>> vice president willie adams. commissioner john burton. >> aye. >> a commissioner belding. >> a present. >> commissioner woo ho. >> here. >> item two is approval of minutes for the may 25, 2021 port commission meeting. >> so moved. >> second. >> we have a motion and a second. clerk, please have a roll call vote. [roll call vote] >> president bermejo. >> vice president adams. commissioner burton. >> commissioner gilman. >> yes. >> commissioner wu ho. >> yes. item 3 is public comment on executive session. >> thank you. >> we will open up public comment and members joining us

on the phone. jennifer will be the operator and will provide instructions now for anyone on the call for anyone who would like to provide public comment. >> thank you, president brandon. at this time we will open the queue for anyone on the phone whould like to make public comment on executive session. 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 3 minutes per person. the queue is now open. please dial star 3 if you wish to make public comment. >> thank you, jennifer. do we have anyone on the phone? >> president brandon, at this time there are no member of the public on the phone wishing to make public comment. >> thank you. seeing no callers on phone, public comment is closed. call the next item please. >> item four, executive session. >> so moved. >> second.

>> a we have a motion and a second. please have a roll call vote. [roll call vote]

item six the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. item number seven's announcements. please be advised that a member of the public has up to three

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turn to comment. for meeting presenters and participants please mature microphones, turn for cameras we are not presenting and that brings us to item eight, but comment on items not listed on the agenda. >> thank you, we will now open the phone lines for public items for items not listed on the agenda. for members of the public you are joining us on the phone, jennifer will be our operator and we will provide instructions for anyone on the phone he would like to provide thank you president, the queue for anybody else. his all-star three if you wish to make public comment others will wait until their lines open. comments will be limited to three minutes per person. the queue is now open and please dial * three if you wish to make public comments.

>> thank you judgment to have anyone on the line? >> yes presidents, we have two people on the line at the moment. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. please open it for the person. >> okay thank you, your opening the first line now. >> hello hello k hi. i am a performer on the port of san francisco and i was calling to make comment on some of the things that are being implement it with the vendors. i just wanted to basically say that the performer's program is really important to the work culture. i know you guys are aware of that. keep in mind that there tends to be, the vendors tend to over run the work selling things and it

can get really hectic without the system in place for the performers to to be able to perform in the singers to be able to sync. it can be chaotic so i hope that we keep that in mind to make sure that we can all work together to make it a good experience for the tourists and for the people who like to be there and also for people who perform. the performers are a big part of the culture. again, people get the hashtag for fisherman store up in san francisco one of the main things that people are attracted to are the performers. just trying to keep the culture there and i know there's a lot of people selling a lot of things so that's pretty much it. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. can you please state your name? >> yes, my name is terry bingham. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. thank you so much. jennifer, next color. >> sure thank you. opening the next line.

>> hello my name is david berti i'm with the bay company retail store on the dwarf. i am here today to be with talk about the mobile regulation for the vendors and actually are all aware this is turned into complete chaos out here. we have people walking streets, creating unsanitary conditions, selling illegal alcohol and make it much more difficult for us to get back into business and to conduct our business. and having this lawlessness has served no one well so we urge you to pass along the ordinance to the board of supervisors and to push forward thank you. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. thank you. other any other colors? >> yes, president we have a more color on the line.

okay, thank you. i'm opening that line now. >> hello, i guess can you guys hear me right now? i was with the street performers program and i just think that that it's important to keep things in place and think that we can do that based on this side vendors section 510392, it allows for special events i think under this section we can keep our program going and it can be going at the same time the play walk vendors program. while we welcome the sidewalk vendors and performers we performers are not vendors and we are asking to please let us keep the special permits in place if they are part of the performers program because our.

this is open and exciting for merchants and vendors and performers and visitors. i appreciate your time thank you. >> [kimberly brandon, president] are there any other colors jennifer? >> at this time there are no other colors on the line wishing to make public comments. this >> [kimberly brandon, president] at the store colors in the line will go to the next item please. >> that would be item nine a the executive presence report. our executive directors report. >> good afternoon president franzen, vice president abbott adams, commissioner and members of the public. i am elaine and i am executive director of the port. happy summer everyone san francisco continues to reduce

covid-19 cases and hospitalizations. and increased vaccinations. we are seeing signs of san franciscans and visitors returning to our incredible waterfront and it is just in time for summer. this is important for our city's economic recovery efforts and supports the diverse local businesses that are pillars of our very vibrant waterfront. pre- pandemic the port welcomed over 24 million visitors a year and supported 10,000 jobs and 1.000000000 in wages. many of our port visitors arrived during the summer months and some visitors and residents have come back to our ports. in july, we are looking forward once again to hosting the public with a spectacular fireworks show and celebration of our national dependence day. national independence day. as many of you know the evening show takes place in two port locations. on june 11th we welcome bread for coffee to our ferry building.

our waterfront small businesses are the backbone of the port and we never stop supporting them through covert. the welcoming event includes a ribbon cutting ceremony performances by marriott gs tiller, honky seen lying dancers and the african drum circle by sun drummers of the united africa ensemble, a native american blessing ceremony. please join us for the celebration. we help the public can enjoy our renowned open spaces this summer. in the southern waterfront we want to welcome people to haran's head park. it is 13 acres of open space along the port's most southern is loved by many. the secret on the part is out, it is a spectacular part. it provides a space for kayaking, picnicking and general connection to the bay and our waterfront historical past. port land is perfect for summer months. waterfront park projects are seeing milestones as the summer.

mission rock is led by the san francisco giants and tishman inspired and it will create thousands of new affordable homes and 8 acres of open space. we will hit some milestones this summer with the ongoing construction of phase one utility installations, new streets and sidewalks and the commencement of work on the new 5-acre china basin park. in our norther waterfront, the portable open the first floating fire station the nation. the fire station is critical in supporting emergency response for our city. piax terrorist experience is loved by so many. we want to ensure a remarkable and safe experience for everyone this summer. summer will be welcoming more transitions out of covid and the future is beginning to look right. we will also continue to welcome back more employment in it will open our public facilities, peer

one in concert with other city facilities will open to the public beginning tuesday, june 15th. the lobby, restaurant and public access from the embarcadero will be available to the public. death will be at the front desk lobby during business hours and pier one security will continue normal on-site operations. the port is committed to align with the city's goals of having all employees back in the office by september 15th. and i cannot wait for that. the port to commence our maintenance staff and select staff from maritime real estate development finance and administration engineering divisions who have been working safely on-site throughout the pandemic. today we have not experienced any work-related covert transmissions. i also want to thank our employees who served as disaster workers. during the past 18 months the response in their valve there is. san francisco has the highest

testing and vaccination rates and one of the lowest deaths and hospital rates. this is a testament to the incredible work of disaster service workers. and equity, the idea of the ports, city and our waterfront safely reopening and the recovery work that now lies ahead coming in the months of june. as we celebrate and honor pride month and june 18th. june teeth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the united states. and pride month commemorates the liberation movement led by the lgbt q plus community that grew in response to ongoing actions in the name of civil rights that were met with police violence. including compton's cafeteria rights in san francisco in 1966 and the stonewall riots in new york city in 1969. these holidays are important

opportunities to acknowledge existing systemic prejudices and biases and a powerful reminder that our history does not have to be our future. the ports rachel equity team is in full action hitting important milestones to make sure the port is an equitable organization and our waterfront is full. the ports for racial equity change team submitted their first progress report on our action plan to the city. our progress will be shared with the port commission equity subcommittee later this month in advance of our first biannual report to the commission in july. we continue with our program celebrating pride month, of our this month is to expand awareness of the diversity within the lgbt q plus community and spotlight our trials and triumphs by recognizing the remarkable contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer people. the port has partnered with

claes and make a black sf, to sponsor the juneteenth celebration will be held at the embarcadero terminal plaza. the celebration is intended to bring communities businesses chefs and artist to host juneteenth food transitions and traditions and education. additionally, the ports will share how african-americans have helped shape the sf waterfront by crating a veil that highlights the significant contributions. the events will run concurrently with the farmers market from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on saturday june 19th. now turning to economic recovery and the important efforts to secure the port financially. i am extremely proud and thankful to the work of the commission and staff on the successful american recovery asked them this awarded to ports. we reached another milestone last week when the senate and assembly budget committee approved the 250 million allocation to california ports. these needed funds will be used

to help avoid employee layoffs, backfill some of our lost revenue, reimburse us or tenant relief measures that were enacted including rents forgiveness for family and small businesses and will restrict capital make this budget that will keep the waterfront safe and secure. no more red tags of our facilities as needed badly. however we are not yet on safe shores. the portis face of the serious daunting five year structural deficit that we need to solve. we will continue to look to state and federal stimulus as well as identify ways to make our organization more efficient by cutting costs and generating needed revenues. we must stay active and vigilant in our efforts to make the porthole again. to keep project updates and september 2019, the port approved the phase one budget for rocket. i would like to invite phil williamson, the project manager of mission rock to provide an update on construction projects

process, thank you phil. thank you spirulina carl the first light please. there we go. thank you. thanks elaine and i appreciate that introduction good afternoon president brandon. and vice president at adams and the commissioners. phil williamson the project manager with the portable estate development team, here today to invite you to the phase one construction budget update. the next slide please. in the 20 months since you approved phase one the port city and developer had an been extremely productive and are pleased to report much progress during a very challenging. notably, 15 of these 20 months were affected by the unforeseen impacts of the covid-19 pandemic yet our collaborative results focused approach has led to accomplishing many significant milestones including commencement of horizontal work,

the site preparation and ground improvement work that is so important to the future success of the project. we also were able to issue the notice to proceed. [inaudible] and almost at the same time begin the vertical construction on two of the four phase one parcels, parcel a the visa headquarters speeding and excuse me, a residential building and parcel of gsi the headquarters building and you'll see pictures of those a few slides. this year we have also continued to this report and work on the horizontal processes and installation and you will see an image of that shortly. also we were very successful with our respondents issues. last month, may of this year, we issued $43 million into bonds and we are very excited for that milestone. next slide please. no no the final building of

phase one, a residential tower starting construction late this year or early in 2022. looking ahead to 2022, we would deliver in excepting and working closely with the city on that regard. previously these. sorry, can you go back this letter to? there you gobtñ?ñ?ñ. again in 2022 we were delivering and working with the city to accept the phase one stream facilities and also to deliver and occupy parcel g, the visa headquarters building. in a little further are out delivering and occupying parcel a the residential with delivery and excepting forbkñ?ñ? the pore based in part and delivering and occupying parcel b, which again

started construction in a few weeks time. the next slide please. next slide please carl. let's see here. slide four if you can, thank you. we're almost there. one more please. magazines that were missing slide from this presentation. >> okay that is unfortunate but it was an image of the site showing activity which i will briefly describe above ground and below ground and the aboveground work is the foundation work on parcels a and g and this including pile

driving tower crane on site now with another tower crane coming in july. probably more importantly is the invisible work that you can't see this site it is 1,000 steel tiles that were driven into bedrock for parcels a and parcels g. the 500 stone columns that help secure and ground for future site. the project bonds and is comparing the number of piles with the length, if you were to stitch them all together they are approximately 42 miles in length that is enough to circle the entire city and cisco. there's lots of work that you can see and save a lot of work it is not to improve the site value. this also supports the future bond issues and projects the execute with the developer requires that the developer keep staff at the port notified of

phase one budget and budget increases. so, with the developer staff is evaluating various strategies to manage and to the projected increase of approximately $50 million in phase one costs. one strategy that we are looking at is to build the inland portion of the china park now and push the and water portion of the part a few months out, that would give us time to secure funding and to figure out the budget implications of that move and it was save the project $20 million for phase one reducing the cost increase from 58 to $30 million. and it would give us time that we need to secure the important federal and state permits from the army corps of engineers and bc bc for that water work. so, we are working close with our consultants to analyze the budget increases and the impact of these costs of court revenue or port revenue and a developer return. we are bringing this presentation or one very similar

to it forward to the southern advisory committee. in a few weeks time on june 203rd and looking forward to returning to the port commission with their feedback and to set up recommendations on how to proceed with phase one budget. and this will be in a few months time. one more picture i think and hopefully you made it curled you of them are slide? great, thank you. this is an image of a phase i work and progress you can see and read the streets that are now being built on site. tony stone crossing, doctor maya angelou way, channel street, bridgeview street, creating a new neighborhood and the project. you can also see in green the inland portion of china -based park and that's being constructed later this year. orange portion that you see on the top of the image is the and water portion of china basin park which is what i mentioned, we are looking at delaying a few months in order to obtain those permits and to align our budgetary numbers. next slide please.

there you go thanks carl. and here is an image of the inland portion of china basin park look into the east, you're looking at of course the bay and the bay bridge and east bay hill. this is a piece of the inland park that would be built in phase one under all circumstances. next slide please. thank you very much for your time and we look forward to being back for you this summer with more information on the budget, thank you elaine. >> thank you so much and it is really exciting to see the progress of the mission rock project even through covid and we are very, very thankful to our mission partners and it is extremely exciting to understand that the piles are driven giving the site stability. in protection from sea level rise and well done thank you. next, i would like to add my voice to the speakers who congratulated commission president kimberly brandon on her reappointment at the last mission meeting.

i am really grateful for the opportunity to lead this opportunity organization under skilled and thoughtful policy pt brenda brings her full self as a leader and her passion is the justice and has a deep public service commitments and an eagle, eagle eye for fairness and good governance has simply transformed the entire waterfront. i am so eternally thankful for her continued mentor ship with me as i grow as a leader. congratulations presidents brandon and congratulations to the port. lastly, i would like to conclude my report with attribute to florence peoples. she is a retired port labor. mister peebles passed away at his home and the native city of san francisco on may 8th. he served the county of san francisco and the capacity of general labor at a total of 39 years including 29 at the port. mister peebles retired from the

port in 2015. he will be remembered for his great smile and laugh in his really unforgettable. after a time that he made a point of returning to the port to share valentines treats. the port expresses our deep condolences to mister peoples children, anita, deborah, donald and vanessa. into his entire family and port staff asked the commission to close the meeting in his memory. this concludes my report, thank you. >> thank you and it was a very detailed report and we really appreciate it. thank you for your congratulations i really appreciate it. we will now open the phone lines and take public comments on the event and the directive due to the port. some members of the public please join us on the phone. jennifer will be our operator and will provide instructions now for anyone on the phone who would like to provide a public comments. >> thank you president brandon. at this time we will open the

queue for anyone on the phone he would like to make public comments on the executive directors report. these dial * three, if you wish to make public comments. the system will let you know when the line is open, others will wait on me until their line is open. comments will be limited to three minutes per person and the queue is now open please dial * three if you wish to make public. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. thank you jennifer, do we have anyone align? >> presidents brandon, there are no colors on the line wishing to make public comments. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. thank you. if there are no colors in the line will consider this public comment form full. i would like to allow the staff you would like to speak guarding the executive directors report or the district report, please join in.

>> good afternoon commissioners and presidents brandon, can you hear me? commissioners, everyone i would like to read a quick statement on behalf of the maintenance division in honor of larry peeples. so it larry peeples retired in 2015, after 29 years of service and dedication to the ports. larry was a liable and valued member of the maintenance team who could specie up and down diligently performing his duties. he always had a kind hello for tourist i did not have the privilege to work with larry but however by all accounts, he was a gentleman with a longer personality and a beautiful smile. everybody loves larry. condolences to larry's family and thank you for sharing him with us for all of those years. thank you.

