thank you. this morning, our office filed a lawsuit with the superior court against the san francisco board of education and the san francisco unified school district for its failure to formulate a plan designed to get the 54,000 students in the san francisco unified school district back to in-class learning as quickly as possible. more specifically, the

california education code requires school districts across the state to adopt a learning continuity and attendance plan, lcap, describing the actions school districts will offer to take classroom-based instructions whenever possible. particularly for pupils who experienced significant learning loss due to school closures in the 2019-2020 school year. or are at greater risk of experiencing learning loss due to future school closures. the requirements under state law are detailed and specific. unfortunately, the plan prepared by the san francisco unified school district and adopted by the board of education is ambiguous empty rhetoric. it's a plan to make a plan. it's legally insufficient. the city is suing for a single cause of action at this point,

violation of duty, when government officials fail to perform their official duties. the city is seeking a court among that among other things, requires san francisco school district to fulfill under state law to "prepare to offer in-person instruction" now that it's possible to do so safely. we're asking the court to order the school board and school district to put in place a plan -- a viable plan to reopen safely. if that plan is followed, schools will reopen. san francisco schools have generally been allowed to reopen since september 2020. the san francisco department of public health, the california department of public health and u.s. center for disease and prevention all say schools can reopen safely. in san francisco, the overwhelming majority of private and parochial schools have done so. over the past several months,

113 private and parochial schools in san francisco have reopened and remain open. almost 16,000 students have returned to in-person schools. and less than five cases of in-class transmission have been reported. in [indiscernible] county 90% of schools resumed in-person instruction, including public schools which began opening classrooms last fall. there have been only nine cases of suspected in-class transmission there. various public schools opened in san mateo, santa clara and napa counties and the results were similar. undisputed scientific consensus is schools can reopen safely for teachers, staff and students with proper precaution. and that in-person instruction is not causing spikes in covid infections. but as of the date of this complaint, not a single san

francisco public school student has set foot in their classroom in 327 days. disturbingly, the school district and the board of education seem to have no plan for how or when in-person instruction will begin for any of its students. other than falsely proclaiming schools cannot be reopened safely and telling families that it is unlikely we'll be able to offer most middle and high school students the opportunity for in-person learning this school year, the district and the board have provided virtually no current information to the city or to the public. the leadership for both the school district and the educators union can't seem to get their act together. the board of education and the school district have had more than 10 months to roll out a concrete plan to get kids back in school. unfortunately, so farther's earning an "f". having a plan to make a plan, doesn't cut it, and is no plan

at all. the district's own data show the achievement gap is widening under san francisco school district's distant learning approach. black, latino and other students of color in san francisco, as well as those from low-income families, have lost significant academic ground compared with wealthier and white students during the pandemic. while research is increasingly showing that the mental and emotional health of many students is at greater risk during the pandemic as they struggle with distance learning, san francisco officials, children, and families do not know what steps have been taken, what remains to be done, or how they can help. this is not just shameful; it's also unlawful. it's regrettable we've had to take this decision that we filed today. suing the school district is not something we ever wanted to do. but something needs to change. the status quo is failing our

children. and we hope that this will move the district to do the right thing. i know that there are countless teachers doing heroic work to educate their students in these unprecedented times. ; to them, we say thank you. day after day, they're fighting the impossible battle against the tide of isolation and distance learning. we couldn't be more grate he have for their service and sacrifices they've made to educate our kids during this very difficult time. we want them to be able to return safely to the classroom. it is up to the district, the board of education, and their leadership to agree on a plan to do so. more than 54,000 san francisco school chirp are suffering. they are being turned into zombies by online schooling. enough is enough. getting kids back in school needs to be the only priority of school district leadership. and with that, i'd like to

introduce marilyn -- mayor breed who is supportive of the lawsuit. >> thank you to our city attorney herrera working with us to find a solution we know is not easy. i know, but i appreciate you are really stepping up to help meet what we know is an incredible, incredibly challenging time facing our city. nothing matters more than getting our kids back in school. as a city, we don't have control over this decision, which is really frustrating. but we've offered support and help for months. we've helped inspect schools and classrooms to get them ready. we work with the district to set up the testing necessary to monitor the virus when our educators he and students return. we've given $15 million to

support our schools. above what we already do through our normal budget process. and look, i know some of our educators have concerns. i understand those concerns. and i believe we should listen to them and work to address them. and i do support our teachers. in fact, i led a ballot measure last fall to support pay increases for teachers with the -- which the voters of this city supported overwhelmingly. the legitimate concern of our teachers cannot stand in the way of getting kids back in the classroom. when i was in the community the other day, i had a teacher approach me who said i want to go back into the classroom. what are we going to do? i believe we can do this safely. as we've seen in private schools and community hubs that we've been -- they've been open for months. as we've seen in other districts across the bay area and the state, that our city attorney

just talked about, our kids are suffering. the inequalities that existed before the pandemic have become more clear. the data is clear. students have lost ground in academic achievement. and that is a problem. health experts say that issues relating to mental health such as depression and eating disorders are on the rise. almost 1,000 of the school district's 53,000 students have missed over 60% of their classes. 70% of those students are from low-income families. and 3/4 of them are from black and latino families. the school district is failing to meet this most basic responsibility. and for all of the talk i hear from the board of education about equity, the data speaks for itself.

i'm hearing every day from parents, who are concerned that their kids are falling behind. mostly single parents. i'm hearing from parents who have had to leave their jobs to stay home and facilitate distance learning. and we know when this happens, it's almost always women, who bear the brunt of this responsibility. families right now aren't able to plan for their future. they can't decide whether to accept a job offer, because they don't know when they're going to be able to once again have their kids return to the classroom. i know that this is a drastic step. but i feel we're out of options at this point. the department of public health. the leading force around this pandemic, the department of public health that has been the most conservative putting out health orders, they issued guidance to this school district

will safety precautions needed to open schools last september. it's been five months since then. and there's not even an agreement or a plan in place to start reopening. in fact, there were a number of agreements put into place, and then, they changed. during that time, the school board has alienated parents and made national news for renaming 44 of our schools, all while there wasn't a plan to reopen those very same schools? all while even the children who are a part of these schools have not necessarily been able to participate in the discussion, which could be an incredible learning opportunity. look, i'm committed to working with the school district and the school board. we've been providing support for months. we've been prioritizing the schools and rolling up our sleeves in the city and doing everything we can. we're still here, ready to help. and while i don't control the schools, i am the elected leader

of this city, and i'm not going to stand by while our students and families continue to suffer with no end in sight. it's not acceptable to tell parents, who are already under unbelievable stress, and are seeing with their own eyes how their children are falling behind. that distance learn something not good enough. this is offensive. and completely unacceptable. this is san francisco. we have been a national leader in our response to covid. let's be a national leader in getting our kids back to school. i'm a proud graduate of san francisco's public schools. the only reason why i was able to grow up in public housing in a very challenging environment, in poverty, in this city, and go onto become mayor, was because of our public schools. but if i were in school today, i

would likely have been one of those very same students who today are falling behind because of distance learning. in fact, my niece and nephew are two of those san francisco students. so yes, i'm here as a mayor, but i'm also here as an aunt who is concerned about her family. every day we wait is another day we let our students fall behind. this is not the route i would have chosen five months ago. i'm not sure that -- this is not the route i would have chosen five months ago, but i don't see any other option. we're ready to help. but the school district needs a plan to reopen, and they need it now. our students and our families deserve nothing less. so once again, i want to thank our city attorney herrera and his team at the city attorney's office. i know in their hearts, all they want to do is see our schools reopen. people of san francisco want to

see our schools reopen. and i'm hopeful that we are one step closer to getting there today. let's not continue to let our children suffer in this city. thank you. >> thank you mayor breed, and thank you city attorney herrera. we will be taking a select number of comments from reporters. so if you do have any questions, please send them to myself, the host. and we will try and get in as many as we can. for mayor breed, we have a question from jim carlson. can the mayor speak more on the remaining controversy and why this is quote-unquote "the wrong

time"? >> mayor breed: i am sorry. i don't understand the question. >> jim, can you narrow that down a little bit. >> mayor breed: what media outlet? >> sorry. jim, can you cite your media outlet as well, thank you. for city attorney herrera from "the examiner", there are a few questions. i'll start with one. did the city offer to meet before filing suit? and if so, did they refuse so? >> let me put it this way: if the question did i, the city's attorney office, meet with the school district, the answer is no. but in terms of the city itself as an entity, going back for the

entirety of the time the school has been closed, there were numerous conversations between the city as an entity and the school district about how we could be of assistance in terms of giving them the resources they need to ensure that schools could reopen as safely as possible from discussions of testing, money, of other availability of resources. that's something that the city as an entity and my client's departments and the mayor's office has had numerous conversations, continual conversations. members of the board of supervisors with the district over the past several months. with respect with me filing this lawsuit, did i have a meeting and discussion with them? no. quite frankly, i didn't think it was worthwhile considering the lack of progress that has been made over the last several months, despite all of the

continual discussions that were happening with the city and the school district. >> thank you, city attorney herrera. the second part of the question is why isn't testing help offered, considering it's a major barrier, as school officials have said. maybe mayor breed can answer. >> i don't agree with the supposition of the question. i think there have been numerous conversations from the department of public health and other places in the city to say that they would be at assistance and try to be at assistance to try to deal with testing issues. i think that's been something that's been discussed quite often over the course of the last several months. >> mayor breed: in fact, we worked with the school district and had a plan to implement testing capacity to support the

request of the teachers' union, and unfortunately things changed after that. >> thank you, both. this comes from kathie novak. for city attorney herrera, what could happen in practical terms if the court rules the schools should reopen but the teachers refuse to return or strike? >> >> attorney herrera: i'm hopeful with the policy issues you've seen across the state. this is legal, and based on a failure of the school district to do what is required under the law. so we are not seeking a court order requiring schools to reopen exactly. we're asking the court to order the unified school district to prepare to offer in-person

instruction, file the appropriate plan to show they're ready to do so. and that is going to require that -- and hopefully provide a platform for the district and the board and the union to hammer out an agreement to get this done. so schools can reopen as quickly as possible according to the plans that the court will likely require -- the detail and specific plan the court will likely require the school district to file. so i think this is providing a platform and vehicle for everybody to come to the table and hammer out an agreement that will result in kids getting back to school as quickly as possible. >> thank you, can city attorney herrera. we've got another question from ktvu. if the district board and teachers' union comes up with a plan, would the city drop the

lawsuit? >> attorney herrera: i'm not going to speculate on what i would do or not do based on an agreement that hasn't occurred. we're going into court. i'm seeking a preliminary injunction next week. if that forces folks at the district and at the teachers' union to come to some kind of agreement, great. if that's embodied in the documents that we're asking the court to require the district to come up with, fabulous. but i want to see the details, concrete results, and then, i'll make my decision about where this lawsuit goes or doesn't go based on the circumstances at the time. >> thanks very much. we're waiting for just a few more questions to come in. for mayor breed, this comes from

kpix. for the schools closed in march 2020, how many times did you meet with superintendent matthews to discuss reopening and what city officials could do? how many times have you met with uess since schools closed? >> mayor breed: i meet with superintendent matthew quite frequently. we have a regular meeting on a monthly basis. we've had to increase the number of conversations we've had to focus on our reopening efforts. and -- what was the second part of the question? >> sure. the second part of the question is: how many times have you met with uess since schools closed? >> mayor breed: so i've talked individually to members of uesf on numerous occasions. i don't know the exact number of times i've met with either. but they've been over the course of the past year, there have been a few times.

thanks very much. sorry. just to clarify, you know, how many times have you met with superintendent matthews? and have you discussed reopening with him and what city officials could do to help? >> who is that question for? >> for mayor breed from kpix. >> okay. >> mayor breed: look, i can get back to you on the exact number of times. but i have a standing monthly meeting with the superintendent. and there have been increased in the number of meetings that i've had with him around the reopening efforts. so i don't know the specifics of how many times. but we definitely have a open

relationship. we constantly communicate with one another. we're definitely trying to work together. i know he's working very hard to get the elected board of directors for the school district on board with number of plans and initiatives. and this is what we discuss on a regular basis. so the specifics of the number of times, i do not know off the top of my head. >> thank you. and just a follow-up. we're going to take two more questions. this is from ken troth. what else will be done in the next couple of weeks by city officials such as yourself? you mentioned testing and money for schools. can we elaborate on that. >> that was for mayor breed,

correct? >> mayor breed: what else? >> what else could be done in the next couple of weeks by city officials? you mentioned testing, offering money to inspect schools. >> mayor breed: that as far as i'm concerned, we don't know what else we could do. president that's what the problem is. we've tried to meet every request that has been made. and there was actually just to clarify, an agreement for testing. and so we have provided the resources, the systems, the support. and we just need the school board and the superintendent to move in this direction. and so we're here. we're here to work with them. we're here to continue to provide whatever resources that are available to support them. but it doesn't -- we're not sure what else we could do to move this forward. and i think that's really why

we're here today, because now it's time for us to start using whatever tools we have, whether it's a lawsuit or legislation or what have you to address this issue. and sadly, you know, take matters into our own hands. >> thank you, mayor breed. one more. we're just sorting through. we've gotten quite a few. that's all we have time for today. i really appreciate everyone coming. and their interest in this issue. thank you to mayor breed for her time. and thank you of course to the city attorney herrera for speaking today. if you would like more additional information on the lawsuit filed today or anymore of city attorney herrera's comments visit www.sfcityattorney.org for our full press release.

>> mayor breed: good morning, everyone. thank you all so much for joining us here today! i can't tell you how excited i am to open this vaccination site right here musconi center. let me take us back a little bit. when this pandemic hit our city, our country about a year ago. in san francisco, we had to get ready. as much as dr. colfax and i fought over what was going on and whether or not we needed to close down the city because we understood the significant impacts on people's lives by making these hard decisions, we

knew it was the right thing to do. we knew it was the right thing to do because it was about saving lives. when you look at where san francisco is in terms of our death rate, even though every life lost is tragic, we are the second densest city in the country with the lowest death rate of any major city in the country. we've saves thousands of lives here in the city. it started here at moscone center. i want to thank the director of the department of emergency management mary allen carol for her hard work. [applause] >> mayor breed: and the people who came here to work not only the folks who work within her department but so many city employees, who signed up as disaster service workers, who answered the call, and who have

been showing up to deal with challenges around this pandemic. whether it's homelessness and encampments, testing and getting testing sites set up in the city, whether it's information because people were confused about what was going on, the people in moscone center showing up every day for the past year, the sheriff deputies, the fire and police department, the librarians, the department of public works, people from all over the city, they are the ones leading and managing this effort. we're grateful for their work. i know that no one is more excited than they are that we are finally at this place to deliver this vaccine at the same place we've been managing this crisis in san francisco. what i'm so appreciative about

is this consortium. led by kaiser permanente to open the vaccination site, where we will have the capacity to deliver 7,000 to 10,000 doses per day. san francisco has a goal to deliver at least minimum 10,000 a day. this one site on its own can basically do that. but we're not stopping there. we're opening a site in bayview. he have opened a site at ucsf. we have a small bayview site open now. we opened a pop-up now in the mission, one of the most impacted communities as it relates to this virus. you know how we're doing it? we're working together. the department of public health

led by dr. colfax, the healthcare providers that are a part of this consortium, we have all come together, because we know how important this is to reopening our city. we've saved lives, yes. but we know there are still challenges, not just our economy but around mental health. our children are not back in school. people are not back at work. folks have lost their job. we know how critical the rollout of this program is. and the reason why it's going to be a success, is because of each and every one of you. so i'm grateful that all of you are joining us here today. and i want to take an opportunity to recognize a few members of the consortium. because sites like this don't just open because we say we want them to open. they open because of people who

helped to put together refrigeration system, transport system, doctors, nurses, the clinicians, the people who are going to check folks in. there's so much that goes into setting up even a small site. and we have to make sure the logistics are just right, so that we do not waste one vaccine and so that we get these vaccines into the arms of the people who need it the most as quickly as possible. first of all, thank you to dr. colfax and the department of public health. in partnership with kaiser permanente, we are so grateful to kaiser and what they're going to be doing at this site. i want to reiterate, this site is not only for kaiser patients. they will be helping with people 65 and older at this site. and they'll talk more about how you sign up, because we wanted to make sure that we had an

accessible site that was this large city-wide to make it easy for people to get vaccinated. adventist health, thank you so much. thank you to dignity health. thank you to futureal health. the california medical oh and -- association and primary care association. all of these providers came together to make this available. it officially opened friday at 8:00 a.m. the normal hours will be 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. daily. as long as we have the vaccines, we will have the places in which to distribute them quickly as possible. again, i want to thank all of you for joining us here today. we are looking forward to what the future holds in san francisco. we are getting the vaccine out as quickly as we possibly can.

nothing is more important. and this major site will play a significant role in getting our city to a better place. i don't know about you, but i'm ready to celebrate. not today. i'm ready to celebrate in a few months when we're able to say that the city is open. that the city is open for business. that we can do things in and outdoors. that we can finally eventually one day, dr. colfax, take our masks off and wave them in the air like we just don't care. [laughter] >> mayor breed: i don't know about you, but i'm looking forward to that day, and that day is coming. but let me also just say, i appreciate the people of the city so much, because you follow the health directives in most cases. you wore your mask.

