just to have seen her grow and flourish over these last 21 years, she's become an amazing colleague and friend. i love her so much. she is a communication guru. she's an event planner extraordinaries. all the events over the last 21 years has just been -- her leadership capabilities to get everyone engage and involved in such a successful outcome. she has led this communications team to new heights. i mean, i could just go on and on and on but what i'm going to miss most is her professionalism and that beautiful smile. that beautiful, calming smile that says everything is going to be all right no matter what is going on. renee, we are definitely going to miss you. we know you are not going far. we know you will be back hopefully for special projects,

maybe. thank you so much for your dedication, your leadership, your support, and all that you've done for the city and county of san francisco. especially the port. and we have a nice little plaque for you. it says, in recognition of your retirement, renee dunn martin communications director port of san francisco september 1997-january 2019. with a gratitude for your outstanding service, loyalty and dedication. congratulations and best wishes. [applause]

>> thank you. [applause]

>> oh my gosh. what can i say? first of all, president brandon, vice president adams, congratulations on being re-elected again and commissioners, director forbes, all the port staff, our tenants, our consultants, our community, and all my friends, thank you so much. from the bottom of my heart i want to thank all of you for this wonderful honor. it's been my honor to work all of you and for all of you for the past 21 years. they say that time flies when you are having fun. it's been a great ride and i've enjoyed every minute of the journey i'm taking with me so many good memories,

accomplishments to be proud of and friendships that i'll cherish for a lifetime. i'm so grateful to have played a very small part in the transformation of this beautiful waterfront here in san francisco over the past 20 years. working with all of you has been the most rewarding experience for me. thank you, commissioners, for your outstanding leadership, your wisdom, and your vision for the port. it's been a pleasure to work under your stewardship. i'm so grateful to know each and everyone of you. director forbes, and my port colleagues, thank you so much for allowing me to be part of your excellent team of hard-working, dedicated, brilliant, team members and public servants here at the port. collectively, you've all made this waterfront an international

destination, a great place to work, a wonderful place to have fun and just a beautiful place of open space for the public to enjoy. this is all of our great work collectively and i'm so proud to be a part of it. i wish that i could thank each and everyone of you. time does not permit for that today. i probably would be way too emotional. but i do want to call out just a few people briefly that i worked closely with everyday. first, my communications team, kirsten and kelly. kelly is out sick today but i'm sure she will review this later. thank you for the hard work that you do on the communications team and working with me. i'm sure that the great work will continue after i'm gone. our consultants, civic edge, davis and associates, you heard from darlin', next steps

communications and bonner communications, those are all the consultants that communication teams currently works with. so thank you all for the great work in helping me to make the port look good. to our senior staff and the executive team, all of the project managers and day-to-day folks that i work with at the port everyday, i just want to say thank you, thank you so much. i love each and every one of you. i wanted to call out on the executive staff amy, who spoke earlier. she is my sister and my friend. we've worked side by side with each other from the first day that i arrived at port. i just want to also say to you, amy, i love you and thank you. i will miss you terribly. you've heard people talk about the great events that i'm

getting credit for putting on. yes, i might lead the team but there is a team of port staff that volunteers all the time, every time we have an event. they step up to the plate and they're there to help out and i just wanted to call a few of them by name. that would be amy kasada, april shaw, josephine fung, denise long, manny ma pacheco and our entire port maintenance team. without the maintenance crew coming in, setting up, cleaning areas, stepping up to the plate, we would not all look good. i want to thank you for helping me with my job in making the port look good. in my job, i think i have literally touched every person at the port. i want to thank you all for your professionalism, for your passion in making the port a great place to work and to grow.