>> [kimberly brandon, president]. thank you. >> thank you presidents brandon, presidents brandon and vice president adams and director forbes. i wanted to share in addition to what has alreadyi mister peoples was such a gentleman and he also had a great affinity for cars. he loved his classic buick that heí kept it in pristine and immaculate condition. he was loved up and down the waterfront by the grand that he had and he was an honorable man that spoke his mind and always stood up for what was right. that is how mister peoples will be remembered. thank you >> [kimberly brandon, president]. thank you. are there any other staff

members that have anything they would like to comments? >> hello? i see what the okay. hello this is david gibbs hi everybody how's everybody doing? i wanted to comment on larry, he was my partner on the weekend and this was for ten years. ñ?ñ? out. they're always patting him on the back asking him for directions. her tummy bent over to change a garbage can somebody would be there and he would be pointing where to go and everything like that. he did love that car, under miss seeing him drive up and down with it. also his laugh, he had this laugh where he would open his

mouth but nothing would come out and i always thought i was making him mad but he was laughing. no sound was coming out tonight as larry are you alright? you say i'm laughing! yes, he like to talk sports and here he was quite the football player in his day. but he taught me a lot and he showed me everything and gave me a lot of knowledge about stuff and helps me with things and i'm really going to miss him. thank you. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. thank you so much. is there any one else you would like to comments? if there are no other comments will move on to the commissioner. commissioner gilman before. thank you so much lane and thank you much for that report. i have a couple comments i want

to make, i guess i want to start by saying mister peoples family our deepest condolences. it just says something about the great spirit of the ports. you can have somebody be in service in that kind of labor or position and not transferred to other departments or bounce from the city. i really just want to commend the whole maintenance department, directors, managers now tom parker and his legacy just for creating an environment where people want to stay. it is really struck me with those comments from folks who called in. i also wantedo.ñ?ñ? to really an and i know we have officially but highlights in particular since she was on the waterfront i wanted to highlight to the dedication that took place on friday that very and hallstead. we are honored enough to have

senator pelosi and feinstein there. along with mayor greene and other elected officials. with the community that loved and supported them. including owner shock and eight what is it was a beautiful dedication and also just a beautiful plaza. that i think that we can have really sage the communities and i love the ideas of the juneteenth pop-up taking place there on saturday. this is adjacent to the period building. in the hope of and forward the port staff in conjunction with all of our community partners will find ways to really activate the space and to highlight community organizations and community celebrations that were taking place in san francisco and to say it would love to see a stronger, the ferry building in the plaza or the intersection between the northeast and southeast waterfront and i really hope that we can build sort of a strong connection to

have both locals and tourism for all. for all seven and a half miles of our waterfront, including economic activities to bothwzñ?s and to create a deeper connection to the community of the plaza which primarily are north beach and chinatown, especially hope that we can use that space to promote that and i will be excited to go down there on saturday and see what is happening with the pop-up for juneteenth. my only other question was, i was just curious because you mentioned it in your staff report$uñ?ñ? that this is for te public so they can go by in the first of coffee. when is the ribbon-cutting of the new coffee shop that is coming into the very building? i think it is tremendous that it is mostly an african-american owned coffee shop. and one of the first that was started i believe in east bay, but there's so many vacancies in the ferry building right now we should be sobering every new

opening. and that concludes my comments and questions >> [kimberly brandon, president]. thank you commissioner, friday is the ribbon-cutting and opening readily coffee. >> [gail gilman, commissioner]. think it is what i was looking for. thank you >> [kimberly brandon, president] >> thank you alane for usually every detail report and again highlighted. i also want to start by extending the condolences to the family of larry peoples. it's always extremely inspiring to hear up and down the port all of our staff, regardless of your labor or you are already at the top the spirit to court and i think he exemplifies and we have heard so many stories now, but he is another example of the spirit and i guess the dedication to the port.

we are very lu full like him on our staff, i just want to again extend my condolences to his family and it is very nice since he is retired now for a few years that we can remember him and have many people at the port and they still remember him as very warm vivid memories, so thank you. again, only that there's a lot of things that you commented on in your staff report which are great. i had a couple of comments on the mission rock and to ask that when you do come back and obviously i'm these type of items, it seems like understandably there are now because of time and delay inflation and cost have gone up quite a bit. so, i would like to and i know you're not prepared to give us the full analysis today, you will be coming back and i just want to make sure that we have a comparison to what we initially thought was the return to both the developer and ourselves. and now what with the impact of

these increased costs what this is going to do in terms of our return so we have the full comparison. i know there was one comparison at the beginning beginning, we cover interim comparison and now alane you are nodding at think this is4dñ? her third terrace af not for comparison. so, unfortunately, the project is still very valid and very important and has great progress in terms of where we are and would love to see it in the facts of the streets and infrastructure are going. but as the thing drags on, as a project or exam, obviously the economic return is also dragging. so i think that we need to understand what we are stepping into and if there are any other positive things that we can look at going forward. obviously, getting this project completed and as we are now going through economic recovery, as soon as they can move this faster and i guess also, to understand whether the timelines of the project and how much has been slipped since our initial estimation.

if i was to ask commissioner branson, she would say the first glimmer of mission rock was, my god i don't know it was a decade ago and not even it was much longer. we are very glad that it is in the ground and it is moving, but i think each time that we hear about it there's always something else that happens in terms of the timeline or whatever. i know i'm not questioning that our partners are in our developer here is doing the best they can. but obviously, we need to know the reality is given that we are also looking at your own economic recovery for the port. so every project that gives another whammy, it hurts us as well. we just need to understand that. i'm not asking you to comment today and just asking to make sure that comes back in your report and that we just don't see the increase, which you've already alluded to here, but we get the full impact of that means in comparison to what we have seendeñ?ñ? before. that is my comments and i am really happy to see this moving

and i'm looking forward to the day we can walk around mission rock to the part to all of the buildings to be some moving in, et cetera and seeing that place come alive. i'm very excited to see that coming forward and i also want to know what is going to do it to us in the pocketbook. that is my comments, thank you. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. thank you, commissioner burton. >> [john burton, vice president] thank you and first off i would like to think commissioner ho, i think she is raising questions that general have been lurking around. so i think the point was well made and we need to try to figure out how things go. also, i want to say i did attend any whole says or any hallstead's event and it was i think about 300 people there, it was a wonderful turnout. i got to talk to her husband to i have not been able to talk to,

in fact i have talked to any since i talked to him. but i think it was just a wonderful turnout. the speaker was there, the senator was there, the mayor was there, plus they had a great tribute to a great person and a longtime friend of mine. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. thank you. vice president adams. >> [willie adams, vice president]. i also have condolences to the family ofw÷ñ?ñ? no no one there something being part of the poor and being on the commission of the love and that go out in the face of everyday that they could. ñ?ñ

no one in hearing about and half said and the political world that he came out and when he came out. [inaudible] she was also commissioner, was such an honor and i appreciate knowing like said there's something special about being on the port commission and you definitely know that we are the envy of every other commission, thank you. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. thank you. elaine thank you so much for your report and i really want to send my sincere condolences to mister peoples family for his dedication and all that he did to make sure that tññ?ñ?ñhe watt was a wonderful place for everyone and it was so good to

hear his colleagues speak so highly of him. and again, it just goes to show what a great staff we have and what a wonderful place the port is. it is so exciting that we are opening, the port is open for business! and we welcome people to the waterfront and we have so much to celebrate. we have juneteenth, we have so much going on that as my fellow commissioners said the port is such a wonderful place and we are open for business and ready for the recovery. thank you so much for that part of your report elaine. it's really good to see that the commission project and it has been able to continue throughout the pandemic. and it's really exciting that the shovel is in the ground and

we continue to put people to work and that we are going to have a beautiful new open space and that for the first time we are going to have to streets named after two phenomenal black women. i think that is absolutely wonderful. and of course, we do have to keep our eye on the balance sheets. and what all of this reallypñ?ñ? means to our balance sheet as we go through our budget. commissioner will help meet some great points about understanding what the project looks like going forward from a financial aspect. we love the fact that it is under construction and moving a lawn so we really do need to know the financial side of it. elaine, thank you again for your report and i'm so sorry that i missed the dedication to and hallstead, who was a true friend

and very committed to the waterfront. i was there with tears in spirit i was out of town on friday and i'm so happy that we are able to do this dedication and that so many phenomenal people showed up to pay respects to and and all of her contributions to the waterfront. thank you again for your report. the next items. >> item ten a required approval for quick build traffic and management changes this between mission street and broadway for the san francisco media puzzle transportation agency. this is in support of the city's vision zero sit traffic via goals. this is resolution 2125. >> good afternoon president to present brandon, vice president adams, i am in the environment planning division and we are here today to begin discussing the state enhancement project,

which is the ss mta transportation streetscape to promote safety, mobility and connectivity for all modes of travel. thank you for your comments a few weeks ago on may 205th. we also found valuable than many comments from that meeting.f?ñ?? since then, the project team has ?ñ? and loading in the very building areaybñ?ñ and progress on strengthening the promenade signings poles addressing cyclists and other wheeled users. today's meeting, we are requesting your consideration of approval for the phase one improvements in the central market area. we extend this to mission street to broadway. march on the s mda will provide a brief presentation that will recap the performance for this project. we'll describe the loading area and the ferry building area and how design has responded to the farmers markets needs. and the signage proposal to make the promenade safe and more comfortable place for pedestrians as we heard so much

about that last week. it is so central to the region for so many of the improvements that we have proposed here today. with that marc. >> thank you dan i appreciate it. my name is marc trager and i am a transportation planner with the sf mta industry section. i am joined by my colleague kayce hildreth you will also be available for questions or clarification of the presentation. dan, thank you so much for outlining and i think we will move on to the next life. thank you just a quick overview of the project area will be considered to be the safety project that extends between bryant street and broadway. with the proposal before you today the quick build is the mission street to broadway segments, which would repurpose the third travel lane and make other lane configuration changes to extend safety improvements

for pedestrians that we install first late last year between fulsome admissions oflkñ?ñ?e■ yr grade. there is also a segment between full seven bryant street that we would come back to this at a later time. as those included more substantial improvements. excite please. this is, as you all know, the central part of the waterfront where there is pressure on the promenade and the roadway is at its highest. we have so much activity going on here it is really wonderful to see things come back to life so it's important that we respond to that. and being such a congested and crowded, popular area there is pressure on the promenade and folks who are walking they feel we have long heard for many years, unsafe with faster moving people on scooters and bicycles in that area. at the same time, the roadway itself is filled with a lot of traffic often fast-moving and folks, families, don't feel safe in the current on street bike

lane. the idea here is to extend this to a protectedejñ?ñ? bikeway ale the. building up to broadway to provide us basic to the promenade and the embarcadero's roadway for faster moving folks on scooters and on bicycles to use this space. fortune that we take a balanced approach so we can make sure that we're serving all of the needs along the waterfront. transportation access so at f mta, is always on safety and unfortunately the embarcadero and the majority of it is on mission is zero high injury network. this is the limp toward limited number of streets in san francisco that account for disproportionate number of entry into fatal collisions. and washington street and broadway, these two intersections stick out unfortunately alongside the

entire corridor for having the highest number of especially pedestrian collisions. so, the focus of this project is to improve student safety to shorten crossing distances, exposure people to vehicular traffic and to provide again, a protected facility for people on bikes and scooters. but we also have this unique quality along the waterfront of the shared use promenade. again, we have heard time and time again for years, there is a lot of activity on the promenade. it just does not feel safe for a lot of folks. does not feel safe to share that with faster moving people and scooters, skaters and sometimes electric devices are prohibited. that has factored into this proposal well. then of course curb axis is important. we have a lot of courts tenants and businesses that serve and we have a lot of goods and the have to be offloaded safety we don't want to create a hazard to traffic or other people traveling along the waterfront. we will see here that this proposal does not just maintain but expands loading axis along

the waterfront. lastly, the embarcadero connects eight neighborhoods. it connects the regional transportation network, we want to get people to safety but it's also important that we maintain reasonable travel time so people can get about the city. slightly we shared this two weeks ago we shared more about our stakeholder engagement so i won't go into all of the details here. suffice to say, we were challenged by the pandemic and the difficulty of meeting in person with folks for instance having the traditional house with a larger community we appreciate all the stakeholder groups and their willingness to be with us in different ways. more digital meetings, smaller groups as opposed to larger gatherings we went to get back to the not-too-distant future. to which the greater community, instead of the open house and

having the facts she is surveyed to reach folks into their opinions of the proposal and to feed into the evaluation plan, we distributed this through community groups but also through a mailer, bradley, 217,000 addresses. we had a very good response rate on those survey responses. we have been very pleased at how this influenced the design. the ferry building farmers market is operated three days a week right in front of the ferry building and they have gone through some tough times. over the last year so the operators have been a key stakeholder group for us. next life please i want to share some details about our proposal and specifically how that affects their day-to-day operations, three days a week here. our proposalj9ñ?ñ? maintains 10f the existing linear feet of curb space that they manage today during former market hours. they use the loading bay immediately in front of the

theory building, which would be slightly shortened by this proposal. by about 8% so to make up for this in front of the new ferry plaza which we just spoke about, we are proposing to add an additional space there that they are able to use. we appreciate this is a change toaxñ?ñ? their operations whiche very finely honed and we appreciate their willingness to work with us and to try something new here. our design also supports the load in and load out of the market that happens in the early morning and the early afternoon. 's. you can see an image of this year were vendors can back up the rear of their vehicle to the rear of the promenade and this is quite simply the most efficient way for these vendors to move materials and goods in and out of the market at the very beginning and end of hour. this proposal would allow for this to continue, we are not proposing for anything physical along the frontage of the ferry building here. no concrete island@ññ?ñ? to me r

anything like that. this we stand ready to provide investor support with cones and signage and frames during the first few weeks to help people adjust to this change. as i will allude to in a moment, our evaluation plan will focus on a variety of things that will also zoom in on how this operation is working so we can stay nimble and make adjustments to how things work. next life please. we evaluate all of our projects as part of the process, but especially here for we have a quick bill that would be the larger capital project to make changes to more permanent. it is important that we are looking at the right thing sweet adjustments as needed. this project would include evaluation that would focus on the farmers market, loading operation and would focus as well on the extent to which people are moving off of the promenade and into this bikeway. if there are things that we need

to do to encourage them and to use this brand-new facility and to free up that space on the promenade. and to that point, we don't think an evaluation plan on its own is enough. to the implementation of this project would be joined by public education campaign which would include signage on the promenade to encourage people to use this new facility and to really promote the pedestrian priority nature of the promenade and two can see here some idea of science. but we want to pair positive messaging to share with people that there is a new facility here and this is how you use it. but to also, from the existing restrictions on electric devices that we have on the promenade today. scooters, you should be in the roadway here. we think this is also a great opportunity to spread the word about vision is zero generally in the responsibility that we have towards one another's safety that really, my behavior when i travel on the street is influencing whether someone else makes it home at the end of the

day and above all that is the most important thing. next slide please. just a quick overview of our time line between the last presentation to this commission be provided an update to the s mta board of directors on the various work that]5ñ?ñ? we haven doing on the transportationluñ?? waterfront. we are concurrently seeking funding to finish the design and implement this project. there is approved google hearing for the bundy with the board on the 22nd of this month. if approved and quotation of this a project would be closely coordinated with the ongoing san francisco public utilities commission work on the embarcadero north washington street. so this is to end limit to the community and again, we would pair this with an evaluation program to influence whether there are adjustments that woul? be necessary are what the next step for transportation for safety along the waterfront would be. next slide please.

what was that? again we are very thankful for you to have us here today to present on this project. we stand available dan and i to provide clarification questions or provide any additional information. but again, thank you >> [kimberly brandon, president] it. thank you dan and marc for the presentation. commissioners may have a motion? second. now let's open it up for public comment. we will open the phone lines to take public confines on item ten a, for members of the public. jennifer will be her operator and will provide instructions now for anyone on the phone he would like to provide public comments. >> thank you president brandon, at this time we would open the queue for anyone on the phone you would like to make public comments on item ten a. please dial * three if you wish

to make public comment. the system will let you know when your mind is open, others will wait on the mute until their line is open. comments will be limited to three minutes per person. the queue is now open, please dial * three if you wish to make public comment. >> [kimberly brandon, president] thank you jennifer, do we have anyone on the phone? >> yes president brandon, we have one color on the line at the moment. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. please open the line for the first color. >> okay. thank you. opening. >> hi commissioners this is janice lee and because the director at the san francisco bicycle coalition. i want to thank you again, for taking time to listen to this presentation is for your consideration for this project today. once again, i want to express our strong support for this project, this was a builder before you and i strongly urge you to vote yes on item today. i want to repeat what i said last week, but a couple of new

items to note. first, i would hold a meeting with and quotable folks equate it will be joining them at a next or early saturday morning, this saturday, to see them on loading and unloading operations and in my education, outreach and signage that could be improved upon to ensure safe passage for everyone. i would also like to highlight the letter that with the court commission dated may 201st. we look forward to working with all partners to ensure the concerns that they are dressing in particular we strongly support the asked for anything improving here. at the end of the day, when we vision with the shoreline and the embarcadero will look like and ten, 20, 50 years from now do we envision another double-decker highway? or how about a runner suited waterfront, or do we think that there can be something different something sustainable, something that is gorgeous and helps move people in the best way to enjoy the waterfront on foot, bike, where you can really taken the site and visit reports.

