i'm everardo mora, and this is eddie orton. i'd like to share that six buildings have been completed at the pier with two other construction. our estimated completion date is first quarter 2020, which doesn't seem too far away, but it's coming. our local contracting hiring commitments, we have local business enterprise goals initially of 17%, currently at 18% -- our actual number's 18%. the local hire goal for the project was 25%, and our actual is 28%. this next slide details one of our previous apprentice carpenters named shawn zavala, and next to it is a letter i received from jewish vocational award for an employee of the year award that was given to him in 2016. shawn zavala was recommended by local 22 business representative peter garza has a new high school graduate, also graduate of their preapprentice carpentry program at one of arthur local high schools here. pete explained that in order for shawn to enter the workforce, he needed to be sponsored and nominated into a company, either a general contractor or current sig

phil, eddie, everardo, thank you so much for the presentation. i do want to say that when we started this project in -- when we started the planning for pier 70 in 2007, it has been a very long process, and i think we have come a long way because at that point, we didn't know if we would find anybody to restore these buildings, and we thought we would have to pay them, and so this -- this project has been extremely successful, and you have done a work of art out there at pier 70, and so we really appreciate that. i think that we really do need to stay on top of the public access benefit of this project and make sure that that is happening because the public has been behind this project since day one, and they've spent a lot of time monitoring and looking at every detail, so i hope that we can really do the public benefit piece. i understand, my fellow commissioners, that orton is not obligated to do anything with the juul lease at this time. i would listen to commissioner adams and see if there's any way you can shorten that lease or if there's a