which i have done. thank you, very much. i'm truly grateful to be part of the city family. to work with my fellow p.i.o.s throughout the city. you've heard from a couple of them today. from m.t.a. and to be part of the port family. wild horses couldn't keep me away from returning to those port barbecues and fun events that happen along the waterfront. i certainly will be back. i will miss you all for sure. but just know that i'm monitoring your success in the news media. i'll be check he can to see how things are going. i will always, always be a true friend of the port. my very best wishes to all of you. thank you, very much for this os accommodation. [applause]

congratulations, renee. the next item is to announce the san francisco giants have reclaimed the green glove award. i'm very pleased to report they won this. it's a major league baseball award for environmental stewardship. they have been -- they were the recipient from 2008 to 2016 with a one-year hiatus and are back to win it again. that's 11 seasons of receiving this award, which is truly truly remarkable. they set the industry standards for their waste diversity standards year after year. they diverted 93% of their waste from going to landfills. this is a very aggressive program. they've also installed lead lights, and make changes than make the facility truly green. they in fact, in 2018, diverted

19,000 tons of recycled and composted waste. congratulations to the giants for your superior leadership in this arena which supports mayor breed and the port commission vilal policies. on a sad note, i'd like to have an inmom or yum of mike denman. he passed away last week. he recrated this ramp restaurant. he started the place as a place to really rent sciffs and buy bait for fishing. i understand he then started selling hot dogs and beers out of a cooler and then the restaurant busy merged and grew to what it was today. he started sunday salta which was a really big hit. it's become really a neighborhood jewel and destination. he hired from the community and was respected by his employees and community. he is a true gentleman and a very kind person. he will be deeply missed on the waterfront. port staff request that you

close the meeting in mr. denman's honor. floristine johnson has passed away. she was the port's former executive secretary of the planning and development group. we understand she was having a very happy retirement and passed away suddenly. she worked with us for 20 years. retired in 2010. the year he arrived. i had an opportunity to meet her. she was very dignified and a proud public servant. she was organized and worked for the planning group. she had her hands full. developing a file system and helping them with filing. they still refer to the filing system as the floristine files. we would like to send best wishes to her family and we close the meeting in floristine's honor and that concludes my report. >> thank you, very much. >> i would just like to

acknowledge former commissioner brian mack williams here with us today. >> hi, brian. >> commissioner. [applause] >> item 9 proposed changes to the five-year strategic plan. >> good afternoon, commissioners, i would like to present the update to the port strategic plan. first and foremost i would like to thank dan hodak who helped to produce this report and plan and he is worked tirelessly with the various division leads, the deputy directors and all staff and has been very good at helping this plan come together. so thank you, dan. it's a important set of policies and priorities that helps us guide ourselves in a condition of con trained resources. i was last year in february, of

2018, and at that time i told you we had about a third of the staff we need to do the work at hand. it wasn't exactly a perfectly scientific metric but it's absolutely true that the port staff does not have the resources that it does to have the work to accomplish the work that we have to do. it's very, very important that we prioritize. and the strategic plan, which first came forward in 2016, has been a very important tool at helping us achieve our objectives and goals. this plan moves the goals and objectives to the current year and five years forward. it also adds some clarification and accountability mess tricks so we can measure our success and strengthen the language. finally, when we were here in february, you all had comments and the public had comments and those are reflected in this plan update. in reflecting on this plan and where we've been since 2016, i

would say that we are really starting to turn our financial house around. i think you will see this. >> to see how we've laid seeds that have come into bloom which are now helping us to be a more solid and secure enterprise agency that can better meet our public trust mission. it's critically important for us and you will see that demonstrated today and i'm very proud of the leadership you have shown to get us to this place. it's not yet an isolated plan. it is impacted by our governing

documents, our other plans and policies. of course the burt enact comes into the plan as the city policy and requirements and the waterfront plan we've just finished an update to that plan and we'll be undergoing environmental review this year many of the capitol plan in five year financial forecasts are also the guiding documents to create what we can achieve and a strange teen i can plan and the implementing pools are the budget and capital implementation program. when i first came to the port in 2010, we were an agency that was i am balanced. our balance sheet was not growing. we were adding to our capital backlog. i remember the first time the port commissioner asked me, when will we resolve our 2 billion-dollar backlog. it might have been you, commissioner. my answer was never in my head. i think i gave a more eloquent answer because at that time, we

