on the line wishing to make public comment. >> president brandon: thank you. commissioner gilman? >> commissioner gilman: thank you. i just want to thank supervisor peskin and everybody working on this. i enthusiastically support this pilot program and cannot wait to see it implemented and anxiously await its results. [please stand by]

my last question refers to the daily clean up. in terms of just resources from the port, to make sure we can monitor in terms of, you know, cleaning up and just monitoring. it's going to require extra resources to oversee the

program. >> i would argue on the whole it lets resources that we're expending now in terms of dealing with the vending and cleaning up after it. the vendors will be required under the good neighbor qualities to clean up after themselves. dealing with the situation on the ground. you know, i think we'll rely on the eyes on the ground we already have who were already out walking in their portfolios and seeing what's going on. so i think a lot of the cost to us to reside in sort of the staff administration and permits as well as the contracting with our technical assistants. so we don't really know what it looks like until we get into it. we'll come back to you and let you know the costs of operating the program are and we can evaluate on whether the permit fee is adequately covering that going forward or not. >> so, right now is there any interim steps taken or it just

is whoever shows up out there today? >> we're coordinating ongoing oversight with the rules not associated with this itself. parking violations associated with loading in their stuff. d.p.h. looking at folks who are not permitted. so we're not sitting back, but ultimately, this program is the real way to make sure people are complying with the relevant rules and so we think that is going to be a big step forward in bringing back sort of a more orderly use of the sidewalk that would allow people to better access the vendors as well as the water front itself. >> okay. thank you, mike. and one curious thing. we've heard now, this is the second time and interestingly, we have not heard the voice of the vendors themselves. so i guess they are aware that this is coming, right? >> yes. absolutely. i mean, we've had staff

speaking with those folks. so we've definitely been trying to reach out to them to understand their situation. i think we've got a number of anecdotal feedback about their interest level and becoming compliant. i would say there is a number of them that do, i think there's a number of them that i think will wind up going somewhere else that won't have these rules. ultimately, our goal with the technical assistance contract with everybody who wants to comply will have a fighting chance to do so. >> thank you. that's the end of my questions. >> president: thank you. commissioner burton. >> he's no longer here. >> president: okay. thank you. >> i really feel good about

this and this is the right thing and to help some people with this covid, it seems like it's continuing. i'm very happy about it and i'm totally on board with it. >> president brandon: thank you, again, for the presentation. i just have one question. you know, i know it's little embarcadero but i know it's across the street not on port property. so how does this work in conjunction with the entire crew who work there? >> i'm sorry, what's not on port property? >> president brandon: there are vendors on the sidewalk, the nonwater side of jefferson. >> so we've identified one

spot. are you talking about the spot on the south side of jefferson on the map? because that's port property. >> i'm talking about like in front of the that area on the other side. >> president brandon: i'm just concerned with how this entire area was not on port property. >> time place and manner regulations on port property.

so anyone who is not permitted on port property. so in part, our program. and then they can't just go off port property and would not have the same enforcement challenge. >> got it. and thank you and joe and everyone else for all the work that has gone into this. can we please have a roll call vote? >> okay. on resolution 2134, president brandon, [roll call]

>> president brandon: resolution 2174 is adopted. >> good evening commissioners. president brandon, vice president adams, commissioners. at the port, i'm here presenting on the pop-up who have been instrumental in supporting me and executing the and relieving and implementing the process. and last but not least tang and moent jackson has been supportive during this process.

>> as you know. we've been discussing the pop-up the commission authorized staff to release it. in the next month, the global pandemic turned our world upside down. what has become most evident is that open space and in particular our open space is a critical asset for the city to enjoy. as vaccination distribution ramped up and recovery was on the horizon, port staff decided to release the rfq with the goal of releasing vibrant and diverse by activating our parks and outdoor space along the water front. next slide, please. >> however, as we all know, covid continues to be present in our city and our partners will need to honor some community value. one is ensuring we are safely engaging the public based on

