commissioner gilman. we're missing commissioner burton or commissioner --

>> : since we don't have a quorum, we won't be able to start the meeting.

she is on mute but we do have her. >> : now, madam president, you do have a quorum. item two is the approval of minutes. >> : so moved. >> : i second. >> : thank you. we have a motion and a second. may i please have a roll call vote. >> : (roll call). >> : motion passes unanimously. the minutes are adopted. >> : item no. 3 is the pledge of allegiance.

item number four is announcements. please be advised that the public can make comments on any agenda item during the public comment period. an audio prompt will signal when their audio input has been enabled for commenting. please dial in on the item you are commenting on. there's a short broad casting delay. when the item is announced dial

(415)615-0001 please mute the volume on your computer and listen only through your telephone. if you want to public comment dial star three to raise your hand to indicate you would like to comment. listen to an audio prompt to signal when you would like to comment. please mute your microphones when you are not presenting. that brings us to item five. public comment on items not listed on the agenda. >> : members of the public joining us on the phone. jennifer will be the operator and provide instructions now for anyone who would like to provide public comment now. >> : at this time we'll open the queue for anyone who would like

to make public comment for items not listed on the agenda. the system will let you know when your line is open. others will wait on mute until their line is open. comments are limited to three minutes per person. please dial star three if you wish to make public comment. >> : thank you. do we have anyone on the phone? >> : at this time, there are no members of public on the phone wishing to make public comment. >> : thank you. seeing no callers on the phone. public comment is close. >> : item 6a is the executive director's report. >> : good afternoon. i'm the executive director of the port of san francisco. in my report today i will update on the economic recovery and

really exciting summer and fall events which will support our economic recovery. a successful implementation in the race equity action plan that i think you'll be proud of. finally i'll bid farewell to two long serving staff. the full board of supervisors will consider the port's amendments to the budget next tuesday with final approval on july 27th. the approved changes to our budget with exception of the interfund loan. the city graciously agreed to fund a interfund loan to avoid staff layoffs and recover from the pandemic. we will instead rely on federal

stimulus funds that we will not need to repay. we'll begin work withing the leadership on the fy22/23, and fy24 budgets. this will pay special attention to enterprise stability vitality. key staff resources. our port is small but mighty and we need our resources and other expenditures to capital improvements that retain and expand revenues, help us grow over the long run and help us support a key port mission and strategic plan. our savings account. to build back the port's reserves. key to our stability and vetting

our organization against emergencies and unexpected challenges. based on the last 15 months we certainly know we have those. the port continues to face serious financial challenge because of covid impacts will span five plus years. to the point we get back to our prepandemic revenues. the american stimulus funding helps repay the revenue losses from the pandemic, we still need to solve for the revenue losses during the period. new revenue streams that will aid us on the road to recovery. that is called the eri, the economic recovery initiative. you've heard the director of admin and finance speak of.

to the americans rescue funding and finance. the budget act including 250 million allocation from the federal american plan act of 2021 as we've been reporting. this is the first financial relief available to public ports. the state's land commission is responsible for allocating the funds. the ports are working with the state's land commission on the funding guidelines. they are very strong and clear. our staff will be meeting with them on friday along with any other ports to suggest any amendments required. state lands has stated it's goal is to obtain the funding as quickly, efficiently, effectively as possible. events. the port is very excited to

safely start reopening the water front. it couldn't be a better time because summer is here. there are so many adventures that will be had here on the port. we're happy to host seven and a half miles of enjoyment. in addition to fireworks on jule public. the water and transportation authority have opened ferry services and lowered fares. as we open to pier 45 we're operating at full capacity. the san francisco giants are in first place. next month we'll have the return of cable cars and have the f line running.

this fall the port will begin activities on opening activities along the water front including cultural events, art installations and exhibits, retail markets, we're very excited about this opportunity. this september we'll welcome back cruise ships which bring three thousand visitor it the water fronts each year. we're definitely in a better place, we're not at the end of the covid pandemic. san francisco continues to reduce hospitalizations and cases and increase vaccinations. vaccination is the most effective tool to beat the virus

and stay safe. they are are proven to be highly effective against covid 19 including the delta variant which is the most dangerous in california. twelve years and older received the first dose with 75% being fully vaccinated. that number climbing up will continue to keep our city safer. in light of our cities progress on vaccination our department of human resources has implemented an important policy for our work force. it requires employees to report their current vaccination status by july 28th and be fully vaccinated no later than ten weeks after fda approval of the

covid 19 vaccination. we're working on our return to the office roll out that prepares our staff to very successfully return to the office. we celebrate that team. to equity. as the port continue it do the hard work of championing racial equity and works towards creating an anti racist organization a great win for our local community. recently the portland and effort to promote an effort towards a partnership between the boys and girls club and our peer 80 terminal automotive services. this has led to two full scholarships through the girls

and boy's club. two young boys and women have been selected. they are on their way to long life skills connected them to the bay and love of sailing. the next month's sailing camp beginning july 19. now sadly for the port but happily for two staff, i would like to make commendations for retirement staff. first kerry. nineteen years of devoted public service and two tours of duty at the port.

engaging in conversations that support progress in our organization. in her time with the port she did extensive community engagement work with the planning division and was project manager on two important projects. through her years her compassionate and engagement work. we'll miss you. secondly i'd like to commend diane, our planning and environment. she retired at the beginning of last month, or the last day of last month, the 30th of june. diane dedicated 41 years of service to the city at the port. her work is instrumental towards shaping the water front and

neighboring communities. she gain her remarkable career of public service in 1989. she joined the port on a temporary assignment to help draft what would become the first water front land use plan and published in 1997. i don't think anyone thought this temporary assignment would be so long or impactful. without exaggeration her work literally has helped us plan and program and prepare every inch of the seven and a half mile sef water front property. work to ensure our community advisory groups and partners had a set seat at the table and were part and parcel of all port

planning processes. the community leader and across departments. finally diane will be remembered for being an outstanding partner who always worked to advance the greater good. drawing people in and helping them see how they fit into the larger mission was truly astonishing. please join me in congratulating kerry and diane and wishing them well on their hard earned retirements. >> : thank you for your great work. a lot of great stuff happened along the water front. i think before we open it up for public comment, we want to give the staff an opportunity to say whatever they would like to about kerry and diane. i think we should do it

separately. it might be hard but let's try to do kerry first because they both deserve all the ak la accos they are going to received. >> : thank you so much. i thought i would raise my hand by just showing my face. i'm so happy to speak on behalf of real estate and others. we sat next to one another for the last five years. excluding covid of course. i had a front row seat of the expertise that she would provide to staff in a calm, soothing precise manner through the work of the real estate team that she had in her prior work. she helped integrate real estate concerns into all the planning documents.

that link she played was so critical. it was wonderful to watch her work. she would start her questions with oh, we just need to plan, a maritime -- it would be a difficult question that you didn't think you could answer by the end of the meeting. the preparation she took and get insight from staff helped us get us to the finish line. i think a way that made us feel good and listened to. learning about your previous work in the development team made me feel so impressed that you could go to the development background and planning work. i feel there's no balance to what you can set your mind on. apply your great gift to many different areas and disciplines.

that's a special skill that you have. i enjoy hearing about your family and those moments with you. i'm going to miss walking by your desk when we go back to pier one. don't be a stranger and congratulations on your retirement. >> : thank you. so sweet. >> : maybe i'll follow. kerry, you know i owe you a deep thanks for the work that you've done with the resilience program over the past year. it's really been remarkable, the shoes you stepped into. you played a big role in the program. like she said, you're fearless, willing to tackle any challenge. we're celebrating two careers at

the port. i was the liaison for the first part of it. clearly, you came back with this deep knowledge about the port and brought that into the work that you did in the second tour of duty with the water front plan update. you've taught me a lot about how to be a member of a team and a leader of a team. your ability to listen, make everybody feel heard, you come at the work without an agenda, you are the most organized person i've every encountered. so ontop of everything that needs to be done. you're kind with all of your interactions with people. you are just remarkable in terms of how you knit together the resiliance team.

i can't thank you enough. just enjoy your retirement. >> : thank you brad. so kind. thank you. >> : kerry, i guess i'll jump in. it's great to follow because they capture your spirit. you've been my constant partner and confident. you've had the public's mind at the center of your work. i had the privilege of working with you and watching you transfer from the first water front plant to the ballpark and the restaurants and all the projects you developed. i knew i had to call you back to the core when it came time to do

that update. we wouldn't have made it without you. i'm so forever thankful for you. the ground that you laid through the water front plan was the perfect jump off plan of them taking on the program and really make it real to really understand the scope of what we need to do to work together on. the adaptations and future planning. that will be a lifelong mark that you make. really through all of that work, you're warmth, kindness, smarts that it really does bring out the best in everyone. it motivates everyone to do their best work. the collaborations that come from that will serve the port well for many decades to come. i appreciate that i'm so happy that we get to retire together

and go to the next phase and enjoy the water front from a different vantage point together. thank you so much. >> : thank you. this will be a great chapter for both of us. >> : congratulations on such a career on all you've accomplished and shaped the water front with what you've done. what is so special about you is how you've always brought others into the decisions and plans you've made to the port. you've reached to to other staff and the public. you've always looked for how you ask the best and the brightest around you be part of your ideas. you brought those in and brought everybody together.

it shows your incredible people skills. that has made such a difference along the water front and enabled you to get so much done. it adds to what you can look back on and get done. the physical things are the results of work withing people. hats off to you. it's been such a pleasure working with you. thank you. >> : thank you, doug, so much. >> : hey, kerry. i just wanted to say i had the great pleasure to work with both diane and kerry over the years. these are two incredibly outstanding individuals. exceptional public servants and have really represented the port and this city in the most professional and profound ways.

i really mean that that these are two of the finest people i've worked with in my years at the giants. diane, i've seen her handle such situations with such depth. i was on the pier 32 advisory committee. kerry, there were a lot of people that touched the ballpark but you were central for the city. you were a real key player. i felt like you were my major collaborator throughout the whole process. it was an absolute joy to work with you. the giants wish you, i wish you the best in your retirement. know that your work is really profoundly appreciated. >> : thank you. stay in touch. >> : thank you.

>> : thanks, commissioner. i just wanted to thank kerry for all of her time. i'm fortunate for having served about half of her time the first years the first stretch and the second tour which makes it sound like war. i knew she brought a ton of knowledge and was able to collaborate with everyone. i loved working with you and learned a lot from you. i appreciate the friendship that we gained over the years. good luck and enjoy your retirement. >> : thanks, david. feeling is mutual. >> : thank you. anyone else want to say anything to kerry?

thank you kerry. the commissioners are going to speak after public comment so i'll hold mine. anyone on the line would like to say anything about diane. i would like to read a short statement from the executive director from bcec who wants his statement read into record. "there are few people i enjoy being in meetings with more than diane. she always makes me smile at the beginning and end of the meeting. she commands respect, the ability to respect differenting views and her unfailing

optimism. and she believes in each space centric organization commissions designed to protect and make the best uses of our resources. i've only been at b cdc for a fraction of the time diane has been at the port but i'll miss her." >> : i didn't expect that one. >> : thank you. i'll start us off again. diane, i heard your name back in 2010. when i joined the port in 2016, i felt lake i joined aif a championship team. your reputation was such that it was your water front. i can't believe how much you

trusted me and welcomed me. it shows the spirit that you have. that you have so generous in terms of sharing leadershipershp rodes and making sure others have the opportunity to provide input. we had lots of conversations where i had to hear you so clearly. i felt bathed in a giant bath of words and concepts. one things i so admire is learning about your communication style. when you have concepts you are are trying to convey that are complex and nuanced, you take the time to understand where someone is coming from. that takes such respect. we sat next to one another. i missed so many a bart train

because i asked why something is the way it is. you took the time to help me understand why the water front is the way it is and why we do things the way we do them. that's a gift that keeps giving to the port. there's so many bad things about you two retiring. but there are good things. you are part of our future advisory members and we hope to you have engage in the water front in your post retirement world to make sure we're doing it right and take into consideration all the things you want us to take into consideration. we're going to keep you on speed dial going forward. >> : thank you. you're stuck with me.

too bad. i'm here. i won't leave. >> : thank you. brad. >> : diane. i just want to thank you for your friendship and mentorship. i came in thinking i knew a lot. you arrive at the port and you're confronted with this amazingly complicated beautiful water front. i learned the value and what it means to be a steward to the public trust and accountable to the puck lick.

public. everybody gets a say. that's appropriate. there have been just two times when the voters have weighed in, in 1990 with prop h and 2014 in prop b. in both instances, you stood up and said we have to engage the public and assembled a team. the patience that you showed in that entire effort is just remarkable. i looked back, i won't go over all of it. i look at all the work i've done in 17 years, and in each case you've played a vital role in the work.

i'm so glad you're not going off and retiring and not coming back frequently. it's going to be great to collaborate with you in this new phase. i'm glad to call you my friend. >> : tough so much, brad. priceless. thank you so much. >> : diane. are you the enabler. that's the first thing i want to say. the power of one has enabled so many people to come and accomplish things around you. your universities have really influenced and spread out and allowed so much to be done by helping others do what they need to do within the organization and on the public side. what an accomplishment as you shaped the water front. you understand public. you know this is a public water front. it is for the people.

you continue to enforce that in all your actions. that's a beautiful thing to understand who we really work for. who is benefiting from our actions here. that's a guidance i've always enjoyed, i will always appreciate. thank you very much. it's been such a pleasure. thank you diane and congratulations on phase whatever it is you're entering. >> : dan, you're close behind me with your accolades. i'll be there for your hearing too. thank you. >> : thank you. would anyone else like to comment? >> : thank you for your 40 years of service. i've been there for about half of them. diane and i worked very closely together for my first 19 years

or 18 and a half years, i've really appreciated the leadership that she brought and the companionship and mentorship. i know you are not going far, i want to recognize your contributions and help and personal friendship as well. thanks and enjoy. i hope paul is getting more of your time as we speak. thank you. >> : thank you, david. yeah. we'll see how it goes. i'm still making that transition. >> : thank you. >> : can i jump in? diane, we have such a hong long history together at the port. i'll always feel so grateful that my entry point was with you

holed up in a little corner of the ferry building before it was renovated. it it was like a graduate program. you come off mission bay. everything i needed to know about environmental analysis and san francisco and the public trust. i just absorbed as much as i could from you brilliant women. even though i went onto do other things for the port, i left, you're like this enabler. you're the pod piper of the port. it was irresistible when you stood. we were having lunch in my living room, lunch with four people. your little self stood to say why we should come back for the

water plan update. we were sold. that's just a small an he can a. it symbolizes who you are and your personality and the print that you put on the city. i'm so glad to call you my friend and this moment. congratulations. you're amazing. >> : thank you. it's a forever partnership. >> : thank you. would anyone else like to comment? okay. before we open it up to public comment, our consent calendar, we have a resolution for diane. seeing how she has given over 40

years to the port i'm going to read every word of this resolution. diane has dedicated her 41 year career to improving the city of san francisco and the port of san francisco waterer front. and whereas, diane began her career with the county in 1980 as a planner and whereas, the 1980 to 1990 she quickly rose through the ranks from a copy reader to a planner two to planner four to environmental review, and whereas, the eir was coordinated and won a national award, and whereas, the 1989 diane agreed to belong to the port to help champion the port

to the water front agreement; and wherea unbeknownst to her to the special areas plan, completing these negotiations in

2000. upon adoption in the amended special area plan, a non stop years long effort to achieving the water front overarching goal reuniting the city with the water front. a multitude of public access, open space, maritime, mixed use, historic preservation planning and development project. and whereas, for many years diane led the development and organization of the port committee for these projects including the water front advisory committee, the northeast earn water front advisory group.

and whereas, diane also led the planning division and many major development projects to assist the san francisco water front including the ferry building, pier one, pier's one and a half through five. and whereas, diane led the port team the work with city, regional state and historic planning agency to establish two national historic districts at the port. the embark dero and iron work. many maritime projects including piers 90 through 94. the downtown ferry terminal and

high street harbor improvement. and whereas, diane supported a decades long planning initiative that led to the eventual development of pier 70 and mission project. diane facilitated a delivery of water front improvement including promenade. she began leading multi agency disciplinary team for three years including over one hundred public community meetings to update the water front plan to guide port developments for many years to come. and whereas, in 2018 -- to the

b cdc special area plans under way. and whereas despite the monumental work loads diane has actively participated in extra curricular activities including growing on the island before the water -- now therefore be it resolved that as a result of diane's never wavering work, collaboration, and dedication, the port today is a world class destination that also serves and benefits city and regional

workers, visitors, and residents from all walks of life. and therefore be it resolved that the port of san francisco will forever be grateful to diane and the entire oceanal multi work family who supported her and she devoted countless hours weekends years and ultimately decades to public service first with the planning department and then with the port of san. and therefore be it resolved that we recognize her 30 years of truly remarkable contributions to the success of the port of san francisco water front. thank you, diane. >> : that doesn't even touch what you've done to

the port. now we will open it up to public comment. we'll take public comment to the director's report who would like to provide public comment on the phone. >> : thank you. at this time we'll open the queue for anyone on the phone who would like to make public comment on the executive director's report. please dial star three if would you like to make public comment. others will wait on mute until their lines are open. three minutes per person. the queue is now open. please dial star three if you wish to make public comment. >> : thank you. do we have anyone on the phone? >> : yes. we have four callers on the line at the moment. >> : please put through the

first commenter. >> : thank you. opening the first line now. >> : hi diane. this is alex rogers. it's a little teary at my desk. i i'm one of your 30 working group members. i'm calling to offer you my warmest wishes on your respective retirement. you two are my role models. you share a unique ability to meet people where they stand. a unique set of of perspectives. most spectacularly during water front land use updates process, over the decades of other projects into implementable plans. god's speed to both of you.

i hope we can get together soon. >> : thank you, alice. >> : thank you. next caller please. >> : thank you. opening the next line. >> : hi commissioners. this is janice lee. i'm wearing just my janice hat. i've been bothering y'all about bike stuff. i'm really here to thank diane for all she has done through the years on the port. she was like do you want to work on this working group. do you want to chair it. i was like are you really entrusting me with this. it was this incredible civic

process. diane was our tour guide that brought us together. it was a culmination of her career at the port. diane, you've done so much to make our beautiful ports, our beautiful shoreline gorgeous, the park spaces. so many places for san franciscans to enjoy and celebrate. i'm congratulationing you on your retirement and you'll be very much missed. thank you for all you've done. >> : thank you janice. >> : thank you. next caller please. >> : thank you. opening the next line. >> : hello commissioners. this is alec. i'm call canning in to tell you how much i appreciated working 20 year with diane and five

years with kerry. i would be overjoyed if they would join me in my third career as a water front watcher. god's speed to all of you and bless you for all you've done. thank you. bye. >> : thank you, alec. >> : next caller please. >> : thank you. opening the next line. >> : hello. i'm a resident of supervisor district three. i'm calling in support of the safety improvements. i walk, run, and bike to exercise and enjoy the city i live in. right now i don't feel safe when

walking, jogging, biking, all fight to share the same promenade space. particularly i would appreciate removing a traffic lane and making a wide two way bike way which will give people on bikes and scooters a safe space out side of the promenade. on a street where three people have died in traffic crashes in three years, we need to do everything we can to keep injury crashes from killing our neighbors. >> : any other callers on the phone? >> : yes, there are two other callers on the line.

