commission for tuesday, september 13. roll call. president adams will be abcents. vice president brandon. >> here. >> commissioner burton. >> here. >> commissioner gilman. >> present and commissioner lee. >> here. port commission acknowledges we are on the home land of the ramaytush ohlone the original inhabitants. as stewards of this place which with their traditions the ramaytush ohlone have never cd, lost or forgotten responsibilities as care take and ares for all to reside in their traditional territory we benefit from living on their home land we acknowledge the ancestors, irrelevant tifs of

the ramaytush ohlone community and affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. approval of minutes for the august 9 of 22 port commission meeting. >> second. all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? >> the motion passed unanimously. minutes will august 9, 2022 meeting are approved. >> item 3 the pledge. [pledge of allegiance] >> item 4 is announce ams. the ringing and use cell phones and sounds producing electronic

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public comment. at this time there are no members on the phone wishing to make public comment. >> thank you. >> public comment is closed. >> item 6a the executive director's report. >> good afternoon vice president brandon and commissioners port staff and the public i'm elaine forbes the executive director. assessment is a great time to get out support and see the bay and with this resource an obligation to keep our shore line and bay waters healthy coastal clean up day is this saturday. and is the largest organized volunteer event. the rec and park is hosting aville tear team at the park and surrounding areas to help clean

and green on this day of service. this event removes thousands of poundses of garbage from the bay. weo gratitude to volunteers and i encourage the public special staff to get out to ensure our open space remains a place that is health and he welcomes everyone. thank you for this day of service to the show line. i have more good news to share. >> the state legislator adopted over 140 million dollars in sea level rise funding with the priority of funding going to urban water fronts. ports and ecosystems. this is the first ever notable state investment for sea level rise funding and a new priority for the state. and we near a good position to keep the

funsdz. the port commissioners and staff played a big role in secures funding working with california association of port authorities, lobbyists, san front state delegation and numerous stake holders to advocate for rise, funding on a hard urban edge. i want to reflect on the commission and staff ability to break through barriers to federal and state funding dollars. in the last 3 years. in is proof of our ability to achieve new hoyts to make the post pandemic reason seans real. i want to make a thanks to member phil ting. senator burton and our staff for the most recent outstanding aushg chief ams with the state budget. this will allow you to use federal and state fundses to pifor capitol and resilience work and funds to other needs. invest nothing our durability of

our facilities and freeing up harbor funds for operating expenses is key economic recovery strong. i would like to share activations that will add to the port in september and october. the port ola music festival at pier 80 on september 24 and 25. we have been wonging with the management operator autoservice, nonplus ultrainc. golden boys and multiple agencies to provide a safe and successful event. expect over 30,000 a day and community out reach that the event producer and the partners and to action accomplished is impressive. a job fair took place. mandelmana plaza, offering

hiring for position in hospitality, box office, guest services and special labor. many people from bay view, porrare and dog patch signed ump to employment opportunity including favorites like auntie aprils. radio africa kitchen and puddings. we look forward to this music festival. we are excited announce movie night. sun-down cinemas and sf park hosting a free movie night featuring a film friday night september the 30th. what better way to spend a friday evening than watching the movie with the back drop of our beautiful day and staff is preparing for fleet week of 22. thank you to commissioners gilman and lee for joining staff last evening to celebrate the kickoff. fleet week brings thousands to

celebrate military service and enjoy our wart front. 4 navy vessels on the water front at pearce 3032 and 35. public can visit on october the eighth. port away the blue angels to the bay. we are excited again be the best place in the city for fleet week. we worked stabilize and grow our revenue. today again, we see our work paying off. entering our busy fall season with stability and a good foundation to have proud achievements. that turns mow to equity. the port has part ins with 10ents they help us achieve our alcoholic beveraging recovery goals and equity goals the ferry building is spaces with new and diverse businesses to revive the water front and make place for minority owned businesses to thrive. street food pioneer. opened the ferry building restaurant on august twourp and

will serve pill feigno/american food. greens california an arabic bakery is coming dot ferry building in late september. ferry build to activisting the waterfront is notable. we are also working with the ferry build to support retail upon opportunity for black owned businesses after the juneteenth celebrations. they will be coming in november. the port continues on our journal tow create an antiracist organization. excited embark on internal month long celebration of latino history month. we look at the community's history and valuabling contributions and diversity of cultures from mexico, south america and caribbean. happy latino heritage month. it is a key plan and mission of

the port. i will share exciting news the engagement is strong. we engaged with several city departments on our water front program of aligning capitol efforts and investment. a series of groups with the port's committee members and upon leaders completed and feedback from the groups are used to prepare for broader public engagement on the draft water front strategies you will hear about in october. thanks to rd enterprises who coordinated the group and continued relationship building with community leaders in the southern water front. you will hear from staff presenting progress updates on the embarcadero early projects near teerm action on improving life safety to appropriate for city wide disaster capabilities

and build the first step long-term water front resilience. we will see one embark defer over early project break ground in 2024 the port has been business leveraging public dollars to obtain, state, private dollars to ensure a bay side water front. we don't have all the fundses. we have a language way but have been successful in the first steps. we are at a critical time for the resilience program and need the public engagement to deliver resilience up and down the water front. thank you. i would like to say goodbye to our senior leadership members and share news of a transition. katie our chief financial officer and deputy director of finance and administration has accepted a leadership position with the city add

administrator's office. her last day is this thursday. katie has been outstanding lead in our organization. helping us move forward as we navigated troubled waters the beginning of the pandemic. challenging emergency responses and economic recovery times. it is hard to say goodbye to katie i'm proud to see her take her talents to a newark reina that will have city wide impact and know had challenging issues to solve. and pleased to note cat will about be. she created a team built on respect and team work. she'll be missed by the team for her exception at leadership style. the finance and administrative team modernized moving from paper to electronic time sheets. in partnership with the engineering division katie made the first plan for pmo office.

understanding that we need targeted resources to deliver capitol plans and programs. she helped set up the facility inspection repair program assessment. these have improved how we understands our facilities and invest our dollars. she very over saw our capitol budget and the port's first 5 year capitol improve am plan ensures we spend oir our dollars wisely. i was deployed in the early days of the pandemic she served as acting port director ensured our organization did not lose its way president support kimberly brandson i want to thank you, katie. i have flowers and a plaque.

i wonder should we go to public comment first or dot ceremony? >> dot ceremony. [laughter].

[applause] open it to staff and public comment and you are welcome to say the final words, katie. >> thank you for your report. a lot of great stuff happening on the water frontful is there public ment in the room

including anyone thatments to say something about katie? >> hello commissioners and public and colleagues i'm rebecca deputy director for real estate and development. i want to tell a short story why i will miss cat cat. when i became deputy director i thought i would handling real estate. i lost a number of staff numbers and katie put calendar invite in my in box like collectability. audited financial statement. i will not testify how much i knew about these things i will say that katie provided that passport for me and made learning new things at a high level it is hard to admit when you node to learn a lot. katie put everything in perspective of values and out come and getting things done and

explaining things that was helpful for me and communicates with my staff. there are division leads and departmental leads that courage is rare and wonderful. and it helps us cut through the process of a lot of the things we do what we want to achieve that's what i miss and you will bring that to your new position in spades i'm certain and focus on out come and focus on who we work for. thank you, katie. good afternoon it is the port director.

i did not know katie she came before me. i was deciding weather to come and i said you are building a team. i knew here has machine withhold get something done. and i felt like she would fit at the port. i did not know how right that was. i have appreciated the opportunity to work with katie on the senior team. you know i have billions of anecdotes how she helped me. one thing as we entered the deepest days of 2020 during the pan dem and i can came to her for the first time with a proposal to forgive rent. we didn't know where the bottom was katie kept her eye on the ball i can't imagine how a cfo feels when somebody tells you. i respected on top of katie

understanding and really living what it means to be a public servant in the sector she is trying to do things better that is manage we'll miss that she's gone to the city add administrator's office. all the best, katie. [applause]. good afternoon deputy director of planning. i want to thank katie for her service and assistance throughout the time she has been here. when i approach katie with an issue or problem which is most of the thing i would approach her on she was response and and direct.

thank you very much and good luck in your new position. good afternoon commissioners chief harbor engineer. [inaudible] the same speech writer. you when i showed up 5 years ago from the private sector, katie was there as a great colleague and role model. we talked about the project management office and the projects we have been able to complete.

having that work completed on a timely base i. director forbes mentioned furpa. katie was the driver behind that link inspection data to capitol spending and prioritizing the needs with our limited resource. it was great and excuse me. i'm going to admire her for stepping up to lead the port during covid. it was just -- really wonder. . and so beyond our time in the pandemic, i'm grateful for working along side a great public employee. and at the port and i got to see how smart and caring and passionate a person she is and

made a wonderful team to work at. best wishes, katie. and i will truly miss and you hope our paths cross gaevenl [applause]. i'm nate cruise the finance director. i worked forkatie the last 3 years special thought it was worth bring up what was affected by hear leadership during covid. i start in the 2008. my first assignments was to offer fiscal impact report for the board about the 2008 clean and safe park bond appropriation. i did not know i would be working on that 14 years later. i asked my boss who to talk to. i did not know. caller katie. she is one of the good once. ir did and he was right.

she taught kneel me so much 14 years ago. working throughout pandemic with have been the rewarding fachlz i will miss you. good luck. is there other public comment in the room? provide you can instructions for remote participates. thank you vice president brandon. at this time -- we will open the queue for anyone on the phone withhold like to make comment on the executive director's reportful i will miss katie a lot. [laughter]. please dial star 3 if you wish to make comment the system will let you know when your line is open. others will wait on mute until their line is open.