i hope you all will vote yes on this day and thank you so much for your consideration. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. thank you. are there any other colors? >> president brandon at this time there are no other colors on the line wishing to make public comments on this item. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. thank you, seeing as there are no more colors on the line public comment is done. let me start with commissioner burton. >> [john burton, vice president]. last week or last meeting, i can't remember which commissioner talked about another series of comments or questions you are talking about signs that encourage people to use the promenade and their bikes, it was in response to one

of the commissioners that and.÷i agree, it ought to be not under penalty but they are told to use the promenade and are not encouraging. did you change or make that change? because that was client of a clear direction for the two of us. yes what? >> yes, the signage will be included. right now it is the shared use promenade so folks are allowed to use as long as they are not on a bike 40 scooters. i know that this is something that you would like to bring is an additional action. [inaudible] >> [john burton, commissioner] this was late raised last week and obviously you were not paying attention to it. a major focus of the improvements is to provide a safe space for those who are

moving faster. all the wheeled vehicles whether electric or real lesson and put them in the dedicated pathway adjacent. >> i'm sorry the issue was no-no onjwñ?ñ? >> [john burton, commissioner]. the issue is you're going to have signs and encourage as opposed to those that directed. >> yes we are proposing, go ahead commissioner burton, we are proposing to have signs up that encourage all of those faster users to use the new facility on the roadway. >> [john burton, commissioner]. i think there was one vote i think there was another one that wanted you to direct. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. i think the policy of we as a commission need to look at because right now the promenade is a shared space but i think what what that commission is

really focused on is the safety of the pedestrians. we are trying to figure out this for all modes of transportation not just bicycles. i think maybe we need to look at our own policy to figure out how we can make our promenade safer for pedestrians also. >> [john burton, commissioner]. i agree with that madam chair, but we were talking about property that is under ouraññ?ñ? commission to do something, that's what they're doing. i am not, let me just go down this things because i was part of the group that names new director of mta, i have a long-standing relationship with ed risking. so the signage thing, and i want to come back, basically how do you notify people of what you

are doing? because as i recall there is a very scarcity, this is before covid we have had discussions with both the hearing on the new secretary or whatever. but also with ruskin andu0ñ?ñ?ñt seemed that the notification process is kind of lame. that notification process was very well organized things that if a few communities and noticeably my friends in the bicycle coalition, but other than that it is rather lame notification to the public. you do this by zoom, so we are resuming a lot of old people and

a lot of elderly and a lot of others who have not been doing zoom is that what you assume? >> commissioner if i may address your concerns. the outrage she was very multifaceted where we reached out to port tenants, the key players in the area and to citizens as well. s mta sent out 17,000 mailers to which the response rate was 1400, which is considered to be a very healthy rates. >> [john burton, commissioner]. ?ñ?? you said you sent out to 14,000 and you got what 10% or 1100% return? what was the percentage? >> it is a little less than 10%. >> [john burton, commissioner]. yet nobody would run for office getting a 10% return.

so you make your determination on the return of 10% of the group, which was not necessarily the whole compass in group. i will yield in the minutes. i was not in the neighborhood that gets some notices but i know people on the war that got no decision of the door at a time when madam chair i will yield back my times. i would really like a yes or no question when i ask a question, you don't have to agree the question but the point was raised by two people out of five about$sñ?ñ signage it should be clear. i'm overstating it. you can have your choice if you want to do this or you want to

do that, i will yield back my time and come back. thank you madam chair. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. thank you. >> [doreen woo ho] i have some comments but i want to address a little bit of what commissioner burton said. i believe that i asked the question of the last meeting and i got the answer that to the policy right now is that the promenade, which was the policy was put into place years ago before we had scooters and electric vehicles and electric bikes and everything else. when life was simpler and they were just pedestrians and may be bikes but other vehicles. in the policy rightyiñ?ñ? now te ports is that the promenade is6? open to more uses. i believe that i suggested that we had to revisit that the policy to make it up to date, given now that there are more modes of transportation. i believe that i did ask for that and i think that is sure main discussion to whether you

can simply encourage or you put a sign-up that says, you should be in this lane is what i think what commissioner burton's point is. it's not saying that you have a choice, it says you should be in this lane. now, we did talk about there's no way to enforce it and were not in that people giving out tickets, but we should have signage that is nearly direct saying, this is your lane and not encouraging you to go to this lane. i think that's what were talking about here, its semantics but it's important. i think and i think elaine if you are nodding your head, formally make a change in our policy to sit at the promenade is for pedestrians or whatever you want to say and the bike lanes over the bikes and other vehicles. and the roadway is for cars so if we have to make a policy change to be very clear about how we see the use of the different lanes then let's do that. so then we can have the right signage and then give the public the right direction of how we want the embarcadero to be used in front of the port.

so, i am very happy to hear and that i'll go back to my comments that satisfies commissioner burton's interpretation of what happens at the last meeting if i recall. wbtñ nox this policy. that should be a new item, or business item for you to look at. so you at the port can then have stronger signs. okay, we can't erase that to5j solve. the signage is a problem we can solve. i think that as far as all of the other issues, pedestrians, bikes and other kinds of vehicles and i think the safety and mobility and i would add another objective that we need to know is: this should be a smooth flow. there are two things that i want to recall. one, we had a color last time talking about being in a car and how frustrating it was to take forever to get through the embarcadero. and i don't think it's a

question of how many lanes of traffic, because we are reducing the lanes of traffic and they understand that in order to create the protected bike lanes. i think one question i did not raise last time, which i would like to mta to consider, if you have any would probably people would not speed if they felt like they're going to have enough time. can you think about synchronizing the traffic lights better #so that people in cars can get through and they won't be trying to speed up and therefore, because safety issues. i don't know whether synchronization of traffic lights on the embarcadero has been considered to ease the flow of autos, which is still a user and we cannot ignore and taking care of allcqñ?ñ?

the cruise ship is important, the traffic is just horrendous and it gets even worse. we talk about this a long time ago and i remember raising the question that we need more traffic cops out there and we need other people to direct the traffic because all of a sudden you have this increase of people either getting off of the boats, trying to do if the ship, people trying to get on the boat and that just creates and that's kind of auto traffic is unavoidable. these are not armies of people that suitcases and luggage and they cannot necessarily be in a pedicab, they can't walk, they can to go. they're gonna be in an uber or in the car. we need to think about was going to happen on the days when the cruise ship terminal is being actively used because that was a traffic nightmare. i remember once it took me a nightmare to get from one side

to the other side to fisherman's wharf. there has got to be a better way to manage that traffic flow. it's going to come back in spades in 2022 and we want that to cruise ship traffic. we need to figure out how to manage that flow, i would say there is more work to be done, i think what you have done so far as take care some of the basic safety issues which we should agree with vision zero, et cetera. i think there is more to be done here and to think about the flow of the traffic and not just a safety in the mobility. i have said piece. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. thank you. >> if i make some clarifications for the commission if i may. i'm going to grieve everything said, i just want to clarify that bicycles are allowed on the embarcadero promenade is a multi use pathway. but motorized vehicles and scooters are not allowed. that is an issue of enforcement. they are not allowed now, the

policy question is about bicycles and their continued allowance on the embarcadero promenade. and i also wanted to add some clarification to the signage question so last time the commission asked about signage. and was told no, we're not going to put signage up encouraging bicycles into the t wave protected bike lane and the answer now is that we will be putting signage up to encourage bicycles into that to a protected lane. we are not putting signs up that you are prohibited from the embarcadero because as president brandon and other commissioners have said, we have to have a policy change in order to do so. i just wanted to make this clarifying comments. thank you. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. it's a count chicken or egg, delaying, shouldn't we address policy questions before the signs are made? >> the policy question is a big question it has been considered before. there is a lot of consistent constituencies for allowing bikes on the embarcadero's and how we get into that policy

discussion you can hear from various stakeholders. i would suggest that the project is ready now and reading the signs up now and in views and we ñ?ñ? have ty conversation at commission. we can always add signage, it would require a change of our parked code. i believe it would require concurrence into the board of supervisors, it's quite a long process. i suggest that we move forward if you are comfortable with this project now with the signage that will be planned and then we have that larger policy conversation in the near term. >> what i think that we can do, this is going to be one of my comments. we can have signage that encourages bicycles to use that protected bike lane. positive messaging like let's see this beautiful new productive bike lane. but we should have, do i need to say again, someone who walks the promenade a lot we should have signage that says, you are not permitted to have and i don't

know how yout■ñ?ñ? do this froma visual perspective,ñ■ñ?ñ? motord bicycles. which increasingly they are, or motorized scooters things or whatever they are. those are prohibited and i would like to actually see signage that articulates that you have that little electronic thing that says they are prohibited and hello bicycles which are right now allowed to use. we would really love you to use this gorgeous productive bike langone until they come up that policy question i think it is a way to satisfy and i wholeheartedly agree with my fellow commissioners to satisfy that. i did also want to point out on the signage around the motorized vehicle and a productive bike lane that for the motorized vehicle signage, i actually would like to advocates that they are along the whole entire seven and at half mile stretch

of our water front. i don't know when technically the embarcadero ends and when it sort of becomes the street core door. but it should be, i would imagine, at least from trance want to or cuts in around the whole part of the what i call the embarcadero or the stadium is. i might be using my verbiage wrong but it needs to be the whole stretch that we are not allowing motor size vehicles on that stretch of the waterfront. it should not just be aware that quick bill projects have been. and then i would just hope that they encourage the signs are a long bench wire quick builds because it artie done entire sections and that were leading up to this one of them make sense. i apologize for my lack of geography and proper street name edge. i called all the embarcadero, so now i know when i'm walking to the part technically on third street. but to me in my mind until the embarcadero. to make sure that were not shortchanging parts of the southern waterfront that not

been privy to the quick build or areas around the stadium. i just want to be sure that would be equitable because i think the signage and pedestrian roadways is important to open the screens. and i am happy that we were able to find a way to accommodate the farmers market and i do want to commend staff on the work that you did with that. beyond those comments i am supportive quick build in this project. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. thank you. vice president adams. >> [willie adams, vice president]. [inaudible] >> [john burton, commissioner]. as i understand it and i could be wrong, parking and traffic is coming here to ask our permission and to ask our

permission to allow them to do something that was according to i heard, less than 10% of the people asked if it was a good idea, that dies neither here nor there. but as far as i'm concerned, we would be allowed to say on the property that we control, that the signage must must, not well yeah will think about it will get back to you. but as one commissioner, i'm only one guy because you have not got my vote so i get an affirmative answer to that. and i have dealt enough with bureaucracy i have lingering doubts about when i get back to you that's another way of saying that's a good idea will talk to some of the time.

it is a very easy a very easy answer to come back to. you came back to us on the farmers market and i think that was good. but i think it's a very easy thing for you to say. we really and i'm sure the votes are there, we really have the right to say forget the whole darn thing, which clearly votes aren't there. but my experience with the mta organization is, i'm just going on how few affirmative responses we don't need to go through through all of them, that lets you get permission to change streets, the stop streets and to do like that because not that is not what people were allowed to do believe we were created. you were created by the board of supervisors and then the people

of san francisco because the board did not want every week somebody wants to put up a self signed, take down the stop sign and do that. i just want to know for my own vote and probably the votes that helped me it does not matter, except it may or may not be around to create comments of the other commissioners that the signs just be clear and say that. >> commissioner burton, per your request others, we will create a signage that motorized vehicles must use his other. we can price the on the promenade and we can also create sinus that courage is on motorized passer users to do it. we would have to go back to work on the wording of these so that we are giving a clear message and not confuse users. you have the authority to do and was anything you want so i know

you can do that. what are we talking about? like other motorized vehicles[ñ? those are the scooter things and the one more of these dangerous and i'm happy with what you said. i like the fact that you came here and you are willing to listen to something. i apologize to my fellow commissioners. but that is one of the burdens that you have if you me hang around too long. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. thank you commissioner burton. vice president adams. >> [willie adams, vice president]. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. we cannot hear you. can you speak up a little? two. can you hear me now during?9rñ??

so i appreciate the presentation. i'm still little dominant but i will votes the way actually think. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. thank you. i think a lot of my questions have been answered. i think one of my questions were with the 17,000 addresses that were submitted. we were talking about them.

what is this mean. we mailed to these mailers deep into the neighborhood along the entirety of the neighborhood is not just the central area. i wish i had a map to show you, but it was very much deep into the neighborhood all up to chinatown. but we also reached out to the neighborhood association along the waterfront so they can distribute that to their own channel. so the barbary coast, if you could see that mason financial district and improvement district, all of these organizations that they were able to share as well. even though that number is low than 10% that is actually a very good response rate when it comes to survey research. i think more importantly receipted diversity of opinion through that survey. most folks said they don't travel through this area and a lot of people were saying that they wished we did more people were concerned about traffic rightly so. i think that proposal will

sponsor that but the project that is proposed■(ñ?ñ i think ts into account the differentldñ?ñs and tries to balance all of his needs well. we found that to be helpful. this survey. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. i guess my only problem is, at the waterfront we are here for all people. in the embarcadero roadway is not just for those who live or work in the area. because we all, no matter what participial or working, drive the waterfront and especially the tourists that are trying to get to fisherman's wharf. i think there should have been a bigger survey audience to see what the city feels about this roadway. because there's people across the street to the east the sand in the bike to work for them just going to bike to the ferry

building but for those of us who live throughout san francisco that have a harder time accessing the waterfront, especially on externally busy days. i drove the waterfront every weekday and it would take me 30 minutes to get from oracle park to the ferry building. and that is with two lanes. and not on a cruise day. i am just very cautious of when we are saying we are trying to get through modes of transportation along the embarcadero who are we trying to improve it for. is it for the pedestrians? is it for the cyclist? is it for the autos? are we taking everybody into consideration. if we are going to have these

dedicated lanes for the cyclist pedestrians should also be able to walk freely across the waterfront. cars should also be able to drive freely across the waterfront. so i keep saying, this is a balancing act because we have several modes of transportation and for me, it's not just the motorized vehicle it's all too plus wheeled vehicles on the promenade that make it extremely hard to walk. so whatever way and i agree with commissioner burton. whatever we can do to ease any type of vehicle transportation on the promenade would help. and i agree with commissioner and will hope that to do something to increase this speed

or flow of motor vehicles along the embarcadero. because it's just a big ball of congestion. and i'm not quite sure that solving for a bicycle lane is solving for what is going on along the route. >> i would say that we hear you and you are absolutely loud and clear and it's a difficult thing to articulate. the various competing needs on the embarcadero, it's very nuanced. but when you place a dedicated facility for scooters and for bikes on the promenade or adjacent to the promenade, the goal is indeed to make it safer and more comfortable to walk on the promenade,dñ?ñ? to reduce tt of interaction between people driving scooters on the roadway that happened today. as people are trying to negotiate out of loading zones and that sort of friction that is on the roadway today that

simply would not be there any longer. the idea is to give every mode of transportation zone space. so the streetcars in the center troubling street driving for delivery, people to get in between neighborhoods and the freeway, an area for scooters and bikes that is safer than the distinct from the promenade. and then the promenade of people can walk and enjoy the waterfront and enjoy the farmers market and enjoy the businesses. again, it's a difficult to show all of this is a wide roadway but we really are trying to accommodate each of these very important needs. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. thank you, so then when was%oñ?e lesson this policy was updated? >> ms. chair, this policy historic. and it originally dates back to the area in front of the bulkhead buildings to be for report purposes, which is a broad definition. and then when the embarcadero roadway was constructed and became the embarcadero promenade, the permits looks at