>> : hello. i just wanted to congratulate both diane and kerry on their retirement. i had the privilege of working with both of them when i started the port 20 something years ago. they were both wrapping up the completion of the water front plan. we were embarking on the development of the reconnecting the city with the water front.

diane was, you know, instrumental in leading to all the development that followed. as i mentioned earlier the ferry building and all the developments that happened. it was really such a partner for me and made it possible for me to have any success at the port. i remember our desks were adjacent to each other and we talked often into the night. our walk to the bart station and how we could move forward with implementation of plan. you were amazing an continue to be that and such a resource to the port but such a great partner and friend and i look forward to continuing that into retirement. it's great on this side and

hopefully i'll get more of your time once you retire. kerry, i just want to acknowledge also that you were in the development group by the time i joined the port. all the background that you brought from your years developing the plan were so key to the implementation. your relationship with the giants are so key in what we're working on now. you laid the groundwork for that. you should congratulate yourself on the ground breaking project,

your work was so key on what eventually is being developed there. i want to congratulate both of new your retirement and i hope to see move of you in your new role and in your new situation as retirees. thank you. >> : thank you. >> : thank you. miss you. >> : thank you. >> : there are two other callers on the line. >> : oh, my gosh. >> : i'll unmute the next line. >> : hello. my name is jonathan. i'm a resident of telegraph hills. district three. i use the water front daily as a cyclist and as a runner. i fear if we do not get this done and if we do not get this

in the ground this year, this will never happen. i'm commenting on 6a. i'm an sf commuter, pedestrian, and all of the improvements for safety and disability for san francisco that is a world class city for residents and tourists and people like me. i think we have to urge the commission today to move forward on this initiative. i also just wanted to support the district three staff who are working on this project and supported this project. coming to fruition the safety of residents is a global place is essential. i just wanted to put that out. >> : thank you. next caller, please. >> : thank you. opening the next line.

>> : good afternoon president an commissioners. my name is katie. i'm calling in to say thank you to diane and kerry. you both are such great female leaders. thank you. thank you. diane over the years you've worked with us, the neighborhood association, the neighbors, with me personally. you've been such a great comrade and teacher. kerry, you were my co-panelist in evaluating the bids for piers 30, 32. thank you both so much. you both are terrific. >> : thank you. >> : we have one more caller on the line. opening that line now.

>> : thank you commissioners. this is jim calling. i worked with diane for over 30 years when we worked on mission bay and all through the years when i was a b cdc commissioner when we approved the building and the ballpark. more recently working on water front development and our role as the wet lands where they are using sediment from the activities. we work all around the kupt ri y and diane is at the top of the list of professionals that we work with everywhere. good luck with whatever is next. >> : thank you. anymore callers. >> : yes, there looks to be one more caller on the line.

>> : okay. put them through. >> : okay. thank you. opening that line now. >> : hello. this is miss johnson am i on. >> : yes, you are. >> : great. diane, and kerry. you are both so amazing and so awesome. thank you for your tireless work and leadership at the port. i think i've known both of you for the majority of years that you work the port. primarily it's been the water front land use process. it's a role model for every single port in the nation. you have had an immeasurable impact on the success of the port, i've enjoyed so much being a part of your lives and all of the lives and the people who have been working at the port in

the past years and i look forward it to seeing you on the water front. i know i'll see you, diane, for other projects working on your shorter hour capacity. good luck in your retirement. you're both so wonderful. thank you so much. >> : thank you.

>> : i don't know how much more i can add to all the great comments everyone has made about you. i know diane better, i have not seen kerry as much because she has been behind the scenes on the commission sides. hearing all the stories about you and that you're both so amazing an your dedication and quality and excellence of your work an contribution has made what we do at the commission so much easier and we can do our jobs as commissioners because we have such great staff like you and we'll miss you so much. i remember in particular in diane's case, i was not here for the first water front land use

but i was here for the second. we encouraged the out reach and organization of the teams, i thought this was going to be a impossible task. diane was never -- she took it very calmly. we had conversations about who should be on the task force. you just have that calmness about you. you've made a lot of sense out of this very complex work that we had to do. you came back an sorted it out with us. as many people have said, your communication skills came through to be able to make something so difficult, i remember going to one of the first meetings and we knew that we had so many diverse points of view in those working groups.

we knew it wasn't going to be easy. they were there for a reason, we put them there for a reason. i didn't know how to hurdle those tasks. i was amazed when we came back to commission an said we have 161 recommendations with unanimous consent. i was just floored how you could get that out this of large group of tremendous group of people. you were able it drive them into consensus into the final recommendation. that's one of the most amazing skills i have ever seen that i can say i witnessed firsthand. everybody else said they worked with you day-to-day, i was most impressed. i know you passed on some compliments to me about my comments. i appreciated very much. you were always very centered

and calm. i appreciate that so much. we're really going to miss you. you make the commission shine and make us look good. i'm proud to be on this commission because we have such great staff that help to guide us. we may in the always have the same point of view, you help us to understand the issues and the public. you are the pinnacle of public service. thank you so much for all of your years. i want to commend you on all your years. i hope you will continue to come back and comment an let us know what you think, if you think we're heading in the wrong direction, let us know. come back because you have such a wealth of experience, boning both ofyou.

thank you so much. >> : thank you so much, commissioner. your words mean a lot. >> : thank you. >> : so much has been said. kerry and diane, as a newer member of the commission, kerry, i interacted with you last. one thing i heard through all the comments from your colleagues, from the declaration is that you both have the ability to breakdown incredibly complex concepts and build consensus. collectively almost 60 years of public service to the port.

i want to wish you nothing but prosperity and relaxation in your time to come. i will say, diane in particular, when we looked at the 2019 update to the plan, the community and your process is unparallel to anything that i've experienced or seen someone who has interfaced in the city in many different facets. you should be so proud of that. were so beloved by everyone. we hope to see you and come and point out when we need to do things better. when we need to involve community more and do things more equitably. thank you both. >> : thank you so much commissioner. >> : thank you. >> : thank you. commissioner burton. >> : i haven't been on the

commission that long but i've heard the stories about both of you. if you want to give thought to saving another couple years so i can get to know you even better, you'd be crazy. the best of luck to both of you and thanks to your contributions not just to the port but to the city of san francisco. >> : thank you, commissioner. >> : thank you. >> : two heros. there are some people who need recognition for what they do and others get up everyday and just do it. that's what you both have done. it's just unbelievable. this is just so well deserved. wow.

diane, you are a force, class act, your tenacity. an both your and kerry's historical knowledge. you are visionaries. you both have something that a lot of people in life will never have, you have credibility. the community trusted you. a lot of people aren't trusted in life. you can work with people, but to trust people, that's something different. you have the trust of the community. most people -- that ain't for sale, you can't buy it. that goes a long way. i work with people but a lot of people, i'll never trust them. they say that dogs and children

can spot a fake anywhere or can tell when people aren't real. you have that god given credibility that people trust you and that intreg rit. integrity.please leave it upon e world will be a better place with the integrity and credibility that you have. you kept your principles first, you looked out for the communityand they knew that youe looking out for those who couldn't fight for themselves. somebody has to speak for them and they trusted them. i want to honor you both. you are women of courage. a salute. thank you very much. appreciate it.

>> : wow. thank you so much. >> : thank you. i don't know if there's anything left to say but i do have to add my two cents. i'll start with kerry. i was fortunate to work with you. i will always remember you.

every time we have a commission meeting, kerry did this. it has been so wonderful working with you over the years. bringing you back to do the water front, you guys did it in half the time. that's how had you do with all of your historical knowledge. all of your community knowledge and engagement and trust as everyone has said. it's been an absolute pleasure working with you. hopefully you'll become a water front watcher also. >> : thank you. >> : diane, i could just go on and on and on. starting with the water front

plan. all of the special area documents and the joint meetings with the redevelopment agency. the b cdc meetings. we were engaged at the hip for my first two or three years at the commission as we were putting the plan in place from all of your brilliant work. throughout the years, i always say diane, you are the water front plan. we wouldn't be where we are without you an all you put in the adoption an updates and community engagement. you have touched every inch of our seven and a half miles in some way. you have left such a legacy here at the port. you have done it with a smile on

your face. patience and calmness. regardless if i understand where we were going or not. i'm so in awe of you. thank you for your commitment to san francisco, to the water front, to the staff. the port is is such an incredible place. my 17 years, my 19 years. it's like no one wants to years. you have to stay engaged an involves. you have truly transformed the water front. >> : thank you so much. gentleman now i will give you two the opportunity to say something.

-- and big ship coming by and the lake, you know, bobbing the docks around and that salty smell -- you know it from whale boating, right. you're just on the water. and it's a working harbor. and i feel like i came to the port because i -- i was impressed with you and the work, but i think that it was because it felt familiar on a lot of levels. and i'm just so grateful to all

of you for letting me work here and to make a contribution to a place that feels like a little part of my d.n.a. so thank you. >> president brandon: it's not a little part. >> president brandon and colleagues, i actually had to get my head together around this because it is a big milestone so i hope that you can indulge me for a few minutes to just share some of my thoughts. because it is, it is a total honor for me to care for the waterfront with you. and the port has so many talented people to meet all needs day to day and long term. it's an amazing combination of expertise and passion. and the public too loves this waterfront. it's a special resource.

so to bring it all together in these collaborations with our tenants and our community and with our partners across the state and region, really, why else can you get that kind of opportunity? it's been a real blessing for me. elaine, i want to extend a special thank you for letting me to be part of the leadership team. you have created an incredible brain trust. i love that camaraderie, and everybody -- no one is beneath rolling up their sleeves and getting into the mud and working through the problems and coming up with new solutions and opportunities. it's the same thing that will continue to make this waterfront amazing and wonderful. and i think that i want to also to extend a special thanks to my team and to planning and environment division.

but you have patience and the staff and the planning and environment division, whatever you do along the waterfront it will be well planned and they will ensure that it is well planned. it's sustainably designed. and they'll work to combat climate change and to create healthier communities and to bring joy for the public's benefit because we all live the fact that this is a public waterfront. and thank you court commissioners for your extraordinary leadership. commissioner burton, we may not know each other personally, but i know the burton act and i have been working towards that every day. and like the waterfront, the port commission has had to be involved to meet the constant changing public and economic needs that the city faces and your ability to dive into the

complicated details and the requirements that it renders is really amazing and you provide a true public forum to make everyone feel welcome, to come and to talk about what is important to them about the waterfront. and then you modeled that accountability by making sure that we are responding to those needs and desires. so thank you so much for supporting the staff, for doing its work and for the contributions that you make to the city and the state for all of the work and hours that you put in. and i want to express a special thank you to you, president brandon. you know, much of this waterfront has been reunited with the city under your watch. and there's still more developments ahead, i know, but i really, truly appreciate your

early leadership before it was fashionable to recognize the historic disparities and to direct actions to create an inclusive and an equitable waterfront. and i can't wait to watch for the future collaborations that will come of it, just like elaine was citing in her e.d. report today because those will make the san francisco waterfront even greater. so -- and then finally, i need to give a shout-out to my husband paul. he's a rock and my best friend. he's really as a city veteran employee, he's provided me with a space and the wisdom and the counsel to support my work ethic, but also my home and work/family balance, because the waterfront is really a family in my heart. and he too shares passions for the waterfront. so you can be assured that we are not going away and that we will be stewards along with you, no matter what.

so thank you for allowing me to take a few minutes here to just collect my thoughts and to express my gratitude for your friendship. there's no better way than to serve a career serving the public and it's great to really know that there's such strong and caring hands. and i will be with you in mind and spirit to support your efforts always. so, thank you so much. >> president brandon: thank you, diane, thank you, thank you. we are really going to miss you, but we know that you'll be right here with us, right? >> absolutely, i will be there. >> president brandon: thank you thank you for all of your years of service and your commitment to the waterfront. thank you. next item, please. >> clerk: item that is item 7, the consent calendar. item 7 a for qualifications, and

for implementation of the governmental accounting standards, board statement number 87. resolution 2127. and item 7b approval of a resolution commending the deputy director of planning and environment upon the occasion of after 41 years of dedicated service to improving the city of san francisco and the port of san francisco waterfront. and that resolution 2128. >> president brandon: may i have a motion? >> so moved. >> second. >> second. >> president brandon: thank you now let's open it up to public comment. we will open up the phone lines to take public comment. for the members of the public joining us on the phone, jennifer is our operator and will provide instructions now. if anyone on the phone would like to provide public comment. >> clerk: thank you, president brandon. at this time we will open the queue for anyone on the phone

who would like to make public comment on the consent calendar 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. >> president brandon: thank you, jennifer. do we have anyone? >> clerk: president brandon, at this time there are no members of the public on the phone wishing to make public comment. >> president brandon: thank you seeing no callers on the phone, public comment is closed. can we have a roll call vote. >> clerk: [roll call vote]

>> president brandon: the motion passes unanimously. 2127 and 2128 are adopted. call the next item please. >> clerk: item 8a, proposed quick build traffic and curb management changes in the central embarcadero, per the san francisco municipal transportation agency's embarcadero enhancement program in support of the city's vision zero traffic safety goals. >> good afternoon, president brandon and vice-chair adams and the members of the commission. we are here again today to discuss the embarcadero enhancement project, which is a san francisco municipal transportation agency vision zero transportation and streetscape effort to promote safety, mobility and connectivity for all modes of

travel along the embarcadero. thank you for your comments a few weeks ago on june 8th and may 25th. we also found valuable the many public comments from the may 25th port commission meeting. and at today's meeting we'll address those questions and comments. and we'll start with stacy and then mark, and gabriel hall, all who will provide most of the presentation. can i have the powerpoint please? thank you. first, in the presentation, first we'll describe some of the recent vision zero improvements along embarcadero. and the efforts that have shaped the plans before you. and then to describe an approach in providing samples of proposed signage on the promenade to encourage wheeled vehicles to use the proposed bike lanes.

they'll provide explanation of traffic flow and single timing with extra focus on the broadway intersection. and on evaluation of proposed improvements. and then i will come back and provide -- describe options for regulating uses on the promenade. and i'll finish up with that. first, i would like to touch upon about what vision zero is and why this project is before you. can i have the next slide, please? vision zero is the city's road safety policy that will build safety and livability into our streets. the goal is to create a culture that prioritizes traffic safety and to ensure that actions on our roadways do not result in injuries or death. the port commission adopted the city's vision zero policy in 2016, showing its support for this goal. can i have the next slide, please. the experience today -- what it feels like now -- the

embarcadero roadway is for many people, it's felt to be unsafe for either walking or cycling. the crossing distances are very wide. traffic can move -- when it is moving well -- it moves quite quickly. and the bike lane is narrow. it's a lot of people that are not comfortable on it. on the promenade, it's uncomfortable because so many of the wheeled vehicles, whether there's bicycles or scooters or other personal mobility devices that we see now, are all trying to share that same space. i think that what these point out is the challenge that brings us here today to improve the safety along the roadway for pedestrians, for cyclists and for the other mobility devices and for the vehicles as well. and we're going to -- and at the same time, to look at how we can efficiently move. so that's the challenge in front of us. and now i'd like to hand it over to casey hilldrith to address

the questions that you've had in previous meetings. thank you. >> thank you, dan, and thank you, commissioners. next slide, please. so we started back in 2013 with the planning process, known as the embarcadero enhancement project, to envision a complete street for the corridor to improve safety, which, you know, does mean adding protection for people biking. and to increase the safety, to increase the share of people cycling and to support sustainable economic growth. but because we had a sense of urgency to address safety, you know, to leave no stone unturned, the port staff have moved forward with a number of spot safety fixes over the years to achieve near-term safety, fixes while continuing to build towards the longer-term vision.

and so these are just some representative samples of really trying to, again, to maximize safety of the sort of the existing framework of what's out there before we would move to something more potentially disruptive. next slide, please. this came into stark relief with the death of a cabdriver and a beloved member of the waterfront killed at the hands of a hit-and-run driver. so in addition to some of our other spot safety fixes, sfmta and the port staff moved forward with a response that included a partial road to south bound embarcadero which you can see in the bottom of that slide. and while moving forward with safety fixes to the intersections of battery and embarcadero and sampson and the embarcadero.

