>> the motion passes, 6-0, one absence. meeting is adjourned at 10:32 p.m. >> great job, commissioners. thank you. >> thank you, commissioners. >> thanks, everyone. >> good night. >> good night.

>> item number one is roll call. president brandon. >> vice president adams. >> commissioner gilman. >> present. >> commissioner woo ho. here. >> vice president adams. >> madam president, you have a quorum. >> 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 justice for all. >> item number 3, approval of the minutes of july 14th, 2020 port commission meeting. >> i so move. >> second. president brandon. aye. >> vice president adams. >> commissioner gilman. >> yes. >> commissioner woo ho. >> aye. >> >> president brandon: the minutes have been approved. >> clerk: announcements for item number 4. please be advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make public comments on each agenda item unless the port commission adopts a shorter period on any item. please note that during the public comment period, the moderator will instruct dial-in participants to use the touch tone phones to register their desire for public comment.

ought yo prompts will signal to dial in participants when their audio input has been enabled for commenting. please dial in only when the item you punish to comment on subpoena announced. a reminder for our meeting presenter and participants, please do mute your microphones and turn off your cameras when you are not actively presenting. and item number 5, is public comment on items not listed on the agenda. >> president brandon: thank you. we will open the phone lines for members of the public who are joining us on the phone. it will be our operator and will prprovide instructions for anyoe on the phone who would (inaudible). >> thank you, president brandon. at this time, we will open the queue for anyone on the phone who would like to make public comment on items not listed on the agenda. dial star 3 if you wish to make public comments. the system will let you know

when your line is open. others will wait on mute until their line is open. comments will be limited to three minutes per person. the queue is now open. please dial star 3 if you wish to make public comment. >> president brandon: do we have anyone on the phone? >> yes, we have one caller on the line at the moment. >> president brandon: thank you, please open the phone lines. >> opening up that line now, thank you. >> hi, my name is stacey and i live in patrero and i'm urging you to close the embarcadero to public traffic. as you well nope, we're in the midst of a global pandemic and the safest place for people to be, other than home is outside.

the west side of san francisco has access to the newly opened great highway but the eastside of town has very few parks, very few open spaces, very few successful implementations of slowed streets, we simply don have the amount of space that is available on the west side of town for people to safety enjoy outside. with school approaching, it would be nice if we had places for people to be without the fear of cars. for a way for people to travel that's not taxing muni or has people in cars. by opening up the eastern embarcadero lane, if not all of it, we might get through our city faster without burning the environment as well. i know that you may be concerned about the businesses that are

suffering along the embarcadero but i would invite you to look at valencia and how that area has sprung to life as the cars have been asked to leave, at least 2% of the time thursday through sunday evenings. just two blocks and the change is absolutely traumatic in terms of getting people out to safely enjoy the businesses that have been suffering for so long amid the covid-19 shelter in place. i know that you are concerned about how these businesses will succeed but i assure you that by opening up the embarcadero to people, and close particular to motor vehicles, that these businesses will likely have more opportunities for business than they have to date.

one of the big issues has always been with the water bar and epic steak house and vehicle access for them. and where would they have outdoor dining, since the 'em embarcadero. could you close off part of the embarcadero sidewalk area and that could be a spectacular outdoor dining. much like tavern in the scene on new yorthe green innew york cit. can you imagine dining under the lights. i'm begging, you please, open up the area to people and see what might spring to life. thank you. >> president brandon: thank you, stacey. really appreciate you calling in. are there any other callers? >> president brandon, at this time, there are no members wishing to make public comment.

>> public comment is closed. >> clerk: item number 6, is the executive director's reports. >> welcome members of the public and port staff. the port executive director. for my report today, i will share updates on the cities another effort for gradual reopening and savory opening and the on covid-19 and i will also introduce tony autry the equity and opportunities manager and opportunity for all and i'll end me report today in recognition, another sad day, where we say good-bye and congratulate, byron

rhett on the occasion of has retirement. first to economic reopening and port recovery. the reopening effort is on pause as a result of covid case spikes and hospitalization numbers in san francisco. in surrounding communities and in the state. the city is working very hard to keep san francisco safe and suppress the spread of the virus. and each of us is responsible for doing our part due to practice of social distancing, six feet apart and the port is following the city's lead and current health data and science will guide our reopening efforts. at the last port commission hearing i reported that we have approval for full return of maintenance staff at pier 50 and to open the port south beach harbor offices. we've scaled back in light of the situation with the virus,

right now 40% occupancy to 60% occupancy there's a backlog of work but we're prioritizing the urgent things. we also have a return plan of the south beach harbor offices of 50% of staff and we have training over several weeks and phase in row opening of the south beach harbor office to 50%. the safety of or employees is paramount. tim and joe riley are working closely with staff to employ measures recommended by the department of public-health required by the health orders and to achieve a safe workplace in covid-19. per the most recent health order, work-place practices include that social distancing, face coverings and daily health

screenings. they are learning together and practice new behavior and reinforce behaviors with one another. i want to make a special thank you to the port's health and safety team who have some of the best expertise and experience in our entire city and they're with us in occupational health and safety and that's karen tailer and george bibben, thank you so much for your work and from monica from engineering who worked so hard on this effort. we're following in the city's policy for those who work at home to do so. wwe will extend work from home o the calender years. there's no return of the port commission hearings in-person in