it as being public access and that it is the bay trail. that is not to say that it can't evolve and this commission could lead that evolution as director forbes has pointed out this would be a new business topic for this commission. and we could start that discussion. there are many groups and many constituents that would be interested in this change in how to fix things. and we would do a broad out to reach length of the waterfront and ultimately it would be subject to the board of supervisors approval. so if this commission wants us to take that on that is something that could occur. in the meantime, were trying to sell for all modes. were not trying to favor cyclists, the largest improvement appears to be for cyclist but in moving the wheeled vehicle off of the promenade it really helps pedestrians on the promenade and

it also helps shorten the crossing distances at these dangerous intersections so it's crucial for safety. and there's a lot of attention by mta being paid to, how do we make sure we get as much movement through as we possibly can? how do we make the operate smoothly? including the traffic signal timing, which is very much big adjusted and tweaked for that to movements. their wonderful comments that we are hearing and it thinks it helps this team refined actions. including refining the messaging on the science and do if instructed, move forward and we will absolutely take that to heart. and to fulfill those requests i hope that addresses some of your questions there. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. it does and i just want to say that we are not taking the cyclist off the promenade they still have the option to begin the fight fight for the promenade which i think is part

of a larger discussion that were trying to have. sure burton. >> [john burton, commissioner]. i think the chair for her comments just have to find, i am in the middle of the business of getting votes in losing boats. and if anybody told me that less than 10% turn out and determine the outcome of the future of the waterfront or anything else, i would find somebody else to do the pole? it's just that i need to get off of this but they need to get an idea and they go within the that is it, if you ask anybody in the city if parking in transit and who do they favor more than anybody else? i never had enough money for a

bike during the depression, but it is the bikers. that is the theory if you ask the voters, it would be more than 10% so that is one of the things that we in the small area of the waterfront have to deal with. and i commend you for your willing to go back and look at it. but i wonder if my fellow supervisors and i would've started raising the same issue that we raised at the last meeting if you would have even given it a thought. so give what happened today i believe, it is a learning curve and a learning position and i congratulate on the fact that you didn't. notwithstanding as i said earlier, you probably had every vote but mine with the conditions that you put in. i feel very confident that we

will be a unanimous commission vote. although, we are never to speak to somebody else's votes before they cast it. thank you madam chair. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. thank you commissioner burton. >> [doreen woo ho]. i am not sure, if we were to vote today if trusting that some of the issues that have been raised and i'm not sure while i appreciate dan and the folks from the mta they that the question and comments they made or we may have been taken into consideration, but i guess we know that it was gonna happen for the bikers in the motorized bikes. i'm not sure if we see a enough of the concrete how are we gonna solve some of theú■ñ?ñ other iss concretely. and if there is a game plan for how we are we can change the policy? so if you ask me i would be more comfortable for you to come back to tell us, i'm not saying i don't support us inm+ñ?ñ? the lg run, but i am sort of like given

that we have to raise some of the same issues again that we raised last time. and you did raise the farmers market and need to solve some of that, but some of the other questions were not resolved and if we had not raves to them and commissioner burton started the discussion, they were kind of like well as you said to be dealt with down the road. and we don't know what down the road is going to be. so, i would prefer to have a plan that comes back at the very concrete think this is what we can do about this, this and this. even if you can't accomplish that immediately i would prefer to have that before i voted. that's not to say that i don't support this project, but i'm not convinced that you're going to do everything that we have asked for. not the language of the signs, what you are going to do about to have the traffic lights, if the first time dan you've said anything about traffic lights being synchronized. i don't know if they are not far

i have not driven on the embarcadero for a while. we need proof, as i said, we need some proof. i think we are speaking for the citizens of san francisco, we are not being narrowly based here think were trying to solve for everybody here. i think that is our fiduciary responsibility to make sure was going to happen for sure. not hearing and saying it will be dealt with in the future. >> this is kayce hildreth with the sf mta it is good to see you all again. i would like to and i appreciate this discussion or having to think it's critical to go back to the discussion that we've had over seven years with literally dozens and dozens of public meetings coming to this commission. well over half a dozen times. i want to be clear that the staff did hear the commissioners two weeks ago and we are committing to signage that both

encourages and directs bicyclists onto the to a bikeway. what we heard and what we have worked on we showed an image of a new sign explicitly taking advantage of the existing restrictions of motorized vehicles, electric vehicles. we will commit to providing signage that indicates that electric vehicles are not allowed on the promenade or should be used on the bikeway. dan spoke to the policy challenge of going to the next step further and instead of restricting all-wheel devices. some of which report vehicles, you have operation vehicles that are bicycles currently and electrical vehicles that use the promenade. it is a difficult to unpack and just a couple of weeks looking at the broad range of policies. we are very clear that we are moving forward with the plan to implement those specific signage recommendations. we don't have a full signage plan developed and ready to go,

that is part of our construction stage of developing the designs for implementation. the second piece is that our approach, our entire approach to the central embarcadero does reflect concerns and skepticism from many stakeholders, many of whom also trust us that we are going to be there in evaluating these improvements and making adjustments as needed. with the whole point of the cookeville program is we are tackling really serious safety issues. but they are not a reversible, if we do make a mistake and if we are missing something they are relatively easily adjusted. that approach is that we are not going full cloth with some major capital project. we are going to take this in stages and i would encourage the commission if you can, supports moving forward. we were certainly come back with more details prior to implementing things on the embarcadero, but in terms of teeing up approval and funding to move forward to actually get

the money to do that and that type of design, we are really hopeful that we can get your support today to keep our other approvals at the sft board and the board of supervisors in terms of getting that funding and moving forward. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. com■ñ?ñ?issioner burton. >> [john burton, commissioner]. i kind of disassociate myself with my fellow supervisors and i think we would all be better served because i tell you, i'm not going to say that because it would not be the right thing. but i would rather you come back with the firm plan to tell us what to do rather than saying trust us. because out my experience is the last thing that you can trust is trust us we are going to do the

right thing. because you did not come back and i am kind of reversing what i said with my fellow commissioner gave me. you didn't come back with the simple plan that we wanted you had to get pushed to the wall to do that and i for one, i don't know the parliamentary procedure here or i would make a substitute to motion to put it off until you come back with your firm plan. once you get rid of us you will go to the board and you will go to your own commission who i doubt they are going to tell you what you did is not right. it's the board of supervisors and i for one would just as soon see that the matter put over and you come back with this is what we will do. with all respect and say this is what we can't do because it does not make any sense under charter. the more i think is in my

business if all you got was a 10% return and you don't know how many were yes or knows that is not a great endorsement of getting a project through. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. thank you commissioner burton. mister gilman. ron you. >> [gail gilman, commissioner]. this is a great conversation i really admire the comments for my feller commission nurse but i guess this is something but i get aside this i wanted to spend one more minute to move forward because part of my understanding is that the quick bill, this is what this project is called is because we are trying to move it forward. and in somewhat of an expedited way that parts of the analysis and study is that it can be moved or shifted, the lanes in the structures based on to writer and pedestrian and card

feedback. please correct me if i'm wrong anyone from the mta. while we have overall concerns about moving all through the embarcadero, i guess i do see it as a cohesive plan the whole movement around the embarcadero. three things that i wanted to call on with my fellow commissioners. it seems right obvious that we were doing as restricted motivation for vehicles for the promenade, which we need to revisit in our code. and we cannot do that today and it would be of much longer conversation. from roller skaters to baby strollers to bicycles that are not motorized i did see in your presentation clear signage that said motorized vehicles will not commit it on the promenade and encouragement and maybe we can make a stronger language around police bicycles or motorized scooters uses protected by

claim. i guess i would hate to see as blocking this to our next meeting in june and disrupt the schedule for the mta commission and the board of supervisors on a project and i know that many bicyclists and other pedestrians have been supportive of in some ways lobbying us to move forward. i guess i'm just trying to figure out a way to move forward with my fellow commissioners where we get the commitments that the signage for those two things that are inappropriate today that happen. that we have a new business item but looking for what they use the promenade is and i think we have a separate item which really should be: again if it goes all the way to that to hunt 80 freeway by the culturing station all the way through to the high street peer. how do we move traffic along the embarcadero in that stretch from the giants stadium all the way through the high street terrace?

and also through the marina green, that is the whole stretch that were talking about from a traffic perspective and to me that is a separate item that we try to work with the mta on, that is just one suggestion to my fellow commissioners to hear that. if not i understand. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. thank you. >> [doreen woo ho], commissioner] i respect what commissioner gilman said, i guess being on this commission for a long time this discussion for the embarcadero has gone for a long, long time. i think even from the first time with a quick bill project was even resurrected as an idea i think that it was probably almost two years ago, elaine you could tell me if i'm right or wrong but it is certainly more than a year ago. i am asking for in two weeks come back and tell us very concretely, what you are going to do about some of the issues we have. i'm not saying solve everything but at least have a plan. because this is the only time

and maybe others will prove differently that we have some leverage to make sure. i've asked some of these questions before and i think i'm not sure whether particularly on the flow of autos, we have never had any great response on that from the mta. it's always been about the bikes. and i am a hundred% in favor of the safety of the pedestrians and the bicyclists and the motorized vehicles. the auto question has always been like treasuries always like it is what it is. and yet, those of us who have been on the cars in our own embarcadero note that experience is like. i imagine to her, it is the experimental does not give people a good impression of san francisco. i think there has to be something more concrete that is where i stand. the only time that we have any leverage to make you come back to us and say, this is exactly what we will do to address these issues. they may not be solved yet leave policy is going to take a long

time and said, if i vote today yes and i am supportive of the concept. but two weeks does give you time to come back and say specifically what you're going to say. this is the only time we have leverage otherwise if we vote today we are out of the picture and you can keep moving on and the nearest can be going on as commissioner burton said. i go to the mta, the board of supervisors and these issues will still be hanging there and elaine will have it coming back periodically may be under some updates. but this issuemdñ?ñ? is not todd we have not raised this the first time. few in ago back in the minutes these issues have been raised in the past for the last several years. unfortunately, casey andñ?ñ? mar you are not the people that wec, spoke to at the time. you are new to us from that standpoint but i would say that we have at other people from the mta come to us about the embarcadero. this is obviously an issue that we have had four. i want to be supportive of the

quick bill but two weeks is not to kill anything from the standpoint that this is been going on for years. >> [kimberly brandon, president] thank you. any other comments? commissioner burton? tuesday? we cannot vote yet. >> [john burton, commissioner]. if i can with the commissioner says makes sense. in two years or two weeks ' project you have a shaky project. like i say, no know what the places that i've moved i'm not gonna do that with the chairman of the project. if you say two weeks is going to screwed up then you have a pretty bomb project. >> [kimberly brandon, president] okay, so commissioner woo hoo.

>> [doreen woo ho], commissioner]. yes are you amending the motion? see five. i am amending the motion to say that i would like the mta come back to working with dan, specifically addressing some of the issues. like dan or elaine, from the ports perspectives that we are clear. last time i guess we did not laid out specifically and today we learned some new things. about the policy et cetera et cetera and how long it takes. so we can hear and that we have a plan on all fronts that we mention today. i rather not announce and articulate that i would rather 16q¿::::::::k asking for. >> i can take a shot at it to good and what's next if we continue articulate the item that will be on july 14th, so four weeks away. with the commission is looking for is a clear plan on the signage, a very clear signage

plan. and that includes encouragement of i'm sorry prohibition of motorized vehicles on the embarcadero and into the bike lane. encouragement of cyclists to use the protected bike lane. and other full signage plan and more clarification on autos and how autos have been considered in terms of movement of autos in the specific question on synchronizing the singles. and whether that is possible. and finally clarification on the outreach plan and to that went to and we talked about the less than 10% response and maybe similar comparisons for mta outreach and response rates so the commission can be. does that capture everything

that the commission is interested in getting concrete answers to before moving forward? have i missed anything? >> [kimberly brandon, president]. and i think you can up with the policy question on the table which i know want to be resolved in two weeks. >> absolutely,fñ?ñ? that is more important research less for the mta but forfrñ?ñ? us to do some research in the multi use nature of the embarcadero and to understand the timeframe of having a policy discussion to use bicycles on the embarcadero. and what that would take to engage in that policy conversation and to make a policy change. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. give anything? mister ibrard says that? three. put the overage so we know what they're doing what we are doing? absolutely. i'm >> [kimberly brandon,

president] so we have a as amended. >> s on the substitute motion to postpone the diadem. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. i president adam i >> [willie adams, vice president] i commissioner burton >> [john burton, commissioner] yes. >> commissioner burton and commissioner gilman. >> [gail gilman, commissioner] yes. >> commissioner wu half the five yes. >> [kimberly brandon, president] the motion passes as amended thank you. hungry item 1100 a is an informational presentation regarding a proposed ordinance for anti- proposed riposte to a life amending. >> this is mike martin this is an important director for handing over the legislative

affairs manager to continue with the presentation. honestly as i watch the hearing today, i think my remarks are really in keeping with a lot of early, stern executive director's report in the commissioner conversation about the reopening of the waterfront i think we are all feeling strongly about the listing of the orders help orders the return to a relatively more normal life that we could see before the pandemic in case of the waterfront were hoping that means crowds. were hoping that more peoplennñ? coming down to enjoy the recreational opportunities and the#fñ?ñ? things that we hold d. the pandemic at the same time have far reaching pandemic on many many people in one of the things that were sitting along the waterfront uptake and vendor activity as people look to that entrepreneur effort to make ends meet and to make a living to get there. so, can you have that activity to look at as a way to strike a

balance to get both things? that can sort of uphold opportunities that enliven our waterpark waterfront and give people a different experience in between desk and at the same time still safeguarding the health and safety for those that just want to get buyer for those who just want to see something or for those who did the job. and so we think there's a way with the help of an ordinance that was just introduced the board of supervisors to a formal pilot program out onto the porch property help us strike the balance. today we are goingsññ?ñ?ñ to gia little bit of an informational presentation to draw the general picture were looking at and set the stage for further discussions about more specifics pilot program. we are looking for your feedback and that of the public as we start that process and hopefully come back and subsequent meetings too late to find this more closely. so with that i will hand it off to the boards taken it from here. >> good afternoon commissioners i am from external affairs team

and i before you is an informational presentation as michael mentioned regarding a proposed ordinance introduced last month by supervisor aaron peskin to regulate mobile bending on ports property and to the context that led us to the development of this ordinance. next slide please. this project complies with the number of our port wide strategic goals: including equity by investing in the program that offers new economic opportunities to historically disadvantaged communities of establishing rules that will allow for all residents and visitors to safely enjoy the natural recreational benefits of our inclusive waterfront. next slide please. by way of background in september of 2018, then governor jerry brown signed senate bill 946 into law. sb 946, also known as the safe sidewalk bending act

decriminalized street to bending in public spaces across california. in prohibited cities from requiring vendors to operate and specific parts right-of-way unless directly related to health, safety, welfare concerns. the intent of the law was to create entrepreneur opportunities for immigrant and low income communities. to increase access to desired goods that was culturally significant food which indicts, to contribute to a dynamic streetscape and to support properly regulated sidewalk bending. sb 946 out liens what cities can and cannot do re-creating regulations. again, the intention of the law is that the cities do not unjustly hinder sidewalk vendors from lawfully venting. california's cities scale cities cannot place restrictions on funding and commercial areas unless the restrictions are related to objective it safety

or welfare concerns. we can however what permits for a bending call for compliance with other laws like, the american disabilities act for example. san francisco is an existing benzene or regulations are captured in the police code amongst others. enforcement of san francisco's existing law is authorized through police imposition of criminal infractions and misdemeanors. (sb) 946 prohibits san francisco's ability to enforce local violations of the existing bending laws. next site please. over the past year, bending activity picked up a number of locations along the waterfront, most notably fisherman's wharf but also in the vicinity of the ferry building and other locations were foot traffic persistent despite the covid-19 public health orders. (sb) 946 limitations on venting enforcement left the city with