were generating net revenue of $10 million a year. we had a capital backlog of $2 billion. the most we'd received from this city was a 35 million-dollar general obligation bond for parks. the development partners is an outside sources were the only notable meaningful changes we were able to accomplish financially. that is just not the case today. you are going to see that for the first time ever, our unmet and funded capital needs are balanced. we have operating surpluses and all of the financial models, low base and high case. i've never seen that. and we are making decisions that are actually allowing us to grow our financial capacity to add staff resources to do more and to achieve more on our public trust objectives. and sometimes people say the port is about making money. the port is not about making money. the port is about having a healthy financial portfolio so

we can invest and meet our public trust mission. when we make money, it's park, open space and et cetera, so it's very, very positive what has come through through very concerted efforts. i've said a lot. let me change slides. so, the plan is organized in a vision and mission. it's the guiding statement that directs the strategic plan. we have seven goals that guide our work to rehabilitate the waterfront. and then we have objectives under those goals to achieve in the five-year period. so let me take you through the goals. evolution, which was formally renewal, is about transforming the waterfront to respond to the changing public import needs. the renewal goal used to have a lot of business development

items, objectives, we've moved those to business and this now really focuses on the public benefit pieces of evolving to meet the port's needs whether it's transportation, open space, parks, and developing policies and priorities that help us guide our future. resilient. this is to prepare the port for natural and human-made risks and hazards. we're in the business of climate change and all future port commissions will be in the business of climate change. so notably, we're working on fortified resiliency for our waterfront of which the seawall earthquake safety program is a piece of that effort. we have a desired a complete the multi hazard risk assessment and select our projects for construction in 2023. the goals and objectives for this program but it's safety project and we know it's urgent. developing that port-wide

resiliency framework to address seismic and flood risk port wide. and emergency preparedness to ensure we can work with city departments to prepare when incidents occur. when the city is hit with a major earthquake, the waterfront will be a critical asset and we need to help the city recover. engagement. increase the public awareness of the purpose and benefit of port functions and activities. this is about our communitien gainment and having events and tours, the digital outreach social media and work with the media. we talked a lot about this arena in recognizing and honoring renee. equity, which was formally live ability. we have clarified that with equity what we're really trying to do is advance equity and public benefits and attract a diversity of people to the waterfront. we have started this

conversation in earnest on work contracting and this strategic plan reflects all of the goals that we have created to have more diversity and port contracting and encouraging more local businesses to apply and to win and to do work for the port. we are growing and improving in this arena but we also want to move into other arena including leasing, parks and open space and other areas where we can attract and retain diverse communities so we truly create a public waterfront for everyone. sustainability, this is of course incredibly important and it's our quiet constituent, the environment and the bay. to practice environmental stewardship and limit climate change and protect the bay. we have the climate action plan that we will be updating. to set transportation energy and business practice goals. they protection related to natural infrastructure

biodiversity and move our utilities above deck. one day we won't be able to do so and it will be a problem. clean fuels, vase ability of those fuels and to study more clean fuels to add to the waterfront. productive. attract and retain tenants that build an economically viable port. looking at the maritime portfolio, we want to do more automobile shipping. it's certainly our competitive advantage and more fargo and increase cruise capacity at pier r pier and last year the shipyard is the project which we had the least success and certainly need to figure out a new future for the shipyard. assist in mission rock and pier 70, 68 new acres of new neighborhoods that are under construction and soon-to-be under construction.