you kept your distance from people. you didn't get a chance to visit your family and your friends the way we're used to doing. we sacrificed so much. and we're going to need to sacrifice just a little bit more. because we are almost there. i can feel it. today, the sun is shining. and i can feel the energy and the excitement about the future of the city. i can feel the energy of the conventions that will be returning to moscone center. the people who will be going to restaurants both in and outdoors. the folks who will be taking their children to school. the people who will show up to work and be able to congregate with one another in the lunchroom. some of the basic things that we miss so much, i feel it. it's going to happen. but we're going to need to sacrifice a little bit more. and in addition to sacrificing,

we will do everything we can to roll out these vaccination sites, advocate aggressively to get more vaccines quickly. get them to the people of san francisco. and open our city back up to celebrate again. thank you all so much for being here. and at this time, i want to turn it over to dr. colfax of the department of public health. [applause] >> good morning, everybody. this is an exciting day. a very exciting day. a good day. i have to say when i woke up early this morning, my husband said to me, you seem so happy today! what is going on? i said, this is a day that will make a difference in san francisco. this is a day of partnership, of collaboration, of pride what we can do together when we come together as a community, as a

community of people of clinicians. of people who work hard on the operations and logistics to get this done! i was here monday. i started seeing this going up! the progress has been amazing. look at this place. we're going to do 7,500 people of vaccines a day. i want to thank kaiser so much for your partnership. this conversation started awhile ago. thank you for your collaboration and partnership at the hospital council to make this happen. and of course, thank you, mayor, for your leadership during this incredibly challenging year. your courage, your fortitude, your leadership in helping us slow the virus. our partnerships with healthcare providers are critical meeting our goal of vaccinating everyone who lives or works in san francisco in order to bring an end to this pandemic as quickly as possible.

these high-volume sites will help us serve people that -- and would not be possible without these key partnerships. and as you know, although vaccines remain in limited supply, we are building the partnerships and the infrastructure so that when vaccine is readily available, we are ready to go. 10,000 vaccines a day in san francisco. we can do that now. we can do more than now soon. we are building a comprehensive vaccination network with a variety of options for all those who live and work in san francisco. and this system is focused on equity. equity, speed, and access. the department of public health, its community partners, also will continue to vaccinate people through community clinics

in western additions, china down, bayview, outer sunset, where we know the virus continues to spread. we're working to expand our neighborhood access sites to the bayview, excelsior and visitation valley with the highest numbers of covid-19. we're working with our pharmacy partners to bring vaccinations throughout the city. it's all of the above approach to focus on the speed, the access, and most importantly as we've seen during this covid pandemic, equity. our work with community and healthcare providers have been an integral part of our covid-19 response. today's announcement highlights that part. i'm glad i can be with you today and recognize that work. with that, i'd like to hand this

off to the kaiser permanente. secondly, as a kaiser patient myself, thank you. >> thank you. thank you mayor breed and dr. colfax. i was thinking this morning about how february 2020, a year ago, kaiser permanente was preparing for greeting the very first covid-19 patient into california that were coming from the princess cruise ship. and it has been quite a year for all of us. and throughout this year, we have constantly asked ourselves how can we do more. and this site, this hub, is an example of coming together,

doing more together to create something that would not have been possible without all of us working together. this is the largest vaccination, mass vaccination site in the state of california with the 10,000 a day capacity. only limited by vaccine supply. and i want to thank so many people here who helped. and of course, the city. and the city leadership for offering moscone city, which is the perfect location and type of venue for this mass vaccination. i'd like to thank the state leadership, governor's office and department of public health for believing in the vision of the consortium to provide the vaccines so we could help vaccinate the general public. and i'd like to of course --

you're going to hear later today the consortium partners, adventist health, dignity heath and our planning partners, who are here today, california medical association, primary care association and the red cross. the red cross lent their experience to us in terms of mass vaccination planning. it's really together that we are so pleased to bring the hubs to the public. these hubs answer the public's call for immediate and meaningful vaccination. the hubs represent the consortium's values. the mission to vaccinate the most diverse and broadly-reached populations. it was important to us that in our planning, that no one is left behind. the surrounding areas of the moscone center, we've reached

out to community health clinics, such as the mission neighborhood center and health 360. we've reached out to senior centers. and we've reached out to homeless service providers, such as the provider resource center to ensure again that no one gets left behind. now, moscone center is the first hub. but i'm excited to say that tomorrow, our second hub opens serving with the same mission. and serving the same need to vaccinate efficiently and equitably across our different markets. and these hubs use the state's my turn scheduling and appointment system. so i want to thank the state for quickly putting that together in order to make it possible for the general public to get vaccinated.

and we -- and all the sites are -- eligibility defaults to county eligibility requirements. i want to say our hope, our aspirations, is that we can get to as many 75 year-old and up individuals as possible. 75 year-old up just represents a subpopulation of the 65 and older at most risk for impact -- long-term impacts from covid. again, these hubs are the largest in california. and we plan to be ready for when vaccine is available. you know, some day soon, there will be much more vaccine. and it's really important that the state of california is ready with efficient ways to vaccinate the public. so we are actively working beyond these two sites to explore additional locations throughout the state of california. and we're doing our part to do

more on behalf of saving lives of the people of california. thank you very much for being here today. [applause] >> and i think -- i don't recall -- oh, keisha from dignity health, please come up. thank you. >> thank you, janet. on behalf of dignity, it's an honor to be able to be part of this incredibly important initiative to be able to improve the health of our community. we're very grateful. it is a wonderful day. and we are so proud to be representing the consortium of healthcare organizations. coming together for a common cause. and that is to make our communities more healthy and get them on the other side of this pandemic. what an absolute honor to be a part of this. the goals for this unique partnership, among the consortium of state-wide health

organizations is eventually stand up a network of hubs across the state, which will serve as a model for similar efforts in other states as well. i'm just excited personally to be part of this in helping to make history. locations will be chosen to maximize access. especially for communities where populations who are historically have experienced challenges with respect to health and healthcare access. dignity health, we always talking about reaching the disenfranchised and the poor. this is directly in line with the mission of our organization. the moscone location is part of a network of high value vaccination sites organized by the city and county of san francisco and healthcare providers. this consortium will enable partnering healthcare organizations such as ours, dignity, to leverage resources and staff, align operations for efficient and safe vaccine delivery and offer convenient parking for patients, if needed. as part of this collaboration, we will remain committed to

getting the covid-19 vaccine to the community in accordance with state guidelines equitably and as vaccine guidelines allow. at this time, i'd like to hand it off to andrew, president of care delivery at adventist health. [applause] >> thank you, keisha, thank you, janet. and thank you, mayor london breed. what an inspiration and privilege to be part of this. i'm andrew john, president of care delivery at adventist health. on behalf of adventist health and the 80 different communities that we serve, thank you to healthcare workers across this state for your continued heroic response to care for californians in this unprecedented pandemic. thank you, mayor london breed, and our consortium partners, for the heavy lifting, the

coordination, and the investment that has made today's model possible. and i want to say a special thanks to my colleagues at kaiser permanente, for taking an early and leading role in organizing this consortium. somebody needed to step up. kaiser was there, and i'm proud to be a part of that, as well as adventist health is proud to be a part of that. thank you for bringing us together, because it's together that we're going to beat this pandemic. today's mass vaccination hub serves as a road map and as a model for how we're going to eradicate covid-19 from the face of this earth. it's a model for restoring health. a model for restoring wholeness, and a model for hope. i'm going to turn it over to my friend and colleague -- my new friend and colleague, who is the

c.e.o. of ventura health. thank you so much. [applause] >> thank you so much. ventura health is delighted to be standing with this consortium and mayor breed for the important work. we see the vaccination as an essential step in the recovery of the nation and the state. in addition, we see this as an opportunity for students, who are in allied health and nursing programs across the state to gain patient care experience, so important for them to getting their licensure. in this state alone, california needs an estimated 500,000 new allied health workers to be on the frontline of caring for the growing and graying of california. so this is such an important experience for them. and we invite you to help us get the word out to colleges that they can participate in in this

opportunity. thank you. and now, i'd like to introduce the physical and chief of kaiser permanente of san francisco. [applause] >> thank you. i am privileged to serve as the physician and chief of kaiser permanente of san francisco. on behalf of our physicians, nurses and healthcare team, i'd like to welcome you to this mass vaccination hub. we've seen firsthand and up close the impact of covid-19 and the toll it's taken on our community, particularly affecting and disproportionately affecting our communities of color. i want to take a moment and sincerely thank mayor breed and dr. colfax on their work. their actions saved lives. their actions preserved i.c.u. capacity. their decisions made it so we

never run out of ventilators in our i.c.u. i'm so lucky. and our colleagues across this city feel indebted to you. you have made a difference here. finally, through the miracle of science, we have some hope. the advent of a safe and effective vaccine to end this pandemic. and it's just a delight to be able to talk about building immunity in this great city. so let this vaccine hub be a hub and beacon of light and hope for the future. today, is a day to celebrate. kaiser permanente has a long history in prevention and in vaccine delivery. and together, with this consortium, we're going to build on that expertise with this partnership and really expand, broaden our delivery of vaccines across this great city. we will -- and we are committed to an equitable distribution of vaccines to our community. we will be focusing on the

highest risk for complications from covid-19, specifically in our elderly and in our communities of color. let's not forget, though, that until we build full immunity, we'll continue to wear masks, keep our distance and wash our hands until we've eradicated this disease. that's why it's important we do this efficiently and broadly starting with our most vulnerable populations at risk. since we started vaccinating a few weeks ago at our medical center, i've had the pleasure of seeing my colleagues in healthcare and our elderly get vaccinated. when i ask our doctors and nurses if they've had any side effects from the vaccine, what they usually tell me is nothing but pure joy and overwhelming relief. that gives them strength to carry on during this continued ravaging disease, and fight this final surge, hopefully.

i'm also meeting with seniors in our community who are coming out of their homes for the first time in nine or 10 months. they tell me about their hope to see their families again and to hold grandchildren, some of them for the first time. today, marks the end of the beginning -- sorry. today, marks the end of social isolation. it's the beginning of the end. it's the end of a raging pandemic, and the beginning of restoring health and healing to this great city. thank you for this opportunity to deliver an injection of hope into our community.

i move that we reconvene in open session without disclosing anything else. >> second. >> president brandon: yes. >> commissioner adams: yes. >> commissioner burton: yes. >> commissioner gilman: yes. the motion passes unanimously. we are now in open session. congratulations. item 6 is the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic, for which

it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> item number 7. announcements. please be advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make comments on each agenda item unless the port commission adopts a shorter period. during the public comment period, the moderator will instruct participants to use the touch tone phone. audio prompts will signal. please dial in when the item you wish to comment on is announced. if you're watching this streaming on the internet, sfgovtv, there is a short broadcasting delay, so when the item you want to comment on is

announced, dial 1-415-655-0001. then enter access code, 146 935 7017 pound. please then mute the volume. and the broadcast on the telephone is live so there is no delay. when public comment is announced, dial star 3 on the phone to raise your hand to comment and then listen for audio prompt for a signal when to comment. a friendly reminder for everyone to please mute your microphone and turn off cameras when you're not presenting. that brings us to item 8, public comment on items not listed on the agenda. >> president brandon: thank you.

the operator will provide instructions for anyone on the phone who would like to provide public comment. >> thank you, president brandon. at this time we'll open the queue for anyone on the phone who would like to make public comments or items not listed on the agenda. please dial star 3 to make public comment. 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: thank you. anyone on the line. >> yes, we have two callers on the line at the moment. >> president brandon: please open the lines for the first caller. >> good afternoon. can i be heard? >> president brandon: yes.

my name is -- good greek name. i serve as president of the united atlantic american societies representing the greek american community in northern california. i'm proud to serve in this position as a volunteer to benefit our community and to promote our culture. there are 1.5 greek americans here in the u.s. all of them immigrated from greece. we're about 10%, 150,000 of greek americans in california. and about 75,000 are represented by my organization stretching from monterey through stockton east northward. every year, march 25th, greek

americans and greeks worldwide celebrate independence day. greece's history is reflected upon in two periods, ancient greece prior to 1400 and then modern greece after 1821. and during that 400 year period, the greek people were occupied. so this year we're commemorating our bicentennial anniversary. it's an important event for us. due to covid restrictions we have in place, it kind of limits our ability to celebrate. so we are graciously and kindly asking if the port would give us some consideration to raise a few of our flags during greek heritage week, so that families and others who are elderly maybe can be driven around the

embarcadero to see their flags waving for a period of time. and if possibly we could have the ferry building lit up in blue and white. we're working with the mayor's office as well for flag-raising ceremony and we're hoping to have city hall as well in blue and white colors as well as the sales force tower. we graciously ask you for consideration on this and thank you for your time and service to our community. by the way, i might add that the ferry building, when my parents immigrated from greece, my mother still recalls that being the iconic building when she arrived in san francisco with my father in 1957. thank you very much for your time. >> president brandon: thank you. great history and great memories. i'm sure the director will have someone contact you. thank you.

any further calls? >> madame chair? i would say to my dear greek friend and i wholeheartedly support you. >> president brandon: thank you. is there another caller? >> yes, we have one remaining caller on the line. >> please open the line. >> okay, thank you. opening the line now. >> good afternoon. this is keith, the managing partner at water bar and epic state. two restaurants on the embarcadero on port property. first of all, i'd like to say congratulations to president brandon and vice president adams on their re-election on the commission. i just want to give my own gratitude and thanks to the port officials and port staff for

their concern over tenants throughout the pandemic and the difficulties and challenges of dealing with covid-19. i do want to go on record, however, to say that while grateful for the percentage rent program that has been voted in place and goes through march 31st of 2021, that based on this second shutdown and the -- what we're seeing in terms of the dynamics of the impact of the pandemic right now, we are just about ready to open up this week with water bar and epic. and so we've sustained another two months of not being open at all for business. and i would really like the port

to consider the extension of the percentage rent program to go through the full year of 2021. and i think that needs to get looked at and get on agenda right now because if we look back at last year, the approval for that program took almost 6-9 months to get approved. and i just would like to get ahead of this thing now. because we're going to go through a full year of struggles, challenges, and difficulties in being able to bring these businesses on the port back to full vibrancy, which the city obviously needs and we are very much committed to. but i would just like to see and go on record that an extension of the percentage run program is going to be very beneficial and

should be looked at right away, not waiting until march 31 of 2021. and starting to look at a new program at that point in time. thank you for your attention and listening. and hopefully, we can all move forward now that some light is at the end of the tunnel with vaccines. and get the port back to the vibrancy that it really deserves, wants to be and that the tenants want it to be as well. >> president brandon: thank you. >> there are no other callers. >> president brandon: seeing no more callers on the phone, public comment is closed. call the next item. >> item 9a, the executive director report.

>> good afternoon, president brandon, vice president, commissioners, members of the public and port staff. i'm elaine forbes the port executive director. my report is on reopening, equity, news about the lunar new year and i will highlight for the port commission and the public port employees and teams of the year for 2020. in positive news, the state lifted the regional stay-at-home order last week and san francisco has started to gradually reopen the economy. outdoor dining and open-door -- i'm sorry open-air boat excursions are beginning to resume operations as well as many activities that have been restricted for some time. although there is still virus in the community, we're able to begin reopening safely now

because of the san franciscans and following public health orders, wearing masks, social distancing, hand-washing. like you, i'm excited to see our waterfront restaurants welcome diners back. 15 restaurants participating in the shared spaces program have requested extensions through june 30, 2021. several other restaurants have expressed interest in the program and are preparing applications. bcdc, the conservation and development commission, has also approved licenses for some restaurants to operate outdoor dining in public access spaces. we're excited to see diners returning to the restaurants. this is of course a revenue source for the port. bolstering efforts against the virus, the city has opened two high-volume vaccination sites at city college and muscone center. they have a capacity to deliver

thousands of units per day of vaccine and will go to residents based on eligibility criteria set by the state and vaccine availability. currently the state is prioritizing health care workers and people over age 65. and as more vaccine becomes available, the state distribution strategy will shift to ensure that more californians can receive vaccination. san francisco and our department of public health do not make local decisions about who gets vaccinated first. we're complying with federal and state directives. please stay tuned and get vaccinated when it's your turn. now to equity. i begin with more good news. last week, the board of supervisors voted to approve the naming of two streets in the mission rock development for dr. maya angelou and tony stone. two phenomenal people. fittingly, the history-making

will happen in the beginning of black history month. i'd like to thank president brandon. she worked closely with the giant board president walton and the community and to result in such inspiring choices for the two streets named in mission rock. naming these streets for courageous women who lived lives of liberty will inspire future generations, reminding them of their individual accomplishments and efforts to create inclusive communities that honor accomplishments of black people. as we work to create an anti-racist organization, i'm proud of the effort and hopeful that those who come after us will continue to fight. central to the port's work to advance equity and creating an anti-racist organization, the port's race equity team is currently assessing and prioritizing racial equity

action, plan action items to implement in 2021, calendar year. and are soon to initiate work with our commission subcommittee on equity. president brandon and commissioner gilman. while they work to complete this process, the port's equity team has implemented actions from section 6 of the race equity action plan, creating an organizational culture of inclusion and belonging. the team is working to complete a diversity calendar aimed at bringing awareness to historical contributions and cultural events. as part of the diversity calendar, the race equity team developed programming for staff to celebrate black history month. lesser known facts about black history are being shared daily. we're also launching our, just keeping it real -- movie club, where there will be a featured

black film followed by discussion. lastly, the race equity team will invite staff to experience black culture through food, taste of soul, where our black employees will share soul food recipes for all to try. keeping up with the san francisco tradition and one of the most anticipated events, we invited all staff to tune into the 2021 black history month kickoff that was held virtually this year. the port has been highlighting some of our essential workers and staff who have worked to keep the organization moving through the pandemic. including our black commissioners, dr. coleman, and our current leadership, president brandon and vice president adams who we're grateful to have on the commission today. each black leaders has made history as trailblazers. next week we'll feature tenants in our black owned businesses and will close out the month

with a reaffirmation with our commitment to equity and preview of upcoming work. now, i'm turning to pier 70, the waterfront development at the pier 70 site. brookfield has requested a change to the phase one approval. the transaction documents provide for my approval, my delegated approval for certain types of changes so long as the southern advisory committee and port commission receive advance notification. the port project manager is here to describe the requested change to phase one, which will also be presented to the southern advisory committee on -- i'm sorry, was already presented. christine, if you could brief the commissioners for me. >> christina is having a moment.