limited ability to address the impacts of these vendors. in service to raised raised from traffic issues to compliance with existing food preparation protocol on unpermitted alcohol sales, adherence to the city's social distancing requirements and overall sidewalk congestion, particularly near peer 41 and the little embarcadero. next slide please. in response to the issues raised by residents merchants and to arrest, and the ports they convened an inner agency working to address violations of other relevant regulations. including park and trapping cycling issues, adverse to masking and social distancing and violations of public health code. the ports along with the department of public and environmental health team provided weekly education warnings and multilingual notification fires to each vendor insisting that they comply with public health

orders. in some instances, repeat offenders failed to reply or implied with orders heather carts confiscated. in response to these health and safety concerns on may 18th, supervisor aaron peskin introduced in order that supervisors that established a pilot program with regulating vending on port property in compliance with the requirements of state law. next slide please. the ordinance that introduced is is included and its attachment a of your report. first and foremost, you have all been briefed on our existing city code and provisions as (sb) 946 it establishes new bending definitions and standards. the ordinance authorizes the creation of a new pilot department per mining program that prioritizes health and safety while expanding economic opportunities for those that aspire to them unlawfully. as currently written, it will require to prominently displayed

mobile vendor permits for anyone venting on ports property. the ports conditions required a fee, business tax, registration and additional requirements for food vending pursuant to the health and fire codes. under guidelines established in (sb) 946, the ordinance also enacts good neighbor policies and administer citation protocol answer employee requirements in the program's efficacy. if adopted, the ordinance will authorize the port commission to adopt a specific time, place and vendor requirements for venting along the waterfront. next slide please. this is the tentative schedule for the adoption and ordinance and subsequent meetings for the approved sidewalk to bendingk֖? rules and regulations. the first board of supervisors hearing on supervisor peskin's legislation will take place on july 12th. the following day will bring an action resolution to you endorsed the legislation before its first read before the full

board of supervisors on tuesday july 19th. if approved by the board of supervisors on the 19th, the ordinance would have its second read on july 206th and could be signed into law by the mayor as early as july 30th. this is the best case scenario schedule, our goal is to work with supervisor peskin's office to pass legislation in advance of the board summer recess this august. we will work to bring you additional items with proposals and regulations in july, with the target date of august 10th for an action item to authorize adoption of time, place and manner regulations. the ordinance will become effective 30 days after the mayor's signature. ñ?ñ?ñ in response to the proposed ordinance support staff is developing approaches to a number of issues as we see is critical to launching a successful pilot program. these include developing a permit application process and associated documents, fortunately, we have excellent examples developed by the city of santa monica to utilize a

starting point. we're also working on appropriate time place and man your appropriations including a map of locations that support staff authorities are appropriate for venting and not impede the sidewalk, path of travel or the enjoyment of natural resources and recreational opportunities of the waterfront provides. with the mayor's office of economic workforce development, were developing an outreach education and technical assistance support strategies used to ensure earlier programs are attractive and accessible to inspiring vendors who want to make sure that vendors who seek to vent lawfully are not impeded by cost. or lack of information. this will include bilingual workshops and written collateral, finally, we want to propose an enforcement approach that complies with the ordinance and leverages the coordination of other agencies that have regulatory jurisdiction over various types of venting covered in the program. this is a work in progress and her first of many discussions we will revisit all policy that is

necessary and recommend policy decisions needed to balance and offer new economic opportunities for vendors. while establishing rules that will allow for all residents and visitors to safely enter our waterfront. it includes an in conclusion we would like to thank the numerous city staff including representatives from the city a minister's office, small business commission, city attorney's office, department of public health, public works, as fpd, newer support staff and of course supervisor peskin for taking on this complicated issue. we also would like to recognize in the work of whose work is closely involved in courting outreach and coordination efforts in recent months. this concludes our presentation and where available answer your questions. thank you. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. thank you. now let's open it up for public comments. you're welcome and you can open the phone lines now and for the comments of 1100a, the members of the public for joining us on

the phone. jennifer will be our operator and will provide instruction now for anyone on the phone who would like to provide public comments. >> thank you president branson, at this time we will open the queue for anyone on the phone who would like to make public comments on item 1100a. please dial * three, 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 mind is open. comments will be limited to three minutes per person. the key was now open. please dial * three if you wish to make public comment. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. thank you jennifer is anyone on the phone? >> yes president brandon, we have six colors on the line. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. please open the lines the first color. will do, thank you. opening the first line now.

>> yes, can you hear me? great brian hayes here i live in the quad part required to part and i watch the embarcadero developed and therefore up in the freeway come down into its president our present condition. i just want to complement the four of those to make this done and it's a beautiful job on the embarcadero. it's magnificent and it is a showpiece to the world. i'd also like to say i was so inspired by the ports work that i was one of the original founders of save aquatic park. , because that was one of the last properties on the port of san francisco that was really a public eyesore. it was falling down and in disrepair and out project really has evolved and within ten years i believe are going to have a

brand-new aquatic park. so, i think aaron and dustin twice about his funding for that. aaron peskin, leaves in the port of san francisco and wanted to be the best waterfront in the world. now here we are with the illegal vendors on peer 41 in the ferry building, it's an eyesore. so all of this hard work that i've been listening to for the past couple of hours is really, the public sees the fishing door and is very popular. maybe more popular than the very building but that's what the tourists in the public see. we don't want to do all of this hard work and spend a hundred and $20 million on the aquatic park peer to get that redone to have an eyesore on peer 41 done by the ferry building. it is really an eyesore.

jp peskin to create a pilot program that is controlled but regulated. i just can't be a bunch of t-shirts flopping in the wind, like a laundry mat. we need something our pilot program that is regulated and controlled and one vendor does not need ten vendors one vendor meets one vendor. i am encouraging the commissioners to work with aaron peskin's idea for limited pilot program and to see that go through. so i think you very much. i think you have done some bravo, i'm a hard greeter and you guys get my support to get an a+ on our magnificent waterfront. and aaron peskin, i salute him one more time and the leadership role to develop the waterfront

to be the most wonderful waterfront in the world. thank you. >> [kimberly brandon, president] thank you. next color please. okay, thank you. i am going to the next line please. >> good afternoon commissioner and commission and president brandon vice commissioner adams. this is lee hefner from supervisor desmond's office. i am just calling in to speak briefly to the legislation that was mentioned in his report. he really did say it all and there will have more and it will be set as a move to the legislative process. but i want to echo the notion that this is a truly broad and collaborative interdepartmental efforts and everybody from dph to public works to fpd, to the port and even with ebd with

window scar and lauren schaefer deserve credit for their efforts to collaborate on an education outreach program that has gone over the last several months. this has raised awareness about the issue in a productive way and really created a foundation for the legislation introduced last month, which again will create a limited pilot program along the port property to allow this behavior to continue but in a fashion that is more mindful of the public health and safety rationale and the public health needs i should say of the port and members of the public. it is an opportunity to create economic opportunity while respecting the unique lands escapevqñ?ñ? of the port and the unique needs of the beautiful waterfront property. i just wanted to chime in and say that, thank you again to boris and director forbes. jennifer at the administrator office has been an incredible mess and i look forward to

returning, i believe joint 13th that you will be hearing this item again. we will be hearing it hopefully on july 12th at the transportation committee so more or less concurrently. and i look forward to moving this legislation through the process. thank you so much. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. thank you. next caller please. >> okay, thank you. opening the next line. >> good afternoon executive director, commissioners, my name is taylor stafford on the presidency over here appeared to nine. my background used to be a seasonal activity at the wharf and something that occurred only on busy days like july 4th. but the problem has suddenly grown and is now become a daily health and safety risk to visitors that is to be corrected as soon as possible. this pilot program is a great first step. my awareness of the series of the health problems associate with the food handling practices by these unlicensed vendors, first occurred in april 2019, 1

of her 39 employee discovered a box of unrefrigerated bacon wrapped hotdogs in the bushes outside of peer 39 garage. shockingly, this food was being served thereby the hotdog vendors and backup supply supply in case they ran out. peer 39 spanish-speaking authorities have been interacting with the employees to work with the unlicensed car and i've learned that the gang that has no control the work area see market demands rights payments from the other vendors of protection exchange amenities and court employees are working to pay a debt for those who help them get into this country. unlicensed and illegal alcohol sales are happening every day at the wharf and the sales that are happening there are not benefiting disadvantaged person by giving him or her a hand up. they are benefiting the highly opportunist and it with the same problems that some of you have heard about that happening right now in san diego to santa monica. the situation has been allowed to go on for far too long is

time to take steps to protect the health and safety of our visitors and also our hard earned reputation as a premier visitor destination. i encourage you to support this pilot program and to take whatever additional steps are necessary to put reasonable controls on unlicensed vending throughout the wharf. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. thank you. next caller please. >> thank you. putting the next line on. >> thank you, president brandon, vice president adams, director forbes my name is randall scott the executive director for the fisherman's wharf community benefit district. i started working to draw attention to the problem about two years ago. and i would like to think supervisor peskin's office, lee hefner in particular. and mike martin of the port. and doris'. [inaudible]

for working with me to try and move this forward and i am very happy to see legislation being proposed. it is the healthrcñ?ñ? and safey problem primarily imperial events were looking at as well as the beautification of the waterfront. if you watch the marketer you can even see it. that is how dense the tents are there. we really are looking forward to partnering with the city and all the various partners to have gone into this. it's a very complex problem, but i believe at the end of this week and really promotes and really partner with them local underserved communities that can be helped and obtained his permits and will help them. known a lot with what we have now which is unlicensed and then were good and unsafe environment. our tour listing and local people.

thank you so much free time and support. we look forward to talking to you on july 13th. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. thank you. next caller please. >> thank you. opening the next line. >> holy guacamole, hey this is from anderson here. thank you for working on this. i don't know if you walk to the wharf recently but yes, it is getting a bit chaotic down there i was at her 39 on sunday and i would think there is about in the two blocks from pier 39 the sand for skin restaurants, there's about a hundred vendors right now. getting a handle on it would be very, very nice. that's all i gotta say. in doi,tñ?ñ?ng any of those hots because apparently they've been

in the bushes for. b1.hgñ?ñ thank you. next caller please. >> thank you, opening the next line. one. hello? my name is paul miller, vice president of operations for free. we fully support the ports effort to create and implement unlicensed vendor program. the parts have history of such situations with these scenes and night scenes and regular artisan performers on the port. years back there was a musician's program that we have implemented, also the artist program of by a daily square.

this information of the promenade is more complicated and needs to be addressed and controlled. the little empire kundera promenade is not sanitary or safe place for the millions of tourists that visit them and visit san francisco. the ports program will ensure that the area is vibrant in a welcoming place for visitors. unlike any location, san francisco situation has created a hazard for the visitors and businesses in this area. it interferes with the public ask us to other businesses, it interferes with public access to the promenade, it interferes with public access to the parking lot and interferes with public access to the little embarcadero roadway. in closing, we want to think supervisor peskin and fully support this legislation and encourage the support of the commission also. thank you. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. thank you. we have anymore callers?

>> yes president brandon, we have about five more colors on the line. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. okay, next caller please. >> okay, thank you. i'm going to the next line. >> good afternoon commissioners, my name is marc leeson i'm here speaking on behalf of a law office. [inaudible] in san francisco he is unable to be unaligned today but he is asked me to add our support and applaud,eñ?ñ? bringing this legislation forward. our members are union other service unions have a history of getting around the fishing wharf area have been made aware of exploited employment practices that are happening to these vendors. these vendors are not often to arrest, but rather they have overseers who exploit them and there are stories of workers

making uneven half of what minimum wage would be in san francisco. as they perform these tasks. we want to make sure that everybody who is employed in san francisco enjoys the same standards that the hospitality industry. into that end, we hope that you will see to it that the concerns that we have about the employment practices with these vendors is investigated and is remedied and is certainly that they are not adhering to simple minimum laws, they shut down. you very much. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. thank you next caller please. >> thank you opening the next line.

>> good afternoon port commission, i'm calling in today because i have seen the various illegal vendors all over the city. there is a problem with the port area especially at spear 39 in the ballpark. there is extreme evidence others problems wellness carts carts. there's no refrigeration and no way of verifying that the food is serving as clean and healthy. the city is taking a serious risk by allowing his carts to offer that regulation. today i'm encouraging the commissioners support this project placement today. thank you's much for your time. >> [kimberly brandon, president] can you please state your name? >> patricia. >> [kimberly brandon, president] thank you tricia. next caller please. >> thankw?ñ? you, opening the line next. the hello good afternoon my name

is sue with pier 39 i support this pilot program. the illegal vendors situation is predominantly a health and safety issue. the air unregulated and unsanitary, it will be a negative reflection on your 39 and fisherman's wharf and the waterfront when someone gets hurt or sick. this needs to be remedied. listening to the pilot program sounds very encouraging. thank you. >> [kimberly brandon, president] thank you. next caller please. >> okay, thank you. opening the next line. >> hi, my name is judith reed and i regular take my children down to the embarcadero and there is the most aggressive out-of-control vendors that i have ever seen. one of them tried to sell my teenage son abeer and i hope this legislation will prevent

future illegal vendors and other serious issues that people so people can bring our beautiful city back to the way it has been so we can enjoy it so much. i want to thank you all so much for your comments. this really means a lot to me. thank you. >> [kimberly brandon, president] thank you. next caller please. >> okay i think this is the last caller on the line. but open outline now. hello, my name is dan roth and i own stanley steamer hotdogs. and i have actually, i am the first legal food vendor in san francisco since 1974. i wanted to think supervisor peskin, scott and anybody who is worked on this. the illegal carts have basically put legal vendors like me out of business. and i just wanted to relay something that happened to us. at christmas of last year, they were about 40 of these cards in

union square. and i justiiñ?ñ? politely askedf they would just move to the corner. there are five on each side of us. and they were targeting us to try to make sure that they took our sales. and then put us out of business. when i asked them nicely, they made a phone call and somebody came about five minutes later, came up to my wife and i, put his finger in my chest and said, be careful my friend we know who you are. we know where you store your carts. and if i were you, if you don't like is here i would fire you i would leave. that has been our experience, it has terrified us and we have 100% health code and it is a safety issue and they have no refrigeration, no protection against bird droppings, coughs, see sneezes and we pay the city and was $15,000 a year for our commissary in union square

garage i really support this law and thank everybody who has worked on it to protect our business and the people of san francisco and the city. thank you. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. thank you do we have any other colors? >> president brandon, it looks we have one last caller. >> [kimberly brandon, president]. please open the line. okay, thank you opening that line now. >> good afternoon commissioner this is david berube with spano's restaurant and accompany retail store and a longtime tenants. just what i'm hearing the most important aspect of this legislation is trying to address the the ceo and president of 39 stated, this is not intrapreneurs getting a leg up, these are criminal element that have infiltrated our work endeavor waterfront and that is now entrenched.

but they are bringing is not only unsightly, unhealthy, and obviously criminal issue issues but a cancer that we would never be able to get rid of if we don't immediately take this. i urge you, again to support this legislation going forward and think supervisor peskin for supporting and bringing this forward. thanktñ?ñ you. >> [kimberly brandon, president] thank you are there any other colors? >> yes president brandon, there is number caller on the line. okay and another hand just raised so we have two and i will unmute the first line. hello, my name is paris lane i'm with carol entertainments. i called to the port authority

state department program i'm part of it and i just want to say that we pay a fee, regular fee to have our bands and all of overman physicians to play down at the port authority. the same spots for all of those vendors are on as well. we are musicians, we are starving, we are trying to work and we are trying to survive as well. i support this program and i hope and i pray that it goes through because this cannot continue, you cannot have one group of people who are penalized and have to pay money to be down there and others who just can come as they please. as i have stated before, we are musicians. covert it is very hard, we are out of work.

i just hope that this legislation goes through. thank you very much. >> [kimberly brandon, president] thank you. next caller please. next caller please. >> thank you, opening theq; >> hi my name is sunshine and i think you all of the best advice begin rhyme, but today am a little more furious. i was one of the founding members of the performers program. i performed on the wharf for a very long time i enjoy bringing joy to what i do to the city of san francisco, this tourist, neighbors and friends. having worked or have not worked for about a year and a half because i observed the rules, i stayed safe from covert for myself and everybody else concerned.

