and monique and her team design each shop that they open. also has create aid northern california catalog for northern california and using local models and doing a photo shoot at the beach. and monique has compiled a team that includes friends and colleagues from the industry that are here today. and i want to mention one of her friends, jason, raise your hand. has moved here from virginia specifically to help her in her vision of growing her business. so this is beyond just a business decision, this is really monique's passion. and while san francisco understandable has become sensitive to formula uses in recent years, monique's business does not resemble that and in fact it is a business that we should be encouraging thank you. >> i have a question for you. >> yes. >> let's assume that we find that you are formula retail store, does that preclude you from opening up this location? >> what that require is that we need to go to the planning commission to get a conditional use authorization as a form law use. >> and what would that entail >>

so please welcome monique moyer. >> well, good morning, everyone. and welcome to the most amazing water front in the world. it is always sunny and clear when we are celebrating at the water front. and as mr. ashley said, one week from today, the port of san francisco will mark the 150 anniversary and i could not think of a better birthday present than the new exporatorium. so it is my honor and also my thrill to be here today to not just to celebrate this grand achievement but to mark this historic moment for the port wr, we have once guinea involved ourselves both architecturally, scientifically, socially, and environmentally, and economically. and the port as you know, was the beginning of our city, just a few blocks here and it is the basic of the tell graph hill and it started as agricultural and fishing village, right there where down's offices are was the first fisherman's wharf. >> and it is just amazing to see how it has transformed. of course, the thing that really set the city on fire was the gold rush and in the words of one historian, th

it is incredibly expensive to restore a lot of our piers and monique is the first person to know that intimately and historically but we do have persons and entities that want to continue this fabulous water front experience and to make investments, where there is jefferson street, brandon wharf and pier, 30, 32 and the exporatorium this wonderful opportunity. i want to thank, past and present port commissioners, and i see them here now. that they have earned the title of being the greatest stewarts of our water front and so thank you for your ongoing effort to do this. [ applause ] >> and the work incredibly well with the other agencies. i know that because this is pier 39 and one of the most iconic travel destinations, i understand that is why, john martin was here, because while he flies airplanes he is part of an incree transportation center and we all know that and we all share in that wonderful experience with being clearly, the best nation for so many, millions of people, every day. and as we do this, we reinvent and reinvest and find other reasons for people to enjoy themselve

that is from monique trying to about would this business. i do want to speak to the conditional use requirement. it sounds like a very easy option to say let's go through conditional use process. no problem. i would say to the application filing and to the planning commission, that is come out of monique's pocket. she's already been delayed and this is coming from her pocket, not from some head quarter somewhere. i hope you take those issues into consideration. thank you, we are here for questions. >> counsellor, two questions. status of the hillsberg lease. the store has not undergone renovation or opened. tell me how these online stores work when each one has a different address. >> thank you. i didn't address that. if you look at the website, the application for each store is a marketing tool. miss ota as on there and there is another one in south carolina. it's more than we have a website. it's the 2000, let's throw an address on there. it has the contact information for the local store. in the end it's not part of the large end of the r

just want to make sure that you know that if you combine the ages of myself, or president chiu, and monique moyer we might get to 150 years, maybe. but i'm down here to have fun, today, get out of city hall, go to bubba gumps and make sure that i spend it with other people who love to have fun like our port commission and hers directors and the staff and the rec and parks here and i know that the fire chiefs had to lessen her fun time and go to a three alarm fire and thank you to her for being vigilant for the city. and we would rec and park they have discovered yet another great partner to find water front open space that we can all enjoy, both in terms of getting our public to understand our bond program better, but also to create new spaces. so thank you, phil for being here as well. our port commissioners extend not to present but to past for commissioners and he knows that and i saw mike and others, because it takes generations of people to create things along the water front. it is incredibly expensive to restore a lot of our piers and monique is the first person to know that intimate

it's not monique's control as to how much she business -- buys. monique has been in a difficult position because she's a san francisco native. she wants to be here and grow her business in this city. i really stress this is a very different situation than the athletic or other stores of the world. since we've had so much focus on leasing activity i want to mentioned that we have subways fo

