closest family ties to america america is the only name mentions specifically the irish declaration of independence that's one reason we mark that occasion authenticity the human injustice when necessary rose up they were not welcomed by the population of dunn dublin the

first horrible days of sheila's and killings they were insult and spat on what changed brought the rest of the country to the point of views and again, we come back to injustice it is what we saw happened the immediate aftermath of the arising the xooigsz and the imposition of mash law you go back to that thing they've stood up to protest we did this we will have to because of the injustice thai had to be responsible for the same hands that led to their dedicate an irish people have had enough injustice the theme of enjustice links us to other people in other parts of word i want to an event with the new york times talked about an irish at the age of 14 and mentioned 1 about the

5 million irish show up on the shores of american one .5 million staifrl unwanted no skills having to be accommodated 9 first references had to absorb and wanting to r a part in the american dream i think today you read the newspapers one .5 sitting on the doorsteps of europe he trying to escape injustice and infaurns if i ask myself kwhoo are the enar combithszries of today, i'm proud they're irish people that are running the receiving camps in turkey and lebanon i'm proud to reach out to the community and south american and afghan the lessons of 1816 why people

throughout the century laid down their lives is fundamentally this is a battle against injustice that inis something that takes place the world around you, we have the responsibility to respond to those in need and respond to the problems of world and find solutions that the people like our people don't interest have to turn outside for help and assistance and they can go home the city of san francisco stands for many things one of the greatest things it stand for it fairness and equality and inclusiveness that the irish experience came out here under e unlike the irish on the east coast they didn't face the same pressures on, on the east coast in finding in their way in america the first thing tax

savings started the civil rights mark and on behalf of the irish to say we're here and part of the society and want to be part of the society we're broeng you, you something you can cherish and incorporate into the american dream to help you build up your country when i look out today, i see the benefit that is emerged the strength of that relationship between oirld and american i apologize on going on i want to say thank you to all of you and thank you thank you for all you do to other causes and the struggle for injudicious wherever it might be thank you. >> (clapping.) >> thank you consul general i do want to acknowledge some individuals up here to make sure

everybody knows who is standing with us today, we'll bring up lee yum but two of the statistical warths angus and commissioners for the city and county of san francisco >> (clapping.) >> i'm sure many don't need introduction but our fire chief joanne hayes-white. >> (clapping.) >> our police chief greg suhr. >> (clapping.) >> our city attorney dennis herrera. >> (clapping.) >> and we've heard from consul general grant and mayor ed lee and ms. shuttling and supervisor yee is here. >> (clapping.) >> who represents o represents many the sunset district and vicki hennessey our sheriff. >> alex from the board of city college.

>> (clapping.) >> carmen chu our amazing assessor-recorder. >> (clapping.) >> and scott wiener into district 8. >> (clapping.) >> so i'd like to bring up someone that is involved the irish community born and raised san franciscan was in our police department for 319 years retired as a lieutenant and the president of the irish society. >> (clapping.) >> thank you first of all, i want to off the condolences of the entire irish community to mr. and mrs. boiling on the passing of their son tenors at the dinner the other night i coached terrance in soccer at scared high school i looked at terrance and he said i remedy you. you made me run a lot i was open again, it when i

got the calls about the tragedy and i was happy that i made that approach to terrance but i have a bit of a personal request our grand marshall said he was up near the stage and a picture was taken care of him his son charley and terps he thought i took the picture i didn't it i need to everybody to go on social media to get that picture to jerry please do me a favor welcome to everyone that came down thrombus they named the honored guests i don't have to repeat that i'm happy about that but i appreciate you all scooting here when i got up this morning and saw the rainy

thought a light crowd that's not true i'm happy you took the time to come down here and celebrate with us celebrating the one anniversary of the 1916 rising and i do want to thank san francisco pipers that caught the wheeling and ken he will sorry and dan thank you for coming out putting on the festivals of the is a huge theatre my director of public works and some of the assistants are awesome i appreciate it is pretty easy to sit at the table and take the ac lads and smile and shack machines but the people that do the work and the same thing for the city running are around from the sfmta myrtle did a great job and mayor be

proud of your departments everybody stepping up and the individuals that get things done is amazing i also have diane ray and telling ma perez from the rec and park and chief joanne hayes-white for her staff getting the permits for the plaza and greg suhr at his staff station that captain lazarus and jennifer jackson and sergeant marin and lynn and pat tobin you know they did a great job i would like to take the opportunity because law enforcement in the country has taken a hit thank you to greg suhr for the job his men and women do everyday for us and offer my congratulations and condolences for the new position