this calender year. now to the economic recovery and financial stability of the port. covid-19 remains uncertain in terms of the timeframe and which we adapt. and the timeframe under which we'll have a world without covid. post vaccine or some other form of health intervention. staff is really struggling to plan and position port for the best and most sustainable economic recovery possible to protect our waterfront, our staff, our residents and our stakeholders. we understand that context of where we are now and our financial performance and quite luckily we're able to use fun balance and savings and department of capital and we have a budget before the board of supervisors this week that is balanced and can pull us through a two-year period. we understand the financial performance of what the port can

accomplish in a world post covid. but it's very difficult to understand what is in between and how long the situation will last and how long it will take port to recover. but we do know several things. one, we were not economically perfectly stable before covid-19. we always struggled financially and this reality persists. we know that tourism will be hit hard because of the social gatherings component and likely will not reopening soon. and we know office space faces some instability. that signals difficult times ahead for the port organization as much of our portfolio relies on tourism and office space. but we have a lot of strength too. we have on going interest from developers and others around port opportunities. you will see request to enter an e.n.a. and you will see today

updates on the renice priebus 70 project and how staff and partners persist to see that through. they are active and creative and you will see today on calender a shared prosperity recommendation is that staff worked through with our restaurant and retail tenants and other relief that support our most vulnerable and partners and tenants. this organization knows how to adapt well and been in the adaptive reuse business for some time and treating our facility as a portfolio and recommending making some very strong recommendations and two programs to protect vulnerable populations so we have a smart, talented and experienced staff that knows how adapt and we have

plan with our policy body to advance policies and decisions that protect our port today and midterm and in the long run. as i said, we've adopted the approach to mirror the city in our public-health experts around the pandemic and we have paused and we are watching and protecting our workforce at our 06 up to 60% occupancy and it's going very well and per able to provide recommendation to this body and to the public on how the port positions itself for a successful recovery. i'd like to thank president brandon for her advocacy of the support for the racial equity work and they reap' pushed us challenge used to engage in the hard work of building a more just and equitable port.

they have long been committed to building and sustaining a diverse and equitable organization and you can see that commitment clearly in the commission's priorities in our strategic plan and staffing and in partnerships and agreements aimed to include communities of color and port opportunity and prosperity. the port focused attention has needed many notable success and has laid important action and frameworks but the work is definitely not done. there is much more work to accomplish and i am so excited that we have hired tony autry to be our new diversity equity and opportunity's manager. she will guide us through this important work. she sits in the director's office in the external affairs division and will be part of our senior team and she will da guide the port organization all its divisions and work with our external partners in extremely

important equity work. she has experience and a great background and she is hitting the ground running and i'm proud to introduce her. i believe she would like to say a couple of words, tony. >> thank you. good afternoon, president brandon and -- >> good afternoon, president brandon. -- government policy. i am honored to be a part of the port's redress of misguided government policy and the impact

it has had on historically disadvantaged communities. i'd like to share a few updates on the port's equity work. first, the office of racial equity has mandated all city departments to complete and submit a racial equity action plan due by december 31st, 2020. last month, in july, the office 6 racial equity released a framework for phase 1 of the racial equity action plan. which included the following seven focus areas. one, hireing and recruitment, two, retention and promotion, and three, discipline and separation, organizational culture of inclusion and belonging, and seven, boards ex commissions. in an effort to advance equity the port formed a racial equity working group.

made up of representatives from each division. who will work to support the development of the action plan. over the course of the next couple of months, all port staff will be asked to provide input in the specified areas of the action plan framework to develop goals, objectives, metrics and a timeline for our departmental implementation. the racial equity action plan will be presented to the port commission late fall. at the same time, we will be reviewing organizational efforts such as the southern waterfront beautification, workforce agreements, and commitments to share port prosperity he can whitney to develop a plan for port commission review and comment. the economic policy work to make for a comprehensive approach. i plan to engage the port commission on a routine basis,

along this journey and provide updates through director forbes. thank you. >> thank you, tony, i'm very excite today yoexcited to have . i would like to provide an update for all. this summer, we hosted three interns through the program. this program in access to career exploration and workforce development for san francisco youth and young adults and as mayor breed's own initiative and programs, it provides youth with paid internships, mentor ships and pathways to employment including job readiness, career training and apprenticeship for age 13-24. focusing on equitable access to opportunities to workforce connections. support and job resources for both jobseekers and employers alike and the three interns we

hosted were paired with staff members and three divisions, port engineering, communications, and race equity. congratulations to them and to port staff for providing excellent opportunities this summer. now, this leads me to my final note, announcing the retirement of byron rhett. byron is a giant at the port of san francisco and has built a legacy here. he has served the port since 2000. first as the deputy director for the port's planning development and until 2017 when he was the chief financial officer and over that 20 years, he oversaw plans that changed the relationship to the waterfront for the rest of the city and made the port a regional and worldwide attraction through projects that include the explore to be yum,

piers one and a half through five, the james r. herman cruise terminal project, the brandon street work project, seawall at 337 and pier 70 master plans which led to mission rock, and brookfield developments, the wisher man's warf promenade. he brought extensive knowledge from his 21 years of work as a senior development manger and his background fits with the needs of the port to support its maritime and public trust mission along with the diverse need of interest of many other many front economic and community stakeholders. by bron greater to see his ability to listen, to engage with people of all backgrounds and embrace perspectives. he humanized government and he

