it's shaped like the bow of a ship and i want to acknowledge ralph remmington here from the art commission and allow me to introduce our executive director of the port, elaine forbes. thank you. >> thank you, carla. i am elaine forbes, the port breshgt and the first thing i want to say to the mayor is we didn't do it for free. it wasn't exactly a free agreement. yes. but we so enjoyed working with the fire department to see this through. the phoenix actually was the port of san francisco's vessel. our state harbor of engineers saw importance to bring fire protection from the water way back when the fire department took over. we gave the phoenix for $1. so that was a very kind and since that point we've had an excellent relationship with the fire department protecting our piers and commissioner brandon is here with me today and she will remember we've had many fires. pier 45, pier 29, and pier 48 and that's just in recent memory and these fireboats were here to protect us. and now i'd like to say a few words to the students at mission high. we have an existential threat of sea level rise an

it's shaped like the bow of a ship and i want to acknowledge ralph remmington here from the art commission and allow me to introduce our executive director of the port, elaine forbes. thank you. >> thank you, carla. i am elaine forbes, the port breshgt and the first thing i want to say to the mayor is we didn't do it for free. it wasn't exactly a free agreement. yes. but we so enjoyed working with the fire department to see this through. the phoenix actually was the port of san francisco's vessel. our state harbor of engineers saw importance to bring fire protection from the water way back when the fire department took over. we gave the phoenix for $1. so that was a very kind and since that point we've had an excellent relationship with the fire department protecting our piers and commissioner brandon is here with me today and she will remember we've had many fires. pier 45, pier 29, and pier 48 and that's just in recent memory and these fireboats were here to protect us. and now i'd like to say a few words to the students at mission high. we have an existential threat of sea level rise an