and these were important to note with this project that because we had been talking to the community over many years about the embarcadero, we knew that the northern segment of the corridor was particularly challenging when thinking about a longer term vision. so as we addressed safety on the embarcadero, we also implemented sort of an alternative bike route off of the waterfront to support the overall network and building safety, not just on the waterfront, but to and from the city. next slide, please. so that was the safety fixes that really kind of go hand-in-hand with the outreach that we conducted over seven plus years. next slide, please. just i think to remind some of the folks that are listening in and the commission -- we really kicked off our process in 2013

to 2014, with a series of design workshops. using sort of a game board format to really understand from stakeholders what they cherished most and what was potentially, you know, up for a change to improve safety. we had over 100 participant in these workshops, and they did represent i think a full range of opinions and visions for the waterfront. we used an outside facilitator to provide sort of a welcoming and unbiased format and i think that was reflected in a lot of the feedback that we received. and since we developed this sort of a list of sort of key themes that we used throughout the remainder of our planning process, and that included really looking at fisherman's wharf and pier39 separately due

to the somewhat separate issues up in that next of the woods. next slide, please. we returned in 2016, really focused on taking that feedback from the workshops from 2014. and then applying a rigorous assessment of the bike lane alternatives. we needed to settle on how we would move forward with protecting people bicycling in order to really round out the complete street and to understand where we could improve conditions for all modes. we had over 200 people attend this open house and to contribute to a project survey, and clearly out of that was that the two-way alignment was preferred for a variety of reasons, and that the folks who did weigh in, you know, most of them worked or lived or used the embarcadero daily and a good

number of them had businesses or lived on the corridor. next slide, please. and that all was solidified in 2018 when we presented a more refined concept for the bikeway along the waterfront. that, you know, that goes along with these sort of larger meetings go along with numerous -- countless meetings with virtually everybody that would -- was willing to talk with us over the years on the right there i want to just point out that one is just media. so having, you know, trying to reach the broadest possible audience, even a regional audience, through some leveraged media, as well as seeking out alternative perspectives that we might have missed with our stakeholder meetings and our workshops. and this is one example where we actually shadowed some of the vendors that delivered goods along the waterfront to understand where their pitch points were, and what their challenges were, and how we

might be able to accommodate that in our project. so overall i think it's a very robust and comprehensive outreach process over many years to help to lead to where we are today. next slide, please. so, again, we're here to talk about central embarcadero and this is the map that summarizes the proposal and we'll go into some of the details, particularly at broadway, later in the presentation. but what i just talked about was really just the planning process leading up to the specific project in front of us today. i'm going to turn it over to my colleague marc to walk through the more specific outreach that is to this embarcadero segment. >> thank you, casey. next slide, please. now i'll outline our outreach as we have taken this conceptual design for safety improvements and applied it to the central embarcadero, so from mission to

broadway. and the engagement and the trust building that we've had with the community since 2013. so we applied a variety of methods to engage the community to understand how the design interfaces with waterfront businesses, residents, computer traffic, transit, all of the above. with the potential embarcadero project. i'll point out as i have in preefts presentations that -- previous presentations that a lot of it was virrual and, yes, we -- virtual, and, yes, we're happy to see each other one again. but a lot of the tools we intend to apply going forward. so we applied interactive materials online and interactive fact sheets and project materials. and really centered on an interactive survey, which we also physically mailed to 17,000 addresses. i'll share more on that in a moment. and also we leveraged our long stakeholder list, you know, since 2013, we have been pulling people in from all corners of

san francisco and the region, actually, who have an investment on embarcadero and the waterfront and want to stay involved. so this was one of those moments where we're asking folks for feedback on actual changes happening to apply these improvements to conceptual design. this is just a short list of the key groups that we worked in the embarcadero area that we have had an ongoing dialogue with about these changes. at the ferry building, you know, we have been working with hudson and working with those who operate the farmers' market to ingrate safety changes with their operations. we also have continued to work with the barbree coast neighborhood and built up that relationship with the battery connections project which casey just shared about. and it's been very helpful and we had a wonderful walking tour with them and other dialogue to really understand the issues that they're seeing day in and day out on and around

waterfront. and in their neighborhood and then also on the embarcadero themselves. and we heard from chinatown trip, the research and improvement project, a lot of the routes that folks in their neighborhood used to get in and out of chinatown include embarcadero. so they've had a lot of valuable input into the various configurations that have gone into the proposal. and then lastly, i will mention that it was very helpful to present to the courts and the advisory committee who had representatives from a variety of contexts and connections to the waterfront and their feedback, as well as everyone else's was very helpful in developing the project. next slide, please. so i want to share a little bit more information on the project survey. there were a few questions on that the last we presented. so as we shared earlier we sent this survey to 17,000 addresses along the entire waterfront from bay street down to townson street and not just in the central embarcadero project, but

deep into the surrounding neighborhoods. as i mentioned a moment ago we have also developed a list with thousands of community members since 2013, and we continue to send project materials. so this was a good moment for people to really come in and to provide their feedback. and we received a very healthy response rate to the survey, the 1400 responses, again, with folks that have a variety of connections with the waterfront people who primarily drive it, people who primarily bicycle or walk, people who do their daily errands, go to the farmers' market. the people who use this street to get to other neighborhoods in san francisco with the arterial transit that it is. but i want to point out a few key points from the survey, in particular that which was centered on the promenade itself, because that really was a core theme that we took out of the outreach project. 81% of people believe that those walking on the promenade will benefit from the on-street

bikeway, providing a facility that is between the vehicle traffic and the promenade itself. you know, dan pointed out a moment ago, you know, that we had issues in the roadway for safety, people don't feel safe there, people are getting hit and injured far too frequently. but then we also have issues with safety and comfort on the promenade. in some cases those who use wheeled vehicles they feel that is the only place they can be, but that creates a lot of stress because there's so much else going on at the promenade. and a strong majority from the survey also supported the inclusion of education efforts to promote a safe promenade. and a lot of the particulars and the specific feedback centered around electric bikes and scooters. so i'll address that in a moment. next slide, please. so public feed back that we've had was instructive for us to develop a more comprehensive plan, which i would like to

provide an overview of right now. next slide, please. but first of all i want to point out our city-wide system. this is something that we have rolled out now throughout san francisco over the past two or three years and it replaced the old signs with the golden gate bridge and the fog, which didn't serve too much of a purpose. but this time in in addition to having arrows and time and distance estimates, these are helpful to get people through tricky junction points or helpful for coming on or off paths. so these are the sort of things that the people -- the signs that people who ride bikes in san francisco are used to seeing and all of san francisco's neighborhoods. and so we already have them on the waterfront. we have used them with the quick build last year between fulsome and mission and we intend to leverage them to show where the bike lanes begin and encourage them to go into it.

next slide, please. but we know this is not enough. we also need signs that promote explicitly the pedestrian priority. so you see the bay trail design scheme. the bay trail, which i'm sure that many are familiar, is the multiuse pathway that rings the entire san francisco bay and it has a certain design scheme to it that people are used to seeing. so the two goals with these signs -- firstly, we think that they should guide people where there's a bikeway, to show this is the place to ride your bicycle, to ride your scooter and this is promenade. dan will share changing promenade useds but we currently have today an existing restriction on electric bikes and scooters on the embarcadero promenade, which i don't think that many are aware of. so having signs that explicitly call this out and make it clear to folks that electric bikes and scooters are not permitted on

the promenade, that needs to be a part of this as well. and then to encourage safer behavior and encouraging people to ride slow, to yield, to really to be considerate of others on the promenade. you know, we have stencils that we have installed south of the ferry building with these sorts of messages you can see on the bottom right corner. it's an example of a different design that we could use at the beginning of the bikeway to share with people that they should be going into it at that point. sometimes -- especially if you're riding a bike, it could be more easy to see something on the pavement, not just a sign on a pole. so we think that including both of these sorts of designs would be important. next slide, please. it's also critical to have signs in place to share with people driving what to expect ahead. so these are a couple of the examples of advisory and lane assignment signs that we would place approaching broadway.

we're share in a moment, my colleague will, different designs that we at broadway have looked at. but we would include these in all cases and it's important for people approaching a situation where the lanes change that they know which lane they may need to be in. and that may help to reduce the friction that people may see when there's a place that there's a complicated junction or a complicated intersection. next slide, please. i'll turn it over to dave ho, our lead engineer on the project and he's been working on the embarcadero for several years and i want him to talk through the traffic, and how it interfaces with the project proposal. >> thank you, mark. i'm sum riding our traffic analysis for the central embarcadero. and i'll also go into greater detail about our proposed design at the broadway intersection. next slide, please. as i begin, i would like to go

over just a couple of found mental ideas -- fundamental ideas that will help us with the remainder of the presentation. the first one is about a traffic cycle. and every traffic signal has a cycle, to have people to safely pass through the intersection. when we designed the signal program we created a margin of safety for all traffic, while balancing the needs of multimodal traffic from multiple directions as it fluctuates by time of day in simple terms, when we give one traffic movement more green time, others are stopped as a longer red light. so this is a process of balancing competing demands and maintaining safe distances for all traffic. and the second idea is about coordination. we can link together the signals on a corridor such as embarcadero and we synchronize

the systems to help the traffic to flow smoothly. next slide, please. so now i'll share a bit more of the specifics about the embarcadero corridor and the unique characteristics of its traffic signal system. as dan mentioned previously, we have a particularly wide roadway, which creates long crossings for pedestrians. in order to accommodate safe crossings for people of all ages and abilities, we apportion about half of the signal cycle time to pedestrian crossings. embarcadero traffic signal system has a transit priority system that detects streetcars and signal timing on the fly in order to keep the trains moving between fisherman's wharf and market street. next slide, please.

we also implemented a accordination system on the embarcadero where all of the signals are tied together to move the vehicle traffic as efficiently as possible. historically northbound traffic is heavier in the morning -- well, southbound traffic is heavier in the evening and our single coordination is to respond to these overall vehicle flows. however, dynamic conditions on the roadways reduce the efficiency of the signal coordination, such as fluctuating traffic demand, double parking, drivers entering or exiting driveways. all of these things diminish some of the benefits of the signal coordination. but our project attempts to address some of these issues through improving loading zones and clarifying where some locations of driveways to reduce this friction. slide 22, please.

thank you. so as part of the central embarcadero quick build, our project will pursue various strategies to minimize vehicle traffic times on the embarcadero corridor. we will further optimize all of the traffic signals to serve the northbound traffic, to minimize the vehicle travel times on the entire embarcadero corridor as well as in the project area. we are also proposing to restrict southbound u-turns at broadway. and this allows us to free up some of the signal time with northbound and southbound vehicle traffic. lastly, we have a strategy for shortening our long pedestrian crossings to not only create a safer experience for people on foot, but allow us to give more green time. and this is only feasible in a future capital project on the

central and embarcadero due to the complexity of building these island moving our traffic signal on to them. however, our quick build project will provide a stepping stone to these long-term improvements. next slide, please. lastly, i would like to zoom in on the broadway intersection as it's a critical location for the embarcadero project, with the number of crashes that have occurred here and the congestion on the promenade and off the promenade here. and, of course, broadway is a key arterial connection for vehicle circulation in this part of the city. but the existing roadway consists of two thru lanes and two left turn lanes and one unprotected bike lane. and in order for us to construct the two-way protected bikeway as shown in the plan, to relieve the congestion on the promenade

here, we must remove one of these lanes and we're left with only three vehicle lanes. so our team has studied intensively the various options for configuring northbound lanes here. we've created dozens of traffic models to evaluate and to compare the performance of the various options. the design shown in this image with two left turn lanes and one thru lane is the staff recommended design as it minimizing traffic congestion compared to the alternative. however, we understand that this is a critical intersection for us to get right and we continue to hear valid skepticism from our stakeholders about how this design will efficiently move the vehicle traffic. so in response to this, we are proposing that we conduct a field test of the northbound lane configurations here as part of the implementation of our quick build. next slide. so we'll walk through in more detail about the main

configurations that we have with designs a, b and c. design a has two turn lanes and eliminates one turn lane on to broadway. this is an intuitive design, invests two three lanes would match upstream and downstream conditions of the broadway intersection. however, our analysis shows that during the peak traffic that the left turn pocket is susceptible to overflowing and blocking one of the thru lanes of traffic. this causes drivers with destinations on westbound broadway to find alternative routes, while also constricting the two lanes down to one lane. and plan b is the staff proposed design, and according to our modeling this is the most efficient design of the three in terms of moving vehicle traffic efficiently.

in our signal program here, the movement gets the amount of green time. though there are more vehicles, the design b is able to accommodate the driving patterns at this intersection due to the long green (indiscernible). lastly, we have studied design c, with the left lane as a thru lane. this is attractive with the combined lanes. however, design c does not allow for northbound and southbound traffic to move at the same time that creates congestion and delays based on our modeling. as such, we do not recommend including design c within the broadway field test. instead, we are recommending that we test design a and b and

evaluate them critically to understand which will perform best in moving vehicle traffic. i'll now have more about our evaluation plan for both this field test at broadway as well as the overall quick build project. >> thank you. next slide, please. so i'll try to be brief here as i know that we're trying to wrap up. you know, i hope that we have provided, you know, greater context to how we got to our current proposal and that help to answer some of the commission's questions from the previous meetings. i do think it all, you know, kind of boils down to an evaluation so that, you know, if we were to move forward with this project that we are continuing our sense of urgency to address safety along the corridor. that we are continuing to be

responsive to the public and to the commission's concerns. but ultimately we need to be accountable to what is happening on the ground. so our whole approach with the quick build program and the quick build project, you know, is centered around evaluating those real world conditions. and so, you know, the idea that broadway field tests, to really compare the impacts of, you know, where i think that the values and the tradeoffs and the issues and the potential challenges really crystallize at broadway, we hope that is a responsive -- a response to the issues and concerns that have been raised. you know, we have a series of metrics that we would use to evaluate the conditions, you know, mainly with respect to broadway, the congestion and travel time. and we would, you know, come back to the commission with a more detailed plan based on

comments from the overall project evaluation that will involve a lot of data but it will also involve more community feedback. we have continued to keep the community engaged throughout the planning process, we'll continue to do that, you know, post-implementation as we -- you know, we look to make this the best project for the city. and, you know, we will be able to make real-time adjustments. you know, dave talked about signal timing and we can make those during the field test to really get us the information that we need to know that we're making the best choice. next slide, please. so, you know, we're hopeful that we can take feedback from this evening and come back to the commission soon to sort of stay on the schedule that we have envisioned. that schedule really tries to take advantage of the upcoming winter months to get that construction in the ground and to begin the process of

evaluation. you know, not during the summer months, i think what we're all hopeful for economic recover tow really take the lead. we can also work in the shadow of the existing p.u.c. project which is out there today and is affecting travel along northbound and southbound and embarcadero. ultimately that p.u.c. project and the need for that to be completed before we start our true evaluation, that will have to be worked out in early to mid 2022, but, certainly, we plan to be responsive to the issues and concerns that have been raised and really to be able to come back and to very quickly after the p.u.c. project is done and our project would be in the ground, to present our findings and to chart a path forward beyond 2022. so looking forward to your comments and questions, but before we wrap up, i turn it back to dan to speak specifically to the promenade

all-season -- separate from the quick build project. >> next slide, please. i want to touch on the process to change the promenade uses which was a request at our last meeting. and i -- this is a process that would likely be outside of the quick build project, run on its own timeline. the next slide, please. so about promenade -- the current regulations on the promenade -- while the promenade is not a city sidewalk, it is a port park. so it's a little different and you are allowed to ride a bike on it and you are not allowed to ride a motorized vehicle on that, that includes motorized bicycles and motorized scooters and anything else that you can tack a motor on to, which we see up and down, and those look very fun, but they are not permitted

on there. it's not really enforced that the point in time. enforcement -- the port has not chosen to do that. there is an expense associated with that. it's the promenade is also the bay trail per the metropolitan commission and the bay trail project and it's a multiuse pathway. so they don't have necessarily jurisdiction, but they have adopted it as part of this. and the promenade is dedicated public access through a permit as for the roadway through that bay conservation and development commission. so any change to it would require their approval to do so, or that is our belief at this point in time. next slide, please. so for options for regulating uses. well, what we've heard a lot about is the enforcement of the

existing regulations, just described and described earlier doing greater signage to do that. probably the first thing to do to make that reasonable is to provide a facility for others. the reason that people may be using the promenade with all of the different wheeled vehicles is that there is not a safe place to be otherwise, getting back to the existing bike lane, it feels scary. it's just not wide and there's fast-moving traffic. so the first thing that will make enforcement easier is providing a safe place for all of the vehicles to go. whether they are motorized or not. to accomplish -- to change the regulations, the commission could amend the port code, prohibiting all bicycles and other wheeled devices. there would need to be exceptions for wheelchairs and baby strollers. and then they may also want to look at ages.

is it -- would the new bike facility be comfortable for families that have children learning to ride bikes as the promenade is used now? it will bring up some questions i don't begin to have the answers for that. there are a couple of other options. if we explore -- if the commission was to amend the port code, it would also require approval by the board of supervisors. not just the port commission. a couple of other options explored the existing port code authority, which allows the port commission or the executive director to close a park area under certain circumstances. we don't say with complete confidence that this is allowed, but it is something that we could explore further and there's also an option to amend the port harbor code and traffic code which are not part of the municipal code and, therefore, it does not require a board of supervisor approval. and we could look into that further. so any action to prohibit a use

of the promenade would be preceded by a thorough public outreach process for the many types of users from many different places that use the san francisco waterfront. the problem on the promenade is the mixing of pedestrians with faster moving wheeled vehicles, no doubt. no matter what kind of wheeled vehicles they are -- motorized or not. building up a protected bike lane may go a long ways towards solving the problem. so it would be the commission's decision if they also want to also pursue changing code to prevent all wheeled vehicles from using it. that concludes our comments, sfmta's and mine, and we look forward to the public comment and commission comment and we, of course, are available to answer any questions this evening.

thank you very much. >> president brandon: thank you, dan, mark, and gabriel, for this presentation. very important and we thank you for addressing some of our concerns. before i open it up for public comment, supervisor peskin's staff sent me -- >> thank you very much, president brandon and the i just want to say that in thinking about this project i was reminded about one of the meetings that i attended with diane and before saying anything i wanted to recognize what an incredible asset she has been. not just to the court and the waterfront communities and district 6 and 10 and 3, and 2,

but, really, as a city public servant and i want to wish you well, and we're going to miss having a chance to work with you. and i have had also the privilege of working in the district 6 office when this project as a much larger public safety was first envisioned and it is for this, and the community organizing and outreach at that time was a little before vision zero in 2013, but was around pedestrian and bicycle safety and really trying to help our constituents to understand tradeoffs and what it meant to be able to envision a neighborhood safety project that did not pit people against each other, did not pit mom -- you know, small businesses and

seniors and youth and families against each other. and and i feel that the sfmta staff, and a shout out to them who have been wonderful to work with over the course of several years that we have been trying to get a safety project into the ground on embarcadero, they have really tried to balance the feedback and the concerns of the community with the very real safety issues that we are facing. you know, along this stretch of road, i mean i remember one of the original angles that, you know, we were trying to work with then sfmta director ed ruskin on, you know, how do we -- you know, what can we do to mitigate the safety issues along this, like, really highway. you know, why we're waiting for this project to go into the ground.