i can provide the introduction. >> i'm here. >> wonderful. >> sorry about that. that star 6 button. thank you, director and good afternoon, commissioners. i'm the project manager for the port. the purpose of today's report is to inform you about a request from the port's development partner at pier 70 to change the land use program for phase one of the project. next slide. the development program for phase one was approved in may 2018 with a full build-out up to 720 residential units up to 350,000 square feet of office, 3.4 acres of open space, up to

150,000 feet of retail and light industrial uses. the port's development agreement with brookfield lays out a process for amending and approved phase. material amendments such as delivery to the public benefits or the phasing of the project require port commission approval. other types of changes can be approved by the executive director, so long as they meet the phasing and funding goals of the project and have been presented to the committee for informational purposes. as you can see, on the land use plan, historic building 2, circled in purple is a flex parcel zoned for either residential or commercial office uses. currently the developer is requesting to change the building 2 use from residential to commercial office. the basis for the request is the current economic challenges and

feasibility of residential projects, especially given the high cost of rehabilitating building two. the impact of covid on the office market is to play out, but office rents are better able to support the high cost of construction. with the requested change, the number of residential units in phase one would decrease from a maximum of 700 to a maximum of 588. and the amount of office would increase maximum of 350,000gsf to maximum of 464,000. the maximum development program for the project overall would not change. because the requested change is not material and meets the goals of the project, the change can be approved by the executive director following this report. the required presentation to the southern advisory committee occurred on january 27, with no comments or questions on this item. that concludes the presentation, port staff and representatives

are available for questions you may have. thank you. >> thank you, christine, for that brief presentation. on ward to the chinese new year float. due to the ongoing pandemic, this year's annual lunar new year parade through chinatown and festivities will be held virtually. to ring in the new year, and welcome the year of the ox, the china parade committee is installing oxen throughout the city. each was designed by a local artist and will be on display through march 14. the parade committee approached the port and asked to install an oxen at cruise terminal plaza because of its proximity to planned new year activities. the oxen will be on display two

weekends in february, the 14, 20 and 21. this float is the size of trailer. it's 8 by 30 and 14 feet tall. in order for me to waive the fee, i will be treating this request as a public art request. we have an adopted resolution from the port commission allowing me to waive license fees for temporary art installations. so, please, members of the public, commissioners, and port staff, we should all go see the float february 13, 14, 20, 21 at cruise terminal plaza at pier 27. and before moving on to the champions event, i'd like to mention and commend the swift action of the san francisco bar pilot on the evening of february 22, 2021. the bar pilot saw a person in the water near pier 7 hanging on to a piling and yelling for help

and quickly jumped into action to get him out of the water. they stayed with him until emergency service personnel was on the scene and saved a life. congratulations to that swift action. we're thankful. to conclude, i would like to share that port staff came together for the 10th year in a row to celebrate our employees and teams of the year award. this is an internal award ceremony where we honor one another and this is an employee driven application process where employees submit their nominees and employee-based committee reviews those nominees to select the teams and the employees of the year. we, this year, produced a short video for the award given that it was virtual. and i'd like the opportunity to play it for the port commission and the public now if it will work for us. let's try to play the video.

[music] 2020 by all accounts was a very, very challenging year. it tested our resolve. it tested our flexibility. and it really threw our lives into a whirlwind. but port staff, we stepped up. we stepped up for the city and we stepped up for our organization. and we stepped up in really big ways. and this award ceremony really honors many, many people who we want well above and beyond the call of duty. we have a lot of talent at our port. on may 23, the port

unfortunately experienced a fire at our pier 45 facility. we had over 20 tenants inside of that facility, most of which were fish gear storage tenants. our work is mission critical to our fishers and processors. there were a core of people conducting salvage of all remaining goods on site. >> over the last 100 years or so, there have been several companies that store oil in this area. one day at low tide, one of the wharfers was looking at the shoreline and noticed this was seeping from the shoreline. then we realized there were several more spots it was seeping out. now we have 800 feet of shoreline in this containment. containing the leak has been a huge team effort.

we have seen the amount diminish. we wish we didn't have the problem, but we all feel proud of how it's been going. >> after the shutdown in march, we provided three and a half acres to develop shelter in place sites. there is a number of people who were unhoused. so they prioritized 120 travel trailers for those people. it provides hope to the community that the city is doing something for them. >> last march, we had about 150 administrative staff suddenly start working from home. and my i.t. staff did an absolutely phenomenal job in making sure that staff had the resources that they needed in order to be able to continue to do their jobs from home. >> in june, the finance administration division totally

revised the court budget to reflect the -- port budget to reflect the revenue by half. that was a significant accomplishment and major milestone for us. >> me and my staff, we had to come up with a way to still provide a service for tenants, still operating in that way, but doing it a lot of times from home, and also we were still able to perform maintenance. we were still able to keep everything functioning as best we could during this pandemic. >> being on the construction side of things, everything is done in person. all of that had to change. the overall projects that were completed in 2020 have had a great positive impact for the surrounding community, especially the community surrounding the franco park area. >> my job was focused on the big milestones we were facing at the mission rock project and working

to get the permits issued, port staff and other city staff, to allow construction to start. fortunately, we were successful and the project did break ground last month in december. mission rock will be the last of mission bay to be built. a place for workers and families and residents to live. including new parks, new open spaces, new retail that is very visitor friendly and will serve the region and the city. >> 2020 really required us to be creative and to think outside of the box. it really required us all to trust one another and that we were all going to figure it out. i'm really proud of the fact that we did. >> congratulations to each and every one of you for all the accomplishments in a very hard year, 2020.

we don't know what 2021 will hold. already, it's been challenging and opportunities are coming to the forefront. with the vaccine now in distribution and more coming, i do suspect we will be together in person again this year. and i cannot wait for that. and i can't wait to see what we all accomplish together. and what we can celebrate in 2022. congratulations, team. >> that video gives you a nice overview of some of the major accomplishments. so here is the pier 45 fire response honorees. the work group that really came together to respond to one of the most tragic losses that we experienced as a port organization in some time. and we experienced it in the year of the pandemic. the next team -- slide is the hyde street harbor oil spill response. you heard from the lead in the

video. here's the team that has really been doing yeoman's work to keep that oil leak contained with boom and have done incredible work pulling out product and the regulators are very, very impressed with the work of our team. the next team is south beach harbor. the leader there is jo monroe. this group has stepped up to keep operations open, increase safety, security of the public rest rooms, docks and offices. they've been vigilant on their protocols. and have really observed many issues and have responded to them gracefully and timely to keep the operations safe. we're very proud of the south beach harbor group. next was to the mission rock development team. you heard from phil williamson in the video. this team working from home went through major milestones and accomplishments. the first subdivision map.

the street improvement permits that was issued after a multiagency review on lightweight concrete. execution of four phases of the ground leases. and board approval of the first bond issuance. a great, great effort for the group working around the clock from home. the next team is pier 94 shelter-in-place trailer site. this one took a village. up see the names of -- you see the names of so many port staffer. you heard from wendy proctor in the video. this team came together with so much fire power because we took a site that needed grading, electrical and a completion of the project from a pile of dirt essentially into an area ready for the trailers in 43 days. congratulations to this team. next slide.

here we have our construction management team. this team actually experienced a major retirement and the remaining staff really took the challenges head on. you heard from staff the importance of going from in-person to social distance in-person and we delivered a lot of capital work during covid thanks to this team. congratulations to you. the next group is the emergency cost recovery group and the person who made the nomination here is the lead accountant. everyone on this list helped -- has helped us considerably with paperwork to help get our costs from fema. thank you for the important work on the financials. the next team is the i.t. group. this is the group that figured out to go on vpn way before the pandemic and got our pier one staff into a remote work

experience very quickly and very capeably. thank you and congratulations. the next team is the human resources and payroll team. this was challenging. it was challenging to keep up with the policies and procedures. staff had millions of questions about what to do when you need to be a schoolteacher instead of a worker for an hour because you have kids at home on distance learning, et cetera, et cetera. and this payroll group kept us all up to speed, up to date and gave us good information as we adapted. those are the teams of the year. we also honored individuals from each division. each has individual awards for their exceptional work. here you see matt bell, who was awarded this year for engineering. he's an extremely valuable resource. he's technically capable and does a lot of work for us. he's working on resiliency now.

congratulations, matt, for your major contribution in 2020. on right is joe reilly. he is our emergency response coordinator and this year, 2020, was a big year for joe. not only was he deployed three different times to covid command at the request of marianne carol, he was our point person and did a fantastic job with the 45 fire. there was civil unrest and the fire in heron's head park and he has shown throughout 2020 in his role. now to finance and administration. on the left is suzette love. she served as a liaison and administrative officer to the command center for the covid command. she was allotted -- lauded as one of the most valuable contributors to the effort. it was almost impossible for me to get her back to the port, but

she has now returned. we thank her for the service for the city and we're so happy to have her back. anna song, here on the right. anna developed a way to merge data between city-wide date base and the revenue management system which is please data we need for the revenue information. congratulations, anna, for cracking the code. and then to maintenance. on left is lenoira banks. she is extremely dependable and has been acting supervisor at fishermen's wharf. it's been a hard time. she's kept it clean, she's reliable and congratulations for all your excellent work in 2020. on the left is brandon omeira from the maritime division. brendan is always willing to go

above and beyond the call of service. he's got great business acumen and is considered the spirit of the team. he's an asset to the maritime division and the whole port of san francisco. congratulations for your exceptional work in 2020. and to the planning and environment division. on the left is shannon alfred. she is currently overseeing that high street harbor mysterious oil leak. she's done a great job problem solving. she's got a great ethic and the regulatory agencies enjoy working with her because of her incredible professionalism and follow-through. congratulations to you, shannon. and on the right is our real estate and development winner. chrissia led a division in collaboration with the other port divisions. she's been the force behind all the tenant relief work and she

also helped set up the pier 3032 covid test site. actually under my direction. krezia is a real talent and we're excited she won an award in 2020. we also celebrated important milestones for staff who have served five years or more at the port. notably, this year is the 35th year of service to two staff. fani chiu from accounting operations. and edith ja bone, a senior account clerk, both with the finance and administration division. also, congratulations to all the great contributors in to 2020 and that concludes my director's report. thank you so much. >> president brandon: wow, what a great report. thank you. we'll now open the phone lines to take public comment on the report from members of the

public who are joining us on the phone. the operator will provide instructions now for anyone on the phone who would like to provide public comment. >> at this time, we'll open the queue for anybody 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 the line is open. others will wait on mute until their line is open. comments are limited to three minutes per person. the queue is now open. please dial star 3 if you wish to make public comment. >> president brandon: thank you. do we have anyone on the phones? >> president brandon, at this time there are no members of the public on the phone wishing to make public comment on this item. >> president brandon: thank you. seeing no callers on the phone, public comment is closed. commissioner gilman?

>> commissioner gilman: director forbes, i want to thank you for such a comprehensive report and i want to acknowledge the video was beautifully put together. i want to acknowledge all the staff teams who won awards this year. if we could, i would say every employee of the port of san francisco deserves an award for the work done during this pandemic in 2020. but i really appreciate the range of projects both from maritime and environmental. i really want to commend all the teams and the individual port members who won their awards. your service is invaluable, so i did want to say, thank you for that. and the video is a beautiful way to convey the great work and support. i hope we push it out on the social media channels and let folks know what we've achieved. i also wanted to remark that on the lunar new year, i wanted to appreciate the port's participation to make the floats

available at the cruise ship terminal. and the oxen along the waterfront, it's a great way to virtually recognize the start of lunar new year. elaine, i want to thank you for it as an art event, which is truly is. the port has always been linked to chinatown the same way it's linked to bayview and the other communities and potrero. thank you for the collaboration to the community. and happy new year to our chinese neighbors. >> president brandon: commissioner burton? >> commissioner burton: madame chair, members, i have to recuse myself on items 10a and 13a.

>> president brandon: thank you. vice president adams? >> commissioner adams: thank you, madame chair. director forbes, excellent presentation. and congratulations to all the staff that i agree with commissioner gilman, they all were all stars and superstars and deserved to be honored. with that presentation, to me, director forbes, i know last year what your commitment was to the board. i think you just laid that out, what your commitment and that you have no intentions of going anywhere. actions speak louder than words. i feel your passion in everything. thank you for just putting it all out. and giving us everything in your tank. thank you. madame chair? >> thank you. director forbes, i want to say thank you great, very comprehensive report. i want to thank you for hitting

so many areas that are so significant and mean so much to us at the port. i want to thank you for highlighting black history month and showcasing our african-american employees. this is something that has never been done, so we appreciate it. i want to commend the port on participating in the lunar new year festivities and doing whatever we can do to make it a festive occasion, because we need all the festivities we can get these days. thank you so much for letting us know about the change of view at pier 70. and i'm happy that it was taken to the committee prior to informing us on your decision to move forward with that. thank you very much. also want to thank the bar pilot for their rescue efforts. i think that was absolutely phenomenal. that's what the port is all about. we -- i just want to

congratulate all of our phenomenal employees and teams. the way they stepped up last year is just incredible. and i've always said that we have the best staff in the city and this video and these accomplishments show just that. so thank you so much, director forbes, for your work. next item, please. >> that would be item 10a. the consent calendar. item 10a requests approval of the proposed declaration of restriction between the port and 64pkn owner for access area for emergency pedestrian egress and fire separation for the proposed mixed use development at pier 70. two, determination of the proposed 20th street.

allowing the park to be a public way. and 4, provide for each proposed park in mission rock and pier 70 waterfront special use district to be publicly dedicated upon acceptance to serve as a public way for building code purposes. this is resolution 21-03. >> president brandon: thank you. can i have a motion for approval? >> i second. >> so moved. >> president brandon: we want to reiterate that commissioner burton is recusing himself on this item. now, let's open up to public comment. we'll open the phone lines to take public comment on the consent calendar where members of the public who are joining us on the phone. the operator will provide instructions now for anyone on the home that would like to provide public comment. >> at this time we'll open the queue for anybody on the phone who would like to make public

comment on the consent calendar. please dial star 3 if you wish to make comment. the system will let you know what end the line is open. the others will wait on mute until the line is open. comments are limited to three minutes per person. the queue is open. please dial star 3 if you wish to make public comment. >> president brandon: thank you. anyone on the phone? >> president brandon, at this time there are no callers on the line wishing to make public comment on this item. >> president brandon: thank you. seeing no callers on the phone, public comment is closed. we have a motion. can we have a roll call vote? >> on resolution 21-03, president brandon? >> president brandon: yes. >> commissioner adams: yes. commissioner burton is recused. >> commissioner gilman: yes. >> president brandon: the motion passes unanimously, resolution 21-03 is adopted.

next item. >> item 11a is informational presentation on the port's 10-year capital plan for fiscal years 2022 to 2031. >> hello, commissioners. i'm with the finance department in the port of san francisco. before i get started on the presentation, i just want to thank everyone at the port who helps make this plan possible. it's a port-wide effort to get information from maintenance, maritime and real estate to understand the condition of the assets. and i'm just proud of the work that goes into the documents, especially from a new hire that came to us. we snatched her up on the full-time basis, but she's the primary author of the document and deserves credit for it. today i'll go through the why

and the how we put together the capital plan. i'll also spend a moment highlighting some of our accomplishments of the last two years. then we'll get into the details of it, the exact assessment of the capital over the next 10 years as well as the funding plan to attempt to meet the need. and finally we'll close out with needs and opportunities emerging. every two years, the san francisco code requires the city put together a 10-year capital plan. we were here two years ago presenting the plan and we're here again today. the attachment to the staff report is the full report. the profit at the port is visualized in this diagram. what we start with is the strategic plan. what we want to do as an organization and the waterfront land use plan that guides how we

can use our facilities and assets to accomplish those goals. so with that in mind, then we get to the real constraint, unfortunately, which is the funds that we have available to accomplish those goals. those funds are a combination of port capital with a target of 25% of operating revenues going to capital, as well as external funds we combine to make our capital investments. once we have what we want to do and look at it through the lens of how much money we have, we can start making decisions in the capital planning process. we prioritize and balance competing needs and make our decisions. we come to the port commission with three outputs from the planning process. this being one of them. so the 10-year capital plan you're considering today is sort of a wholistic look at the condition and need of the facilities and the funding with eanticipate over the next -- we anticipate over the next 10 years to address the need. the other two documents are more

specific and the heart of really the capital decision process is this five-year capital improvement program. that's where we specify individual projects and the cost estimates that go with them that we want to make investment in over the next five years. the third document is just the mechanism by which we appropriate funds to that project. the two-year capital budget that is subject to your approval every two years and will be coming back to you in march with some capital budget requests. the process itself has its challenges and opportunities. i want to go through those for a moment. as always, accurate cost estimates for 20 million square feet of real estate and 7.5 miles of waterfront is difficult. so i think it's important to keep in mind the need here is an estimate and it gives you a really good sense of the scale

of what we're dealing with, but the granularity is not what we would like. there were specific challenges due to covid-19. a funding source is port revenue and the rent from the tenants and what we contribute to the capital investment program and predicting those revenues over the next 10 years is an uncertain exercise, i'll call it. and finally sea level rise and seismic risk are ever present issues that could swing numbers in the plan significantly. but on the other side, there are opportunities for us to improve. certainly in the area of racial equity. i'll talk about that in a moment in a separate slide. another opportunity for us is to get better data on the cost estimates and what we're doing is pe put the review assessment. we put teams of engineers to

crawl on top of the buildings and give us a good look at the cost it would take to repair a facility. so we're getting granular data on certain sheds and we'll be rolling that you the on the waterfront. we're improving our data set. there is always opportunities to attract development to the waterfront. and finally, we've had an opportunity to expand our ferry infrastructure here at the port. so i don't have individual slide for each opportunity mentioned, but i wanted to spend an additional moment and call attention to our efforts to integrate racial equity into our work. as you know, we've hired the port's first equity opportunity officer and we've delivered phase one of the action plan.