draws people together to work towards shared recommendations and actions. in his 41 years of public service to san francisco, byron knows the pitfalls and opportunities to realize successful partnerships, public and private partnerships that enhance communities. his season council and guidance to port staff, development partners community members has been invaluable and he inspiress us. he brought these strength and shared his perspective and experience leading the port's race equity working group. in the work to develop the port's first race equity plan. he has provided the port with its strong running start in this work and his mentorship and guidance to the team will keep us on path. we really want to celebrate and thank byron for all of his contributions to the effort to the port organization, to our waterfront, and to the people who work here and have had such a great opportunity to know and collaborate with bu byron and to

benefit from his wisdom, council, guidance and support. it's really something he should be proud of. what he has done for our organization and we wish him well on his well-earned retirement, that concludes my remarks. >> thank you director forbes and before i would like to give the staff. if anyone wants to say anything, please just jump in. >> hi, president brandon, this is chief harbor engineer. byron, i just wanted to thank you for the time spent talking with me about the port. i appreciate your casual and insightful questions that made me think about how our work

benefits the city and its people. and i just want to say thank you for your time and care and best wishes on your retirement. thank you, very much. >> this is commissioner woo ho. can i speak? >> president brandon: please. >> bisons, jus bion, i byron, yf stability. you have patience, you have been, since i've been on the commission, you've been someone that understands all the complications but you really think through and you've been a wonderful partner for us to know that you are always standing solidly behind the staff and behind the commission and i really wish you the very best in retirement. i hope you are doing some great things and i appreciate the many, many years of service at

the port and other areas of the city. it's something that you should be very proud of and that we wish you all very well. thank you. >> byron, this is commissioner gilman. i wanted to thank you for the community to work with you over the last two years. you've always been helpful and patient. i want to commend you on a long career in service to the city and county of san francisco and i wish you and your family nothing but happiness and health in your retirement. >> this is dianne. can you hear me on the phone? >> yes.

>> ok. i've been having trouble trying to get into the team's views. it's dianne deputy for planing and environment division and i've worked with byron for the entire 20 years that he has been here, along with you, president brandon and it's very heartfelt and difficult for me to sort of see him off but at the same time i'm so happy for him. byron has such amazing range, not in terms only of all of the different kinds of projects that he is developed for all of our benefit in san francisco and along the waterfront, but, because of the way that he is able to inspire connections between people of all stripes, incomes, race, and age backgrounds. he has always done equity, even before it was a term of art and has really inspired all of us at

this especially important time to bring people together for improvements that brewly benefit all. so, i will always appreciate and treasure what byron has taught me about public service and the wonderful friendships that we've developed overtime and all of the wisdom to carry on this mission. i know that he has got a lot of great adventures and discoveries ahead of him with andrea and the families so i wish you all the best, byron. >> hi, byron. this is brad. i just -- i'm in awe of what you have contributed to the port and the people who work at the port and the public and enjoy the

waterfront. you've worked on these amazingly transformative projects which people have mentioned but i want to focus on your investment in people. the way your door is open for colleagues and staff to nodel through problems that insights that you offer and the way that you lift people up into a leadership role so that they can shine and lead, it's just remarkable the way that you are with people and it's an example that i aspire too. i think so much for everything that you've given to the port. i wish you well in retirement and i want you to come back and visit often. thank you. >> president, and i have such

heartfelt agreement with what everyone has said about byron and byron not to put this in dry terms at all but your investment has created such in multiplier effect because you empower people to do great work and to really mentor them and that has, i mean it just has such an incredible effect on the places you've worked clearly. at the port, your finger print, very positive finger prints are on positive projects and i've enjoyed working with you. i want everyone to get your time. after friday, because i know you are going to have that affect in every place thaw continue to operate in so i'm so happy for you and we will save your phone number and we will look to you to be that great listening ear and we will miss and you we will

stay in touch. >> it's david from real estate and development. i also wanted to just congratulate you on all your years. thank you for your leadership and support. you've been a great mentor and friend for the 19 and a half years that our time has overlapped or i've been at the port. really going to miss you. we're really going to enjoy and appreciate working with you and really value the support that you've provided over the years. so, we're neighbors and i'm hoping i'll still run into byron on the street and continue our friendship. thank you, very much.

would anyone else like to comment? >> president brandon, yes. byron, i just want to tell you you are a gentleman and class act. you mentor to a lot of people and you are old school. you know where the bodies are buried, not only did you work effectively at the port but you knew how to walk the offices at city hall, you had long-term relationships to go way back before you came to the port that you will continue. i want to tell you how much i appreciate you and also too, when director forbes left and we were interviewing and he came in you were a rock of gibraltar for her and you helped us get through work along with president brandon. i want to thank you and like i said, so many times we say nice things about people when they're

dead but i just wanted to to note thank you for all your service and to the port and to the city and county of san francisco and i hole up continue to do some work for the port, whatever capacity but i encourage you, life is short, enjoy your september 11th you l. you left the place a lot better than you found it. bon voyage, my brother. thank you. >> hello, this is mike martin from real estate also. i think my colleagues said it all about byron. i had the distinct career pleasure of stepping into his legacy of planning and development at the port when i came over three years ago. he has been nothing but someone that has moved forward in the interest of the port and the city at every turn throughout his really illustrious career and he has a unique way of making commonsense and logical