and one of those ideas was, well, let's see if we can use the port, you know, the port gets traffic control officers and has sfpd officers that are tasked with doing enforcement along the embarcadero and maybe we can work with them to make sure that we're not having motorized scooters on the promenade, that it's still safe enough to go into the roadway and we're making sure that folks are not double parking in the bike lane and we don't have all of these things that have really cost people their lives. in the end, you know, we realized that nothing is going to change unless we take, you know, expeditious, urgent action to put engineering into the ground that is going to forcibly mitigate, you know, some of these transit modes -- some of the more reckless behaviors of

these different transit modes. you know, and as you know, my person i'm representing, supervisor peskin, has been a huge champion of trying to do more sooner. we have also been very active in conversation and, you know, that is another major capital project that we have tried to hopefully to kind of align, you know, with the safety concerns in this area. and have helped to secure funding for. and we've secured funding for this project to the tune of a million dollars. we were a little surprised that, you know, that this continued and as you have read and as in supervisor peskin's letter, he's been disappointed that this has not been scheduled for an approval action, but i'm hopeful that after hearing from the sfmta staff today that we can

really move this forward, so that we can get it into the ground before the end of the year and really have a beautiful world-class waterfront that everyone is enjoy, including our seniors and including the families walking from chinatown to get down to the fishing boats to get their fish, and including the cyclists that are commuting so i just want to thank you all for your collaboration and really the urgency that you are hopefully going to be putting to moving this forward. so thank you very much. and i will stick around if there's any questions. >> president brandon: thank you so much, i really appreciate your comments. thank you. now let's open it up for public comment. we will open up the phone lines and take public comment on item 8a. for the members of the public who are joining us on the phone, jennifer will be our operator and will provide instructions now for anyone on the phone who would like to provide public comment. >> clerk: thank you, president brandon. at this time, we will open it up for anyone on the phone who

would like to make public comment on item 8a. please dial star, 3, if you wish to make public comment. the system will let you know when your line is open. others will wait on mute until their line is open. comments will be limited to three minutes per person. the queue is now open. please dial star, 3, if you wish to make public comment. >> president brandon: thank you do we have anyone on the phone? >> clerk: yes, president brandon, we have 10 callers on the line at the moment. >> president brandon: please open up the line to the first caller. >> clerk: thank you. opening up the first line now. >> caller: hi there, my name is luke bornheimer and i'm a father of one and one of the leaders of kids space s.f. and i'm just calling in support of this project. and i urge the commission to move it forward with a vote in

the weeks to come. this project as some have highlighted is desperately needed, both for people on the promenade walking, and also for people who like to use bikes along the embarcadero. and also this project will create a more predictable and safe environment for cars on the embarcadero, separating modes of traffic and travel, and makes a space safer for everyone. so i urge the commission to move this project forward and i thank the m.t.a. team and staff that have worked tirelessly on this and all of the advocates. and supervisors who have worked on this for years. this was a great opportunity for us to move the embarcadero, the promenade, and our waterfront even further into the world-class category that it is known for being. and i hope that you take this opportunity to move this project forward. thank you for your time and thanks again to all of the staff

and advocates who have worked on this tirelessly. thank you. >> president brandon: thank you next caller, please. >> clerk: thank you, opening the next line. >> caller: hi, thank you, my name is cliff barger and i live in pertrairo hill and i am lucky to frequently get to the waterfront to walk, run and bike both for transportation and recreation. there's a number of great destinations that i can reach along the waterfront. i want to thank staff for all of the great work they've done on this so far and i want to thank the supervisor's office for hearing this item today. i think we just really need to move ahead with this quick build as soon as we possibly can and put staff's hard work into the ground here. and see what happens. we know that some of the proposals here would save lives, like those of kevin manning's

and we know that they're all set to getting more people to feel safe walking and biking along our waterfront. we have a great transportation agency here in san francisco and i think the port should -- is wise to defer to them on traffic planning and traffic management, rather than to second guess what the impacts would be. we have people coming here from all over the world to bike on our waterfront and bike and walk across the golden gate bridge. and this part of embarcadero is often a crucial part of their journeys and i think that we should be bold here and just really make it an even safer place than it is today. it has been a tremendous transformation since the embarcadero freeway came down and i think we can do so much more in the same direction. thank you. >> president brandon: thank you

next caller, please. >> clerk: opening up the next line. >> caller: good afternoon, commissioners. thank you for holding a hearing on embarcadero today. i am kenneth russell and i'm a renter here in san francisco in district 7. fortunately, i'm in walking distance to the daily city bus stop and i can take park to the office downtown and often on my lunch breaks i would walk along the embarcadero, appreciating this wonderful part of our city and even now as i'm working from home i still make trips to the embarcadero, it's a great place to enjoy being outdoors. i was disappointed to hear that there's no action to improve the improved bike lane on embarcadero. as someone who walks and bike there is, i know that having more separated space will improve the embarcadero for everyone. for people walking around, it's

better when bikes have a protected space they can use and it's much better when you don't have to mix with cars and pedestrians. i want to live in a city where people don't have to worry about their loved ones and to make it safe for all bikers and walkers and not just seasoned bike riders. i want to live in a city where we take vision zero seriously and act with haste to protect people's well-being and lives. i strongly urge you to take action to approve this project as soon as possible. thank you. >> president brandon: thank you next caller, please. >> clerk: thank you. here's the next line. >> caller: good afternoon, commissioners. i am a san francisco native and i'm calling today because i heard about the delay of the approval of this vitally necessary project. now i bike on the embarcadero sometimes but i'm calling because i worry about pie dad. he started -- my dad.

and there are bikes on it for recreation and to shop at local businesses. because i know firsthand how wildly unsafe the bike lanes are right now i'm worried for his safety and that the project is delayed yet again. the people that i see riding bikes on embarcadero are not spandex clad bikers but terrified families with small children and visitors trying to visit the waterfront and seniors like my dad who deserve safety. the small protection of protected bike lanes that work so well have an urgent need to extend to waterfront. as this presentation mentioned the design and the process has been running for over eight years and it's honestly just appalling that this has taken so long when lives are literally on the lines and that it's not approved today. i'm tired of worrying on a daily bases they my dad will get run over on embarcadero.

for his safety and everyone else's, i would like to see urgency here and if you plan to approve this at the next commission meeting. thank you. >> president brandon: thank you next caller, please. >> clerk: thank you. (please stand by)

it would be safer for everyone who uses and provide a better buffer between the car traffic and people who walk and bike. it will allow member of the public to enjoy san francisco's water front safely and comfort plea. the first thing segment between both the mission have been a great success and it makes both the sidewalk and bike lane much more pleasant. drivers drive with more care and crosswalks are shorter. that allows people who are walk to cross embarcadero's year and safer. it needs to go further. members of the commission made comments recognize the role as soon as possible and let's stop the lane and i ask you to follow through and take action to approve this project as soon as possible. thank you for hearing my

comments. >> thank you. opening the next line, now. >> good evening, president brandon, commissioners, and director forbes. my name is brian hogsman and i'm walk san francisco zero organizer. i wanted to share walk sf strong support for the central embarcadero safety project as part of the larger embarcadero enhancement project. walk san francisco, as the city owes pedestrian advocacy organization works to transform san francisco streets specifically it's most dangerous streets. so that everyone is safe for walking and right now, the embarcadero is one of those dangerous streets. and it's on the list of the city's high injury corridors and preventable crashes and regularly seriously injury or kill people walking, biking and driving along the embarcadero. each year on average, 15 people are injured in crashes, just in these couple blocks between

mission and broadway a majority of them walking and biking. many people are biking and scooterring avoid the bike lanes and they use the promenade and creates hazards for people traveling on foot. we hear this regularly from older adults who we work with that even if they avoid a crash on a promenade, close calls with people biking, they feel especially unsafe for them. we strongly support this first round of improvements. yes, the wide bike lane is a better alternative to the promenade for people on bikes and scooters but it's bigger than the bike lane. road diets bring down speeding for everyone and the pedestrian islands and painted safety zones will shorten crossing distances which is especially important for those who need time to cross like older adult and people with disabilities and we have seen them lead to changes in similar

projects across the city and these lane and signal changes can bring down high speeds which is the number one crash for crashes that kill and seriously injury people. as others have noted this project is years in the making and it has been improved with planning through city wide partners, neighborhood groups and i appreciate the sfmta and the port's work on this. and so that we can all benefit and safety measures. thank you so much. >> thank you. next caller, please. >> caller: hi, my name is joanne and i live in the castro. i'm a urban environmentalist and i've lived in sf as a homeowner since 2007 mor or less and the bay area since 2002. i appreciate the fact that presentation but to echo supervisor peskin's office and

the other commenters i'm disappointed that you won't be asking to approve the protected bike lanes today. for a quick-build project and this process is not quick at all and i hope the port can move quickly on this on staff recommendations and make choices as we go along. many other cities have acted quickly on bike lanes. to share a bit about why this bike lane is important to me and the one example i'm pregnant and i'm bike along that part of the embarcadero to get to my obgyn and i just don't feel comfortable biking along the promenade because i don't want to enterser fear with pedestrians so i bike in the bike lane. it's really dangerous and the cars are very fast and we're the more pregnant i get the more uncomfortable i get doing this s not because i'm physically unable to bike but i feel unsafe

with my pregnancy. when i have a kid, i want to be able to take my kids by bike places like the explore to be yum and the a care yum and the ferry and two weeks ago my 4-year-old on union. i would have loved to have biked around the embarcadero and enjoy the water and get her use to an active and healthy lifestyle but i didn't feel safe doing that and not even on the promenade and the cars are there and they are fast and it's just scary with the small child. around all my personal experiences we need to support better active transportation in sf. transportation is responsible for half of our local carbon

emission and the power of transportation on our waterfront which is great destinations that many people want to ask for advice and i just don't know how we plan to meet our clinicals so i hope it will be safer for families and tourists and anyone who wants to be outside and enjoy our waterfront and get from point a to point b. thank you. next caller, please. >> clerk: thank you, opening the next slide. >> caller: my name is evan golden and i'm a member of the a lifelong bay area resident. my wife and i and my parents all live next to the many dark adair owe and we use it as drivers, pedestrians, cyclists and my wife and i use the embarcadero to commute to work and i really

want to call in encourage you guys to move this forward as soon as possible and the it's just not safe to bikers, i've been yelled at by my neighbors and it's premiere because it's a tight space and and the roads are too wide as they stand today and i watch and i hear cars roaring up and down the embarcadero at 60 millimeters and reducing the travel space would help reduce speeds in the area and i want my family, including my parents to get around my neighborhood safely and i urge you not to weigh this project and i want to get around safely without risking my life and i don't think it's too much

to ask. >> clerk: thank you. next caller, please. >> clerk: unmuteing the next slide. :30 good evening, commissioners and director forbes. this is alice and i'm a add between cognition neighborhoods and and we have worked closely over the years with your staff and staff and i'm trying to make the promenade safer and berman aged for everyone who uses it and the part embarcadero enhancement program is fundamental inform making progress on that goal but only if all of the segments are implemented and quick success and it's key to getting faster-moving wheels off the sidewalks and regaining contracts. and protected segments together they will be underused and short

of achieving their safety and goals and the bike lanes the sooner them improve the investment. with this current proposal improves pilot performance testing, please, do your part to make the embarcadero exemplary and do it now. we connect the bike network throughout the city but only you can make the embarcadero a multi model network happen now. thank you so much. >> thank you. next caller, please. >> clerk: we have throw more callers on the line and he will open the next line. >> good afternoon. my name is katy ladel and i've been here in the neighborhood for 26 years. many of those years involved with pedestrian safety and the

amta and as alice just said, our south beach rincon mission bay neighborhood association has worked tirelessly along with the bike coalition and neighbors and other organizations with the mta and the port to make the embarcadero safer and as they mentioned earlier we've had numerous meetings and to collect public feedback into the spend hours and hours and deciding thousand best go forward and it's time to make it happen. i understand that there are concerns around the broadway intersection and the legitimate concerns and we need to assure that this busy intersection is continuing correctly for everyone. walkers, bikers, riders. we cannot let this intersection hold up the entire project. the field test row posed by gabriel today should be incarcerated into the project and approved. the embarcadero is one of the most dangerous streets in the city and on the list of high

injury corridors. we can't wait any longer. please, i am approve this plan with the field test and i ask you, do not delay this important work any longer. thank you. >> thank you. >> next call, please. >> caller: ok. opening the next slide. hello park commission, i'm between directing 7 and 11. and i'm calling in support for immediate approval to proceed with the protected bike lane on the embarcadero and i love and appreciated the common in regards to dianne and the retirement and they reminded me of myself and my memories and y'all are young, you know, i guess i am as well but it was one part in particular in those

comments that really think about this and protected and just a place of origin of where we all came and interacted with the sport and my myself the place of origin of where i came to embrace the port a lot more was back in 2010 when it came by a high school graduation out here and well, i was hoping is that we can have these protected by our different narratives for other people's origin where they have encountered and appreciate eight support and examples minority in my original and there is traps and it's hot out there and there's no protection out there but they're skating and bicycling and they're going through and coming to sf and

bike lanes of tourists themselves and they can have an opportunity to have that place of origin to love and appreciate support sf and also the community in general and also locals in general but i'll let them speak to that as enough and and i'm sorry, i'm calling on again to support and being this all started and i hope y'all have a good day and congratulations on the approval for the retirement. >> thank you, everyone. >> clerk: thank you, we have two more callers and i will unmute the next slide. >> caller: hello. good afternoon commissioners. my name is adeene a and i live down on the peninsula but

morning other things in san francisco i serve on the metro pot tin transportation commission policy advisory council and some of its committees and that is one of numerous reasons that before the pandemic, i would come up to san francisco on a regular basis and use the embarcadero by bicycle to connect to my destination and i use a bicycle for transportation along the public transit. i am not an athlete. i am not fast. i am just trying to get to where i'm going safely and having seen the new stories over the years about injuries and fatalities on the embarcadero, that is really a frightening place to be and we'll urge you to approve the protected bike lanes as quistlyt

swiftly as possible to protect the people biking for transportation as well as fur not bicycling in the unprotected lanes then you are going on the path with pedestrians including people who are more older people who have disabilities and it's really not a very safe thing to have the bikists competing with the pedestrians so in the interest of safety for people that are walking on the path, and are people that are a bicycleeling and we really have the stats for the lack of safety and please do approve these. we've learned over the last year with the pandemic, that the ability to move more quickly and have quick build has had a really transformative impact in cities around the world and urge

you to learn from those lessons and improve safety for people who lived or visit san francisco. thank you. >> thank you. are there any other comments? >> yes, president brandon, there are two more callers on the line. >> caller: hi there. my name is ben and i'm a resident of san francisco and i live in the lower neighborhoods and i can't say i spend a lot of time on the embarcadero but i spend a good chunk of time going to the farmers market and visiting the amenities down there. i'm always struck by how beautiful the embarcadero is and how uncomfortable it can be for not just bicyclists and pedestrians that a lot of callers have mentioned when there's no safe place for a bicyclist and there's not a safe

place for bicycles in the configuration going next to 30 miles per hour cars is not safe at all and it does it is forces the bike lists onto the pedestrian walk away and makes things uncot fort able for the pedestrians as well so you know, it strikes me as one that prioritizes a lot of space for the cars and really doesn't have much consideration for other people using this space. i have family visiting later in august and one of the wanted to do with them is go and visit the embarcadero because there's so much amazing in that location with restaurants and sites and it's hard for me to really think about how i would recommend that when biking is not safe there. sure, we can walk but it's not the most pleasant experience to go along distance when there are such crowded conditions and so,

the solution i think is pretty straight forward and you guys have done a great job at the port commission identifying about what could be done with this plan here and i guess i'm strongly urging you guys to finish the checkered flag and get it built and i think it would improve the situation amazingly and it would attract a lot of people. i guess one last point here is a lot of people driving through the embarcadero aren't stopping and visiting restaurants and the businesses here and people on slower speed vehicles and pedestrians are so i think that the businesses will also benefit a lot of having a street ha is more comfortable for people who are more like that actually stop. yeah, i hope thaw guys can quickly get this built in place.

thank you. >> thank you. >> next caller, please. >> ok, this looks to be the last caller. >> president and members of the commission this is alec i want today say that i believe the mta staff has been responsive coming up with a proposal testing as "broadway intersection and also really appreciate the comments of the commissioner at you're last meeting on this and staff responsiveness at the meeting on issues regarding safety on this promenade so thank you very much for taking the time to really consider this before going forward. >> thank you. there are not anymore calls. yes, president brandon, i believe there's one more caller.

>> clerk: thank you. thank you. yes, good afternoon. my name is jeff carter and i live on the peninsula and i do ride my bike in the cal train up in the city and full disclosure, i am a port employee. however, i do urge the project be put on the agenda to be approved because it's very important to make the embarcadero much safer for both bicyclists and pedestrians because it's a very well used thorough fair for bicycles and pedestrians and i think this is great all the work that's been done by staff to see that we can

make it much safer for all and myself i use it to get around and on the embarcadero in my duties. thank you. >> thank you. >> any other comments? >> clerk: president brandon, there are no other callers on the line. wishing it make public comment on this item. >> thank you. seeing no more calls on the line, public comment is closed. commissioner burton. >> thank you. i have a statement a couple of questions and first of all, to those who are concerned about safety and wanted us to move immediately on this, if the commission hadn't sent that to ask for more safety provisions, in this we would have a lot more

safety going on and we adopted the proposal yesterday. i'd like to ask the department of traffic just a couple of questions. you isn't out 17,000 questionnaires or comments. was that by mail or e-mail or what? >> thank you commissioner burton. the 17,000 were mailed and those were mailers. >> and you got back a response of 1,400? >> the 1,400 were total responses, correct. >> so, it's about a 10% response to the inquiry. all right. and then, someone mentioned, there were several community meetings and they were like 100

people attended, 200 attended, i couldn't quite hear the number. >> yes, commissioner burton. >> 2014 was quite a while ago. >> yes. and then 2016, we had 200 people participate and the open house and 2018 i believe we were also over 200 physical attendees and survey respondents. >> so 200 live people and 1400 by mail. and it was something that i forget. there had to be permission to do something but it didn't have to go to the board of supervisors but it had to go somewhere for a permit who is the permitting

authority? and i'm sorry if i'm not so clear but commissioner burt on. >> this is dan with port staff. i was speaking on the possible changes to regulating uses on the promenade and the promenade was also governed by a b cdc permit, bay conservation and development commission and it's part of the roadway permits so that is they would have to act on it is what we're saying. >> so before you can do something additionally you have to get b cdc approval? >> that is correct. ok. i think it was good that the commission, as you go back to the drawing board, i guess we'll

have to look at what the last thing thank you did. several of the speakers, like wish we could have acted right now and had we acted at the last meeting, none of the safe guards would be present. sometimes haste makes wasted if you actor receive first and speed second so thank you madam chair and thank you commissioner members for indulging me. >> thank you. >> thank you. and i think i would like to also, i guess, echo commissioner button's comments. i think that there's no question that this commission supports safety for the constituents that this project is addressing which is bicycle, pedestrians and we also added in terms of just understanding the congestion of the auto as i result of changing

traffic lanes and the impact of that and so, we did pose more questions. to the m.t.a. and i believe that they did flush out more information which may be we didn't understand and they are also looking at more safe guards as commissioner burton so i think a misperception to say we were delaying this because we did not think safety was important and we think safety is important and there's two other points that i'm going to make because i am supportive of what we're going to do but we wanted clarify with this quick bill project as it's called is addressing just a significantment of the embarcadero and we know the embarcadero and people don't all much a sudden, it's a larger section. they are concentrating in this project on the areas that they think where the problems are most and we agree with that and