comments limited to 3 minutes per person. the queue is now open. please dial star 3 if you wish to make public comment. there are no members on the phone wish to comment. public comment is closed. >> commissioner gilman. katie i want to wish you good luck on your next chapter in the city add administrator's office you have been kind to me walking me through the finance of the department my last 4 years on the commission you were matter of fact and even when i offered a hair firewall idea i'm sure you thought would not make sense you tried to explain it and see if it could work. thank you for your leadership and want to acknowledge and uplift when you have seen your fellow colleagues and staff

members say of you made an impact on the port and i hope and know you will impact for the city of san francisco. bust luck to you. commissioner lee. >> katie we did not get to do anything yet. about i know add administrator chu is no joke and would not pick you you were not the top. you know it says a lot about the staff members on your staff. and beyond that, i'm happy that well is this concert coming up. which suspect will provide jobs for people down at the bay view and that area. and responsible entertainment and public safety has been my thing. and i know in it helps the community to in the hospitality

industry so i hope that more will come. and -- if i can help with this with my experience i'm there for you. a lot of good things coming. >> thank you. commissioner burton? >> well, it is an old house of representatives to associate yourselves with the remarks of others. and i'd like to do that. but having had key staff people leave at one time or another it realizes how much credit i was given for the work they had done and katie i think members of the commission would feel same way about what you have done. i wish well in your new

assignment and i'll feel free to call upon you even if you are over there. >> thank you. >> cats katie when you came you had big shoes to fill you step in the and you made it happen. you have done a phenomenonal job the last 6 years? a phenomenonal job in keeping us afloat and -- the one thing no one has mentioned is katie has all the patience in the world and dealing with me she is so parent. we have met so many times the last 5 years. when you stepped up when elaine went to department of health you did an incredible job during a very difficult timism always admire and respect you and

appreciate all that you have done for the port of san francisco. and carmen is getting a great cfo. now it is your turn. commissioners, members of the public, first i need to thank e lane forbes. [laughter] cannot lose my composure here. i'm so appreciative of the opportunity that you gave me. i'm so appreciative of the leadership and your humanity you have been a great boss and i'm so appreciative that you convinced me 5 and a half years ago to come work for the port. thank you for this.

this commission, thank you had all of you. i learned a tremendous amount. from all of you. individualally and collectively. it is so clear how much you care about this organization and the water front and the community that surrounds the port. and i'm just appreciative of the time and the effort and the caring that you put into supporting us as staff as and assage organization. thank you for that. i'm deeply appreciative of my colleagues. my fellow deputies and incrediblely smart, capable, dedicated collaborative group of people >> folks i have been glad to come and work with. there are no words for how much i appreciate my staff.

i'm so proud of the work we have done together in the last 5 years i'm proud of the work we did during covid both internally to take care of the staff and make sure that everybody went home and able to work. on -- at the drop of a hat. for 2 years from home. the fact that we were able to have port commission meetings remote still feels miraculous. we were able to pull that off. i'm proud of my staff. of the finance work this we have done. just -- so grateful for them as people and colleagues. i'm prod of the work i did on the team to put prop a on the ballot to support the sea wall as well as the economic impact

work that we did as a precuriousor to racial equity action planful i'm a native of san francisco. i love this city. i love this waterfront. this is iconic san francisco property and an absolute honor and pleasure to be able to come to work here daily. and to take care television and help, i hope, position the port and the waterfront for growth in the future. thank you for having me. i'm really, really i'm going to miss this organization so much. >> and hopefully -- i will see everybody again. so, thank you. [applause]. >> thank you. we are all going to miss you. you have to visit some time. okay. >> thank you. next item, please.

>> item 7 is the consent calendar. 7a, question adopting findings under state urgency legislation to allow members to attends remote during the covid-19 emergency. question authorization to issue a request for qualifications for as needed environmental and related professional service. resolution 2244. 7c, approval of rent forgiveness for china basin ballparkcum l16410 under which one the port will forgive past due base rent if march 2020 to april 2021. and 2 wave late fees and interest and attorney's fees. 2245. and 7d, requests approval of forgiveness agreement for lot 7

lease number l16417 under one the port will forgive past due base prend from march 20 to april 21. 1 huh thousand dollars. [talking fast]. and 3 the port will wave late sdpees interest and attorney's fees resolution 2246. >> so moved. >>resolution 2246. >> so moved. >>fees resolution 2246. >> so moved. >> we will take public comment on the consent calendar is there anyone in the room like to make comment? seeing none. jennifer will be our operator. >> thank you. thank you vice president brandon. at this time we will open the queue for anyone on the phone

withhold like to make public comment on consent calendar. dial star 3 if you wish to make comment. the system will let you know when your line is open. others will wait until their line is open. commentses limited to 3 minutes. the queue is open. dial star 3 if you wish to make public comment. there is no one wish to comment. >> thank you, public comment is closed. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> any opposed? the motion passed unanimously. resolution 2243, 2244, 2445 and 2246. are now adopted. >> next item. >> item 8a requests

authorization to make crab pilot program permanent part of the fish sale's program at fisherman's wharf. >> good afternoon violent brandon and commissioners direct forbes. i'm dominic your deputy director of maritime i'm joined by maritime director and our newest maritime business development manager to request authorization to make the pilot program permanent part of the retail fish sales program at fish are man's wharf. as back grounds you remember port staff and the commission approved pilot program and returns to make this permanent in 2021. at that port commission meeting, we introduced an opportunity to

include crab i report this this pinot program was a success. >> commercial fishing is defining feature of the port of san francisco and seafood is integrated in the fabric of the community and culture. fish sale it is program will have access by the commercial fishing fleet and the community to fresh affordable seafood without harming the chain of economics. the 13 commercial fishers that participated in the program have enhanced the public's access to fresh seafood. there is no other retail opportunity for uncooked seafood sales authorized at the wharf. the port wishes to expand it to enhance public access to sales.

port staff will explore ways to expand access to diverse retail seafood sales including discussions with stake hold and return for future changes beyond this proposal to make permanent crab sales program. the port prosecute poses to make the crab sale pilot sale permanent a year proved successful with 15,000 pounds of crab sold to the public from the boats in the first year. we learned a lot. signage, way finding and queueing. again it is fish sales program will help commercial fishers not harm the fishing industry. based on the pilot the ability of fishers to sell fish did not harm wholesale fish sales it

enhanced. the retail fish program expansion supports 2 goals of the strategic planful engagement, prosecute mote the richness of the port, or the richness the port has to offer through education, marketing and maintaining relationships with port use and stake holders and economic vitality. attract and retrain commerce to contribute to the port and city. to provide certainty for fishers and crabbers enjoyed the revitalization. the staff recommends and requests the port commission convert the crab sales pilot to a permanent component of retail seafood sales at the wharf. this concludes my presentation i appreciate your time and consideration. and i'm available for questions. thank you. >> thank you. can i have a motion?

i so move. >> second. open up for public comment is there public comment in the room? >> thank you vice president brandon. at this time we will open the queue for anyone on the phone withhold like to make public ment on item 8a. please dial star 3 if you wish to 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 open, please dial star 3 if you wish to make public comment. we have one caller on the line. i will open that line now. >> thank you.

>> will i'm [inaudible] [inaudible] and i participated in both fish sales and crab sales off of my boat. and i think it is hard to have one without the other. i had a much easy year time interacting with custody commerce letingly them been the great fish we catch not just crab. they came down for the crab. and -- it was just we were arc mazed how many people came. it made a huge difference in the area and made a difference for arc lots of the smaller boats. our season for salmon and crab have been cut short crab is -- you know 2 or 3 mont it used to be 8 month season. arc loment of the mauler boats this may have been the difference in surviving or not. and with salmon they got a

series of 5 days openers opposed to the season. it allowed people to make a bit of extra money and you know survive as a fisherman. i also enjoyed meeting it is people that are eating what we catch and getting to tell our story. there is so much inaccurate information and negative information about fishing temperature is nice to interact with the public and tell them we have a lot of really good seafood and sustainable seafood in san francisco. and i was expecting to be people from san francisco which there were but there were people from all over the bay area. that were coming and quite a few of them were people that said they have never been to the worry they continuing is tourists. it was people that live in the area were coming down to buy crab and fish. i think it was good for a lot of the people who were gaeps it.

i think good for the restaurants people made a long trip from sacramento or fresno and made a day and had din are at the restaurantses. or had appetizers and drinks while wait nothing line for cash. and some of the restaurants were cooking crab for people. as we do it that will be an opportunity to cut fish and cook crab for people. wholesalers that were against it we were selling on days they are not irk if we are not there every day on days we are on the water people are coming down and the wholesalers especially the ones on the main street there that sells to the public they sold a bit more crab than they would people were excited about buying from the boats and found them and bought crab from them or they would not otherwise have been there. i think it went well.

it is continuing to be better each year we do it and i appreciated the opportunity to do it. thank you. >> thank you. are there. one additional caller on the line. >> great. >> >> this is john barnet from president of the crab owner's association in san francisco. and though i did not take advantage of selling off the boat i chose not to sell to a will wholesale market i can't say i participated in the tourist trade in the past years for hire and there has been a strong enjoyment of being able to come to san francisco and buy the locals to buy crabs to buy salmon and participate especially with the restaurantses not reopening.

right around the wharf. easier for people to pullum and park quickly to buy fish. more spots and helping a lot of the smaller boats that are able to now get a bit better price to sell to the public and make their business work. for their systems. so. wanted to put my favor toward temperature a lot of fish are men i representative are in favor not all are able to call in some are salmon fishing and imented to represent them. thank you. >> thank you. >> are there other callers? there are no other members of the public on the phone wish to make public comment on this item >> thank you. public comment is closed. commissioner gilman. >> i think y'all know how enthusiastically i support third degree and thrilled see it be a

permanent program here. both for folk who is come in as the callers talked about from sacramento or other places for our community temperature is imperative we drive local san francisco back to the water front. someone who lives blocks from it in north beach and chien town. i hope everyone will buy live crab and look for the to working with port staff on signage and way fairing so we can promote this more. i was honored i bought salmon off the boat it was incredible experience for me and my family and i'm happy we are doing this every other port around the globe in the united states from barcelona to sydney to boston people buy live fish on their water fronts and i'm san francisco is a part of that family. >> thank you. commissioner burton. >> no comment. >> commissioner lee.

