>> [roll call] >> the san francisco port commission acknowledges we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. item 2, approval of minutes for may 9, 2023 port commission meeting. >> so move. >> second. >> we have a motion

and a second. all in favor? >> aye. >> the motion passes unanimously. the minutes of the may 9, 2023 meeting are now adopted. >> item 3 is pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> item 4 is announcements. please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones and similar sound producing electronic devices are prohibited at the meeting. a member of the public has up to 3 minutes to make comment. public comment must be respect in the current agenda

item. the commission will take in-person and remote public comment beginning with those in person. for remote public comment, dial 1-415-655-0001. enter access code, 25935940240, pound, pound, then dial star 3 to raise your hand to comment. if you are watching the meeting on sfgovtv there is a short delay. please dial when the item is announced. mute your device and listen to the meeting from the telephone with no delay. item 5 is public comment on items not listed on the agenda. >> thank you. we will now take public comment on items not listed on the agenda and i have speaker cards. evan

mclaughlin. >> good afternoon. my name is evan with (indiscernible) here today we wanted to provide the commissioners with an update on the ongoing negotiations between the boatman union and alcatraz cruises and ask port commission for continued support as we try to get a fair contract here. we had significant issues with delays from the company over the past few months. i believe the last time we were here, we informed the commission that we had a nearly 2 month gap between when the employer told us they were able to sit down and meet for negotiations. thateneded up being a gap of 52 days between negotiations. a slight improvement since then, which is the employer now agreed to sit down for

two days for negotiations per month. this is a really big issue for us, because we are in touch with workers every day talking about their issues and are hear the same things. they are dealing (indiscernible) they have schedules that don't allow them (indiscernible) we have some folks who are making as little as $19.50 a hour, in san francisco that is not livable and we still have attempts to exclude some of the workers including the captains from being covered by the union. people are upset about this, and the more that we get into the summer season, the more we have frustrations and the more we have people saying, hey we got to take action and do something here and it is really difficult to tell people like hey, we don't want disruptions or anything to happen. it is hard to tell them that when we are only receiving a couple days of negotiations per month. very difficult to get what we need

to do done. so, again, we are here to give you folks a update. we got a couple folks from alcatraz cruises to speak what has been going on and again, wanted to ask for the port commissioners continued support. we all have the same interest here. we just want to get a fair contract. we want to help san francisco continue along the pandemic recovery, and the only thing we are asking for alcatraz cruises, we are not trying to make maritime standard. the only thing we are trying to do and workers asked for assistance is helping them get to the standard already set for the other very successful maritime companies on the bay. that is blue and gold, blue and gate ferry, (indiscernible) all the folks operate under the standard that is appropriate

and very successful and again we ask for your continued support and thank you for your time today. >> thank you. jack calvin. >> good afternoon commissioners. my name is jack calvin, a deck hand at alcatraz city cruises and been working there a little over a year. as evan touched on, we have been in this fight to organize the workplace for better part of two years at this point. since we won our election and our union was certified in september, october, the company has not been meeting-not negotiating with us in good faith like evan said. 52 days between negotiating sessions is

not a realistic pace to come to agreement on a contract. something specifically i wanted to touch on was the refusal by the company to recognize captain and maintenance supervisors as part of the bargaining unit. when we filed for election, the captains and maintenance supervisors ballots were challenged and we were instructed by the national labor relation board to sit down and negotiate whether they would be included in the bargaining unit. so far the company has not budged one inch and refuse to talk about it, they say no and in the opinion of the union that is not negotiating in good faith whether they should be included. i work with the captains every day on the job. the company claims they are members of our management team, but have no actual managerial duties. they don't make our schedules, they can't

hire or fire us, they don't have discipline power jz when i work with them on deck, they are my coworkers. they are not by boss. i listen to their instructions and follow their direction, but they are not our managers. our captains were the first ones to reach out to the boatman's union for help in organizing our union and they deserve to be recognized as part of the union. thank you for your time. >> thank you. parker-i can't read the last name. >> hello everyone. thank you for your time today. i appreciate you allowing me to speak. my name is parker. i work in the maritime operations for alcatraz cruises as a deck hand, been there a couple months now so still relatively new but i wanted to use the time today to share my experience and i hope

in doing that my sharing of my experience will help others. so, i took this job a couple muckts ago mainly trying to save money it to go back to college and always enjoyed working on the water, build sea time and get my captain's license and was experiencing a lot of financial distress before taking the job so when the opportunity came up i was thrilled. i thought my job would take a huge positive trajectory and things would recover for me. due to some of the practices i haven't had that be my experience. the main issue for me is scheduling. that is something other members have spoken about at length and want to reiterate that can have real impacts on peoples lives. when i was hired i have another job. i work for one of the largest employers in the state of california. not going to name who they are now, but i have another job on the

weekday. when i was hired i made it clear i had job responsibilities during the weekday and expected to be given a reasonable amount of head up. they never objected that however it hasn't happened. the schedules knh out often 24-48 hours. i had to disrupt operations by the other employer not able to show up to their shift. the company expects us to have 24/7 availability. doesn't mean we have to work every hour during the 24/7 period but have to be available for shifts. at the same time that demand is hefty, yet we are not given very respectful scheduling in my opinion. i don't think there is degree of consistency or predictability. you can't have a work/life balance when you don't know when your

work will be. it takes away the rest of your life. to touch on my personal experience, i recently had my hours cut from consistantsly over 30 a week to nothing, and there was no communication why that was. it was a big impact on me. i first thought i had done something wrong and would be terminated but that was not the case. i reached out later when financial situations got very tight and i asked if i had been laid off or furloughed, not given a answer about that. eventually i was told my hours reduced to nothing is because i did want have 24/7 availability. that wasn't something established when i was hired and yet the reason my financial wellbeing was consistently brought down. it has been a big challenge for me. i have to now most likely leave the area. i really wanted this to work and i love the san francisco bay, i love living here and love my time

working at alcatraz cruises but without a regular schedule and hours reduced i can't afford to live here. >> thank you very much. appreciate your comments. is there any other public comment regarding items not listed on the agenda? seeing none, corey, do we have any callers on the line? >> at this time, there is no one on the phone wishing to make any public comment. >> thank you. public comment is closed. jenica, next item, please. >> item 6a is executive director's report. for callers who wish to comment please dial star 3 to raise your hand to comment. thank you. >> good afternoon president, members of the commission, members of staff and public. i'm elaine forbes, the port executive director. i like to start with economic recovery. first, i have good news to share about our

financial footing. we embarked on a economic recovery initiative as you know and it is part of that i'm sharing the most updated information i have about how we are doing, and i have some good news. we are not in the woods, we are rebounding faster then we thought on the revenues. we have reached pre-pandemic revenues in key business signs and very excited to report that. i think we have some serious tail winds at the waterfront when includes [difficulty hearing speaker] that we are providing a clean and safe experience. it really appears our waterfront is a big draw and will continue to be see so very excited about the success. with that, i like toert induce our economic recovery manager megan wallace. she will give the port commission a overview how she developed the plan and

next steps. >> thank you director forbes. good afternoon commissioners. since my last update to you in december, i have been working with port leadership, staff and business partners to develop and refine the port's economic recovery and growth plan and this is a implementation plan for our economic goals in the strategic plan. so, this afternoon i will share a update on how the plan has been developed as well as details in the plan along with how we are going to allocate resources to get our work done. so, before i get too far, i want to be clear that the economic recovery and growth goals are actually one pillar of our work as the port. really director forbes, port leadership and as a organization we do feel strongly that we will

only be successful in the stabilization of the port's financial future if we do integrator our work with the equity goal and resilience goal. this report that i'm giving you today, keep in mind that it has been developed, really thinking about this as being one of three main pillars in our work. first thinking about developing a execution plan for economic recovery and growth goals, i want to highlight a general mission statement that recognizing there is a great body of work that is already been accomplished at the port, including creating a strategic plan. i wanted to use existing documents to develop and implement the initiatives that both address the immediate economic needs of our waterfront, and look to the

long-term financial stability and sustainability of the port. in the planning, there always needs to be stages in work. really trying to focus efforts and started with developing and refining the growth plan, so looking at our economic goals and making sure that pulling in other planning documents and other information to really develop economic recovery actions. and then of course thinking how we are going to support that work. allocation of resources. so, as i'll show in a moment, that has been the body of work that has been underway over the last several months, but the ongoing execution and iteration is in the forecast as well as building in monitoring and reporting, making sure we are accountability internally to ourselves as staff to you as the commission and well as the public and partners.

