>> roll call. [ roll call. ] >> clerk: commissioners with regard to the approval of minutes due to a glitch in the agenda setting -- i mean, the agenda posting, that item, plus the disclosure information will be presented at the march 27 meeting. okay. item three, pledge of

allegiance. [ pledge of allegiance ] >> please be advised that the ringing of and use of cell phones or pagers or similar sound prousing electronic devi -- producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent public comments on each agenda item unless port commission adopts a shorter period on any item. item five, public comments on items not listed on the agenda. >> is there any public comment on items not listed on the agenda? seeing none. >> item 6 a executive director's report. >> good afternoon, president

brandon, vice president adams, commissioner woo ho. i am elaine forbes, the port director. i would like to honor our esteemed director brandon. at this event, she will be presented the madam c.j. walker corporate award for her outstanding leadership and tireless effort in the local community. this is an event that will be held april the 6th of this year. the national coalition of black women's mission is the -- is committed to providing programs that increase the participation of african american young women in kmem, civic, entrepreneurial and human service arenas in their prospective communities through education, scholarship and collaboration. it is the choice for today's

african american woman who understands the needs of her community and has the skills to provide solutions of effective networking, to allow african american women to be forces in social, political and economic arenas, so assist the next generation of women through career modelling and mentoring, and to develop african american women in leadership roles in the community. we're very proud of you for being honored by what sounds to be a very important organization. congratulations to you, and that concludes my report. >> president brandon: thank you. [applause]. >> okay. item 6-d, port commissioners report. >> i'm going to cede the floor to my other fellow

commissioners. [ inaudible ] obviously, i wasn't there in body but in spirit. >> vice president adams: i want to congratulation madam president brandon on your distinguished ard with distinguished award. i want to tell you i was able to go down to the breton project. i was able to go down to pier 70. they have a new uber down there, and i got to see the driverless cars and was just fascinated with how the buildings are coming along down in this area. it's almost like if you don't go down there for a while, you don't realize how much is happening in the dogpatch area and how the port was so involved, especially with the staff, and byron, and everybody. i walked around there where the pier 70 thing was, and it was really important to hear what about orton thought was going

to happen. i know we're going to put another rfp out, but i talked to orton. they figure there's going to be close to 1600 new jobs down there, people working. there will be some union jobs, there are going to be some tech jobs. i'm looking toward the future. i don't think we're going to be able to replicate the old shipyard, but i see a new pier 70 with good jobs, a future, and a thriving neighborhood. and the port will have this input in it. i'm equally impressed with the ort orton. they really have a commitment to the port. i know that andy's a little rough around the edges, but he cares highly of you, director forbes, and he's with the port staff. i just wanted to share that with my commissioners. darlene, please get down there and see the port, what's going

on, you see all these young people, and these buildings. it's not like the days where you sat down at a desk. most of the young people on uber, they're standing up on their computer, they've got drinks. it's just like a different vibe. it's co it's cool, it'stialtia casual, it's real techie. i would love for you to get down there for us. >> i go down there regularly. >> president brandon: commission commissioner katz, do you have anything to add? >> commissioner katz: i did have the opportunity to attend the signing at city hall with president lob don bre-- london and many others. thank you to the community representatives that showed up, 'cause they put so much time and energy into making this

project a reality. and after ten years, we actually had a signing. now we just have to have a ground breaking. but it was a -- it was a historic event, so i want to thank everybody who had anything to do with the mission rock project that is coming to fruition. >> president brandon: thank you. >> clerk: item on the conscent calendar, request to approve request for proposals to provide california environmental quality act review of the waterfront plan update project. >> so move. >> second. >> president brandon: is there any public comment on item 7-a? seeing none, commissioners? all in favor? any opposed? resolution 18-20 has been approved. >> clerk: item 8-a, informational presentation of

planning progress from port staff and ch2m arcadian. >> good afternoon, commissioners, president brandon, vice president adams, director forbes. i'm the seawall program manager, and this is an informational presentation on planning and engineering progress for the san francisco seawall earthquake safety and disaster prevention program. joining me today are stacey jones and summer bundy from the ch2m arcadis team. thanks to the city commission, the late mayor ed lee, and executive director forbes, the seawall safety effort is currently underway. this is a project projected to cost up to $30 million, last up

to 30 years. phase one will complete flood and seismic risk assessments, develop the overall program, and folk you can construction on the most critical and vulnerable assets. phase one is budgeted at 5 million with completion by the end of 2026. program goals are to act quickly to improve disaster preparedness for the city and port, reduce earthquake damage to city and infrastructure, improve resilience, enhance the city and the bay, preserve public resources and engage the community in the process. recap of how we got here. in 2012, the port completed a sea level rise study revealing current flood risk near the ferry building and emerging flood risks downtown and port facilities. in 2014, the san francisco lifelines council completed a lifelines interdependency