>> you know it is arc maze thanksgiving has not been done before. i went top half moon bay to pick up crab. covid-19 is recovering, we want to do is bring more traffic to the port. the crab and having whatever we can do concerts and whatever to bring more people to trickle down affect helps everyone it is hard to get it through the first time. there was opposition in the beginning but it is proven that this works. and i have a question, is there signage. i walk down there and pick up stuff when iment to drive i think that there is no place to park to quickly grab a couple poundses of crab but is there a spot for people that want to drive in? currently, there are a few lots around the triangle lot. there is a lot up on right

across from soma way there is a parking structure it was the challenges of the initial opener that park would become an issue. we will work with commissioner gilman on signage and way finding and include park manage that. >> even if it is 24 minute one the -- quick meters that come in, grab their crab and take off. but we want to encourage them to stay and you eat at the restaurants while they shop. i would like to see that. thank you. >> thank you. thank you for the presentation and the work you put in to this. i'm supportive of make thanksgiving permanent. i want to make sure we reached out to our advisory groups and

hopefully there is no opposition to this. and the success of bringing people to the waterfront and enjoying the crab and fish sales. everyone is supportive of? >> i want to finish there is opposition? >> in the left year i have not heard of opposition. it is all has been favorable. you have thaen to talk to the fish are man wharf tenants and northern water front group? we have engaged with a few of the restaurateurs. there was favorable response from -- yes. >> commissioner i had dinner the other night with a person who remain nameless, but if there was opposition to it it

would have come from my din are partner. and there was not. there was none. and this person never shy about and she's got a history on the port. i think you know nothing is unanimous but if there was opposition i have not heard from it. and trust me i hear from -- anybody wants to drop a pin i hear from it from my friends. >> thank you, >> [laughter]. i want to make sure we are you know doing our part in community engage and want making sure that everyone is aware behalf we are doing and that we are at least bringing it to the attention that this is when we're doing. i'm fully supportive and i think it is great. i want to make sure we are doing our parts in letting the community know what we are

doing. thank you. we have a motion and a second. all inspect favor? >> aye. >> aye >> opposed? >> motion passes unanimously residence louis 2247 has been approved. >> item 9a informational presentation on the initial southern water front earthquake assessment. >> good afternoon, i'm rodney chief harbor engineer here with matt wiccens. project manager with the resilience team to talk about the southern waterfront earthquake assess am. we'll present findings from the study and also provide next stepos how the findings will be advanced, mitigated and

incorporate in the parallel efforts at the port. the assessment was initiated the drefktz commission. in order to increase our understanding of the seismic hazzards and vulnerabilities to southern water front facilities. it is a companion to the embarcadero multihazzard risk assess am. the multihazzard risk assess am on going at the time of this request. so this next slide presentses some -- typical damage hahappens around ports. typically to like slopped movement. we want folks to know earthquake risk is real and can have an impact on the operation of ports.

the purpose of the initial earthquake assessment is the initial characteristicization of geotechnical hazzards and vulner abilities of port facilities south of mission croak in the yellow areas of the map. and this is the first comprehensive assessment across multiple facility and most similar to the 2016 earthquake vulnerability study for the sea way the catalyst for the sea wall program through prop a bond in 2018. the studies nan objective is to identify gap in available the information and staep establish next steped refine seismic risk.

leverage funding. start the process to design and develop construction projects to mitigate the risks in the southern water front. and unlike the northern water front where the sea wall is the southern water front is less complex in terms of the city infrastructure adjacent and the shore line as well as life safety hazards to the public. this means while the embarcadero water front required a study assessment to prioritize and select projects. in the southern water front, we can move directly to facility specific analysis and move more quickly toward risk mitigation projects. and with that i will let matt wiccens, fill in the details for you.

thank you. good afternoon commissioners and director forbes. i'm matt wiccens a project manager. spent spend my time on the army core of engineer study understanding seismic risk in the southern waterfront. i will jump into a bit of our understanding this we developed as outcome of this study. you will see here a colorful water front color indicates where it is today. the dashed line is what it was 150-200 years ago. line is the original shore line. where the 2 lines are closer together is where this water front started to take shape wrchl it is close together the former union iron works that was the turn of 19th century. building north out toward pearce 50 and 48.

the construction similar to the embarcadero sea wall in the late 1900's big maritime developments started to take shape. pier's 80, 94, 96 and you will see there they are all following a similar construction type that green line is a sand dyke construction type and by categorizing the segments of shore line in this very general way we start to develop hazzards and vulnerabilities. with that a bit of the assessment findings you notice where that green line was on pearce 80, 94, 96 that all shared that sand dyke construction typeful this study found those areas have a high hazzard for liquidfaction.

looking at the pictures those other damages after a large earthquake. pier 50 is unique. there is a rock at the end of this pier u nobodying for our water front. because of this, it makes it complex to assess the behavior in an earthquake without ajs. and i wanted to points out there are areas that are redeveloped. out lined in the dashed blue. those are taking care of the seismic hazards within the segments part of their design. weapon this understanding, we want to then move the ball forward. we want to identify projects for implementation you will hear about when they are. this is foundational for our

planning efforts for the future. we'll use this study to identify funding, which you will hear about in the projects. the first worn i want to call out pier 50. unique structure with potential of lateral spreading at the shore line and potential damage to the dashed line because of the additional movement of the 2 structures temperature is an important facility for the port and maintenance division and the city's emergency response. having deep draft vessel capability. part of the next steps the port budget capitol budget 22/23 allocated threap million dollars to advance our understanding of seismic performance at this facility. includes a condition assessment. additional earthquake assessment

and retrofit strategy. that would allow you to go and seek funding at the state or federal level since we have a better picture of what tell take to mitigate those risks. the next is pier 80 this is a capitol improvement project. that is infurthermored by understanding of seismic hazards. this is another facility that is not only important to the port. maritime and commerce. has a puc infrastructure that runs along the southern border that yellow line the out fall pipe from the southeast treatment plant. that pipe is critical to passing treated waste out to the bay. and it happens to fall in the vulnerable zone of this facility. as a result of this study we one have been working and informing them of this. and we want to partner and figure out how to solve the

problems together. >> and just mentioning the capitol improve am project in 22, 23 budget a fendering project for 9 and a half million dollars. that includes construction, design and construction that will be informed by our understanding of seismic hazzards and a subsidance rehab project. i'm sure you heard of lake ad and potential drainage issues this is intendsed rehab and fix some of those. our understanding of seismic hazards leverageed pursue funding and a place we are looking to is the port infrastructure development program. for potential funding. finally pier 94/96, this is critical to the port and critical to the city's disaster response capabilities it was

highlighted in a disaster exercise in the middle of the pandemic the result of the multihazzard risk assess am and including the findings of this southern waterfront assessment to work with 40 plus different regional emergency response partners. as a result of the findings of that exercise that reiterated the frns approximate this facility to san francisco's ability to react and recover we pursued a fema grant that grant now is made it through the scientist and on its way with the federal government not awarded yet but on the order of 3-1/2 million dollars to advance our understanding ever seismic performance and work through conceptual retrofit straj setting us up for future grant opportunity in that same program or others. so. quick summary. 3 facilities.

13 million dollars out of port capitol budget. 3-1/2 million dollars of grant applications in awaiting award hopefully fall. 2022 the year we know. what imented highlight is the scale of construction funding that is required fully mitigate the seismic risks. this is a big stretch of shore line they are expensive problems the tune over 100 million dollars per facility potential low. with that provides an opportunity to infuse capitol in the aging facilities. that are energy the end of their useful life and evolving with the changing maritime needs. pairing what we want the waterfront to be 100 years from now with the risks and investments that are made to mitigate the risks. in sum row this is an initial assess am. it was the first comprehensive assess am on the southern water front to understand the hazards

and vulnerabilities. we will incorporate them into the w we are doing with the arm engineers in the flood study and other efforts around the port. continue to work closely with tenants and the add sunrise real committees. meeting with several of those the last few weeks and use port capitol to advance projects where we can and allows us to take advantage of grant opportunity of and then really fold this in the community dialogue as we advance the adapttation strategies the program work in the segment of shore line and reporting back to the commission grants are awarded. and with that, i will take questions. >> thank you, rod and matt. open up for publish comment is there public comment in the

room? seeing none. jennifer will provide instructions now for remote participates. >> thank you vice president brandon. at this time we will open the queue for anyone on the phone who would like it make public comment on item 9a dial star 3 if you wish to make public comment the system will let you when your line is open. others wait until their line is open. comments will be limited to 3 minutes per person the queue is open. dial star 3 if you wish to make public comment. there are no approximate members on the phone wish to dment on this item. >> thank you. public comment is closed. commissioner lee? >> i have a question this is huge. the submits you come up with how long does it take overnight

years we talk about 20 years? is this a program that will be going on for obviously when money come in and then you know how inflation and labor changes. is there a time frame that before the next earthquake but. you know i'm curious like, you know? >> i of course the estimates begin now especially the 100 million dollars number per facility that is a rough order not a locked in price that would be today's dollars. and really take more development of the strategy to really get close to a dollar figure. could go up. could go up or down. >> whatever. >> we work with a negative 50 plus 100.

range. that would be 50 million up to 200 million. >> i see so -- there is some kinds of time line. i mean, when you do the estimates. i'm curious how you come up with numbers. >> i think i can help. commissioner lee, excellent question. so we are at the point of doing the assessment and analysis work to understand what the existing conscience and are what improve ams are needed. society rough order of magnitude estimate that engineering is providing is current dollars. how we will proceed from this point as matt described, is to get additional funding from state, federal or own sources to deeper in that analysis. if to couple when we are learning with maritime business opportunity. our maritime division is working

on blue/green technologies ways to make green and make more durable the existing mir time operations we have and attract new business. when we are doing is getting the information we need to understand the vulnerabilities of the [inaudible] and the seismic risks. continue to attract federal, state and our dollars to make more fine tune the estimates and approach. one thing that matt said is what is the maritime today and what is maritime of the future in terms of the terminal and woo when we need in infrastructure, et cetera . so, i did in thement you to hold on to that 100 million dollars. because that will change. >> that is where i'm getting. could be 20% more. who knows. >> i did forget, there may be more targets strategies that don't require fully mitigating all. >> i see.