there is a number of components of the plan that mention capital investment. and with help from the office of capital planning and the office of racial equity, the port intends to integrate racial equity analysis into our capital project selection. so we're choosing projects, where to invest money is a very specific race equity lens being considered. we don't have that tool yet. we haven't figured it out yet, but that's important work we're proud to do. we'll be sorting that in the upcoming cycle when we start selecting project. of course, we'll continue to use our capital funds to support affordable housing, resilience, waterfront development and to protect the transportation infrastructure and jobs along the embarcadero on the waterfront. so, since we were last at the commission two years ago presenting a capital plan, we've accomplished a lot.

i want to highlight those. the park has been delivered, a new 7-acre park. it's now public access from the beach. we've invested in the alcatraz ferry landing infrastructure. a different category of spending where we're making sure that tourism remains sustainable along the port and for the city. we've invested in r.f.p.s to rehabilitate our historic piers. we've done work in the backlands. we did clean up work in pier 70. we've invested in ground transportation linkages between the cruise ship terminal and the ground transportation along pier 27. we also were able to create four

new ferry berths south of the ferry building. we also do things that aren't press release worthy, but pier 23 for example, we did up grades to the plumbing system and put in a new public restroom at pier 45. next slide. so to get into the details more about the capital plan, the 10-year window we're looking at through fiscal year 31, identifies almost $4 billion of capital need. and we categorize that in two different buckets. the state of good repair, which on the slide says sogr. that's about a $2 billion need. and then enhancements at 1.93 billion. that roughly $4 billion figure is $392.8 million increase from the last time we brought the

plan to you. every time we come to you, there is factors that change the plan. the plan figures. including the work that we did in those two years. moving the 10-year window forward two years adds new work. and finally there is construction escalation. this year you're seeing quite a bit of change due to the assessment program. by sending those engineers out and getting data, we were able to identify $160 million of work that was necessary that wasn't previously reflected in the plan. so that information is very valuable so we can make better decisions, but it also tells us what an important investment this is to get us better data. $160 million of previously unknown costs is important for us to understand. so on the state of good repair, to get into more detail, of the $2 billion of need that we're

estimating, unfortunately, we only foresee about a quarter of that being funded, or having available funds to meet at 503.1 million. with unfunded gap of $1.5 billion, we'll have to be incredibly strategic about using that small amount of funds to make emergency facility repairs, access investments, dredging and when we have funds available and where there is a strong cost benefit analysis justifies it, making repair investments in our facilities. on the enhancement side of the need, the picture is a little better. again, the total need there is about $1.93 billion, but funding available is almost two-thirds available at $1.24 billion. so the funding picture is much better. the unfunded gap there is $691 million. i'll get into the sources of those funds in the following

slides. next slide, please. so this slide gives you an overview of all the funds to pay for repair and enhancements needs at the port. we categorize them into internal funding and external. internal funds roughly we've identified $340 million of funds available. that is directly from port capital. we pass through the rents we receive into our capital projects. the other component of internal funding is actually through our leasing of these large flag ship facilities, like pier 39, or the ferry building as a requirement of the leases of those facilities. the tenants have an obligation to maintain the structure of those facilities. and that's priced into the value of that lease. so we consider it an internal

source of funds. that's reflected in the $340 million figure. the lion's share of available funds is external funding. this lists the detail on the external funning sources. we've enjoyed general obligation bonds. like those that delivered crane cove park. the 2018 bond authorization that contributing toward the resilience work. we also use a new tool of local special use districts that are funding pier 70 and mission rock developments. the federal and state sources are more traditional sources for us. we've received those in the past in the form of port security grants and the contributions from the army corpse of engineers.

there is internal city funds in the project, but there is also regional measure 3 dollars. those are caught up in litigation, but should be released to the project soon. and anticipated private contributions in that project. lastly, and probably the biggest category is private investment from developers. pier 70 and mission rock are attracting hundreds of millions of dollars to the waterfront. lastly, i wanted to comment a bit on what the capital planning framework emerging needs and opportunities. these are components of the plan that -- that may affect the future versions of the plan. the numbers will fluctuate given the input. r.f.p.s, as developers -- we've issued them for pier 32 and there will be others in the future. once we have development agreements with our counter-parties, we'll be reflecting their obligations as

a source of fund, but right now because they're not subject to a contract, they're not in this plan. i'm hoping in two years they will be. and every year we include conditional seismic costs. this particular version of the plan includes $600 million of estimated conditional seismic costs. these are costs that are triggered if we do substantial work above the deck of a pier. it may trigger, depending on the extent of the work, the substructure. we're seeing that at the pier 45 shed c fire site where the fire took out the shed, didn't really cause any damage with the substructure, nonetheless, the extent of the repairs needed above the deck is going to be quite a bit of investment below the deck that is triggered. we have a place holder for that work, but it's subject to a lot

of fluctuation. but that's the highlights of the plan. i'm here to answer any questions. sorry. next slide. thank you very much for your time. >> president brandon: thank you. now let's open up for public comment. we will open the phone lines to take public comment on item 11a for members of the public joining us on the phone. our operator 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 item 11a. please dial star 3 if you wish to make public comment. the system will let you know when the 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: thank you. do we have anyone on the phone? >> president brandon, at this time, there are no members of the public on the phone wishing to make public comment on this item. >> president brandon: all right, seeing no callers on the phone, public comment is closed. commissioner burton? >> commissioner burton: -- >> president brandon: do you have any comments or questions? commissioner gilman? >> commissioner gilman: thank you for this report. it was really comprehensive. we have a lot of work to do maintaining the capital infrastructure of the port is so, so important. so thank you for your report and

your projections. and i have no questions. >> president brandon: thank you. commissioner burton? vice president adams? >> commissioner adams: yeah, i really enjoyed the report. it was very thorough. i like to think that one thing he said about all the projects that we've done and things we're looking at, that it doesn't have any bright lights on it, but we're getting stuff done and things that we're thinking about doing. so thank you. >> president brandon: thank you. nate, thank you for the report. very comprehensive. and i really appreciate you putting in the specific inclusion of the racial equity. and i look forward to seeing what the specific outcomes will be once that is figured out. how they incorporate it. so this is a 10-year capital

plan. and then there is a 5-year capital improvement program and 2-year capital budget. so the 5-year capital improvement program, how does that fit in to this? >> thanks for the question, president brandon. so the 10-year plan that you're seeing today is really this overview of the need and the sources. the 5-year capital improvement program is a very specific list of projects that we have chosen to fund and prioritize over the next five years. and so rather than this -- than the huge document you're seeing today, it's a much shorter list, but it's very specific. it will say this pier with this work for this cost in years 1 through 5. it will lay out what we intend to spend. that's where the rubber meets the road for us, because that's

our intended funding stream and intended list of projects over five years. >> president brandon: so that will come to us in march? >> no, i'm sorry. in march, what you'll be seeing is a request to appropriate funds to capital projects for fiscal year 21-22. and then next fall when we go through the budget process again -- we've been going through a lot of budget processes. yes, we'll be back again with the results of another budgeting process, including a 5-year cip that will map out the priorities of the next five years as well as an appropriation ordinance that will accompany that in the budget. >> president brandon: okay. so the last 5-year capital improvement was five years ago? >> no, i'm sorry. i apologize. i'm not --

>> president brandon: that's okay. >> we do a 5-year plan every two years, so we do these 10-year capital plans in odd years. and then we do the 5-year plans in -- programs along with the budget in the even years. >> president brandon: okay. so we're going to get a capital -- a 2-year capital budget in march based on the 10-year plan or the 5-year capital improvement program? how do all these work together? >> yes. what you're going to see in march is an adjustment for fiscal year 21-22's capital budget. you had previously approved in

the last 2-year budget, a capital appropriations for 21-the fiscal year we're in as well as the next one. we need to make changes to that based on, you know, covid was hard to predict a year ago and it remains hard to predict. we need to make changes to that, so we'll be back in march with those changes. that's the most immediate thing that is coming. >> president brandon: okay. >> does that answer your question? >> commissioner gilman: i had a question. so what you presented today, the 10-year capital plan is the 5-year -- i didn't connect these dots before -- is the 5-year program encompassed within that 10-year plan? we're looking for the -- i think we're looking for the interconnectedness between the three things.

this is where i'm a little confused. the 10-year plan is the program part of the -- 5-year. >> i think i can help nate out a little bit. >> please, yeah. >> the 10-year capital plan is really a summary of need. so it looks at what we need to be spending in the whole 10-year period based on facility repair, cycle, based on the backlog we already know we have. so it's a big list of what we need to be spending with a conceptual understanding of what we can spend, projections over the 10-year period. the 5-year capital improvement plan is more specific on what we'll spend on which projects. so it takes a 5-year look at our spending plan for where we'll invest, project-specific investments. it does tie to the 10-year capital plan in the estimate of what we'll be able to afford to spend. the 2-year capital budget al

indicates spending and programs from that 5-year capital plan. so we have a five-year standing capital improvement plan. we have to back off of it because we don't have the funding we anticipated due to covid. so when you see your capital budget, your two-year capital budget, you'll see reductions from what we had planned in the five-year improvement plan to be spending. so that's the major difference. the 10-year capital plan is a summary and catalog of what we need to spend. and it's a more conceptual modelling document, where the cip5 year and the 2-year is specific on the projects we'll fund. >> commissioner gilman: okay. >> president brandon: so the 10-year -- the 10-year is updated every two years. the 10-year and the 5-year are

updated every two years to come up with the two-year budget. >> so we alternate years, president brandon. so one year we do the five-year plan. and the next year we do the 10-year plan. and we use the 5-year plan is done in the same year as we're preparing the budget. and the first two years of the 5-year plan become our capital budget for that two-year traurchlg that we're funding. so we didn't bring you a five-year plan this past year because of covid. covid kind of -- the pandemic sort of blew all of our revenue assumptions up. so we admittedly missed a year. so if you would have seen a five-year plan with the budget

in 2020, but it just -- our revenue projections weren't solid enough for us to really feel like we could give you a real five-year look. so we didn't do a five-year plan in 2020. you didn't see that. but now we're here with the 10-year. and then next year, we will come with the 5-year plan accompanying the budget. does that help? >> president brandon: so the 5-year plan will accompany the 2-year budget? >> the first two fiscal years that are identified in the 5-year plan are the capital budget that will be in front of the commission for your approval next winter. winter of '21, this coming winter. >> president brandon: okay. so this year's capital budget

that we'll see next month, what is that based on? >> next month, you're not going to see a 2-year capital budget. next month you're going to see tweaks, adjustments to the capital budget for fiscal year 21-22 that was approved last year. they're not in an open budget right now. we have a closed two-year budget. and because of covid, we have to make some adjustments both to the operating budget and to the capital budget just for fiscal year 21-22, which was the second year of the budget that was approved. so we're not bringing a two-year budget to you. either a two-year operating budget or a two-year capital budget to you in march, we're just going to make proposals to

make adjustments to fiscal year 21-22. >> president brandon: okay. >> president brandon, can i offer to put together a calendar of the next six months of what we'll be bringing to you. maybe that would be -- >> president brandon: that would be great. >> maybe that would be useful. great. i can do that. >> president brandon: so within our 10-year update, we have a racial equity inclusion. so we don't have specifics about that. so will we not hear about that until it's brought back in two years? >> no, i would imagine as we're putting together our 5-year cip, which is work we're going to start this late summer, early fall. so you know, in the next four or five months or so, that work is we're developing the projects that we want to bring forth for funding over the next five

years. one of the tools or lenses that we're going to use to evaluate which projects get funded will be a racial equity lens. >> president brandon: okay. great. thank you. nate, i really appreciate you presenting this report. and working with all of the business to come up with all of the -- we have so many needs and to put it all in one is not easy. so thank you so much for your work. >> you're welcome. >> president brandon: thank you. next item. >> that would be item 12a, which is informational presentation regarding the waterfront resilience program, w.r.p., local business enterprise subcontracting and w.r.p. equity action. >> good afternoon, president brandon, vice president adams,

commissioners and director forbes, members of the public. my name is brad benson. i'm the port waterfront resilience director. i'm here with carlos cologne, the waterfront administrator. we're pleased to be giving the commission this presentation today on l.b.e. subcontracting and equity efforts within the resilience program and consistent with the commission's direction, this will be a quarterly presentation to the commission going forward. a brief overview, we want to talk about how we're prioritizing equity in the program. we want to give a brief overview of the structure of our main

contract supporting the program. this is the ch2m hill engineers contract for planning, engineering, environmental services, and construction oversight. describe how we scope new tasks and authorize new tasks in that contract. carlos will provide an overview of the lbe contracting for that contract and for the civic edge consulting contract, which is our communications contract. and then we'll close with next steps. just as a reminder for the public, the waterfront resilience program is a port-wide effort. a range of activities, some are

port-wide, some in specific geographies. port-wide efforts include our adaptation planning effort, which we call the adapt plan. the army corps resiliency study is from fishermen's wharf to heron's head. the ch2m contract is supporting both of those efforts. we have the embarcadero seawall program in the area. we've just completed the multi-hazard risk assessment for that program. again with support from the ch2m contract. in the southern waterfront, engineering is taking a lead on the southern waterfront seismic vulnerability assessment using

engineering contracting vehicles. then we are partnering with planning department, sfmta and the puc on the isthmus creek adaptation strategy. that is a cal tran funded effort, again with a different consultant team. then there are other resilient efforts being taken throughout the port with different leads like the real estate and development divisions effort for the historic pier rehabilitation program. planning and environment plan update. so we're prioritizing equity in the program. we're taking cues from the port commission's adoption of the race equity action plan, phase one of that plan. and trying to bring those values into the program both at the staff level and the consulting

level. our focus initially is looking at the many economic opportunities that the program will generate over time as we gear up for proposition a projects in the next set of contract opportunities. we want to take advantage of the time between now and then to work with existing workforce development efforts within the city. some of which have been spearheaded by other departments to prepare san francisco residents, including residents in disadvantaged communities for job opportunities in the program. we are also similarly looking at lbe subcontracting opportunities that we see upcoming with the work and making sure we're doing proactive outreach to qualified lbes, so they're prepared to team up with primes for the bid

opportunities. and then we're working -- looking closely at funding for the program. we're lucky to have proposition a funds for the embarcadero seawall area, but we're being aggressive about trying to pursue funding port-wide. we're lucky to have the army corpse of engineers on the flood resiliency study, because that is a port-wide effort. we're looking at how to bring funding in to support improvements port-wide. so, we have formed in the program an equity and inclusion working group. this is a combination of staff and consultant team members. carlos is co-chair of the effort on the staff side.

amelia with the consulting is the other co-chair. this is a space where we're talking about race equity in the program context. you know, how we experience those issues as team members. and i've found this to be very educational for me in that i'm definitely in a listening mode as we, you know, grow together as a team. we're talking in this context about how to pursue diversity of well-paying jobs in the program, starting to think about post pandemic internship opportunities that may be available. we're thinking about -- we've heard through the public engagement that the community is looking for spaces and places that accommodate a diversity of uses and users. so we have to be mindful doing resilience work that may affect

the public realms, how we're approaching the design effort. then we want to prioritize actions in the program to advance equity and justice related to the economy, environment, infrastructure and resilience neighborhoods. we've heard a lot as we're prioritizing work in the program, what are we doing to protect valuable community assets like affordable housing along the waterfront? next slide. so, ch2m hill, engineers contract is the main contract that is supporting all of these activities in the program. we do have civic edge communications contract as a second support for the program. we've asked ch2m, who was acquired by jacobs engineering, what are their policies for

advancing justice and equity? they have a program that is committed to donating over $10 million over the next five years in support of black educational and professional development and scholarship opportunities. they work to promote programs and volunteer opportunities for organizations committed to justice and equality. and they have a commitment to materially increase women and minority-owned supplier and vendor spending over the next five years. they have a mentor program with local subcontractors and suppliers. so we're impressed with the corporate commitment and we're seeing this expressed through their effort on the contract to increase lde participation in the program. and more recently, the program manager for the ch2m team, darren wilson, worked with

corporate to adjust an internship program that not only recruits from colleges and universities around the country, and he focused an internship opportunity out of the san francisco office on community colleges in and around san francisco. so just to give a little background about this contract. this is not a typical professional services contract for the port. this is almost $55 million contract, plus contingency as it was amended. it's really designed to support the program over multiple phases of the program. so initially it had a high level of scope and schedule. and we authorized new tasks for work as that scope can be

defined. so as an example, we've completed the multi-hazard risk assessment. we have a better understanding of risk in the program. that helps us to find the next steps as we're working on alternatives in the program. first identified in the main -- firms identified have scopes review with each new task. this process ensures we can scope work as we move through the program and have efficient delivery and contractual control of tasks. the way the process works is the port submits a request for a new scope of work. ch2m develops and submits the task order including scope, subconsultant utilization and budget for port staff review and comment. ch2m can use the new tasks as an

opportunity to evaluate potential new firms if they need new skillset or qualifications to perform that work. that is an opportunity to add new lbes which is coordinated if there is that opportunity. we've definitely been learning as a team both at the staff level and on the consultant side how to manage this contract and to try and maximize those lbe opportunities as we go. and we found that early consultation with cmd is helping us engage in best practices for all new firm additions. next slide, please. so, to have strong oversight of this very important contract, we've instituted some new procedures. we're reviewing new task orders with the deputy director of

finance and administration and the procurement and contracts manager prior to authorization. we're meeting quarterly with the executive director and the assistant port director to review the quarterly report and budget and progress under the contract. and as i mentioned earlier, we'll be reporting to the port commission quarterly as well. now i'd like to hand it off to carlos to walk through the lbe quarterly report. >> thank you, brad. i'm the waterfront administrator. and as brad mentioned, i'll be speaking about the lbe participation. on this slide is a table of total contract payments to ch2m broken into two categories. the payments from mmp in november 2017 to the approved contract amendment in december 2019 and the payments following the contract amendment through

the end of 2020. at the time of the contract amendment, 12.2% of payments to chm for ever services provided by lbe firms. since then, 28% of services have been provided by lbe, bring it to total of 18.8%, with wbe and mbe seeing increases in the period. this table also shows 9.6% participation for african-american, arab american, asian american and latino american firms. this number is higher than the 6.5% listed for mbes. this is because some of the firms choose to be category rised differently. chm had projected lower lbe

participation in phase one with increased participation in phases 2 and 3. and i'll speak to more to that in the following slides. so this chart shows us what ch2m projects for participation per phase of the contract. with the majority of phase one scoped, they project phase one to have 15.5% of lbe participation which includes work on the omni course study. 96% will go to mbe firms. ch2m projects 7.6% wbe participation in phase 2. with 20.4% and 4.2% wbe participation in phase 3. i'd like to point out that the

projections are from the time of the contract amendment. and phase 2 and 3 have not yet been authorized. as brad mentioned earlier, ch2m can look for opportunities to increase participation through the process. scope of work will be more clearly defined. next slide. so this graphic shows the cumulative impact from the previous slide. you can see a forecast of elevated lbe participation in the next two years as ch2m moves into phase 2. they projected they would have 7.3% lbe participation based on the total contract amount by the end of 2020. at the beginning of last quarter, october 2020, they were at 9%. this morning, i confirmed that ch2m finished 2020 at 9.8%,

increase of 2.5% over their initial projection. the prime consultant on the communications contract was awarded in late 2017 and is set to expire this summer in august. due to the pandemic, in march 2020, the port went to a digital communications. we are planning this approach in 2021. this successfully created a social media campaign managed by b.m.a. communications. and we're also continuing youth engagement, a city-wide digital presentation to community-based organizations and small tenant engagement, all managed by communications.

