>> can i have a motion to not disclose any-- >> i so move we don't discuss anything discussed in closed session. >> motion and second. all in favor? aye. opposed? motion passesue unanimously. we are now in open selgz. session. >> item 6 is the land acknowledgment. the san francisco port commission, 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 7, 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 8 is announcements. please be advised the ringing and use of cell phones and sound producing devices are prohibited. a member of the public has up to three minutes to make public comment on each item. unless the port commission adopts a shorter period on any item. public comment must be in respect to the current agenda item. the commission will take in-person and remote public comment on each item, beginning with commenters in person. for remote public comment, dial

1-415-655-0001 and enter access code 26631589897 # # then dial * 3 to raise your hand to comment. if you are watching this meeting on sf govern there is a short broadcast delay. to nost miss your chance to comment, dial when the item you want to comment on is announced. mute your device and listen to the meeting from your telephone with no delay. item 9, public comment on items not listed on the agenda. >> thank you. we have public speakers. gary. gary bower, yes. >> great, gary bower. i want to thank the port and

commission for the time to speak today. i want to get back because my staff is upset because it is my birthday. i had a issue working on today with the port. the mayor breed and governor newsom asked us to bring electric vehicles into service. 2035 they want the combustion engines to go away. we need a 200-0000 sprinkler system in pier 50. been a tenant 35 years. one of the top tenants in the port the last 20 years. we do all the work for the city, the state, the police, fire department, chamber, we donate transportation for major events, funding working on super bowls, olympics, all the work for the bar pilots, the cruise ships which is staff and everybody on the boats.

the -before the pandemic, starting the commuter programs for google, yahoo cisco, facebook, twitter, [indiscernible] moving half billion pounds of carbon monoxide. with the pandemic and shelter at home, we can loss over 40 to 50 percent of revenues. commuter 5 days a week down to zero down in the pandemic and now up to 2 to 3 days a week. [indiscernible] groups were nothing at this time. hotels were closed and filled with the homeless. we were asked to shelter at home, the staff couldn't come into work and couldn't operate as the restaurants and companies at the port properties. been devastated by the pandemic and now working our way back to get back to where we were. over 15 months we have been

trying to wrap up with the port. i have 3 feet tall paperwork. hundreds of e-mails, over 25 meetings and multiple proposals. we are motivated to get this done. we want to move electric vehicles, we have over 20 today. we want to add the entire fleet in the next few years. the only way to do that is get the chargers in the facility and we have to sprinkler the building which will cost about $2 million. to add insult to injury, our vehicle lender went out of business during the pandemic so had to scour the planet for banks. [indiscernible] worst time ever. after 30 plus lenders brokers bankers, we finally got first citizen bank to fund us. had to promise my first born plus plus plus. in december we got that done in 22. we had to provide a r a p and 5 year forcast with them. we used the numbers given to us

by the port and the projections going forward. the documents were used to make the bank decision to lend the money. we were given numbers in 21, 22, 23 we projected to the bank. the numbers are so different where we are today, the port thinks we owe $6.4 million and if you do the math and lay it out, it is 2 to $2.5 million depending on any credit. there is up to 80 percent credit given to port tenants. we ask to be treated fairly. we want to wrap this up and move forward. i spoke with all the supervisors, the mayor and everybody else, we want to get this done. >> thank you. thank you. really appreciate you coming on your birthday, gary. thank you and thank you for being such a long-term tenant. next, mark gleeson. >> good afternoon commissioners. mark glee seen speaking on

behalf of teamsters 665. who represents over 200 workers at bowers drivers, others. majority are also san francisco residents. they depend on those jobs and gary bower and his company have been a very good employer. we have three contracts there and in place and valid and functioning very well. we are here to support his request for a break. as we all know, during the pandemic, and all the things that have gone on in recent years, it has been very difficult in the hospitality industry. the bus industry gary has is integral part of the hospitality industry and many other parts of the industry have been given breaks in recognition of the difficulties the last few years and we are asking the same

consideration for bower transportation as well. we hope that can be something to consider as deliberated and thank you for your time. >> thank you. devon mclaughlin. >> good afternoon commissioners. thank you for your time today. my name is devon long shore warehouse union. like to recognize president willie adams for being here as well. we are here to update the commission about what is happening at alcatraz cruises. people may be aware workers at alcatraz cruises decided to organize with the marine division of the ilw about the privilege getting to work alongside the workers and the fight to better conditions, pay and benefits and the central goal is to raise their

working conditions wages, up to the standards that have been established. the high standards already established on the san francisco bay with companies like blue and gold ferry, red and white fleet, golden gate ferry and others. over the past few months we have been trying to work in good faith with the company to conclude notionations to get to satisfactory agreement. we haven't seen the same level of cooperation from the company. over the fast few months works filed six separate unfair labor practice charges against the company with national labor relations board. one of these involved the company hiring armed security to kick workers off the premises, and another involved a supervisor making a explicit threat of violence again a union supporter. there was no action taken against the supervisor to insure safety.

workers have been on strike 4 times in response to the unfair labor practices over the past few months. we are just trying to get to satisfactory conclusion and the workers get what they deserve. a big issue now is the company has delayed significantly in setting up bargaining sessions. our last session was in july. they declined to schedule another negotiation session until october 2. a very long time when we have a lot of things to work out. so, we are here to ask for the port commission's continued support of these workers in their efforts to get what they deserve to ask this company to follow the law and just-we are not asking for new standard, we are asking for the standard established. in addition, we will have two brothers from inland boat union from pacific, mike mendez and can dave

provost, we like to read a letter from congresswoman nancy pelosi written to director of national park service letting the park service know her position on it and asking them to take action and support as well. i thank you for your time i'll let brothers make and david let you know the rest. thank you very much. >> thank you. david. provost. mike first? okay. mike. >> good afternoon. thank you. dear director thank you for your lifetime effort to foster strong stewardship and preservation of our national land and cultural resources for this and future generations. i am writing in regard to a ongoing labor dispute between concessionaire of the national park services, alcatraz city cruises and inland boatman

union of the pacific. tours come from over all the united states and around the world to visit alcatraz island. one of the top torest destination in the park system. visitors learn about the rich history as a famous federal and historic protest by native americans for calling for [indiscernible] plight on the first americans. as you know, the national park service awarded a 15 year contract with horn blower. alcatraz city cruises and we appreciate horn blower and alcatraz city cruises providing excellent maritime to san francisco bay during the time. however, it is my understanding that horn blower has yet to reach resolution with the ibu since negotiation in 2022. nearly two years ago.

i will hand it over to david for the second part. >> thank you. >> hello everybody. for all the work we do to demonstrate our unwavering commitment to the national park service of golden gate national recreation area and help our national parks flourish, it cannot be done at the expense of the workers. i fought on behalf of the rights of our working middle class to empower every american to have just wages, fair benefits and fundamental dignity that they have earned. in light of the reports, horn blower group alcatraz city cruises have been remissed in meeting regularly and negotiating in good faith.

i respectfully request that the nps insure our concessionaire is working diligently in good faith to negotiate a fair and equitable deal in a timely manner with the workers of the ibu. it is essential that alcatraz city cruises continue to operate fully providing their trademark and adventures with fairly paid benefited workers. our nations middle class was built with a union label on it. the skilled devotion and solidarity of our hard working americans make up the heart of san francisco's economy and the federation of our communities and our nation's strength. thank you again director sams for the

full and fair consideration of our concern and request according to all applicable laws and guidelines. i look forward to your response. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> is there any other public comment? seeing none in the room, do we have anyone on the phone? >> there are no callers for public comment at this time. >> thank you. public comment is closed. thank you to all of our speakers and because it is not on the agenda, we cannot discuss these issues, but gary, i would like to ask director forbes to please update the commission on the negotiations and where we are and how we can settle this. and, we always support the longshoreman and all our union brothers and

sisters, so director forbes, whatever we can do to help, please let mike know. >> to the ibu, i was trying to get a contract with horn blower. just note, this commission, we stand in solidarity and support with you. working people. san francisco is a working class town, and there always seems to be in the negotiations--negotiations go back and forth and i learn in 46 years both parties walk away unhappy you usually have a good agreement, so we got to get there. director forbes, would you please reach out to horn blower and let them know that they need to get this thing done. the men and women of ibu need to take care of their families and deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. thank you. >> thank you. next item, please. >> item 10, executive director's report. for callers who wish to comment