statements out of things that are all too rational at times and it's something i've tried to pattern my own work after all the way through my time here at the port. all the best to you, byron and to the well-earned retirement and i look forward to seeing you again around the places that you've made so great at the port already. all the best. thank you. >> president brandon: would anyone else like to comment? >> it's my turn. byron, i may have known you the longest because before you came to the port we were working together when you were at the redevelopment agency so you had a long career as a redevelopment agency and came over to the port with all that knowledge and experience. as director forbes said, i think you worked on every major project along the waterfront. so you have such a huge legacy

that you are going to leave behind. with your leadership skills, all of the staff members tam you have mentored, always there as a listening ear for anyone who needed encouragement or help and you have just within a wonderful person to work with and you will truly be missed. i mean, you are taking so much knowledge regarding the city and the port with you. hopefully you come back. we need you we cannot lose your phone number. we respect and are grateful for all that you have done, so thank you. byron, do you want to say anything? >> yes. you know, when we started this process of having the accommodations for retiring

staff, i thought it was a great idea until it came to my turn. now i'm not so sure. i really want to first of all thank elaine for calendering this and for giving me the opportunity to work in the -- in the c.o.o. position. into the commission for setting aside this time for me to get a chance to talk with my colleagues and to talk with you all. i think i was saying to folks earlier, when i came to san francisco 40 plus years ago, i thought i would be here for a year or two or three and i would enjoy a giant's game. i fell in love with the city and i had the opportunity to work on such great projects.

commission brandon, as you were saying, i had a chance to work with the fillmr. o r and i worked along the waterfront and i was managing hunters point shipyard when i really connected with the waterfront and i had the opportunity to come and work for the port. i think that the consistent thing through all of these projects and efforts was a certain area. one was to work with the community it was always really key and dianne mentioned that to work with great developer partners and really had that great experience working for the ports and then the staff and i

think there's such great staff working with the city but specifically at the port. people are really dedicated and committed to the work of the port and the commission of the port and i had a chance to work with them and develop my own and so with that i enjoyed my experience. so many people i've worked with that you don't want to name names but if you will permit me, i do want to mention three people i've worked with for the entire time i was at the port. april shaw was my administrative assistant for the entire 20

years and just a great person and professional and helped me get organized around the work and for those that work with me directly got me to meetings on time or stopped me for getting that i had a meeting. really it was a great help to me durinduring the entire time. i was a i great planner and couldn't have done anything i did at the port without her partnership. we really worked together the entire time and commissioner brandon, you touched on it, i met with president brandon before i took the position and got great guidance from her and that guidance is continuing through the entire time i've

worked at the port and so, i really want to thank all of you and in the last thing i want to mention and if you put it up for discussion, is my family. who really supported me during all while -- for three of the four decades supported me in all my work. my kids, justin and zane, who attended more meetings than they really wanted to and zane for all the time he spent down at pier 1 answering the questions of where is your dad. and for my wife, andrea, who has been a great partner as a wife but also in our work because she's really the smart, outgoing

person in the family and has been a great partner in all the work that i've done. let me stop there. i want to thank you for this opportunity. being recognized for the work i've done at the port and looking forward to staying in touch with you all in the future. first i'm just going to rest. and take some time to do that but thank you again for the recognition. >> president brandon: thank you, byron. you have to one more meeting in-person so we can do a real send off. i think you think you are retiring but andrea will put you to work. [laughter] thank you so much for all your years of service. >> thank you, all.

>> thank you. >> ok. we will now open up the phone lines for comments on the executive director comments joining us on the phone. we will provide instructions now for anyone on the phone who would like to provide public comment. >> thank you, president brandon. at this time, we will open the queue for anyone on the phone who would like to make public comment on the executive director's report. please dial star 3 if you wish to make public comment. the system will let you know when your line is open. others will wait on you until their line is open. comments will be limited to throw minutes a person. the queue is now open. please dial star 3 if you wish to make public comments. >> president brandon: thank you. do we have anyone on the phone? >> yes, president brandon. we have one caller on the line eight this time. >> president brandon: please put

them on the line. >> opening that line now. >> caller: hello, there. thank you to the commission for granting me a quick moment. this so happens to be justin baker, byron's son. or his oldest son, who would just love to take a moment and thank the commission and the port obviously for take a moment to commemorate my father and his work. it's obviously very funny to listen to these port commission meeting from these vantage point given i've heard about them from my father's perspective and the car rides we had as i grew up as a kid and the science about the development and growth of san francisco as a city. and it influenced me on a personal level so much in terms of how my life has gone in terms of my educational experience and i ended up writing about the

thesis about the embarcadero freeway and it wouldn't happen without my father's influence and to know that my dad was someone who was so deeply passionate, that his work not only the most talkative person unless you got him discussing a cruise terminal along those lines but so deeply, carrying and passionate about his work and that's influenced me and my life as well and many others obviously from hearing the comments that have been made thus far and i would also say that he is a deep up an and unag love for san francisco and it means so much to us. more broadly, i think the idea and the cities and public spaces within that cul rate is and cule communities that are so meaningful and extend out for generations and my love and appreciation for san francisco but for cities and the public spaces h that are within them comes from my dad and it's such a gift.

so i just wanted to thank him again. commemorate and congratulate him for his hard work and looking forward to catching him at a ball game when i'm back in san francisco. thank you for your time. >> president brandon: thank you for your call and your comments, justin, and thank you for sharing them with all over all these years.