study. in march of 2016, city released the mayor's sea level rice action plan which established guidance and an aggressive agenda for tackling sea level rice. the port's coo is currently on the mayor's sea level rise committee. in july of 2016, the port completed the seawall earthquake vulnerablity study and the staff provided findings, including risks due to seawall liquifaction studies. in 2016 the army corporation of engineers. [ inaudible ] under the continuing authorities program or cap 103, and in november of 2017, port staff issued a notice to proceed to ch-2 m arcadis.

for phase one of the program, program team is organized around the following displains. engineering, land use and developmental and urban design, economics and finance, legislative and external affairs and stakeholder engagement. we've hired dedicated program staff, myself, mat wickens to lead engineering, linday lowe to lead with resilience planning, and kirsten southy for communications. assigned port operations staff to lead roles and brought on two major consulting contracts, civic edge for community engagement, who you heard from last month, and planning and environmental services. the ch 2 m arcadis team is led by stacey jones. she's here, who functions as the project manager.

we'll hear from her in a minute. summer bundy who leads stakeholder engagement. laura harnish and hugh roberts who lead the risk assessment, emilio roberts as the program implementation advisor, and global executive sponsors patrick king from ch 2 m. the team includes many local and lrbe firms. this is the dream team from my perspective. we've also established an independent seismic review panel. the panel will provide technical oversight of approaches and decisions and includes the uc berkeley faculty chair in earthquake engineering excellence, professor jonathan bray. the panel has already met. they've toured the seawall and weighed in on preliminary approaches to geotechnical

investigations and seismic analysis approaches. the ch 2 mrkadis project includes the tire phase one of the program, including plan, environmental design, approvals, implementing strategies and technical assistance during time design and construction. the planning phase scope includes the following key areas: stakeholder engagement and community planning, which the commission was briefed on last month, visiting conditions assessment, which is underway, multihazard risk assessment, which is also underway, and alternatives analysis and program selection. now i'd like to turn the presentation over to summer bundy and stacey jones to provide an update on this work. >> good afternoon, president brandon, commissioners. i am honored to be here. i'm summer bundy with ch 2 m.

and i'm calling myself the engineering interpreter. so we've got underway with this data complex task with 3.5 miles of seawall and a multidisciplinary effort. this is a really large undertaking. so we've identified the data and are sin thynthesizing it. we've held kickoff meetings with our city and regional infrastructure agencies including sfpuc where we're talking about the transport and storage boxes, the north shore treatment plan, the outfalls, and the rest of that system that the cfd's, mta where we've talked about muni tunnel and their surface system, parks,

and dpw. moving forward, we're going to be initiating a geotechnical field investigation to collect additional data to reduce uncertainty. we'll be finalizing our asset inventory and our gif, which will provide the tools that we need to perform the economic assessment of risk, and finalizing an existing conditions report that will incorporate the information that we gather during the geotech investigation. actually today we met with sfpuc and we'll be moving forward this week with mta in digging into the details about what the systems will look like for those shares systems in the embarcadero. now i have the honor of sharing you with a video of what this existing information looks like. this is sort of a preview of the type of tools that we'll have available to us as we perform our analysis, develop alternatives, and communicate with the public. so this is a 3-d model of the data that we have available. only half the city is rendered

because of the processing time to create the rendering, but this is elevation data, followed by a slope analysis, so we can assess overland flow and slope within the area. and then, we're going to zoom down to the rest of the city and show -- this is a liquefiction area of the usgs. we'll help refine that analysis. the blue shorts existing port assets. that yellow kind of wall feature shows the area of influence of the failure of the seawall, so that's our seismic study area. and then, we start to look at areas of potential inundation, so points along the embarcadero and waive over topping will cause ner concerns headed up towards piers five and nine, and then it's going to move up

towards the historic finger piers to show us with some inundation. so we think that these tools will really help us communicate the risk and urgency of the project to stakeholders, as well as develop and form some alternatives. those are 24 inch at sea level rise inundations. so that blue wall is how we're trying to show the area of influence is a static 66 inch sea level rise, which is a 20 year prediction with storm surge. and then, as we focus in over the ferry building with a 12 inch sea level rise event, combined with a 100 year storm surge, you start to see the inundation where we are today. the giant thumb tack there with the muni tunnel, the giant thumb tack back there is the