on this item, please dial star 3 to raise your hand to comment. >> thank you so much. can we get the overhead? i have slides. thank you. i decide d to put slides together because i have so much content i read. let's see if this is helpful to people. good afternoon president brandon, vice president gilman, commissioners, port staff, members of the public. elaine forbes the port executive director and today will give a update on equity, economic recovery resilience and key updates. first to equity, the food wise pop up on the plaza is happening september 28, 9 to 2. the port is a sponsor of this event. at the ferry building by the farmer's market. it is celebration of locally owned black businesses and kicks off the harvest season with day of delicious

foods crafts and community and entry is free to the event. food and drinks will be available for purchase. this year they will highlight a variety of foods. we really encourage you to come. it is a wonderful event. you can go to foodwise.org for more information. to economic recovery, amdore streets, the ports engineering division received 3 bids for amdore streets and structure improverment projbect and evaluating the bids now. we anticipate that in october we will be coming forward for requests for award. this street desperately needs work. it is a critical east/west thoroughfare serving the southern waterfront and continuously in need of emergency repairs and other improvements from damaged pavement, deteriorated sewer infrastructure and the tenants along amdore street actually have to drive very slowly to avoid damaging

their vehicles, so we are really excited to get this project done. the project will replace the existing pump station to upgrade capacity and sewer and water lines under the roadway, reconstruct the roadway and are install new landscaping and this is federal infrastructure funding. pidp. on to fisherman's wharf, the first phase of fisherman's wharf j9 replacement project is under way. dredging of the lagoon is nearly complete with fabrication of the float. the j nane replacement project will replace the wharf and sea wall with shoreline structure and serve today's fishing industry and also maintain fisherman's wharf unique character. we are really excited to get this going and the major benefit in addition to

resilience is how much it will help off the boat fish and craft sales. fleet week, we are preparing, a very busy time of year for the port. preparing to welcome thousands of people to safe clean vibrant waterfront for fleet week held october 7-14. this is exciting annual events and includes the ships, air show, over the bay and ship tours. please visit fleetweek.org for more information and we look forward seeing you on the waterfront. there is fleet week. on to resilience. we have tomorrow at 6 p.m. the port staff will be part of a panel at a 21 annual architecture city festival with representatives from ferry belding and exploreatorium discuss how public engagement is key transforming

san francisco waterfront and addressing sea level rise flooding and seismic risk. visit the port social media for more details how to join the free event at the ferry building. on september 25, the waterfront resilience program will lead a walking tour of the embarcadero from 1 to 3 as part of ongoing engagement around resilience work. here is the living sea wall. last month staff from the port and smithsonian environmental research center collected data as part of this work. it is 5th round of monitoring the living sea wall. the testing and evaluating engineering with nature concepts from around the world to learn how we can make san francisco's new sea wall more ecological friendly in the future. you can see the monitoring shows the growth of native sea weeds,oysters barnacles snails and sponges and inform

how we deploy and rebuild the sea wall so look forward for more from the living sea wall work. now to project updates. the port earlier this month joined mayor london breed and state senator wiener, matt haney, david chui, mission rock developers to celebrate the opening of 23 story residential building located at 1070 bridge view way steps from china basin park. this features 254 apartments of which 59 are available at below market for middle income households. this is a beautiful addition to this incredibly growing and diverse vibrant area of town so very excited to open the new building. two off shore wind, engineering team continue tos build relationship

and work with stakeholders to figure how to bring off-shore wind and manufacturing to our southern waterfront. over the past few months, we engaged we lead tours and engaged with several agencies, including the regulatory agencies, technology providers. in august, fema hazard mitigation grant was awarded for investigation improvement at 9496 so this work is very important to this endeavor and we look to bring accept and expend in october to the port commission on this item, so we continue to advance this incredibly promising opportunity for san francisco. and to crane cove park construction. we received 4 bids last month for crane cove park playground and dog park project and we are evaluating those bids, and again, we hope to be back in october for award. this effort is to construct

designated children and dog play areas, specifically the project will create a rigor yard which is a natural play area with plantings and a tot lot and a dog area on the east side of the park. we hope the project will be completed in september 25. and finally to ocean cleanup. earlier this month the ocean cleanup vessel lancer-i know i'm not saying that correctly-returned to port of san francisco with tons of trash on-board sharing exciting news of eradicating the great pacific garbage patch. over the past three years the ocean cleanup removed more then 1 million pounds of trash. both vessels birthed at the exploratorium and event to

celebration the ocean clean up. that concludes my report and available to answer questions. >> thank you very much. we'll now take public comment. any public comment in the room? seeing none, do we have anyone on the phone? >> there are no callers for public comment at this time. >> thank you, public comment is closed. commissioner lee. >> well, no comments really, other then, we are doing really well. great summer. just keep it up. thank you elaine. short and sweet today. >> okay! thank you! commissioner engblom. >> very impressive range of activities. i think that diversity is in addition to the physical resilience work, economic rezil resilience is demonstrated by the diversity so thank you.

>> thank you. commissioner adams. >> stellar report, director forbes. everything that-was great with the numbers. also, say i'm looking forward to fleet week, which i think is going to be good and all the work you have done. i think it is really going to be good to south shore wind and want to thank maritime because the [indiscernible] and building trades, off-shore wind is big and will hit a lot of the ports on the west coast, in eureka, long-beach. it is good we got the land to do off-shore wind. you didn't have a chance to mention, october 4, the james herman cruise terminal and jimmy herman was the second president of our organization and to have a cruise terminal

named after a union leader and what is more important is jimmy was one of the founders with delancey street and the work of commitment and social justice in san francisco and i want to congratulate you and the staff and [indiscernible] but, 10 years of having that cruise terminal down there at 27 and i think that's so important, because it is something that a lightening rod people all over the world can see that on our waterfront. have that beautiful terminal down there, have concerts down there and it is magnificent we have something so beautiful and i still hope one day we will get over a million passenger ares a year that will come to our great city as we are back on recovery path of people wanting to come back to san francisco, because we need to hit back up at the 30 million mark again so thank you. >> thank you. vice president gilman. >> thank you director forbes

for a great report and i know it was at the end looking to future but i want to uplift on the economic recovery and how important for us to support and thinks are definitely definitely improving but the businesses are still struggling and had a time to spend time between pier 39 and hyde street pier and improvements from the gazeboes and spinning chairs made a world of difference for the families sitting and eating and using the public space, made a world of difference uplifting and promoting licensed permitted vending that was beautifully set up and had an array of customers and it really those improvements from the gazeboes onward are helping our brick and mortars. chatter was hopping, nick's lighthouse had not one empty seat available so i want to say fisherman's is

beginning to pay off and leading into fleet week, hopefully it will really help improve both the atmosphere for visitors and locals alike for our awaterfront. i also wanted to say, we have a lot of events taking place and i really wanted to thank the staff. it wasn't mentioned in your report, but i was super impressed with diplos run and concert on the southeast waterfront that they put on for boat showing that you can physically active and party at the same time. it was-we were one of two cities that diplo chose to do this, us and seattle and it is important to highlight we have activity on the northeast and southeast end of the waterfront. thank you. >> thank you. director forbes thank you so much. it seems every month your

report gets longer and e slides. that is a testament to all the work and activity going on here at the waterfront, and the economic recovery throughout the waterfront is just absolutely wonderful. absolutely looking forward to fleet week. we have many festivals coming and that is wonderful. the resilience team is doing a phenomenal job and getting out there and think there is probably not anybody in san francisco that doesn't know about the resilience work going on here at the port of san francisco, because we are doing such a great job in outreach and discussing all the efforts that we are working on. i think it is absolutely exciting the new housing at mission rock, mission verde, i think that is wonder ifal and help a lot of families. how much was the off-shore wind grant?