>> thank you. commissioner burton. >> no questions >> commissioner gilmore >> thank you for this report. commentow important this is and also how fortunate we are that we have both pier 40 and [inaudible] taken care of through development. doesn't seem likely if we can [inaudible] through some partnership or a way to solidify the positions so they are not as much as a risk >> knowing leads to a pandemic in the lifetime it is likely that our lifetime we'll see a major -- seismic event. i really appreciate your diligence and doing the studies and moving us having the ability to have the budget we have and find out how we can position

that. thank you for your report. >> thank you. >> thank you. thank you for this report. and the assessment that health care done. i think it is wornltful we are collaborating with army core and looking at seismic and sea level at the same time so we can use funds wisely. i think that am the port has done a great job in seek outside funds local, state and federal. and so i know that you will be able to find the funds. over time. and when director forbes mentioned blue-green technology i thought about the blue-green way. as we assess, can we look how to connect the blue-green way throughout the southern

waterfront so that some way everybody can enjoy beautiful waterfront we have? i look forward to you coming back. next steps are? now that the assessment is done. >> sure. so -- the next steps are to look at pier 50 the capitol project. condition assessments and then hopefully conceptual design of retrofits on improve the performance of the facility. pier 80 we are look at a think we are almost under contract to look at our subsidance issue. and also i think the fendering and project is under way already. we started the daysis of design

and pearce 94, 96 we are waiting to hear back about the grant. that grant allows us to move forward with the conceptual design and allows us to do the geotechnical exploration we did not mention all of the work done with existing dast a. and some of it was okay, some ofs not. getting better data will be quite a help in moving the project and the design forward. >> commissioner burton. >> my experience with earthquakes is the state capitol and we found we modeled it once and doing it again the more you study it the more bad stuff you find. so --

>> say not for nothing. thank you. jot more we look into at this time more trouble the more the cost. so -- >> you know the history -- that is my contribution. >> [laughter]. >> thank you. [laughter]. >> i think the answer is that is true. [laughter]. >> it is something we considered in scoping the study. we did not want to get paralyze in the analysis. >> thank you so much i look forward to hearing more about this. >> thank you. >> next item. >> item 10 arc informational presentation regarding the progress on the waterfront resilience program early projects. >> good afternoon vice president brandon and commissioners i'm mike martin the assistant port director sitting in for brad

benson today dropping his daughter at college. i'm happy to speak today because i have been able to work more closely overnight past year enemy trying to help with the resilience program it works through 2 time scales. reaches back to the item before this as well. so there is the we have the risk of earthquakes you in as we heard on the item we talked about and have our work with the army study looking at what is going to be our ability to arc dam waterfront to protect san francisco overnight decadeless that is a comflex word to live in you are trying to if i can vulnerabilities in the near term and roll up to a successful long-term strategy that we have not quite found out yet. we need to march them closer together. today, you are hear burglar what

is our near term moves to deal with the vulnerabilities and how will we finds dollars to help us do those things? this next item will talk about the early projectless we identified in the embarcadero we can use prop arc dollars but we don't have enough to do all of the seismic projects. all of this is a preview near next among we will bring to you the first look at the adapttation water front wide from the army. and i think what we want to hold everybody's head's on as we talk. we will go to talk to the community who am have a big are learning curve. for you and are us we want you to understand and help us see where these near term actions will roll up to the broader strategy and set us up from future fund raising from the state, federal government or taxpayers of san francisco. be our private partners.

we have to continue top have that look at the short term and long-term to be effective at the large task we have in front of us. i'm impressed with the work we have done. i'm excited roll it out further and have the policy dialogue overnight coming year. but today is helpful look at the specificless as we drill down to the early projects that are another step forward in detail from what you saw in the southern water front i will hand it off to steven to take you through the slides. >> thank you, mike and great framing. good upon afternoon. vice president brandon. commissioners, executive director forbes, staff and the public. i'm steven reel. will i'm the water front resilience deputy program manager for engineering and project delivery. i'm thrilled be in this room

again. and provide you this informational update with the great work the team has done on the embarcadero early projects. it is embarcadero resilience program focuss on earthquake and flood risks on the 7 mile of the port. we are focused on the early projects within it is embarcadero stretch. before you heard the update on the southern waterfront and next month the water front strategies. today we are focused on the early projects and i go over our development process. we have 3 main goals with early projects. identify, impelementable projects. reduce earthquake risk focusing on safety and disaster response capability. and use near term flood risk

considering later adaptation. last december, we updated the commission on the planning level identification and evaluation of 23 embarcadero early project and intention to move in predesign. today i'm providing an update on sick of the projectless. they are working from the north to south on the screen. the wharf j9 replace am and shore line project. the pier 15 bulk head wall and wharf earthquake safety projects. pier 9 bulk head wall safety projects. the ferry building sea wall and substructure earthquake reliability project. pier's 5-22 and a half flood risk reduction project and the pier 24 and a half through 28 and a half bulk head wall and wharf earthquake safety project.

the water front am program adopted a project development process with 5 main steps. planning, free designs, detailed design, construction and close out. these 6 projects complead the first stem in the predesigns process. need's assess am develops the project vision that includes brood list of problem and opportunity. we finds list of project specific objectives and constraints the brain storming of ideas and development in evaluation. a rage of alternatives. and a recommendation on alternatives to move to aisles analysis. that is the next step followed by conceptual engineering. the steps rum in a chosen project alternative. a baseline scope budget and schedule and the deliver method for the project. on to the projects.

wash j9 is a wharf bulk head on the outer lagun on the wharf it is closeed the public. there is e range of motion behind the bulk head. sea wall has a high risk of earthquake lateral spreading that will impact the sea wall lot. flood risk is e merging the break harsh or provides more time. project objectives are to replace the wharf and sea wall with the resilient structure to help defend the wharf from sea level rise. increase disaster response capability providing ad a accessible births that are fungal after quakes and fire boat access to emergency fire water system hide randle. and

revitalize the area connecting residents to the working fishing industry we heard the presentation earlier about the crab boat sales and the success and the connection with residents. >> project started out focussed on j9 expand today to include quake proportion of the sea wall. and a small section of jefferson street. alternatives include both pile support and solid wharf options. increased elevation for flood protection now and the unldz toation for akansas dapability in the future and ad arc births for the fishing industry. the next is pier 15. wall and wharf quake safety project pier 15 is home to the

exploretoryium. the seismic if anything are pier and draw for water front activity the births are important for disaster response. the pier is on the edge of yerba buena cove and high sea wall quake risk from thick bay muds impacts the bulk head wharf zone. sea level rise is e merging threat but not immediate here. project objectives include improving quake safety rerate fitting the structure to reduce damage and risk of collapse. providing reliable access across the sea wall for use of the birth in quake disaster response. due to the difficult of fixing the bay muds major sea wall improve ams is part of later adaptation. and you want to keep the it

open. >> [inaudible]. wrapping the piles improving the pile and wall deck connections. alternative 2 includes widen the seismic jointses to provide room for the movement toward the bay in addition to the alternative one retrofits and a third aisle is the spider frame. we look at new piles and substructure gird irsz. this is less likely an alternative for this project but you will see more of this in the next project. the next is pier 9 bulk head wall and retrofit project. historic housing diverse businesses and maritime offices including the san francisco

[inaudible]. deep water births and mayor time offices that are important for disaster response. high sea wall quake risk here impacts the bulk head. and sea level rise is emerging. similar torpier 15 in improving the quake safety retrofitting the wall and wharf. provide that reliable access across the sea wall and quakes to use the births. again, the deep bay muds here make a major sea wall fix something we think part of later adaptation. here the wharf is original, the pier is original we need to consider the substructure deterioration.

i note there is no seismic joint. the alternate 2 adds a seismic joint and alternative 3 the spider frame we put in new piles and girders is a more viable alternative due to the existing deterioration here. and this type of investment we would look to ensure that it is jackable for future sea level rise. we could build upon. the next project is here. the ferry building sea wall and substructure earthquake reliability project. the iconic ferry building restore in the 2003. supported bite upon original 127 year old sea wall and substructure. the centers of public activity and transit on the embarcadero. ferry birth and staging areas and are critical for disaster

response. matt mentioned the exercise early. that exercise pointed to this area as the most critical spot on the embarcadero. it has high sea wall quake risk. thick bay muds impacts safety and disaster response capability being able to use the birthless. and high sea level rise risk in this area. former yerba buena cove settled more than 2 feet and we have a separate project dealing with sea level rise. or ocjectives strengthen the subinstruct of the sea wall and ferry building. provide reliable earthquake disaster response for feref birth and staging areas strength then the city with you and surrounding structuresil focus reliable performance thap is key with first responders don't want to worry they can't come and use this area after an earthquake.