embarcadero. if we were to not mitigate the sea level rise, we would continue to see the bay take back the coast back toward first street. and now, it's going to zoom in a little bit more. so this is the perspective showing the muni tunnel and that only inundation risk, which is a near term inundation risk, and the embarcadero entrance. these tools are -- we're actually able to drive around the model in different perspectives, and different views can be captured to people have an opportunity to look at what their street might look like in a future sea level rise event. now we're getting to my favorite part, where we have a street level view of the embarcadero which allows us to zoom in, and now we're going to dive underground and look at the important assets that we have within the embarcadero. this is a laterally correct version of the sewer and stormwater assets we're working

on nailing down what the vertical locations are, but this allows us to perform analysis where we can quickly calculate the inundated sewer networks under the piers and work with sfpuc and others to more carefully understand the impacts of any projects along the embarcadero. the green shows the areas of the port properties that are designated as emergency response which right now, all port assets serve some function in an emergency, whether it's an immediate function or something that happens a month or so out, so we're working right now with an abartram and others to better characterize what we need from those port assets in the event of an emergency. so evacuation routes include the embarcadero and market street, and so that's an important consideration as we think about different disaster scenarios and how we need the port assets to function following a disaster event. and then, i think we're closing in here.

we're going to show the parks and open spaces and -- which is an important consideration for the urban form -- oh, fire station locations. an important part of this project is how the system is going to respond in an emergency, so the fire stations combined with the neighborhood emergency response centers will provide important information on disaster response. and then these are just a few wall segments, and there's your parks and open spaces. so we're looking forward to further developing this to make it be a useful tool for you all to make it publicly available so that students or the public could better understand the risks as well as the opportunities. i'm going to turn it over to stacey to talk about geotech. thank you. >> thank you, summer. commissioners, president brandon, executive director elaine forbes, thank you. my name is stacey jones, and as steven said i'm the project

manager for the ch2m team. data collection is a very important activity as a part of this project, and the geotechnical field investigations is a very critical activity and milestone for the seismic hazard assessment. so the geotechnical investigation development was based upon the undering of the previous vulnerablity study and data collection that was done under that effort, as well as additional data collection by the engineering team, and combining that information into a gif and a digital tool that allows us to better understand what the gaps are in terms of the overall project and understanding the geotechnical characterization. we also developed goals that we wanted to accomplish as a part

of this investigation, and those include a better understanding of the seawall geometry, and also the foundation stratum underneath that seawall. there is very little information of that, and that is a major aspect of our investigation. better quality data. not all the data we got was of high enough quality to be taab to use, but also, coverage along the seawall, spatial coverage to fill in the gaps. a better understanding of the young bay mud. as you know, that's a layer of soil that does not -- it's highly compressible and does not necessarily have high strength, but we do think there's some better opportunities there to understand exactly what that strength is. and because we think that it's maybe been conservatively

represented due to the lack of sufficient data. and then, understanding improved characterization of the liquefax susceptiblity. as you know, that's going to determine measures in terms of our vulnerablity and consequences. this particular geotechnical view will reduce the conservativism that we have today because we have a lack of data, but also that will translate into a reduction of construction costs. so the next few slides that i'm going to take you through is going to be explaining two of the major activities in the phase that we're currently undergoing. so one is the development of the multihazard risk assessment and the alternatives analysis. i'm going to talk about the purpose, the out cocome, and t

status of where we're at on these activities. i want to draw your attention to those items on the left side of your slide. okay. these are the important components and analysis that will be undertaken as a part of the multihazard risk assessment, and they are really, the underpinning of our work in terms of developing recommendations from this effort. so our purpose here is to provide a transparent -- so transparent means a very active stakeholder engagement to both solicit input and to educate, and so we're working jointly with civic edge, and i think you already know that summer's leading that effort with us. it's very important. it's a risk based decision tool to inform the investments in our prioritization of projects. so it's based on hazard

capablities and economic losses through the moneytization and characterization of actions. the outcomes is a quantification of like safety damages and disruptions from seismic and flood scenarios. and identifying the land use environment and urban constraints and opportunities which will also be an important aspect in the prioritization of the project. so some of the highlights. we've initiated the seismic assessment methodology approach for both the flooding and the seismic. we actually have presented some preliminary approach to the seism seismic peer review panels and we've gotten some feedback that we're going to be incorporating

that. we'll be developing -- we're in the process of developing a gif asset inventory for not only the economic analysis that will help drive our analysis of the direct and indirect consequences that are eventually monetized but that will be used for compiling all of the data for geotechnical investigation, drawings, data and studies that will be a part of our deliverables, and then, that can be used in the future for further work. and we've developed draft reports for the infrastructure systems and exposure analysis, so this is to facilitate the conversations with the city departments and understanding the vulnerablities of their systems and what those consequences are.