>> 4 million $4 million. >> congratulations. [applause] we get a grant to just study if it is the right spot and hopefully it is and we will--also get that business in the southern waterfront and the new improvements at crane cove park are going to be wonderful. i'm so happy we will be able to build the children's playground and dog run. wonderful report. thank you. so much wonderful activity at the port of san francisco. thank you. next item, please. >> item 11, consent calendar. for callers who wish to comment on the consent calendar, please dial star 3 to raise your hand to comment. item 11 a, request authorization to advertise for competitive bids for construction contract number 2871, pier 80 mooring and berthing

improvement. resolution 24-38. b, request approval of consent to transforport leases l-12839 pier 92 and l-13002 pier 94 from hbm a holdings llc to martin marietta northern california aggregates:item 11c, request approval of resolution amending the lease with exploreatorium at piers 15 and 17 to, among other things, extend date by an additional 10 years to commence rehabilitation of pier 17. this is resolution 24-40. >> thank you. is there a motion? >> make a motion to move the consend. consent cht >> second. >> we'll take public comment. any public comment in the room? seeing none, do we have anyone on the phone? >> there are no callers for

public comment at this time. >> thank you. public comment is closed. we have a motion and a second? all in favor? >> aye. >> any opposed? motion passes unanimously. resolutions 24 and 38, 24-39 and 24-40 are adopted. next item, please. >> item 12 a, informational presentation to consider and possible action to find that it is impractical to bid retail space at 360 jefferson street in fisherman's wharf currently leased to portco inc. db a safe harbor lease l-14564 and authorize port staff to enter direct negotiation with portco inc. for 5 year lease renewal for such space. resolution 24-41. for callers who wish to comment on this item, dial star 3 to raise your hand to comment. >> are we ready?

okay. i'm-good afternoon. i'm don kavanagh senior property manager for fisherman's wharf and bringing proposal to renew the safe harbor lease owned by portco. this is a relatively small retail opportunity in fisherman's wharf, which is right next to between frank's fisherman and pompay and they sell t-shirts and other things people find attractive in that area. for the background, portco has been a tenant 16 and a half years. their lease expired april 30. they requested a lease renewal, and i looked at the port commission resolution 11-15, which does allow renewal of a retail tenant under certain conditions.

portco had to meet preliminary conditions, meaning in good standing. they had to provide documentation which is like the organizational information and certain financial information and we also think a most suitable tenant for reasons i'll get into next. so, one of the requirements under the resolution is that the bay area commercial real estate market needs to be in a downturn and if you narrow that down to the san francisco area, you can obviously see that in increasing office vacancy rate, which is now approaching 40 percent, which eliminates certain customers that other businesses depended on and we are also seeing a increase in retail vacancy with reduction in rent. i think it is pretty clear that there is a economic downturn going on right

now. we did consider a competitive bidding process. there is no guarantee portco would stay for the duration that process. we are trying to avoid another vacant space in fisherman's wharf and we don't want to pay significant landlord improvements or tenant improvements or possibly commissions if we use a broker to lease the space. we think that leasing process could take 18 months for a rfp process, not including the lease negotiation process, and the broker process for leasing the restaurants started in november and we are getting very close to finalizing leases, so that process doesn't take quite as long, but we might still be exposed to vacancy and down time. the other thing to consider is that, resolution 11-15 calls for a market rent for the renewal, and so

even if we go out and bid the lease or use a broker, we are not likely to get more base rent then the renewal lease, so there is that. also, the tenant may not be have the same vested interest as portco does because they have other operations along jefferson street including frank's fisherman, the wharf store, behind the wharf store is coast marine, which they operate to provide fishing supplies for the fishing fleet. they report that they operate that as a loss. finally, a 5 year renewal is better then a longer term lease, because we have plans for that area in the future and a longer term lease may impact those plans. so, we concluded engaging in a competitive bidding process is unlikely to timely produce a better economic result then the renewal of

portco. approving the waver of the competitive bidding process helps maintain the vibrancy of fisherman's wharf, provides uninterrupted revenue stream for 5 more years and avoids the expense of -expensive improvements to the premises. with that, i welcome questions on this item. we'll go from there. >> thank you very much. can i have a motion? >> i make a motion to move. >> i second. >> we'll open it up for public comment. is there any public commin -comment in the room? seeing none, do we have anyone on the phone? >> there are no callers for public comment at this time. >> thank you. public comment is closed. commissioner engblom. >> no questions. >> commissioner adams.

>> no questions. >> commissioner lee. >> no questions, but i want to applaud them for wanting to stay, because in this time for us, for anybody at fisherman's wharf that want to extend their lease, i want to give them full support, and seems they have been in good standings and i know what it is like to move a business, and it is not fun, so just happy i'm here to support them 100 percent. >> thank you. >> thank you. vice president gilman. >> i completely support the item, no questions. >> thank you. thank you. so, besides 5 year, what are the terms of this lease? >> we haven't engaged in direct negotiation with the tenant because we haven't been authorized by the port commission to do so. i have a sense of what market

rents will be, and i can mention that now if you like. i think the base rent, market rent is $3 a square foot. percentage rent is negotiable for each retail lease, but we are thinking 8.75 percent percentage rent which is higher then market, but that's what portco proposed. >> okay. the $3 is what they are paying now? >> they are paying for the sales space paying $5.75 a square foot. if you include the storage space, it is about $4.50 overall. >> do they plan to do any improvements? >> no. they actually kept the building up. i was looking at the front to see if i needed to require any upgrades or improvements and it is pretty clean and crisp so no improvements proposed.

if they wanted a longer term lease they would have had to make improvements. >> thank you. motion and second. all in favor? >> aye. >> any opposed? motion passes. resolution 24-41 is adopted. next item, please. >> item 13 a informational presentation on the draft 2025 hazards and climate resilience plan. for callers who wish to comment on this item, dial star 3 to raise your hand to comment. >> president brandon, vice president gilman, commissioners, director forbes, brad benson, the port waterfront resilience director here to introduce the item today. we have colleagues from the office of resilience and capital planning here. brian strong, the city chief resilience officer, alex morrison and melissa igbe will be gibbing the

presentation today. melissa is the resilience manager from the office of resilience and capital planning and oversees programs that make san francisco more resilient to shocks and stressors, including the topic of today's meeting, hazard and climate resilience plan. the heat and air quality resilience plan, the earthquake safety implementation program and resilience sf strategy. melissa, please take it away. >> thank you. thank you for the introduction brad and thank you commissioners for your time today. also want to thank director forbes for your support having this on the agenda today. getting right into it, the hazard climate resilience plan is a city wide action plan to improve resilience to natural hazards and climate change impacts. it includes priority actions like projects, plans and programs

for strategic funding whether that be grants or capital budget funding and we have the plan and keep it updated because it helps us be eligible for fema grants like the hazard mitigation grant program director forbes mentioned before and the building resilient infrastructure program. those are really important sources for the port and other departments in the city. we have a 2020 plan that we came and presented back in 2019. we have been working on updating it and get ready to be adopted by the board of supervisors and mayor by july 2025. it also helps with state compliance with sb379 which requires climate adaptation planning and connecting that to our general plan, and the local level it is strategic plan for the city. it is companion to the climate action plan, the safety resilient element and also helps update our resilient sf

strategy in our office as well. the draft of the update is available for public comment this month and that is part of why i'm here today. just a little bit more about the scope. it covers 14 different natural hazards we can have here in san francisco and how they are changing in frequency or severity because of climate change, so the port is a critical partner for a seismic hazard and flooding hazard, among others. we also worked to make this hazard data more accessible to the public. we have story maps up on our website where folks can toggle on and off different hazards, explore down to the neighborhood or block to see what they can be potentially exposed to. so, for this update approach, like i

mentioned, we have been working on it a while now. we started meeting with interdepartmental team in july 2023. the port had a couple staff partnering with us on that along with many deerment departments. we did a targeted up date and how much ongoing resilience engagement has been happening around the city, including lead by the port. but we did incorporate new signs that have come out, like findings on extreme precipitation, how ground water is changing in response to sea level rise and some of new risk assessments and plans like heat and resilience plan and of course the flood study. we also focused on prioritizing a bit more in this plan. our 2020 plan had 96 different actions. we worked to get that down to 74, so it is still a lot, but we are being more

targeted and prioritizing. so, for our community engagement approach, we really have focused on environmental justice communities and meeting community groups where they already are. when we did the last update we did stand alone workshops and we got feedback, can you come where we are already meeting instead calling us out to stand alone meetings. some of the priorities and themes we heard, a lot about the waterfront resilience and importance that, particularly concerns around contamination and wanting to use nature based solutions where feasible. energy resilience, earthquake, transportation and neighborhood capacity building stood out as top themes from the community. we used the information to help draft the new resilience pillars and objectives, so it is organized around

buildings, communities and infrastructure. there are 17 different objectives. i will not read them all for you. i want to highlight the bright yellow where the port is in a leadership position on leading some of the actions in the plan. the light yellow arrows is where the port is a partner on some of the actions in the plan. i will highlight for you all the actions we have with the port as the lead agency. so, around using nature based solutions and adapting shoreline to sea level rise. we have the port in a lead role there. protecting the waterfront with embarcadero project. working on pier structures and making those more resilient and also moving forward some of the projects and strategies we were a part of the adapation strategy. and looking at longer term adaptation,

clearly a leader there with waterfront resilience program and the flood study and also with developing and supporting major development projects on the waterfront that helped deliver resilient infrastructure. this is just a sample action to let you know what an action looks like in the plan. we provide about a paragraph explaining what it is, who the partners are, the cost, the funding sources, the timeline and we do a status update every single year and an annual report on it. and then again, just highlighting for you where the port is listed as a partner in the plan. in the building sector, helping to assess and seismically retrofit buildings in the community

area, partner around how sea level-connecting studies to understand how sea level rise may interact with contaminated land, neighborhood capacity building, resilience, engagement, looking at different structures for governance around flood resilience and then in the infrastructure pillar, working on resilience in the transportation sector. we are also working towards a new requirement from the state called sb272, to create a shoreline resiliency plan by 2034, so the port is working along with us or cp and planning towards accomplishing meeting that requirement and of course the yosemite slew and partnering with there puc to do flood risk analysis in each watershed.