appreciate that. from the port commission point of view, we want to see a strategic roadmap that addresses the entire embarcadero and the issues related to traffic flow for almost and it's something i think in our conversations off line with the m.t.a. that they have said they will address in the long-term and it's not something part of this project and that's important that you can't just address one section of the embarcadero and later you found that the before and after that section you still have problems and they may be not as big as the section we address but they're going to create problems and we wanted an understanding that those areas would be addressed in the long-term because that's only going to -- it's not going to help if you just unplug one area of the embarcadero it has to really address it so that's to be a holistic strategy and the commission, because our responsibility and fiduciary responsibility is for the entire embarcadero and not just the

section that the quick build is addressing and we're just making that statement and want the public to understand that we're looking out for their interest and also for all the constituents even though this project is focused on where the issues have been, which is bikists, pedestrians and the accidents that have occurred and that area and we are also looking at over all traffic flow and today we heard a lot more about the signals which we asked about and traffic signals be relooked at and that is not clear to us in the first presentation so today, it was going to help us understand more in depth and i think the mta has come back to us with more answers and there's more work to be done and it's not the end all and all of the issues of the embarcadero this is a first step and a important first step and an important sort of deposit and we're making here and we all want to recognize that more work has to be done and the embarcadero is not a narrow

section where the quick build will be but it's a much longer roadway and it goes all the way where you come off the 280 roadway all the way up inform fisherman's wharf so that's the point of what our responsibilities so make sure is that the links in the chain make sense and there is a sense of something that we're thinking about and strategically we hope the mta in addition to quick bill will come back and look at all of the before and after the sections and give us solutions in the interim and so we're requesting a strategic roadmap for the future of the embarcadero for the safety and for the ease as much as can you and it's one speaker called in and said there are trade offs here, which trying to understand what the clear trade off are and to make sure we're not going to make my particular group 100% happy with everything, but the trade offs are clear and they are the best trade off that we can make given that there are many constituents here to be

concerned with pedestrians and motorized vehicles and bikists, car and whatever and that's the point of this commission is about. so i hope the public understands that that we feel we're just going about our duty to make sure we understand those issues. i am supportive of what the quick build is trying to achieve in its self. we want to make those points. we're happy with understanding the things that got flushed out more in off line conversations as well as the presentations today. thank you. >> thank you, commissioner gillman. >> first i want to thank my fellow commissioners and i want to thank the port staff and mta staff for the changes we made. i want to highlight them for my fellow commissioners and the public to know how much was

changed. preparing the more detailed signage and plan was a vast improvement over the last presentation. the traffic analysis and evaluations too. i think are things that hopefully will make this project that all commissioners can support and vote on. so i do want to thank you for hearing the commission and we did have informational on this and last month it came out as a action item and they had concerns and so i do want to commend the department for as quickly as possible bringing it back to us with these amendments which make it a unanimous project moving forward and i did have a question for, two questions, one is i, i do want to commend the million dollars that were secured for this through a length tee community process and many, many years ago, by both the mta and the directing 3 supervisors office i'd like to know from staff and if there's risk of those funds not being able to be utilized

due to these delays? >> this is casey with the mta. there's no current risk with those funds being delayed or losing access to them at this time. so i think they would have to be a much more prolonged issue for issues related to the funding to come into the forefront. >> ok. and i guess over all, if we don take action on this item until next month, how does that disrupt the timeline versus if we had taken action today? >> there's action next month. there's no impact to our schedule. we will front load the work we need to do anyway, based on commissions, questions and concerns so we will continue to sort of move forward to quote-unquote at risk and the hope and expectation that we

will be able to get approval proceed as planned. >> and where do last approval process? >> correct, there would be one additional step which would be an encroachment permit we would ally for through to the port and we'll work with staff to do so and that i believe would be the final sort of formal step before we have our crows out there on the ground. >> this is a question for commission secretary. i was curious, can you please tell me the tally of letters that were spent in for this item. >> we received 110 as of yesterday at 5:00 p.m. i would have to count the letters that came in and there's an additional 10 or so. >> thank you so much. that answers my question. this is just a comment. i believe many of the improvements that made between our last presentation and we'll benefit the public and the port

and i want to reiterate something dan remind the us the use of the the prom a don and it's an issue for the port and b cdc to decide that is not an mta issue and i think put examining up signage that reminds folks at a lesser bicycles and scooters are not permitted even today on the prom inaid is first step and that is a much longer as a port commission and a policy decision along with b cdc to decide whether or not there's any kind of enforcement around those vehicles being on the prom a dad. this quick bill project was around really getting bicycles and other non motorized vehicles to stay safe along the embarcadero is they get off the prom a dad and to look at travel flow so i appreciate the traffic flow study at boy and the evaluation that you will be doing by using one configuration for four weeks and one

configuration to the next. i do want to acknowledge someone who lives close to the northern waterfront and the public frustration and i think you know, we received 110 letters on any issues and i think that the embarcadero navigation center may be brought in a similar flow of public interest and comments and we've been talking about the quick build projects, all segments of them since i've been on the commission for the last throw and a half years and i know the conversation pre dates me so i would love to hear from vice president adams and vice president brandon but i would like to a meeting before the single item since we are meeting

virtually to appeal the public who is not part of the this public and we have all signed for the civic responsibility and i think we need to acknowledge the folks that we're disappointed and we didn't take action and it's a better public for us in all san francisco and i hope my fellow conversations for a special meeting on the single item before our next commission meeting. thank you. >> vice president. >> i want to thank dave and casey and mark and dave and staff and this is a good conversation today and i appreciate hearing it all from the community and i think that was good and as commissioners, we have a responsibility and that is the make a decision on intelligence and proper information not on politics and emotions. and i think that we have to hear

the plan out and i think commissioner was spot on the way she laid it out but and it's articulating about what we have to do. we have to look at the bigger picture and i appreciate exercise peskin contributions and i understand what gale stands and i have no problem and it's something like this there's a lot of moving parts to this so we have to get this right and it's our responsibility to make decisions, as i said, that everyone is safe and looking at the big picture not just because one group wants this or one group wants that and we have a responsibility to take care of all citizens of san francisco and things have to be thought out. leadership is tough sometimes. sometimes you have to do the right thing. and we asked the staff like dan and scare casey. for me this is a process and

we're going to get there at end of the day and i'd like to see the process move and it will continue to move and at the end of the day we'll get there and we'll have the best product and i think the staff laid out stuff this time that they didn't layout last time and for me, i listen to everything that the commute has to say and i also listen to those that didn't respond and people that have called me and said they're concerned and so this is a bigger thing so we're going to get there and whatever i think commissioner gillman you have but at end of the day, we have an obligation to make sure the community is it safe and responsible not because of one faction wants this or that we look at the whole thing and that's why we were appointed to this job. leadership is tough sometimes. >> thank you vice president items. thank you so much for the

presentations. thank you so much for your payens with us thank you for sharing your expertise and knowledge with us. and this is a complex process. it's quick but it's complex. i think that over these last few presentations there's more questions that are risen and from those questions and from those inquiries, i think we have a better, safer project and i think that all of the commissions agree they want the embarcadero safe for all modes of transportation. safety is definitely not the issue. because we all support safety. we want to make sure it's safe for all modes of transportation. i really appreciate you coming back with doing the traffic

analysis and the flow study and at broadway because i sit in front of pier 1 last week and there are six lanes. three lanes that go forward. when we get to broadway, we narrow it down to one lane and i think it's very important that that one lane may back up the entire embarcadero and if it does, ok, let's understand what we're really doing here. i really appreciate you making that change coming back with this study so we can really see if we need to have two lanes, one lane but we also support the quick build project and we have to make sure we're doing it in the right way. so i think that from the comments today i think that everyone supports all of the changes, all of the signage and

all of the improvements that you have come back with and so if there's no objection, at our next meeting, we can probably just put this on the consent calender to move forward and again, i want to thank you all and as you said, coming back in august there's no delay of funding and there's no delay of implementation so it's reasonable that we just come back in august to put it on the consent calender and we move forward. so i thank you all for your patients with us as a commission and helping us to come up with a real pee good product for everyone to make the embarcadero safe. thank you. >> thank you, very much. >> madam chair. >> yes. >> i am new to this process and putting it on concept calender means it's open for discussion,

right. >> if you would like to pull it off -- >> it doesn't mean it will be an automatic vote. until we know what the changes made and am i right or wrong am i just trying to find out. >> well, today they discuss all of the changes that are going to be implemented going forward. do you still have questions regarding any of the changes? >> it's open for discussion. >> you pull it off of the consent calender. if you have questions next time, can you pull it off. >> and then at that time, as i understand it, we come back with some of the answers that points that have been raised today. >> no, there were no further points raised today and it's a point raised and i thought someone is raising a point about

broadway street and some other stuff. >> they're going to do an analysis of the traffic flow. for the next couple months. and then come back to us with an analysis. >> what if the analysis -- >> we can make changes. >> make changes. ok, and i'm sorry, i didn't understand the process. thank you, adam chair. >> no problem. >> madam president, i would just like to say i would hope that dan and casey and gabriel and the crew, maybe they can meet with the commissioner burton before the next meeting and make sure all thinks questions are answered because we would like to move on on this and i want commissioner burton to feel comfortable with this and if any other commissioners, commissioner gilman or myself, please make it available that we all can get briefed to meet with everyone and so we can get everything and then we can move forward at the next meeting if there's any questions so we're

all clear. i want commissioner, everyone to feel comfortable. that's just my thought. thank you, madam chairman. >> that's a great recommend addition. recommendation. we met with the team and they're great so that's a great recommendation. commissioner gilman. >> you are on mute. >> sorry, i just wanted to thank you, president brandon, with no support to have a special meeting, which i understand. i want to thank the commission that we're considering putting it on content since i didn't not hear any other points raised about making amendments ask about what we'll vote on in consent is a much better flushed out project than we had before. i thinks those comments were valid. i just wanted to acknowledge the public perception so i appreciate president and you are willing to put it on consent and it sends a message to the public that we are going to hopefully

be passing it and that we have support. >> thank you so much. i do hope that the public understands that the commission is incomplete support of this project. and in complete support of the safety of all modes of transportation on the embarcadero. i do hope that all commissioners have made that point very clear and safety on the embarcadero. >> i don't know if you heard president brandon, when commissioner burn asked, she told him if you don't want it on content and i want to make sure because you got done saying president brandon and vice president if a commissioner request it be taken off content, it can be happen that's why i hope that they meet with any commission between now and if we can get towards and i want to make that and we're clear on the

record. >> thank you for that clarification. i hope it stays on consent. >> for the record, please make sure to reach out to all commissioners prior to within the next two weeks before we do agenda settings to make sure that everyone is ok with putting it on the consent calender and if it's not on the open calender and we will vote on it in august. >> i shall do that. thank you for your comments today. >> thank you so much, everyone. great success. >> thank you shall commissioners. >> next item, please. >> clerk: item 9a information presentation on one phase 1 revised budget and two construction sequencing for the rock and third street mission rock street and san francisco

bay. thank you. carl, my name is phil williamson project manager for the mission rock project. good evening president been don, vice president adams, commissioners. i am here this evening to give you an update on the project background first of all and if you give detail about phase 1 budget challenges, and proposed budget solutions and if we're offering next steps moving forward. next slide, please. next slide, please. thank you, carl. >> mission rock, as you know it's underway and project work is going on for some months now and at end of phase 1, the project will include two residential building requests 3537 units of housing and 199 of those being affordable and two office buildings and a commercial building that will be the feature home of visa international and global headquarters and a life sciences building.

ground floor retail and expanded and new park on the north side of the project. recently, the project has reported they are 30% complete of the hor san tal work, the streets and utilities and all the supporting infrastructure and vertical work is underway on parcels a, b and g. next slide, please. this slide shows progress that the team has made considerable amount of project and you approved the phase 1 budget in september of 2019. and i'd like to highlight four items on this slide for your consideration and to acknowledge that significant progress is happening and first of all, the project team secured bond financing for directing utilities in 2020 and that sale year we also closed on the first vertical leaf and the parcel leaf for phase one and all four have closed and that was a significant milestone last year and this year we were successful

to gain approval from the port commission and the board of supervisors for two new street names and dr. mya and tony stone crossing and phase 1 infrastructure opening up next year and we're all successful and issuing the project's first pond and $43 million. next slide, please. looking this year and the future a few years, just a few items to highlight here that the team is currently pursuing the second phase of bond issuance for the project supported by the increasing values on the site as construction advances and we'll also start work this year and later this year or early next year starting work on the second residential tower. looking ahead to next year we'll deliver and accept phase 1 streets and utilities and also delivering an occupying parcel g the visa headquarters and then in the following year 2023,

delivering an occupying parcel a, a residential tower, parcel b, the life sciences building and china basin park. it's important to note the project had advanced without major slowdowns during the covid-19 pandemic. including commencing construction on over $1 billion in horizontal and vertical work. a majority has been on the vertical side which as i mentioned a few seconds ago and helps to enhance the appraised values of these parcels and increases the project bonding abilities so the second bond issuance will reflect that effort. next slide, please. there's a recent image of the project under construction. most of you are bam this site but on the left you have parcel g, the feature visa headquarters coming out of the ground several stories expected to top out vertical construction next month in august.

just adjacent to that a new tower crane has gone up on parcel a and you see work beginning on that foundation and that building residential building will come out of the ground with the next couple of weeks. and behind that you see work underway on parcel b the life sciences building. next slide, please. the project team is working diligently to involve local businesses in the mission rock project and including outreach and under represented businesses and to date the project has awarded $31 million in contracts to local businesses and that represents 19% of our 20% goal for the horizontal work and 4% of our 20% goal for the vertical work. and we have $63 million and contractors and the near future and that work is primarily and it should take our 4% move it much closer to the 20% goal.

recent activity includes $1.5 million being awarded to women own small business this is san francisco and $3.8 million to minority owned businesses and san francisco. next slide, please. pursuant to the dda the developer is required to notify the port of cost increases for the safe and with $62 million over the $145 million that was approved in september of 2019 and later on is presentation we will talk about proposed solutions to this budget increase that helping this number down to a more manageable and feasible level and they provide following criteria for considering such a modified phase budget and these are listed here and the request must be consistent with the funding goal for the project and it must be based on reasonable

projections which the port verifies through third party review and it must provide sources to fund the phase and modified phase improvement and it's not adversely payment sources and it must not impair the fiduciary for the port staff is rereviewing those factors and this request in forms of this requirement, next slide, please. as to what has caused the increase cost for phase 1, i'd love to hear the primary drivers and the cellular concrete and the lcc cost to review and approve this material to be the sites used is a significant cost to the project. it's important because they will help the raise sight to address feature sea level ice increases and increase cost have come from enhance design and rising construction materials and labor

costs and design changes reflected by the city and unforeseen subsurface conditions that were discovered subsurface work and anticipate electrical utility modifications and increase city agency costs and next slide. noting the challenges to the phase 1 budget, the team has looked hard at cost management tools and in the fruits of these efforts they're shown on this slide and they reduce cope of improvements for the project has led to a savings between $300 to $600,000 for phase one and looked at lower cost design alternative that have saved $6 million and as much as $10 million. and our budget. and strategically proturing materials with $600,000 in savings, and officially managing site resources with wastewater treatment and we saw senate

$500,000 in savings. next slide, please. in this image, you see a comparison of what was approved in 2019, 2019 port approved budget. next to the proposed budget we're considering today and presenting to you today, and on this side like to point out two primary line items that are the bulk of the increase. on the top part under hard cost, you see a 16 million-dollar increase here on the top right and this is primarily due to the increase material and labor cost issues i mentioned and there are other factors as well but these two items are the primary reason for this 16 million-dollar change. coming down to soft costs, they're multiple reasons and multiple factors but the $15 million on the top right here under soft costs, it's a primary driver here for this portion of the increase and this is attributable to increases legal costs shall consultant

fees, design change costs and regulatory fees. and now i'd like to invite rebeca to take the presentation forward to discuss proposed budget solutions for the phase 1 budget. rebeca. >> thank you so much phil and good evening, commissioners, and good evening members of the public. phil has graciously take not on the tough part of the presentation providing you the challenge the budget challenge, the sort of bad news and i'm going to talk to you about the solutions and sort of processing we've been doing since receiving this information. there are three solutions that we've outlined in the staff report that i'll go over briefly. the first one, and the next slide will go into them in a bit more detail. if we can go through the next slide i'll go through them one by one. the first one is modifying the sequencing of china basin park. the phase 1 china basin park is a critical part of the project

and we are not propose to go modify that and and the sequencing aspect is depicted in this mask. you can see the red streets. in phase 1, underway and being delivered. you can see the green portion of the park, also to start shortly at a time with delivery of the first building, those will be part of phase 1 budgets. what we're proposing to sequence, is the orange section and that little sort of light blue section within the gren years. these are the shoreline sections and the food and beverage pavilion and the grown section includes the bay trail. so, people, the park is open, people will traverse the park with their bicycle and biking and that will all be delivered. as we're delivering the green section of the park, the team will be working on in-water permits which we've experienced can take longer than on land permits. when the permits are procured

from army core and regional water quality board we will need to comply with the work windows so there will be limitations on when they can deliver that orange section. under our current planning, the green section will be built out and then the orange section will be built out next and it will appear to the public as though a seamless park has been delivered. however, if phase 2 comes in later than we're anticipating, then the team would deliver all of the green section, they would pause at the shoreline, put some temporary plantings in so that the public is enjoying the park can continue -- [please stand by]