and then we've developed a gif data standard so that all of our team members are using the same standards and that we're providing you with a quality product. so our look ahead is kicking off the seismic and flood hazard analysis, continuing our work with the infrastructure agencies to assess critical assesses and consequences. i know that today we met with the sfpuc and are advancing that quite nicely, and conducting a public rights survey to conform the urban constraints and opportunities and so it helps to define the urban form in such a way that they're going to be taking observations of the activities and the public uses along our waterfront. and that will provide us with a better understanding of the existing condition and how to better shape our waterfront through public life. so we're very excited about that in working with gail and cmg in terms of developing the -- part of the existing

conditions. and then initiating the land use, urban and regulatory tasks as well. we've already developed a ceqa options technical memorandum for review by the port. it will help drive our approach to compliance with ceqa. so the alternatives development assessment and program selection is the multihazard risk assessment will be part in help driving or formulation and analysis of alternatives to address both seismic and flood, and again, we can't emphasize the importance of engaging our stakeholders in the process of developing criteria that will be used in the formulation of our alternatives and eventually the selection of those alternatives. and the component of the alternative analysis again is on your left in addressing the needs, risks and aspirations

and how we can integrate those in terms of criteria, an alternatives analysis and ultimately recommendation of initial improvements. some of the -- but also for flooding, we'll be looking at soft solutions, more like earth and berms and living shore lines. [please stand by for captioner switch]

about at how the schedule will impact the financing and vice versa. we'll develop tools and processes and being engaged and having an informed stakeholder base to help us make the critical decisions that we need. with that, i'm going to turn is it back over to stephen. >> thanks. we're working with the army corps of engineers. and we've been advancing the efforts of the army corps under cap 103 authority. port we are defined problems and strengths. it includes bart and bcdc members. major decision milestone in the cap 103 project is scheduled for late june. major decision milestone is army corps and lingo for the major decisions. in this case, that's the feasibility study recommendations. on we have a schedule that we've developed and this is currently our major goa the schedule is i it's currentl v i love the visual de it's frightenin so whether we release the tool, will be s so to >> that it's the digital m were there any surpr >> dur the data c instead of trying t ther the >> i can answer that,

an fill s it's one o that used we're assm so -- and that's wh stud >> our job is to say -- n to so much complexities to it. i was going to ask you, i know that our staff and director forbes is going to be in d.c. next week. there will be certain senators that they'll be talking to on this project. it looks like san francisco may be leading the way, like we do. one thing i agree witheer with h doreen, that video is good. i would get the younger generation to help you. i'd like to know across the city how engaged people are with this project and what do they know about it. it's not like the name is so-so. but it's something that is going to save our lives. something that we need. it's a necessity that we need. as you're selling it and getting it out there, as i said before, i think that the giants ought to

have something one day and get it more out there in the community so people really know when we market these things. if tom stier can do the commercials to impreach the president, i'm sure he can do commercials on what we have here in san francisco and why we need this. this is important. i could care less about trump. but i care about the city and seawall and i'm talking about the ramifications. i agree with doreen, heaven forbid something happens and not being prepared. what do you think? because i know it's an urgency there. i appreciate all the hard work, but i know sometimes you have to go slow. i got that. >> so, in terms of -- we heard your comments last month. there is -- there has been some

movement to make it happen. there is a work plan, there is a list of folks and there has been some initial outreach. i don't have anything to report back yet on successes, but we're moving in that direction. it was a great comment and we took it to heart. so moving that way. the name of the project is definitely not sexy. when you look at the rebuild by design effort done in new york, there was a name "the big u." wwe went over there to see the projects two years ago now. "room for the river" was the name of the project. they had good marketing terms. we've fallen back to what we know in this city and what worked before regarding earthquake safety. there is the water system improvement program, sewer

system improvement program. the other earthquake safety programs. so we have that as the name. i think we just keep hitting it. earthquake safety program. because it is the primary importance. we want to move this thing forward before the earthquake gets us. >> maybe this should be to director forbes. i know you're leaving for the delegation in washington next week. this is part of the chambers and our part in thn city. >> we are leaving on a delegation next week and working with our federal lobbyist and she's setting up key meetings for us. we have staff that will be going to the headquarters of the army corps of engineers to work through some of technical issues that we need resolved to continue to make headway into

our cap 103, but beyond the 10 million-dollar cap 103 into a larger study. in terms of who we'll see at the cacapitol, scheduled fluctuate t we'll tend towards members on the infrastructure and appropriations committee because those implicate army corps of engineers and their appropriations and also the infrastructure bill. we're setting our schedule now. when we come back, we'll report to you who we met with. last time we met with leader pelosi's chief of staff. we met with senator harp who are is chair of infrastructure. we met with chair mundy. >> he was a congress member. >> i was wondering that.