to prepare the development and implementation of the 8096 industrial strategy. we are primarily industrial landowner. we have the ability to intensify the uses of our land, which will add values in jobs, in economics and in opportunities for our communities. we're very anxious to continue to increase the use of those lands. stability is about maintaining the financial strength of the organization by addressing that deferred maintenance issue. maximizing the value of our property and increasing revenues. you will see, in the five-year financial forecast, we will hit that 125 million-dollar goal. we continue to target investments and projects that generate revenue for the organization so we can turn that back into public benefits. for the capitol funding, we're

targeting investments and projects that generate revenue and continuing to secure external sources, which are very critical to us. we will be -- it's important that we learn to deliver capital more effectively and we've gone from a 10 million-dollar capital budget to a 30 million-dollar capital budget in a couple of years and so we need to get our improvements in the ground. we'll be increasing staffing, increasing contracting and establishing a contract management office. so i would like to do a little boosting about what we accomplished last year in 2018. port staff have been working very hard to achieve objectives for the organization following this plan. these accomplishments yield better results down the road for us, as the efforts mature. so, this is a look back at last year. in the arenas, i'm combining

evolution and equity, we have entitled mission rock and 1,500 new homes and 40% and six acres of parks. we have 88 broadway approved. 100 affordable housing projects and 130 low income families and 55 senior homes. we've entitled pier 70 up to 250 homes and 33% of affordable and waterfront park, community retail and space. just an amazing array and looking with our partners they put in improvements to address the safety concerns that you heard loud and clear from the partly cloudbicycle and communi. we coordinated to open great g,

the first of ferry land projects is readying for $40 million of construction. it does need to be worked out but that project is on schedule. for the 20th historic project, the o.d.i. project which there's another item to talk about all six building have been complete or are nearly complete and the financials are stronger than we anticipated. you have approved cane cove park. we'll see those seven acres of park improvements done. but lots of work done on it last year. you have approved the alcatraz project. it's important-long-term lease agreement as a gateway to alcatraz. we have open space installation and pier 27 point of view and the beautiful 30-foot polar bear and the harry bridge plaza to

celebrate climate change and we removed 500 piles and replanted the entrance of the park. an area of resilienc rye sil se. one of only two flood control projects which will offer opportunities of up to $1 billion of improvements to the shoreline. we've done lots of geo tech studies completing 100 to under the seawall program and we've defined a framework to tackle the seven and a half miles of waterfront to strengthen, adapt and envision to guide a resilient port future. engagement was an incredibly banner year. the waterfront land use plan received unanimous support. we had a minority business mixer. 160 attend's and we've had

contracting workshops and we've reached 100 attendees. we had a contract opportunity open house with 140 attendees and we've put out embarkadaro and engage 52 respondents. the outreach is extraordinary and 100 stakeholders and i won't read the statistics but it's remarkable. and many, many members of port staff engaged in those efforts. it's the ability and we've had the beneficial reuse of dredge materials and that's an important improvement for the environment to reuse the materials in the wetlands for habitat benefits. in collaboration with the mayor's office we have cleaner fuels for our ferries exertion providers and they will be all transitioning in 2020 and fisherman's warf, we have waste

disposal facilities and renewable diesel for fish we work with our tenants to improve air quality and we work with street tenants on dust patrol for maritime lease and we got our rail locomotive and quality continuing to reduce truck trips. we have the area of productive which is the business side, we have new crews called portion new calls scheduled for 2020, that's a very traumatic expansion of growth for the port. we continue to grow pier 80. we have agreements with auto manufacturer and we're near capacity at pier 80. the first time in decades near capacity. we had record cargo volumes. we have a 15 year lease with the sf bay railroad. we've had record investments in

capital. we've had a five-year plan and we've maintained all the while our ratings of a, which is excellent. we had 345 building permits with a total value of 247. we had five million dollars from new leases that were annualized and we did those rent increases bringing in 500,000 more annua annually. so, i do think that you will see-through this process that the planning and the effort in attention that we're paying on the strategic framework is really helping us see long-term projects to success from the planting, nurturing, fighting off weather to the bloom and harvest. i really see that in things like the backlands, the 20th street historic core, the pier 48 parking improvement, which is because we improved pier 31,

alcatraz ferry, et cetera. i think this process of prioritizing is helping us achieve very, very important results for the enterprise. thank you for your attention and i ask if you have comments or recommendations on the proposed strategic plan. >> is there any public comment on this item? >> thank you, director forbes for the update. first, i just want to congratulate you and your staff for those incredible accomplishments in 2018. you achieved a lot. i think by any department standard here in the city. i just really think the growth under your leadership that and the agency has had. i wanted to say i like the equity reframe of that. i really appreciate in that resume is with me. i'm excited to see what we can