covid-19 health orders and the second value is that we are creating opportunities for small and local businesses and communities along our water fronts. next slide, please. to self-cat georgia their proposed activations into small, medium and large. identified on this slide. we did want to note that small scale activation, we intended for that to not include things like open frame placement, installation of structures or include food or alcohol service so to create a streamline process for these small scale activations. next slide, please. port staff from various divisions collaborated to develop an outreach list of over 125 water front stakeholders. this list included

organizations like the san francisco african american chamber of commerce. chinatown community development center and some philippine. on may 10th port staff coordinated city agencies such as cmd, oewd, the arts commission. sorry i should say them out loud. grants for the arts and the office of small business and we were able to touch over 10,000 stake holders city wide. on may 14th, we conducted a virtual presubmittal meeting where 21 participanted submitted and asked questions.

on june 14th, calls were made who registered to be kept informed at the rfq to remind them that the due date would be on june 17th. and, with that, we had submittals due for a 6-week open period. i would really like to highlight that the rq process was managed by our manager stephanie. so next slide, please. so in terms of outcomes, we convened a panel review process from the representatives of the administrator's office, the arts commission and two port staff. these folks reviewed 22 submittals categorized into nine small or medium and nine large. five in the small category and

eight in the large and as far south as and everything in between. four of the qualified responsibilities while we did not collect data, we know that the small. organizations such as the barrier jazz mobile have racial diversity. we know that gumbo social is an african american owned business and so i have a lot of faith that our efforts are going to pro mote for small and local

businesses. i'd like to highlight opportunities we see. the fisherman's war of is proposing fisherman's war of of. the bay area jazz mobile in the top right corner is an opportunity for us to activate along several locations in the summer months coming into action which is a nonprofit that's heavily engaged in our southern water front to activate heron's head park. there are other opportunities. i'd like to highlight gumbo social. he has historically been a market vendor and his proposal is to do food competition.

and this opportunity is to really provide a mobile expansion to get more visitors to come to their restaurant in the sunset district and create i do want to acknowledge there are opportunities as you heard in the one is to be present. so we are going to coordinate these responses with the pilot vending program that we will be watching next month.

there was a submittal for activation of the cruise ship terminal both pier 27, open space, the terminal plaza and the parking lot. we want to be very supportive of that industry coming back to life, so just making sure we're coordinated there. and then, on, pier 30, 32 which has hosted many of our large events saw a lot of interest from the respondents and we want to recognize that there's a lot to be -- there's a lot of work to be done in engaging the community around there. next slide, please. in terms of next steps, there were several responsibilities that requested or indicated that a fee waiver or a fee waiver would benefit their activation and so we will be reviewing those proposals more in depth. we will be sending out a survey to those who registered to be informed about the rq, but did

not submit to the rfq to understand what the barriers were to their participation and see what feedback we get to incorporate it in any potential rfqs we might release in the future. we've been in communication with those that indicated a september october activation target and then all the other respondents, we will be getting into conversations with in starting out licensing vehicles for all the activation. in terms of community engagement, we will be at the southern water front advisory committee on august 25th and the northern water front advisory committee on september 15th and, in terms of targeted engagement, we want to we really want to dive in a little bit deeper to understand the community values and

concerns and we want to ensure that a community program incorporates community values that comes out of that process and supports our strategy for the 3032 development project. in terms of heron's head park, as you know the eco center is managed by the recreation and parks department and there is a heron's head advisory group that advises the port and we want to be in alignment with them and that asset. next slide, please. that's the end of my presentation. i'm happy to answer any questions you may have for me. thank you so much. >> president brandon: thank you so much for that presentation. we will now open the phone lines to take public comment on item 10c for members of the public who are joining us on the phone. jennifer will be our operator and 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 the queue for anyone on the phone who would like to make public comment on item 10c. please press star 3 if you'd like 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. the queue is now open. >> president brandon: thank you, jennifer, do we have anyone on the line? >> clerk: president brandon, we have one caller on the line. thank you. >> hello. hi. this is jess martin. i'm a resident of mission bay. i'm particularly interested in

the area by the pier 52, the boat ramp that i'm part of the committee that is in charge of enhancing the bay and for the residents. i've been living here for 10 plus years and so far that area has not been used for anything. more often than not, we see homeless issues and the city is not cleaning any homeless encampments anymore with covid and now we have two individuals who are placed there and once people passed by they requested them and i believe there's stolen property. and, we tried to implement the idea for free gym similar to