we want to take advantage of opportunity improve water side public realm. reliability of utility services and the near term flood defenses. we want to minimize construction impactless stot area that it is act and i have coming become from covid. and we need to focus on the long-term plan here. and consider the initial investments as steps on that path. >> this the ferry building area is the most complex areas of the waterfront to improve. this shows the structures when they were built. well is handled foot thick bay muds here. the structures date from 1889. the 240 foot tall clock tower sits on the sea wall and the bart tunnel under the building over there.

substantial investment is realist likely need here to achieve our performance objective in a quake that reliable earthquake performance. and the teams developed a seismic measure tool kit. over 20 measures. combined them in 8 draft project alternatives. that range from small to very large types of investments. and we really need to move into detailed state of the art engineering analysis to inform which are nev.eded unlook those performance objectives. moving on to the next project. it is the pier 5-22 and a half coastal flood risk reduction project. known as yerba buena cove. this is where the original shore line went far back almost to the

transamerica pyramid. the most at risk segment of the embarcadero for sea level rise. portions over top during tides today salt water is damage the promenade and railings. without action soon rise is projected cause regular shut downs and flood damage including municipal and he barts under ground system and muni portal is at the edge of the 1 huh human year flood today and that area is flat. due to thick bay muds here quake stability of the sea wall is a longer term goal. our objectives to reduce that flood risk to the transit corridor part and municipal and he historic resources the longer term strategies are developed for the area. we need to bvenls the flood risk reduction with the large are

adaptation moves and the near term investment what is is the right level of investment? maintain high quality public realm. fix flood damage and explore habitat enhancements including the living sea wall the pilot is under way for now. we are look to partner with sfpuc to include the storm water management necessary as we raise the coastal defense. bart is also a partner on this project. and we need to consider the deteriorated conditions and investments. i note this project we think is an excellent project for a fema brick opportunity and looking at potentially submit thanksgiving in this go around. the project is a long stretch. and the zone from pearce 5

through 1 there is more time. the zone around the ferry building we think we need to cocoordinate with the seismic project we will not have 2 construction projects we are having one project here. and zone 3 just south of the ferry building ag building is the most at risk that may be our first priority. and the pier 24 and a half to 28 and a half wall and wharf safety retrofit project this is 900 foot stretch of wharfs and pearce a tall wall. wall and wharf support much of the prom in the there are better soils here and lower quake lateral spreading hazzard which is good. about you there are high quake risks due to the structure

vulnerabilities in the tall wall. flood risk is e merging this area is higher because of the better soils. yet bridge was built there. objectives improve earthquake safety in the bulk head zone and moll prom nod using risk collapse. contract age and rehab needs the structures are in pretty advanced age and deteriorated conditions. we need to include simple retrofits that prevent the collapse. along with full replace am alternatives and the full replace am we need to be adapt okay for sea level rise. and we need to consider utility needs in pearce 3022 and 38 and 40 projects. alternatives include simple retrofits to replacements. and then alternative 4 is

reenforcing the bulk head wall in a significant way it is more expensive. if our liven of defense is here this is the type of thing that statute future we can build on and might have syrias with pearce 3232 and 38 and 40. that thanks for stick with me. next steps advance the projects to alternative analysis we are focusod construction in 20s 24 from one of the projects. we will continue it coordinate predesign with the development of strategies you will hear about next month. and we seek additional funding opportunity to advance more

embarcadero projects we identified more than we have funding. we are hopeful about the fema brick opportunity this year. and we will be back up to the commission regular low on our progress. with that, i conclude and available for questions. thank you. >> thank you. mike. great report on all the work that has been doneful 94 open up for public comment is there public comment we have diane walton >> diane? i'm diane walon here on behalf of the dolphin club to express gratitude for if you ever to mike martin for oaf opening our eyes to the work that you are

doing and the piece that we might play in it. and this diane for the follow up w she has been doing with us. on the waterfront plan. we were so interested in being as swim and rowers and paddlers and in water recreation users, we are interested in more visibility in your plan and a bit more responsibility toward it. we talked to diane and others about participating more in your advisory committees. we talked to her about interests in the impact of the work and wanting the plan to serve as a head's up so people who want to do projects know we are out there in the water. so thank you for everything you have done and we are sticking with you. >> thank you. >> thank you. was that on 11a? 10. >> save those for the next item

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others wait on mute until their line is open. comments will be limited to 3 minutes per person. the queue is open. please dial star 3 if you wish to make public comment. there are no members wish to make public comment y. thank you. public comment is closed. >> good luck. >> [laughter]. >> i listened to as a kid -- on saturdays and sunday's but this time in the afternoon story of san francisco when the i forget when the waterfront came up to montgomery street. everything from montgomery toward the bay is built on something. i guess it is too early one task will be to prioritize either what is the quickest or easiest or least expensive how are you

going to deal with this. >> i know it is time for -- for -- another meeting. and possibly another commission. but it just seems for the one better we are almost on shaky grounds. you are right. it is a massive problem. the fill. the aging. piers and wharfs and way they were built are embarcadero multihazzard risk assess am gave us a great foundation of knowledge, what the risk is. for how to move ahead. we did initial evaluation of seismic measures and found out there is no easy fix this is no quick and easy fixes that lead

us to the embarcadero early projects and we revealed last december. the same time with sea level rise coming, we are recognizing that monumental change is needed and so we are pursuing that as well. and so we are in a multipronged effort. it it is encouraging that we are developing solutions. and we think we can implement soon that make a real difference. this is a start. >> and you just one other thing i don't know the relevance but could we tie in what we are doing with the city and i guess the permits they issue on in the planning department that -- they out to be leary of -- with approving arc lots of the stuff

it has been approved going up to the sky that -- somehow they are going again in not the use [inaudible] [inaudible] what we are doing can show them they are on shaky grounds if they keep building permitting whether tall medium size or stuff off the bridge. and you know i'm an old man i will be gone bite time it scarce the hell out of me. we are trying to protect this part in the meantime the city might be approving projects that can lead to making this more difficult. and more hazardous and i don't know whether we talk to them or they care with we say. i see it -- a potential the higher stuff gets close to the bay -- the more i'm happy i'm on

rock at per potrero hill. we are focused on the waterfront i can't comment off the water upon front. we shared our data with part ins for that have infrastructure in this area. and -- one of the key messages is that in a big quake the embarcadero corridor will be necessary to get around because streets downtown will be closed or potentially. >> i know that -- we can't -- are we air thanksgiving information with the city planning department? just so they know and may be some of them don't realize there is a lot of mud down there and like i say, i mean i remember

since i'm 15 years old with the water came up to montgomery street when i see this stuff that is approved by the city, i think that is great business great view but all of the sudden at some point when we do impacts them more importantly because we got control over stuff. but what they do in -- you know as it impact us and i know we can't do anything. i think it is nice sometimes the city agenciless talk to each other and say -- here is when we found here in if you given thought that is all because you know god willing nothing bad will happen. but he or she operates in weird ways. thank you madam chair >> if i'm not mistaken we have a city wide working group.

>> we do. >> the collaboration with the city families is encouraging. >> commissioner gilman thank you for this report. i have questions around next steps. so -- going back to the commissioner burton mentioned how will you make decisions, let's go back to wharf judiciarying 9 as an example. how would you make a determination between 1-5 of which one we would execute on in that gets develops during alternative analysis. the next phase. we develop the project objectives and those are -- what form a basis of decisionmaking on the project and well is the water fronts wide resilience program lens looking at

distributing funding from bond a and other sources and so those 2 will play a role in the selection of the alternative and whether or not there is a recommendation to move to details design and construction that is to come later. >> okay. and you probably have and i apologize i don't remember this work is so important and detail and you had are living and every day and we get a look at the commission. it would be great tondz what the factors are. i mean because i'm use thanksgiving one the most alternatives listed in, i use this as the example. there is a difference with giving work j and doing judiciarying 9 and jefferson i

hope that cost is one factor and the long game of if we don't use soma and jefferson you may have to come back 20 years from now. i hope that is part of the cost benefit analysis you do. >> exactly. we identify jefferson in the piece of sea wall. those will need victim whether this is the right time or not that is a question. >> okay you use that methodology for all the ones you showed us. >> yes. >> okay. >> and my other question, which you may not be able to answer i was curious. why wasn't i'm surprised the aim of work at the ferry building and this stretch the embarcadero why was that not part of the

retrofit in 03? much more about seismic and earth quaiching risks. part of the challenge is we are on shaky grounds on filled lands. as we understood we needed to adopt to sea level rise you need stable foundation to do so this work is a revealing typology of the young bay mud and the fill and how tell responds in a quake that is far above and beyond. this is pier one and a lots of investments along the water front that responded to the seismic code at the time and deengineering but this is a much more complex understanding of how the soils will perform. that we performed in order to target investments for safety and to figure out our plans to adopt to sea level rise.

i think summed it up well. >> and -- thank you i really appreciate that and shows much can shift in 20 years special understanding. why i appreciate the forward thinking. for what 20 years from now after we evaluate all the funds and dot protects another commission here will you know hopefully not be ring their handles that we did not do more. my other question about the ferry building work is this solely00 eye public investment or does our lease holder 25 years more on their lease. are they a private partner on solving this problem and putting funds toward it? >> too stoon answer that question. ferry building lease has a long tail.

i don't know if i think in the 30 year frame. lower. you were right in your answer. many of the projects are just far above and beyond in cost than what our private partners can pay. our fer building partner is reimbursing for the infrastructure this went in to make thanksgiving rehab happen. and we are looking at way in which we can leverage lease amendments as a way to improve and invest in part of the project. it would be a part. if we are able to do so. limited partner is other opportunity with longer term lose like pier 39 we are engage in the conversation busy how the lease amendment and investment plans fit in to our resilience program temperature is a strategy and thank you for bringing up that issue.