do in 2019 and what we can achieve. i think we're on a really good path. as you want to also articulate that plans are so important and keep them on track so when there's a new temporary option or something new that comes up, that we all don't go racing towards that new idea and concept and we stay true to our commitment to the community. thank you for the update. >> >> i think i've been at the beginning of this exercise when we came up with the strategic plan and i've seen it evolve overtime and i want to say that in concert to what we just heard, i think that some of the redefinition or i guess you've been using one of the terms in the plan, the evolution of plans to fit what we are doing in our agenda makes a lot of sense.

the new category. so i did like economic vitality, but productive is ok. i don't think i want to quibble about that but vitality has certain elements what it meant for the port. but i do think the fact that we have a strategic framework, which i recalled asking for many, many years ago and the fact that we have now adapted ourselves to have all of the things that we do fit into one or more of these categories i think helps us to prioritize and i think that the fact that you have been able to put all the 2018 into the accomplishments, major accomplishments into this framework is a lot of progress. i think it's the first time we've seen it actually come back in the terms of the results. in framework so it's excellent and it was a great year. a lot was accomplished. sometimes we get caught up with the individual items and we have to stand back and look at the whole landscape of what happened. port is a busy agency.

we have a lot of responsibilities across the board to the community to ourselves, make sure that the waterfront is preserved. it is vital for san francisco. yet we also manage it from a viability standpoint because we have to sustain the fort and it's resources since it's very capital intensive as you mentioned and we'll discuss that later today. so i want to compliment you and really, i don't think there's anything here that i would find that doesn't work. i would like to say that glad to see the transportation improvements, in particular, because that's been an issue with the public and with us in terms of just the congestion on the waterfront. obviously, more work has to be done. i'm glad to see that we've made progress in that in 2018 on a tactical level. we know there's a lot more that has to come in that regard and i think, i'm not pulling that one out in particular but it seems that one is the one that is almost one of the hardest for us to make really significant

progresses on transportation. and the rest the port has a little bit more control over so our own projects i think are coming to fruition nicely. i think that we have made a lot of progress. thank you. >> commissioner mack. >> very good plan. thank you for the presentation. congratulations. >> thank you. >> clearly this is a plan that had a lot of due diligence. i want to congratulate you, your team, and well thought out. i agree with commissioner woo ho, sometimes we forget what was accomplished. i just want to say continue to keep moving forward. i like the strategic plan and i just hope we can continue to build on it and -- to me, it was well thought out. we keep measuring in our small victories are just as important as our big victories as we move

forward. i believe 2019 year, knock on wood, but this year will be a good year for us. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you, elaine for this report. this is great. very detailed. it's just express i have of what a record year we had last year. all that was accomplished. i think a huge congratulations should go out to you and your team. the staff has just been moving along with lots of different projects and activities. i mean, we're just soaring to new heights with all the stuff we're doing. i like the changes that you made to the plan. my only question is, do you think that we need to update the plan in anyway other than renaming certain categories. >> we updated the goals and objectives which you noted to reflect the new year. you know, we are doing a public

benefit framework and so that's part of the plan objective. so we'll see what comes out of the public benefit framework. we may have some -- the idea is to have some very measurable, actionable items that we will fall into the strategic plan. the annual process is right. we come back, we see what did we do? what were our opportunities and where did we have challenges. i said the shipyard was something we have challenges in. we can take a look back and then update the next year for what is coming forward. so at this point, this plan is good to go for the current year. we're always trying to operationalize it more. so you will see there's many more targets and numbers and time frames than in prior plans. [ please stand by ] t.

>> clerk: and three, to enter into a memorandum of understanding between the port of san francisco and the san francisco bay area water emergency transportation authority for delivery of the downtown ferry terminal passenger circulation improvements. this is resolution number 1901. and item 10-b, request approval to issue a proposal to authorize youth employment services for a maximum of two contracts to administer the port youth employment program. each contract with a term of four years. this is resolution number 1902. >> thank you. can i have a motion? >> so moved. >> second. >> is there any public comment on the consent calendar? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners, all in favor?