>> i think it's very much in line with everything that elaine has been spearheading, and particularly, i think this commission has always had those objectives in mind. i think we're probably one of the more intentional commissions in this city. i think commissioner adams would agree with that, so i think it's great to have somebody added to staff, and elaine, thank you for the updates on all the changes that are going on right now. i guess we're getting used to this virtual meeting, so it's good that we sort of got to know each other really well as

a commission before that because it makes it easier because virtual meetings are still not as good as in person, but we're making it work, and i am looking forward to continuing this because it certainly saves me a long commute right now, so i appreciate that. thank you. >> thank you. vice president adams? >> want to say thank you, tony. good to have you on the team. director forbes, it's good to have you back. they did a very good job when you were gone, and thank you for your state of the union, kind of laying out where we're at to the public and where we have to go. and i also want to thank president brandon. i know you've been pushing for 22, 23 years about diversity, and you continue to pound, just like john lewis would say, good trouble, so we're moving

forward. thank you. >> thank you. elaine, thank you so much on the economic reopening and port recovery. i think that's very valuable of information that we're trying to help our community. we want everyone to remain operational and successful, and we're trying to do our best, so elaine, thank you for all of your recommendations on how we can keep our businesses active during this pandemic. and i'd also like to welcome tony to the port. i look forward to working with you. sounds like you hit the ground running, and you're on top of

what needs to be done or at least looking at what needs to be done, and i'm sure that -- we have a great staff, and i'm sure that everyone's going to come up with wonderful recommendations to just make us a better place and much more inclusive, so welcome, tony. and again, we are definitely going to miss byron and his leadership, his knowledge, and all that he's given to our support. as commissioner adams said, i would like to recommend adjourning the meeting in honor of congressman john lewis, and all that he has foughten for in voter -- voter rights, racial and social justices, so hopefully, we can close the meeting in his memory.

thank you. next item, please. >> certainly, madam president. if i may just remind folks to mute, especially those who have called in by phone or are streaming on their computers on sfgovtv. that creates the echo that we've heard a couple of times. item 7-a is the authorization of $7.1 million from the community beautification to support l.b.e.s that do business with the port that have been harmed by the pandemic. this is resolution 20-33. >> hi. this is stephanie tang, and thank you to president brandon, vice president adams, and commissioners yee and woo ho to present on this today.

this is a follow up to the item from last month. i'm stephanie tang, the contracts procurement manager for the port of san francisco. the information i'm about to share here includes insights from my colleagues. next slide, please. so a lot of the information today is the same as the information item, so i'll move quickly through the similar information. and my remarks are going to be going to be organized by the strategic -- talking about the strategic plan and objectives, the audience for the program, the microoverview, but especially some thinking that we've taken on how to operationalize this endeavor and finally, the proposed action item. next slide, please. the port strategic planned names equity is a priority, and that seems to be the meeting

today. tony, the memory of congressman lewis, and we demonstrate that in what we do. as we think about our role in government, we think about how we get to use our resources and especially our small business community. that's one piece of the population that we work with and that we really care about as a port. small businesses, especially our l.b.e.s, micro-l.b.e.s are key partners who provide professional construction services and let us do our work and achieve our mission. our program directive is to respond to this pandemic and make sure that micro-l.b.e.s to ha -- have access to capital so they can survive the pandemic. across the top, you see the women -- the m.b.e., for minority business enterprises,

w.b.e. for women business enterprises, and n.b.e. which are neither women nor minority owned businesses, and some of them hold contracts with the port. this is a new slide, and i wanted to mention how covid has been impacting our city in particular. you'll see in the chart on the left that the highest rate of covid per residents is in bayview-hunters point. i checked today, and the census tract with the highest rate of cases per 10,000 residents is in hunters point, and that rate is actually over 500 cases per 10,000 residents. if you look at the map on the right, it shows where the covid cases are, and you'll see that it basically rings the waterfront, which is our -- which is, you know, the port. so when i think about the

mission of the port, the waterfront, our principles of equity, and our roles of an enterprise department, this all kind of brings me back to l.b.e.s and something we can do to make sure they survive this pandemic. next slide, please. so what are we as staff proposing to do? this's there item, the micro-l.b.e. relief program, and there's the tenant forgiveness, which we'll take up later in the agenda. so the l.b.e. emergency loan and grant program is modelled after the l.b.e. microloan program. we're proposing a dollar value of $50,000, which is just like the oewd-s.f. help program.

payments would begin after six months, 0% interest. there would be a forgiveness component. if you're able to pay it off in two years, 50% would be forgiven. if you're able to pay it back in years three and four, you'll be forgiven 25%. the criteria would include you have to be a micro-l.b.e., be one of the eligible suppliers, contractors, or tenants on port property, and then, have you to meet to the other s.f. health criteria which makes sense in our case. you have a valid business license, you have revenues of less than $2.5 million per

year, you don't have any liens issued by the city. there's three components of our technical and outreach assistance. there's the loan servicer, which will likely be main street launch. they have extensive experience in small business lending, and then finally, we will connect them to existing programs around the city, such as the contractor development program that is run by risk management and contract monitoring through their consultant, meriwether consulta consultant services. this is where i want to take a pause. the first is we removed the p.p.p. as a criteria. initially, that was a criteria for the oewd criteria, but that was removed as p.p.p. has