it is about investing confidence and why we exist in such a great wonderful city and so thank you monique and the port commission and to all of your wonderful partners and staff for working so hard with the entities like pier 39 and others who will continue to invest in the confidence here and along the water front and thank you to the labor and all of your partners thank you to all of the other agents for being here, happy 150th anniversary, to our great city. >> thank you, we wish to continue your success. also, here with us today is the president of the board of supervisors, and the supervisor from our very own district three, david chiu. [ applause ] >> thank you, tailor. mr. mayor, if it is okay, could you and i just declare it a city holiday today so we don't have to go back to work and hang out here on pier 39? >> i want to thank all of you who are the incredible diversity of the community that is the port. the community that our water front peers and our wharfs. this is the story of our city. our port has really defined our past as i think that we all know, the first 49ers came ri

please happy birthday, to all of you, and to the board of san francisco. [ applause ] thank you, monique. >> and now the moment that we have all been waiting for. the birthday cake. >> i would like the speakers to gather on the cake and lead us all to sing happy birthday to the board of san francisco. ♪ [ applause ] >> chair murphy. >> here. >> item 2 approval of april 9 meeting. >> so moved. >> second. >> i have a correction. >> yay. >> that's excellent. >> sorry. >> no, don't be sorry. just the title page, we don't have commissioner murphy listed. and under call to order, it says commission vice president woo ho called the meeting to order. [laughter] >> okay. >> we were channeling you. >> okay. >> those are the only corrections that i have. >> with those revisions may i have a motion to approve? >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> item 3, public comment on executive session. >> executive session. >> so moved. >> second. >> execute session of conference counsel existing litigation matters. >> hi, scott. we will do vortex second, will you mind waiting outside? thank you,

for the record, monique moyer for the port of san francisco. i want to thank you for carving out time for all the items today. we hope to be succinct as you need us to be, [speaker not understood], but we appreciate the time. i also want to thank the campbell and the [speaker not understood] for the amazing amount of work she's doing for us, [speaker not understood] and the mayor's budget office. i think i said that backwards, budget analyst and budget office respectively for all of their help. very quickly, we have -- are on the second year of our two-year budget and we just have a few items to make changes to which fall within the required 4%. and, so, i'll walk through those in just a second. to recap where we're headed as a port, we've strategic plan that i've identified, five priorities, for the record those are to preserve industrial and commercial maritime tenants and uses as we've been doing a lot of studies to determine that. we did provide some very unique economic benefits and utilizations by the fact we're on water and we'd like to

monique coble, update news reportert the people that i met, because i didn't really have any friends in this department 'cuz i play basketball so i was never here. so i feel like...a lot of us are family now. jonathan lester, update news reporterw wasting my life away in this classroom every thursday from like 9 o'clock in the morning until whenever o'clock in the morning. chris chandler, update news reporteri i got dragged to ucsc to watch a bunch of hippies smoke pot in the name of some sort of holiday that they call 4-20. okay? now i am a god-fearing christian, and i find it appalling. elizabeth olveda, update news reporterw when me and jonathan went to the homeless encampment and the homeless man that i interviewed, after we were done with the interview, him and his wife actually offered us dinner and it was just so sweet of them and it was just so nice and, i don't know kate loewen, update news reporterw when i first did the live shot and manny the groundskeeper walked up to me when the video camera was on and i had to shush him on camera and then swat him." cirque du soleil pla

finally, our good friend and dynamic leader, the executive director of the port of san francisco, monique moyer. [ applause ] >> thank you. >> okay, so raise your hands, how many of you would like to be me today? i am so humble and honored, what a great fortune to land my term right on the 150th year because the one thing that i will tell you about being 150 years old if you realize that your time is really short and insignificant, and if i were to dare to count how many port directors there have been before and how many there will be after it will become more of a second time, but, i get to be here with all of you and so many of you who have been here at this water front for decades, all of you from fisherman's wharf thank you for coming today, because of you it is our water front that has evolved ahead of everywhere else in the world this is a perfect place to celebrate. because here we have a little bit of something of everything, in fisherman's wharf. it has been part of the port since its inception that is how we ate, and how we did commerce and how we paid for the fish we ate with g

just want to make sure that you know that if you combine the ages of myself, or president chiu, and monique moyer we might get to 150 years, maybe. but i'm down here to have fun, today, get out of city hall, go to bubba gumps and make sure that i spend it with other people who love to have fun like our port commission and hers directors and the staff and the rec and parks here and i know that the fire chiefs had to lessen her fun time and go to a three alarm fire and thank you to her for being vigilant for the city. and we would rec and park they have discovered yet another

give me monique. let's go. [applause]