[voting] >> resolutions 1901 and 1902 have been approved. >> clerk: item 11, item 11-a, update on the maritime retail fish sales at fisherman's wharf. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is michael nerny, assistant commissioner in the fisherman division. this is to provide an update on a pilot program that the commission approved in 2017 to allow retail sales from commercial fishing vessels at fisherman's wharf harbor. the purpose of this update is to seek port commission guidance and adjustments on the

program and decision whether to extend the program beyond the one-year trial program. the retail fish sales program -- pilot program was the result of several public meetings, including two port commission meetings in 2017, one in july, and one in september. the port commission supported a retail fish sales pilot program to expand commercial opportunities for fishers and to provide more customer experiences at the wharf. the role of the port in this pilot program was clarified to permit the fish sales but not regulate them. regulation is the responsibility of state and local officials, namely, the california fish and wildlife, california food and agriculture, san francisco public health, and san

francisco environment. if the port were to become aware of any complaints or violations, the appropriate regulatory agency would be notified. the fish sold to retail customers is the same quality product as is sold to wholesalers, and the port is not aware of any problems in this area. all fish sales are recorded with california fish and wildlife in accordance with regulations. there are three commercial fishing boats currently participating in the program. the pioneer at berth 500-a, the smegol at berth 53, and take time, at berth 60. the quantity and price of the fish sold are determined by the fishers and the consumers. fishers are responsible for their own advertising and

business promotion. retail fish sales are limited to salmon, tuna, rock fish, halibut, and by catch. crab is prohibited. the fish sales program is intended to help commercial fishers but not harm other parts of the fishing industry, such as fish processors. the wharves where the fish is sold are already public access areas and safe for pedestrians. sales are permitted during daylight hours only, and no customers are allowed on board the vessels. this new enterprise has attracted many more people to fisherman's wharf and contributes to the neighborhood's vitality. the three participating boats, as you can see on this map, are at pier 47, basically

surrounding scoma's restaurant. during the past year, port staff has monitored the program, and here are the results. three permanent berth holders obtained permits in the first year. approximately 40 other licensed commercial fishing boats at the wharf are candidates to join the program. public support has been strong based on sales statistics. the average monthly fish sales have been over 18,000 pounds a month. the record month was december 2017, when 57,000 pounds were sold. that month, the pie noneer nee to hire ten more crew to assist with sales, which included rose fish, a type of rock fish that had previously been dumped back to sea. while not desired by

wholesalers, it was popular with retail consumers. in july, sfgovtv did a report on retail fish sales at pier 47 featuring interviews with satisfied customers. i'm still on metrics. got a few more metrics. there were a few minor problems encountered at the outset, but nothing major. a railing was installed without a permit and it was removed. an advertising sign was posted on a fence, which was not allowed, and it was removed. scoma's restaurant, which is adjacent to the fish sales berth, raised concerns about congestion, management, and dock cleanliness, and all concerns were addressed. there were no violations

reported. the permit fee of $225, which is comparable to the fee charged at other regional fishing harbors, such as half moon bay and bodega bay was successful. the pilot program was discussed at the september meeting of the fisherman's wharf waterfront advisory group. generally, the feedback from participating fishers and customers, along with neighborhood merchants, has been favorable, but some fish processors are opposed. you will hear from these interested parties today during public comment. now i got to this slide, basically, to say that in addition to getting the port permit, there were several other things that the fishers have to do to participate in the program, including get a san francisco business registration certificate.