>> the ferry bodiesing have been a good partner to us. they retained engineering expertise which are hard discussions to have. and so we are talk with them. they will have to play a part with us in collaborating on what we do and we have an idea what the dollars and numbers are that is when that conversation come in play and what goals are. do they have ambitions to with the ferry building the next gent raying of their life. they have worked with us on this and this is not sort of us dropping news on them. i think it has been a good collaboration and hope it continuous y. thank you. no means i think it would be all on our private partner. i do want to promote because the dollar amount and cost for the public from a public perspective is tlarj if there are ways to do partnerships to ecpel indict

this work. i think we should be pursuing every opportunity. thank you so much. absolutely. ipment to add it is an important comment. this program is costly and will take a long time to deliver we can't rely on general obligation bonds or federal partnerships and state funding. we need to look at public/private partnerships with leases to share in the fareway of the costs. this is part offer strategy but we need to continue to build that out to see how we will forward this work. working with us where you [inaudible] >> they have engineering working

together with us and collaboration review meetings. they helped in documentation. their engineers are aware of what ours are finding and they are providing -- basically -- can say have you thought of this or looked at that aspect. >> yes. i node to be specific. they are working from hudson pacific's perspective they have hudson pacific interests in minds. upon our consultants and staff work on the port and public perspective on this. >> i understand that. and not surprisingly i might have forgot. is there a consideration and a form of legislatedor i don't

like it but as far as the ferry building in attentives itself, take a look at the possibility of revenue bonds? because there is a source of ref mule all that does is arc void a public vote. in probably cost a bit more but sometimes i seen it work to the advantage and other times not. i'm throwing that out. thank you madam chair yoochl thank you. >> thank you. >> i have one more thing it was in the in the report. once we witsdz down the projects and don't have 5 iterations we will be taking them to the public and groups to weigh in and get feedback. >> yes. >> yes. >> thank you very much. our public engagement has been consistents throughout the program. we have been engaged regularly and this next week there is a

walking tour in the area to talk about the early projectless. >> wonderful thank you so much >> commissioner burton. >> do you want to say something. >> no. >> commissioner lee. what did i get myself into? the comments i have is when you all the assessments take time and being in business time kills you. 100 million may be 120 million when you are red to go. we have to think about not just that target but above that and get extra however we raise it. and the thing can when i think about prioritizing i was had a business downtown under the transamerica pyramid in the 89

earthquake and saw the windows and the bridge broken and people rushing to the port to get home to ferry service and taxi and i would think the priority within the next years would be to make sure the terminals are working. rather than fixing somewhere down by jefferson street. if we have money and the nonprofits or all the public will care about the ports the row and everybody. can talk to their state legislator and say, look. we need more money. or their federal partners and fema or something. because i found that there was a lot of stranded people in 89. and if we focus on making sure that this part here is standing. most important. so that's the comment i have this is huge and i will do when i can it call people but --

[inaudible]. we will have a funds raiser. >> thank you commissioner lee your experience in 89 is what was reconfirm in the our disaster response exercise, focused in on this area. and they prioritized reliability high reliability. they don't want to worry. they want to come here and use the ferry system, bring in first respond and move people out. >> exactly. >> yea. >> bart shut down. everybody shut down that day. it was -- interesting day. >> steven, thank you again for the report a lot of work has been done special we have come a long way and i think the commissioners asked great questions and made great

statement. i'm wondering when do we get to the point where we prioritize? when do we get to the point we decide where we will spends the funds first? you will be doing that within the next year. and so -- within the next we're all of the need's assessments will be complete? not all. we have more than we can afford. and we are looking at opportunity to bring in additional funding and so we are looking to what we can leverage what opportunity. we need to move major. bond a projects forward soon. and so we will make those decisions in the next year. and as you see next month the adapttation strategies the birth picture and the army are flood study all play a role in that decisionmaking.

so as far as the commission is concerned? when will we be at a point where you will get our input in when we think is a priority? after all of the assessment done on these -- we have 23 early project identified and evaluated? of those 23, we are doing need's assessments on 12? we have 12 in december those are specific to bond a. those are the ones we focus on now. >> yes but we are awfuls -- strategy is to bring projects forward that can advance quickly. prior to completing all the assess am reports and making another step we target projects that can get in the grounds and get built and start buying down

risks. those other projects you told us about today. they are ready and may be able to start construction in 2024? i heard something we may start in 2024? >> yes. it is likely that 2024 project will come from one of these 6 or multiple of the 6. that's nots the only bonds day projects. >> i will restate what you said and see if i can -- in response to your question, what staff is proposing they identified the 23 projects. 12 of which we are advancing to early design construction. they further witsdz down to the 6 you see today as the places where we may be able to make early investment in critical areas. the commission will be looking at the various alternatives and

how to move forward on the project and will be prioritize being funding before we move through the board of supervisors, et cetera the allocation of funds. within a year, steven says, we will be back. we'll be back on the sick project and making fine tune recommendations on prioritization. what steven is also saying, we will not have a broad view of the 23 or the 12 at that point. so -- the team is -- biting off the bite sized pieces that can be accomplished move toward construction to get this risk in the early as possible for voters under prop a >> thank you. i appreciate that. i look forward to you coming back went next year so we can see what the alternatives are and what funding you have in

that time. [laughter]. thank you. >> carl next item. >> item 11 arc informational presentation on proposed revisions to the draft waterfront plan for public review. >> good afternoon vice president brandon and port commissioners, director forbes and welcome commissioner lee. this is the first time i'm meeting you i'm diane i was the manager for the planning and environment division i'm working on a part time basis now. on the waterfront plan project. i'm happy to be here today. this presentation will be about draft changes to the waterfront

plan. the time line for where we are going on decision make. give you background on the press that was the public press that was gone through for developing the plan. and a public comment period for the proposed revisions for the public to review and submit comments by october first. and the next steps that follow this work. so -- the draft water 41 plan is the per's master plan for the land use and improvements of all of the port's properties along the upon 7 and a half mile from the wharf to india basis. response to a proposition approved over 20 years ago. and in 1997 there was a master plan adopted then. the port in 2016, created a

public process to do an update of the draft plan. and that was work was lead by a water front plan working group that met for 3 years developed recommendations that were endorsed by the port commission and in december of 2019. and so that draft waterfront plan really set the framework for what the public's expectations and values about how they would like it see the port waterfront improved overnight long run. the goals and policies in the draft waterfront floon provide that direction to the commission and the port staff. before the port commission can approve this plan, it has to go through an environmental review process under the california environmental qualm act, ceqa. a draft environmental impact report prepare exclude that

process is coming to a close toward the end of this year. that process that eir process must be completed before the port commission can consider the approval of the draft waterfront plan. and because it was 2019 at the end of 2019 when the working group produced all of the recommendations and the commission endorsed the plan, we wanted to make sure that we took a look to make any updates in information in the plan now so that we can share it with the commission and the public before the commission is asked in the future to approve a final waterfront mravenl we need to complete that ceqa process. using this time to make those revisions to the plan. as the staff report reflects, we

did a wholesale scrub through the entire plan. and -- all of the proposed revisions the staff identified now is available on a link on the port's website. public notice gone out to all of our committees and citizens. so that they have an opportunity to review temperature it is vomit ummous a lot is technical and informational the staff report we tried to disstill of all of the revisions. what other ones that affect the policies in the draft plan? and that is in attachment arc of your port commission staff report. and of those policies, many of them are gram grammatical changes.

we would most likely have the mostful intm for the commission and the public. and those are listed in table one of your port staff report. we tried to create layers to navigate through the issues that would be of create interest to facilitate public review and comment by october first. in terms of the just general scope of the plan revision, i think it is important for the public as well as the port to know that the work the waterfront plan working group did to update the plan gave a lot of direction, it is great to review all of the resilience reports that have been received

this afternoon. from 2016 to 2019, we did not have a water 41 resilience program as we know it today. the public was concerned about resilience, climate change, sea level rise. so this plan does have goals and policy about resilience and environmental sustainability, equity was a big issue that the publicmented make sure that all of the opportunity and benefits on the waterfront supported equal opportunities n. that regard the plan set a framework of values and objectives and expectations for port. which now have grown to be the more pro robust work that you have proceed today on the resilience program. racial equity action plan and

the port strategic plan. and it is important for us to be able to community to the public that the water front plan and the strategic plan the racial equity action plan and the water front resilience program have a strategic relationship and alignment with each other. so many of the revisions in the draft water 41 plan now are too recognize and call out the waterfront resilience program the action plan. really plain that relationship with the port commission strategic plan. that is pepped throughout the document. there is a lot of background information in the water front plan that needed to be updated. some have been completed already or statses changed and resulted in revisions. hired and works with a technical editor that did a scrub through

the plan. a lot of technical terms and complications that we wanted to get out of the plan to simplify it and make it easy to read and understand as possibility and that resulted in a lot of finds grain changes not substantive in nature in policy but it it is for readability and understandability and we have been working deeply with public comments from the dolphin club and south end rowing club. dmam with public comments. and then we followedum to in the process still of work through a very comprehensive review they have done of the plan and made requests for revisions to the plan some are included in the staff report here. some of them we are still in