the civic edge contract has a 36% lbe commitment. the contract is currently over 82% complete. and as i stated before, it expires this year in august. total invoices through december 2020 had 39.2 invoiced for services performed by lbes. and total lbe participation will be over 80% if you include civic edge which is also an lbe. civic edge is confident they will continue to exceed the 36% commitment at the time of closeout. these are the next steps. brad? >> so, as i mentioned earlier, we'll now be on a schedule of reporting quarterly to the commission on both of these

contracts. as carlos mentioned, the civic edge contract will likely be closing out in august of this year. we do want to make a suggestion similar to what we've heard has worked well with our major development projects at pier 70 and mission rock, to implement a quarterly meeting with ch2m hill, port leadership, program staff and commission officers to review progress towards lbe goals. and with that, next slide, please. thank you for your time. and we're here available to answer any questions. >> president brandon: thank you so much, brad and carlos. now let's open it up for public comment. we'll open the phone lines to take public comment on item 12a so members of the public who are joining us on the phone.

operator, can you provide instructions now for anybody on the phone who would like to provide public comment. >> thank you, president brandon. at this time, we'll open the queue for anybody on the phone who would like to make public comment on item 12a. 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 mute until their line is open. comments are limited to three minutes per person. the queue is now open. please dial star 3 if you wish to make public comment. >> president brandon: thank you. do we have anyone on the phone? >> president brandon, we do not have any callers on the line wishing to make public comment on this item. >> president brandon: thank you. seeing no callers on the phone, public comment is closed. commissioner gilman? >> commissioner gilman: thank you, brad and carlos for the

report. it was really comprehensive. i don't have any questions about the details of the report. i do want to just say that i appreciate so much that we're looking at resiliency in the waterfront plan, we continue to put equity front and center. particularly around the listening tours of the community and the staff to see what the needs are particularly on the southeast border front where so much of the resiliency work is going to be. continue the good work. i'm happy to see it's happening. and, yeah, let's engage the lbe partners. we need them over the next decade to help us ensure that we have a waterfront. we have resiliency and their part of the partnership that makes it happen. so thank you so much. >> president brandon: thank you. commissioner burton? >> commissioner burton: no questions, but a comment. very thorough report and tremendous information.

>> president brandon: thank you. vice president adams? >> commissioner adams: first of all, brad, my condolences on the loss of your father. and to your family. you're in our prayers at the port. to you and carlos, great report. so much to look forward to. it's really exciting when we hear about all this with the resiliency and what is going to happen with the project. it's a big project with a will the of moving -- lot of moving parts to it, but i'm glad you're working on it and with the change. so thanks for the update. once again, our condolences on the loss of your father. >> thank you. >> president brandon: thank you. again, my condolences on the loss of your father. your family is in our prayers. thank you and carlos so much for a wonderful presentation. this project means so much to the waterfront.

and you and your team have done an amazing job employing these resources around this project and to keep it moving forward. it's a very urgent process. so i really wanted to commend you and everyone on the team for where we are. and all the support we got from the federal government, from the state government, from local government, from our citizens of san francisco. this is one of our most urgent projects on the waterfront. so thank you so much for your leadership. and i want to thank you for the presentation. i think the reason i asked for the presentation is because this is a new way of doing things for us. and it took me a little time to get my arms wrapped around how we were doing business, how we were contracting.

and i'm so happy that mayor breed has asked every department to come up with a racial equity plan so that we have something in writing, we have framework, we have guidelines, we have a document that we can follow to say, okay, we can no longer do business like we've done in the past. we have to look through other lens to make sure we're being inclusive of everyone here at the port. so, we have learned a lot of lessons from this. i'm happy that we have a strategy going forward. i am a black woman. no bias and racism from a mile away. i can see it from a mile away. i've lived it all my life. so i'm so happy that we as a team are coming together to look through different lenses to make

sure that all of our small businesses, all of our communities, can participate in this very vital effort at the waterfront. i want to take my hat off to ch2m and jacob for their commitment to racial equity and justice. and i do hope they follow through with their commitment. i truly do. i'm happy that we're going to have more transparency in our contracting. that our subcontractors can see clearly where they can participate. and i'm so happy to cmb and stefani will be involved in that process going forward so it's very transparent. i guess the only thing i would like to hear, civic edge's commitment to advance this equity and justice, because i didn't hear anything about their commitment. and i did have issue with how

they were contracting with our minority businesses? >> so, thank you, president brandon, for those remarks. and thank you to both you and president adams for your condolences. so civic edge, we believe civic edge is committed to an aggressive lbe subcontracting goal. we did not for this report reach out to them for their race equity policies. we were starting with the major prime in the program. but we will as part of the next quarterly report come back and share civic edge's race equity policies for their firm. in terms of the contracting work, subcontracting work under

that communications contract, as carlos mentioned, we've moved to primarily online communication and the two primary subcontractors who are carrying out that online engagement under civic edge's leadership are bonner communications and dna communications. and i want to say that the outreach in -- particularly in the southern waterfront has been excellent. there has been really strong support from that subcontracting team. just last night, a number of us were at the shipyard, c.a.c., giving a presentation about the program. and i want to commend the broader team for the aggressive outreach in a difficult environment. >> president brandon: i really appreciate those comments, but i'm sure -- last year also. i'm happy they're being used now that we have a racial equity

plan in place. and hopefully going forward we'll incorporate all of our contractors throughout the contracts where we can be useful. but thank you again for the presentation. my condolences to you and your family and thank you for doing this presentation. i really appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you so much, president brandon. >> president brandon: commissioner burton, did you want to say something? commissioner burton, are you okay? you okay?

okay. we'll move on to the next item. >> that would be item 13a, which requests authorization subject to the board of supervisor's apoofl to accept material valid at 10,000 to be used in heron's head project. this is resolution 21-04. -- 417,000. good afternoon, commissioners. i'm the environmental affairs manager for the port of san francisco. and i'm here today to request your authorization to accept a donation of mixed sand, gravel and shell, which i'm referring to as beach material, from hansson aggregate, a port tenant

at pier 92 to seek board of supervisors' approval to accept that gifted material. and three, to execute a memorandum of understanding with hanson regarding the donation of material. when i was last before you in august, i described the objectives and key components of the heron's head park shoreline resilience or living shoreline project. including placing sand, gravel and rock along the southern shoreline. [please stand by] [please stand by]

-- funding to complete the shoreline construction. next slide, please. beginning with our early outreach, regarding the concept yowl plans for the project, port staff and our tenant, hanson aggregates, recognized that the mixture of coarse, sand, and silt that hanson has as a by-product of its sand process,

is perfect construction material for the shoreline resilience project. and they dredge from the bay floor, located between angel island and the golden gate bridge in accordance with the leases from the state lands commission and permits from the state lands commission, the control board and the bay conservation and development commission. next slide, please. hanson transports this dredged material by barge to its lease premees at pier 92 where it's unloaded by conveyer to land. the material is riped with fresh water as it is unloaded and again as it is conveyed over a 3/8th nirch screen that separates the sand which is hanson's project from larger

grain-sized material. such as the gravel, sort of pebble size and the shell particle material that is shown on the image on the right of this slide. during transportation and subsequent washing and sorting, salt, fine sediment and other adhered material is removed from the beach material. we have conducted testing that confirms that the beach material meets the physical characteristics required for the project, and is free of contaminants. next slide, please. we have negotiated a draft memorandum of understanding that is subject to your approval. some of the key terms of that m.o.u. is that hanson will deliver up to 12,000-cubic-yards of beach material to a designated storage site that is

shown outlined in yellow and also in cross hatching on the black and white image on this slide. and we estimate that it will take approximately 10 to 12 months to generate the quantity of material that we need for the project. and the commercial value of that material is estimated at $417,000. the port may reject any material that does not meet our specification. once the material is unloaded at the storage site, the port will own it and they use it for the shoreline project or other person. hanson will maintain insurance as required by its lease of the adjacent premises but will not extend insurance to the port-controlled and port-controlled storage site. either party may terminate the agreement for convenience with 30 days' notice. next slide, please.

and so subject to port commission approval, we will seek board of supervisors' authorization to accept the gift in march or april. we will execute the memorandum of understanding with hanson once we have secured that approval. and the beach material will be accumulated as it is generated and we expect that to take at least through fall of 2021, maybe through all of calendar 2021. we will use the beach material in shoreline construction. it's now looking most likely that that will be in the august 2022 through january 2023 seasonal construction window. and, meanwhile, we'll keep fundraising. that concludes my presentation. >> president brandon: thank you, carol. and now let's open it up -- oh,

can i have a motion. >> so moved. >> second. >> president brandon: now let's open it up for public comment. we will open up the phone lines to take public comment on item 13a for the members of the public who are joining us on the phone. the operator will provide (indiscernible) for anyone on the phone to provide public comment. >> clerk: thank you, president brandon. we will now open up the queue for anyone on the phone who would like to make public comment on item 13a. 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 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 a public comment. >> president brandon: thank you. do we have anyone on the phone? >> president brandon, at this

time we do not have any callers on the line wishing to make public comment on this item. >> president brandon: thank you. seeing no callers on the phone, public comment is closed. commissioner burton? >> commissioner burton: what company is giving us this stuff? >> that's a great question. because hanson doesn't sell this material, it's just not part of their business operation at pier 92, they actually pay to have it transported to another entity located on the peninsula. so it does save them money to not pay for that transportation. >> commissioner burton: thank you. and they just do that out of the goodness of their heart or it's going to save them this amount of money? >> i don't know the exact dollar amount that will save them, but

it will save them money because they don't have to pay to have the material transported from their site. it's not a useful product for them so they have to pay to have it hauled off from their facility at pier 92. >> commissioner burton: it's a useful product for us and we'd have to be paying somebody for it? >> exactly. you've heard the expression, one man's trash is another man's treasure. so this is a good example. >> commissioner burton: or you get nothing for nothing in this world, okay, i get it. and hanson -- they have existing contracts with the port? >> they are a current 10ant witt with the port. they have a lease with us. >> commissioner burton: they're a tenant? and they pay for what? >> they pay to lease that entire pier 92 sand yard. if we want to go back in the presentation show the site layout diagram -- >> commissioner burton: no, you don't have to do that. >> well, they lease -- i can't

remember the exact square footage, but they have a large premises adjacent to where we're going to be storing the donated gravel. where they conduct their sand washing and sorting and sales. >> commissioner burton: so it doesn't reduce the amount of money that they owe us for rent? >> no, it does not. >> commissioner burton: well, don't look a gift horse in the mouth. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> president brandon: thank you. commissioner gilman? >> commissioner gilman: those were great clarifying questions. thank you. and i do want to say that it's pretty ingenuous of the port staff to realize how we could turn this into an opportunity to help us with this park which we've been trying and continue to be committed to and still has a long road ahead of it. so thank you so much to the staff for thinking of it. and i guess thank you to this

company, our tenant, for donating it to us. >> yeah, i would like to say a word of thanks to hanson, because the way that this idea really got started was that i was presenting to our southern advisory committee and the hanson committee is part of our waterfront advisory committee. and as i described the material that we would need with the project he was thinking oh, that sounds a lot like the material that we generate and have to have removed. and then after the meeting he approached me with the idea. >> commissioner gilman: it's nice that all came together, so we should thank them for sure. >> yes. >> president brandon: thank you. vice president adams. >> vice-president adams: carol, thank you to you and your staff and i've been a big fan of yours and i'm glad to see that you were moved up in the line.

i'm in full support of it and i will vote yes. thank you, carol. >> thank you. >> president brandon: thank you. carol, thank you so much for this report and this great idea for us to receive this gift from hanson. we really appreciate it. so with that, we have a motion and a second. can we have a roll call vote. >> clerk: certainly, on resolution 21-04 [roll call vote] >> president brandon: the motion passes unanimously. resolution 21-04 is adopted. next item. >> clerk: that is item 13b which requests the authorization subject to the board of supervisors approval to accept a gift of over $10,000 in volunteer hours and materials from the san francisco conservation corps and request amendment of the no-cost

non-exclusive license number 1521520 with golden gate auto bon society to extend the term to december 31, 2022, to enable the use of the donation for continued stewardship of open space adjacent to the pier 94 wetlands in the eastern portion of seawall lot 352. this is resolution 21-05. >> thank you, carl. if i can have my first slide. commissioners, by coincidence, i'm here to ask for your authorization to accept another gift. actually, i'm requesting authorization to do two things. to accept the donation of plants and labor from the san francisco conservation corps and to extend the term of a no-cost non-exclusive license. and to seek the board of supervisors' approval to accept the gift. next slide, please.

just a bit of history about the pier 94 wetlands. there was a project in 2004 along the shoreline of pier 94. and hanson aggregates facility is just inland of the shoreline there. you can see it in the aerial photo there. that wetland enhancement project was funded by a grant from the california coastal conservancy and ever since then the golden gate society has brought resources to support our ongoing care for that site, including volunteering to conduct the monitoring that was required by our permits for the wetland enhancement project, and continuing to lead volunteer trash clean-up and weeding events, you know, many, many times a year for all of these years ever since then.

they also provide environmental education programs for public schools at pier 94. and they do all of this without significant support from the port, other than we pick up their large bags of trash and other debris. we have responded on occasion to security issues that have arisen. and we rent a port-a-potty for some of their larger events. >> carol, you went on mute somehow. >> i don't know how that happens. okay. i don't think that you missed much. next slide, please. in 2013, they had a license to formalizing our authorization of the work that they were doing and also a new habitat

enhancement project that they were initiating within the upland area just inland from the wetlands at pier 94. and resolution 1293 authorized a no-rent license to golden gate auto bond society in recognition of the environmental and the other public benefits that their work was providing. and extension of their license for 10 years would enable golden gate audobon society to continue this valuable work and to enter into a partnership with the san francisco conservation corps. next slide, please. the san francisco conservation corps is a non-profit organization with offices located just off port property at third street and islet creek. their mission is to provide low-income youth and young adults with the skills needed to

succeed at work, apprenticeships, or education. and 92% of the san francisco conservation corps alumni who spend eight or more months enrolled in one of the core programs moves on to employment, advanced training, or post-high school education. next slide, please. with the proposed extension of their license term, golden gate audobon society would work with the conservation corps to continue improving the coastal habitat along the pier 94 wetlands and that work would be funded by a grant to the san francisco conservation corps from the state of california. the conservation corps would provide plants and labor, golden gate auto bon society would provide technical guidance regarding the selection and the handling and the planting and maintenance of the plants.

and they would also advise regarding conducting the work in a way that would protect wildlife at the site. golden gate out audobon would work through the 10-year extension of their lease term. the port would not be a party to the grant, nor would receive any funds from this. next slide, please. though the key terms of the proposed license amendment are that the license fee and security deposit would continue to be waived as they were initially in 2012, audobon's use of the licensed area would continue to provide public benefit and improve the port property consistent with our public trust mission. audobon would be solely responsible for maintaining

plantings within the licensed area. and the proposed term would be extended from its existing 10 years to 20 years which would take it out to december 31, 2032. next slide, please. so next steps subject to your approval, we would take this to the board of supervisors for their authorization to accept the gift. we would execute the extension of the license term. san francisco conservation corps work would begin in july of this year and continue for two years through june 2023. and golden gate audobon society would maintain the plantings beginning in july 2021 with their work in concert with the conservation corps and then through 2032. that concludes my presentation.