so, when it comes to being developing a plan, i did not go it alone. this has been integrated work with partners in each of the divisions. i think everybody is represented here. i do want to highlight there is strong leadership with the director. thank you director forbes for your guidance on this work, but also within throughout the ranks of the port, gathering ideas, pulling together priorities and understanding where we might pull levers to really make some progress as a organization. then also looking internally talking with fisherman's wharf cbd we have been partnering with recently but also thinking about tourism trends, talking with sf travel, really trying to have boots on the ground talking to people outside the port to understand the economic environment around us and what tools they

might recommend we utilize. i mentioned not wanting to start from scratch. i listed some guiding documents here. the strategic plan is document number one, but definitely looking at proposals that staff proposed last summer with ideas for economic recovery initiatives, the capital imuvprovement and waterfront plan looking at existing resources to make a complete picture and then the funding sources. as you'll see in future slides, there are a variety of sources that are being taken into account when it comes to moving our strategic goals forward. so, in terms of the timeline, i mentioned develop and refine in the yellow bar you see this started in november when i first came on-board with the port. i do see it continuing into august, so really

building from internal work and collaboration for developing initiatives, having refining the initiatives land ing on some wonderful ideas to move forward. of course we are here today for our port commission update, but this summer we'll meet with advisory committees and really trying to inform people the creative feedback loop for input as well. and the developing refining is in parallel with the allocation of resources and important step in all this is actually sharing an expenditure plan for $10 million of economic recovery funding that was included in the fiscal year 2021-22 budget currently on board reserve. so, i mentioned earlier, the economic recovery growth plan is implementation plan for our strategic plan goals.

again, recovery goal focused on the near term activation of the waterfront really thinking about that quick recovery from the pandemic to the economic growth of the port really thinking about that long-term financial future we have always been thinking about pre-pandemic, recognizing expenditures grow at a faster pace over time then the revenues. and so what are we doing about recovering and growing is where our objectives come in. i like-there are a lot of objectives associated with recovery and growth goals, so i think it is helpful to think of them in three buckets of administrative , what are we internally doing to improve operations, activation and business development, a lot of this is that near term recovery work as well as growing maritime and real estate portfolios and public private

partnerships. leveraging other people's money business partners to create new neighborhoods and revitalize our historic piers. i'll try to go through these quickly. i gave a background how we developed a plan and share details within the plan. as i mentioned i'll follow three categories. under the administrative category, recovery we are looking at three main areas, lease administration, enterprise economic recovery and management of resources and projects. and under lease administration, this isn't news for you all. staff has come to you with proposals for ways to either bring current tenants into complinesh compliance to try to reach

settlement options to move to the up and running and doing well as well as incentive categories, so thinking using the tenant improvement fund to improve facilities and attract new tenants. this is really a internal administrative tool that we are using. for enterprise economic recovery, we are looking at attracting external funds, so not only relying on federal stimulus dollars but going after additional grants. we have a grant application out for (indiscernible) we see others in the pipeline so trying to make sure we are organized around effectively going after those funds. technology isn't one of those things that you necessarily think about for recovery, but how the systems operate translate into how effective staff is in our day to day jobs. and then operating efficiencies and staffing is other things we are

exploring, trying to make it easier both to work for and with the port. and then resource and project management. wanting to track hiring positions to manage this work such as myself, such as the new business generation manager and also internal employee facing positions such as a new employee ombudsman. these are things that will help us drive this work forward and support staff as we are recovering. reporting, thinking about accountability. what is sequencing of me coming to you and giving updates, but also meeting with staff. director forbes has been adamant she wants internal stakeholder engagement to make sure we have strong feedback loops because our staff knows so much and they provide so much critical feedback and we want to carry that forward, not just for this last 6 months, but moving forward in

this process. activation and business development, i think is maybe the one everybody thinksble about with economic recovery, particularly tenant recovery and activation. these are things we have been talking a lot about in terms of restaurant and retail pop ups. that is going on downtown and we want to do some of that along the port property. parks and open space, how we make it easier to fiend your way once you are down here. waterfront walks, thinking creating more of a attraction along with art and beautification to make people think of this as a destination and of course the fisherman's wharf grant working on pop ups, safety, other cleaning. and for the property portfolio, this is where we actually looking at the tenant improvement funding as critical. we are looking at the vacant spaces and trying to identify the best ways to invest federal stimulus dollars to prepare those facilities to be ready for new

tenants. and for maritime, there are 4 major categories. commercial fishing and-i want to highlight some of these things, because the color coding plays a role here. everything in yellow is representing investments that we are proposing with the $10 million economic recovery fund. if it is in blue, that is representing federal stimulus or other grant dollars. green is more a public private partnership and then if it is in black that actually is a operating expense that we are already hearing. so, as you can see here, particularly for activation and business development, there is a real combination of these different funding sources that together can move all these strategies

forward. and then finally, public private partnerships. i felt a little bit uncertain about this slide because that is a small table representing some very very large important projects for the port, so just really-but don't want to leave it unshared in terms of the importance of moving these long-term improvements both to our historic facilities and creating new neighborhoods along the port that is really going to frame the future of the port and our financial position anticipating long-term revenue as well as future of the city. just creating new housing, preparing for sea level rise and other economic benefits. so, i wanted to highlight some of the key outcomes i have been describing. the objectives and what are we doing? in terms of what do we want to get out of it? what are those intended outcomes? really just want to

highlight how each of the categories fit in. administrative, thinking we want to improve the ports balance sheet when it comes to leases, attracting and retaining tenants. that is where the lease work really comes to play. those internal operating efficiencies, i talked about wanting to make it easier to work for and with the port. really thinking how can we make it a wonderful place to work by making it easier to do our jobs with good technology systems for example. and then of course, with activation and business development, we just know that by generating activity on the waterfront building our maritime complex in the southern waterfront, including crews and thinking about shore side power and off-shore wind, these are critical components to that growth. the public private partnerships, building those resilient communities and protecting our shore

facilities. before i wrap up, i want to make sure i'm very clear about the allocation of resources from the $10 million of economic recovery funds. these funds were budgeted in fiscal year 2021-22, but the board of supervisors put them on reserve because we didn't have a detailed expenditure plan for those funds. i had the benefit of being able to develop that expenditure plan and every item listed here represents components of our strategic goals and objectives that have not yet been funded or don't have a clear funding source coming its way. so, things that may not be exciting or argue need funding like 811 utility project, but we better do it. they will help reduce

the risk for the port, make it easier for staff to do their jobs so they can shift and focus on other priortize. looking at maritime, a ice machine, improved facilities that make fishers want to stay in san francisco rather then going to other ports. these are things that may have not had clear return on investment but actually do have a positive economic benefit to the port by making it easier to work with us, making it including our fishers, all the way from internal staff to fishers in our ports. so, main take away. we have economic recovery growth plan. implementation plan. working to understand where there are pitfalls and delivering various actions, but also working to make sure that funds are in place to drive our work forward. we also have

expenditure plan for this $10 million economic recovery funds. i think if there are major take aways of what we are trying to deliver, we are working to improve internal processes. make it easier to for and with with the port. we are doing a lot of active work in fisherman's wharf. trying to improve the visitor experience. bring visitors back. what we examine, that is the biggest hole in the revenue streams and working to leverage external funding to drive big initiatives particularly in our maritime work in the southern waterfront and i think that's our near term focus on external funding, but also thinking about that long-term forecast, recognizing we need to improve our operating revenues and having them grow steadily over time so we don't get caught having a budget short