evolved as a program since this pandemic has been much longer than we all expected. next, we improved the administrative process. we thought a lot about what kind of experience do we want the l.b.e.s to have, and what have we learned from the lessons with p.p.p.? we know that there isn't enough funds to fund everyone, so we've benefited from the experience and main street loans? our deadline is kind of a mini expression of interest. we want to do this short application first so that no firms go through the process of filling out this paperwork just to be told there are no funds. the other reason why we want to have a deadline is the way the p.p.p. program worked is that it was first come, first

served, and the businesses that can best get in line first are the businesses that have the capacity to get in line first. we expect, with our outreach consultant, we'll be making sure businesses understand how this works and what the process is, so we'll set a deadline, and then, the applications will come in. at that time, we will then conduct a lottery to put the applications we've received by the deadline in a specific order, and then, we will kind of do rounds of having people complete the complete application. we'll also set an initial deadline. that way, once you get a complete application, you're kind of moving through the process, and you're technical service provider will make sure you're completing it, and if you're not eligible for interested, that you release your spot with a complete application. that way, we can actually work with other small businesses, and we can work with the proper technical stance and resources into the hands of the businesses who need it. the next item is the plan for l.b.e. tenants and access to the program. this is based in response to

the questions last week -- last month, and we now have a plan, especially as it works in conjunction with the rent forgiveness program, which is on a different timeline. for port tenants, we are not going to have rent be an eligible expense. finally, we understand that the shape, duration, of this pandemic is pretty uncertain, and we want to allow the executive director some flexibility in terms of considering hardship provisions. next slide, please. so i'm here to answer questions about the resolution 2033, and the advancing the next slide, i can take questions as you have them. >> thank you, stephanie. [inaudible] >> commissioners, can i have a motion? >> so moved. >> second. >> now let's open it up for

public comment. this is the time to make comment on item 7-a for members of the public who are joining us now. >> thank you, president brandon. at this time, we will open the queue for anyone on the phone who would like to make public comment on item 7-a. please dial star-three if you wish to make public comment. the system will let you know when your line is open. others will wait on mute until their line is open. comments will be limited to three minutes per person. the queue is now open. please dial star-three if you wish to make public comment. >> thank you, jennica. do we have anyone on the phone? >> yes, president brandon, we have one caller on the line at the moment. >> please open up the lines for the first caller. >> okay. opening up that line right now. thank you.

>> okay. good afternoon, commissioners, president brandon. my name is hermann badgett. i work with r.e.j. enterprises, and i would just like to thank the port for recognizing the need to help these l.b.e.s during the microeconomic process. you truly understand their challenges for funding, and this emergency loan program will provide much needed capital for them to navigate their way through and continue to operate they business and have the funding needed to be successful, so i -- again, i gi just want to congratulate the port for this opportunity and say thank you. >> thank you. and are there any other comments? >> president brandon, we do not have any other members of the public on the phone wishing to

make public comment on this item. >> thank you. seeing no more callers on the phone, public comment is closed. commissioner woo ho? >> hi, yes. stephanie, that was a great presentation. i think the program is now very well thought through. i think you've spent a lot of time about it. i think you've hit all our objectives. i really don't have any questions. i think it will be a great program. >> thank you. commissioner gilman? >> thank you. stephanie, thank you for the report. similar to commissioner woo ho, i'm supportive of the item. i don't really have any questions. i just want to commend you for the tweaks that you made to the program to make it stronger and better. i'm excited that we're able to offer this program to our l.b.e. tenants and contractors.

>> thank you. vice president adams? >> thank you. stephanie, i'm in support of this, along with my fellow commissioners, and i'm ready to vote. >> thank you. thank you, stephanie, for the entire presentation, and thank you to the entire team who have worked on bringing this to the commission. and i want to thank the office of economic and workforce development for creating the s.f. help fund and giving us a model to be able to quickly put these two loans that we're looking at together, and thank you for your expertise in finding that so quickly. i just have a couple questions, and with this program, i was really hoping that we could somehow give access to our most affected microbusinesses, and

i'm not sure there's a way we can do that, given the systemic barriers that are in place. i appreciate you looking at the neighborhoods that were most harmed, that are being most harmed by covid, but i'm not quite sure how this program is going to reach those businesses. so i love this program, and i'm happy that we're doing it, but if we have a maximum loan amount of 50,000, and we're only working with $1 million, minus what we need to run, that's only 18 individuals or businesses that may have access to these funds, and i was hoping that they could be more participation, especially for those smaller, most distressed businesses that may not have a

lot of business because they're out of business right now. so i'm thinking in order to give more access to the program that we should limit the amount of the loan funds to $25,000 to be able to have more than -- and i guess the other question i had, in your presentation, you had 95 firms, but in your report, you had 131 firms. so is it the 95 or the 131 firms that are able to attempt to access these funds? >> let me take a couple of points there. there are 95 contractors who have a contract that are on either professional service or construction, but they are also professional servicers that are complying. it does that up to the 131,

which is the tenants, the contractors, and the artists. >> but in the first round, only 18 may qualify. >> that's correct. >> and i'm so appreciative that we have been able to come up with these funds to start this program. but again, the smaller more distressed ones are not going to get any. so i would rather lower the loan amount and have for access to capital for more of our l.b.e.s than have a few qualify. and then, also, i think this