>> president brandon: carol, thank you so much for your report. commissioners, can i have a motion? >> so moved. >> second. >> president brandon: now let's open it up for public comment. we will open up the phone lines to take public comment on item 13b for the members of the public who are joining in on the phone. jennifer will be our operator and will provide instructions now for anyone on the phone who would like to provide public comment. >> clerk: thank you, president brandon. at this time, we will open up the queue for anyone on the phone who would like to make public comments on item 13b. 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 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: thank you.

do we have anyone on the phone? >> clerk: president brandon, at this time there are no members of the public on the phone for public comment on this item. >> president brandon: thank you. seeing no callers on the phone, public comment is closed. commissioner gilman? >> commissioner gilman: thank you so much for the report. again, another great way to have a partnership. i'm supportive of the item. >> president brandon: thank you. commissioner burton? >> commissioner burton: no questions. >> president brandon: thank you. vice president adams. >> vice-president adams: carol, great report. i'm supportive. thank you. >> president brandon: thank you. carol, a great report and we're extremely lucky to have this license with the audobon society and the san francisco conservation corps, and thank you for leading that relationship. this was another great gift.

okay, since we have a motion and a second can we have a roll call vote. >> clerk: on resolution 2105 [roll call vote] >> president brandon: motion passes unanimously. resolution 2105 is adopted. call the next item, please. >> clerk: item 14a is a hearing and a request for authorization to amend and restate the court's harbor traffic code, including amending certain parking and curb restrictions on port streets within the pier 70 project area. >> commissioners, thank you so much for having me. i am a relatively new hire at the port, so this is my first time presenting. so i want to thank everyone for

their support and everyone seems very gracious. so today i'm going to be talking to you about -- what we're asking to do is to approve the amendments in the port harbor traffic code, which are important to sort of move pier 70 phase project forward. next slide, please. so actually the first bullets are out of sequence, so we'll start way brief summary of how we got here. and then we'll talk about what is actually in the legislation. i'll follow up with some next steps for the project, so it will be pier 70 and the port harbor traffic code. and then i'll close with some landscape that we're building at pier 70. next slide.

so just before we give some context, you know, there's been a 10-year plus process at pier 70. what we're doing today is sort of a exercise where we're kind of approving or establishing curbside uses at pier 70. and i want to make sure that everyone understands that the ideas that are presented in the code today that we will ask you to approve to put into the code are based on a strong foundation of a robust process. which included really the planning process that had many opportunities for the public to weigh in on all aspects of the project, including transportation and also the more formal settings like this at the port commission. you can see the first four items had portion commission hearings. next slide. and kind of temper what we're

doing here today is that we are amending the port harbor traffic code. the port harbor traffic code, with parking and traffic throughout the 7.5 mile waterfront of port controlled streets. and today we're sort of inputting the new streets that are being created and those that are open to the public and we're establish being curbside uses there. and the curbside uses needs to happen at the curb, that is the cars and the parking for cars and motorcycles and bikes, passenger and commercial loading. and on-street loading. and no parking. and the no parking is really important because it helps us to have safety by daylighting intersections and allows the emergency vehicles to access the site. and i should clarify that, you know, the city streets and the port streets in this pier 70 and

the legislation today only applies to the streets and the streets that fall under the city jurisdiction will move forward in a parallel process. next slide. so zooming in a little bit more, what's actually in the legislation, we have the majority of the spaces are long-term parking. and all of those parking spaces will be metered, which means that they'll generate revenue for the port. and the city's policy uses a policy which means that the meter rates are adjusted periodically to kind of align in with the demand for the block that they sit on. so initially we said about $2.25 an hour, which is modeled on the neighborhood, and every six weeks we adjust it by plus or minus 25 cent increments, depending on demand. like i said, there's about 100 long-term spaces.

and it includes accessible long-term parking space, and some passenger unloading as well as loading for commercial vehicles and bicycle and motorcycle parking. next slide. and this is a map that shows the pier 70 development, to just kind of show you where i'm talking about. and what this map shows is the ownership of the streets, which jurisdiction they fall in with the right-of-way and the phases that they will be dealt with. and so what we're asking to you approve today is everything in yellow. those are the port right-of-way in phase one. and the pink color are right-of-way -- city right-of-way in orange. and the blue colors are built out in future phases. and 20th street is at the top of the map. 22nd street is at the bottom of the map. and north street is on the left

and the bay is on the right side. once again you're being asked to approve the yellow street. and in terms of this next step for pier 70, some -- the western portion of 20th and 22nd are already open to the public. people can go and see them. and there's lovely pedestrian infrastructure. we'll begin the approval process and notice the completion which is at the beginning of the street approval process which is a process by which the streets are transferred from the developer to the city. and that will take about six months. and we anticipate that will be completed in the middle of the year. and the vertical projects, building 12 will be the first building completed. it's anticipating getting its temporary certificate of occupancy in the fall of this year. and tenants will ultimately occupy this space in -- or some

time in 2022. next slide. and the other thing that we discovered when we were going through this exercise updating the code, we realized that the port harbor traffic code is in need of a little t.l.c. it's created in the 1970s and it's sort of been updated periodically since then, but it was in need of a bit of an overhaul. there are parts of the code that are outdated (indiscernible) and so on. so we didn't want to -- we wanted to keep the pier 70 improvements separate, because they are needed to help to move that project along its schedule. and because these streets are open to the public, but we want to come back to you with more of an amendment to the port harbor traffic code and just kind of modernize it and clean it up. so this legislation, in addition to the pier 70 amendments, include some amendments that help to approve the legibility

and the clarity of the code and anything like that, nothing subsanative. and we'll and back to you soon with more substantive amendments and we can talk about that in the q. and a. if you have questions about it. next slide. and then as we said, it's nice to kind of close with images. and the whole purpose of doing this is to get these streets open to the public. we need to install parking meters and put the colored curb striping and so on and signage is part of the process. it has to be completed for the developer to transfer the streets to the city. so this is an important and critical path item to get there. but the whole purpose of this is to make -- to open up great public spaces and you can see maryland street, and maryland street is that primary bedestian street at pier 70. it's got this beautiful pavement in the middle of the road. and building 12 is on the left,

that's the building that will open up to the public. and then the next slide. here is 20th street. it's -- they have special paving, cobblestones on the crosswalks and it's also got concrete in the middle of the road and the concrete has a (indiscernible) and this is not an historic building on this road. next slide. that concludes my presentation and i'm happy to open up it to q and a and i want to thank you for your time. >> president brandon: thank you so much for that report and welcome. >> thank you. >> president brandon: commissioners, may i have a motion? >> i make a motion to move the item. >> president brandon: is there a

second? >> aye. >> president brandon: thank you. now let's open it up to public comment. we will open -- excuse me -- we will open up the phone lines to take public comment on item 14a for the members of the public who are joining us on the phone. jennifer will be our operator and will provide instructions now for anyone on the phone who wants to provide public comment. >> thank you, president brandon. at this time, we will open up the queue for anyone on the phone who would like to make public comment on item 14a. 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 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: thank you, do we have anyone on the phone?

>> president brandon, we do not have any callers on the line wishing to make public comment on this item. >> president brandon: thank you. seeing no callers on the phone, public comment is closed. commissioner burton? >> commissioner burton: no comment. >> president brandon: thank you. commissioner gilman? >> commissioner gilman: i have no questions or comments and i support the item want it's exciting to get these streets open. let's do it. >> well, we have a couple cards that you don't have in that regard. >> i'm good, thank you. >> president brandon: vice president adams? >> vice-president adams: i'm good, president brandon. >> president brandon: thank you. >> you are on mute, president brandon. >> president brandon: sorry about that. thank you again for the report. it's a great presentation and i love the photos and i love the work that's being done out

there. so this is just adding to the opening soon. so, carl, can we have a roll call vote. >> clerk: absolutely. on resolution 21-06 [roll call vote] thank you. >> president brandon: the motion passes unanimously. resolution 21-06 is adopted. next item please. >> clerk: item 15a, request authorization to issue a request for proposals or r.f.p. for the adaptive rehabilitation re-use lease and operation of two historic structures, the former nice building and building 49, both located in the pier 70 area, generally along illinois

street between 18th and 19th streets. this is resolution 21-07. >> good afternoon, commissioners. rebecca is your new deputy director of real estate and development. thank you so much for your confidence in me earlier by the way. i'm excited to introduce this item, along with jamie hurley. and the only introduction that i wanted to make clear is that if you take action on this item today this would be our third r.f.p. issued pursuant to the draft waterfront plan, r.f.p. process. so just as a small reminder, the r.f.p. process that we undertook on the two previous r.f.p.s are mirrored here. so we do an informational with the port commission, we did that in october. and then we take a presentation over to our southern advisory committee and we did that presentation and focused in on community values and priorities

for these particular sites. and to sort of drill down from the waterfront plan level, down into the particular buildings. and then the third step is as we come back for an action item and then issue the r.f.p. so you will see throughout the presentation that jamie provides, sort of mirroring the processes that we undertake with 30 and 40 r.f.p. and the 30, and 32 and the sea lot r.f.p., just on smaller scale for these buildings. next slide, please. so during the presentation, jamie will be going over sort of alignment with strategic plan, focusing in on the buildings, the outreach that we have been conducting since october when we provided the information to you. and then what are the key bones of the r.f.p., what are the minimum qualifications, what's the scoring criteria. and then what will the process be once that sort of very strict scoring time period is over. and how we come back out into the public and out into the port

commission in terms of that selection process. we'll go over what the economic benefits we're hoping to achieve through the r.f.p. are on the port and i want to recognize the interdepartmental help on this. and there's been a lot of interest in making sure that from engineering, from our contract staff and from many other divisions that we get these buildings activated with the right tenants who are really going to embrace their -- their neighbor, which is the public park. so i'd like to turn it over to jamie hurley now who is managing the process for us. >> thank you, rebecca, and good evening, commissioners. if i could have the next slide. so this is a view looking west from the water and you can see building 49 on the left of the slide and then the building on the right with the portion of the new park in the middle and

sloping down towards the water. next slide, please. and this slides lays out that the project will align with our strategic plan. next slide, please. and just a bit about the two buildings and what i really wanted to highlight here was sort of the key difference between the two buildings, being that building 49, which is the smaller of the two buildings, it will require much less in terms of capital investment and sort of the entitlement process in order to deliver or to occupy that building, the nice building has significant capital investment and a significant entitlement process.

and it's in poor condition. and building 49 has a set of improvements by the fall of this year that will allow the building to essentially to be occupied with fairly minimal tenant improvements as long as the use does not exceed the 100-person occupancy limit currently. next slide, please. we have reached out through the port manager stephanie tang to the city's contract monitoring division. obviously, we're going to work with them to establish goals for these projects. and to maximize the l.b. participation. in addition, we will work with the port's race equity team, led by tony autry and tiffany tatum to identify the opportunities

that are consistent with the race equity plan. next slide. this r.f.p. is really building on and expanding on the processes that have already taken place in the area, notably the pier 70 paster plan, and the planning efforts, as well as the draft waterfront plan and its goals, policies and objectives for the southern waterfront sub-area, in which this lies. in addition, we -- and in the plan we have worked on conducting additional outreach as rebecca mentioned, to understand the potential community serving opportunities to enhance the park experience and targeting on certain groups. next slide, please. and so here is a list of organizations that we have

conducted outreach to over the past few months. obviously, the port southern advisory committee, we have met with the board president, direct 10 supervisor shimon walton. a number of great community-serving organizations to really to try to understand -- well, to build awareness for this opportunity, and, you know, to provide information in case there was any interest in potentially being part of a team. or if there was potential for them to be an end user of the project in terms of delivering their program. next slide, please. so these are coming out of that outreach process that we have heard and this is for building 49, and so confirming that we are looking for programs that -- and uses that support human-powered recreational

boating. so that's -- you think of kayaks and stand-up paddleboards. we want to enhance the use and the activation of the park. we want to provide other amenities for park visitors, including park bathroom facilities or public bathroom facilities. we want to preserve the historic character and merit and functions of the building. next, please. and for the kneass, what we heard is really wanting to deliver the community serving space that is offering programs and services to diverse community segments such as at-risk youth and seniors with disabilities and families. we have seen an opportunity through the community oriented programming to really foster community building engagement connections. again, we want to enhance the use and the activation of the park. it's an opportunity to leverage nearby development in the vicinity and to provide the

additional neighborhood services and employment opportunities for both paid and volunteer internship based. and then, again, we want to preserve the historic character of the building. next, please. in terms of minimum qualifications that will be built into the r.f.p., and, again, this is segmented out into each building. this is for building 49, where reflections of the relatively low level of investment and entitlement effort that will be required, it's a fairly low bar, but we are asking any respondent to have a minimum of three years in relative business management experience. next, please. and for the kneass building, at least having three years of management experience, a number of sort of financial capacity related requirements in terms of

having committed funding, having experience in titling and constructing projects of at least $1 million. next, please. just a quick overview of the r.f.p. process. the r.f.p. will be in a plan and it's a competitive process. and what's ushes sneak or actually not that unique, i guess, that we have done it already at piers 32 and 30, but there's going to be optionality built into this where the respondents can propose for one of the buildings or the other or both. and then, again, the goals of this solicitation as i mentioned before really having to do with park serving uses and community serving uses. next slide, please.

these are the scoring criteria that we have developed. there are six of them. and, again, you can see, you know, it's separated out by building. each building and in 49 building if someone were to propose for one of those buildings only, there's a total of 100 points at stake. if someone was to propose to submit a combined proposal there would be a score on basically 200 points. next slide, please. in terms of the commission review process and our selection process, we will have a scoring panel that will conduct the written reviews and conduct interviews of all respondents who have met minimum qualifications and been deemed that you have met the requirements of the r.f.p. and then it will be essentially be a two-step process with the commission with the first step being an informational presentation where the port

staff will summarize the responses and provide the results, and provide an opportunity for the respondents to make a presentation to the commission. next slide, please. and then at the next port commission meeting, this will be an action item, and then at which the port will develop recommendations based on the scoring. so either the highest scoring combined proposal if we receive any. and the highest scoring kneass only proposal or the highest scoring building 49 proposal. so a lot depends on what we get. and then from there we'll be asking the port commission to decide whether to award the top-scoring combined proposal, award two -- to both the kneass and building 49. or the one or the other. or to reject all four.

so there's four different things that the board commission can decide upon at that action item. next, please. in terms of the economic benefits, there are really three. we are looking at significant investment in port assets. our preliminary estimates are $10 million to $15 million combined capital required for the two buildings. most of that will probably be with the kneass building. and then, obviously, assuming the maintenance and operation responsibilities for these buildings. and notably the provision of public restrooms as i mentioned in building 49, serving the park. and then we do see an opportunity for rent payments to the harbor fund through the participation in net revenues or upside revenues. next slide, please. can i have the next slide.

thank you. so then the next steps -- with the authorization tonight, we would spend the next couple of few weeks finalizing the r.f.p. we would introduce the r.f.p. in earlier mid-march. and then we'd provide approximately 10 weeks for respondents to develop their proposals. they would be due towards the end of may. and in a process that would follow from there and we would be looking at essentially the end of this fiscal year where we'd be back to the commission seeking authorization -- well, first, as i mentioned, coming to you with the informational presentation. and then following that seeking authorization to award. next slide. and that concludes my presentation. thank you. >> president brandon: thank you for that presentation. commissioners, can i have a motion? >> so moved. >> second.

>> president brandon: now let's open it up to public comment. we will open up the phone lines to take public comment on item 15a for the members of the public who are 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 up the queue for anyone on the phone who would like to make public comments on item 15a. 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 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: thank you. do we have anyone on the phone? >> president brandon, we do not have any callers on the line wishing to make public on this item. >> president brandon: thank you. seeing no callers on the phone,

public comment is closed. commissioner gilman? >> commissioner gilman: i just had a couple of questions. and it might just be that my memory is fading. jamie, you said if your presentation that we have not determined yet the l.b.e. goals for this contract that we would be doing that -- you know, while you're packaging it together. is it common to come to comegz for authorization and not having those goals flushed out? and it could be -- it might be that i'm forgetting what our process is. >> thank you, commissioner gilman. and i might ask -- (indiscernible) i will ask those involved in the previous ones to respond to that. >> thank you, commissioner gilman. so we typically set the goals with c.n.b. once we can provide them generally the scope of work. so they look at the disciplines

that are going to be engaged in this work during -- as part of the lease and the delivery of the improvements. and then they'll provide a goal to us. we have on many previous projects sort of a ballpark estimate of what those goals may be. but in order for them to come up with something more -- you know, unique to the building, we typically will give them a scope of work. so we'll get the r.f.p. responses as we select -- as we come to you with the selection for an entity. and we'll have a better idea of what that scope of work will be. >> commissioner gilman: okay. and then my only question -- and maybe it's because of the use of the properties or the fact that we want, you know -- as you said, more water use. i'm wondering why 10 weeks? i'm under the impression that a lot of the city departments, particularly right now, are doing mega-r.f.p.s or r.f.p.s where they're only offering a couple weeks for respondents. i'm not saying just a couple but

10 seems lengthy to me. so i'm wondering why we're not going with a more expedited timeline? >> we debated that quite a lot -- sorry, jamie. >> sorry, go ahead, rebecca. >> i was just was going to say that we started out with eight weeks and talking with our contract folks they were noting just because of covid and the necessity for us to schedule a pre-proposal meetings, that we were just concerned about a constrained timeline. >> commissioner gilman: i'm supportive of the item and thank you for answering my questions. >> great. >> i think you're on mute, president brandon. >> president brandon: sorry about that.

commissioner burton? >> commissioner burton: i'm sorry, i have to recuse myself on this issue. >> president brandon: okay, thank you. >> commissioner burton: saved by the bell. >> president brandon: vice president adams. >> vice-president adams: i have no questions. jamie, thank you. commissioner gilman answered some of my questions and i'm fine, thank you, madam chairman. >> president brandon: thank you, jamie, thank you for the presentation and we look forward to the results of the r.f.p. so thank you for all of the work that you have put into this. >> thank you so much. >> president brandon: we have a motion and a second. carl, can we please have a roll call vote. >> clerk: absolutely on. resolution 21-07 [roll call vote] >> president brandon: okay, so for clarification, commissioner

burton is voting on this or recusing himself? >> he can vote on this, (indiscernible) he can vote on this item. it's the next item that he has a recusal for. >> president brandon: all right. the motion passes unanimously. resolution 21-07 is adopted. call the next item, please. >> clerk: for the record, this is the one that commissioner burton has recused himself for. this is item 15b, which requests the authorization to enter into an exclusive agreement with l.l.c., for the lease and the development of the mixed use project with commercial and residential and maritime and public access uses for piers 30, 32, and seawall lot 330. this is resolution 21-08. >> good afternoon, commissioners. the real estate development

team. requesting your authorization to enter into an exclusive negotiating agreement for piers 30, and 32, i'll pause and let the siren goes by. with the strata t.t.c. team. and i'm joined this evening with rebecca and grace park, supporting the port team. and jesse from the strata t.t.c. team and we're all available for any questions at the end of the presentation. next slide, please what we're hoping to cover this evening is a bit about the process and the timeline today. how this project aligns with the port's strategic plan, the background on how we got to the project and the high level overview of the strada t.t.c. partners proposal and the overview of the key terms that we have been negotiating and the next steps to advance the project. next slide, please.