fall. thank you for this time giving you a update. we are looking to the board of supervisors in september and with that, i'm going to hand it back over to director forbes. >> thank you megan. i really appreciate that update and it is very rewarding for us to bring our plan together and make it actionable and see how to allocate resources as we track the various initiativesism several work efforts we have known needed to be done and it is finding the resources and time to do them. it gives us more prioritization and push on the key e initiatives to help stabilize the balance sheet and good financial future. also the pivots we need to make to the covid environment are nestled how to retain the facilities whether through pop ups or releases or both. there is a lot of on the ground work here that will happen as we see what

our longer term covid impacts are to the enterprise and how best to respond so thank you so much megan for the presentation and we are glad to have a leader organizing this work across divisions. now i will turn to equity. this last weekday the port hit a very important milestone in our equity work. this was the third juneteenth on the waterfront and this was better then ever. the event featured black owned businesses from the neighborhood and drew big crowds from residents around the city. businesses wereled sold out and oxtails and (indiscernible) were sold out early. mayor breed and commissioner gilman joined thousands of people for the event. (indiscernible) hudson property, ferry building and funding through the dream keeper initiative. it was a wonderful gathering. our mayor was there nearly four hours. she interacted with

and bought from nearly every vendor and toured the ferry building. you may have read the amazing press that came before the event. we are featured in several outlets and want to thank the communication team for the great work getting us out there and getting the event known to the public. as always, our team made sure the waterfront sparkled. i thank the maintenance division and all the port staff who tabled the events. thank you. finally, to you president brandon for your very early leadership on the concept and the direction for us to get it done,b which we did and very pleased how it is going. it was a very proud day for the port and one more person to thank, tony (indiscernible) had exceptional leadership and did a lot of work, administrative work with permitting and contracting so thank you tony. now to our resilience new s. more exciting report on the

resilience efforts. as you know, we have been working very closely with the army corp of engineers and sister agencies with infrastructure impacted by the need for flood protection here at the waterfront. in february and again early june members of the army corp of engineers joined our waterfront team in person for a week of in depth conversation and analysis and in april the team hosted city champions, which was represented from the partner city agencies and they have been collaborating very closely with us and army corp. these sessions are important. this ongoing collaboration is critical for a successful plan and project for flood protection and seismic protection. i'm pleased everyone is doing the work in person because it is very complex and appreciate the army corp of engineers coming to san francisco. we are hoping to have reach a plan for public review by the end of the year. as you know, we are start ing to see results from the analysis as it relates

to federal interest and we are looking how this will impact our draft adaptation strategies. we use the results as well as public feedback we received to help build the plan and will be sharing the results with you early this summer. it is a very big time for the development from all the analysis to a plan. we look forward to more. key projects i turn to the southern waterfront with update on pier 94, trailer sites. we have a mou with the human services agency for operation for temporary shelter at the industrial working area of the port at pier 94. it expired february 28, 2023 with mayor breed lifting of the emergency declaration, the department of homelessness and supportive housing continued to use the site, however we don't have active agreement for the use of the site so i will be entering into a month to month mou with hsh for the continued use of

the site as they continue to wind down and prepare their demobilization plan. we are very proud to have been a real big part of the effort to house unsheltered people during the pandemic and offer full support as hsh in the wind down to get people housed and into a healthier and safer environment. now i like to give a update on the ship yard repurposing. in october 2020 the maritime staff gave a informational preezentation on the ship yard and how to reposition the ship yard after we lost ship repair. part thof discussion is the many many vast inventory of abandsen ship repair including two dry docks and late 2022, the port staff began efforts to prepare a competitive solicitation for disposal of dry dock 2 and dry dock (indiscernible) happy to say as of june 6 the offer for purchase for the two efforts have gone

live. the port is offering for sale to the public, minimum bid price is $2.5 million and it requires the bidders to remove both dry docks. the details of the rfo are on the website and hope to report a successful bid and agreement. i want to say thank you to the maritime division, the city attorney office and office of contract administration for this good work. and commissioners, consistent with the write off policy adopted pursuant to 2211, port staff is giving a report summarizing one recommended write off on may 8 to asn stone in the amount of $57.674. you have 30 days from this day to review if you have concerns let me know and we'll schedule a hearing. now, i like to thank you commissioners as always for your dedication to our waterfront and i would like you to help me in honoring three individuals who have made a major stamp. first,

someone not here today just to let you in advance, our port staff sustainability leader cara balk will be retiring the end of june. she had a conflict today and wanted a low key exit. been with us since 1995 so 27 years. served in many positions, project manager, regulatory specialist manager, assistant deputy director of planning and environment. the reason for (indiscernible) park, including advancing equity and resiliency through partnership with community, regional cbo, city and regional agencies. she also managed the site investigation and preparation of pier 70 action plan and risk management plan funded through a federal grant. without this work we would not have the pier 70 historic core or (indiscernible) park or future waterfront site. cara is also a critical member to the waterfront land

use plan. she lead all the sustainability work and drafting of policies. she has been a tremendous person to the port. she explains very complex science issues in a way we can all understand and will miss her expertise, positivity, endless hard work and can good person hood and wish her a good next part of her life and excellent retirement. now we have two dedicated cac patners shat will be stepping down from their position. following in the decades of service, i like to honor marsha madden who served on the waterfront advisory committee from 2006 to today, nearly two decades as a architect with historic preservation expertise and she is on the line joining us now. she provided outstanding guidance to the port projects, including the cruise ship terminal, broadway hotel, (indiscernible) downtown ferry terminal expansion and many

other projects. staff says the contributions are extremely insightful and recognize the importance of historic resources within the national register district and made certain projects respectful of the historic fabric. marsha, so grateful to your contribution. and (indiscernible) i believe is here today. who severed oon the central waterfront advidesry group since 2019. which was renamed and reconfigured to the southern advisory group that same year. served as representative for san francisco giant mission rock partners for most of the last decade actively participated in the meetings as the government relation officer for the giant and build relationships with staff, south beach and mission bay representatives and aligned share goals with operating ball games concerts and special events as a good neighbor.

upon sac reorganization, actively engaged with members bringing former (indiscernible) together and brought new perspectives to the committee. he also worked closely with us on the transformation of sea wall 337 to the new neighborhood we see rising today. fortunately he'll continue to work with us in your new capacity with the san francisco giants and remain a valued stakeholder. for their service, honored to provide a parting gift. rosco is the only one accepting in person today. thank you, that concludes my report. >> thank you elaine. great report. we will now open up for public comment. is there any public comment? on any items discussed? dan? >> if i may commissioner-president brandon and members. i congratulate and are thank both

marsha and rosco for service and want to make a few warks about marsha because i served and worked with her the entire time she has been on the committee. i so enjoyed working with marsha on the waterfront advisory committee, known as the wdac and all the insight she brought to so many projects, which director forbes mentioned a few of them and there is way too many to mention all together. for context, the committee process is similar to the commission. there is listening to the applicants presentation, listening to public comment and then the committee makes comments on those what they heard. when it was marsha's turn to speak, the room would go silent. people waited and listened to her every word. her knowledge of architecture, historic rehabilitation and urban design was extensive and

respected. skill and explaining complex issues in a manner everyone could understand and appreciate was also amazing. and more often then not, she left everyone agreeing that yes, i will have a better project with this guidance. so, thank you marsha for guiding the port to be more attractive, more efficiently functioning and overall a better place. thank you thank you thank you. >> thank you dan. is there any other public comment? >> good afternoon commissioners. president brandon, david (indiscernible) deputy director planning and environment. i to be wanted to thank mausha and are rosco and carol who i will miss tremendously. i want to say a few words about rosco because i worked with him a long time. when we were reviewing his time i couldn't believe it had only been 4 years he served for probably long years for him, but i realize that he had been

with us a lot longer. he participated prior to becoming a member of the mission rock and giant team coming to (indiscernible) and sea wag meetings and always enjoyed his partnership with us and input. elaine mentioned during the transition between bringing the sea wag and the swack together rosco played a key role bringing those two communities together. bringing a new perspective for them and helping that sac jell as a group so thank you very much rosco, we appreciate your dedication. thank you. >> thank you. any other public comment in the room? rosco-- >> good afternoon president brandon, commission, director forbes, board staff. thank you. the port is a

