our city architect run alameda, charles, project manager, pona ray, sean o'brien, kelly griffin. their dedication was crucial to ushering this project through to the end. and this was a designed build project with private partners. so a quick thank you to ska, swinerton, power engineering, lift tech and ghd and all the men and women in the construction trade who built it. i also want to thank mayor breed, city administrator chiu and our partners at the fire department. sister chief nicholson. together, we are one city working collaboratively to create a better stronger city to serve san francisco today and into the future. one last plug for the beautiful piece of artwork, it is so amazing. it has the history. it's shaped like the bow of a ship and i want to acknowledge ralph remmington here from the art commission and allow me to introduce our executive director of the port, elaine forbes. thank you. >> thank you, carla. i am elaine forbes, the port breshgt and the first thing i want to say to the mayor is we didn't do it for free. it wasn't exactly a free agreement. yes. but we