board of directors of transafrica, where he works closely with board chairman danny glover and harry bell fonte. i would like to say that commissioner adams is not new to us at the port and volunteered time to serve with us most recently on the mayor's blue-ribbon panel and so it's a great honor and benefit for all of us at the port to welcome you here today commissioner adams. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you for volunteering. so as we all know today is september 11th, which is patriot day and national day of service and remembrance and it's a day to high honor the individuals who lost their lives in september 11th of 2011. the flags are at half mast by order of mayor lee and in accordance with mayor obama and so i would like to ask that we adjourn today's meeting in honor of those who lost their lives on september 11th. earlier this month, but actually late last month we finally had the first regatta of the america's cup series through august 22-26 and it was an honor to have all the teams based here at in san francisco. it's quite an amazing operation. the needs of the athlete