the retail fish sales policy supports two goals of the port's strategic plan. this is the old strategic plan, but i think these items are still in there. namely, engagement. it brings a lot more people down to the waterfront, including san francisco residence debts. and also economic vitality, help -- residents, and also economic vitality, helping commercial fishermen. a retail sales program was originally piloted by the port commission in 1999 and 2000, but it expired. in response to commercial fishers in 2017, the port commission allowed a pilot program for a year, which has now passed. port staff would appreciate your guidance as to any adjustments that might be necessary and permission to extend the program, which would give commercial fishers the

option for retail fish sales in the future. thank you, commissioners. that concludes my report. >> thank you. do we have public comment? brian carter, and then, larry collins. >> hello there, commissioners, and public of san francisco. my name's ryan carter. i am the deck boss of fishing vessel smeagol. we have partners with this gentleman to help the program takeoff and get rid of things like smaller fish. a lot of processors and wholesalers don't want a fish weighing less than five pounds. other people coming to the boat, they don't want to feed 20 people with a five-pound

fish. they want a little one to three to four-pound fish, so it's been a pleasure to have a market to be able to sell these fish, and we appreciate you guys letting us do this, and we hope you guys continue to let us do this. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners, director. my name's larry collins. i'm president of crab boat hunters association which is the commercial fisherman's association down at the wharf. historically, guys have sold fish off their boats for well over 100 years at fisherman's wharf. we did it years ago. i sold salmon for three years off the boat when the price got down too low and there wasn't that much fish. the fishermen need to be able to sell some of their fish to the public when they're just scratching and times are tough.

when the fishing's really good, you basically want to unload and get back out, and that's when 90% of the fish goes to the processors. it's a historical thing. it does bring people down to the wharf. people like to get to know the people that provide them their food, so it's important that they're able to come down and meet and get to know their local fishermen. that way, they can eat sustainable, local food in season, and it's healthier for everybody, so i would encourage you guys to extend this program in perpetuity. thank you. >> thank you. brian mcwilliams, and then giuseppe missy. >> commissioners, happy new year to everybody, and thank you for the opportunity to speak here. i'm in support of the program,

and mike's report is right on. hits the nail right on the head, and just to add to what the others have said, i want to let you know that there are opportunities to bring other boats in that aren't home ported in san francisco. what happens is -- i own a boat, and when i had fished, i was solidly fishing on the dock, i would take my whole catch to bodega bay where i could sell it, and then offload it to the processors. if you could share this process where there's other public docks for opportunities to do the same thing. this is going to be a good thing for the port. it's going to be a really valuable asset for all of us, and it's just getting going now. we need the opportunity to let it grow and become what it

could possibly be, so thank you so much. >> thank you. giuseppe. [applause] >> i got to say, you know, i want to thank you guys for giving us the opportunity. this was a -- really a wonderful year, you know, being able to meet so many nice people and being able to share a lot of things with the community. what you guys did when you allowed us to selfish, you know, there was so much that we got to share with the community. when there was hard times with the napa fire, we partnered with glide church, and we were able to bring them the fish. i want to thank all these ladies here. these women worked so hard. i'm telling you, they clean all

these little fish for all these people. they're my heros. we've got george and tina. you guys, there's some great people in our community that we were able to network with, and it became just a big family. every time we'd come in from fishing, you know, we were able to kind of share all this fish with everybody. really, it was touching. i still can't believe this to this day that we have this great friendship, that we have so many wonderful people that are supporting us here. i think the fishing industry has kind of been -- you know, it really hasn't had much of a voice for a long time. you know, i -- i kind of mentioned a few things before whenever i came up here, but you know, truly, you guys, you know, we don't have a large fishing industry anymore, and i mean, there's crab boats, there's salmon boats, and of course, we're a trawler, and

we're the last boats that are left. if there's going to be an industry here, and be able to share fish with our community and be a part of it, we really need to try to do what we can in a positive way, of course, you know, to help support it. i mean, i know that, you know, there's a lot of things that people don't really know about the fishing industry. this is one way that they're going to kind of learn more about their ocean, you know, the type of fish we have here, and being able to, you know, bring these beautiful fish in and share them with, you know, all of our friends and do a lot more with the community is kind of where i'm headed. but any ways, it was a very positive thing that you guys allowed us to do this, and, you know, i really hope that we can continue this. the only way we're going to get our fishing industry back is to have this kind of relationship, you know, with the public. and when people come down, they want to see all the boats