memorial day weekend i went down to the wharf to see what was going on. it was an eyesore. i was embarrassed. i was embarrassed to say that this was sanj i just photographed and vote for them to the ports and i will also forward them to the commissioners and the press. the generators for gas generators, five to ten electric cords coming out of them they are going through the air like the booths. radios blasting louder than they musicians would play. tables within 3 feet of each other, vendors having eight, ten and 15 tables at each stands. wall-to-wall from 41 all the way down to the san francisco

restaurant. on top of the few shows that were trying to set up more performers came running up to me sing sunshine, they will listen to you do something. they bullied me and threatened to kill me if i come back because they want to be there. no, no the5pñ?ñ? merchants pay a fortune for their stores. the vendors pay a fortune further stands, we're poor but we also paid to be there. my audience is the youngest. they are two to five years old. i cannot hold the show in a jungle. something needs to be done. >> [kimberly brandon, president] thank you are there any other colors? >> president brandon, there is one more caller. >> [kimberly brandon, president] please open the call. >> thank you, opening that line

now. >> good afternoon to the executive director into the commissioner. my name is brandon t+oñ?ñ?hompsn the vice president of operations at 39. i am responsible for the team out in the entry plaza and on the embarcadero in a little embarcadero down here. to actually i am charged with keeping our guests, the public, our visitors to san francisco safe. the vending problems, the tax free that has been set up between peer 41 and the san franciscan of which there are well over 100 vendors i would say. this truly has become a massive safety and health problem. my team are threatened regularly. when we tried to create a clear? path of travel for pedestrians to walk through for our guests to offer on the sidewalk.

these vendors have blocked the f line tracks, they blocked access to the sidewalk to the extent that we have had to call on san francisco police department to come down and clear them out of the road. because vehicle traffic is having to slow around them to go down into the embarcadero. my teeth have my team has been rammed with carts. my team has had weapons pulled on them. my team has been threatened outright. and every monday morning my team are responsible to the absolute pigsty is left behind as peer 41 that we have to clean up. the first-hand knowledge of what it's like to have to deal with these people day in and day out and what we feel is a lack of

support from the port and from the city is truly disheartening. i want to think supervisor peskin for billing willing to champion this cause and to bring it forward to you today. and thank you for your consideration. and moving forward these steps to eliminate but to coordinate with safe and a program that is inclusive for all moving forward here on the waterfront. thank you all. >> [kimberly brandon, president] thank you do we have anymore colors? >> yes we have a number caller. okay >> [kimberly brandon, president] okay open the line placed okay, opening that line now. >> hi, my name is stephen dreyfus and i'm a longtime san francisco resident and i am a two-year board member on the community benefit on the

fisherman's wharf i'm a musician in the cocreator of the san francisco port performing program. which was adopted by the port commission in 2007. a lot of phases of change here prior to the court commission adoption of the fisherman's wharf the promenade was very much the wild, wild west concerning street vending. the adoption of our performance program in 2007, put a check on that the performers program is a self-funded self monitor group dedicated to times and locations for all types of strict performance. we are revenue neutral, we cost the port nothing, our group is made up of break dancers, jugglers, acrobats, music's musicians, novelty acts and comics. we are far more diverse than any entity in the entire state for the entire city of san francisco. for the past 13 years prior to covid we have scheduled 16

performances spaces and times on the little embarcadero and on jefferson street. ever program began to see negative events of the open vending senate bill 2019. since the senate bill 946 but since covid-19 set down our program we been able to resume her program to date with the current onslaught of mobile unlicensed vendors we are unable to preserve scheduled performances until we can regain access to these spaces and they are currently being overrun by mobile storefront of all kinds. as stakeholders and the fisherman's wharf community, we are requesting actual resumption of dialogue with the port to talk to us and a resumption of the street performers program. if anyone thinks for a second that the vendors at the wharf are gaining knowledge and culture per new worship and self-motivation, they are completely deluding themselves. this is a cartel type situation

don't kid yourself, that's all i have to say. thank you. >> [kimberly brandon, president] thank you. are there any other colors? >> president brandon, there are no other colors on the line wishing to make public comments on this item. >> [kimberly brandon, president] thank you there are no more colors on the line then this will be closed. commissioner gilman. >> [gail gilman, commissioner]. thank you president brandon, before i ask you any questions i want to take a moment to acknowledge the public, that we heard today and i went to actually say that i am deeply sorry for the number of callers who articulated how this group of vendors, not trying to be pejorative of everybody he was on the waterfront this group of

vendors that has caused many folks to feel unsafe and to have their livelihood or themselves threatened. we don't want to anywhere in our city and we don't want it on her waterfront. i want to say that i'm so sorry that you had to experience that, particularly for the gentleman who had his own hotdog cart to business that was illegal and in compliance to the staff of peer 49. live seven blocks from pier 39 and disc problem has only gotten worse during covid-19. and more recently with opening up of memorial day. i applaud a supervisor peskin for taking this action, but i am worried and concerned about what will happen between now and and acting as pilot program. silver questions are some of my questions you can't answer but i like to be able to ask you to see if we can't come up with also indeterminate measures to protect the livelihood of the waterfront and the safety of our tour risk, workers and the

citizens of san francisco. i also do want to point out that while vending programs began as an equity measure and they are important, it doesn't seem from multiple testimony today for members of the public from the business community that the group of vendors that we are talking about here might be more sophisticated and more organized and not linked to mom-and-pop small businesses. but to be doing to support and have them sell their goods, there are, or their food if they are in compliance with public health codes on our waterfront. i want to say that i want to preface my comments with facts. the amount of illegal alcohol sales that took place during memorial weekend was shocking and quite disturbing. my first question is, is there some way for the port to request that the abc or the f spd monitor the waterfront? particularly peer 41 of embarcadero on the weekend

leading up to the enactment of this legislation or particularly, during the july 4th weekend? is my first question. >> if you like i can respond to that question. thank you so much for your concerns commissioner gilman, we have also been very concerned about this issue for some time and we have requested that the san francisco police department to look at the unlicensed selling of alcohol and they have done several operations. what happens is the vendors hide the alcohol is very difficult to enforce on the sf pd is very well aware as is the district captain of organization of this problem problem? and they are out trying to enforce. i do want to say that port staff has been working with the city since the beginning of the pandemic as it relates to this unlicensed vending and has tried very hard to bring consistency

and calm to the situation. but with the states a lot passing we really did not have the enforcement mechanisms that we needed in a clear program of enforcements. so, public health has been out and done a lot of education has done citation. riordan confiscation of cards through pwp the police department. and the port authority has been really involved during the entire pandemic i would like to tell you that we could do more to get some interim measures, but i want to also ensure you that the city has been trying very hard during this period to get the situation into order and we do need a legislative framework to really enact the issue. >> thank you and i completely understand and i am very supportive of a pilot program of legislation. i understand how much our hands are timed due to state

legislation that was enacted to go. to enable up today for mom-and-pop businesses, mostly from great communities to be able to build livelihood in a nontraditional work and mortar bureaucratic way. and i wholeheartedly support that. i support our vendors along the waterfront, the tremendous vending that we see come close to the ferry building that do good and are doing good and appears to be to be licensed, organized and legitimate. i think will be are seeing at peer 41 and also the little embarcadero is a different set of folks who under the guise of those guidelines are engaging in activity that we are hearing from our tenants tell our citizens and our businesses. this is unsavory and the cell of alcohol of open containers which is illegal. and of the support staff. and part of the statements for the public comments and for our constituents on this call.

i am over the couple of questions that i had the distillation which i am fully supportive of is boris, no problem mister hefner might still be listening to this call so supervisor's office i would also invite him to answer, as it moves from pilot it is acceptable to my thing is if it's a pilot were to choose certain spots along the waterfront to pilot this but then why don't we just become a full-fledged program for all seven and a half miles of her property if it is successful? what has to happen? >> this is a pathway to all seven and a half miles. it is a pilot program on porch property and then to rollout the future rollout would be a citywide program. this legislation covers all seven of the half-mile support property. >> [gail gilman, commissioner]. okay, that was my first question. my second question is may be just more food for thought to work with the supervisor's office is and i understand that

it is difficult that you can have food vending dismissive and that you comply which we want with health & safety code's and department of health codes. i do want to point out that all other tenants of the poor to do sue food coffee or alcohol, who rents property from us or sublease property from us half participation. so from an equity perspective i did think of something to call out that if there are licensed vendors and food carts are vendors on four property i would hope at some point and i don't want to hold up this in any way, we would need to figure out a way to be equitable and fair if we are asking small and mom-and-pop businesses on the waterfront to give us participation when they are selling food or beverages. i just went to make sure that there equitable with facts within nontraditional brick-and-mortar space.

i do think that makes us unique to the rest of the city to which we are seeing from the real estate perspective. as for the flatbed is a concern that i would have with the longevity of this project for folks and if this is something to think about. i would like to also hope and then i mentioned in the interdepartmental process it seems that there has been a real community outreach process. i know that you can come back to us with the time, place and then one other keyword and i apologize. the parameters i do hope that besides doing community outreach to the folks who are normally engaged in the fisherman's wharf, pier 39, cbd, i would encourage us to do a little and reach into the residential communities, critically around peer 41 and embarcadero and going maybe as far as the bay street and doing some sort of

mailing to those addresses the way that we would under real estate project just to understand how it is impacting residents that live there and residents when it comes to those time and place manner and neighbor agreements. i think it's really important particularly the amplification of sound and music. that some of the street artists have always been respectful and in then taking place and making sure that it is comfortable with the place as well. many of them walk or jog and visit that's part of their waterfront is for their daily outdoor space. it was my last suggestion. i am very excited that we are tackling this and again i'm so sorry to the public that its gun control. you and thank you. commissioner woo hoo. >> [doreen woo ho], commissioner]. clearly i have learned a lot about this issue and i have not

been in san francisco as much this past year as many of you know. so, i was not aware of but the picture that you had in your presentation also told me a lot about what is going on and certainly all the public comments. i think that what's commissioner gilman said was very apropos and intermittently we did not have people who live in the neighborhood in public comments. most of the people who were directly on the waterfront to the restaurants,lj%( jp street performers and it's interesting that the neighbors were not aware. but i am assuming that the typical non- addition to any mailings, having the citizens advisory committee and two groups were aware i would assume this would've started with the neighbors complaining but it was a safety and sanitation or noise and security.

i'm actually supportive of having this legislation is the only way to bring this under some control and ordination. it sounds like we left the fox into the chicken coop in terms of if it is more organized, not only illegal in terms of venting but there are some other issues and suspicion was going on in terms of how the operations or proceeding. but i did not get out of the presentation and i would appreciate for approval is to give us a little bit more detail on the parameters. i heard roughly there is about a hundred vendors. with a pilot program and with the space that we are considering and what would that reduce it down to, you might have to have space for the performers, space for the mobile

vendors and it's pretty scary to hear about all of the castings out there into generators. you could easily have an accident in terms of some accident out there. that is really scary to know it's going on. i know that scary with not just local health codes come up with safety codes in terms of you can do. in addition to generations to get power so i guess who's going to talk to these vendors? it seems like it's good to talk about the legislation but for us to understand somebody needs to talk to the vendors so they are aware. they are aware that this is happening and hopefully there are some that are more in line with the classics descriptions with jerry brown and legislation and vision that we do get some input and feedback in terms of what they understand. even if they are being

controlled and manipulated and organized, maybe some of them do have some idea about what can help protect them as well as understand what they need to do. i think one of the things that i would like to hear about is what about the cleanup? it sounds like that is an issue. there's garbage and set it with the legislation says about that but who is responsible, who's going to do that and to obviously i'm not sure of their document pay rents but they are probably gonna pay a fee of some kind. because there are costs associated. for having to clean up after them then we need to know how to take care of some of the costs associated with that. clean the sidewalks or whatever i don't know if water and what do they do what they have to clean stuff in the stall? there's lots of questions think it's all of these things and i don't know what in the legislation other than it might be more strategic and economic have so many and you have to

abide by the code. but there were these practical, tactical things that need to be addressed so the vendors know how they're going to be managed. i'm asking you to answer those questions today but maybe next time you could give us a better sense of the content of how this is going to actually operate and i think street vendors can be very interesting and can add caller and vibrancy to the waterfront done well. but it sounds like it's out of control and it looks a little bit like a mess from what the picture i saw. i think we want it to be and we wanted to be vibrant and many cities are famous, singapore for 148 street vendors but is under control there's a lot of regulations about how that works. and if you wanted to be something that adds character to the waterfront but is not at all of his issues from all of the colors today. i'm glad to hear that this is all for seven and a half miles and it sounds like it's good to

be adopted and the rest of the city. the pilot program is going to be for how long would be called a pilot? i'm not sure that we know the answer to that question. calling it a pilots because it's a portion of the city's overall jurisdiction.

>> second in violation up to confiscation of equipment ask. >> okay. maybe you can just put that in the schedule so we can see. i don't know whether that's -- let's see what that law went into effect. not too long ago. whether those full names are significant enough to say they're going to deter people. i think the need is what you

established today for the need i ask you're very supportive. there's no question that i think we need to do something and with supervisor peskin championing it at board of supervisors. but just give us a sense of how it's going to operate so we understand it. thank you. >> president brandon: thank you commissioner woo ho. commissioner burton. vice president adams. >> commissioner woo ho: we can barely hear you.

>> commissioner: no questions. >> president brandon: thank you. vice president adams. >> vice president adams: can you hear me now? >> president brandon: yeah. a little. >> vice president adams: for some reason, i don't know what's wrong, i can't get my screen on or nothing. now. i appreciate this conversation. thank you. i listened to those intently who called in and i appreciate the sides are trying to find some kind of situation to bring some peace and this situation can get pretty volatile. from the point in and people are getting upset and we're talking about affecting peoples' livelihood. one of the things i kept hearing and that's "those people" and that's kind of a phrase that's derogatory. those people no matter what

side, they're americans, they have a right to be in this city. so when people say "those people" i look at it in a derogatory type of a deal that those shouldn't be used. so, i'm hoping that this legislation can get up and that in some ways that may be support in the middle of it now that we're some kind of a referee and we can find a middle ground. but i'm down there every day walking on that water front. i go by every day to see people and this covid has caused a lot of people to be desperate and a lot of people. a lot of competition. i'm hoping we can find something that can fit both sides and that people feel safe and people don't feel threatened, yet, people get treated with dignity. thank you. >> president brandon: thank you.

thank you again for the presentation and i want to thank supervisor peskin for spearheading this legislation and this pilot program. from the call, it sounds like there's considerable amount of activity at the warf that needs to be addressed. so i'm glad we extended the pilot to the 7.5 miles and not just fisherman's warf so that we have a true study of what happened and space available at the waterfront for legalized vending. i want to thank the port staff. i want to thank everyone who has brought this to our attention and who has been working on this because i know throughout the it has been an issue and it seems to have

grown along the waterfront. but now that we are open and bringing everyone back and welcoming everyone to the waterfront, this is definitely an issue that we need to tackle. so it will be great to see what the pilot consists of and then most of my questions were answered. the pilot is a short term study. so it's either going to be for a certain period of time and then flow into a citywide effort or it's going to go away. so i hope that within the terms, we understand exactly what the pilot consists of. and look forward to becoming back into one. thank you. call next item, please.