there is a mouth full. this plan is very comprehensive. just want to highlight our next steps. this plan has been out for public comment august and september. we are going to commissions like this one to help make sure decision makers and public are aware of it and have a opportunity to provide feedback. doing briefings for the board of supervisors. october we'll take the feedback we have been hearing, create a final draft of the plan and submit to cal oes and fema for review. they can take up to 6 months for review and next spring submit it to the board of supervisors. so, with that, i want to thank you and i'm available to answer any questions or hear your feedback. >> thank you melissa. i will now open up to public comment. is there any public comment in the room? seeing none, do we have anyone on the

phone? >> there are no callers for public comment at this time. >> thank you, public comment is closed. commissioner adams. >> great report. i think this is the first time i might have seen you present here and you did a really really good job. i have no questions and looking forward when you come back. thank you. >> thank you. commissioner lee. >> no questions. good layout. thank you. >> thank you. commissioner emem. - >> great to see you. i is a couple questions. two questions really. one is about, you mentioned a lot of attention to funding and funding resources. i wonder if you can talk a little bit about financial--how are you on

the team how are you supported with financial invasion, because this is such a huge economic challenge. i know there is a lot of physical resilience like you talked about all of the 17 natural hazards. i wonder how are you feeling in terms of support for financial invasion for this project? my second question is, you spent a lot of time talking about inneragency collaboration within the city family. i wonder if you feel like we are doing a good job in terms of looking to peer studies at other cities around the world? i know this is a pilot program from the army corp, and it is getting a lot of attention in some circles and i wonder if you are feeling you are getting a

chance to talk with other cities and lessens learn. ed. this is cutting edge project and doing a great job. it is good thing to try to learn from others. those are my two questions. thanks. >> great. yeah, on financial invasion, i will definitely invite brian or brad if they want to chime in on it. one thing we do is, every year we do check with departments to the extent they are able to include projeths in their budget. we are trying to be advocates for resilience within city departments. we also work closely with the capital planning team to try to bring these needs into the 10 year capital plan, and also better understand the scale of the need.

we are trying to nail down the cost and how to better include in the 10 year capital plan and then what are the sources and our local sources are limited. we do look at the go bond program and there is a way to do more of the resilience work in the go bond schedule. and it is going to take state and federal resources as well. we have been looking at state resilience bond. we have been looking how to better take advantage of the fema sources. they recently made changes to the cost benefit analysis that has been a factor in the eligibility, so we are working on that and trying to take as much advantage of the current ir a sources out there to the extent they will be available in the next

administration. we don't know, so trying to take advantage that source while it is available. if brad or brian want to say anything else about financial invasion, please. okay. >> just to add, we just released the draft plan with that $13.5 billion price tag and we are hopeful that if it is authorized by congress we get a 65 percent contribution from the federal government, but that still leaves a 35 percent local match, and we have to be really innovative to come up with a strategy to develop those resources. we have done very preliminary work with crews at finance administration and answering some of director forbes initial questions about this. we are ultimately going to have the come up with a strategy for the local match, and we have to

collaborate with orcp, brian strong thinking the different tools that are available both private sources, public sources at the local, state, regional level, so is stay tuned on that question and it really is going to be a team effort to come up with that strategy. >> and then your second question around learning from other cities, brian and i part of the resilient cities which grew out of 100 cities, so we are connected with cities across north america working on resilience and sharing projects and trouble shooting with each other. we are particularly connected with berkeley and oakland through that effort. with a lot of our work we do case studies reaching out to other cities, we are in partnership with the sfpuc

researching how other cities are approaching flood resilience policy and gover gns and learning from thement. last week on the phone with l a county. this week going to talk to port of seattle about this work in our office, so yeah, working with other cities is really important tool we have to try to learn from each other and be innovative. >> thanks. >> thank you. vice president gilman. >> melissa, thank you so much for the report and i want to make sure one assumption from the staff report and your report want to make sure i get it right, that all of your objectives here like use a example we are a lead on under infrastructure for promote, design and use natural based solution, all is lock step and intertwined with army corp work and all the other resilience work? nothing is additive or outside the box in anything you are recommending we lead on?

>> no, nothing is additive. this is like a umbrella that captures the work the port is doing on wrp and related efforts. >> that's great and you are resource for us and advocate so i appreciate all that because the work is so critical, particularly with the army corp so thank you so much. >> thank you. melissa, thank you so much for the report, and this is great information. i think it is wonderful there is centralized planning effort that is including all city agencies and being able to collectively source funding opportunities, so i think this is wonderful and very proactive, so thank you. >> thank you. >> next item, please. >> item 14, informational presentation on the port's maritime portfolio for fiscal year 24. for callers who wish to comment on this

item, please dial star 3 to raise your hand to comment. >> good afternoon president brandon, vice president gilman-andre colman, deputy director maritime and joined by the maritime team here. deputy director dominic merino, south beach harbor staff and also folks from the business development side of the division. before i jump into the presentation, just piggy backing off commissioner adams comments regarding the james r herman cruise terminal. this is a photo from opening day and tomorrow is the 10 year anniversary of the first ship that called the pier 27 cruise terminal. 10 year s later we had achieved

approximately 26 percent higher volumes in passenger counts at the facility. events have been going strong and will touch on both of those items as i work through the presentation. moving to the next slide, so strategic plan is guided by the strategic plan. the following provides general outline of the division's areas of focus, so cargo cruise, pier 68 shipyard, 8396, commercial fishing industry and water transportation. as noted in the staff report, there are sub-components which i'll speak to throughout the presentation. this slide shows the previous fiscal year total maritime revenue by industry. we are a very diverse waterfront. our business portfolio includes south beach harbor recreational marina, cargo, cruise, excursion

operation, commercial fishing-happy to report comparison to fiscal year 23, we were up around approximately 12 percent in revenues. biggest driver is the excursion category was moved from the real estate portfolio to the maritime portfolio. ; but despite that addition, we were still ahead of the previous year. as you can see cruise and cargo, they account for over 50 percent of our maritime revenues. our maritime revenues are comprised of freights, parameter rates revenue sharing negotiated through revenue management agreement and and event revenue are also captured in the revenues. looking at the cruise year for

fiscal year 24, another strong cruise year for us where we achieved not record numbers, but shy of the previous year record. correction here, we hosted total of 95 cruise ship calls this past fiscal year. the previous year was 110 calls and finished with 363 thousand passengers which the second highest fiscal year on record. that equated to approximately $6.9 million in passenger revenue. we do receive revenues for dockage and wharfage at the cruise terminal. we did experience challenges this past cruise year. just due to dredging challenges that we are in the process of performing dredging work so that is good to see, but despite those challenges, we accommodated all our scheduled cruise calls, and we did that at four

different facilities across the port. this past fiscal year we exercised pier 35, 27, 30, 32 and pier 80 which i'll speak to in the next slide. again, another strong year and a lot that is achieved with the collaboration of port staff, metro cruise, iowu and other key stakeholders. i mentioned events, so for at pier 27 and pier 35, was the solid year for events. we are at about 50 percent of revenue where we were pre-pandemic so not back to pre-pandemic but trending in the right direction. near term objectives, continue analysis of viable electric cruise berth in the southern waterfront. pier 80.

