. >> item 10a request approval of [inaudible] from the james r. herman known as the james r. rman tribute and associated [inaudible] and approval of display of james r. herman cruise terminal at pier 27. >> good afternoon commissioners. my name is [inaudible]. tonya, i'm with the planning and development division at the port. i'm going to propose the james r. hermantribute. here's a picture to the international long shore and warehouse union, also referred to as the lwu local 34 water front division, along with several other chapters and members have commissioned a piece of art to give to the port as a permanent installation for the new james r. herman [inaudible] 27. commissioner james r. herman was an advocate for maritime industries and job creation. he was very active along the water front, working in a variety of warehouses and plants and involved in several bargaining and enforcement activities. he started his career at the age of 17, going out to see as a member of national union of marine cooks and stewards. commissioner her man was appointed by appointed and served as

and the audience today is the chair of the james james r. herman memorial committee and shawn farly would like to make some remarks now about james r. herman. >> thank you very much. just one little thing we wanted to add. jimmy was president for local 34 from 1963 to 1977 and then was the international president from 1977 to 1991. just wanted to kind of give you guys a sense of how this committee came together. this committee is a cross section of everybody who's a san francisco citizen and it's a cross section of everybody who was supported and mentored and taken care of by jimmy her man. . a man who was amazing. as you look at the people who were on that committee and every one of them when you sit down and have a committee meeting, people talk about jimmy and some people are close to tears when they talk about him and his legacy. we thank the port commission and the staff for the ability to do this tribute. ultimately we came together and we had the assistance of auto desk and i want to make sure that people understand that this tribute would n

. >> item 31 is a resolution to authorize the port to accept a gift of art referred to as the james r herman valued at 250,000 for display at pier 27. >> same house same call. this resolution's adopted. next item. >> item 32 is a resolution to authorize the filing of applications for funding assigned to the metropolitan transportation commission and authorize the department of public works to accept and eks pend approximately 1.3 million in awarded grant funds. >> same house same call. this resolution adopted. >> item 33 is a resolution to authorize real property [inaudible] not to exceed amount of 2.79 million. >> same house same call. this resolution's adopted. >> item 34 is a resolution to approve the jurisdictional transfer for property commonly known as the san francisco reservoir under the [inaudible] and approving the transfer price of 9.9 million. >> supervisor farrell. >> thank you president chiu and thank you colleagues for hearing this item today. many ways, very surreal after all this time, they're actually voting on the reservoir and what's going to be a transformative project,

james r herman was an important figure in history and i would like to invite john farly from the international foreman union to give a brief background on mr. herman. >> good afternoon. i wanted to first quickly note that i come from jimmy's local. jimmy became president in 1964 by the local w 34. he became a true san francisco. minnie silver is part of the committee. an honorary member is democratic leader pelosi. jimmy hadden credible values. it was the propensity to reach out to individuals and raise up everybody. you noticed that with his cooperation and work with delancey stleet. he wanted to have a vision of the people in san francisco where everybody had equal access, where immigrants, people of color, etc, really had a second chance to do things. after jimmy became president of local 34, he went on to be the second international president of the union. and he succeeded larry bridges, a legendary figure. shortly before he became president for the board commission and served in that capacity for 10 years. you can see he very much very much became a true san franciscans. it's fantastic if

james r. herman is a wonderful person and did so much for the nation, the city, the port. this is just such a wonderful gift and it's so nice to be able to accept this gift. we love gifts here at the port. [laughter] i just want to thank you again and i can't wait to see it and i'm really excited about this. i did have one question and that is, what happens after 20 years? >> basically the term of the gift agreement is for 20 years. during that -- after that period if there was a need to do something different, we would be coming back again to address that period afterwards. but once the gift is given it belongs to the port so our goal long term is to make sure it stays relevant and make it up to date constantly. so 20 years you guys will be going, wow, we still love this. but that's basically it. it's just we needed a term to look at a useful life of all the components so that's what the term is, tabt useful life of components and addressing that piece. >> once the gift is given to us the port can do what it wants to it. it can turn off the sound if it needs to when in's

the cruise terminal could go and they looked at pier 27 and that's how we ended up moving the james r. herman cruise terminal project from pier 30/32 up to pier 27. and the park was still it grated into that cruise terminal project. so, at the time that the active recreation use development opportunity was being considered for pier 27-29, one of the big draws for that use was the formal pier 27 shed, the large shed. it was [speaker not understood] without posts and pileses that enabled active recreation use to be an opportunity there. and now with the cruise terminal project where we have taken out the old pier 27 and replaced it with a brand-new cruise terminal facility with the remaining pier 29 facility, that is more like the rest of our finger piers where we have piles and structural supports that really make it more difficult to do active recreation planning areas in there because they're broken up by the structure of the pier sheds. so, there has been an evolution in term of an intent 15 years ago to go for active recreation use at this particular location. and because of the events tha

where people can come down into our community and also there is a park that will be right by the james r. herman terminal. so, i think all these things will be interwove enin together, and i think we need to look at, and take it step-by-step ~ but i agree with the rest of my commissioners this can enhance our water froth and it build our community because that's what we're about. and i think that we need to take it one step at a time. we think about it, but clearly the community, they need to put their -- have their dialogue with the port. you need to tell us what you feel, and you got better ideas let us know. but we just can't stand around and not do anything. we need to put this place that we have to work to make -- because it's part of the economic industry in the city of san francisco. thank you. >> i'll echo the comments of my colleagues. also excited about bringing something there that will be uniquely san francisco, bay area regional focused. and i think, again, i appreciate the effort that's going into bringing in the community and there will be the advisory group as you've outlined her