very special place, and this type of recognition is one of the reasons why. it has been so much fun and a honor to work with you all and the community, but sea wag or (indiscernible) around giant work or mission rock. the community welcomed me in just like port staff as if i had been working on mission rock forever, and the community helped me get up to speed. the community shared with me what their concerns were, what they were excited about, and it is just been fantastic experience working with you all. i will miss it very much and i just really appreciate this recognition. it is completely unexpected, so thank you very much. >> thank you rosco. is there any other public

comment in the room? seeing none, corey, do we have anyone on the phone? >> yes, actually we have one person on the line and i will open it up right now. line is open. >> good afternoon. my name is catherine moore and as a (indiscernible) severing with masha since 2005 i want to join those today (indiscernible) practice with purpose. [difficulty hearing speaker] calling on architects to be of public service, best describes what marsha has done for the waterfront. it isn't only marsha's professional

accomplishment and depth of experience that guided thoughtful deliberations, but it is also her ability to stay open to different points of view and still find common ground. i want to thank marsha for those years. marsha, you touched me and are transpired many of us and your practice with purpose and thank you for being a friend and colleague. thank you. >> thank you. any other comments? >> at this time, there is nobody on the phone. >> thank you corey. public comment is closed. commissioner gilman. >> first of all, i want to thank rosco and marsha. i think many people actually work much harder and do much more

tactical work then we as commissioners do so thank you for your service and dedication. megan i want to thank you for your economic development report and wanted to highlight and lift up one aspect you touched on. wayfaring and signage. we have so many events happening this month kicking off summer, whether it be the north beach festival taking place this weekday with 10s of thousands of people coming to north beach. how incredible next year if we have signage on the waterfront so the visitors can come to the waterfront and have that experience, or hatchy pride month which director forbes i know meant to mention and we is have the parade june 25 with hundreds of thousands of people coming to san francisco to uplift and celebrate our lgbtq plus brothers and sisters in our community. i would love to see activities along the

wut er front. i know the ferry building is highlighting some, but ways for folks to enjoy our great city. i think as we think of economic recovery, we need to think how we get people to the waterfront and folks coming from crews or coming for the waterfront, how we get them into the historic neighborhoods of san francisco, whether dog patch, the castro or north beach. i want to highlight the importance of that. my only last comment, which isn't about the director's report, but i do think is really important is to once again at least for me as a commissioner reiterate my support of the inland boat union and the unionization efforts with alcatraz tours. i say this, because it was stated that the minimum wage laws above california state folks are making is $19.50 and want to highlight individuals making that wage make too little to move into the

affordable housing that the giant produces the first project to ever have 60 percent affordable on their site, but they are considered extremely low income from a housing perspective for the state of california. those individuals would need a rental subsidy to afford a unit targeting working close folks at 60 percent of ami and i say that because wage compression is not a way to have a business model and having schedules where individuals can't juggle multiple jobs if they need to, devastate the economy so i want to express my disappointment in alcatraz cruises for not bargaining in good faith and hopefully can lift up the wages of those workers so they can say in san francisco. >> thank you. >> they think president brandon. first of all, thank you commissioner gilman. i

want to associate myself with those comments. i appreciate those very much. thank you to carol marsha rosco for all the work. i wish i had known you better. fairly new here. next year juneteenth and have to plan better. it came so fast. (indiscernible) thank you for doing juneteenth. i is a few questions on the strategic plan. i guess the first is a comment. often when you see these things you say we are doing wondingful things so happy you listed strategic outcomes and do metric. (indiscernible) that would be great to do. you mentioned a tenant improvement fund and dont know what that is, can you talk about that? >> yes. the port allocated and i correct-8 million for the

tenant improvement fund using federal stimulus dollars and the idea is the port will use the funds to improve facilities to ready them for future tenants, or we now actually have authority that went through the board of supervisors to be able to pgive tenants the funds so they can actually complete the improvements themselves. it is really a way to lower barriers trying to expedite the process of bringing in new tenants. >> $8 million, how much is left or how much spent? >> we received about just under $117 million of federal stimulus funds overall, and so in terms of a portion of the funds-they have been allocated out to capital projects supporting operating budget, so- >> (indiscernible) it is all in the bank. $8 million (indiscernible) >> i apologize, i was thinking about (indiscernible)

>> (indiscernible) >> we have not utilized the funds. >> is the goal to start responding -spending in the next year or two? >> i can speak to that. for the team now we have two brokered rfp responses out two facilities and so staff will look what comes through and do a competitive process through the broker, and looking at which facilities we think are most primed for these stimulus dollars. as megan shared, we have a lot of facilities that are vacant or not operating. vacant within our control or soon to be in our control. some of them need a great deal of work so in the assessment period and staff will be coming with each transaction and opportunity with the partner to say, this now commission we recommend for these dollars and keep you posted as we go through it on the whole portfolio so you can continue to get a sense how

best to target the funds. >> that's great. do we think a (indiscernible) will be spent on fisherman's wharf restaurant? >> i suspect so. >> thank you. >> thank you. commissioner lee. >> well, the report is very encouraging and megan, such a detailed thing and were orried with everybody leaving you have enough staff. interested in the tenant recovery and property portfolios and suggesting there is a lot of people that want to do maritime events to the public to bring in more revenue. what was not mentioned is parking. when we did our walk-through in the wharf i see there is spaces that are fenced off or not used, and possibly the other

way of jen rating income is maybe having discount parking for electric vehicles. maybe families that come from outside the city that want to come in and park their cars instead of at pier 39 they can use our empty spaces and park their ev cars and that helps the environment and brings more traffic to the wharf and the waterfront, where ever we have space. i truly believe if it sits empty, nobody is making money and cost more money to maintain a empty space so very excited helping you where i can and the real estate part to see what we can do to fill spaces. when i looking at the documents last night i'm amazed at the amount of detail the port staff goes through that makes our job a lot easier and with all these

people leaving, i think wow, who will replace them. i hope we get other talented people who love public service as we do to be back on port, because that is what we are here. good job. look forward to the future and also the tenant improvement is a great incentive for new operator s who can't afford the up front cost so that's great. thank you. >> thank you commissioner. i misspoke, the tenant improvement budget is $10 million. better. >> thank you elaine and megan thank you so much for your report. as usual, there is a lot going on on the waterfront and so happy to hear that in certain areas we are at-back at pre-pandemic levels as far as revenue and tourist and everyone visiting the waterfront and think that is absolutely phenomenal. i want

to congratument everyone on the juneteenth festival or pop up here at the ferry building. i too have to do better scheduling because i was out of town this weekday and couldn't attend but so happy it was well attended and everybody sold out. i think that's great. really want to thank tony for all her work she put into that and the entire port team that worked on that. i am really going to miss carol. carol has been such a wonderful person to work with over these years. i think she may be the only person still here when i started. [laughter] carol was working on (indiscernible) park when i first joined the commission squl that was a big deal and she is just done so much for the port and especially the southern waterfront over the last 27 years, so really going to miss her and appreciate all she's done to contribute to

our waterfront. really want to thank marsha and rosco for their participation on the cac. their input is so invaluable and really helps us to make decisions and really helps us with decisions being made for the port of san francisco, and we just really appreciate all the time and guidance that they have given our staff and the commission over the years. rosco, thank you in person, and marsha thank you so much. regarding economic recovery and growth plan, i think this is a great report and i am glad we have a plan. i just want to make sure that our plan is port wide, and when i look at our partners i don't feel that. i feel that our partners are focused more on the northern waterfront, and i would think that we would like to

activate the entire waterfront, and spend resources doing that. we have (indiscernible) park, we should engage the ymca, we have mission rock, we should engage the giants. we have property all along the waterfront that needs to be activated, and paid attention to, because our economic recovery is based on our entire waterfront. we know that fisherman's wharf needs a lot of help and we know we are going to have to do a lot of investment in fisherman's wharf, but at the same time, as we are planning, i hope we are looking at the entire waterfront. but thank you so much. this is great. i real ea -really appreciate it. jenica- >> if we could bring rosco up, i have a very nice very heavy

paper weight. we can present that with a photo with the commission.