implement capital improvements. this is 10 years so in the process of working with metro cruise and will be performing engineering analysis of the facility and will return their findings to the port and then we continue to identify and implementational at pier 35 and pier 30, 32. just speaking to the pier 80 operation, so, here are a few photos from the pier 80 operation, which was again a success. we stood up the facility and believe within 90 days if not mistaken, getting the green light to move forward. it was a full turn operation, so those are passengers that disembarked and passengers that embarked. successful operation. approximately 8 to 10 hours if not mistaken.

a lot of advaptage to pier 80 site. the ample passenger pick up drop off space, about half a mile to the freeway. the third street muni line, proximity to sfo and supplemental shuttle service that provided transit to central and northern waterfront. being on the ground the day of the operation, we were able to engage with passengers and they rank said how efficient the process was for arriving at sfo, or driving to the facility or other methods of transportation they took to get to pier 80. not captured on the screen, but we did utilize shed d for security screening and metro cruise did a great job transforming the facility. kudos to labor because they showed up and it was a flawless operation.

excited to the opportunity with pier 80 and will continue to work with cruise partners to bring more cruise ships there in the future hopefully, and hopefully surpass the 1 million passenger mark. moving to the next slide, focusing on cargo. for cargo for the previous year, pier 80 increased approximately by 2.3 percent. the primary cargo category is [indiscernible] cars, so primarily the export of cars at pier 80. also accommodated the couple import ships at the site as well. revenues did increase slightly and that is achieved by activating the site with other uses, so we had facility p event for the third year at pier 80 and the

por tollo music festival. the challenges are [indiscernible] row row vessels are required by the california air resource board to plug in while at berth, unless you are considered a low activity facility. pier 80 falls into the low activity facility category and it can only receive 19 calls or less annually, so we are working with our terminal operator, p a sh a to coordinate to stay under the 19 call flesh hold as we continue to explore lect w fiication of the berth and locking at other sites in the southern waterfront to accommodate row row vessels so pier 95, you may recall the aggregate operation that winded down last year and in the process of restoring the site so that

may be a alternate site. mark the facility for cargo opportunities. staff will be attending the conference which i believe is next month in our terminal operator will be attendance as well and others. capital improvements, a new fender system on consent calendar and [indiscernible] excited about that. and then pier 92, negotiated new long-term lease with their dry bulk aperator so a item on consent calendar which brings the tenant in good standing and i believe i already somewhat briefed the commission on that. pier 92 lease. for the pier 68 shipyard, we continue to stay active in trying to sell and or dispose of the dry docks. unfortunately we had 2 failed rfo to

where we did not receive satisfactory response for sale of the dry docks. we have been approached by interested party who we stay engaged with and i believe that group is from turkey. they intend to fly out within the next month to make their assessment of the dry docks so continue to work with them and probably negotiate transaction for sale of the dry docks. concurrently we are also working towards disposal plan should that transaction-should we not arrive at agreement on transaction. we recognize that the dry docks are continue to deteriorate and the liability, so we want to focus on insuring we have disposal plans. we should be coming to the commission next month or the month after seeking or request to appropriate funds for disposal of the dry docks. in addition to focusing on the

dry docks, we continue to create leasing opportunities that attract light maritime industrial activity. we have forthcoming lease proposal for maritime operator which we will bring before the commission for consideration. we have [indiscernible] other uses at the site. we will highlight the c change, which is the zero emission ferry. it is berthed at pier 9, but fuel transfers occur at the shipyard, so those are always exciting and we continue to support that zero emission ferry. fisherman's wharf hyde street harbor. director forbes spoke to the j9 project, but other capital improvements include procurement of new ice machine, active and ongoing and we are hoping we can catch the spring to summer window in 2025 for demo, and instillation of the new ice machine.

the reactivation of the fuel dock is still under consideration as we work through legal issues there, and then we have the reactivation of the wharf j9, so we will have the j9 float that will be installed at the wharf hopefully right in time for crab season and we will hopefully have a successful retail craft season with the new float at the wharf. team has been developing operation and signage plan for approval or in an tisitation of the j9 float so that is exciting and we have dredging occurring at the wharf, so that's started last week. we hope to wrap up by next week and i believe this is the first time in over 20 years that dredging occurred at the wharf. other improvements, harbor infrastructure and amenities. we have construction work

performed at hyde street harbor as we speak. excitesed to see that to insure those amenities are there for the commercial fishing fleet. excursion and near water transit, this continue to be a focus of the team, so we do have pier 1 and a half still down, so we continue to monitor that with master tenant responsible for that repair. our signage, that is ongoing as far as improving signage for the landing location and water taxi and excursion operators and ongoing engagement with w et a to expand ferry for the 48 and a half ferry and the larger project, the mission bay ferry landing. i am happy to report that for fiscal year 24, we have aligned with our fiscal year reported 19 percent

increase in ridership in golden gate ferry, report of 23 percent increase in ridership from the previous year. not pre-pandemic level but increase. south beach harbor, continues to do a lot. there is a lot of activity and can't capture it all on the screen, but they do a lot from just being good partners with the giants, a lot of events are hosted at that facility outside the ball games and the south beach harbor team continues to step up and insure that is flawless operation at that harbor. capital improvement projects, dredging hopefully to take place next week. shortly thereafter we have dock improvements occurring as we speak at the harbor as well. just highlighting some of the

recreational activities. we still excursion operations are strong and ongoing. spinout fitness continues to grow and sf brew boat is very popular. other things we continue to look at is reactivation of the north guest dock. alvine and his team are always approaching with ideas for generating revenue, so look forward to getting some of those ideas underway, but revenues have been strong in south beach harbor. this year we were around $5.4 billion, so good to see. equity, south beach harbor saling program, that continues and that is one where the service works with boys and girls club and sponsor students who participate. south beach harbor youth sailing program. we have the inspire program, the competitive event that takes

place on the bay. there is the base camp that is held at pier 80 and students from the district 10 are brought to the site for a week long or educational period is a week long, but it is a day field trip for students at that site. additionally, the rising tides mentor and internship bram, so this year was the third year that program, included partnership with opportunities for all, enterprise for youth, project pull and sf youth works. the program provided high school and transitional youth with the 6 week paid internship with the port. included look at the maritime industry through project analysis and educational and experience along the waterfront. i like to highlight, one of our interns is now an employee,

[indiscernible] jackson is here. joined the port team as a public service aid and been working out of south beach harbor with. san francisco native and has fondness for the water, however we didn't have access to the water until participating in the rising tides internship program. he has been a great asset to the team. south beach harbor team, brought him in and showed him so much, as well as other folks within the maritime division and the port. he is a perfect example of the internship program. been working as intended to do, so excited to have him. thank you tiffany for year 3 in the rising tides program. she does a great job putting that together. our pacific northwest, tiffany and tatum and i took a road trip

starting in portland. office of small business, economic development and then toured port of astori a. got to visit [indiscernible] we were able to engage with students and the faculty and better understand their curriculum and see how we can implement their curriculum and the programs we have underway. from oregon we then went to the state of washington. visited the port of seattle. their small business economic development team. i did a tour of the cruise operation and then tiffany and i headed to the maritime high school, a very impressive 4 year program which provides students a opportunity to direct employment into the maritime industry, or 4 year program by way of college

program. then we also visited the diver institute as well. a lot of things that we were able to take away from that trip and we look forward to pulling some of the nuggets away from that trip and implementing them into our programs locally. and, with that, just want to again thank the maritime team. also, the other divisions who have supported all the work that we continue to do. we ask a lot of our pier 50 team, our engineering team and real estate team. they definitely step up and step in in driving our maritime leasing and director forbes and mike for the pier 80 operation. again, it is impressive how we were able to get that done. with that, i will take any questions.