discussion with and i amount there will be additional plan revisions that will result from those conversations. as diane walton expressed earlier this afternoon, big focus is to highlight the fact that they are here and they have been here for a long time. each of the clubs have a hundred year history in san francisco. and the growth and the popularity of water recreation use in bay weather for swimming or rowing, nonmotorized vessel activity. and the upon importance of making sure that our maritime operations and all of those in bay water recreation activities are managed responsibly to protect safety and enjoy am of

the bay. to protect water quality and health of people who enjoy the bay for their recreation. and as diane reflected to include the water recreation community in the resilience discussions that we are having and will continue to have over the long run. so again we have taken our first cut at revisions to incorporate in the plan and would come back to you with additional changes. beyond the swim and rowing club comments, just to give you a snapshot of the revisions that are in the documents that are available to the public. are -- just new information. we had a pandemic. you know we did not have one as of december of 2019. we had to include references on

that. there is backgrounds information that come to the floor that we wanted to note in the revisions. we have gone through the policies and since the draft plan has been in accomplice we had a chance to apply the public values and the work that the port is doing and we seen places where the policy statements can be tightened and up made more clear. so we included those revisions. we have also deleted some policies some have been implemented already or some of the language was upon duplicated. we wanted torous that duplication and deleted a few policies in the process. you know there is a lot of other details and we are inviting the public as well as the commission members to contact me and we can have more detailed follow up as

needed. so in terms of next steps, as i mentioned we will work with the dolphin and south ends rowing clubs on reviewing their planned revision comments. and in providing all of this information to the general public we will be also check to see what other comments and questions between now and october first. and then we will gather all of those additional change and come to the port commission with a follow up briefing to report out any further changes because ultimately these changes to the plan would be proposed to be rolled in a proposed final water front plan. we want to make sure that the commission has a good handle in understanding of all of that. we are working closely with the san francisco planning

department to complete the ceqa review and the eir. we are coordinating all of the plan revisions with them so that we make sure there are not ceqa issues that are unaddressed. and we are also work with the planning department in terms of conforming amendments the changes to the waterfront plan will be arc lined with the city's policies as they pertain to the water front as well as with bcdc and san front waterfront special area plan. it is important for the city, port and bcd crux to have consistent policies to support our work and facilitate improvements over the long run. >> with that, that is kinds of it in a nut shell and i'm happy to answer questions. thank you. >> thank you, diane. >> is there public comment in the room.

there is. diane. did you want it speak again are you good. >> i'm good. >> [laughter]. >> thank you. pia? >> yes. hello, everybody. i was a member of the waterfront plan advisory group through the meetings and worked with diane and i'm a lifetime dolphin club member. i wanted to express my gratitude to diane for working with us the open water swimming recreation community has grown in san francisco overnight last 30 years. we are a global destination for training for all kindses of e lite athlete who do water sports whether sailing, marathon swimming, rowing. paddling. everything. so -- we made a lot of progress

with diane and we are looking forward to working for some further tweaking of language and revision to bring the water in the waterfront plan. and help educate the port and -- really our neighbors on the waterfront about how much use is going on in the water. because we are swim and rowers are low and human powered water craft. we think it is not as much awareness how much activity there and vulnerable we worry an increased maritime commercial traffic. wanted to say, thank you. >> thank you. >> i'm president of the south end rowing club w with diane and

pia and a group of people to amend the water front plan as described. i wanted to also express my appreciation to diane who has been extraordinary in reaching out and addressing our concerns. and imented make all of you aware that the 2 clubs that are here represent 4,000 people together. we have rower, swimmers, runners, but spends time on the water. we are regular regular low out on the water fronts. what happens on the land has a great dealt to do with what happens on the water in terms of access and our ability to swims whether along it is city front or from al catraz it affects pollution and traffic. these water sports are a part of san francisco's history and

heritage temperature is an important piece of recreation and attraction. we have lots of commercial swims. it draws people down and through the wharf when they come to visit to do swims as well as our regular community here. it is a big communities. an active community and not always visible. we wanted to come today to make you aware special thank diane. and to ask for your continued support as we make sure the waterfront plan you all are stewarding reflects this important piece of san francisco. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. any other comments from the room? instructions now for remote participates. >> thank you vice president brandon. at this time we will open the queue for anyone on the phone

withhold like to make public comment on item 11a dial star 3 if you wish to comment the system will let you know when your line is open. comments will be limited to 3 minutes per person the queue is open. dial star 3 if you wish to comment. dollar are no members on the phone wish to make public comment. why thank you. public comment is closed. commissioner lee. >> part of the reason i wanted be on port was because of of all the activities in the historic factor of the port. and this plan that you are putting together i'm looking forward for final because by i'm more of a promoter. right. this is an action plan that will

help me may be help you and the public to to promote the port and be an inclusive more activity had there is more at the port the tenants will make money. i really glad this is coming it has taken arc while; right ? i can't wait until october first. and helpure a lot of the sections you know that have ideas. congratulations on this and exactly what i'm looking for. thank you. >> thank you. commissioner burton? yea. what i'm taken by is the last presentation. that would seem to me in my

[inaudible] except the equity part. and the dolphins and swimming. it -- a lot of it is premature because of everything that was talked about premature in -- when they did to my [inaudible] when i was a kid they had a big park swim. a swim that gave out a [inaudible] it had may be not national but state but they swam freshman aquatic park and back and one of my i don't know if he is a teacher but a one legged guy. who swam from the park out there

and back and you know on his one leg. so -- i think that part is there but i don't know how we make any long distance plan when when just talked about will kinds of it seems like it is premature for or should be melded in and i don't think when this plan had its inception that anybody was thinking about all of that use it redevelopment or development on the water front. that's me as an outside guy who can hardly swim make that comment but -- i was a big fan of the aquatic swim my buddy swam it and won it and if you can think of the one legged

person doing it and back and -- amazing. that was just i was 12 years old ted. can you comment on how plan will be [inaudible] and all of the sudden -- well is a 5, 10 and 15 year plan [inaudible]. i don't know. >> it is a good point. commissioner burton. clearly, sea level rise and all of the work that the resilience program team is doing will introduce choices and new opportunities. but there was a hahn off. it was not as though the public or the commission did in the know that sea levels were rising when we were updating the

waterfront plan and in fact prospect arc the bond measure for the embarcadero sea wall passed during the time we were updating the plan. people were very focused on the vulnerabilities and the need for adapttation. we also knew we will not identify specific out come or solutions part of this waterfront plan process because there was going to be a lot of work that was going to be required. which is what you are seeing through all of the presentations you received today. but to do adaptation is a chick spent egg thing. there are values and connection this is people have with this water front and this public water front. the ferry building the swim clubs. there are different things that people really value and the waterfront plan really expresses what are the public values that

make the san francisco water front spchlt and those are markers that the planning teams have been use when they go out to the public to start talking to people about how we should approach adaptation of the san francisco waterfront, they have started with questions like what do you like about the waterfront? what is important to you about what we should be retaining or improving. and a lot of those ideas are expressed in the waterfront plan. so -- yes, over the long run maen may be there will have to be course correction changes in the plan. but the ferry building that is express said as an important resource in the waterfront plan, which was handed off to the resilience planning then they talked about more details about resilience on the ferry build and what would be nodeed save it

and the public's response may be we value the ferry building even though it is a complicated under take to try to adapt it for sea level or seismic. there is still support for the port to continue to invest in the ferry is so important it san francisco and the region. . the plan gives direction to be able to have the public conversations. to infurthermore how we direct dollars and improvements. and if there are new ideas that come up in the planning that are not in the waterfront plan that would be a moment that we valid to revisit the waterfront plan and update it. i don'ts money it negatively the plan is a wish list? seems likes to me. >> not in a bad way.

>> how would you like the water front to be. >> i mean it is a set of public desires and objectives or needs. and whether we are able to reach all of those is really a product of all of us working together. okay. thank you i wanted to i get it that's great >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. commissioner gilman. >> diane thank you. and it is a pleasure. just to have you reporting to us and e approximately for this project. it is close to your heart. i wanted acknowledge that in the what we saw already it is a work

in progress page 14 we incorporated feedback. from our partners and i appreciate that we will over lay the strategy plan better equity flan is a general comment not to you and to the public. i would hope, too. with the equity plan that we launch you know before the pandemic in a lot of wayings we incorporate that. ooem not familiar with out reach or programming. i'm sure it exists with the dolph and i know rowing club with people to get them active. and communities of color. along the water front. but i hope that incorporates the per ins share our values and and goals making inclusive for everyone >> absolutely. >> thank you. >> thank you.