[applause] >> jenica, next item, please. >> item 7 is consent calendar. for callers who wish to comment on consent calendar, dale star 3 to raise your hand to comment. 78, request autheration to enter into memorandum of agreement for temporary agreement with office of community investment and infrastructure for mission bay park. beginning july 1, 2023 for term not to exceed 6 months. the port will be reimbursed up to $510.028 for cost associated with maintenance and operations from ocii using community

facility district 5 proceeds. that is resolution 23-25. item 7b, request approval of port 10 year capital plan, 7c, request for approval to award a sole source grant to the fisherman's wharf association of san francisco, also known as the fisherman's wharf community benefits district, and waive port license fees and the prohibition on sugar-sweetened beverages. (resolution 23-27) item 7d, request approval of strategies to address food & beverage and retail vacancies including adopting new broker policy, adopting criteria for competitive leasing or licensing for new food and beverage and retail/attraction vacancies, and adopting participation rates and rent abatement terms for short-term

activations of such sites while the competitive leasing process is underway. (resolutions 23-28 and 23-29) and item 7e, request for retroactive authorization to modify construction contract no. 2843, pier 70 shipyard grading and abatement, to extend the substantial completion date. (resolution 23-30) >> thank you. commissioners, can i have a motion? >> so move. >> second. >> we will now take public comment. is there any public comment in the room? seeing none, corey, is there anyone on the phone? >> at this time, there is no one on the phone wishing to make public comment. >> thank you corey. public comment is closed. do we have a motion and a second? all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? resolution 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30

are adopted. jenica, next item, please. >> item 8a request approval to ishi request for proposals for underground utility location and marketing services. resolution 23-31. for caller who wish to comment on this item, please dial star 3 to raise your hand to comment. >> good afternoon commissioners. my name is paul (indiscernible) i'm a project manager in engineering division and happy to present today. i will be doing the presentation but joined by my colleague elizabeth alexander and head of engineering (indiscernible) who can help answer questions you have about this program. so, today we will be presenting to you the underground utility locating mapping program. the action you are asked to take today is to authorize staff to issue a rfp to

on-board a consultant to support the program and we propose a initial contract of quarter million our for 4 years. this program aligns with goal outlined in the port strategic plan around productivity, equity and resiliency. some the port owns all sort of underground utilities through the 7 and a half mile waterfront we are legally under california state law obligated to locate and mark these utilities prior to construction activities. the way this works, when i a contractor knows they will excavate they call a regional non profit called, the underground service alert or usa north

covers northern california and nevada. that non profit reaches out to utility operators within the vuscenity to let them know if their lines will be impacted. the operator is expected to parse the tickets and go and locate and mark any lines if in the vicinity so today asking for your support helping do that and that consultant would triage the tickets as they come in and locate and mark when necessary. we have broken the contract into several scope items. task one is basic project management of the contract. task two is consultant to develop what we call a program implementation plan to help us sort of identify all the steps

needed to sort of get our program up and running. task three is running the program it is lf, the bulk of the contract and that is triaging the 311 north tickets and going and mapping when needed. task four is optional task we included if funding is left over in the budget where we can assign the consulant to go out and are map areas to get a better understanding where our existing utilities are to improve our internal asset management. so, in terms of-we are here today asking your permission to release the rfp and hope to have a consultant on-board in the fall. that concludes my presentation and want to thank all of you for listening today and joined by elizabeth to help answer any

questions. we are asking for your support and releasing the rfp to on-board a consultant to get this program up and running. thank you. >> thank you paul. commissioners can i have a motion? >> so move. >> second. >> thank you. is there any public comment in the room? seeing none, corey, do we have anyone on the phone? >> at this time, there is no one on the phone wishing to make public comment. >> thank you. public comment is closed. commissioner harrington. >> thank you. thank you paul for that report. very comprehensive. couple questions for you. this isn't a new requirement, how is it done now? >> we have been sending engineers on case by case basis to help support these request as they trickle in. the hope is we can sort of institutionalize and formalize the program. i think

it was a push to kind of early on pre-covid but covid derailed that so here today to get the program up and running. >> thank you. the other question is, this isn't a port issue, the puc, a variety of different parts of the city do a very very similar or identical things. is there a thought to try to consolidate this or work with those other agencies to make sure we get a city wide contract or something we get some kind of benefit of doing it that way? >> yes, actually we listened to this quite extensive. we like to partner with the puc and reached out to them and heard clearly from all three silos of the puc. each silo does its own mapping and locating and we heard clearly they were not interested partnering on the caw psty standpoint and from a liability standpoint cht there was concern relying on maps they didn't produce and this other complicateing factor as well, but we did research it. >> thank you very

much. >> thank you. commissioner lee. >> i really have no questions. it is important that we map this out ourselves. what i hate is we do construction project jz they fix it and pave over it and another department comes in and digs up the space again which is kind of ridiculous, so i think this is a good thing to have, so i support this. >> thank you. commissioner gilman. >> thank you paul for the report. i support the item and have no questions. >> they -thank you paul. great presentations and commissioners, great questions. all in favor? any opposed? motion passes unanimously. >> item 9a is informational presentation update on the port's mobile vending program.

callers who wish to comment on this item, please dial star 3 to raise your hand to comment. >> good afternoon commissioners. happy to be here today to give you a update on the port's mobile vending program and associated enforcement activities. so, the first several slides are a recap of how we got here over the past three plus years. at the end of 2019, the state legislature passed senate bill 946, which decriminalize street vending state wide and limited the ability of cities and counties to regulate street vending to those situations where they adopted a specific type of program that met the bill's requirements. that coincideed date wise with the onset of covid-19 pandemic early 2020 and those two factors really lead to a significant increase

in mobile vending over the course of 2020. we saw high concentration of vendors in fisherman's wharf and embarcadero is a place everyone was trying to get outside so the vendors so that as a big opportunity. a number of concerns raised here are the concerns that we are still seeing raised on the list on the slide, but the additional challenge then was that the vendors were not following health and safety protocols relating to covid so we were worried on the public health effects as well. port staff advocated to try to get some enforcement tools and supervisor aaron peskin brought forward a mobile vending ordinance that allowed-that created a code upgrade that allowed port to institute a pilot mobile vending program. this is our ability to get under the auspice of sb96 and enforce permits and time place

and manner of vending on port proper. the important thing of the ordinance is it created the ability for the commission and executive director to put together regs where on port property this can happen because we want to strike the balance state law set out. we want to have the entrepreneur opportunities but do it in a way that doesn't take away the opportunities for other people to enjoy the natural resource and recreational benefit of the waterfront. so, upon the adoption of that ordinance after that we brought to you a program structure, the port commission adopted its operational standards and delegated authority to the executive director to issue more detailed program regulations, which the executive director did and we instituted a program that set forth the ways to get a permit for vending on port property, establishing fines for administrative citations for people who don't follow the

rules and put together the rule frz the time place and vendor by permit holders. a key tenant of the port program, we didn't want to assign vendors specific real estate on the waterfront. we wanted have more of opportunity for all vendors to enjoy different locations so no one vendor won the lottery and got the space in front of the high traffic area. we did that, we set out a series of locations sort of evenly spaced on the waterfront and ones very high demand we instituted a lottery process. those are in fisherman's wharf and close to the ferry building. the other locations on available on first come first serve basis and we thought that was a way to bring on a new sort of legal vending component to port property. in further support of that, the commission and the executive director allocated funds with add-back from

supervisor peskin to retain the mission economic development agency forveneder and technical assistance to get the unpermitted vendors into the permitted program and sort of fulfill hopeful the activities or opportunities. what we saw important bringing is a lot of unpermitted vendors were mono lingual spanish speakers and was meta was a integral part. public workshops and significant component of vendors over 30 in the program from the outset. we increased to over 50 at this point. following the adoption of the port program, i think we saw a little of improvement on the sort of port waterfront in terms of unpermitted vending. our enforcement was somewhat episodic but there was a enough

people and enough vendors interested in the program that it sort of lightened the challenge a bit. at the same time the city saw a lot ofveneding else where and there was a push by the board of supervisors to regulate city wide. in 2022 the board adopted a city wide vending ordinance that establish the department of public works as the program manager for the city. the board of supervisors wanted to centralize permit issuance but port staff advocated for and received provisions that still retained the right to set time place and manner regulations with the port commission and the executive director. we felt--as i described, public works moved towards a program that actually assigned locations and we wanted to make sure we have the ability for different vendors to experience different entrepreneurial opportunities at the waterfront at