>> thank you. great report. a lot going on in maritime. is there any public comment in the room? >> great report an dray. i have a few question. when you guys have your cruises embark on pier 80, you guys bring all of them down to pier 39. is that usually the course, or how do we get to other parts of north beach, chinatown? how do they determine where they go after that? >> so, for the pier 80 operations, the one time-- >> hopefully more then one time. >> this is the first time home port operation, so these are folks

there for disembarking. they were going home in the region or flying out of the region and those embarking flew in. on average embark for arrival date is 2 days prior to sailing or drove to the facility. i can't speak to those fly-ins as far as how they were guided while they were in the city, but i can tell you for those transit calls that arrived for example at pier 30, 32, we will have greeters on grown and hand maps along the waterfront and in the city and we also supply shuttle services to pier 39 or they may through the cruise line have arranged for shoreside excursions offered through the cruise lines. those may vary depending on the cruise line, so as far as napa or

within the city, union square, chinatown that can vary. i'm not in the weeds, but can get back with that information. >> okay. since you are doing a lot of activity there, the water taxi seems to be very popular in oakland. how they are doing these short trips and with the parking situation in san francisco, have we ever thought about having a parking lot with water taxies to go from southern waterfront around pier 80 and up to ferry building and from there maybe going up to aquatic park? that is kind of something for the locals, or people that come from the peninsula dont want to drive in, they might want to park near pier 80, since hopefully in the future we expand to do more cruise ships there. you can have facility. i am just wondering if any conversations or thoughts about

that? >> conversations and thoughts internally? another reason why i like pier 80, because it offers that opportunity. currently, as far south as we go for water taxi service for pier 50 to mission bay and there is a parking lot adjacent to that ramp. >> that is something we should be promoting to get more people to use waterfront maritime things, because i didn't know about that. that would be great if people knew that you could actually park and take a water taxi which is quite fun actually on a little boat, and stop at the ferry building in the back and have lunch. i think that is something that we can expand on to get more participation into the port. and on the fisherman's--i am

always on the fisherman. expansion of pier 45 that will be improvements but fisherman's wharf is fisherman. you dont see the development, we don't want to over-expand and push these guys out. wel have built in protections for them? >> that is definitely the plan is to preserve commercial fishing at the wharf. i think port staff internally, we've continued to have discussions on how exactly we do that, continuing to achieve the goal that project, but at the same time, preserving commercial fishing, so ongoing discussions, but i think we can achieve both. >> i am worried the fishing season is getting shorter and shorter and they don't have a way to make money, so i don't know if some improvements including more retail off the

boats when they can actually help sustain themselves better. it is probably in the future plans, so something to discuss. that's kind of all i have. it is amazing how much potential this port has to make money, and share with the locals. >> agreed. >> i'm happy about that. thanks, good report and great staff. >> thank you. >> thank you. commissioner engblom. >> great presentation, especially after hearing earlier about real estate down-turns, it is very heartening to have intersectionality with the upswings and challenges with rent and land base tenants are challenged. it is really good for me being a new member to the commission hearing about the strategic plan.

i guess i have a general question. do you have--i heard you give a good briefing when i first came on about the strategic plan, but i'm imagining, do you have a sort of water plan or your wish list, your free dreaming plan what would happen to activate all the water side of our port? i'm so used to as a urban designer, so used to thinking about land activation, but what strikes me is the potential for us and really glad the last comments you made was talking about how you interact with the real estate team, so i'm curious what is coming from that intersectionality or is it just sort of--are we being proactive enough with the potential of our water side activities?

>> i think--i have a lot of dreams about all we can do. i think for me and the team, we like to focus in, kind of keep the list short, so for right now those four in my mind those four items are, the commercial fishing, cruise, and the shipyard and under that there is a lot that goes into that. prioritizing dredging, capital infrastructure improvements wree are currently making and those are necessary for us to get to a place to where we can start focusing on building out those activities. currently to see all that happening has been exciting. again, i mention improvements south beach harbor and hyde street harbor and dredging at fisherman's wharf and south beach harbor and potential expanding cruise to the southern waterfront and expanding opportunities at the

shipyard. if there was a area of focus of where new activation for water side activities, the focus is at the shipyard, but first, off-loading those assets dry docks and liabilities, that's priority. >> two maybe small follow-up questions. one is, considering excursion is in your portfolio, i heard alcatraz is going to be under renovation. do you anticipate impact on excursion? >> at this time, now i assume that may require new paths for queuing for passengers, but from their assets, i think we have facilities that are nearby to where we can accommodate any improvements they need to make. >> that's right.

they plan to complete that project without adverse impacts to the passengers. >> okay. i guess my last question is kind of the scale of the 4 pillars of the plan are ginorms. i guess that is the nature of maritime. i wonder, we get a lot of downtown revitalization, some things we heard about pop ups on land-side. free thinking while you were talking about south harbor and see small scale human activities that can create energy on--i wonder if there is any sort of small business, maybe a invasion challenge for water-side pop upbeds business that could be a way to engage a equity bram like small business water-side. we are so used to thinking about that on the land, but inspired by some of your comments and slides. >> we do receive inquiries for

activations water-side activations. some fit into the port's maritime portfolio and what we are permitted to do, others don't, so, as we receive them we vet them and where there is opportunities for us to move forward we will, but i think recently we received a lot of site activation proposal we are still currently vetting. >> that might be something [indiscernible] the pr story like let's have a pop up challenge on water side. thanks for the presentation. >> thank you. >> thank you. commissioner adams. >> very very good report. first of all, i want to say, i thought it was great that you and tiffany took a road trip. i thought that was really great. my grandmother said you have to open your mind, it is like a parachute.

[difficulty hearing speaker] one thing i did when i got on the commission, i went on a tour of the water and saw the port from the water side in. you don't know it depth and magnitude of the port unless you go out on the water and looking [indiscernible] i recommend the commissioners to take that because that is important to get understanding how big the port really is looking from inside in. [indiscernible] okay. the one thing i didn't hear about and will save for later, one thing pier 27, [indiscernible] i know we don't have that at pier 35 or 80?

>> correct. >> that cost millions of dollars to get that, right? >> correct. >> how much is that? >> for pier 35, it is hundred plus million to trench the embark dareo. embarcadero. 80 is identified as a good candidate for shore power. the analysis first stage of the analysis was just completed and believe we were looking somewhere close to $40 million for trenching from around half a mile away, substation to get it out to the berth and that does include the hardware as well, so the data you need on the facility. and how we envision it, is for both cargo, row row vessels and

crews. it is extensive. i believe seattle just added shore power to their second cruise berth and the cost was similar. >> thank you. okay. i like you and tiffany went to [indiscernible] i think you saw the difference between that and cal maritime where it cost so much money to go to cal maritime and through job corp you go there and it is free to go there, they take care of accommodations and give a stipend and once you are out of school they get you with the maritime union. did you see culturally the difference and i like to know your take away from that. you spend a hundred grand go toog maritime and a lot of families can't afford to snd their kids. some can go to job corp and through

johnson in the 60's this was established so can you talk about that? >> the demographic of students were there folks who probably came from same origins as jethro [indiscernible] but surprisingly, i believe it was maybe around 30 percent of the students were from hawaii, so there was a big group from hawaii. there were folks from the gulf and then from the southeast. not one student from the bay area, and one interesting point as far as recruitment, or applications for job corp, it is by your zip code. for where you reside as far as zip code is how you are assigned to the job corp program, unless you seek out a job corp program with a maritime

curriculum like tongue point. tongue point pre-pandemic had a waiting list and currently don't, but that is how they have been able to source students from the states to tongue point. it is by zip code. tiffany and i have next steps for engaging job corp on treasure island to see what opportunities might be there, but that was our take away. >> i appreciate the direction that you went with the maritime department and i appreciate the energy and staff you hired. i want to hear from the young man, the one hired on. he needs to say something. i remember the first time [indiscernible] >> i want to say thank you to the commissioners today and that i

am very blessed to be a part of the port, and to have the stance to be exposed to south beach harbor during internship. i was born and raised in the bayview district and to be a part of the internship and to get the environment experience there and i just loved it, so i want to make it official and be a part of the south beach harbor team. >> welcome. >> yes. >> can you go into more about the $4.1 million for off shore wind and how many acres and how jobs do you think this can create and what is the port's vision? if you had it your way and mike [indiscernible] this is

something really big for maritime and can take things to another level. some think it will be a game-changer if things work out the way they are supposed to. [indiscernible] >> so, i just wanted to lean in to say, absolutely we are leaning in and absolutely it is a game changer. i don't-i'm not a maritime expert but don't thrink is a opportunity like this for a long time. the money for the grant is for design of the berth to make it seismically resilient. that is only one part of what we need to do to get to the picture we saw during director forbes director's report and it is truly hundreds of millions of dollars into the billions. it isn't just public sources, i think we have to have a private partner and have to have more certainty for that private partner to have sort of their return at the end of the

process to come in and invest that kind of money. what i'm proud of the port doing, we are showing we are in the game and showing we will get out there and sort of design what our facility can be and have our partners say we have a partner that is seeing this opportunity with us, and we can get fl to it in a way that creates business certainty, because i think that is what they will need. we still feel we are pretty early in this and think the federal election will show a lot of opportunity and where it will go, if it goes in the direction of the opportunity andres team and engineering and resilience team are setting up for doing really good things. >> you didn't say, but can you maybe next time can you give a update on what is going on [indiscernible] >> yes. as far as their recruitment

and--? >> what they are up to and what's been happening. >> will do. >> [unable to hear speaker] [multiple speakers] >> if you dont have anything, you need to get back to me? >> yes, please. no significant update. >> are you finished? >> yes, president brandon. >> thank you. vice president gilman. >> how many people do jow have in your department? >> full time employees, 26. >> okay, so 21 percent of overall port staff [indiscernible] i want to say, you are doing so much work and i really really want to commend you and your leadership and your staff and your team. >> thank you.