just wanted to set the overall process in context. this is a slide that we presented the last time in front of the commission and showing a typical development process timeline. the green highlight in the second box indicates where we're at today, seeking your authorization to enter into an e.n.a. should you approve the e.n.a., we'll jump right into negotiating the term sheet and conducting extensive community and stakeholder and regulatory partner outreach. and then ultimately get back to the commission in a little over a year with approval of a term sheet. later in the presentation i'll go through a more detailed schedule for the project, but we wanted to share with you where we're at in the port's typical process and the reinforcement that we're early in the process. next slide, please. and so as this project advances, it will hit seven of the port's

strategic plans, and i won't touch base on all of them. but on one, on evolution and revitalization of the plan, will attract a diverse group of people. in regards to resilience, reconstructing the pier will not only provide sea level rise resilience and protect the harbor and the city, but address strengthening the seawall and enhancements to naturally scouring deep water berth that could be used as a back-up terminal and as an emergency response opportunities. and under engagement we'll go through outreach with the public and the stakeholders and our regulatory partners. and for equity throughout the project development, negotiations, construction and once it's complete to provide opportunities for the maximum diversity of people and users at

the waterfront. next slide, please. so just wanted to provide, again, an overview of what the site offering was, both piers 30, 32, which is approximately 13 acres of deck surface. which is actually not vacant any longer. i should have made the correction. it's used for the covid testing site as an emergency response location. and lot 330, that is used as a navigation center and parking area. next slide, please. a little bit of background. this r.f.p. and project is a direct result of the waterfront plan update process. a three-year community planning process. of bringing activity and development to the waterfront to a diverse group of users. it builds on and is related to the port's resilience program, and we have been seeking and we'll continue to seek the community values to guide the

project. next slide, please. just wanted to highlight where we've been since the commission originally authorized the r.f.p. about a year ago. it was due in the summer which was delayed a few times because of summer. between july-august, the scoring panel was convened and scored the three qualified proposals that we received. in september 8th, we had the port commission hearing that presented the three qualified proposals. and then on september, later in september, we went through our northern advisory committee meeting and our maritime advisory committee presentation and returned to the port commission in september to get authorization to initiate the e.n.a. negotiates with strada t.t.c. and today we're seeking your authorization to enter into that e.n.a. next slide, please.

so just at a high level i wanted to present kind of an overview of the proposal. on the left is what the pier looks like today. and on the right is the strada t.t.c. proposal for the pier and the seawall lot. the pier proposal, we're looking at reconstruction of the pier, complete reconstruction, with 45% less fill, and the retention of that deep water berth that could be used for a variety of berthing needs. and three acres of open space and public access. resilient pier and shoreline and the commercial revenue uses providing funding for (indiscernible). next slide, please. here's an overall site plan, just looking at the project a little bit differently in a plan view, showing the pier retaining the historic form of piers 30, 32, and the mixed-use development on the sea lot 330.

next slide, please. and so just wanted to give a high-level recap of the strada t.t.c. proposal. i talked about the highlights for piers 30, 32, and seawall lot 330. they're looking at 350 residential units with market rate and inclusionary and affordable housing as well as some small amount of commercial retail and public open space. next slide, please. so this highlights essentially the high level overview of the i.n.a. terms and what the port is responsible for and what the developer is responsible for. the port's responsibilities are primarily to actively participate in the negotiations and help to guide entitlement. the developer's responsibility is to work with us in community and partner engagement, and

conduct site due diligence, negotiate the lease terms and conditions and the project's community benefit package. the developer will reimburse the port for negotiating fees and transaction costs, establish a performance schedule which we'll cover in a little bit. and complete a financing and land-use plan. and complete the ceqa and all others. next slide. within the e.n.a. there were primary issues that we negotiated, including the diversity, equity and inclusion. and the term and the kansz laigz period that we -- cancellation period that we have developed. and a transfer time frame. and the strada t.t.c. are not subject to l. e. during the e.n.a. so we need to set goals for this during the e.n.a. period to have the maximum equity inclusion and look to the race equity plan for

guidance on how to set those goals. the terms set for this is about 4.5 years which matches the benchmarks identified with both strada and t.t.c. and the port agreed as this as appropriate with the complexities, reaching the regulatory alignment and getting through the community outreach process. and we've identified a need for initial consultation period to conduct more outreach with the regulatory partners to determine approaches to seek regulatory alignment. this is a four-month period. at the end of the four-month period, strada t.t.c. could terminate the e.n.a. without penalty, should they choose, but we are hopeful that doesn't occur. and the negotiating fee for the first six months is deferred for the e.n.a., however, all of the transaction costs are still paid by strada and t.t.c. and as we advance the e.n.a., the six-month negotiating fee would be reimbursed at term

sheets. and lastly on transfer provision, one of the reasons that we selected strada is because of their insurance and skills, however, we recognize that they're likely to bring on other investors. the port staff have spent considerable time negotiating the transfer divisions, and carefully tailoring provisions to meet the developer's need to access capital while protecting the port. the port commission will need to approve investors that have greater than 50% holding of the investment, unless it's an institutional investor which requires the executive director's approval. or the executive director may request commission to grant approval for that institutional investor. under all circumstances, the strada t.t.c. must maintain day-to-day control and decision-making, no matter who the investors are. next slide, please.

so here's a high-level overview of the milestones of the project and advancing and how the 4 and a half years of the term, the e.n.a. would be used. starting off with the port -- the commission approves the e.n.a. and immediately jump into community agency outreach. and we think that the term sheet negotiations will occur over the next year and be completed in the first quarter of 2022. and once the board of supervisors endorses the term sheet we could begin the ceqa process in the second quarter of 2022, and key approvals in 2024, and if we're successful on all of those steps the project could begin construction as early as the first quarter of 2025. next slide, please. so our next steps are upon your approval is to, again, to do the

stakeholder outreach and begin the conversations with our regulatory partners and coordinate with them on a strategy to get to alignment. through that initial consultation period, at the same time to be negotiating a term sheet. and, of course, to return to the port commission for regular updates and seek guidance throughout the project. with that, rebecca and grace and jesse and i are all available for any questions. thank you. >> president brandon: thank you, david. a great presentation. you summarized it very well. >> thank you. >> president brandon: commissioners, can i have a motion? >> so moved. >> president brandon: is there a second? vice president adams?

vice president adams? not sure what to do here. >> he's still logged in. maybe he stepped away to get a glass of water. >> i'll try to get in touch with him and see if he's having any technical difficulties. just one moment. >> president brandon: thank you.

>> vice-president adams: hello? >> president brandon: can you second the motion, please. >> vice-president adams: i'm sorry. i second it. >> president brandon: thank you. now let's open it up to public comment. we will open up the phone lines and take public comment on item 15b for the members of the public joining us on the line. our operator 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 up the queue for anyone on the phone who would like to make public comment on item 15b. please dial star, 3, if you wish to make public comment. the system will let you know with 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: thank you. do we have anyone on the phone? >> yes, president brandon, we have three callers on the line at the moment. >> president brandon: please open up the first one. >> thank you. opening up the first line now. >> caller: good afternoon, commissioners. my name is katie ladel, and i was actually a member of the port panel to evaluate the three proposals for this project. i also live across from the seawall lot and i have been in the neighborhood since 1995. i found the whole process to be scrupulously detailed. step nea tang and peter albert

were outstanding in their leadership and guidance. and my fellow panel members were so impressive with their wealth of knowledge. i learned a lot from them. it was always very apparent to me that strada had spent a lot more time and effort with their proposal than had the other bidders. their familiarity with the piers and the seawall lot is so valuable. and strada had worked with the neighbors with they were hoping to build on 30, 32, and so he has inside knowledge of what the neighbors want and don't want. and he knows how important it is to make face-to-face with those of us who live here and to incorporate our input into the project. i think that my only worry with strada's proposal is the density of housing proposed for the seawall lot. i would prefer to see it scaled back a bit. otherwise, i have been very excited about what strada wants to do here.

their proposal was clearly the best. and i do urge you to enter into the e.n.a. with them. thank you. >> president brandon: thank you. next caller, please. >> thank you. opening up the next line now. >> caller: good evening, members of the commission. my name is rudy gonzalez and i'm with the san francisco building and construction trades council. we represent about 30,000 construction workers, union workers, in san francisco, amongst 31 unions. we're excited about this project. we know that strada has a long partnership and track record with the building and construction trades council. they have reached out to us and committed to community workforce agreement, project labor agreement on the project. which means that local workers, apprentices, looking to advance their career and to qualify as journey workers who will be on this build, should it be

approved. look, there's a vale assigned to overall -- value assigned to overall construction and there's good high-paying union jobs associated with that want but it's also important to recognize the substantial upgrades to the piers and the seawall and the infrastructure that comes along with a project of this scale. my understanding is that it's upwards of $350 million. addressing the sea level rise and the public access, including a pretty amazing, if i say so myself, a rendering of the facility. and i am a san franciscan and i think of many things when i see that. there's a need for housing and we know that the strada has a track record to deliver this kind of project on time and on budget. and they're committed to comprehensive community engagement process. we have seen them work through this before. so we're interested in partnering with them and we're excited to see this project, albeita it a few years out, on the horizon, and we urge your

support respectfully. thank you. >> president brandon: next caller, please. >> thank you. opening up the next line. >> caller: good evening, commissioners. this is alice rogers. i live in south park, not far from the location. and i am calling in to urge you to support this going forward with this e.n.a. during the process of the negotiations around the navigation center, it was very clear throughout the community that the neighborhood is very interested in seeing these parcels go to their next best use. and the r.f.p. process that was -- excuse me -- that was used

was exceptionally thorough. so i think that it's time to move forward. this process really is looking at for much, if not all that we were looking for on the waterfront update. there will be controversy around the seawall lot, again, the city proposed that has met a lot of opposition. though not universal opposition. so i think that the process, the negotiation process, is going to be very important. and we -- we urge you, the port, to stand firm on the community benefits this project brings forward. but we also want to see a project go through to completion. so thank you very much. >> president brandon: thank you. any other callers? >> president brandon, we have

two more callers on the line. okay, thank you. >> caller: hi, this is marina secatono. can you hear me okay? >> president brandon: yes. >> caller: okay. president brandon and commissioners, long-time no see. hopefully we'll see you soon. but, you know, as i'm listening, i just want to kind of reflect back on prop h and i salt on the waterfront advisory committee as a pick. and that was quite a process. so, yeah, that was -- hard to believe that it was 26 years ago. oh, my god. time flies. but, you know, i think that the strada proposal is a good

proposal. and, you know, as far as historic piers on the waterfront, our priority is to maintain the viability. you know, we've got a deep water port here. and we want to make sure that the development is desperately needed to fund the pier replacement, that we keep in mind these historic piers need to be kept open for commerce. so we are in favor of the port entering into negotiations with strada. and we wish them luck in their endeavors. thank you. >> president brandon: thank you, molina. next caller, please. >> okay, opening up the last line now. >> caller: hello, thank you. hi, good afternoon, or good evening, commissioners. this is ellen jonck and i'm the

co-chair along with molina, and i'm glad to hear her speak right now. the maritime commerce advisory committee, and the committee as you know -- we abide by our maritimes industry preservation policy. and just a couple of phrases to remind you from the policy. we want to protect the port's remaining natural deep water berth for maritime uses. and we, of course, promote the port development and rehabilitation projects. we have been following the r.f.p.s for the historic piers with enthusiasm and attention. we have been very pleased by the presentations that have been made thus far. most recently by the strada group. and we are very pleased that they've heeded the criteria that

we set out in the r.f.p. to include maritime function and features and submitting proposals. and that any proposal should include at a minimum ensuring that a vessel can always dock at the pier and including fixing aprons and creating more berthing space for smaller vessels. while, at the same time, addressing any potential safety conflicts with required public access. so we -- i would just say that ancillary to priority maritime use, we support activating the pier for public use in a manner that ensures investment and seismic and sea level rise protection for the berth. so we encourage you to continue your negotiations with strada and we're very eager to see a successful outcome. thank you so much for the opportunity to speak today.

>> president brandon: thank you, ellen. any other callers? >> president brandon, there are no further members of the public on the phone wishing to make public comment on this item. >> president brandon: thank you. seeing no more callers on the phone, public comment is closed. commissioner gilman? >> commissioner gilman: i want to thank the staff for the overview. and reminding us and being fully supportive of us entering into e.n.a. negotiations with strada investment group. i think that my only reflection is that we have a long road. we know that regulatory, particularly on the piers, we have a lot to get through to hopefully to get to a place where we can move the project forward. as mentioned by some folk in public comment, i'm sure that strada will do all of the due diligence with the neighbors to

get them onboard with the seawall lot side of the equation. you know, the housing and the density will drive and is interconnected with the rehabilitation of the piers which are so badly needed. so we want to see this move forward with as much community benefits as possible. and we look forward to seeing how the negotiations play out. i'm supportive of the item. >> president brandon: thank you. vice president adams. >> vice-president adams: yeah, this is a project of scale. and the e.n.a. in front of us, i mean, to take this on and during a time of covid is very courageous. i like the fact that it's very, very diverse and commercial, residential, maritime and public access. anytime when you're doing something of this magnitude there's going to be controversy. i think that this has been long

awaited and i support moving forward with the resolution 21-08, madam chair. thank you. >> president brandon: thank you so much. david, thank you so much again for that presentation. you did a great job. you condensed a lot of information, so thank you. i did have a couple of questions regarding the key terms with the e.n.a. and the first one is the race equity and inclusion and i commend strada for having a goal in this process. but what is the goal or with will we find out what it is? and when will it start? >> so i'll start with that and maybe if they want to add, they can. and so if you approve the e.n.a., then we'll begin to get into further details on

establishing a goal. so we haven't defined it as of yet. we have a commitment from the strada t.t.c. team to maximize the opportunity. and we want to work to the extent feasible that we can c.m.d. to understand where those opportunities exist during the entitlement work and in term sheet negotiations. and, jesse, are you -- >> yeah, you guys hear me? >> president brandon: yes. >> yeah, i would just reiterate that we haven't waited for this moment to get started. we have reached out proactively to tiffany tatum on the side at the court. and one of my staffers had a phenomenal -- starting conversation with them, and i think that we're, you know, we're already working on an outreach plan to on the l.b.e.

side for, you know, the professional services stage of the project. and also community outreach plan to make sure that we bring in underrepresented groups throughout the city and into this discussion. and integrate in not just into the contracting side, but into the very project elements, commitments to racial equity and inclusion. everything from the way that we think about the housing on a seawall lot to the way that we create more inclusion and opportunity on the piers with the facility and creating affordable access for both people throughout the city and the region. so we're really interested in getting the very d.n.a. of the project and making sure that we're addressing equity at all stages. but also to specifically to focus on the l.b.e. side during this first phase, this sort of

professional services phase. >> president brandon: great, i really appreciate that. so, again, when do you think that may start or when will you come back to the commission and let us know exactly what you're planning on doing? >> well, from our perspective, it starts on day one. i defer to staff on when the appropriate time to come back to commission to do progress updates and terms of our process. you know, for one key milestone is as david alluded to and the staff have talked about, is that we do intend to have kind of a detailed term sheet that would be before the commission. and then the board of supervisors. that outlines all aspects of the project. from the business deal with the court, to the program, to the d.e.i. strategy and we envision it being, you know, front and

center in that term sheet. so i think that certainly there will be checkpoints along the way until we get to that point. but ultimately we intend to have this, you know, this kind of embedded into the term sheet as a key component of the project. >> commissioner brandon, we have talked about the frequency of coming back to the commission on this type of complex project. and we haven't identified a specific time. but i think that for this issue in particular and what we've identified as an initial consultation period, that maybe four months from now, you know, four to five months from now, would be a good time to just check back on things like this and how our community outreach is going. and how our regulatory alignment is occurring. so i would propose, you know, some time over the late summer. obviously, if there's a need to come back to you sooner to seek guidance, would do that. but i think that initially four

to five months out would make sense. which i think that would be early summer, not late summer. >> president brandon: great, that's perfect. and that leads to my next question is the termination options. can you explain that a little more and what that really means. and then also within that, i didn't see anything about the fees or any type of payments within this key terms. >> sure. great question. and so with the initial consultation period, the idea is that we know with previous projects primarily on piers, 30 and 32, there's been some difficulty getting regulatory alignment. a few projects have required state legislation. and so the idea behind this is to work with our regulatory partners to see -- to develop a strategy on how we can get to a regulatory alignment.

or at least to begin to develop a strategy to get to regulatory alignment. strada has committed to pay the port during this time for our costs and our consultants' costs. so the transaction costs. but what we have offered during this period is to delay the negotiating fee for this period. if they decide at the end of the four months that they want to terminate the e.n.a., they would not be on the hook for the negotiating fee. but they would have reimbursed us for their cost. if they decide to advance, which i'm optimistic and hopeful and jesse is optimistic that they will do, and then on the term sheet they pay us back for the first six months. the initial consultation period is a four-month period. but we agreed too to help to soften the hit a little bit to

extend the negotiating fee deferral for six months. does that make sense? did that answer your question? >> president brandon: okay, so you're saying that the initial consultation period is four months. >> yes. >> president brandon: but if we decide to move forward after that four months, then we're waiving six months of the fee? >> no, we're not waive anything fee. so the initial consultation period is four months. and for that four months and an additional two months in case that takes us longer than we think, we're going to defer the negotiating fee cost. if they step away from the project, they would not need to reimburse us for those six months. when we get to terms, if they decide to stay with us, then we get to the term sheet, they'll reimburse us for those six months. and they'll begin paying the

negotiating fee at the seventh month of this e.n.a., no matter what. >> president brandon: what is the fee? and how often is it paid? >> it's $25,000 a quarter, and i believe that -- and correct me, rebecca or grace if i'm wrong -- but i believe that it's paid quarterly. >> president brandon: okay. so we'll all keep our fingers crossed that we get paid at that four-month period, right? >> correct. >> president brandon: and then my last question is regarding the transfer. and you said that as long as they have (indiscernible) what is the difference between direct and indirect day-to-day management? >> well, and, grace, if you're on, maybe you can help me. but what we're trying to say is that no matter what strada needs

to have control of decision making on the project. and that even if they bring in an investor that has 51% ownership, that investor does not have the decision-making authority, that it's only strada. grace, if you're on, i want to have you layer on to that. >> you did a great job, david. >> president brandon: okay. okay. so i think that the only request that i would make here is that what pier 70 did, to at least inform the advisory committee and the commission prior to it happening. is that okay? >> is that a yes, jesse? >> yeah, that's fine. i mean, i just want to underscore that we're not

talking about a situation where strada and t.t.c. are leaving the role of developer. this is really just to bring in what are passive capital investors into the project. which we intend to do at some point during the project. right now this is being funded entirely by strada and t.t.c. and obviously, it's a $1.2 billion project, so at some point we will bring in additional institutional investors. but they will always be passive investors. we will retain the control, the day to day control of the project. but when we bring in an investor, we would want to let folks know about that, whether it's the commission or the n.a.c. >> president brandon: thank you. it's wonderful. thank you so much. okay, we have a motion and a second. can i have a roll call vote. >> clerk: on resolution 21-08

[roll call vote] >> president brandon: motion passes unanimously. motion 21-08 is adopted. >> thank you, commissioners. >> president brandon: thank you. and call the next item. >> clerk: item 16, new business. >> i had recorded that we'll provide a calendar of the finance item coming up to clarify the capital plan, and the five-year capital improvement plan. and we will add to the advanced calendar a late summer return of the pier 30, 32 and seawall lot 330 project for an update. any other new business? >> president brandon: i don't see any other new business. thank you, elaine.

can i have a motion to adjourn. >> motion to adjourn. >> second. >> president brandon: roll call vote, please. >> clerk: [roll call vote] >> president brandon: the meeting is adjourned at 6:01 p.m. thank you, everyone. great meeting

>> good morning, and welcome to the rules committee of the san francisco board of siewrvesz. supervisions. i am the char, aaron peskin, chained by mandelman and connie chan. our clerk is mr. young. mr. young, could you please make any announcements.