-- and we negotiated this concept wherein if the developer's budget goes over the initially approved budget, that the first $10 million will be repaid but at a reduced return rate. the developer returns an 18%

return and it's tied to bond rates and so that return rate may be about 4%, so that would be the lower return on the first $10 million which is helpful in the modeling and helpful in our sources and using balancing. and the last solution is on the next slide, if we could go to the next slide, please. that one is focused on a new concept. we than the developer is well aware that we are very aligned in wanting more vertical value to come to the site to pay for all of these wonderful horizontal improvements. so we have negotiated with the developer to memorialize that shared alignment. we both want phase two to come in quickly, by proposing new

penalties. if phase two doesn't come in by the next year. so phase two doesn't have to come in for a number of years and they have a number of years to ramp up with phase two without having any penalties or being in any breach of any agreement. this would be a new concept. and then the penalties that we show here are in line with penalties we've instituted on the vertical side. on the vertical side at approvals we instituted or negotiated these penalties to sort of signify how important it is that those buildings actually get built. they have to sign the leases and then build the buildings in a certain time frame. so we have miored that same concept here and applied it to phase two, because phase two value can come in and make sure that we can clever that park edge in a timely fashion and give a boost to the project. so the next slide will show some items that we discounted. we also considered other solutions but we are not

proposing them to you today. one is port capital. we can insert money into the project. that would help the project. but we don't have permits. so we are not recommending port capital, which could get us over some of the budget difficulties we could also recommend that we don't increase the budget and we stop at the approved 2019 budget and the developer would have to spend up until that point and then stop spending. we don't recommend it because then we put in peril some of our great improvements that we're looking for. most importantly, of course, the park and the full green section of the full inland portion of the park. the last one we could talk about is incenterring other sources, and these are primarily the port sources. so this would be, for example, the shoreline tax which in subsequent phases we had earmarked for other shoreline improvements throughout the ports. we could propose that here with the developer to deliver the

entire water section of the park. but we're not proposing that because we think that it's really important to balance the sources and uses and the sources what are they are, and we need to kind of match the infrastructure that we can deliver with what we can provide in terms of the value from phase one. next slide will then talk about sort of the overall results of what we're -- the punch line, if you will. what does this mean for the port in terms of our projected revenue from the project? so i'm going to just take you through this table from left to right. and the two numbers that are reported are the port's nominal revenue from the project over all phases and the port's m.v.p. revenue from the project's overall phases. then 2019 numbers are what was reported at the time of that project approval and it's $1.7 billion nominal over 75 years and $190 million, m.v.p., discounted at 6%. those are sort our 2019 blieps.

first column that you see shows upupdates to the model based on new information and no cost increases on the horizontal, just reflecting how we've updated because the bond was issued at a certain time that wasn't reflected in 2018919 bece we were projecting the future. so the first column is nothing to do with approval and it's just how the project has unfolded. you can see that we got behind, but ahead on a nominal basis. you will see that throughout the table and the reason for this is that vertical costs are going up, and strangely the port benefits from that because we anticipate our i.s.d. revenue, tax revenue, will go up as the vertical construction cost goes up. so on a normal basis we usually do better because those are out year moneys, but clearly money being in bond revenues coming in

late than we think, that is worse for us. so that first column is just where we are today based on information that we have. the next column anticipate -- or the scenarios -- has a scenario where we build the whole park, we don't care really that we don't have resources for it and that is a real difficulty for the port because we don't have sources and we're kind of spending beyond our means at this point. that is not recommended but shown for informational purposes. and the next one after that shows sort of what we're recommending. so this one is a cost increase with the park sequenced over time. and that's what we think that our result may be without other measures coming in. so that's $181 million, and the $1.9 billion in nominal. and then we go through other scenarios because we don't know what we don't know, of course, so these indicate what if we did decide in the future to -- and i'm sorry -- i misspoke a little

bit that $181 million that was -- that i was stating is what we were anticipating actually doesn't include that end water work. i'm sorry about that. so if we cut our costs and didn't do the end water work and didn't do the title shelf. we do money but we don't get that tidal shelf beautification so it's like the best case scenario if we shrink the park scales a bit. item 3 is getting what we want in terms of that beautiful park design and trying to manage around that -- the cost of that so one potential way that we could do -- revise is if we put in the shoreline tax in subsequent phases. that would be a subsequent phase decision but that could bring our revenues up a little bit. alternatively, if the market increased even a little bit better than we project -- right now we project it relatively

fast, and so in this scenario four here, the market upside, this is if the office run goes up by 4%. in phase two, relative to what we had them in phase one, and then we would see this uptick as well without dedicating more taxes to the park. so those are the different scenarios that we've gone through and the key aim that we had in doing this was to show where we are and given what we know -- sorry, where we are today, given in terms of spend asking revenues and how the future melee out, even if we increased the budget as bill went through earlier up to that $184 million level. next slide, please. so what we've done thus far is work on the cost and had a third-party consultant working through the elements of the projections and we had our economic consultant helping to us run the various scenarios. we proposed the tools that i mentioned earlier, the penalty

for phase two, using the d.d.a. tool on the first $10 million which we already have in our document and sequencing the portions of the park to align with phase two and to align with the time at which we think that we'll get those permits. those are the three tools to help us with this budget challenge and we ultimately view the next budget approval that we think that the port commission will see next year for phase two as giving us even more tools and we'll have more information at that time to understand where we are for the whole project. we're only in phase one at this point, in the middle of phase one or less than in the middle of phase one, and there's still a lot more information that is going to come in. so that summarizes the presentation. we are available for questions and we also have a couple folks from mission rock on the line as well in case we need detailed support. thank you so much, commissioners. >> president brandon: thank you, rebecca and bill, for your

presentations. now let's open it up to public comment. we will open up the phone lines to take public comments on item 9a for members of the public joining us on the phone. jennifer is our operator and will provide instructions now for anyone on the phone who would like to provide public comment. >> clerk: thank you, president brandon. at this time, for anyone on the phone who would like to make public comment on item 9a, please dial star 3, if you wish to make public comment. the system will let you know when your line is open and others will wait on mute until their line is open. comments will be limited to three minutes per person. the queue is now open. please dial star, 3, if you wish to make public comment. >> president brandon: thank you are there any people on the line? >> clerk: there are no callers.

>> president brandon: seeing no callers on the line, public comment is closed. commissioner? >> thank you, rebecca, and everyone for the report. i know that this is an information item. there were a couple things that i want to make sure that i was understanding correctly. i do understand why we're in this predicament. the costs on everything -- vertical construction is going up. so my two questions are sort of around consumer and equity issues. and so the way that i looked at the drawing is that if this delayed to phase two, that which the park is delivered from a user's experience, the park will completely be usable. and that there will be some sort of beautification barriers, as opposed to fencing or looking like a construction zone. so i just wanted to clarify that and when construction starts the

park will remain online and there won't be any inconvenience to the public or to the surrounding businesses. am i understanding that correctly? >> what is anticipated is the temporary plantings, if phase two is not ready. and once construction starts from the water side then there would be some security barrier. we can inquire a bit as to what those might look like. there's that dip that goes into the water so it might not visually be a real impediment but the park will remain open and the bay trail, that was a key thing for us is that once we open that segment up, we already see quite a number of people that use the bay trail, even with the construction the way that it is today. so we definitely don't want to impair that at all. did i miss anything, bill? got it?

>> when you come back, i was down there this weekend and walked from oracle park all the way back. and people were using the bay trail, even in the middle of the construction zone. i would just want to inquire by pushing this off to phase two and doing this construction that it would not have a negative impact for folks who look forward to have the bay trail connecting to the greenway. to have it looked into before it comes back to us. and i wanted to double check, i read the staff report, and, you know, while i do understand that $33.1 million for l.b.e. contracting that is a contract, the funds have been awarded and does this disrupt the contributions to our l.b.e.

commitments made by mission rock? >> i can start and maybe phil you can answer because in the slide i thought that looked lower than i thought and i looked up the report and maybe the staff report was more clear he was quoting what was completed in q4, that smaller $1.2 million and $3 million. and just to be super clear, those cumulative numbers are much higher, they're up over $20 million for d.b.e. businesses and women owned businesses and $13 million for d.b.e. businesses but i hope that the staff report was more clear about the cumulative versus that quarter. but to your question about the disruption of contract, we'll definitely be able to speak to that more but each contract is let for the park anden this the segment of the inland work and then the water side will be let at the appropriate time. so we can come back with a little bit more information as to how that outreach is occurring, particularly for those types of contractors that

work there. >> okay. and just to understand the penalty phase. that was just to present to us and to have us to approve a budget and the financing package? for 2022. >> it's intellectual -- (indiscernible) there's no start of phase two until 2023. am i understanding that correct? >> so what we would implement is the d.d.a. allows them to submit a budget to the port over the next several years for phase two without penalty. because of this increase that we're proposing, we want phase two to be coming in earlier. the developer does not submit a complete budget to phase, and we bring it to the port commission for approval. if they don't do that by the end of next year they start paying us that $25,000 -- i can't

remember what the fees start at, that $25,000 fee per month. so that's what the milestone is, it's the phased budget. it's the middle of the complete phased budget. >> it can take a long time, is it your recommendation to go to the end of 2020, instead of a year from now? >> yeah, that's correct. and the model that we're showing scenarios on indicates -- or i'll get it exact, i think that it indicates that phase two starts the first quarter of 2023. so that deadline, if they don't -- if they meeted deadline we are working with the model that put out those numbers that i was describing to you. if they don't meet the deadline than the model is off and we're worse off, if that makes sense. >> yeah, and i guess that my -- and i apologize, because i wasn't able to make a briefing. i'm just wondering why we would

to cut it so close. if we had it by december 2022, and starting in 2023, and why wouldn't we have the deadline as an example to be august 1 of 2022? a year from today when we get the information to give the staff more time and to have more time so that deadline doesn't slip. that seems too close to me and i would like to consider pushing up that deadline to give everyone more room. >> we can definitely get that together, get the milestone schedule and they want to make sure they can make it and we want to make sure they can make it too so that's a good point for milestones in a lot more details. >> thank you so much, phil and rebecca, that concludes my questions. >> thank you. >> president brandon: thank you vice-president adams. >> vice-president adams: yeah, i wanted to say to rebecca what a

great presentation. you answered a lot of my questions. at some point i know that i'm doing the best i can, and president brandon has been doing so much that i'd like to try to catch up with you guys and have a one-on-one with both of and you get a little more of it, but i appreciate what's going on. and i also understand the circumstances of these changes, especially with coming out of covid and just so much has happened that when we started this thing and this thing has taken a lot of turns and ups and downs, so we've had to adjust. so i appreciate it and i appreciate the presentation. and i know that we're going to get there. this is going to be a great project. i'm sure that before it's over we'll have a couple more twists and turns along the way. but i like it that we're being proactive and as soon as something goes, it seems like you're playing offense. and you're also playing good defense too. so thank you, and i'll be looking forward and i'll reach

out to you both so i can get a one-on-one with you both. thank you. >> that would be great, commissioner. >> president brandon: thank you, again, rebecca and phil. thank you so much for the presentation. and thank you, phil, for working on this revised budget and i do want to mention that the contracting piece is not clear in the report. and it doesn't have total dollars spent, so at some point what is spent for the quarter. i know that we were supposed to have an update within the last few weeks, which has been postponed, but i really would like to get an update on the contracts and find out where we are with this. i do think that -- i understand

the costs are going up all over and i do understand that there are going to be -- there may be other revisions and things too in phase two, phase three, phase four, but i do want to make sure that the port is protecting itself. you know, from the cost increases that makes sure that we are not putting in more equity than we started out with, meaning that we need to be very conservative and understand the projects and what the project is and what may be coming up in the future. and i think that commissioner

gilman asked a lot of great questions. but i think that of all of these projects that we have to be very aware of what is going on so that the cost increases don't continue, you know. but i do think that you guys have done a great job in putting in some solutions to help us -- solutions to help with the revised budget and to make this project extremely successful. so if you have any recommendations for us to move forward with this? >> commissioner brandon, that's a curveball. you never ask that. i think that laying out the phase two -- i have so many thoughts about how subsequent

phases might be, because we have learned so much. and one thing that i hope is very helpful is we started partnering sessions. the developers, one of their difficulties is they're building us the park, they're building the p.u.c. water, and they're building p.u.c. power, and it's been very interesting because they have so many clients. so one thing that we've started that started about eight months ago is we're meeting with the department heads on a quarterly basis to just kind of give progress reports on construction. and we are going to start to report on costs, just so that we all have an awareness of how much things cost and what the budget is and what they're actually costing. i think that the recommendation on phase two is the key one -- what is the real timeline, what do we think that it takes for all of the steps? we went through them already for phase one and we have a better idea there. and i'd like to lay out that

timeline really specifically. and that's for us, if we can get to phase two, i don't want to say the whole project is easy. every single phase, that's why we have the budget check-ins with you all and you all held that power which was very good because you know the budget and we have to come to you when the budget goes up but we don't get reimbursed above the budget, and it holds us accountable. and phase two and more descriptions on these efforts to control costs, particularly because the developers or the clients they are working for, will accept whatever they billed. >> president brandon: thank you thank you. well, good luck. >> thank you. >> president brandon: thank you for the updates. >> you're welcome. >> president brandon: next item, please. >> clerk: item 9b, request approval of a resolution supporting the proposed city

ordinance regulating the mobile vending and an informational presentation regarding the establishment of a licensed vending pilot program on port property and associated regulations. this is resolution 21-29. >> good afternoon, commissioners, mike martin, assistant port director and i'm joined by our legislative affairs manager who will handle the bulk of the presentation but i wanted to make a few remarks to set the frame for what we're bringing to you today. this is a follow-up from the information item that we provided back in june regarding the effort to bring city law into compliance with state law as it relates to mobile vending and sidewalk vending. after that information item we've had progress both internal in terms of the pilot program as well as the board of supervisors ordinance and so today we wanted to update you on both of those pieces. the first piece, obviously, is to give you an update on that

board of supervisors progress, and hopefully to request your approval of a resolution supporting that ordinance as it reaches the full board of supervisors. the second piece we wanted to outline for you the overall sort of thinking that we have regarding the program and especially the rules and regulations. we have attached the summary of to the staff report and we're very interested in your feedback so that we can incorporate that as we bring back to you a more formal proposal of operational constraints and rules and regulations, operational rules and regulations -- excuse me -- that will be formed for your review and approval and consideration in august. also we've made progress in retaining a consultant -- an outside technical assistant consultant to help vendors to come into compliance to hopefully launch the program with success. so we're looking forward to your feedback and hopefully moving

ahead in designing this pilot project to better move forward to deal with the issues on the waterfront and offering these important entrepreneurial opportunities while still safeguarding the opportunities to enjoy the recreational benefits the waterfront and those called for under state law. so i will hand it off to go through the slides. >> good evening, boris philopine. i have a notification that my camera is not working. i apologize. but i will go through the presentation quickly because i know that you've had a long meeting with many more items to come. next slide, please. the item before you is works know, to request supervisor peskin's mobile vendor ordinance and to give you a preview of the proposed rules and regulations governing vending on port property that we'll bring to you as an action item in august.

next slide, please. as you will recall sb946, the safe sidewalk vending act, established a new regulatory regime for street vending and makes san francisco's existing vending regulations unenforceable and inoperable. next slide, please. as you heard in public comment last month and evidenced by the slide, we have seen an increase in vending activity during the pandemic, especially in fisherman's wharf that raised concerns about public health and safety and compliance with traffic and parking lots, maintaining accessible paths of travel and unpermitted alcohol sales were some of the concerns raised that we discussed at our last meeting. next slide, please. in response to supervisor peskin introduced the mobile vendor ordinance to bring our law into

compliance with sb496. the new law removes antiquated language, consolidating permitting provisions and code locations and removes police code language that is illegal under sb496. most importantly, the law authorizes the port commission to adopt specific time, place and mandatory requirements for vending along the waterfront. the ordinance was heard by the board of supervisors land use committee yesterday and it was recommended for approval. it will be considered by the full board of supervisors one week from today on tuesday, july the 20th. before you is a request for approval of a resolution supporting and endorsing supervisor peskin's mobile vendor regulation ordinance. next slide, please. while the proposed ordinance provides some minimum standards for permit program, the operational standards and administrative regulations will

govern all sidewalk vending activities, and location requirements and enforcement actions. the purpose is to provide additional detail and guidance in the administration of the program as well as to delegate authority to the executive director to promulgate the operational standards. this path will provide more flexibility to change the rules without going back to the commission so long as the rules continue to implement your guidance. attachment b of your report provides examples of operational standards and administrative regulations. next slide, please. the permit fee subject to port commission approval, in an effort to establish a low barrier to entry at the onset of the port's program launch, the staff proposed $100 annual fee for the first year of operation that's an amount comparable to that implemented by the city of santa monica for the kickoff of

theirs, and once data is available for the number of vendors wishing to participate in the cost of administering the ports program, the staff will return to the commission with recommendations on whether and by how much to adjust the annual fee. next slide, please. in order to balance the health, safety and the welfare concerns while protecting the scenic and the natural character of the waterfront as allowed under sb946, vending will be permitted in designated vending locations a map of proposed locations is included in the attachment b of this report. each designated location will allow up to three vendors. during a trial period locations will be made available to mitted vendors on a first-come-first-basis. and they may add or alter as deemed naturally. the approval will be required for most of our proposed

locations. next slide, please. and it outlines the enforcement methods for non-compliance including administrative fines and the impounding of vending equipment. this table lays out the fines and citation schedules for a valid permit and without. we cannot modify amounts as they are prescribed by state law. the mobile vendor ordinance gives the enforcement officials to ensure compliance. next slide, please. the project is a heavy lift and a key of launching a successful program is outreach to the vendor population. the port working with oewd and with the support of a supplemental budget appropriation sponsored by supervisor peskin is part of the economic agency or meda. and meda will lead an outreach campaign to inform the existing

vendors about the new vending regulations in english and spanish. the scope of work includes individual technical assistance -- how to apply for a business license and then a series of bilingual application workshops to support vendors through the application process and feedback to the port how they can have maximum compliance. next slide, please. again, the mobile vendor regulation ordinance is voted on by the full board of supervisors next week if approved it could be signed as early as july 30th and sit for 30 days before becoming effective in late august or early september. in the meantime we will return on august 10th to request the authorization to have operational standards and administrative regulations. thank you for your attention. michael and i are available to answer your questions and again i apologize that my camera is not working. >> president brandon: no worries. (indiscernible)

>> second. >> president brandon: okay. let's open it up for public comment. we will open up the phone lines to take public comment on item 9b from members of the public joining us on the phone. jennifer is our operator and will provide instructions now for anyone on the phone who would like to provide public comment. >> clerk: thank you, president brandon. at this time we will open up the queue for anyone on the phone who would like to make public comment on item 9b. please dial star 3 if you wish to make public comment. the system will let you know when your line is open. others will wait on mute until their line is open. comments will be limited to three minutes per person. the queue is now open. please dial star, 3, if you wish to make public comment. >> president brandon: thank you do we have anyone on the phone? >> clerk: yes, we have four

callers on the phone. >> president brandon: please open up the line to the first caller. >> clerk: thank you. opening up the first line now. >> caller: good evening, commissioners, my name is (indiscernible) and i'm relocated in the mission district, and working with rewd for four years now, and (indiscernible) we would like to have you to -- to thank you for this opportunity and to provide support for this project. we believe that for anyone