>> from the work at pier 80 which i'm so excited making that [indiscernible] i think geographically it serves such a great point and i understand why we provide both the tour guides and sort of the bus shuttle service to pier 39, but i could envision a time where we have smaller shuttle service to other communities, including dog patch and bayview, and to other parts of the city. i think it could be such for folks coming in, such a game changer versing versing doing all the traffic on the northeast side of the waterfront and pier 27, i could probably slow walk faster then getting on the embarcadero. i think it could be such a game chaipger. changer. all the work and particularly because maritime is part of public trust and

burton act and preezen taishzs like this remind the public we have rich, fishing boat [indiscernible] such a rich maritime activity, so i want to say how much i appreciate it, and then not to give you and tiffany more work, but a comment-young gentleman who just spoke. f i wonder if there is a way to negotiate with sfusd. i dont know what the curriculum, but growing up going to natural history museum and exploratorium, that was my access to art. is there a way to do a mandatory fieldtrip for every middle school class to come to the waterfront. one of the greatest blessings is our 7 and a half miles of waterfront and the bay. it is what is iconic and makes or city so beautiful, and to think that

there are young people or individuals born and raised in the city who don't have access to it, if there is anything we can do to help that partnership or talk to sfusd to make that a mandatory component i'm super supportive that and anything to bolster water taxi service, besides just signage. it is hard to navigate when they are running and i will say, if there is any way coupled with parking to lower the price point. also to go from i think-from the ferry building i think it is $25 a passenger or i can't remember what the person was telling us in front of the ferry building. any way to make it more affordable to maybe drive more passengers. i think it is a missed opportunity we dont have a more robust operation.

overall you are doing such a funomnal job and naunk so much. so important for what we do. >> thank you. >> [indiscernible] >> a lot of support. >> a lot of work with 10 percent. thank you so much. great report and it is wonderful to see all the activation across the waterfront and excited about the pier 80-96 opportunities and what could happen out there. really exciting what is going on throughout the waterfront and soon we will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of the cruise terminal. so hard to believe it is 10 year. so phenomenal. thank you and your team for all the great work you are doing. >> thank you. >> i got one more question. sorry.

i wanted to make a comment. we are talking about powering up the pier. how come there is no conversation about solar? is it something totally the batteries are too big to store all that power, or just curious with all the mandates going around that we need to do more solar power, how come we don't have solar off the port? >> exactly that. we have solar deployed throughout the port and are participants and enrolled in the--forget the title now. where we generate power by way of solar or shore power for those who don't have shore power, solar or non compliant we sell credit and in tern, generate funds to invest back to the port for other green opportunities. but, capacity for cruise is the

reason why to date solar or other methods of providing power to a cruise ship, they haven't been able to scale it up. by comparison, i believe a container vessel is probably around 2 to 3 mega watts on demand and cruise ship is 10 megawatts on demand. >> we don't have the technology yet basically? >> correct. >> about commissioner gilman, i came to the port as a high school tour on the balcasta back in the day. it got me into the waterfront, so i totally supportive about doing some kind of coop with san francisco unified school district so hopefully we can do that. sorry, your turn.

[laughter] >> thank you. >> if we have hydrogen, but we don't have [indiscernible] >> thank you. >> any other comments or questions? >> i have one quick question. all this talk about the energy, are we partnering with big energy labs for research and grant potential? like berkeley lab or-- -for energy resrs. search. >> for shore power we have not, but we have been supporters with labs on other projects associated with zero emissions for harbor craft, but that is something that i will take note of and see if there are opportunities out there for collaboration. >> it was [indiscernible] commissioner engblom thought about the invasion pop up water side. i wonder if there is any way to

partner [indiscernible] the world economic forum partnered with the chamber and san francisco yes on sf downtown invasion lab where they are supposed to take on city projects and invasions for economic development. maybe we could connect with friends at oewd and see if we could issue that challenge through that lab since it is already set up and they just did the ribbon cutting this week and i think it is maybe 220 montgomery:so we don't have to reinvent the wheel. maybe we can be a project that and with the urld economic forum as part of the partnership, maybe we something fun we can come up with. >> thank you for the recommendation. >> i'm scared to ask. [laughter] >> [indiscernible]

>> are there any other comments or questions? nothing? andre, thank you so much. great presentation. next item, please. >> item 15, new business. >> i have [indiscernible] one thing i wanted to do is give a clarification on the amount of the fema hazard mitigation grant. it is a $2.7 million grant with $900 thousand match so the total of the project is $3.6 million. we are close. i also have recorded that we are to give a update on where we are with gary bower and negotiations. i will also be working with horn blower to see whatever the port can do to resolve the labor dispute. we will be considering a pop up challenge on the water side and

thinking more about what we can do about that and we will be coming in some format to give a update on pilots. any other new business? >> i think you have it all. >> excellent. >> thank you. if there is no other new business, can i have a motion to adjourn. >> motion to adjourn. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> the meet is adjourned. [meeting adjourned]

♪♪ >> san francisco! ♪♪ >> this is an exhibition across departments highlighting different artworks from our collection. gender is an important part of the dialogue. in many ways, this exhibition is contemporary. all of this artwork is from the 9th century and spans all the way to the 21st century. the exhibition is organized into seven different groupings or themes such as activities,

symbolism, transformation and others. it's not by culture or time period, but different affinities between the artwork. activities, for example, looks at the role of gender and how certain activities are placed as feminine or masculine. we have a print by uharo that looks at different activities that derisionly performed by men. it's looking at the theme of music. we have three women playing traditional japanese instruments that would otherwise be played by men at that time. we have pairings so that is looking within the context of gender in relationships. also with how people are questioning the whole idea of pairing in the first place.

we have three from three different cultures, tibet, china and japan. this is sell vanity stot relevar has been fluid in different time periods in cultures. sometimes being female in china but often male and evoking features associated with gender binaries and sometimes in between. it's a lovely way of tying all the themes together in this collection. gender and sexuality, speaking from my culture specifically, is something at that hasn't been recently widely discussed. this exhibition shows that it's gender and sexuality are actually have been considered and complicated by dialogue through the work of artists and

thinking specifically, a sculpture we have of the hindu deities because it's half pee male and half male. it turns into a different theme in a way and is a beautiful representation of how gender hasn't been seen as one thing or a binary. we see that it isn't a modest concept. in a way, i feel we have a lot of historical references and touch points throughout all the ages and in asian cultures. i believe san francisco has close to 40% asian. it's a huge representation here in the bay area. it's important that we awk abouk about this and open up the discussion around gender. what we've learned from organizing this exhibition at the museum is that gender has been something that has come up in all of these cultures through

all the time periods as something that is important and relevant. especially here in the san francisco bay area we feel that it's relevant to the conversations that people are having today. we hope that people can carry that outside of the museum into their daily lives. i didn't - >> sound familiar do you keep on getting up there's an easier

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>> it my honor to introduce a true patron of the arts our mayor london breed. >> (clapping). >> wow. it is packed house here tonight, i'm so very much excited to be here because this has been a long time coming the process that the committee members have had to go through to make a selection who are an important a poet laureate is one time consuming because of number of applications received and the robust body of work so many of those accomplished poetsd have and i really want to start by

thanking the committee for all the great work they have done director lopez and others thank you to (clapping.) all the be you've done with 39 folks here i don't know if i have all the names please raise your machine if you are that on the committee (clapping.) thank you, poet and thank you for being here i'd like to that's why take that opportunity to welcome you all here to the asian art museum to announce the 9 poet laureate of city and county of san francisco and by the looks of this crowd you know who it is ladies and gentlemen (clapping.)

