brad benson, representing elaine forbes. >> perfect. reached out and been playing phone tag with elaine forbes. the port is interesting. enterprise department, so not on the general fund budget, means whatever costs are incurred, come out of your own budget. what i'm interested in hearing a little bit more about the discrepancy on trash cans on port property, and i believe you have a private entity that you contract with to collect them. >> so -- >> let me address that issue. >> please, please. >> much of the portland and the piers are the the 100 foot shoreline bands. and in the areas in the shoreline bands, bcdc has dedicated most of those areas as dedicated public access. recorded against the property. and in those public areas, outdoor areas, there are trash receptacles, but often included in private leases like the lease for pier 1, or 1 and a half, 3 and 5, or tfive, or the explora at&t or pier 39. the trash receptacles in an area that is outdoors and a private leasehold. so, we have been working very closely with supervisor safai

. >> good afternoon, members of the commission, my name is elaine forbes and i'm the port's executive director. the first item today, i have very big news to report about our very own vice president, willie adams. the first contested election in 18 years for the i.w.u. resulted in a new leader for the organization in willie adams, who is the first african-american person elected to this position. vice president adams became the union's seventh international president. the i.l.w.u. represents 50,000 members in oregon, california, washington, hawaii, alaska, canada, and the panama. we're so proud of you, vice president adams. congratulations to you. [ applause ] in keeping up the very good news, last tuesday we received results from proposition "a," which was a measure on the ballot to repair san francisco's seawall. a down payment of $425 million, and i'm very happy to report that we received an overwhelming yes vote of 82.48% of ballots cast. and that means 251,983 people voted to improve our seawall. and the port could not be more encouraged by this overwhelming support for the infra

german shaw guessing our elaine official has made it into the top ten of the world's best paid female musicians in fact she's in a place on the forbes list. for us magazine puts fishes of yearly earnings has around twenty eight million euros ahead of international superstars like celine dion and britney spears but she's way behind the highest paid woman in the music business you are seeing are katy perry with nearly seventy three million euros but misha doesn't seem to mind. berlin's newest baby giraffe ella took her first steps outdoors and was introduced to visitors at the tir park is of. the young female seemed to enjoy galloping around the outside enclosure. elementary more than one meter eighty when she was born on november third as an adult five years from now she's likely to stand for and a half metres tall. so just two metres seventy left for ella to grow. is hosting the exhibition of visual protest the art of banksy starting this is the first time that works by the british street on his to being shown in a public museum his identity is still a closely guarded secret. banksy has revived the rebellious political component whi