different times. public works instituted and begun implementing the vending program elsewhere, primarily the mission it has been seen-having most impact in terms of more vendors permitted. also have enforcement team that worked into action in the rest of the city. we are still working with them on issuing new permits for vendors on port property because the system they have that points to a specific location they have to do technical upgrades and they also want to do similar technical assistance to what meda did for our program getting our current permit holdernize to the city wide permit issuance rezyme to come on port property. sorry if that sounds like a maze. i want to describe that because public works is looking for resources to do that technical assistance and issue those permits in the new fiscal year starting next month. in the mean time we grandfathered permit holders because

we didn't the permits to expire with no way to actually operate legally on port property. thank you for coming with me on that journey as i tried to explain that. our hope by the end of the year we will have a much more seemless interaction between our work and work of public works. on to enforcement. so, i think we learned quite a bit in the two years we have been able to enforce the port program. state law limits enforcement of these permit infractions to administrative citations. they decriminal ized it. a administrative citations are fines. state law doesn't give the authority to demand valid identification. when we want to issue a citation, the person would not give valid (indiscernible) we couldn't connect the infraction with the negative outcome that deter the

action. so, ultimately we relized citations alone would not be the tool. another thing we learned is alcohol and cannabis sales andveneding on the sidewalk takes root among the other food and merchandise vending commented my commissioners in the past and we have seen as we worked on the waterfront and seen the activations happening and that is running directly counter to the clean safe vibrant waterfront we want to foster as the port recovers and as the city recovers. the challenge there is those are absolutely criminal activities and so there is a lot of coordination needed between port staff and law enforcement to get at those and i'll talk more how we will try to get at this. lastly, in terms of the locations it is very consistent to see a lot of vending on embarcadero and fisherman's wharf. pier 31 and 33 and giant games at oracle

park. those are the hot spots. we see more in front of the ferry belding, but that is episodic. we saw a lot around juneteenth event so think in the future we'll think how to enforce around that because we want to focus attention on the permitted special event and not unpermitted vending happening around it. what we have been doing, we executed a number of what we call deterrent operations so realizing the citations are not super effective, the new approach, so the state law does allow you to direct someone to stop vending if doing outside the rules and if they continue to act that way you can confiscate their materials. our deterrent operation is getting out starting the day early with port staff, showing to see if anything is left over night to set up for the next day. if there we ask them to remove it and we have additional port staff coming in shifts encountering anybody that setss

up for vending to make sure they have a permit and authorized to be there and if fot they are told they can't vend that day. we still need-generally need pd support for that because people that-sometimes get aggressive asserting their right to do so it is a bit of a challenging scheduling exercise and coordination exercise. generally what we like to do when we do the large deployments is also bring out other agencies that have enforcement jurisdiction like the department of public health as relates to food. the sfmta as relates to traffic violations as the vehicle servicing the vendor often ignore traffic regulations and public works support of confin scaigz. these have been successful for the moments. generally vending returns soon thereafter. what we have tried to do is see where the vending goes to see the next

targeted interventions are going to be. let's see-moving to the giants games, similar strategy happened there. they already have a lot of enforcement resources allocated to games and so there have been a couple different multiagency enforcement at giants games over the last month that had decent impact and talking with our maintenance division as well as property managers we have seen a ever increasing radius of things happening. people pulling over at piers 30 and 32 to sell out of the back of the car. there was impactful confin scaigzs and ramifications of the giants actions but think that lessened but think it is something we have to keep coming back to along with the help of everybody else and the giants coordinating that kind of deployment. lastly, i think we need a better partnership with law enforcement to address the

criminal activities, so getting to the next slide--anticipated next steps. i apologize how small the type is here. so, the state alcohol beverage commission staff was out for enforcement three fridays ago and did not encounter many alcohol vendors because the first encountered spread the word but that was important because abc had want been back in a while and we need to bring all the assets we can on that issue. we also met with the district attorney office to talk how you build cases because obviously a citation is one thing but someone gets arrested for selling to a miner that is another deturance. we are working with the police department to adjust the work order. we have two full time officers dur during the week and fill in the weekday shifts

with overtime more expensive not always the same people. we are moving hopefully and moving to interviews on this to get a second pair of full time officers, so we have half week with one pair, half with the other pair and platoon set up so they have a more consistent relationship with the challenges we meet at the port, challenges we don't meet monday-friday and come on the weekday in particular. another big step forward for us happened yesterday. we on-boarded the new security manager joe riley the former left for department of emergency management. we were luck y to have kyle thomas come on board. former sfpd marine unit officer so familiar with the port. i did not tell him i was going to do this but he is here today so happy to have him today so he will hit the ground running and help with better coordination moving forward with former colleagues at pd. we hired two retired

sfpd officers on a part time basis to coordinate just the mobile vending enforcement. they have been invaluable bringing in the other agencies and they and i are very focused involving our strategy to address alcatraz landing and not just staying in fisherman's wharf. there is a different condition on that sidewalk compared to little embarcadero so we need different tactics including the motor vehicle aspect of that and how they reply is something we want to get after. we want to partner with public works to get that part of the operation going. we want to continue to administer port program regulations. one thing we are focused on for example is this friday the first soft launch activation from the cdb grant you heard, we are looking at the strategies to make sure that is a success, because what i love to see us build is around the special

events building enforcement to radiate out not just to keep the space clear but to have eyes on the park so to speak to push it further away. in closing, i don't think we are happy with the current state we are in. i think there is definitely levers to pull to get better. i would imagine we'll never fully get rid of unpermitted street vending because how comprehensive the state law is, but if we can get alcohol and cannabis vending deterred and make sure there is a safe path of travel and people don't feel a little threatened or crowded from the waterfront that is the end state we are looking for. that is the current update and happy to answer any questions you have. >> thank you. any public comment in the room? seeing none. corey, anyone on the phone? >> at this time there is no one on the phone wishing to comment. >> thank you. public comment is closed.

commissioner lee. >> i have a bunch of questions. how much is fine? >> they start at hundred dollar and each additional infraction goes up from there. >> if you encounter a illegal vendor and give a citation, do you have a (indiscernible) do you stay there and then they have to pack up and leave or is it something that you have to catch in the beginning? >> you go up and see them vendor, the security manager writes them up, give their copy of the ticket and say you have to pack and go and you have to stand there and monitor them while they pack up, hoping he would leave. >> i had this experience when i was on the entertainment commission. there was a related-probably different from the port, but there

was a related incident a week ago with a shooting because public safety when these people are buying hot dogs or whatever are getting robbed or fights occurring and we dont want that on the port, so i have a few things. i know sfpd is short and a lot of overtime. i understand to sources that the sheriff department might be coming on-board or maybe lobbying for being able to get some of this overtime. have you heard anything about that? >> the sheriff's have a program much like the sfpd program called 10b officers where off duty officers can work at sort of private direction. i understand the cbd is as part of its work for us under the grant looking into that, not aware they retained them. but you are right man power is a challenge. some of our tenants i know brought in 10b officers

at different time which is expensive but have seen varying levels of success with that. i think we are more excited then that kind of opportunity with the port detail that can really sort of lean in and understand better the networks you are talking about in terms of who is behind these different vendors. it isn't just the vendors, there is clearly something else going on behind that so that is the law enforcement support we need instead of someone coming in that day with that event but we will coordinate with whatever resources we have. >> the reason i say that, when we were removing them, it takes them only 5 minutes to pack up and they have van they can put four in and then once you go, about a hour later somebody else shows up and unloads. it is kind of a endless situation. is there a ordinance saying they are not allowed to block

the sidewalk? i'm sure dpw must have a ordinance because i know in the entertainment area when we have our lines we have to have pedestrians able to walk by. some of the vendors are blocking the streets and would say that would be a infraction to help with enforcement. but how about going back to signage? is there signage up there and maybe that is bilingual saying if you don't have a permit you will get fined or confin skated? >> there is signage on the little embarcadero. we can expand that as well, but there is signage up and down-especially around where the permitted vendor locations stalls are. there are a number of signs to indicate this is part of the program . >> is it bilingual? >> we may not have-