jenny likely wow. what a big fan club here (yelling). >> now thank you, do you is is about jenny i think that jenorgen any that is about her lifelong story when community members can relate do we stand as a moment in history we have the opportunity to reflect not on how far we've come but on the struggles of your chinese and asian-american what they faced not seiu so in the recently past but her family history and

throughout growing up in san francisco are a reminder how deeply exhibition policies and discrimination have shaped the lives of individuals and families across generations. jenny's grandfather came to this country during the gold rush and despite to build a new life unfamiliar faces and lanes his family was had inclusionary policy her father was at 10 years old was detained at angel i'd like for casting a long shadow of suspension on anyone at foreign by soliciting immigrants and worse her it grandfather was deported that dark period in our history not just about laws or policies that was about real people and real

families torn apart their dreams deferred and their trust in the america dream like a many others jenny's fathered experienced fear in a country that didn't welcome them i lived his lifelike others no amnesty for him or folks in his position his fear and mistrust 6 government were passed detain drove immigrants 3 feared the same and, yes despite the history jenny's story like the stories of so many immigrants is also one of resilience and strengths she found her voice as a poet and social go just advocate inspired by her history of

painful memories her family endemurred and overcame. jenny might talk about hero experiences grouping and how much time it tractor for her family to fully embrace hero identity and be proud of her working class groups and hydrogen she emerged stronger knowing the only way to move forward was by honoring the past. her inspiration came apart in the late another asian-american poet (clapping.) who is dearly missed and whose family was imprimped in world war ii in a japanese encampment those stories of oppression whether under the chinese explore act arrest the ifrm

terminate of japanese-american are not just distance americans but part of those in the community shaping their i identity and their fight for justice. even today, the echoes of that painful history can be heard during the covid pandemic and jenny remind us of that a new wave of anti asian violence emerged bringing what can the paste memories how asian-american astound to face the violence that once defined the darkest chapter guess is sobering reminder a sober reminder we have come far the work of what equity and justice is far from complete. but we must take a moment and celebrate

how far we have come thanks to the resilience of people like jenny her family and community and friends and many others who roosted to give up on their dreams they're stories remind us that while americans history of immigration has been figure out with injustice a history of peruvians and today jenny in the first chinese-american decide of the city and county of san francisco. >> (yelling). >> and position she never could have imagined when her

family didn't see them as people. she stepped into the role they carried her not just her own stories but generations of family that came before her, she is the first but will not be the late to be in the role. >> and not to mention she is last gail la high school alliance and i see supervisor yee one of the fight and resilience as a city that takes pride in supporting the arts community i'm really proud of not only her body of work but all that that represents and all it will do over the next 3 years to evaluate san francisco's

position as an ambassador not just in the arts but ambassador that represents the amazing woevenl tapestry of what san francisco is we appreciate your work and representation of san francisco and we or so proud and honored and excited about the work i will do as san francisco poet laureate ladies and gentlemen jenny lamb (clapping.) (yellowing yelling. >> oh my god. >> thank you. >> thank you. i'm just speech also the mayor said everything for me and france wong and the

co-sponsor at the time they're everything they express that's what i'm fellowship heart full for everyone here has a good heart that is the most important thing that whatever you do in life have to have a good heart. >> all of you on this long journey with me 7 seven years as my school france galla i don't know, y'all that often but you're always part of my memory. >> and that's why you're all here you'll all part of me all the poet laureates in the past, present, and future and the committee the member committee that did the wonderful work processing all the 23450e78gs

and applications was amazing with the poets and for me to squeak through and high bar i'm truly amazed and, you know, i go back with the people that started the june of poetry and jazz with john james and francis and all of the people i've done free reading and benefit reading often (laughter) reading for i guess for everything culminates here and i want to, you know, my family is here i think this is a first time i've gathered my family at one of my events my 3 grandsons are here and taylor from cal poly on facebook for his

drawings i ever will in a lifetime and traveled to las vegas and baseball and basketball athletic and going to the oakland yeah - he's got more trophys in the room i can count so that's the next generation and speaks for like my mother taught me the culture is transferred somehow from those most to memories and i want to thank the asian art museum for hosting this wonderful event for the city library and michael and michelle and the staff the mayor i can't be will will she had my

historian that took time to get my story together and appreciate that i'm touched you can do that and the former i'm an ordinary people thank you for being here and um, you know, so many people that i need to thank my students, my just everyone here have played a part in my life i want to share this poem to for my mom couldn't be here never spoke a wore in english and my pop that taught me he was the person i mean i was really had i wrote his speeches for a club had a wonderful voice i learned

public so to speak through him and, of course, my daughter danielle he lost at 19 she is there milestone down at me and my family and josh and everyone. here you there. language it differs memory. and across seasons study strong like the hands that cooperative child 3wir9d and decades served and led rich erroneously and per simple and nightmares and among a suing woman and the tongue that shamed me now archived with

footnotes and for definitions and keepers of 10:15 for publication. >> and who are here you there or here in english will be spoken here. the action has a swing she mind like the tail six the objection along the muddy river delta we were country folks that followed the dream called - beautiful country we were frozen in time. they said you never really left china. our formaler wet on my town & country village apartments a thing tasting of - the tip of lights own the college a

descending like a gal. >> like a gull in a cave with its wings clipped. she waited and waited and the echosing glom of post moratorium togsz as as crow flies in the temple wall and well recalled a painful memory tossed those sea it is all she left me her children laid to rest behind locked doors with graffiti and the night moved is goldberg light on the words i will across the barrier. >> (speaking foreign language.) what year were you born?

>> (speaking foreign language.) >> how many houses in a row in your village are hear me there. momma mother watches like a sparrow under the fading moon. she dreams of the fire flies under the bridge. she dreams of capturing there be flicking utility and finish swimming swiftly class the frozen bay to survive. now. >> thank you (clapping.) (yelling). >> as for all of you all nellie my sister who have p had grandparents and parents going

gone to the i'd like we know with people south of bored survive everyday the same story so history is not really hiv negative so, now. i'm going studio welcome my colleague to come up here and thank andy and her little elves for taking care of to put my poem tiny poems in little miles if you're fortunate on the way out you can get one of those little poems they're proposed to be capsules i don't know (laughter) if they have to be opened at a future dates or if they can - >> oh, 24 years oh. okay.

>> (laughter) don't break the bottle you might have bad lucky but this is the poem that is in it you don't have to break the glass (laughter). >> oh. okay there is she's thought of everything. so the journey (music) though would not we can't be together. and all times. may the blessing of our ann shelters protect us.

>> though we cannot change the path of the sun or moon. may we persevere in the place of wind and darkness. like the cocoa who returns from foreign lands to sip the fruit of this generation. how joyful it will be if we could see the spaces of our children radiant alive and as stars. the pursuit of freedom

is filled with hardship the struggle, is here, here and their gift to their fellow beings. come after. their gift is the truth of freedom the powerful. >> illuminations that bright and clear light that cuts through had the i go initials of haftd and fear and injustice of spirit of hope and daerpgs now that's the immigrant swoird to dispel the darkness of this

world. the spirit of change and transformation that is the immigrant dream that is all of our dreams to end makes sense inhumanity to demand with tolerance and compassion with the equity and peace and love. that is the ultimate revolution journey, journey, journey to light we we are all the lights we are all the light you and me. free, free, that's all we want to be. >> free. >> free.

>> thank you. (clapping.) i love you all. >> (yelling). >> so - >> the co-sponsor at the time. >> (laughter.) >> that is good energy in here i just want to take this opportunity to again congratulate our new decide but

thank the committee appropriately i didn't have all the names in front of me i apologize for that i want to start with valerie a 5 generation san franciscan an amazing poet that helps with the city hall we're going to bring back with that new poet laureate it will be amazing (clapping.) and thank joyce jennings and known poet in the bay area and mistaken lambert our city larger than and stacey the vice president of the city light publishing. (clapping.) and dr. lopez on the library committee here in san francisco and major the third poet

laureate of city and county of san francisco and this ken who is the 7th poet poet laureate of san francisco. >> (clapping) so again, thank you all so much and i know that our public defender's office is here. as well as former president of board of supervisors norman where we and ink mary and finally, i want to thank the poet laureate who i had the opportunity to thank you, you and congress attended columbia something about san francisco natives in columbia but i want to take the opportunity to thank congo and martin as a poet laureate for san francisco thank you all for joining us

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