the one we have in the marina that we fully paid for and installed, but apparently in the midst of our discussions, this area was placed under or was not considered even for a free project and issues that we're facing now. we reach a final conclusion of what is happening to that area because it is unfair to the residents to bear the consequences of inaction of the city and the port authority. even when we try to implement suggestions that were indoors by both students with 300 here

were other plans for the city. >> president brandon: thank you for your call and your comments. do you want to address that? >> i will look into this and find a response for the caller on this particular area. >> president brandon: thank you. jennifer, are there any other callers? >> at this time, there are no other callers on the line to make public comment. >> president brandon: thank you. seeing no more callers on the phone. public comment is closed. commissioner woo ho. >> commissioner woo ho: yes. thank you for the presentation and all the other people working on this. i think the idea of activating the open spaces on the water front is a wonderful idea and it really ties in well with what we're trying to do on the economic recovery and liven up

the economic water front during covid and post covid we'd like to see that the water front activated on the small, medium, and large spaces. i wanted to understand under the pop-up kind of concept is what do we mean in terms of how long is the pop-up allowed to be a pop-up? i think in the past, we've let people come in to the space and all of a sudden, it becomes permanent. it may not be a bad ask and i also want to understand that and how can we make this a program versus an rfq process? and i have several other

questions but let me stop there so far. >> so in terms of licenses we recognize that there are other coordination we have to do but i think in terms of being pop-up, there are some that want to be present for as much as every day for as much as 365 days of the year. and so we're evaluating all of those a little bit more to see how we can accommodate those proposals. >> i think i can help out.

i just wanted to answer to commissioner woo ho's question because you did a very good job of providing her context, but in terms of making sure that we don't have a permanency that establishes itself that we don't want to have to competitively bid and i can remember certain uses like when i came to the port like the soccer field and the pier 27 area that had been there temporarily and it was possibly not the best use or we should have competitively offered it and so i think the response to that question is that these agreements will come to the port commission if there's a certain amount of term associated, but if they fit into the temporary, really what she was talking about they would be under delegated authority. i think that's how the execution would work and help me with any details of might of

missed. >> you're absolutely correct. we're evaluating the proposals to see what falls under the port's general and we're trying to understand what terms might be triggered that would require further commission action. >> commissioner woo ho: okay. i appreciate director forbes comments. i do think when somebody wanted to get it out for one year, that seemed to me like a short-term lease, not a pop-up and i was thinking that did not necessarily match. i do think there should be a policy developed which we don't have to go into the details today, but then you come back to us in terms of what would be delegated authority, even under delegated authority, what is the policy as far as how long a pop-up is a pop-up. because a pop-up normally suggests it's really a very temporary use, it's not a long-term use and so i think we need to have some guidelines and policies developed so we understand how it's going to

work and that we don't have a situation where, you know, squatters rights, it's like well, i'm here and particularly since you mentioned and i am empathetic to perhaps some of the smaller space uses that they don't want to charge, you know, they don't want us to charge a fee. i would suggest that you think about if they don't wish to and we are supporting that that we need to know at what point where maybe if they're very successful, there would be a point where there might be some sort of sharing with the port if they are. so i think you need to think about those things. i think on the medium and larger spaces, i really do think we need to think about the economics of it both for the port and for the user. so i think it can't be, i would be leary of having a blanket fee waiver because obviously

there's a reason why these people want to do pop-ups. as you said, a couple cases they're trying to generate traffic to their other locations, permanent locations and in other cases, there may be, they're thinking that they are going to generate some revenue that would be bringing a bottom line to them and so we want to be fair. but we don't want to necessarily say the port won't share in something. i think there is a differentiation between small and large but there is a differentiation on how we do that because to do a blanket policy for a large space as an example unless it's some sort of charity that we would be convinced and maybe you have to come back to the board commission. but those are things that i think we need to think about some more, but the general idea

