peter dealy, maritime director of the port. it's great to be here. i always wish we could have the curtains open . as monique said, it is a beautiful day. but we must do what we must do. i have a short presentation here, a few slides that are not in any necessary order, but there is pretty pictures of fishing boats in the harbor. it kind of reference my comments. as part of the port's 150th anniversary, the commission did ask staff to make a presentation each month highlighting one of of our industry's -- one of the benefits the port makes to the region. this month's presentation will highly the port's fishing industry which is one of our maritime industries, which commissioner adams will highlight as well. i'm thrilled to be talking about the industry as it has great history and great importance to san francisco. people that been making a living fishing and crabing in san francisco bay for years prior to the port's fishing founding in 1864. 150 years after our founding the fish industry remains one of the most important -- our most important lines o

our maritime staff led by peter dealy, and our finance and administration staff led by elaine forbes.is now my honor to welcome the man who has dedicated his life to transforming and improving our city, mayor ed lee. (applause) >> thank you. thank you, monique, for that wonderful introduction. and mr. redding, thank you again. welcome back. >> thank you. >> for a moment i felt how it is to waste some time. [laughter] >> don't do that very often these days. and i'm sure my colleagues at the board of supervisors also don't know how that feels very much. but i want to thank and welcome everybody here to our waterfront. this is the kind of event that we're happy to not only engage in, but to bring more people to our waterfront. that has been the purpose of the port for so many years. and i want to just congratulate the port, its commission and the staff, because this is in fact 150 years of celebration of our port. and what a way to celebrate with all these wonderful things that are happening here. it's taken 15 years for this project to get done, 15 years. that's a 10th of the history of

we also allow that kind of question about prevailing wage and i just want to publicly thank both peter dealy and i believe his name is jeff bower for their very professional response on that issue with us. that's it. thank you for your time. >> thank you for updating us. is there any other public comment? okay. >> item 9a, executive director's report. >> good afternoon, commissioners, members of the public, and port staff. thank you for coming today. on such a gorgeous day into the dark of the ferry commission building room. i have a couple of things on the executive director's report today and i want to start by acknowledging commissioner brandon. at the last meeting it had escaped my notice you started your new term with us, its was a continuum. i do want to take a minute and acknowledge all that you have done for the port and all of the time that you've been with us. and thank you for continuing to do it. for those of you that don't know, commissioner brandon was fridayertion appointed to the port commission in 1997 by then mayor willie brown. is that correct? nod your head. thank you. sh