>> i think it is helpful if you make them bilingual, especially when we want them to get permits and i read the ordinance saying that some of the restrictions were relaxed, but they are supposed to still get a permit, right? >> yes. >> i bet half of them dont bother, and arguing with you saying we have a right to be here seems to be the course of action. so, basically that's all i have. i wish they would have put in the bill that you couldn't be hundred feet in front of a licensed premise. that would solve so much of this problem. >> yes. >> but that's not in the bill. hopefully a legislator might think that is a good thing to amend but it is what it is and have to deal with it. >> to the point about path of travel, that is enforceable. it is hard to do because

someone then just moves you cant really stop them doing the rest of the stuff because if your authority is based on path of travel that is retained, but all of these things we-like enforcement has to get every piece of this, and if that's not the solution, in those situations we still need to be able to go in and enforce the path of travel. >> maybe a extra ticket. get a ticket for that and ticket for blocking the sidewalk. i hate to ticket people, but some people dont want to listen, so i mean, it is really bad for the permit holders. i feel sorry for them because they are trying to do their best to be compliant. people are illegal and it bothers me. thank you. >> i wanted to make a comment. (indiscernible) we do not not have plans to deploy sheriff. the detail is our plan. there is no

plan there. the other thing, mike martin was probably going to speak to it, the sidewalks are regulated as a park in our park code, so we definitely have provisions for not blocking. it must be clear of the public. we have very good provisions in the port code. it is getting all the resources out there. >> yeah. hundred dollars is cheap compared to how much they make. they charge $10 for a hot dog now. can you believe that? so they are making money. anyway-- >> thank you. >> good luck. >> commissioner gilman. >> thank you mike for this report and i really appreciate and want to acknowledge how challenging this is. i was curious, are representatives from meda here? >> no, we don't have representative. >> is the grant ongoing? >> our grant sunsetted but very hopeful that they can work with public works as they move

forward. >> i think this is just more comments, which i guess is more for the public record and i think we need to acknowledge briefly looking through a equity lens and why the state law was passed and as someone who lived near little embarcadero and are alcatraz landing, these are not mom and pop small immigrant businesses who want to sell authentic food from their home countries and make a start in our society. if they are, i think those are the 50 plus people you spoke about who went through the program and worked with meda or other organizations that help do this. i think we need to acknowledge this is my observation, this is organized crime. these are people dribeing driving up and unloading people. i believe we have human traffic going on in the businesses and i watched them and watch the enforcers sit there and intimidate people and intimidate the volunteer patrols from sfpd who

wear the blue jackets who are former officers and i have spoken to them and they are at their whits en. i say for the public to understand how challenging it is for us to enforce and do anything. this is one of the few items as a commissioner i get contacted about and particularly alcohol and cannabis sales so i'm deploying sfpd, abc and regulatory agencies that to me that-more then the $10 hot dog, which i did not realize it was that expensive or the giant t-shirt, i think the much larger problem is sale to minors of alcohol and cannabis. i see in the jars magic mushrooms. we need to stop the sale of drugs and alcohol of cannabis happening at the waterfront and throughout san francisco so i hope with this new initiative we can really target

that and i again as the signage may be commissioner-i would absolutely support large scale signs that say, we cannot validate this food. you might get food poisoning or selling to miners is illegal sore whatever we need to do. i worry how this will effect tourism. i think most san franciscans are in the know if they want to a drink they go to the eagle cafe and not buy a margarita on the waterfront. i worry about it hurting the reputation. if there is something that happens with a miner or someone gets ill or sick so i want to make those comments both in empathy and saying whatever we can do i definitely am in favor helping those mom and pops, businesses be successful through micro business programs in city and county of san francisco, but the illegal vending is only going to get worse this summer. i know we have seen

reprieve, but it will come back with a fury and i hope we can mitigate our risk and reputation to the public. >> thank you. >> thank you. commissioner harrington. >> wow. [laughter] i wasn't as aware of this issue i guess. unpermitted vendors i get that being a huge issue. evan the permitted venues. just to be clear, i'm new so can ask stupid questions. we go out and rent our space we own to people who want to have restaurants and charge a commission for that and then allow people permitted to put up something directly in competition for free, is that how it works? >> yes. >> and is there any limit on the number of people that can be permitted? or vendors that can be permitted? >> i imagine you can institute that as a rule. that

is why we do the rotating efforts so we- >> move them around but all permitted. >> now we got more vending permits issued then spaces, so if they all want to operate on a single day, not sure they could do that. >> if somebody comes late they can't fit- >> first come first serve so out early. friday, saturday and sunday and three locations of fisherman's wharf and ferry building you have a lottery spot you need to get to in the morning and if you are not there by 1 it is first come first serve. >> how many vendors spaces do we have? >> and think on the order of 11 locations port-wide and 2 to 3 at each so imagine 35 to 40. >> how many

unpermitted vendors do you think are out there? >> bigger number then that. especially then a nice weekday now to commissioner gilman's point. i was up at fisherman's wharf two weekdays ago and there were lots of people there. lots of vendors there. excuse me. but to your point, the state law specifically says that a nearby rent paying retail operation is not justification for keeping vending away. that is very much baked into state law. >> i understand. not sure i agree with it, but i understand it. good luck. if we can be of any assistance to help with that. [laughter] >> you already have. it wasn't a easy thing for the commission to lean in and be the first to set the rules because people on all sides would have a problem with it. i think that continued support is what we are looking for. >> thank you. >> thank you mike for the report. i echo commissioner harrington's thoughts. good

luck. [laughter] this has become a huge issue and just appreciate the fact we are putting it on the for front and trying to combat it and come up with solutions to deter a lot of the illegal vendor and again, it is port wide. it is over by mission rock, by the chase arena, it is all along the waterfront. again, hopefully our resources are distributed evenly throughout the waterfront because it is everywhere and something we really have to get a hold on somehow. we are here to help however we can. >> thank you very much. >> thank you for your presentation. a lot of great information. jenica, next item, please. >> item 10a, informational report on local business enterprise contracting activity for fiscal year july 1, 2022 through march 31, 2023

and workforce compliance. for callers who wish to comment on this item, please dial star 3 to raise your hand to comment. >> hello commissioners. my name is (indiscernible) the acting contract procurement manager here for informational item to share about contractor fiscal year 22-23 quarters 1-3. i'll covering two areas, contracting activities for the first quarter-three quarters fiscal year including contract awarded payment and developer grument and share improvement and contract practice as relates to outreach equity and (indiscernible) this slide gives a snapshot of the lbe program. there are 989 firms that the general mix of minority owned firms

women owned firms and obe is stable over time. the mix of mbe firms shows 99 firms have african american owners and 165 asian american owners. the general trends and lbe availability however is mixed. at the end of fiscal year 21-22, we had 1041lbe and there arecurrently 989 so there has been a decrease. this slide shows contracts entered in the first three quarters of the fiscal year. there was 6 contracts total and 5 are subject to lbe consulting requirements and bid discount or rating bonus, 14b requirement. over the 5 contracts all 5 awarded to lbe primes or joint vercher with lbe partner. of the primes one minority owned firm and two women owned firms.