of activating our spaces is absolutely a great one. i just think we need to put some guide posts on how we want to make sure it's being used wisely and fairly and also we're sharing in the success of the users here along the way. and, also, i think as director forbes mentioned is that we give other people chances to succeed in these spaces and not give it just one exclusively for too long. so there are other people that can rotate in and out. which i think is what pop-ups are supposed to basically be. does that make sense? >> yes, commissioner. i have taken down these notes and we will return. >> if i can ask for an additional clarification, there may be some that would look like leases and it is our intention that we would bring a lease conversation to the conversation if that were

something that rose to the top and we would recommend or want policy guidance on, but have the guide posts and the definition and policy development around the pop up program and i just wanted to clarify, i just wanted to put that on the record and make sure i understood the direction clearly. >> yes. i mean, if it looks like a lease, then absolutely bring it to us as a lease. as i said, we're going to leave it up to you to make that judgment call and obviously on certain things, there should be a delegated authority that we don't have to look at everything. but i think that just seems to be, i think we need to flush it out a little bit more. understand it better, but i think the overall idea is to make use of the space whenever we can for lots of different reasons and i think that makes sense. >> thank you and we will work with legal on our parameters on how we can use our improvement and make recommendations on how

to move forward. thank you so much. >> president brandon: thank you, commissioner woo ho. vice president adams. >> vice president adams: thank you very much. i think commissioner woo ho hit on everything i needed. i think she wrapped it up very thorough for me and i just want to say thank you and i'm waiting for you to come back and this is very exciting and once again, as i said, i feel like we're on the mend amidst this covid. we're doing some big strides so thank you. >> thank you. >> president brandon: thank you again for the presentation and thank you and the team for all the work that you're beginning to create here. and, commissioner woo ho had some great questions and i think i was also thinking more about the parameters and how

these hit forward how they would be structured not knowing what they requested to do. but i do have a question regarding, there were 22 submittal minimum qualifications and then there was 17 that met the minimum for 70.something. i'm just wondering the five that were declined and i think there was a protest. can you just tell me a little bit about that? >> yeah. so we and i don't know if stephanie is still on the line. she helped him manage that part of the process, but the spread sheet -- so really, it came down to scoring.

there was criteria that were set with community impacts, etc.. so those four members, it really came down to their review of the submittal and their scoring and i'm looking at that now and some scores were below the 70 and that was really the biggest factor in them not meeting that 70-point threshold. >> president brandon: right. i get that. >> it's hard for me to say because i, you know, the panel reviewers were selected based on their experience doing special events and the city so

we really trusted they would apply a judgment in evaluating these proposals and i don't it was really their judgment that gave them the scores. >> president brandon: and what about the protest? >> the one protest felt very strongly he should have scored more than 70, but the package that he submitted did not, the panelist did not feel like that he submitted, he answered all the questions in a way that would provide him with 70-point score. >> okay. >> president brandon: okay. so the next step is you're

going to figure out each of these we need and then you're going to come back. what's the next step? >> so in terms of next steps, we're going to look at all the scheduling. as of right now, it appears that we can accommodate all of the 17 proposal. there is, you know, i do think that we, you know, most of these submittals can typically fall under our special event license. so we're going to execute, we intend to execute some of those small scale early licenses for a september october activation and then the other proposals that will require more permit review, we will be coordinating that and convening an internal review process for those to figure out what might require further commission action.

i see mike is coming to help me out. >> i just wanted to chime in and i'm sorry. i should of had my headphones in. for these initial ones, these and so we wanted to get that kicked off while we work through some of these where we have to figure out what is the right share for the force i think the goal of the scoring was to look to people who had experience with the events. who didn't make it through the minimum qualifications or scoring with them. so we're really starting sort of with baby steps with sort of activations that we know are sort of going to bring something to the water front

while we work out these other rules and so we'll bring those bang to you as we sort of work through those pieces including the community engagement that you heard about earlier. >> president brandon: thank you. and so i guess back to commissioner woo ho's question and that is this something that's going to be ongoing or how is this pop up opportunity going to work going forward. we have the 17 that we're going to look at this time, when's the next activation. when do we put it out again or give others opportunity to be engaged? >> so we don't consider the doors shut at this point. i'm sorry to jump in. you know, i think our goal was to get people in the door to say we want to do this. we want to help people get special events on to port appropriate that maybe they weren't aware of. it's also part of our re-opening strategy. but someone came in tomorrow, we would accommodate them just

