at our december meeting we were talking about the heron and tern park project. it was right after that that i had the opportunity with national geographic as a tourist, 17 days at the arctic and the south pole. it gave me a different perspective as a person about the last frontier, how important our environment is, whether it's global warming, protecting the environment, and i'm just a kid that grew up in the streets of city city, missouri, and going to antarctica was my 7th continent, i was with researchers and scientists and people that really care about the environment and to see the orca whales, the humpback whales, to see the penguins, to see leopard seals and all type of wildlife it was just something that i can never really think about. then i read the book of sir ernest shackleton and talked about his expedition down to and arctic ka and i would like to read a deal from his book, sir ernest shackleton and i felt like he felt, being one of a million people that get to set foot on antarctica. in memories we were rich. we have pierced the veil of things. we

now and i'm somewhat understanding more because even living in san francisco i've never been to heron park but going down to antarctica for 17 days and seeing the environment, seeing penguins nesting, seeing orca whales not in a zoo but a natural habitat and seeing we have something like this on a smaller scale in our own back yard i want to go down there and support it and believe me i will be coming down there to see what you are doing. it's not something that we are just going to pass it, this is a working commission and we will follow-up and i will be coming down to see what you guys are doing. thanks. >> carol, i want to thank you for spearheading this and thank all the organizations. it was one of those moments when you came before us, sometimes things do work as they are supposed to. as we sat here we realized everyone had such tremendous strengths and we are all thrilled to see something has come forward that plays to everyone's strengths and i think the community will be that much better for it. so i want to thank you all for coming together and putting this revised approach befor

at length last time with many who came forward to speak about our long relationship both with heron's head park and most recently with the ecocenter in terms of its daily operations and maintenance as well as their delivery of programs and tours to the public and students. we bring many strengths via our collaboration, not only are we educators coming from multiple sdmripbs, disciplines, we are very excited especially those that are currently teaching and working with city build and other courses at the evans campus, particularly the renewable energy green building, also our faculty that are currently involved as well as our deans with continued technical education. we also have our, the ecologists, the biologists, environmental scientists and engineers who are interested in coming and furthering programs offering both programs and incorporating more programs and exercises particularly those around workplace training and development, the ecocenter is, as you recall, one of the other places in san francisco where you can actually have a hands-on training with sustainable systems and also not onl

l-15771 for the ecocenter at heron's head park and surrounding 6,058 square feet of non-exclusive license area located near the intersection of jennings street and cargo way to the bay >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm carol the environmental manager in the ports depiction. i'm happy to talk about the lease for the aquarium foundation. recall that in september the port issued an rfp seeking qualified proposers to operate the eco center and provide programming to serve the ports center promoting community access and the store center for a educational process and continuing to coordinate with the educational program with the rec and park department. the rfp and places you under your regular calendar an outreach were presented in detail in a previous staff report and presentation. the rfp included a proposed lease that the secret service tenant would be expected to sign. that lease was considered by the excision concurrent with the rfp. the property lease terms are consistent with the ports standard form with the expectation of rent and maintenance observations. the rent is one dollar pe

l-15771 for the ecocenter at heron's head park and surrounding 6,058 square feet of non-exclusive license area, located near the intersection of jennings street and cargo way, with the bay institute aquarium foundation, a not for profit california corporation for a five-year term with two two-year. (resolution no. 14-13). >> and that title, longer than my presentation. >> good afternoon, commissioners i am happy to be back today to for your approval of 15771 with the foundation to lease the eco center. at your last meeting on february 11th, you heard from the bay institute aquarium foundation and its two partners, city college of san francisco, and the aphillip institute regarding their plans for how they propose to work together and each bringing in the different but complimentary strengths as you heard from these organization and from the public, the eco center, presents a truly unique environmental education opportunity. and it was born of a community driven initiative to help connect people in south east san francisco with the natural beauties that is provided at park and also to demo

l-15771 for the ecocenter at heron's head park and surrounding 6,058 square feet of non-exclusive license area located near the intersection of jennings street and cargo way to the bay

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park, near the benjamin franklin monument. neighbors are upset about the plan, because 500 rare black- crowned night herons chose the trees as their main breeding ground in illinois. replacements will be planted in the fall. this upcoming baseball season will be the last for the yankees' derek jeter, who announced he's retiring. jeter made that announcement on his facebook page yesterday. he has played in the majors for 19 seasons, and all of them with the yankees. he's won five world series championships, and is ninth in the all-time hitting list. but injuries took their toll and caused jeter to only play 17 games last year. jeter turns 40 in june. at the winter olympics in sochi -- it's snowboarding gold for kaitlyn farrington, and bronze for kelly clark on the halfpipe. the u-s men's hockey team plays slovokia this morning. and taking a look at the medal count... norway still holds the lead with 12. canada and the netherlands have ten. the u-s is tied with russia for nine medals. and germany has eight medals, despite having the most golds -- six. you can check out a ten-foot tall ice sculpture replica of olympian jason brown in