program is going to be well received, and i think there's going to be a lot of input, and to go through and pay so much for such a small group, i'm hoping that there will be more funding for this because as we say, our l.b.e.s need help. we need to be equitable in our thought process of how to help them. if we're really trying to target these historically underserved populations, i think we need to just look at it a little bit. go ahead. i'm sorry. go ahead. >> i think the policy choice of trying to have this be a broader program, it's certainly

something that i'm supportive of, and the possibility of being able to double our reach is very enticing, so i welcome the commissioner's suggestion here. i'm not familiar with the -- how do we amend the resolution on the fly process, but i believe the $50,000 amount is on the last page of the resolution in the -- in attachment a, and it's item f, so if there's interest in amendmenting that to 25,000 -- amending that to 25,000, that's something -- >> thank you. i'm sure that michelle can give us some advice on is ththat. that's something that i would like to support. and then, i would like to reference -- [inaudible]

>> so if there is a case where there is some really distressed firm that may need more than 25,000, that could be up to the executive director. but what i really would like to do and i hope my fellow commissioners will amend the program, will have a cap loan amount of $25,000 so that we can outreach to more firms and allow the executive director to implement flexible hardship decisions. so i guess i'm amending the motion. is there a second? >> second. >> commissioners, with that amendment, is there any further discussion? >> yeah, this is commissioner -- yes, this is commission -- i don't disagree with trying to make the program

broader, and i understand the objective that you mentioned. i guess the question that i have is, really, when you broaden the program, and you give less to more, does it make it more -- does the out come make it less effective? i don't know whether it's 25,000 $25,000 or $50,000, wha going to make the difference between survival and nonsurvival. the intention is perfect, but it seems to me we're kind of doing it blindly. it could be that it doesn't really -- it won't help them, but they got 25,000, whereas 50,000 -- i can't say that i know that 50,000 is going to help them survive, either.

we need to understand what these companies really need so that we know that the program is effective. i have no question about wanting to make the program work, but i want to make sure that we're going to have an effective amount. >> even though we have a loan amount of $50,000, the first amount was smaller. it was actually $37,000. what commissioner brandon is suggesting to go to a smaller amount, is what s.f. help already did. >> this is an amount that they have a history on or this is what's being discussed on a policy level at the moment. >> no, that is actually true what was distributed by s.f.

help in the oewd program. >> which has been in place for a while. >> since -- since the pandemic, it was initiated in march of this year. >> and do they have any results -- what are the results of that program? how many have received it? what has it done for them? >> yeah, it's too early, unfortunately. >> and commissioner, also, hopefully stephanie will be able to come back to us in september and update us on the impetus of the program, and if we're very under capitalized. the beauty of this is we're using it [inaudible] beautification of the waterfront that are here for this purpose, so we're not taking any more money away from

the general funds. >> so i do have a question. it's possible that these l.b.e.s have been accessing other sources of funding. you're not excluding that they have funding from other sources of funding, is that correct? >> that is correct. >> i'm a banker, so it gets down to the underwriting. not that i'm looking for repayment here, which i normally would be, but i am looking at success. what i'm trying to understand is, in the underwriting process, and i guess we're going to be delegating that, that people understand when they look at the amount of money that we're going to give -- and i think it may be that it should be not a set

amount, it should be an up-to amount. >> it is. >> because it's maybe a one-size-fits-all amount here, can we see that, by giving you this funding, that you are going to be able to sort of crossover and survive? but if it just means that you're going to hang in there for another month, and you're going to close any way, then that's not really success for us or for the recipient. so i'd kind of like to know how we're going to gauge how this money is going to make a difference, whether it's 25, 0 $25,000 or $50,000? >> so one thing i would -- those are all exact questions and the things that we are trying to figure out how we maximize the effectiveness of the money.

as it relates to the dollar value, it's not that somebody puts in the application and gets action, it's based on their actual fixed expenses. so what are your rent? what are your utilities? what are the kinds of expenses that you have. and what differentiates us from s.f. heallp is most of that yo s say -- these entities have a contract with us, so they want to stay in business. these are all entities whom we actually have a relationship with. [please stand by]

we're just hoping and crossing our fingers they're going to survive. we need to sort of figure out how in the under writing process they're going to survive. i'm less worried about the

repayment. that would be my normal concern but it's not my concern. my concern is they really are going to survive. how can they -- how can we put a criteria for them to understand if we give them the criteria. they have to present a plan. not to say this is where i am today, and i'm hurting, it's a little bit of a plan of how this money used to help me survive. >> i understand. can you help elaborate that they're going to be in business in six months and they think they have enough cash to continue to operate that kind of how you are imagining this? >> yes. and i mean, if we're just saying six months it's a short term but i guess these days it's hard to measure anything else. i think if they can tell us how this cash -- how they're going

to manage to continue to be in a cash flow, i mean, i'm getting into technical terms but in terms of a cash flow kind of positive situation that they can manage. because if they cannot, and they burn through their expenses in one month and that's it and they're gone it's not going to help them very much. we can talk off line and i think we want this program for them and for us to be successful. i think we just want to know that the other side that we can say what the shared success is. >> i agree and i welcome having a follow-up conversation about this. >> yeah. director forbes, do you agree with that?