as we have all the time when people come in and say they want to do that. we have a special event regime that you approved under the parameter rate. delegation of authority. we have a formed special event. we know how to do these things on a regular basis. i think the success of getting these 17 events going and we'll see if it's worthwhile to do this again i think our goal is to have a self-sort of reenforcing perpetual motion coming in. see what you guys did and i want to do that as well somewhere else. that's where we want to get to. but ultimately, i think this was a good opportunity to get people to be aware of us and for us to sort of sharpen our game about the different types of special events to come here and what we need to do to accommodate them. >> right. >> commissioner woo ho: this is commissioner ho again.

i guess under the special program event and parameters, there is probably a special time period on how long that event is and how many of the 17 would fall within those parameters and how many would not fall in because that's the one, while you develop the more detailed guidelines so i'm trying to understand how many of the 17 would fall under the special events guidelines today and how many would not and have to wait for rules to be developed or should we put in some preliminary to say we don't want anybody to have use of the open space for more than x-days as an example. when i heard the request for one year, that kind of makes me a little uncomfortable because that doesn't seem that it really feels that it falls within what i consider what

we're trying to do here with the pop-up policy. >> commissioner, i definitely appreciate your question. the one year was the full amount of time, but we did not expect anyone to use any specific space for a year straight. the idea was you could get a license for a year to come in every other weekend and you wouldn't have to come in and get a new license for every other weekend. so the special event delegated authority doesn't limit how long a special event can go but it charges per day fees. so ultimately, no one's going to pay for a year's worth of fees where they can rent a space. so none of the events that were moving forward with now are an extended right to occupy any property and we'll come back to you with anything that we talked about earlier that had significant revenue generation we want to understand what the commission's feedback is or

other community engagement such as it appears 3032. so, again, i'm sorry we gave you the impression there's going to be a potential of a year lease. we're not doing that. we would limit that time and certainly if something's looking more like a lease, we've heard the commission's concern and so we'll bring back to you any guide posts that we think are appropriate because right now this is an information item. >> commissioner woo ho: i appreciate that. that's a good clarification. i guess, for instance, in the old days which we actually did not participate in the circ dusolei and we wouldn't mind them coming back to pier 32 as an example. that would be a pop up because that's only a certain period of time, right? >> that would be a lease. ultimately it's a revenue

generating opportunity. so at lot a, that was through the giants but we enjoyed some of that during our relationship with the giants. i agree it's a pop-up but not in the same context in the pop up jazz that we're talking about that's free to the public's enjoyment. >> commissioner woo ho: okay. i look forward to hearing more. the guide posts and the policies and but the 17 you're referring to, it's a little bit of a pilot. and we probably will learn things that we might want to modify as we go over time as well. >> absolutely. i think we're listener so sort of better reflect the different sort of impacts that events

have. i think this is a good information gradsering effort for us as well. hopefully how we manage special events going forward. >> right. and i think also if you could also give us as commissioner brandon mentioned, how can we make this a program attic program so you don't have to come back to us each time you put a request out there. it's self-sustaining i guess is and we're not there yet, but it would be nice to know how that could work in the future and if you could come back to us and let us know. >> definitely. absolutely. >> president brandon: thank you. we really appreciate the presentation and thank you for all the great work. >> thank you. >> president brandon: item 11 is new business. >> i have to come back on revenue projections to discuss port economic recovery and also

a joint briefing with the sfmta. so many folks are frozen. i hope you all can hear me. okay. good. a joint briefing with the sfmta at a time convenient for both commissions. is there any other new business? >> you're coming back on. does that include parking, right? >> yes. definitely. >> okay. >> president brandon: is there any other new business? >> may i have a motion to adjourn. >> commissioner: motion to adjourn. >> commissioner: so moved. >> commissioner: second. >> president brandon: roll call vote please. [roll call] >> president brandon: meeting is adjourned at 7:46 p.m. everybody have a great evening. thank you.