(indiscernible) they should have the opportunity and the assistance of enforcement and that's why we are happy to be part of this project. we work to provide (indiscernible) and we are more than happy to continue doing that. for those in the port that are training and we are more than happy to continue doing that. so thank you again for this opportunity, and we really support this project. >> president brandon: thank you next caller, please. >> clerk: thank you. opening up the next line. >> caller: hello commissioners, hello commission president brandon. this is lee heffner from supervisor peskin's office. i want to thank you for taking

up this legislation. and after sf946, there was an intent to decriminalize street vending permit regulations throughout state of california that did kind of disarm our program here in san francisco and left us with little in the form of public health and safety regulations. and so this conversation is really the culmination of multiple years of work, interdepartmental coordination between d.p.h., public works, the port, fire -- the administrator's office, this has been a vast effort across the city and county of san francisco to come up with a scheme that works so that we can ensure the highest and the best use of our waterfront. and to really improve the quality of life along the port. and now providing those opportunities for entrepreneurship and for independent and small vendors, push cart operators who are trying to operate in good faith

and safely on port property. so this i think is trying to craft something that looks a little bit like street artists and looks like a farmers' markets or swap meets and having these regulated zones, these areas where push cart vendors can set up and conduct their business without obstructing the publics right-of-way, without, you know, conducting a behavior that is unsafe, whether for fire standards or food -- health and safety standards, this really gives the city and the port the mechanism to produce that really positive experience along the waterfront. so i really am grateful to the port for taking this up. thank you if particular to boris, who has been fantastic to work on this and jennifer johnston and the administrator's office, everyone who has been at table and randall scott and warren schaffer and i look

forward to the meeting in august and i appreciate your consideration of this item today. and that's all i've got, thank you so much. >> president brandon: thank you next caller, please. >> clerk: thank you. opening the next line. >> caller: good evening, president brandon, vice president adams, esteemed commissioners and director forbes. i am randall scott, with the fisherman wharf benefit district. as we just outlined fully, you know, this has been a heavy life city, including the port. you know, a lot of it fell on me and boris, so thank you gentlemen for really doing the heavy lift. and martin for your leadership and as well as elaine and the city administrator's office. this piece of legislation is health and safety related. you know, as well as geared toward entrepreneurialship and

stewardship. you know, health and safety are my biggest concerns on the wharf. the fourth of july, and tanks out on the wharf and a bunch of people around them. you know, that kind of scared me. so, yes, i would like to see the entrepreneurs out there but in a safe and a sane manner, so to speak. but nonetheless this is a great piece of legislation. it will help the wharf to thrive as well as to keep everyone safe and healthy. so thank you very, very much for your time. i appreciate all of the hours and hard work that you and the port staff, you know, address all of the issues to protect and preserve for all of us to enjoy thank you very much and good evening. >> president brandon: thank you >> clerk: we have two additional callers. unmuting the next line. >> caller: good evening, executive director forbes, president brandon and

commissioners. i want to thank supervisor peskin and his staff for bringing this forward and elaine forks and mark martin as well as the work behind the scenes to get this pilot program ready for presentation. and this situation has gone on for too long and we need to take the right next step to protect the businesses. i strongly encourage you to take part in this pilot program. thank you. >> president brandon: thank you next caller, please. >> clerk: thank you. opening the last line. >> caller: hello, i'm darlene country with the maritime park association. and thank you for providing this session and the opportunity to comment on the resolution. i'm calling in support of the resolution so that all

businesses -- business operators on fisherman's wharf will have a nice environment to operate in and also to increase visitor safety. thank you very much. >> president brandon: thank you are there any other callers? >> clerk: president brandon, there are no other members of the public on the phone wishing to make public comment. >> president brandon: thank you seeing no more callers on the phone, public comment is closed commissioner? >> thank you, boris and everyone for the report. i want to thank supervisor peskin's office for being in charge of this conversation and to the staff, and for including in the budget funds for the outreach through meda, which is a great organization, which i'm familiar with. so i just want to say thank you for that. and i'm fully supportive of

moving this forward and looking forward to its implementation. one thing that i wanted to add for note is that we did receive several letters of support from artisans who already have been anticipating bringing their art to the waterfront, particularly around the ferry building, and pier 1. and i hope when we prioritize issuing permits, to the folks that we prioritize small local artists and artists of color in the application process. currently what we're seeing right now is almost a market on embarcadero, and i think that those vendors are important, it's very different from the vendors that we're seeing leading up to the ferry building who are mostly folks who are either artisans or making their own wares, so i hope that when we are issuing permits that we use small artisans in that

process to avoid almost, like, a chain or a detailed look of goods being sold on the waterfront. i support the item. that's my only comment. >> president brandon: thank you vice adams? >> vice-president adams: thank you, commissioner gilman for your comments, i couldn't agree nor. and thank you supervisor peskin for moving this and thinking out of the box and being on the offense. i think this is a great thing. and mike, boris, and the staff, director, thank you. this is well needed and we just -- i am if full support. thank you. >> president brandon: thank you mike and boris, thank you for the presentation. i too want to thank supervisor peskin for taking a lead on this and to help us to come up with a pilot program along the waterfront where we can have a

program that is for everyone. so i am in full support of this also and i am looking forward to coming back in august. with that can we have a roll call vote. >> clerk: absolutely. [roll call vote] >> president brandon: the motion passes unanimously. resolution 2129 is adopted. call the next item. >> clerk: item 9c is an informational presentation on the piers 38 and 40 development project with san francisco waterfront partners l.l.c., on the lease and development of a project including commercial, retail, maritime and public access uses for piers 38-40, located along the embarcadero. >> good evening, commissioners, president brandon, and the team

to present an update on the piers 38-40 historic piers project, including the diversity equity and inclusion plan. i wanted to recognize the support today i have from rebecca vanacini and the city attorney's office and i wanted to recognize the assistance from tiffany tatum, and stephanie tang who assisted with the diversity equity and inclusion plan. and then lastly i wanted to recognize the support from the south beach harbor staff and the resilience team staff for their assistance on the project as we advance it. next slide, please. so this is an outline of the presentation that we plan to give this evening, to review items 1, 2, and 3, and turn it over to the partner teams to present on items 4 and 5. and i'll close it out on item 6

next slide, please. we wanted to remind the commission and the members of the public of the typical port development process and where we have been and where we're headed to and where we're at today. to the shovel in the ground ranges from two to seven years in the process and we're aiming for closer to the two year and we're at the task outlined in green on the upper right, we're in negotiations for the term sheet and project description. doing outreach to our regulatory partners. and outreach to our community stakeholders. our next step is hoping to return to the commission in the first half of 2022 for approval of the term sheet. next slide, please. just as a reminder, the development offering is both piers 38 and pier 40 within the south beach neighborhood, including the sheds, the apron areas, and the bulkhead and then

pier 40, the pier 40 parking lot. next slide, please. the successful project will address five of the strategic objectives. we have with the strategic plan, for resiliency, engagement, and equity. next slide, please. i just wanted to remind the commission of the process that we've been through today and i'm not going to go through each of these time slots, but we started in january with the issuance of the r.f.p. we received two r.f.p.s in march. we had the scoring panel. we presented the two responses to the commission in july 2020. and then sent to an advisory committee. went back to the port commission to seek authorization to enter into the e.n.a. in august of last year.

and then in 2021, went to the port commission and got approval to enter into the e.n.a. and since then we've been working on the d.e.i. plan, the stakeholder outreach and began the project negotiations. next slide, please. again, a little bit of background how we arrived where we're at. we're working off the port strategic plan, the outcome of the original r.f.p.s or the peas program was an outgrowth of the waterfront plan update process. and we're continuing to collaborate with the embarcadert resilience program, all of which is part of the embarcadero historic piers rehabilitation program. next slide, please. just a reminder of proposal that we in front of us from san francisco waterfront partners, including a mix of uses, including office, that's illustrated in a gray color.

restaurant and retail, which is illustrated in the orange and the pink areas. the production, distribution and repair with pier 40 today. and the commercial and berthing highlighted in green and then the water areas and then public open space is identified in the lighter green color. next slide, please. so since february when the commission approved the e.n.a., we have been working collaboratively with san francisco waterfront partners in doing community outreach, which the team will tout in a little bit, including to the south beach harbor stakeholders and pierre 40 tenants and the neighborhood groups. san francisco waterfront partners is prepared a d.e.i. plan which we'll be reviewing in a little bit. we started outreach to the san

francisco planning department and sfmta. and we've been collaborating closely with the resilience team and refining the concepts. i'll note that on june 24th, san francisco waterfront partners requested an amendment to the time extension to the e.n.a. performance benchmark schedule. and in section 3.2 of the e.n.a. it requires and allows the executive director to approve the extension to the benchmarks if certain conditions were met, which the port's executive director approved the time extension. and the extension was largely due to the additional time required to address sea level rise and seismic adaptation to the project. this will be the first development project in the historic piers that addresses resiliency and it's important that the design and the analysis is coordinated with the port's resilience teams and to the topic. with that i'll introduce simon snelgrove who will introduce his

team and advance through the presentation. simon? >> thank you, david. good evening, commissioners, executive director forbes, thank you for receiving our presentation. may we have the next slide, please. tonight we're going to be covering two aspects. one is progress on equity and inclusion and the other is community outreach updates or review of the opportunities and challenges. we believe this project provides us with an exciting opportunity to not only achieve an outstanding program, but to partner with support in establishing an historic model for other public/private

partnerships to emulate. our main message to you today is we're starting now in 2021. please say hello to our team, april feign, our vice president of development who is managing all of this, and wayne perry, who is our 50/50 joint venture partner in the program management and will participate in the equity and help us drive the d.e.i. program. i think that all know who will keep us and our contractors and help us to meet and exceed the 25% l.b.e. targets that we have set. we're partnering to embrace restaurants and hospitalities, and andréa baker, and they have agreed to join us in our

mission. and the relations manager will coordinate with interaction and other non-profits in the mentoring of people from disadvantaged backgrounds to become successful restaurateurs and operators. you will see the subsidies, in the interest of time i won't go through every subsidy program that we embrace, and all of this while providing the port with a fountain of port projects while lowering the costs for the community. now let me hand it over to my friend wayne perry. next slide, please. >> thanks, simon. hi, commissioners and executive director. thank you for this opportunity to highlight a couple of really significant parts about this development. i am really excited about the partnership with not only simon,

but with also the port. i think that the vision is fantastic, but, you know, it wouldn't be fantastic if we didn't have all parts of san francisco who could participate in this big opportunity. i think that in this case diversity and equity and inclusion starts at the top. i have known simon for about 20 years. we got together and put together this team which is fantastic. next slide, please. the important opportunity in this development will be to build capacity for san francisco. not just for the residents of san francisco, but also for the contracting community. l.b.e.s, and women-owned businesses, and local businesses who can benefit in both the design and planning and construction, but also in the entrepreneurial opportunity that will be created and some of those entrepreneurial highlights will be addressed by my

colleague andrea baker. the cornerstone has two basic roles on the team. our first role is to provide project management through the design and construction phase and to help this team to deliver the project and to deliver the vision as the port has envisioned it. and also our role will be to provide mentorship for some of the local businesses that will be participating in this project. we've already identified 26 on the team -- architecture and engineering and planning firms -- who have created -- we worked together to create opportunities for local businesses and then we've also created opportunities for employment, part-time employment, full-time employment, and also internships for members of the community. next slide, please. we implement this through a five pillar system that will include training, job opportunities, and

also access to contracting opportunities. as simon mentioned, wayne jones with r.i.j. and i will reach out to the local businesses and identify some opportunities for employment and contracting opportunities. you will see here the size program that will start with the assessment of the needs in the community and wherever the job opportunities are, wherever the local businesses are, we're going to meet them where they are and through the cornerstone institute we'll train them up in a very accelerated process. we have done this for about 30 years successfully and we'll identify employment and contracting. so we thank you for this presentation. i'd like to hand it to my colleague andrea baker at this time.

>> next slide, please. andrea, you may be muted. and good evening, commissioners and director forbes. my name is andrea, and i'm the c.e.o. of interaction. we engage, empower and inspire action to promote equitable growth, and to achieve transformative social good. as you just heard from my team member wayne, d.e.i. is not simply an accommodation within this project, it is part of the framework of this project. and so we support and the san francisco waterfront partners and with interaction will create a seat at the table. the seat at the table will target the members of the bipoc

community and create access -- multiple points of entry to the hospitality sector of this program. our goals include a hospitality training program for those with internships and future employment opportunities at local businesses. some are which are your own embarcadero restaurants. we are also planning to establish an accessible pathway for bipoc food and beverage operators to own and operate those eight restaurants in the plaza. and pier 40. additionally, we're committed to the search -- we're committed to integrating the search for bipoc chefs and businesses into the interim activation at the site. and we believe that these goals support and facilitate the port's desire and commitment to create an equitable waterfront.

next slide, please. so there are two pathways. cook's kitchen that is targeted at caterers and small restaurant operators. and then ready to work, a hospitality training program for young adults who want to explore the food and beverage industry. and to actionable work and programs like renaissance entrepreneurship and others to ensure that the outreach to the bipoc community will be deep and robust. we are looking for a start date of fall 2021. and with that i will pass it to simon. >> next slide, please. thank you, andrea.

in addition to reaching out to andrea and wayne -- wayne was fortunate to be my old friends from china, our asian community is allowed (indiscernible) and we have been looking for ways to round out our program to include significant asian representations. shanghai k charitable foundation is a very successful organization from china, and it's interesting if you look at their mission that it is so closely aligned to those of cornerstone institute and interaction. we have met with them, with andrea and with wayne and we're very excited with the prospects of this collaboration. we'll also be working with them and various local asian communities in the bay area. we're very excited about this

initiative and just to add to what andrea have already rounded up among our existing tenants and relationships, 14 positions for mentorships. so we're very excited. and now if i could have the next slide, please. i'd like to go on to our second part which is the community outreach and i'm going to hand it over to april. >> thank you, simon. and good evening, port commissioners. there are two main goals that we have established in partnership with the port for community outreach. the first is to listen to community input and to help to shape and deliver a waterfront asset that is consistent with the values. and second, with the input that we receive, we try to bring a preview of the transformation and the positive social impact of the development through in-person experiences and events before we break ground.

as a way to understand what resonates with neighbors and visitors in real time. next slide, please. our three-part plan consists of close-up conversations and community outings and local partnering. we began meeting with the existing tenants and the neighborhood groups in april of this year. and in total we've had 13 meetings so far. we will continue to meet with the community through march of 2022. our second segment, community outings, builds upon the initial feed back that we received to plan informed in-person experiences and engaging events such as an augmented reality tour, and taste of the world, where people can sample the cuisines prepared by the cohort by the seat at the table program. lastly, outreach to local businesses involve helping others to thrive alongside us

and the port. by connecting with local businesses that offer water recreation and transportation, arts and entertainment and hospitality, these piers are pod to be a truly vibrant community asset. next slide, please. what we have heard so far during the conversation is excitement and enthusiasm and positive support for our concept of a playground. good ideas that we have heard include recommendations that consider revenue, sensible design and successful programming. some highlights include how much the neighbors love the diversity of the restaurants on the plaza, and many look forward to the integration of the refreshment kiosks that will animate the work park and serve as a beacon for south beach. people are also interested in additional recreation and are intrigued by the idea of sports courts such as top court

basketball or beach volleyball in our city's waterfront. next slide, please. there are, of course, challenging points that have been raised for the tenants related to the environment such as noise, traffic, and construction. one of the most challenging issues that is not directly under our purview is the reduction of parking. and we're assisting the port as its partner in a way that makes sense to overcome this concern waged by those in south beach harbor. we look forward to continuing our outreach and keeping the commission and the community apprised of our progress. and thank you for your time and i will now turn it over to david. >> next slide, please. thank you, april, and andrea and wayne for weighing in. the next steps for us are to continue the outreach as mentioned and to continue the coordination with our resilience program which we've had a lot of

great success with to date. to continue the outreach and coordination with our regulatory partners. and to continue the negotiations and track the diversity, equity inclusion plan and i hope to return to the port commission in the first part of next year with a term sheet for negotiations. and with that we're all available for any questions. thank you. >> president brandon: thank you, david. simon, wayne, and andrea, and april. thank you for your presentation now let's open it up to public comment. we will open up the phone lines for public comment on item 9c for the members of the public who are on the phone. jennifer will be our operator and has instructions now for anyone on the phone who would like to provide public comment. >> clerk: thank you, president brandon. at this time, we will open up the queue for anyone on the phone who would like to make public comment on item 9c. please dial star, 3, if you wish to make public comment.

the system will let you know when the line is open. others will wait on mute until their line is open. comments will be limited to three minutes per person. the queue is now open. please dial star, 3, if you wish to make public comment. >> president brandon: thank you, jenica. do we have anyone on the line? >> clerk: yes we have two callers on the line. >> president brandon: please open up the first one. >> clerk: thank you. opening up the first line now. >> caller: good evening, president brandon and commissioners and director forbes. this is dallas rogers from the south beach area and i'm really calling in to just let you know that you have an audience for this presentation here on piers 48 and 40 and -- 38 and 40, and many of us in the neighborhood are really cheering on all of this important work for the waterfront, to have equity and

inclusion. thank you very much. >> president brandon: thank you next caller, please. >> clerk: thank you. opening the next line. >> caller: hi, commissioners, i want to associate myself with the comments from alice rogers, and the gateway apartments where i walked past for this opportunity many times. i'm really looking forward to it as are many other people. thank you for still being with us this evening. >> president brandon: thank you jenica, any other callers? >> clerk: president brandon, at this time there are no other members of the public on the phone wishing to make public comment. >> president brandon: thank you seeing no more callers on the phone, public comment is closed commissioner gilman?