that chief vicki hennessey took so thank you. >> (clapping.) >> i'd like to congratulate jerry boiling on becoming the grand marshall and ed and others as well as michael it is a huge honor to be named the grand marshall the honoree graurn but a lot of work and we appreciate that you agreed to not only be honored let us honor you for the work that is involved in that now i make the presentations to the grand marshall is that what i do now by thank you. >> my second year first of all, call of jerry boiling. >> (clapping.) >> this is from certificate of

honor presented to jerry boiling whereas on behalf of the city and county of san francisco i am pleased to recognize and honor jerry boiling for the contributions to the irish community my great privilege on the selection of the irish society of the for the city and county of san francisco for the san francisco salesforce thank you. >> i'd like to thank the irish society for the honor i'm overwhelmed something i thought i'd never see or be in i would last week to say that san francisco is always been deeply involving in rirld or oirldz strewn for freedom and the rebel the incites of the red

branch played their part in building up the rising the 1916 this shouldn't be forgotten i'd like to say that i especially am honored this year because it is the citizen neglect of the rising of 1916 and when you look at the irish flag and put it up remember it flew over the cities when the bombs blasted it and the words of frederick we'll envelope be at peace without roirlgd being free. >> (clapping.) >> and our first honoree grand marshall michael during kin i'd like to bring his wife mary up

and the whole family if they'd like 2:00 p.m. years on the city and county of san francisco i'm pleased to recognize michael to the community it is my great privilege and honor in his memory on the occasion by the unit irish sornt the san francisco as an honorary grand marshall of the one and 60 irish day parade. >> (clapping.) >> and mike's daughter shannon thank you now i'll bring up the family of ed and maggie ma govern here comes bryan. >> (clapping.) >> big family he gets nomad to come up whereas think on behalf of the city and county of san francisco i'm pleased and honored to recognize those folks

for the contributions of the rich american community it is my great privilege to hour their memory by the unit irish society as the grand marshalls of the one and 60 grand prayed congratulations to maggie congratulations . >> (clapping.) >> and this is the season to be irish the next couple weeks i invite everybody the city and in the bay area to become irish and celebrate with us honoring the 1916 rising easter rising now i'd like to bring up kevin that has a gift for the mayor. >> just want to say would be quick thank you to who puts this on caitlin thank you so much

caitlin. >> (clapping.) >> through san francisco's sister city runs a richer known as is lee river every other year we get something from the river we get whiskey for the mayor joy that gift and i know what you're waiting forfeiture. >> (clapping.) >> thanks everybody and i want to on behalf of the city and county of san francisco i want to acknowledge the grand marshall or so and members to your families your dmronz and actually ms. boiling we have something to present to you if you come up on the honor of on the honor of one anniversary what we're celebrating it is really diversifying our condominiums first of all, on

behalf of the city and county of san francisco the condolences for your loss this week and on the honor of this one anniversary we want to give you a copy of the irish declaration. >> (clapping.) >> so workplace we'll turn to the incredibly fun parts we're blessed to have a number of irish dancing groups and the relishing pepper band first call up the murphy school of rich dancers with 35 members for one and 75 at any time welcome them forward. >> (clapping.) >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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>> (clapping.) >> well, thank you very much and now i want to we have a few certifies of, however, for the wheeling i didn't kevinly group the irish dancers come on up

>> (clapping.) >> and the murphy school of irish dance. >> (clapping.) >> >> (clapping.) >> as well as for the irish pipers band in san >> (clappin) >> as well as for the irish pipers band in sa (clapping.) >> as well as for the irish pipers band in san francisco. >> (clapping.)>> >> (clapping.)>> (clapping.) >> as well as for the irish pipers band in san francisco. >> (clapping.)(clapping.) >> as well as for the irish pipers band in san francisco. >> (clapping.) (clapping.) >> as well as for the irish pipers band in san francisco. >> (clapping.) > well, thank you again for coming today, we'll wrap up a huge

thanks for charlotte schultz the best dressed woman in san francisco and never fails to amaze amounts happy heritage month in san francisco and thank you, everybody for wearing green. >> want to say a tradition starts by supervisor el balboa park welcome to my office there is food and drink as well please come and enjoy it and happy happy salesforceto order. roll >> 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 turn 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 isclosed 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 ther