san francisco port director elaine forbes. to you and your staff congratulation what is happening today and thank you. as you could tell from the prezen taiz of the director this is complicated initiative. when she talks about new starts, we had to fight a initiative of a previous occupant of the white house who didn't want anymore new starts and if there were new starts we had to be one of them. again, attribute to senator feinstein in the senate was such a important part of this. we are here because of a vision of the people of san francisco. i'm honored to be here with the family, mayor, senator wiener, kounalakis, aaron peskin, carmen chui and the big homa here today is united states army corp engineers colonel james hondura. this is the moment because i can't tell how many times in the years in congress where people all over the country come to me and say, can you influence the army corp of engineers to certify, to put-to give [indiscernible] no. they have a independent process that they use. it isn't political, it is fac

i am elaine forbes, ecective directive of the port of san francisco representing my staff and we are celebrating a major accomplishment today. it has been a long hard road of data and collaboration and work and today we realize it is very successful road, and we are very proud to stand here with the army corp of engineers. the question we had in 2018 when the leadership actually right behind me came together was, how do we protect this waterfront? we have big areas of the city

i am elaine forbes, ecective directive of the port of san francisco representing my stff

i am elaine forbes, ecective directive of the port of san francisco representing my staff and we are celebrating a major accomplishment today. it has been a long hard road of data and collaboration and work and today we realize it is very successful road, and we are very proud to stand here with e

affirmatively yes and so glad to have carla short as the permanent director of public works as well as elaine forbes at the port. we had i think a very positive experience rethinking the parameters for the third street bridge at islais creek includesing undesignated the [indiscernible] as a federal waterway that clipper ships need to sail up in order to allow for a very different construction approach that has saved a lot of money and will help improve reliability of that? corridor for decades to come. building upon that partnership we are looking at mission creek bridges and a systemic way and again, i couldn't be happier to have such strong partners in those two departments. >> it is very hard to do a lot of big scale multi-jurisdictional work in san francisco and i say this is a great example. the port has been leading bringing together the agencies at director level, deputy level, staff level. there is a deep investment which isn't just about this project i say, it is going to unfold over time to make these things possible. it has been a great leadership model. >> thank you for that. that defini