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[sirens] >> fire station 35 was built in 1915. so it is over 100 years old. and helped it, we're going to build fire boat station 35. >> so the finished capital planning committee, i think about three years ago, issued a guidance that all city facilities must exist on sea level rise. >> the station 35, construction cost is approximately $30 million. and the schedule was complicated because of what you call a float. it is being fabricated in china, and will be brought to treasure island, where the building site

efficient will be constructed on top of it, and then brought to pier 22 and a half for installation. >> we're looking at late 2020 for final completion of the fire boat float. the historic firehouse will remain on the embarcadero, and we will still respond out of the historic firehouse with our fire engine, and respond to medical calls and other incidences in the district. >> this totally has to incorporate between three to six feet of sea level rise over the next 100 years. that's what the city's guidance is requiring. it is built on the float, that can move up and down as the water level rises, and sits on four fixed guide piles. so if the seas go up, it can move up and down with that. >> it does have a full range of travel, from low tide to high tide of about

16 feet. so that allows for current tidal movements and sea lisle rises in the coming decades. >> the fire boat station float will also incorporate a ramp for ambulance deployment and access. >> the access ramp is rigidly connected to the land side, with more of a pivot or hinge connection, and then it is sliding over the top of the float. in that way the ramp can flex up and down like a hinge, and also allow for a slight few inches of lateral motion of the float. both the access ramps, which there is two, and the utility's only flexible connection connecting from the float to the back of the building. so electrical power, water, sewage, it all has flexible connection to the boat. >> high boat station number 35 will provide

mooring for three fire boats and one rescue boat. >> currently we're staffed with seven members per day, but the fire department would like to establish a new dedicated marine unit that would be able to respond to multiple incidences. looking into the future, we have not only at&t park, where we have a lot of kayakers, but we have a lot of developments in the southeast side, including the stadium, and we want to have the ability to respond to any marine or maritime incident along these new developments. >> there are very few designs for people sleeping on the water. we're looking at cruiseships, which are larger structures, several times the size of harbor station 35, but they're the only good reference point. we look to the cruiseship

industry who has kind of an index for how much acceleration they were accommodate. >> it is very unique. i don't know that any other fire station built on the water is in the united states. >> the fire boat is a regional asset that can be used for water rescue, but we also do environmental cleanup. we have special rigging that we carry that will contain oil spills until an environmental unit can come out. this is a job for us, but it is also a way of life and a lifestyle. we're proud to serve our community. and we're willing to help people in any way we can.

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it rents vans to the music industry. i am also a member of the small business commission as appointed by mayor breed in 2019. i am a musician and have worked as a professional musician and recording artist in the 90s. [♪♪♪] >> we came up in san francisco, so i've played at most of the live venues as a performer, and, of course, i've seen hundreds of shows over the years, and i care very, very deeply about live entertainment. in fact, when i joined the commission, i said that i was going to make a particular effort to pay attention to the arts and entertainment and make sure that those small businesses receive the level of attention that i think they deserve. >> this is a constantly and rapidly changing situation, and we are working hard to be

aggressive to flatten the curve to disrupt the spread of covid-19. >> when the pandemic hit, it was crystal clear to me that this was devastating to the music industry because live venues had to completely shutdown. there was no way for them to open for even a single day or in limited capacity. that hit me emotionally as an artist and hit me professionally, as well as a small business that caters to artists, so i was very deeply concerned about what the city could do to help the entertainment committee. we knew we needed somebody to introduce some kind of legislation to get the ball rolling, and so we just started texting supervisor haney, just harassing him, saying we need to do something, we need to do something. he said i know we need to do

something, but what do we do? we eventually settled on this idea that there would be an independent venue recovery fund. >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: thank you. without objection, this resolution is passed unanimously. >> and we were concerned for these small mom-and-pop businesses that contribute so much to our arts community. >> we are an extremely small venue that has the capacity to do extremely small shows. most of our staff has been working for us for over ten years. there's very little turnover in the staff, so it felt like family. sharky with the small business commission was crucial in pestering supervisor haney and