>> diane it it is always wonderful to see you. and will you are being modest when you say, i just come become for a little while. >> [laughter] we would not have a waterfront plan without diane. she has been engaged since the inception of the working group that took 6 dwreers prowse our first waterfront land use plan now to be back and help with the revisions, thank you. we appreciate you. port cannot do this without you. >> what role did the working group am have in the revisions or seeing the revisions? >> they have pretty much disunderstand baed their work their job was to produce the policy recommendations. which the port commission

basically endorsed all of them. and that was a happy ending for their work. but they have been notified about the revisions because they are the authors of this waterfront plan we will have to make sure they know that we are making the changes and the reasons why and if there are things we can do to improve upon that effort than we want to make take advantage. >> especially the ones that are changing the policies. that nay broke. >> so -- i'm upon hoping that we can keep them engage exclude make sure that if there are any concerns or -- positive out come to let us know. >> because they are valuable on this process. >> and again we being not have done it without them. >> absolutely. >> they are our best ambas doors

are there other policies and it is inclusion of other things and making sure we take in consideration our swimming clubs and aquatics. are there policy revisions you think to bring to our attention? you know i think that the revisions in table one are the ones that the most noteworthy. a couple that affect the embarcadero historic district which were noting trying to change the content the language of the policy as first written was not all that clear when we work the with the editor. it was ambiguous. the intention is in the to change the purpose of the policy but because there was so much focus on what we should do to try to rehab emg bark defer over district piers. we want to make sure people knew the policies were being changed.

the other policy that i would point out. again on table 1 relates to the community engagement policies. some were carve said out for southern waterfront only in terms how we share and present project information with it is southern advisory committee. i will see i will tell what you page that is on to help you out here. page 13. the bottom of page 13 and that table. there was a carve out for this is hayou do to take projects to the southern advisory committee. we thought that those rules should be applied to our committees to the northern as well as the southern. we took those principles and put them at the top which is this is how we will engage all of our

committees whether in the north or south and therefore, we deleted the 1 as a southern waterfront only policy. we wanted to elevate temperature >> thank you. >> great. so i think you know i could goom and on i don't think you want me to do that. i was not sure if there were something that you thought that we really needed to focus on. thank you. >> it seems like a lot are minor just -- yea yoochl if you took the time to go through it it is tedious. most of it is trying to make it tight and clear for the lay public. >> thank you. any other questions? no. >> thank you. >> thank you diane. item 12 new business. >> is there new business?

i done hear any. >> a quick. the sent out communications sthing that carl sent me. i don't know what, i did not get in the -- are they going to be savvy on the socialing media ends? more than traditional and trying to go more mainstream on the on that job description? skwoo thank you. commissioner lee for the question. for everyone's understanding, commissioner lee asking about our communication director sxaefrp out reach. which we are getting out as broadly as possible. an important position. and yes, the media and the technical digital age is part of it. we had staff now very, very good at that world. her name is kelly.

we are going to be looking broodly and looking for ways to community in the modern in our current -- >> great. >> especially -- the new policy or the goals you know. i think a lot would be interested like you said nobody knew about it before. so. think it is time to change that. >> thank you. >> any other new business. >> if not a motion to adjourn? >> i move we adjourn. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> any opposed. >> we are adjourned the 4:36 p.m.

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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 others to really keep our industry top of mind.

we closed down on march 13 of 2020 when we heard that there was an order to do so by the mayor, and we had to call that show in the middle of the night. they were in the middle of their sound check, and i had to call the venue and say, we need to cancel the show tonight. >> the fund is for our live music and entertainment venues, and in its first round, it will offer grants of at least $10,000 to qualifying venues. these are venues that offer a signature amount of live entertainment programming before the pandemic and are committed to reopening and offering live entertainment spaces after the pandemic. >> it's going to, you know,

just stave off the bleeding for a moment. it's the city contributing to helping make sure these venues are around, to continue to be part of the economic recovery for our city. >> when you think about the venues for events in the city, we're talking about all of them. some have been able to come back adaptively over the last year and have been able to be shape shifters in this pandemic, and that's exciting to see, but i'm really looking forward to the day when events and venues can reopen and help drive the recovery here in san francisco. >> they have done a study that says for every dollar of ticket sales done in this city, $12 goes to neighboring businesses. from all of our vendors to the restaurants that are next to our ven sues and just so many other things that you can think

of, all of which have been so negatively affected by covid. for this industry to fail is unthinkable on so many levels. it's unheard of, like, san francisco without its music scene would be a terribly dismal place. >> i don't know that this needs to be arrest -- that there needs to be art welfare for artists. we just need to live and pay for our food, and things will take care of themselves. i think that that's not the given situation. what san francisco could do that they don't seem to do very much is really do something to support these clubs and venues that have all of these different artists performing in them. actually, i think precovid, it was, you know, don't have a warehouse party and don't do a gig. don't go outside, and don't do

this. there was a lot of don't, don't, don't, and after the pandemic, they realized we're a big industry, and we bring a lot of money into this city, so they need to encourage and hope these venues. and then, you know, as far as people like me, it would be nice if you didn't only get encouraged for only singing opera or playing violin. [♪♪♪] >> entertainment is a huge part of what is going to make this city bounce back, and we're going to need to have live music coming back, and comedy, and drag shows and everything under the sun that is fun and creative in order to get smiles back on our faces and in order to get the city moving again. [♪♪♪] >> venues serve a really vital

function in society. there aren't many places where people from any walk of life, race, religion, sexuality can come together in the same room and experience joy, right? experience love, experience anything that what makes us human, community, our connective tissues between different souls. if we were to lose this, lose this situation, you're going to lose this very vital piece of society, and just coming out of the pandemic, you know, it's going to help us recover socially? well, yeah, because we need to be in the same room with a bunch of people, and then help people across the country recover financially. >> san francisco art recovery fund, amazing. it opened yesterday on april 21. applications are open through may 5. we're encouraging everyone in the coalition to apply.

there's very clear information on what's eligible, but that's basically been what our coalition has been advocating for from the beginning. you know, everyone's been supportive, and they've all been hugely integral to this program getting off the ground. you know, we found our champion with supervisor matt haney from district six who introduced this legislation and pushed this into law. mayor breed dedicated $1.5 million this fund, and then supervisor haney matched that, so there's $3 million in this fund. this is a huge moment for our coalition. it's what we've been fighting for all along. >> one of the challenges of our business is staying on top of all the opportunities as they come back. at the office of oewd, office of economic and workforce

development, if you need to speak to somebody, you can find people who can help you navigate any of the available programs and resources. >> a lot of blind optimism has kept us afloat, you know, and there's been a lot of reason for despair, but this is what keeps me in the business, and this is what keeps me fighting, you know, and continuing to advocate, is that we need this and this is part of our life's blood as much as oxygen and food is. don't lose heart. look at there for all the various grants that are available to you. some of them might be very slow to unrao, and it might seem like too -- unroll, and it might seem like it's too late, but people are going to fight to keep their beloved venues open, and as a band, you're going to be okay. [♪♪♪]

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and through the small business development center. i thought they were going to be perfect candidate because of their strong values in the community. they really give back to the neighborhood. they are from this neighborhood, and they care about the kids in the community here. >> when molly -- molly first told us about the grant because she works with small businesses. she has been a tremendous help for us here. she brought us to the attention of the grand just because a lot of things here were outdated, and need to be up-to-date and redone totally. >> hands in front. recite the creed. >> my oldest is jt, he is seven, and my youngest is ryan, he is almost six. it instills discipline and the boys, but they show a lot of care. we think it is great. the moves are fantastic. the women both are great teachers.

>> what is the next one? >> my son goes to fd k. he has been attending for about two years now. they also have a summer program, and last summer was our first year participating in it. they took the kids everywhere around san francisco. this year, owner talking about placing them in summer camps, all he wanted to do was spend the entire summer with them. >> he has strong women in his life, so he really appreciates it. i think that carries through and i appreciate the fact that there are more strong women in the world like that. >> i met d'andrea 25 years ago, and we met through our interest in karate. our professor started on cortland years ago, so we grew up here at this location, we out -- he outgrew the space and he moved ten years later.

he decided to reopen this location after he moved. initially, i came back to say, hey, because it might have been 15 years since i even put on a uniform. my business partner was here basically by herself, and the person she was supposed to run the studio with said great, you are here, i started new -- nursing school so you can take over. and she said wait, that is not what i am here for i was by myself before -- for a month before she came through. she was technically here as a secretary, but we insisted, just put on the uniform, and help her teach. i was struggling a little bit. and she has been here. one thing led to another and now we are co-owners. you think a lot more about safety after having children and i wanted to not live in fear so much, and so i just took advantage of the opportunity, and i found it very powerful to hit something, to get some

relief, but also having the knowledge one you might be in a situation of how to take care of yourself. >> the self-defence class is a new thing that we are doing. we started with a group of women last year as a trial run to see how it felt. there's a difference between self-defence and doing a karate class. we didn't want them to do an actual karate class. we wanted to learn the fundamentals of how to defend yourself versus, you know, going through all the forms and techniques that we teaching a karate class and how to break that down. then i was approached by my old high school. one -- once a semester, the kids get to pick an extra curricular activity to take outside of the school walls. my old biology teacher is now the principle. she approached us into doing a self-defence class. the girls have been really proactive and really sweet. they step out of of the comfort zone, but they have been willing

to step out and that hasn't been any pushback. it is really great. >> it is respect. you have to learn it. when we first came in, they knew us as those girls. they didn't know who we were. finally, we came enough for them to realize, okay, they are in the business now. it took a while for us to gain that respect from our peers, our male peers. >> since receiving the grant, it has ignited us even more, and put a fire underneath our butts even more. >> we were doing our summer camp and we are in a movie theatre, and we just finished watching a film and she stepped out to receive a phone call. she came in and she screamed, hey, we got the grant. and i said what? >> martial arts is a passion for us. it is passion driven. there are days where we are dead tired and the kids come and they have the biggest smiles on their faces and it is contagious. >> we have been operating this

program for a little over a year all women entrepreneurs. it is an extraordinary benefit for us. we have had the mayor's office investing in our program so we can continue doing this work. it has been so impactful across a diversity of communities throughout the city. >> we hope that we are making some type of impact in these kids' lives outside of just learning karate. having self-confidence, having discipline, learning to know when it's okay to stand up for yourself versus you just being a bully in school. these are the values we want the kids to take away from this. not just, i learned how to kick and i learned how to punch. we want the kids to have more values when they walk outside of these doors. [♪♪♪]

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