>> yes, i do. i agree a follow-on conversation is important and we're already thinking about metrics to pay attention to how the program is going. so we welcome that dialogue. >> mr. gilman or vice president adams. any other comments? >> i'm good to go. >> same here. more people we can help, that's what we're here to do. and i understand commission woo ho's concerns. stephanie has done a great job but i want to make sure that people get help. we know the money went out from the white house in the stimulus package and it went to help the risk not the people that needed it and this million dollars here will be able to help those that are in need and i agree with president brandon and i share

commission concerns and let's get it done what needs to be done and get help out to the people that need it most. >> president brandon: so we are voting on the amended resolution lowering the amount up to 25,000 and (inaudible). do you want to vote on that? >> yes, i believe we would change the general council -- we would change the first whereas on page 10 to read the micro lbe release program will enable the port to offer loans up to $25,000 to ensure multiple lbe assistance and provided that the executive director increase the amount as determined based on demonstrated financial hardship.

>> i don't know if i want to be technical to say that i asked for some -- on the criteria side. maybe we can take it off one but i don't know if it should be a resolution but we want to make sure we're talking about the future, not just having it today we want to make sure they're going to succeed in the future. >> yes. >> and for carl, there's a second and for general council there's a second of 50,000 in the whereas second in the bottom from resolved. two from resolved on the last page so that should read offer loans up to strike 50 at $25,000. >> yes, thank you. >> yes.

>> so do we need to add anything regarding criteria? >> this is michelle again. we can in the last row solved words authorizing the executive director to enter to a m.o.u. or other agreement including loan documents and the main street launch and office of economic workforce development and to approve changes based on borrower demonstrated hardship and when do the repayment obligations come in? >> the repayment obligations come in after six months of the loan being lended. >> so perhaps we say after

demonstrated financial hardship and ability to meet the repayment obligation of the program. >> would that half that criteria. >> i'm satisfied and i think we can talk off line with how to abouto goabout doing this and wd move forward. >> so, can we do a roll call vote as amended. >> yes, resolution 2033 as amended. [ roll call vote ] >> the motion passes unanimously, resolution 2033 is

adopted. carl, next item, please. >> clerk: item 7b, request authorization of the use of $1 million from the port's capital contingency project to create and fund an economic loan program through crab fishers impacted from pier 45 and this is resolution 2034. good afternoon. i have action item to discuss economic assistance in the form of a loan program for crab fishers impacted by the pier shed c fire. next slide, please. this is a follow-up informational presentation when you heard on july 14th. and i know you had a long agenda head of you today so i'll provide background and an overview of the program and explain the funding economic nisms and discuss changes and open it up for questions.

the item in program are in response to the four alarm fire then gulfed pier 45. a 75,000 square footwear house was completely destroyed. 8,000 crab traps and other fishing gear were stored in shed c. would you replacement traps, san francisco fishing community will not be able to participate in the 2020-2021 crab season. this would have both a significant, direct and indirect impact to the port in the form of reductions in rent, from port tenants and reductions of use and enjoyment on fisherman warf by the public. as discussed, the port has identified a million dollars to capitalize and pace of the administration for the loan program to assist fishers, negatively effected by the may 23rd fire, they are described in attachment a of your report. we're proposing a

1 million-dollar loan program with zero percent interest rates to allow for the purchase of new crab traps. it would be administered by main street launch with over 40 years experience guiding similar small business assistance loan programs in the bay area and the agreement will be entered into through a contract vehicle and solicitation established by the office of economic and workforce development r applicants need to be a tenant of shed c registered with the port. be active with the port tariff. provide their fish and game permit listing the maximum amount of crab traps authorized by the state. the loans will only provide funding for the purchase of traps up to the number authorized by fish and game. the goal of our plan financial assist as soon as to help crabbers geis to help and applir

participating in the 2020-2021 fishing season. the formula determining the amount of each loan is two tiers. fishers will receive $100 per trap for the first 200 traps they purchase. all remaining funds will be allocated proportionately from the outstanding debts of each app can't, they would be funded in one single round of application and we have a simple application based on criteria identified early and they will have to complete the application prior to asset deadline and we will assist them with completing the paperwork and once applications are in, we'll be able to determine the final allocation amount based on the funding formula identified. next slide, please. another slide, please. fishers have up to five years to repay the loan with the first payment due eight months after the loan is awarded.

the delay will allow them to start the crab season and stabilize their business prior to the first payment. while protecting the port's capital. if a fisher provides early repayment, 75% of the loan within three years, of the remaining 25% will be forgiven. next slide, please. the funds for this program are one-time allocation through the port's contingency project program with fiscal year 2019-2020. the contingency fund provides capital to cover emergency needs and other anticipated capital costs and again, if approved we'll enter to an agreement with main street launch to administer this program through a contract vehicle established through the

office of economic and workforce development. next slide, please. since our last meeting, there's been three changes that we want to bring to your attention. one in an effort to make the program user friendly as possible, and to ensure fishers continue to be viable tenants we have eliminated payments and the executive director to implement flexible hardships provisions on a case-by-case basis if necessary and three, we're releasing the port from liability associated with the fire. in conclusion, the respectfully request you approve resolution 2034 to create and fund a crab fisher assistance loan program and allocate a million dollars and from the port contingency project to fund the program. and it's been a team effort to get to this point and like i say land all and katie and stephanie tang, justin big a low and main

street launching and. >> president brandon: can i have a motion. >> so moved. >> second. >> now it's open up it for public comment.