>> carl, you're muted. >> clerk: thank you. thank you. that would be item 11b which requests approval to extend fee waivers for licenses for use of port property for restaurants and retail businesses adjoined port property in connection with the port's shared spaces program for outdoor dining and retail activities through december 31, 2021. this is resolution 21-26. >> good evening, commissioners,, president brandon, and director ford. if i could get the power point up. thank you so much. i'm on the real estate and development team. i'm accompanied by deputy director rebecca benasini who

may help answer any questions you have for the shared spaces program. next slide, please. the presentation will be brief. i will be covering the background and key actions of our program. an overall program update and analysis of our six nonport tenants that are benefitting from our program. our rationale for the extension of the fee waiver and our recommendation that's presented in the resolution. next slide, please. as you may know, the port in 2020, port staff worked furiously to get the program up and running for three weeks to be aligned with the citywide program. in those three weeks, port staff coordinated with the citywide team and launched the program pretty seamlessly. the mayor in on november 2020,

the port commission authorized fee waivers for nonport tenants through june 30th, 2021. in december of 2020, the mayor extended the shared spaces program through a mayor alexecutive directive. in march of this year, the mayor introduced legislation to make the city in may 2021, the b.c.d.c. through larry goldspan executive director also indicated that b.c.d.c. would extend the expiring shared spaces through december 30th of this year. that's the reason that we're here today. i would like to note that the shared spaces citywide legislation was heard at the board of supervisors for the land use transportation committee this past monday and was recommended to the full board. we anticipate that item will be

heard by the end of the month by the full board. staff will continue to monitor the situation and report back to the commission. next slide, please. i'd like to highlight port staff and their implementation of the program. our property managers are interning staff and executing the program. specifically joyce chan on our real estate team has been the lead which she has helped to seamlessly execute water front we've created over 700 outdoor dining seats. many would argue that this is the main attraction to the waterfront and it's keeping the

water this represented approximately $175,000 in licenses fees. we are requesting an additional waiver of fees that amounts to approximately $85,000 for the remains 6 months of the year. in total, this program would waive fees of $240,000. next slide, please.

there's certainly a hesitation for indoor diningment there are still customers that would prefer to dine outdoors than indoors and so we acknowledge that and recognize that these outdoor seats are critical. for these six nonport tenants, there are greater city benefits that are afforded to economic recovery which include city sales tax generation, job inclusion and retention, and attracting people back to the waterfront. this fee waiver is temporary. we are proposing this would be through december 31st, 2021. and i'd like to note that the port's rationale fee waivers for the nonport tenants lessened. next slide, please.

therefore it's our recommendation that we request delegated authority to confirm the extension of the no fee licenses through december 31st of 2021. we also will ensure that licensees resolve any unsettled dispute its that they may have. that is my very brief presentation. again, i'm here to answer any questions and so is director benesini. thank you for the consideration of this item. >> president brandon: thank you. commissioners, may i have a motion? >> commissioner: so moved. >> commissioner: second. >> president brandon: there was a motion and a second. we will now open the phone lines to take public comment on item 11b for 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 would like to provide public

comment. >> thank you, president brandon. we will open the queue for anyone who would like to make public comment on item 11b. please dial star 3 if you wish to make public comment. the system will let you know when your line is open. others will remain on mute until their line is open. comments will be limited to three minutes per person. the queue is now open. please dial star star 3 if you wish to make public comment. >> president brandon: thank you, genesis. 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. >> president brandon: seeing no comment on the phone, public comment is closed. commissioner woo ho. >> commissioner woo ho: hello. yes. i'm supportive of the item on the temporary fee basis and i think, you know, the question of once we get past this year, then obviously it's some of the licensees wants to continue, then i think that should be up

for more discussion. you did mention in your last slide that any unresolved issues, can you speak to what are the unresolved issues generically speaking? what are some of the unresolved issues that we have today? >> the most of -- are just sidewalk access and ensuring that public access pathways are clear and free. so right now we have a handful of our tenants that are, you know, 6" outside of the site area and so we need them to readjust some of where their equipment is positioned and so that's a prime example of what we're dealing with right now. >> commissioner woo ho: okay. so i guess the permanent extension of allowing this shared space, i guess that ordinance that was passed, that was signed by the mayor, it's pretty clear on terms because i heard just by reading the news

there's certain standards for this shared space because if you look around the city, there's some that are very nice and there are others that are flimsy and now there's a standard in place for everybody who wants to do this permanently, they have to do some upgrades. the think the ones we've seen on our embarcadero so far has been better as far as that is concerned. is that right? >> yes. some of the major changes that just passed through the land use and transportation committee are targeted to ada access and so our staff, joyce chan and proctor are reviewing those guidelines and ensuring we're aligned with the citywide program. >> commissioner woo ho: okay. and so all of the existing tenants that are on this as well as the nonport tenants, everybody wants to continue, it's 100% at this point? >> yes. everyone has expressed their desire to continue as long as possible with the program.

>> commissioner woo ho: okay. that's the extent of my questions. >> president brandon: thank you. commissioner burton. >> commissioner burton: no comment. >> president brandon: thank you. vice president adams. >> vice president adams: [inaudible] >> president brandon: no comment? >> vice president adams: [inaudible] >> president brandon: we can't hear you. >> vice president adams: i said i'm supportive of it. >> president brandon: great. okay. thank you. i am also supportive of it and we have a motion and a second. can we please have a roll call vote. >> clerk: yes. on resolution 26, [roll call] >> president brandon: the motion passes unanimously resolution 21-26 is adopted. >> thank you, commission.

>> president brandon: thank you. >> clerk: next item is item 12a, an informational presentation on the port's maritime portfolio. >> good afternoon, president brandon, vice president adams, commissioners. my name is andre coleman, deputy director of maritime. i'm joined by brendan o'mara. this item is a presentation on the port's maritime portfolio, the port of san francisco, california's oldest public port continues to have one of the most diverse yet challenging maritime business in the nation. its 7.5 mile waterfront is home to cruise ships, cars, and shipping. harbor services, commercial fishing and recreational. this update will provide a general overview of the port's portfolio, maritime portfolio to point out its clear and

long-term objectives. next slide, please. with regard to current cargo operations, our current primary cargo include export of autos and import of bolt cargoes 92 through 94. next slide, please. touching first on the pier 80 cargo operations in may of '16, an exclusive 15 year management agreement with taisha auto motor services. the 70 acre facility is used to access automobiles. we also have agreements ha include long term labor and occasionally the facility is used to host large scale events which bring in additional revenues to the port. and looking at the slide, you can see some of the volumes that we have had throughout the years. each year, we've had growth at

the operation, or growth at the terminal. much of the success in the operation is attributed to the i.o.w.u. work force through their safe and efficient support through conducting operations. you will see in 2019 there was a significant spike in volumes and that was attributed to the introduction of tesla's model 3 into the market that drove that increase in volume. how have, the subsequent year, we averaged at around a little over 100,000 units and we're projected to achieve similar volumes this fiscal year. while the focus is currently on processing and exporting of autos, of course, that continues to engage taisha.

primarily import raw materials using the production of concrete to conserve construction in san francisco and the greater bay area. our concrete batch plan that utilizes import aggregated materials are strategically located within the pier 86-93 and employing best practices for environmentally sustainable storm water runoff and rain water reuse. our dry bolt include senate, and lehigh hampton. approximately 95% of the city's construction projects are sourced from the dry bulk construction materials are sourced from the dry bulk operations at piers 92 through 94 and, as you can see on this slide, volumes have remained

fairly consistent over the past few years and throughout the pandemic as well. next slide, please. so with regards to objectives for port objectives for cargo, some of our near term objectives include engaging our current senate lehigh hanson regarding expansion plans at piers 92 through 94. capital improvements at that facility. evaluate long-term business plans for other current tenants and future cargo opportunities and we continue to engage third party consultants in the previous analysis in the 83 through 96 area. and, for long-term objectives, we will engage the state lens regarding the back lens warehouse strategy for prior staff strategy and discussions

as part of the water front plan. next slide, please. so moving on to the shipyard, staff previously provided an update on the status of the shipyard to the port commission in late 2020. as a refresher in may of 2019, port staff assumed daily management of the shipyard facilities. in doing so, staff immediately engaged in located interim tenants for vacant office space under utilized shed and storage facilities and available paid open space throughout the yard while reducing operating expenses next slide, please. some of our current uses and tenants interim tenants include anderson enterprises. staging of vehicles to be delivered to san francisco. marine express. another harbor service tenant

in the maritime transportation and environmental services category sector. and, we routinely use the facility for long-term vessel birthing. so if there are vessels seeking to labor or sit idol for an extended period, we enter into long-term birthing agreements with operators at the facility. and additionally, we are currently negotiating a short-term maritime lease opportunity for select parcels of the shipyard that will secure a maritime tenant for light maritime industrial use. next slide, please. so some of our objectives in the near term for the shipyard include continuing to work with the cities office of contract, administration for select of the shipyard's vast inventory. the process is developing a maritime policing strategy at

the site. and we remain engaged and trust maritime uses to include the centralization and other harbor and industrial operations at had this site. and just kind of summarizing the shipyard and cargo operations one thing i'd like to add with regard to the past operations in the past staff i will say that in both instances, we solicited some great feedback from both groups. moving over to fisherman's warf is home to san francisco's historic fishing industry.

housing the largest concentration of fish processors of any port in california. long line species including crab, salmon, swordfish, herring, shrimp, squid, ablony, mackeral. home to 150 fishing vessels. the port remains firmly committed to keeping the fish in fisherman's wharf in spite of new challenges that occur. can wreak havoc on the more lucrative crab and salmon and fisheries. can be a little bit more

challenging and accommodating larger vessels and may cause transportation congestion not only in the wharf, but landslide with all that's going on in the wharf, there are issues with congestion as well. the port continues to work closely with the fishing industry to respond to these challenges to continue presence of a health fishing industry essential to a huge demand next slide, please. a near term includes developing maintenance targets and timelines to ensure we have adequate infrastructure in the harbor to include additional locations at the wharf and ongoing community and tenant engagement and long-term developments include a dock

replacement and alignment with our recreational harbor to include some of the best harbor practices. and, lastly, updates to our port tariff associated with the section 800 of the tariff port fishing industry. next slide, please. the bay area regional system is centered at san francisco's iconic and ferry building. including six newly built to accommodate sea level rise. the downtown san francisco ferry terminal currently accommodates six ferry routes serving more than five passengers per year with approximately 130 ferry departures and arrivals. we also provide along the water transportation. san francisco provides birthing

in landing facilities for a variety of water excursions including sightseeing tours and voyages and dinner tours. multiple call the san francisco port home. and red and white fleet. the port also has licenses in place for excursion operators home port at other bay area harbor and arenas. port staff, excursions and water transportation objectives include, next slide, please. in the near term to develop maritime marketing strategy to the north bay. we attend to amend the current landing fee for a longer license terms and i believe we intend to return to the commission probably in july or august for that proposed

five-year schedule. we'll be looking to activate pier 15 currently underutilized, but we'll be working to include a focus marketing strategy to increase environmental and education focus charter landings at that site and there's potential for alignment there in collaboration with the exploratory yum and we're also working to develop and execute the pier 48.5 landing m.l.u. extension. some of our longer term objectives to provide commuter solutions to the waterfront. and in alignment with new development along the water front identify new landing tuns along central and southern waterfront locations. next slide, please. i believe last month or so, i've provided more detailed update on cruise, but i'll

likely touch on cruise here. in 2020, the port of san francisco was scheduled to establish records in both ship calls and passengers with roughly or approximately 117 vessels. however, due to the cdc's no sail order, cruise ships and suspending operations only the 117 calls materialized. with revised or coming to present with revised cdc guidance cruises resume domestically in july of 2021. likely to resume operations in the fall of 2021. i will add and i think there was a comment earlier in the meeting. but 2022 is extremely bright. ahead of that, continues to work closely with industry

stakeholders. staff has engaged a larger line operators as guided by the cdc that establishes new safety protocols. the port agreements will include an emergency response plan, ship side protocols. port side protocols and in addition to medical housing and transportation and grievance that the lines are required to have in place prior to calling the port. next slide, please. some of our near term objectives working with crews in collaboration with our key stakeholders to include labor, metro, and sf travel to support the resumption of cruise. our long-term objectives as we do have new regulations coming online with regards to shore side requirements, currently,

we're capped at 19 calls at pier 35 as it is not an electrified cruise terminal and we'll also work towards developing a marketing strategy. despite the challenges of the past year and those that made a lot of head say staff takes pride in managing a very diverse maritime portfolio. but the team is up for the challenge and we look forward to executing the maritime objectives shared with you today. that concludes my presentation. thank you. and i'm available to answer any questions you may have. >> president brandon: thank you, andre, for that presentation. now, let's open it up for public comment. we'll open the phone line to take public comment on item 12a

for members of the public joining us on the phone. genesis will be our operator and 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 line for anyone who wishes to make public comment. the system will let you know when your line is opened, others will wait on mute until their line is open. comments will be limited to 3 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 line? >> president brandon, at this time, there are no callers on the line wishing to make public comment. >> president brandon: thank you. seeing no callers on the line, public comment is closed. commissioner woo ho. >> commissioner woo ho: okay. thank you, andre, very much for this presentation.

i'm glad we went through everything and it is a lot and the maritime portfolio is very diverse. so i'm going to quickly go through the highlights of what you mentioned and i'm sorry, i may not have listened correctly or not. when you talked about the auto site and of course, we understand what happened in 2020. so far what we've seen in 2021, the auto industry. and they needed cars and i guess there's been a revival in used cars. i don't know whether that impacted us. what's the volume been recently and is it still, refresh my memory, how much is import, how much is export? >> the volumes for the fiscal year has remained fairly strong. we are scheduled to achieve volumes of slightly over

one00,000 units. the percentage of the breakdown is still export through the facility and our client at the facility and their performance versus some of the more standard operators. they produce as cars are ordered via the web. we are expecting to have another good fiscal year. so i know paisha is pounding the pavement in trying to in talking with at least two other

auto manufacturers that i'm aware of but that's the current update there. >> commissioner woo ho: okay. before when we signed this deal with paisha, i think we were very excited. is the 146,000 in 2019, was that the level that we thought was the peak that we should of had or did we not reach the peak of what we thought of at that time before covid? >> i would say where we are hovering currently around that 100,000 units mark is probably a little more realistic where we will be and i would also say that i think the more realistic number was between 80,000 and 100,000 units annually. so, again, 2019 was an anomaly, but we should be regularly between that 80,000 to 100,000

units. any corrections there? >> no, that's correct. >> commissioner woo ho: okay. and i think you gave us a good sense of what's happening with the dry bulks on the hanson situation. so i'm not going to go through that. on the shipyard, it sounds like we're doing the best we can to obviously use the space for the interim and we're still looking at the long term and we've given up trying to bring another shipyard in because we've recognized and portland has really overtaken the opportunity for us there. so is there anything sort of out of the box thinking in terms of what we can do with the shipyard other than doing some of the transaction all kind of interim leasing that we're doing? >> sorry. >> commissioner woo ho: go ahead. >> okay. yeah. i'd say in the near term, you know, we've had some opportunities to use any water

sites bases for interim leasing. i think we had a discussion or presented before the commission a few meetings back for a possible belief of where there will be some improchlts we'll get a certain area of the site for another short-term lease. long term, before i get into long-term, we are still working with the office of contract administration to move through what we foresee as being a public auction process or some of the abandoned shipyard inventory that's been lying around the facilities. as a current. we're hoping q1, we can move forward with that process with regards to auction to

potentially include the dry docks as well and some of the larger opportunities there. >> commissioner woo ho: right. as pier 70 comes on stream as a project, that's going to in terms of well located. it doesn't look pretty today, but this, and i think that's where we're going to stick with a strictly maritime or some other possibilities, but i guess that's something we have to continue to think about in terms of the long-term if the interim leasing opportunities is turns out to be the only opportunity in the long-term basis, i guess that's a question you can come back and tell us about more once you continue to look at the issue and think about it. on the fisherman's wharf side,

just a couple questions. one of the retail fish. we launched that, we had a lot of questions about that. we had a lot of public comment on that. from what i'm hearing, it goes well and now you want to expand the number of locations which is promising. so we actually see a lot of the fishermen are happy with the fact they can sell the fish directly off the boat? >> i would say that the program had some successes, but i would say it under the previous policy, there were some logistical constraints in location of where to sell. so larger vessels were more successful in bringing in larger loads of fish and selling to the public. some of the smaller vessels, because of their location or birth assignment at the wharf

and in addition to their vessels being slightly smaller weren't able to bring in the larger catch in addition to kind of being in an area where they didn't necessarily have a birth that was easily accessible to pedestrian foot traffic. so i think some of the things that we're looking at is location within the harbor, whether we can meter what those hours look like with regards to sales to have various vessels come in to a specific location and be able to sell from their vessels and what landslide opportunities are there available to have kind of a retail pop-up fish market or fish sales as well. >> commissioner woo ho: yeah. fish market. i guess the other question would be how has the marketing gone? are consumers aware they can come and buy fish directly off the boat and whether there's more to be done in that area? it's a question for the

fishermen, but we're obviously there to help facilitate if that's an opportunity for them. it also makes fisherman's wharf more interesting the fact that you can buy fresh fish. >> agreed. i definitely will say that's something we can improve upon is our marketing of the program to the fleet and also to the community. >> commissioner woo ho: and, i also, you know, we did a lot to help the crabbers with the fact we had the fire and etc., we did a lot of -- so how is the crabbing industry doing right now? we intervened to help them. are they on track or are they hurting? >> from what i understand, the last season was a fairly decent season all things considered. i think the kind of the next phase of getting ahead of crab season is looking at how we can support the crabbers as we get

into the next up coming season in the fall. so i think, yes, this past season was a challenging one with all that went on with the fire, with the loss of gear, with the port, we did step up and support the fleet, but i'm really interested in seeing how we can better support and enhance this up coming season and, again, i think if we can time rolling out a revisery policy that coincides with the up coming season with the port and the fleet as well. >> commissioner woo ho: okay. i just want to make sure the measures we took to help the crabbers actually got results and that's really what we -- we intervened, we helped them. hopefully they're resolved and we can say this is worthwhile and that's what i'm looking for. and lastly, i know you didn't go through south beach harbor that much, but is that operating well? i mean -- >> yeah.