unload. they see all the fish iced and the tows sitting in the docks. it's really a good thing. i wanted to thank everybody for coming out and supporting us. these ladies, i can't tell you how much, you know -- my heart goes out to them because they work so hard, and thanks george, thank you guys. [applause] >> thank you. [applause] >> is there any other public comment on this item? come on up. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name's randall scott. i'm the executive director for the fisherman's wharf community benefit district, and i apologize for not being on your list. i probably should have signed up. any way, with regard to the retail sales fishermen on the wharf, i'm here to support and speak on behalf of our board's support. the fish sales on the pier, part of our retail strategy

moving forward is to further engage with the fishermen and really bring back the fisherman's wharf that was talked about in the recent san francisco chronicle article that came out just after part of the new year. historically speaking, and just by the name fisherman's wharf, we feel there's a special connection that can be made with the fishermen and with the retail sale of the fish on the wharf, so that's why i'm here today, on behalf of our district, and thank you very much for your time. >> thank you. [applause] >> is there any other public comment on this item? >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm alice rogers, and i sat as the chair of the land use portion of the waterfront land use update. and i just am spontaneously

here to support this program. it really resonates with the goals and the values and the visions that -- that were articulated again and again and again during our land use year class of hearings. authenticity was a huge, huge factor, and this program is just the embodiment, so i would encourage you to support and expand the program and move it down a little to the southern waterfront near the south beach area, too. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> is there any other public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. commission commissioner mackren?

>> i would encourage staff to come back with some ideas on how to expand it and where to expand it, particularly, to one large area where people can go. one of the criticisms that we hear is not enough san franciscans go down to fisherman's wharf. believe me, if you're selling fish at a greater rate, you'll have a lot of san franciscans going down. it will draw them for sure, so from a global perspective, i think we will better manage our waterfront if we do that. i think it's a tourist attraction. i think it's good service to our public, and if there's anything that's important today, it's your green print, and it's local farming, and it's local everything, and this falls right into it. it's rarely you don't have opposition to something, and there is no opposition that

we're hearing, so we should be smart, pick up on the good idea and expand it. >> thank you. commissioner woo ho? >> well, i've also been very supportive of the program, and i'm really very happily surprised with the success of it, how much, because there hasn't been that much publicity, but i guess the public has gotten to know, and i'm sure there's a lot of repeat customers that know that they have this resource. obviously, fresh fish is very popular, better than waiting three or four days and getting it through a supermarket. i think a piece of it was answered in the sense that the size, meaning, the smaller fish, and not the large fish, which is obviously more consumer friendly. i think we were worried in the beginning between what would be the definition of retail versus wholesale.

i think we've got a happy medium and understanding that five pounds seems to be the right sort of border, and that's not crossing territories. and i think we were concerned that some people might take advantage that people might come down and take advantage of retail when they were wholesale. i'm just wondering, 57,000 pounds of fish, which is at the high point, can we translate that into how many actual consumers came, because i think it would be kind of nice to know what kind of traffic of people we are seeing as a result. i would imagine the weekends are busier than the weekdays. i think we'd like to hear more information about how this is -- because just knowing what the foot traffic is and how it's doing. the other piece in terms of the port staff, i did hear the comment to expand the program, and if it expands beyond even the immediate footprint of

where it is, fisherman's wharf, and to open it up to boats from other areas, i guess more suggestions in this regard, and i think i'm aware of some other interest in san francisco to see how you can bring more fresh fish right to the public, so i think there's some more ideas here, but we'd really like to hear how we can expand. is it only in the fisherman's wharf area that we can see this, and also, are we open to boats from other areas? i don't know that we know the answer to that, but i'd like staff to explore and come back with some other information. thank you. >> thank you. commissioner gilman? >> i'm an enthusiastic supporter of this program. i was excited when the port commission launched this before my tenure. the other thing i would like to see is if it's through our own staff internally, or