>> members will be participating in the meeting remotely. committee members will attend the meeting by video conference, the same as if they were physically present. public comment will be available on each item on this agenda, both on channel 26, and sfgovtv.org. i.d. 1464694909 you can call

415-655-0001, i.d. 1875186183. you may submit public comments by e-mail to myself, to the rules committee, and if you submit public comment by e-mail, it will be forwarded to the supervisions and it will be included as part of the file. that completes my initial comments. >> chairman: thank you. mr. young. >> item one is appointing seven members to the guaranteed income advisory group, indefinite terms. >> chairman: thank you, mr. clerk. colleagues, this is an item pursuant to an ordinance passed by the san francisco board of supervisions to make recommendations around a growing movement not only in this city and in this country, but around the world relative to virtual social security, if you

will, guaranteed income for people of limited means. this is being done in conjunction with the treasure's office. i am delighted that we have eight remarkably qualifieds individuals. if you read their resumes and applications, as i did this weekend, it is quite an impressive group. eight individuals for eight seats, so not a lot of tough choices for us to make. i believe all of them are here to briefly testify, except for bena shimerali, who indicated he was unable to attend due to work commitments. three individuals need a residency waiver. and are there any questions or comments from committee members? seeing none, why don't we

open this up to the applicants. and i bet if i press a button here -- i cannot, for some reason, i'm note sure why, find my participant button. why don't we just open this up to comments from applicants. first speaker, please. >> i'll call on the first applicant on the list, which would be shirley yee. >> can you hear me? >> chairman: we can hear you. and i might have to log off and log on because my computer is giving me trouble. but i can hear you now, so why don't we proceed. >> good morning, chair peskin and members of the rule committee. i'm the daughter of

immigrant parents. my father was the mayor of detroit's chinatown. i have worked to address systemic inequities my entire adult life, and most of which is here in san francisco, focusing on wealth and inequity. i was with mayor breed's o.m.d. policies. i am an active member of a statewide group of g.i. pilots, currently diving deep into benefit waivers, and with g.i. policy advocates as well. i'm also here on behalf of norell knolls, for seat mr. five. not only is he proudly born and raised on treasure island, as a 28-year-old black gay man, he knows what it means to live in the city.

he shared just before he was born, his mom was coming out of homelessness. because of programs like section 8, they were able to afford to live on treasure island, and now he wants to help shape programs that give back to other san francisco residents. thank you for your time. >> chairman: thank you, shirley, and i did just get a notification that norel, as well as roberto, will be unable to attend. so thank you for speaking to norel's qualifications. next speaker, please, and i believe that that would be jacob denny, who has applied to seats one, two, or three. >> thank you, chair peskin and supervisions mandelman and chan. throughout my life, i have experienced the ways in

which our economy fails working people, and the ways our social safety net fails to meet all of our needs. i know what it is like to have to choice between fixing your car or paying your rent. as far as economic justice policy director, my goal is to identify interventions that make it so all people in san francisco are able to experience economic security and live lives of dignity. the uneven impacts of the pandemic, coupled with systemic racism and economic exclusion have made this a need more than ever. i want to better help the people who need it most. thank you for your consideration. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker, please. and i believe the next speaker would be james pugh for seats one, two,

or three. and a residency waiver would be required for james. >> i would like to thank the committee for considering my application for seats one, two, or three. i'm really excited at the prospect of applying my experience in this space, designing and implementing and guaranteeing programs in san francisco. in my five years working on guaranteed income equity, focused on understanding how guaranteed income can be structured to have a transformative impact for low-income americans, particularly in communities of color. and ensuring that these programs don't jeopardize other programs, like heat.

[inaudible] >> chairman: thank you. next speaker. and i believe that speaker would be gloria barry for seat four. >> can you hear me? >> chairman: yes, we can. >> good morning, chair peskin. i'm running for -- i'm applying for this because seat four must be held by a person who has personally experienced poverty while living in san francisco. i've lived in and out of poverty in san francisco from 1969 to '75, and periodically from '87 to 2015. right now i only have veteran compensation, which is a third of what is deemed low income. i've worked for a commission which doesn't always yield a living wage. i also have been on welfare and food stamps

before. when i was homeless, i was sent to shelters, and i lived in transitional housing on treasure island. i would not be able to live in san francisco now if it were not for the assistance i received from being a veteran. the demographics i reach out to is black, mexican, and white. i am 51 years old, and i'm a female and a disabled veteran. i served 13 years in the military. while in service, i went six months without being a dependent -- getting dependent benefits because (indiscernable). and at that time, i had to eat rahman every day because that is all i could afford. hopefully i will be recommended for this committee so my experiences realtime can get with people with the economic experience, and

together we can crunch some numbers and do something for san francisco that has never been done before. because it is time that we do something about the great disparity in wealth in the city. thank you. >> chairman: thank you, ms. barry. next speaker, please. >> i believe the next speaker would be elaine chavez -- >> chairman: i'm having crazy problems with my computer. i may have to -- mr. clerk, can we take a one-minute break. i would need to leave this meeting and get back in. this is not -- my computer is not working. so we will recess for one minute. if i can get back on in one minute. >> clerk: we will take a one-minute recess. >> chairman: thank you.

>> chairman: thank you. we will reconvene the rules committee meeting for today, february 8th. thank you. my technical difficulties seem to be better on relogging in. and the next applicant would be roberto vargas, who is not here. a residency waiver is required for said seat, and he has applied for seats four, five, six, seven or eight, and norel knolls was spoken to by ms. yee. and as i said, earlier, that will take us to our last applicant, elena chavez -- >> sorry, supervisor, i am actually here. >> chairman: we're delighted you are here this morning.

please proceed. i apologies. >> thank you, supervisions. good morning, committee members. my apologies for being late. i had to rearrange some things. i just wanted to share that, you know, my family has been in san francisco since 1946, moving to hunter's point from nicaragua. and, you know, i'm second-generation graduate of mission high school. and my entire career has been in serving low-income communities in san francisco, primarily in the non-profit sector, but also in the san francisco unified school district. i currently work at ucsf, leveraging ucsf resources to help get at both health and economic equity leveraging, or economic and science resources to support getting equity in san francisco. that has included work on

reducing diabetes and chronic disease disparities. but i've worked as a street outreach worker for the mayor's gang prevention program, at the real alternative's program "rap," and primarily served folks in the commission district and bayview hunter's point my entire life. i lived half of my life in bayview hunter's point before getting displaced there several years ago. so i would need a residency waiver. and i still have family members living in poverty, still have family members living in homelessness in san francisco, and family members recently out of homelessness by way of support through navigation centers, thankfully. so, you know, i would be happy to serve in any way i could serve san francisco. including in this

capacity. to bring to bear evidence, whenever possible, but mostly to bring a voice of advocacy and support for low-income communities in san francisco, poor folks in san francisco, who are the folks i identify with most, who are the folks i will advocate for and stand alongside with most in this role and in any role that i serve san francisco. so thank you for your consideration. >> chairman: thank you, sir. and sorry, i did not realize that you had joined this meeting. and i think that takes us to our last applicant, who is present this morning, elena chavez casada. >> good morning. i would like to thank supervisions peskin, mandelman,and chan. i'm an s.f. resident with two young kids in this school district, in second

and fourth grade, and i'm currently vice president of programs at the san francisco foundation, where we're singularly focused on economic inclusion in the bay area. while the foundation is the first place i've been in my career that explicitly holders racial equity as our north star, my entire career has been in advancing economic student for low income communities of color (indiscernable) and before then, in programatic work. as often is the case, as my career path is groundedin my personal backgrou, as a latin-american who has grown up in a mexican-american family. i watched my parents struggle so my four siblings could have opportunities that they literally have never

dreamed of. and this is what grounds me. equity is such a big concept and can often feel nebulous and elusive, and i think that is okay. it is on each of us to grapple with that elusive elusiveness and make meaning of it. i would argue the power of this guaranteed income strategies and why i'm so excited to be part of this is its explicitity. "the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly with a governeded income." and finally i want to say that san francisco has a history of innovation and and leadership and a pilot that sets the tone for cities across the city, like the financial justice program and others, and

i'm proud to say i've been involved in each of those programs and one way or another ocean over the years. it would be an honor to be part of this group, addressing those questions and informing the way forward. so thank you so much for the opportunity. >> chairman: thank you so much. as i said at the outset, this is the qualifications in any number of ways for these eight individuals is really remarkable. thank you, ms. casada for your applying and your work. are there any applicants i have missed? seeing none, are there any members of the public who would like to testify on item number one. i have been informed, after my computer glitch, that supervisor haney is also on. so maybe before we go to public comment, supervisor

haney, is there anything you would like to say this morning? >> yes, and i'll be very brief. first of all, i wanted to make sure you called on me, chair peskin, because i got my lighting on point this morning for you. and i wanted to thank you for considering these applicants, and thank you to member chan and member mandelman as well. as you said, this is an extraordinary group of folks. i'm really excited to see what they're going to be able to bring forward for our city. we worked very closely with a number of organizations and departments in making sure that we really did outreach to get these great groups of folks in front of you. so i am fully supportive of all of the applicants. i also want to quickly acknowledge treasurer sincearos to create this advisory group. they will help lead

efforts towards a great guaranteed income. and i want to thank you those from the human rights commission, and natalie foster and terry oli from the security project. and, this is part of a larger effort that is happening all over the country. there are dozens of cities, stockton, long beach, los angeles, new orleans, who are developing guaranteed income programs. so not only do we have these amazing people who will be serving on our advisory group, they will be sharing information with literally dozens of cities all across the country. and i think the outcome of this will be hugely important for our own efforts and our national efforts to attack poverty and economic insecurity. i want to thank you, chair peskin, and all of the committee members, and all of the applicants.

we will take what you provide as part of this advisory group, and make sure it is implemented for our residents, who are especially now can benefit from guaranteed income. >> chairman: thank you for your leadership. thank you for your leadership locally. great lightly, and to all of the applicants to whom i assume will be forwarded to this committee to the full board, good luck on your next nine months of work as december approaches and that report will be forthcoming. and i also note that this group will stay together pursuant to the law that the board passed, until january of 2023. so you'll all be together for the next couple of years, and we look forward to your advice and your

recommendations. with that, why don't we open item number one to public comment. >> clerk: yes, members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item should call 415-655-0001, the meeting i.d. 1875186183. and then press pound and pound again. if you haven't already done so, dial star 3, and a system prompt will indicate to you to wave your hand. mr. coe, do we have any members of the public for public comment today? >> mr. chair, we have no callers in the cue. >> chairman: okay. public comment is closed. colleagues, i would like to make the following recommendation, that shirley yee be appointed to seat one, with a residency waiver. that jacob denny be appointed to seat two.

that james pugh be appointed to seat three with a residency waiver. that gloria barry be appointed to seat four. that norel knolls be appointed to seat five. that roberto vargas be appointed to seat six. that vima shiraliz be ap appointed to seat seven, and elena chavez be appointed to seat eight. seeing nobody on the roster, mr. young, could you call the role on that motion. >> clerk: i believe that mr. vargas also needs a residency waiver. >> chairman: my apologies, mr. roberto needs a residency waiver. soize would like to add that to my previously

stated motion. >> clerk: on that motion, supervisor mandelman? >> yea. >> clerk: supervisor chan? >> i. >> clerk: chair peskin? >> i. >> clerk: the motion passes without objection. >> chairman: congratulations. we'll hear that at the next meeting. thank you for your willingness to serve. with that, mr. clerk, could you please read the next item? >> clerk: just to be absolutely clear, i am getting questions. we have shirley yee who has a residency waiver, james pugh has a residency waiver, and mr. vargas, who has received a residency waiver. i wanted to state that for clarity. would you like to make a motion to excuse? >> chairman: i think --

don't you have to read it before i make that motion. >> clerk: yes. i will read it. item two, motion appointing supervisor connie chan, term ending february 4, 2023, to the san francisco local agency formation commission. >> chairman: thank you, mr. young, and is our practice. we don't vote for ourselves on appointments, with the exception of internal racist present, where you can vote for yourself. with that, i would like to make a motion to excuse supervisor chan, who is the subject of this matter. can i take that without objection, victor? >> clerk: i will defer to ms. pearson on that. >> department city attorney ann pearson, all votes taken in this remote world need to be done with each member casting a vote. >> yea. >> chairman: on the

motion to excuse? >> on the motion to excuse, supervisor mandelman? >> i. >> clerk: supervisor chan? >> yea. >> clerk: chair peskin? >> chairman: yea. >> chairman: supervisor chan, you have to leave for about one minute. can you please see if there are any members of the public who would like to comment, mr. clerk. >> clerk: if you have not already done so, please press star 3 to be added to the cue to speak. if you haven't already done so, a system prompt will indicate that you have raised your hand. wait until it says you have been unmuted, and you may begin your comment. mr. coe, do we have any members of the public for public comment? >> mr. chair, we have no

callers in the cue. >> chairman: okay. we'll close public comment, and i would like to make a motion to forward this item to the full board with recommendation. >> clerk: yes, on that motion, supervisor mandelman? >> yea. >> clerk: supervisor chan excused. chair peskin? >> chairman: yea. >> clerk: the motion passes, without objection, with supervisor chan being excused. >> chairman: okay. why don't we let supervisor chan back into the meeting. that item is passed. and then, mr. clerk, please read the next item. >> clerk: yes. i just want to -- supervisor chan, are you back in the room at this time? >> i am, thank you, victor. >> clerk: thank you. next item is item 3: "motion appointing

supervisor hillary ronan, term ending june 30th, 2021, to the alternative member of the bay area executive board." >> chairman: once again, my computer is acting weirdly, but is ms. ronan here? i am not able to access the participant button. i don't see her. is there any public comment on this item? >> clerk: yes. members of the public who wish to provide public comment should call 415-655-0001, i.d. 1875186183. and press pound and pound again. you may press star 3 to be added to the cue to speak. mr. coe, do we have any members of the public for public comment on item number three? >> mr. chair, we have no

callers in the cue. >> chairman: okay. public comment is closed. i would like to make a motion to send item number three to the full board with recommendation on that motion. a role. >> >> clerk: supervisor mandelman? >> i. >> clerk: supervisor chan? >> yea. >> clerk: chair peskin? >> chairman: yea. >> next on the agenda is a (indiscernable). members of the public who wish to comment on this item, please press star 3. please wait until the system in cades you have been unmuted.

mr. coe, do we have any members of the public for public comment on this item. >> we have no callers in the cue. >> chairman: i would like to move this item forward on full recommendations. >> supervisor mandelman? >> yea. >> clerk: supervisor chan? >> yea. >> clerk: chair peskin? >> chairman: yea. >> clerk: the motion passes without agenda. next on the agenda is item five, motion appointing supervisor safai, term ending january 1, 2024, to the behavioral health commission. >> chairman: my understanding is we need to change it to the

correct expiration date, to january 1, 2023. >> clerk: that is correct. members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item should call 415-655-0001, i.d. 1875186183, and then press pounds and pound again. if you haven't already done so, please press star 3to line up to three. mr. coe, do we have any members of the public to comment on this item? >> yes, i have one caller in the cue. >> chairman: first speaker, please. >> thank, mr. chair. in 2019, supervisor safai was appointed to this commission. when she resigned, she never had attended a single one of the meetings of the commission, sending staff to participate