i meant to mention this report did not capture south beach harbor because in 2019, i believe we provided an update on south beach harbor which we intend to do again this year. south beach harbor is performing well. i will say there are some low hanging fruit areas of improvement as traffic returns to that area of the water front that we will work to improve. i will actually be on site out there meeting with some of the tenants tomorrow afternoon, but, again, we do intend to return this year with an update and overall presentation and performance of south beach harbor. >> commissioner woo ho: so i guess the demand for the slips is strong. some people especially during covid, one way to escape was to go out on the boat. >> yeah. so demand is still strong. we still have an active waiting list at the harbor.

we -- yeah, we have an active waiting list at the harbor. the south beach harbor youth sailing club is getting ready to start up here i believe next week and i've seen through social media some of the water recreation tenants over there are currently active as well. so spin-out fitness is back on the water and operating. so activities have picked up and staff has done a good job through the pandemic and remaining responses and active in managing the site. >> commissioner woo ho: okay. last thing i have on water transit as you all know i'm a very strong propoent in increasing the amount of water transit whether it's taxis or ferries and i know we're doing our best to increase the landings. what i wanted to know was now that we are re-opening, do you get a sense from the ferry operators where there's actually more people coming on the ferries? i mean, is the traffic?

i know at some point it was done to nothing. are their passenger volumes picking up again? >> yes. so passenger volumes are picking up on the ferries i believe come july, the fleet intends to return to full service with their routes. last i rode the ferry last week, i noticed the social distancing tape was removed so i think that's the indicator of returning to full service and then just on the smaller semiferry transit as well, we've remained engaged we've provided semiprivate service from the east bay to the port and i know they're looking to resume operations here shortly as well. so i think once that first ball drops with re-opening of june 15th, subsequent to that, although see some increases in ridership and return to full service for ferry service.

>> commissioner woo ho: okay. i have my last comments on cruise and i just, you know, we mentioned in 2022, 118 cruise shops and i think, elaine, i want to say under your coming back to us on the m.t.a., embarcadero quick build, i would like to hear a specific strategy of what they're going to do to address traffic because 118 ships called means that at least 1/3 of the year, have you traffic that's going to increase dramatically on the embarcadero. so it isn't like it's just once a month or -- i mean, it is a lot of. it's good news. we're happy to have it. but i also think we have to mitigate the issues related to that. that's one of my comments. the second thing i wanted to say. i'm glad to hear your marketing strategies. i think a lot of people look at cruising as an opportunity for travel and later this year or next year and i even took a look at that myself. ment i saw one around the world

cruise, san francisco to san francisco. i was very encouraged by that and i hope because if we're just going to think of ourselves for alaska and mexico i hope we can think of these longer term cruises that was very exciting to see san francisco to san francisco. if we can increase that, our opportunity to increase passenger volume goes just beyond the typical cruise routes that we've seen in the past which is up and down the coast. so that's my last comment. i'm really excited to see us do more with cruises. thank you. i think i've done around the world here. thank you. i yield the floor. >> thank you for your comments. >> president brandon: thank you. i think you may have covered every area of this report, commissioner woo ho. commissioner burton. >> commissioner burton: no comment. good report. >> thank you, commissioner. >> president brandon: thank you. vice president adams. >> vice president adams: i think doreen hit it out the

park. she encompassed it all one breath hit on everything and andre, great report. thank you very much. >> thank you, commissioner. >> president brandon: thank you. andre, again, thank you for that report. it's always exciting to hear about our maritime operations and opportunities and so you did a great job of updating us on what the future has in store for us. thank you so much for that report. >> thank you. >> president brandon: call next item please. >> clerk: item number 13 is new business. >> under new business, i have recorded that we're coming with a policy conversation about the multipurpose use of the embarcadero with the consideration of prohibiting bicycles on the embarcadero. is there any other new business? >> president brandon: any other new business? seeing none. i think that's it, elaine.

thank you. commissioners, may i have a motion to adjourn the meeting in memory of retired court laborer lawrence peoples. >> commissioner: so moved. >> commissioner: second. >> clerk: [roll call] >> president brandon: meeting is adjourned at 6:52 p.m. thank you everyone. great meeting. have a great week. port today

i'm san francisco mayor london breed and i'm so excited to be here at the port today. we were just here celebrating juneteenth. every weekend there are some incredible markets and it was so crowded. the waterfront was alive and well. and, in fact, last weekend i think it was, these days go by so fast, i was at the giants game celebrating with roscoe. a full -- almost a full house, but it was amazing. amazing to see the waterfront active, to see it alive, to see the excitement and now we have a couple other things to add to our re-opening efforts. in fact, ferry service started today.

additional ferry service around the bay area. and, we also have opening this weekend the exploretorium and for tours the s.s. brian. and we even have more common includes fireworks on the northern waterfront for the 4th of july. and, finally, to top it all off as we get ready to re-open our city, it just wouldn't be the same unless we had fleet week returning in october. so a number of incredible milestones. a lot of great activities. san francisco has been through so much this past 15 months and i want to take this opportunity as i always do to really thank the people of the city for

complying with the very challenging orders to shelter-in-place to wear a mask, to get vaccinated. over 82% of san franciscans have been vaccinated and we just saw the announcement from the cdc that people were vaccinated don't necessarily need to wear a mask, however, we know there are still a lot of people that are not vaccinated and just because san francisco is doing a great job, doesn't mean there are others out there that aren't. we want to ask you because the cdc talked about today the variants and how the vaccine protects you from the variants and those who are vaccinated and we don't want to go backwards. we don't want to go back to that place where we're shutting our city down. i hope we don't have to go back to that place. in the meantime, it's so important that we enjoy our city.

we enjoy all these great attractions. we support one another, we have a great time. and what i've also consistently said, it is so important that when you are out in the streets now that our city is re-open that you keep a smile on your face because, right now, this is a privilege. and we have to remember, we were on lockdown for over 15 months in san francisco in the bay area and other parts of the country and so how much do we really appreciate being out here, being able to see faces without masks, being able to enjoy this cloudy, beautiful san francisco day. i will tell you that i am showing up to everything i'm invited to if i'm available. i've been to baby showers already, and birthday parties and other activities. openings. block parties. i even crashed a block party before when i was just driving

by. i said you know what, i'm going to say hi to a couple of neighbors because it feels good to see people again. because it feels good to be out again. keep that same positive spirit as we re-open and as activities begin and as folks are out doing and eating and drinking and being merry and having a good time because san francisco's coming back and we've got a lot of making up to do with the activities that we want to do that we missed out on the past year. thank you all so much for being here. enjoy the waterfront this weekend and some great activities and at this point, i want to introduce the director of the port of san francisco, elaine forbes. [applause] >> welcome everyone. i have a smile on my face. it's great to see everyone here

at the waterfront not wearing a mask. we're welcoming back 4th of july fireworks and fleet week. two cornerstone events for the waterfront. today we're celebrating the re-opening of the exploretorium and the s.s. jeremiah. increased ferry service starts today with 30% more ferries running. the ferries are here to enjoy the beautiful bay while commuting or just having some fun. next month, we have the return of cable cars and meanwhile we have the f-line running up and down the embarcadero. summer on the waterfront is here. there are so many adventures to be had. the port is proud to be home to really an amazing seven and a half miles of bayside waterfront in the city. our water front includes peer 39, fisherman's wharf, and amazing parks and opens and

heron's head park in the southern waterfront and more than 10 installations of public art. i want to thank our mayor, mayor breed for her incredible support of this waterfront and bringing back events like the 4th of july and fleet week. and of course, for her stellar leadership in navigating the pandemic and getting us safely to today as she re-opens and oversees the comeback of our city. the port welcomes more than 24 million visitors a year. economic activity here supports $4 billion in economic annual output for the city and more than 16,000 jobs. that is why we're excited to welcome back cruises this fall which brings about 300,000 visitors to the waterfront each year. our cruises will follow the cdc guidelines and we'll have vaccinated passengers and crews and we're expecting our first cruise ship in september. this fall, we're partnering with small businesses and local

artists. we want to show case our local talent and create tailor made experiences for fun and enjoyment. from crane cove park to pier 29, activities draw people to the waterfront supporting economic recorpse. these will happen as we welcome cruises, cable cars, fleet week, and hopefully a giants playoff season. thank you all for coming out today supporting our waterfront, a prosperous waterfront is a prosperous city. we welcome you to come down and enjoy some of the world's best views, best food, and best experiences. and now, please join me in welcoming phoebe white. this museum brings hundreds and hundreds of children and adults

to our water front for learning fun. following phoebe white, we'll hear from louis lovan and rear admiral wayne bays. thank you so much for being here today. [applause] >> thank you, elaine, and thank you, madam mayor, for your remarks today and more importantly for your leadership. we're so proud to be part of the san francisco community. i'm absolutely thrilled to see the progress we have made against the pandemic. it's an absolute honor to be here today and with our colleagues and neighbors on the waterfront of this wonderful city. i am delighted to share and you already know that after 15

months of closure, the exploretorium opened today. it is wonderful to see our community re-opening fully and to be part of the collective energy that is reemerging and gaining momentum in the bay area. i would also like to personally take the opportunity to thank elaine forbes and the port for their support and partnership since we first moved to the waterfront in 2013 the exploratorium is a learning organization. we as a community have also learning and experienced more directly than ever the critical role that science plays in all of our lives. whether it's the science behind the pandemic or vaccines or

climate change or the role of technology in our lives today. some of the defining issues of our time have all highlighted how important it is for everyone to engage in topics of science. our vision is a world where people think for themselves and can confidently ask questions, questions answered and understand the world around them. at the exploretor yum and explore topics of science and ways that work for them. we don't tell people what to think, where to go, what to do. there are no right or wrong answers when you're exploring and learning.

so come on down. go online, purchase tickets yes, we're managing capacity and we honor all e.b.t. and museums for all card holders at the door but most of all, have fun. thank you madam mayor for the privilege of speaking today and i'd like to introduce louis lovan executive director of san francisco fleet week. thank you. >> let me take off my super cool san francisco fleet week

mask. thank you very much, phoebe. by the way the exploratorium rocks. do you guys still have the tactile dome? okay. that's the thing to do. it's true, we have all these events that are going to take place out on the waterfront. i have commander of strike group 3. admiral bays' assets are what will be coming up to san francisco and he'll talk to you about that. i'm very excited to bring back the live fleet week events including the fleet week air show presented by united. if you don't know it, you'll know when it arrives. it comes big and loud and it's a wonderful thing to do down on the marina green throughout the city and the bay. most of our events are outdoors. we'll have neighborhood concerts. the parade of ships, of course. and a number of other things that you can find out about by

looking at our website fleetweeksf.org or follow us@fleetweeksf. get the up to date information. right now, it's a full complement of fleet week events and, with that, i'm going to introduce admiral bays. >> wow. what a pleasure it is to be out here live in person without a mask on. thank you, mayor, for including me in today. yes, admiral wayne bays. i'm honored and excited to be with you today on behalf of your navy corps and coast guard team. as you all know, we could not do a fleet week in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic. but i'm really happy to say we're going to bring service members from the navy, marine corps and coast guard to be here with you in person for fleet week 2021 to celebrate

the strong, long-lasting bonds that exist between the military and this community which is a wonderful place. we're bringing ships, we're bringing aircraft, we're bringing equipment. we're going to bring the navy blue angels. i'm going to bring bands from the navy and marine corps. but the best thing we're going to bring -- yeah, that's okay. bring the hands. but the best thing we're going to bring is young sailors and marines and coast guard men and women to be part of this city and to meet you. [applause] yeah. so the last 15 months, we couldn't get out and about. but because of the change conditions, i want these sailors and coast guard men and women to come outlet amongst the community and meet you in person. i was here last time in 2014

when u.s.s commissioned. you're going to be as proud of them as i am. now, fleet week is fun, but it's not just all about a port call. we also do training while we're here. we take advantage of all these ships and equipment and people getting together and we work to do training on things like disaster recovery efforts with local experts here. so i'm talking about emergency management, police, fire and medical professionals and other recovery people. this is about practicing our skill sets so that during times of emergencies or crisis, the military can support military authority its effectively and efficiently. it's really important training i think when you look back at the pandemic, it kind of puts an accent on the importance of that continued effort. so we cannot be with you in person in 2020, but i do believe that absence makes the heart grow fonder. so we're super energized to

bring everything we've got to make this the best fleet week possible in 2021. i thank you so much for the hospitality of this city. i look forward to meeting you all and my wife and i sincerely thank you if from the bottom of our hearts for celebrating our men and women that serve the military on behalf of this great nation. thank you so much and i hope to meet everybody in october. >> thank you, admiral bays and we really appreciate having you here and just touching a little bit about fleet week and our plans around emergency preparedness and our director of the department of emergency management is here. mary ellen carol. thank you so much for being here. she did an incredible job leading the efforts around covid here in san francisco. and so we will definitely take full advantage of the opportunity during fleet week to make sure that our emergency personnel are working with federal officials to take advantage of the opportunities

to train, to learn, to grow, and to be prepared for any situation for each and every one of you. when i look out into the waterfront and this area, again, i tell you all to keep a smile on your face. when this waterfront had the freeway before the '89 earthquake. and i remember when i was at galleleo high school. they would fly over at practice when we were out at lunch. it was incredible to have these planes fly directly over our schools and i think about those times and i think about where we are now as a city today. we've experienced challenging times before, but like this beautiful waterfront that's now open with no freeway in sight

and if you didn't know about the history, and you probably would never imagine how our freeway could block such a beautiful place. san francisco is a beautiful place and we celebrate our history and our diversity, but more importantly, as we come out of this pandemic, we celebrate our resilience to survive another situation that could have knocked us down. it set us back just a tad bit and as a result of that, we're coming back stronger. the phoenix will rise again. san francisco is rising again as we begin to re-open and having these incredible spaces, all these wonderful activities along our waterfront is going to make re-opening so much better. so i hope you will take advantage of these great opportunities to enjoy san francisco, to welcome your friends and family members from around the world, an the united states, around the bay area.

there will continue to be activities and always great food and wonderful views that will just continue to put a smile on your face. so thank you all so much for being here and thank you all for helping us get through this pandemic. san francisco is back. thank you. [applause]

>> president cohen: welcome to the regularly scheduled police commission meeting. it's wednesday, 5:36 on june 16th, 2021 and we are excited and fired up and ready to go to do our job. we have a full house of commissioners and we've got a full agenda. with that said, please, sergeant, call the roll. [roll call] you have a quorum.