>> commissioner gilman: sorry. i wanted to thank you for an incredible presentation. wayne and april and andrea, your vision for this project is commendable. and i think that the only thing that i want to say is in this informational item is that i hope that everyone else doing development on the port actively right now and who are still in negotiations, who see this is presentation and sees this team and sees the equity and diversity that simon and his partnership have brought to the table. april, welcome to the scene. and i'm excited about the equity that is being brought forward in this project. i mean that sincerely at this late hour. for many of us this has been an after thought and in this day and age we have a commitment to make the waterfront accessible to all san franciscans, 1k and particularly to communities that have been left out of that access. so we want to commend you all

for your presentation and i have no detailed question at this time and thank you for sticking with us this evening at this late hour. >> president brandon: thank you vice president adams. >> vice-president adams: simon and april and wayne, this will be a beacon of light on our waterfront and i'm really happy about it. after coming out of this covid, the city could use a shot in the arm in our waterfront. and what you're doing is taking things to the next level. this will be something that 30 million tourists a year and our citizens of san francisco will be able to enjoy. and especially our younger generation. and i think that what you're doing is when people want to come to san francisco, simon, i want you and your team to know this -- we can point to you on how to do it right. this is a project that you can point on how to work with the community, how to work with your

partners, and it's a love of we and us and you're getting it done. and i tell you what, i would take any of what you are doing here in san francisco over any city in the world. thank you. >> president brandon: thank you vice president adams. again, david, simon, andrea, wayne, april, phenomenal presentation. you guys did a great job. i think that this is an historic event. i think that in my 24 years on the commission i have never seen a project that upfront really wants to address equity. so, simon, i really want to thank you because you have come to us with so many projects, but this one as vice president adams said is a beacon of light. you have a 50/50 joint venture, you're not trying to do the minimum requirements that every other developer is trying to do you guys are really trying to

make this a team. and you're doing it because it's the right thing to do, not because you have to. and you couldn't have picked a better team. i mean, wayne with his construction management expertise and all of the projects he's done over the years. and andrea with all that she has done to survive throughout this entire city, i mean, you -- and april, i know that you're going to be a great addition to the team. so you have a great team and you guys are starting out on top, nowhere to go but up. and the fact that you are addressing resiliency now is so incredible, because that is something that we have to do across the waterfront. and that you're taking the time to make sure that it's at the forefront of the project, and not an after thought, that is commendable also. and thank you and come back early next year and we can start

talking real details, but i am so looking forward to the success of this project. so thank you again for this presentation. >> thank you, commissioners. >> thank you, commissioners. >> thank you. >> thank you, commissioners. >> president brandon: call the next item, please. >> clerk: item 10a, request approval of a 15-year lease with two five-year options between the port of san francisco and the bay area council for lease number l-16724, for the mooring of the historic ferryboat klamath to be located at pier 9 south at the embarcadero and broadway along the sab fran waterfront. this is resolution 21-30. >> good evening, president brandon and commissioners, director forbes and the public. i'm with the maritime -- with the port's maritime division. for today's presentation i'm joined by the port director andré portman and john grubb,

c.o.o. of the area, and we have representations from b.a.c. and today we're bringing before you -- we bring before this commission for your consideration and approval lease 16724 and resolution 21-30. we would return the ferryboat klamath back to the san francisco waterfront. next slide, please. this item was presented as an informational item to the port commission at its september 22, 2020 meeting. since then the port staff has been working closely with the councils for the lease for the originally proposed term. and there was much work to be done, but we believe that we have an agreement that is beneficial not only for b.a.c. and the port but also the public that will have new access for genuinely significant piece of san francisco's beautiful maritime history. i'd like to go to the port

division that supported the work and bringing this item before you, including planning and environmental, maintenance, and real estate and development and the executive staff. next slide, please. since our last time before the commission the bay area council has repaired the ferryboat klamath to the southside of pier 9. with approval the vessel will serve as the headquarters for the bay area council with office and conference room space that will allow the klamath to be an historic meeting place and regional destination for partners and the broader community. additional office space would be available to rent to sub-tenants on the main deck which is already given to maritime tenants. next slide, please. as described previously the b.a.c. would have improved public access to all levels of

the vessel compliant with the american with disabilities act, a.d.a., including the roof deck including the roof deck -- with public views of the bay as well as exhibition space likely dedicated to the klamath and the history of the ferry service on the bay. the bay area council will have event tours with maritime education through historic areas throughout the vessel. and the klamath would have minor dredging to wharf safely at pier 9 and to have electrical and water and other considerations to land side utilities. b.a.c. will open up the pier 9 apron from embarcadero to the klamath that will activate inaccessible space in alignment with bcdc provisions. next slide, please. the proposed maritime lease is expected to contribute in a substantial way to meeting

multiple objectives of the port's strategic plan, including evolution, productivity, equity, and engagement. next slide, please. and some of the requirements of the california environmental act sika, the plans department had addendums three to the final and environmental impact report feir for the proposed 34th america's cup and james r. herman cruise terminal and the wharf projects that had monitoring and reporting program for both projects. on july 9, 2021, the planning department prepared a note to file explaining that minor modifications to the mix of office uses on the klamath do not require further environmental review. i would like to add to the

record that the staff report and resolution have been updated to reflect the july 9th date. and the date is mentioned several times in whereas and resolved clauses and that no other changes have been made. there would not be impacted not identified. and no new mitigation measures would be necessary to reduce the significant impacts. in addition to the san francisco planning department's ceqa review of the project, port planning staff have coordinated with b.a.c. and its consultant team to guide the design and proposed alterations to the apron and the ferry vessel. the focus of this staff guidance is to ensure that the work within the embarcadero and the ferryboat plan is consistent with the secretary of interior standards for the treatment of historic properties known as the secretary standards. and port commission resolution

04-89. the port commission adopted resolution 04-89 in 2006, requiring that all work within the embarcadero historic district comply with the secretary standards and supports the port's stewardship of the historic district. the staff review and determination that all components of the proposed project will be consistent with the historic standards in port stewardship and best practices and will support other agency approvals. these approvals include a permit authorizing new base sales and the army corps of engineers to authorize dredging and installation of piles. next slide, please. that dated the proposed term in september to return with no material change. in summary, bay area council is seeking a long-term maritime lease with the port for 15 years with two five-year options. and approximately 18,000 square

feet of submerged land for the safe mooring of the historic ferryboat klamath. to be included in in addition to 10 monthly base rents and an annual c.p.i., and agree to pay on a percentage of the sib-tenant rent plus a percentage of all special event revenues. next slide, please. in addition to contributing to regional and local economic recovery, the return of the klamath meets a key public trust objective. as waterfront update, the port is to foster activities to draw the public to the waterfront for recreation and enjoyment and to enjoy the san francisco maritime history and architecture, especially within embarcadero historic district pier facilities. the klamath would sit 500 yards from one of her forward service slips at the ferry building and at 150 yards from her previous berth at pier 5, offering the

public an opportunity for an immersed maritime experience. to balance the basin along the embarcadero which also features the historic ferryboat santa rosa at pier 3. next slide, please. the core staff has determined that the proposed lease, and the proposed capital improvements meet the criteria in the historic vessel policy. and the staff has revenue projections that are viable and determined that the anticipated capital improvements will likely generate an additional long-term gain for the port. next slide, please. in summary, port staff includes the proposed location would activate a maritime berth facility that has long stood vacant and increase public access, infrastructure improvements, financial stability, and favorable

conditions for recovery in a post-covid economic climate. the return of an historic ferryboat to the san francisco waterfront for the use as headquarters of the bay area council brings focus and attention to the gateway of our world-class city and our maritime port, with increased revenue generating opportunities and securing a location that can be used for public education and inspiration, while improving views and enhanced public experiences along the embarcadero. and finally the proposed new lease term is reasonable in relation to the size of the operation and the need to amortize the tenants' investment over a manageable period. next slide, please. and this does seem like hours ago but with another example of the strategic vision, our san francisco waterfront land use plan states, quote, the evolution of the waterfront from its beginning to the present

reflects san francisco's colorful history. the waterfront should continue to serve as a repository for memories, of past events, while also providing a stage for new experiences, unquote. it is a sentiment that we recommend to approve the maritime lease 16724 with the bay area council on the terms and conditions described to return the historic ferryboat klamath back to the san francisco waterfront. next slide, please. that concludes my presentation. at this time with your continued consideration i'd like to invite jim wonderman, c.e.o., and john grubb, c.o.o. of the bay area council to address the commission after which the bay council team and staff will be available to answer your questions. thank you. jim?

>> thanks very much. i appreciate your presentation. and president brandon and members of the commission and director forbes and the team, you know, is very impressive day to listen in on all of the items before you. and a tremendous amount of respect for the port of san francisco which i worked with during two administrations that i have served in san francisco and just have the greatest regard for what you do. this is a really big day i think for the bay area council, long awaited as well as for the port of san francisco and the sea and county of san francisco. what we are doing is bringing back an historic -- large historic artifact back to the waterfront. this vessel as the headquarters

at pier 5. and then ultimately it was sold to another company that took it to stockholm and that's where it's been for three decades. we made the decision to purchase it back after a lot of discussion with our board who are the leaders and organizational leaders and university presidents and others who felt that we should, you know -- we should have a special place for an organization like the council which is 76 years and running, but also to do something special for the city that's always been our home. and so it wasn't an easy thing to do. it's kind of complicated. and we've had a lot of discussions going back now -- this preceded the pandemic. and the actual purchase of the vessel preceded the pandemic. and so we've been, you know, in all of this time we haven't been able to see you in person as we've been working through a lot of the issues. but i know from working closely

with my long-term colleague, mr, there's been a lot to it. it's a very -- it's -- from everything that i have seen it's been tremendous give-and-take on everyone's part and we have learned a lot and worked with the port as well as the regulatory agencies along the way. and it's all about doing things that make the port better and add value to the existing facilities and making and creating avenues of accessibility for the public which is such an important order. and at a very, very high level. so we're going to create, you know, tremendous amounts of opportunities for the public to experience really a big part of history here. and not just look at it from a distance, but to be able to board the vessel and to advantage of the roof deck which we're investing on putting on a roof deck, it didn't have that before. and at a very great cost.

and, you know, thoughtfully we're not really doing the historic features but, of course, but redesigning it in a way that can be a great meeting place for san francisco and for the bay area. and it's our intention that there will be some important conversations that happen aboard this vessel in the future and that will be, you know, great features of the -- of our kind of day-to-day life there. so i just want to thanks, you know, everyone for your work and your consideration on this. we're happy to discuss it and answer any questions about it. and mr. grubb has worked tirelessly with you and others i know on this from the get-go, but to see it through, and this is a really big -- i think this is really a big opportunity for us also. and with that i'll turn it back to you. >> thank you, jim, and commissioners. i would like to just acknowledge the team that you have here is a

pretty spectacular team. so dominic marino, and andré coleman and in particular director elaine forbes, you have been incredible partners and i will do a very quick presentation and i realize how long we've all been in the meeting. so just really quickly if you can see the screen here, so this is walter landor who first had the ship and made it really famous. this is the klamath being built in san francisco at bethel hunt steel. and this is one of her last journeys as an actual ferryboat going across the san francisco bay. let me move to the next slide. so, dominic already covered where the location is and so i'll move past that. this is the boat today and we're already doing the work on it. the docks that were around her to be able to get her back to

san francisco, we started and working on demolition, doing all kinds of work -- i'll quickly go through the pictures. clearing it out and building a lot of structural support to do that roof deck that jim was talking about. because there's limited power supply at pier 9, we've made a really good decision to get rid of all gas, so we'll be moving to efficient heating and cooling systems. we're starting to build the walls in there. we have been preserving the history. this is a crane removing the pilot houses from the top of the klamath. so that we can build this super strong, very well initialed and very strong roof deck that we're going to have on top and then we'll be putting the pilot has his back on and some other historic structures and really quickly, this is a walk down embarcadero. as you would walk into the klamath, this is the front

lobby, walking upstairs to the second floor and then you're going up into -- this is a history museum that we would have. and this the ship's wheel and this is called the power that used to drive it. you can stand here and i'll show you a picture at the end. and then this is some renderings of the roof deck that we'll have, which will be really a stunning space that you're all welcome to come to. this is the current captain, this can be you in the future when you come and stand there, and he'll be removed and, you know, the members of the public will be able to go there. so very quickly, that's what -- there's a lot of details involved here, but thank you. and we're looking forward to trying to be excellent neighbors and great tenants and we're very excited to come to the port of san francisco.

>> that concludes the presentation, yes, thank you for the opportunity. >> president brandon: thank you, dominic, jim, john, thank you so much for the presentation. commissioners, can i have a motion? >> so moved. >> second. >> president brandon: i have a motion and a second. now let's open it up for public comment. we will open up the phone lines to take public comments on item 10a for members of the public who were joining us on the phone. jenica will be our operator and will provide instructions now for anyone on the phones who would like to provide public comment. >> clerk: thank you, president brandon. at this time, we will open up the queue for anyone on the phone who would like to 345eubgo make public comment on item 10a please dial star 3 if you wish to make public comment. the system will let you know when your line is open. others will wait on mute until their line is open. comments will be limited to three minutes per person.

the queue is now open. please dial star 3 if you wish to make public comment. >> president brandon: thank you, jenica. do we have anyone on the line? >> clerk: yes, president brandon, we have three callers on the line. >> president brandon: please open up the first line. >> clerk:thank you, opening up the first line now. >> caller: i'm calling to support to bring the calath back to our waterfront. it's been a natural part of the waterfront decades ago. and on its return i feel that its presence will be even more valuable. the klamath will be more visible than it has been before. and for public access programs and also waterfront visitors to

have a close-up experience and a great educational student. in addition to this new tenancy is really in sync with our waterfront land use plan update efforts to support maritime and authenticity on the waterfront. i also personally have had the great fortune to live on a ferry both in south wales many years ago. and i am eager to see and to have the opportunity to get acquainted with this vessel and to support our maritime heritage. thank you so much. >> president brandon: thank you next caller, please. >> clerk: thank you. opening up the next line. >> caller: good evening, commissioner and staff, this is alex nash again and this is an excellent example of the flexibility and opportunities that were allowed by the

waterfront land use plan and the collaboration with the port in the special area planned. and the broadway open water basin is the perfect place to add the sister ship to the santa rosa and this is right in my front yard. and i'm looking forward to having the klamath as an addition to the san francisco waterfront. thank you again for your service and have a good evening. >> president brandon: thank you next caller, please. >> clerk: thank you. opening up the next line now. >> caller: good evening, president brandon, commissioners. dr. forbes. i'm a senior planner with the bay water transportation authority. we are very excited for the return of the ferryboat klamath to the port of san francisco. we are particularly excited to have it located next to the main office at pier 9.

and mooring this at pier 9 means that we celebrate the maritime uses on the waterfront. new public access fosters educational opportunities for the public to learn about various maritime industries, including the ferry system and its history. we know firsthand from many of our captains and deck hands that joined waterfront as a child that it's a reason they chose to become a maritime professional. it's critical to preserve these areas on the waterfront to maintain these opportunities. when considering approval of this, we hope that the port will continue to consider the importance of retaining the integrity of pier 9 for commercial and industrial and public recreational uses. thank you very much. >> president brandon: thank you jenica, do we have any more callers? >> clerk: president brandon at this time there are no other members of the public wishing to make public comment. >> president brandon: thank you seeing no more callers on the phone, public comment is closed commissioner gilman.

>> commissioner gilman: i just want to thank everyone and andée and the team for this presentation this evening and thank you to jim and john anddom dominique and everyone. i am so happy. i was happy when we had did our negotiations and i have been wanting to welcome this back to the port. so i'm just happy that see that we're executing on this and i am excited for its opening and i enenthusiastically support this motion. >> president brandon: thank you vice president adams. >> vice-president adams: yeah, i think today is just the climax of our meeting today, and as president of the iowu, thinking of our founder harry bridges and what san francisco waterfront means and maritime, and also in line with the crew bringing the

ferryboat back. this speaks to the aspiration of what san francisco from the gold rush and then in those days and it is continuing. so this will add to that midas touch that the port of san francisco has for students and for everybody that comes and the 30 million tourists that come to san francisco a year to see this ferryboat and to see what we have and how we have preserved this and this will clearly be an aspiration that the light all over the world. so i am totally on board with this and i wanted to thank everyone on the board. thank you very much. >> president brandon: thank you, again, dominique, jim, john, and andré, and the entire team. i think that this is going to be a great addition to the waterfront and we look forward to welcome the klamath back and we look forward to visiting and steering.

and with that call, can we please have a roll call vote. >> clerk: all right. [roll call vote] >> president brandon: the motion passes unanimously, resolution 21-30. >> congratulations, everyone. >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> good job. >> thank you. >> president brandon: call the next item, please. >> clerk: that would be item 11, new business. >> president brandon: is there any new business? >> commissioner gilman: i know it's late but i -- and this can be for our next meeting, but this is -- i wonder if we could have the real estate division or the contract division to think about within the framework of what we can do in terms of prop 19.

if there's ways to either incentivize or to feature our r.s.p.s to not make what waterfronts properties did with the exception and making that the standard. so i guess that i'd be interested in having the port to explore talking with the city attorney and also the contractor division and under the city administrator's office to see what we could do to model that success to make it the standard and not the exception. so that was my only part of new >> commissioner, we'd be happy to add that to an upcoming item i will tell you that the staff feels really proud of the 38-40 proposal, and it's a perfecting art, as president brandon will tell you. but we have -- there was innovative language in the pier 38, the r.f.p., and i think that

it's incumbent upon us to come back and to see how to perfect and to continue the progress that we're making in our processes. so thank you for the question and we look forward to that being a future item. >> commissioner gilman: yeah, i think that you're doing a great job. it was not to diminish that, it was a comment, that i would hope that moving forward and i hope that the public is listening and future contracts that need that sustained to be the exception. >> i would like to thank you commissioner gilman for staying so we could get our work done and to the staff, and director forbes, thank you, it was a long day. but i appreciate the commitment of our fellow commissioners. it means a lot to me and that it's 8:00 at night so we were able to get our business done. thank you. >> thank you. >> president brandon: thank you is there any other new business? with that call, then can i have

a motion to adjourn. >> commissioner gilman: a motion to adjourn. >> so moved. >> president brandon: do i have a second? >> clerk: [roll call vote] >> president brandon: the meeting is adjourned at 8:10 p.m. thank you, everyone. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> good night.

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additional $200,000 and the stadium was built in a year. in the 1930s it was home to several colleges such as usf, santa clara and st. mary's for competition and sporting. in 1946 it became home to the san francisco 49ers where they played nearly 25 years. the stayed de yam sat 60,000 fans. many caught game the rooftops and houses. the niners played the last game against the dallas cowboys january 3, 1971 before moving to candlestick park. the stadium hosted other events before demolition in 1989. it suffered damages from the earthquake. it was reconstructed to seat 10,000 fans with an all weather track, soccer field and scoreboards. it hosts many northern california football championship games. local high schools sacred heart

and mission high school used the field for home games. the rivalry football games are sometimes played here. today it is a huge free standing element, similar to the original featuring tall pink columns at the entrance. the field is surrounded by the track and used by high school and college football and soccer. it is open for public use as well.

. l. >> president cohen: you'd like to call this meeting to order. mr. clerk, please call the roll. >> clerk: [roll call] president cohen, you have a quorum. we also have chief scott from the san francisco police department and paul henderson from the police accountability. >> president cohen: that sounds wonderful. i appreciate that. let's go ahead and begin our meeting with the pledge of allegiance. ladies and gentlemen, if you're physically anal, please stand and put your right hand over your heart and pledge.