. >> motion to adjourn in the memory of bernie mcdonald and mayor lee. all in favor. meeting adjourned. >> merry christmas. >> a big warm welcome, as you are all here and gathered to

. >> motion to adjourn in the memory of bernie mcdonald and mayor lee. all in favor. meeting adjourned. >> merry christmas. >> for tuesday, december 18. miss dowd, would you please read the roll. >> clerk: yes. [roll call] >> clerk: you do have a quorum. >> just a note for the audience, we don't have ms. boomer today. >> clerk: item three, announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices during the meeting. please be aware that use of cell phones, pagers, or other sound producing electronic device is prohibited. please know when these devices set on vibrate do cause microphone interference, so please turn them off. number three, approval of the december 4, 2018 regular meeting. >> thank you. do i have any public comment on the minutes? no? seeing none, public comment closed. do i have a motion to approve in. >> so moved. >> do i have a second? >> second. >> all in favor? all opposed? okay. minutes are approved. okay. communications. i have nothing. anyone? all right. good. >> clerk: i don't any either. item six, introduction of new or unfinished business by boar

the next item it is with sadness i would like to offer an in memorial for bernie mcdonald. he passed at the age of 82. he was a port volunteer 20 years. he would welcome cruise ship passengers and members and assist everyone to explore and enjoy the city. mr. mcdonald was a dapper gentleman. he generously gave of his time. he was a member of the screen actor's guild in the 1980s, he was part of the cast of simon and simon, murder she wrote, chips. he portrayed himself, a dapper gentleman. we are very, very thankful for the years bernie gave to the port organization and how he welcomed visitors. he will be greatly missed. we ask the port commission that you have the meeting in his memory. that concludes my report. thank you. >> any public comment on the executive director's report? >> item 9:00 p.m. port commissioner's report. >> anything to report, commissioner adam? >> tomorrow, the 12th of december, will be a year of the passing of mayor lee. the city has went on. i know a lot of what we are doing at the port, mayor's lee vision is in front of our eyes. we have a new mayo

. >> motion to adjourn in the memory of bernie mcdonald and mayor lee. all in favor. meeting adjourned. >> merry christmas. >> commissioner mcdonald has an excused absence pick we welcome you but we ask you turn off any sound producing devices that may go off during the meeting, please. we would ask that you take any secondary conversations outside to. if you would like to speak on an item today, we request but do not require that you complete a blue card. how many minutes per each item today? >> how many people here intend to speak to the commission, by rays of hand? okay. we will do two minutes per. >> okay. each person will have two minutes to speak on each item today for public comment. please, some of you may not have been here before, but a couple of things when you speak, please speak into the microphone microphone. anyone who is speaking. anyone else should be able to hear. when you make public comments, you will hear two bells. the first one is just letting you know you have 30 seconds back in the second one means your time is up. so when you speak, if there

memory of bernie mcdonald and mayor lee. all in favor. meeting adjourned. >> merry christmas. >> a big warm welcome, as you are all here and gathered to the grand reopening and rededication ceremony for 1750 mcallister. i want to kick things off by introducing our chief executive officer, gail gilman. [applause] >> thank you. i want to thank all of you for being with us here today. today is a historic moment for community housing partnerships, as we have completed rehabilitation of the units here , and seventh -- at 1750 mcallister. so many people helped bring this project together. by the people i want to thank first and foremost are the residents of 1750 mcallister. [cheers and applause] >> for your patience, for your diligence for keeping us on our toes to make sure that we provided you a home that had your thoughts, your amenities, and what you thought would make a great home for you. i also want to thank the western edition community that welcomed community housing partnership into its arms. we have a property at frederick were -- ro

mcdonald's usa ceo ed ramsey thanks so much for joining us. >> good morning glad to be here. maria: your reaction to bernie understand small business generator vast majority of jobs in this country the anchor of local economies and federal minimum wage 15 dollars does not recognize the difference between living in new york city, and living in tacok iowa we need state miniwages that reflect the the economy where they are at secondaryly 15 zwlar minimum wage will drive flaigs like crazy small businesses have to increase prices dramatically, agricultural products will go through the roof. he just it is amazing to me that he is either naÏve or absolutely refuses to see reality of economics in this country. >> i ran mcdonald's usa when you had higher expenses in terms of paying employees, or extra suspense what did you do in fire people reorganize? what did you do as a manager? >> all the above, we had to go to technology to replace people, we had to create systems processes procedures did not need human intersecti interaction face-to-face service went down, we moved money around ways we never wanted to we had