we met with senator harris and senator feinstein. so it was a pro duct -- so it was really productive and we were briefing people for the first time on the effort. we're moving into deeper technical conversations about civic pots of money. so as we continue to advance the conversation, we should be making more headway. >> thank you. >> one quick question as a follow-up on all our concern that something happens before we get to shoring everything up. with the life safety and pilot projects phase, i don't know if that is hard and fast. but if something were to come up that you could see a clear fix

that might have a significant impact. >> that's what we are term the life safety project. we're out there doing our investigation and doing our analysis, there are clear things that we can do quickly to get approval to do quickly and having a meaningful impact on life safety. the pilot project piece is primarily centered around ground improvement techniques. you're trying out techniques and it's not something that you can just put out a big contract fr. you have to see how it workings and provide the information for folks who are going to bid -- bid on the larger projects and that's great information. that's what we primarily see in

the pilot project piece. it would be incorporated into the final project. >> i'm sorry, if we were to do everything, all the oil improvements, we need $2 billion up to $5 billion. so this phase doesn't have nearly the budget to handle the entire budget. in addition to earthquake, disaster prevention that we're trying to roll out, we'll work with our tenants and ourselves on disaster preparedness to understand that balancing because we're going to hit the lowest worst hanging fruit first. but to understand how to be prepared knowing the conditions we have. because that will be a reality that we're balancing those two for some time until we have the entire budget for the project in hand. >> commissioner.

i have another question. are you aware, i know we have a mayor's raises comin race comin. for any of the candidates, are they talking about this? do you know if any of the candidates have said this is something that they're running on, what is important for san francisco? have you heard anything like that? or director forbes, are they aware of this issue? or is this not on their radar screen? >> we briefed all the members of the board of supervisors including london breed. i have not personally briefed mark leno, so we could provide a briefing. >> when they talk about their platform talking to people and saying this is what i'm running on, i'm running on crime and

homelessness, this is paramount. this is a big issue and something mayor lee had his hands all over. i wanted to know, are they taking it forward? i'd like to know where and dates stand on the issues -- where the candidates stand on the issues before i vote for them. this is very important. thank you. >> stephen, summer and stacy. thank youer in detailed report. as you see it raised a lot of questions. i tend to agree with all of the commissioners questions and concerns and starting with commissioner woo ho, looking at this tile line to -- timeline does not spell urgency. suppose more funding came into the consideration, what could we do with it and could we do it within the first seven or eight

years? this is say we go don't need any additional moppy until 2026. -- money until 2026 which is not what we're trying to convey. and we are doing a lot of study. which is a good thing. it's a good thing in the early years, but we have to put a shovel in the ground and start fixing things, hopefully sooner rather than later. on the southern waterfront, understanding the city is doing a vulnerability study for the surrounding city, but this southern one is part of the port and i wonder why it's not included in our study. once we understand the

vulnerability, how will that be funded? how does it work in relation to this? >> the reason the southern waterfront is part of the city's overall study is so all port property as well as the oceanside, all public property touching water is part of the city's vulnerability assessment. we happen to know more about the seawall because we've done the vulnerability assessment, but all of our property is included in the study. the reason this project is not also assessing southern waterfront and southern waterfront improvements is because we're trying to get the urgency issue and address the seawall as quickly as possible. the southern waterfront has sections of seawall, but no contiguous massive rock dike the way the northern waterfront has. it has in many places a softer urban edge so the types of improvements we'll make are not

exactly the same because it's smaller sections of seawall, different, more runway in temples when to respond in -- in terms of when to restopped in some areas because of the northern part of the waterfront implicates major transportation systems in muni and bart. so that's why we're focused on making construction improvements here without delay and why the study is focused on this three-mile stretch. >> but all the time and money we're spending on analyzing and studying -- >> right. the reason why -- the reason why we're taking time to study this section is to know what the worst soil conditions are first so we know where the life safety risk is the worst so we tackle

it first. some of that screening will show areas are better than we thought so we can move them further down the list. my expectation, though this is not on the geobond schedule but i certainly think it ought to be. there will be a sea level rise bucket of funding every 10 years. we're coming forward in november 2018 for a seawall an every 10 years we'll be on the bond rotation schedule. that is commissioner kelly's request. i see improvements for the southern waterfront as well as ocean beach as well as other areas coming through future phases. the city when it finishes it's vulnerability areas, i mean we have some low lying areas, i anticipate th