othe joint venture, both are minority owned. both upper eligible and received theeraltying bonus or bid discount. in addition to each eligible contracting lead by a lbe or joint venture partner, 68 percent of the total value of the contracts is committed to lbe or prime venture partner or lbe subcontractor. this slide shows payments. port made all most $14.5 million in payments the first three quarters of the fiscal year 6.4 million. all areas of contracting are doing well with lbe participation. as needed contracts are 46 percent of the total val ue paid out went to lbe in construction 41 percent and professional services at 14 percent. this shows

the 5 year trend of contracting dollars. the contract award lbe remain very good. i including the (indiscernible) contracting total here for first three quarters of it fiscal year. the top chart shows contract awarded dollars are at 68 percent. the bottom chart shows payments decreasing but still in line with the 5 year trend. if the trend continues at the one year mark we'll come back with more analysis. private development. the project at pier 7 0 is $62.7 million and mission raument is $42.7 million. $103.4 million awarded to lbe with $35.9 million going to african american owned firms, 22.4 to asian american owned, 33.4 million to latino

owned firmed (indiscernible) before you are 7 strategies to change solicitation documents. i will not cover all 7 but welcome to ask questions. one is outreach of the commission action. we are publishing more look ahead for contracting to start to get the word out earlier about what the port intends to solicit. we had our contracting open house which advertised all our upcoming solicitations and allowed firms to ask questions directly to our pm's. we are working with office of [speaker speaking too fast] advertised on a single website that link to our website and link also to the private development websites. (indiscernible) not able to be here today has done fantastic work to create one page project

overvie for most of the solicitations and develop (indiscernible) continuing the practice having opt in forms. we also partner with cmg for outreach and have advice on somef oour outreach tactics. we continue to simplify and standardize the rfp responses. (indiscernible) approach, technical experience and give scenario of questions. we put the focus on solicitation to technical questions, and not extra graphics marketing or design unless relevant to scope of work in the contract. we heard positive feedback. the proposers encourage par pis ticipation because it reduce the cost. other consultants said they use the form filled out as the outreach

tool to new primes in order to help streamline the process of getting on project jz found that to be successful. finally, from panelist to volunteer time to grade these proposals they said the approach is straight forward and easy to find the information and make sure they're grading appropriately. we talked about the benefit of prequalified pools. the pool expanded our use of prequalified pools to include engineering, environmental planning, grant writing and coaching organizational development. we are creating pathways for firms to qual that stream line the process for full port and firms respondents and staff this means more time working and are less time proposing. finally, first source hiring check ins. the first source hiring is potentially powerful program that connect san franciscans to entry level jobs in professional service contract. support scheduled regular check ins with the first

source hiring staff in order to maximize the opportunities and connect our recruits-their recruits with our contractors. this concludes my presentation on the contracting strategy and the fixes we are engaging in order to make more equitable contracting and welcome your questions and dialogue for my presentation. >> thank you. is there any public comment in the room? seeing none, corey, do we have anyone on the line? >> at this time, there is no one on the phone wishing to make public comment. >> thank you. public comment is closed. commissioner gilman. >> i want to thank you for your report. it is always so comprehensive and i really appreciate everything we are moving to to really model the importance of spending our dollars with lbe and firms that are managed by people of color and women so i have no

questions and thank you for your work on this. >> thank you. >> thank you. commissioner lee. >> no questions. >> commissioner harrington. >> again, thank you and i do is a question. >> absolutely. >> on page 6, it looks like the amount of awards-the number and amount dropped quite a bit over time and you use the term eligible and trying to think, is this the real contracting for the port or only certain types of contracts eligible for this special consideration? >> yes, and i will--eligible means it is not like a full source. some sole source contracts can have requirements but most do not so that is ineligible. federally funded not eligible. those make the projects ineligible, but we do

for example on page 4, we do report out for in the fiscal year what was eligible and not eligible so only had one not eligible so far. >> and just the level of activity, in 2018-19 we say 16 contracts for $40 million and last year 10 contracts for 7 or $8 million. >> you will see a incredible (indiscernible) there was staff turnover and there was a flood of solicitations at the end of 2022 and just now getting into those contracts so you will see that number match and probably increase the previous years. >> great. thank you. >> absolutely. thank you for the question. >> great questions commissioner harrington. alyssa, this is a great report and you do so well giving it. it is very easy to understand and the staff, you

and the staff are doing remarkable work in working with our local business enterprises and it shows. i want to congratulate all of you. thank you. >> thank you. >> jenica, next item,s please. >> item 11 is new business. >> i recorded two items both related to economic recovery plan. one is come back with a qualitative and quantitative metric for the plan and the other is to come back with a discussion about how the plan is reaching partners port wide and making interventions port wide. is there any other new business? >> i know we applied for several grants around way finding and signage. i love to get a informational report maybe before-maybe during the summer or by september the latest where we are are that, particularly with all the cruise ships coming in. i saw royal caribbean was in this week, so i love to

understand that. >> any other new business? >> i have a question. not new business. the ferry building in the back here, have we always considered splint ing it? it has a kitchen if i remember right-the albatross back there. there is a kitchen, a great coffee shop so during the festivals and could be a great steak house upstairs. i'm sure there is logistics. it is such a big piece of property, i don't think we will be able to rent that thing for a while. >> we will come back and speak to you about this facility and we have our process with the broker completed. they are touring the space now and it is very large and doesn't reflect the market of today t. is a bit of albatross and was built for the bart construction

and never demolished so history you will hear about when we when xh to speak of it. >> okay, i like that building. >> when you do the presentation, i love to understand the cost benefit analysis about-because we own that property, correct? >> absolutely. >> i love to understand cost benefit analysis without just demoing it. depending what the broker says, it could be a alternative and think we should be aware of that as a option. >> any other questions or comments? can i have a motion to adjourn? >> motion to adjourn. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> any opposed? the meeting is adjourned at 509 p.m. thank you everyone. [meeting adjourned] my

african-americans migrated to the san francisco bay area, but bayview hunter's point to work as part of the ship yarding culture and tradition. that is how the black community got its root in this incredible city. a lot migrated to work at the

hunter's point shipyard and on the water front >> my family came to san francisco lead my by my great grand mother in 1941. she came like most of the african americans out of the south to the bay area to work in the shipyards during the second world war. overnight years, we people prospered, homeowners it was thriving for the african-american community. where bayview became the center points for african-american homeownership. >> with the shipyard closing, a lot of jobs left and with the maritime shipping leaving throughout the state. african-americans moved out of san francisco, which was the population is 4% or less of african-americans where 20 years ago it may have been 20%.

here the port of san francisco we tried to create many opportunities for are african-americans to participate in contracting in development and jobs. i'm kay book the founder of coffee company. recently opened the flagship coffee shop. this is a full circle for mow to have opened a new cafe here at the port. also like being welcomed back home again. >> port is the first place they was able to bid and win an opinion contract as a small business owner. when we think about the business of the port, and the maritime, right, that history is really continuing to extend itself in the way they engage with black businesses, black people and other diverse communities that are situated along the waterfront and as we move

inward. >> we are looking now at the port of rejuvenating the community. bringing back a kind of economic sip lutz so that the people can go back to the lives they were so well adopted to and building homes and creating families and having churches that were filled. >> i toured crane cove park it is absolutely amazing. this will be a wonderful addition to san francisco. >> i think it is amazing after having conversations with folk who is live in the community and have been excited and waiting for this p to be realized for years, walking around, seeings the connections to history. the opportunity for folks to utilize the water here is going to be an amazing opportunity for all the families and community and i can't wait for the diversity of opportunity we will see here. >> i'm in the crowd and i'm the owner and founder of spin out fit knows. port reached out to me recently

and said they would love to spin out fitness a per of this plan going to 2025. that will be the beginning of you know, this redevelopment of this southern part of san francisco. which is going to be a fantastic. i'm excited about that. >> mission rock is 13 years of city planning and community input to transform a surface parking lot south of the park to a new neighborhood. it will transfurthermore this area into 1200 homes 40% will be affordable and this is something this we are all excited and proud of. >> having been in the industry for 17 years and seeing a lack of diversity when i joined the port, that was the first thing that i saw that there is a lot of diversity and leadership from the commission. and down through the executive team and then throughout our

port. director forbes, commission they have done a good job of making sure the port team reflects not only the city but the people of san francisco and those who visit our water front >> the community. city and private cities working together we with bring the port back to the economic stimulus for people who live here. >> it is important that -- everyone have a role at the port of san francisco and everybody feels welcome. >> the recreation and park commission. would the subject please call the roll

>> yes. commissioner buell. >> here. >> commissioner anderson. >> here. >> commissioner commissioner hallisy. >> here. >> commissioner commissioner jupiter-jones. >> here. >> the recreation and park commission that we occupy the unceded ancestral homeland who are the original inhabitants of the expulsion. we honor them for the enduring to moth or accord and and in accordance with their traditions the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as caretakers of this place as well as for all people to that reside in their traditional territory. as stewards of park land we honor them through the thoughtful preservation and interpretation of these lands and we severability and respect to the acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone community. good morning and welcome to the recreation and park commission of june ,