port 12 years. at the time, myself and vice president brandon got a new port director. and we've taken off to the races running. she's bringing in her new team and i would invite all you supervisors to please come down to the port. we would love to give you a tour. i think leader nancy pelosi's letter said it's the jewel of san francisco. it's our water front. if there's any questions, i know it's been a long day for you. and we're a port like san diego and a container port is like oakland, l.a., long beach. people will come on and say we'll make all the money. seattle has the port and the airport and that's where 60% of their revenues come from because they have the money from the airport. anyway, supervisor. [please stand by] . i would like to you and your leadership making sure working with giants, pier 70, and all the different projects coming up, we aren't just thinking of current members but there's a pathway for employment and apprenticeship opportunities and those born and raised in the city

amy quesada, the executive secretary for the port and the port commission. she knows everybody, everything. she makes it look seamless, but i can't even begin to imagine what each one of your days must look like, and you do it with a smile. you make it look effortless, but we notice when you're gone, so -- so we know what an incredible job you do. brad benson, you forgot when i first ran for the board of supervisors, you met me when i was on supervisor ammiano's staff, but you helped serve on my kitchen cabinet when i ran for supervisor. and i've always appreciated your friendship and the work you've done on so many guiding projects here. it's just extraordinary. when i came over to the port and saw you were here, i was so excited. elaine, also, my friend from way back. i can't begin to thank you enough for stepping into the role of executive director and doing it so beautifully with such vision, grace, and kindness to the staff and all the commissioners, really. thank you for making it look seamless, but it's so hard to do a transition into a new role like

but by 2016, the port actually recovered. very much because, primarily because of geo bond proceeds we received for the parks. i think that was the years we had large expenditures related to crane cove park and we used bond proceeds to improve that asset. and that ultimately moved our position up. so by 2017, you can actually see there was very little change in our net position. and this next slide will sort of help highlight why. so this chart actually shows the drivers behind the annual change in any given year. and as i noted, while the port's net position grew over $27 million in that five-year period, that change varied year over year. and some key trends that we want through there is growth and -- went through there is growth and operating expenses. we talked about how operating costs grow over time. but that was paired with sources, both operating revenues as well as nonoperating revenues. and while the operating revenues grew steadily over the five-year period, something that our financial statements rereflecteded, i

[agenda item read] >> good evening, members of the port commission, public, port staff. i am elaine forbes. today i have the pleasure of welcoming back our two commissioners and two new commissioners. the mayor's office confirmed the reappointment of doreen woo ho, and willie brown. the mayor's office has recommended and the board of supervisors also confirmed the new payment of gail gilman, term ending 2022, and victor makras, term ending 2020. miss gilman has over 20 years of housing experience. she joined the community housing partnership chairman in 2010. [inaudible] >> -- an equity framework. miss gilman is involved in regional and national public policy efforts, including serving as the california's homeless coordinator and finance council, which is a governor appointment, and she was most recently a dbi commissioner. mr. makras has 30 years of civic experience. his first commission was the board of permit appeals. he was a puc commissioner twice, police commissioner, and was very recently serving on the retirement board, which is a $23 billion fund. mr. makras als

port of l.a. is included. we do appreciate -- by the way, i had the leadership of the port of l.a. visit i think about a month ago, tremendous partnership there, and that communication and dialogue is i think critical. the other way we try to balance that staffing is recognizing the impact of our innovation. you mentioned the automated commercial environment, single window, which is providing significant capability, but we've also done several things to help make us more efficient. radiation portal monitors we have at every exit to the terminal to the port of l.a. those are now more finely tuned so they detect threats, but they don't trigger on so many naturally occurring materials that are backing up trucks. >> right. you mentioned the 2,500 additional officers. is that from -- i think i saw a most recent cbp office of field workload staffing model. is that where that comes from? >> correct. >> and i have been reading and looking, and i have seen the administration put requests in for more border

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the port would be protected. i think you guys have done that, but also to a commissioner makras and gilman, other concerns we've had is what about the rest of the leases with the restaurants? when are they going to come forward and say, me too and maybe this is a blueprint for us with them and maybe we'll make adjustments. somebody will say we know what you did for boudin. so maybe this gives us a good path to go down on how to negotiate moving forward. so i'm supportive. thank you. >> president brandon: jay, mike, thank you so much for the presentation, for the fourth time. [laughter]. but, no, you guys have done a great job from where we started to where we ended. this is absolutely wonderful. so thank you so much for your patience with us and for bringing this to us. commissioners, all in favor? any opposed? resolution 1834 has passed. >> item 13 a, informational presentation on fiscal year 2018-19, through fiscal near 2022-23, capital improvement program. >> good afternoon, i'm capital manager with the port f

the port rebuilding of supplies would then be implemented. to respond to these needs, the resilience recommendations call ever hadded for improving the capacity and flexibility of landing facilities at the port, maintaining areas that can serve emergency functions if and when needed, continuing to monitor the effective climate change and sea level rise on our critical facilities and integrating the latest science and best practices into project designs. the port also some strengthen its planning and funding partnerships with tenants, emergency managers and transportation providers to improve emergency preparedness and disaster recovery operations, and this is just an example of the types of events that diana and other city folks organize sod that we can be prepared in the -- when a major event or earthquake does happen. the resilience sub committee next turned to topics of seismic safety and sea level rise. this discussions were framed by the first guiding principle, which the working group agreed upon at the beginning of the sub committee di

port officers, as i know you know. however, stopping the drug cartels is not solely a matter of securing traffic coming into the united states. we have to attack the cartels' business model. that means stopping the flow of both drug money and weapons that travel southbound into mexico from the united states. unfortunately, as i saw on my trip, our saab screening effort for traffic leaving the u.s. from mexico pails in comparison to -- pales in comparison. we are in a system that our officers referred to as pulse and search. so intermittent checking of southbound traffic. we were told they need expanded facilities, more personnel and updated technology in order to try to strengthen our ability to stop the flow of guns and money back into the cart tells' hands. so are you -- cartels' hands. so are you ok with the southbound inspections? secretary nielsen: no. senator hassan: what do you need and what actions will you take to address the shortfalls? secretary nielsen: the ports are very different. the infrastructure. part

the next department presenting is the port of san francisco. elaine forbes is the executive director. they've got a total budget of 174 million, of which 9.8 million is general fund. >> good morning chair cohen, members of the committee. >> supervisor cohen: good morning. >> elaine forbes, executive director of the port. i'm joined by my staff, and we're here of course to present the proposed two-year budget. the port is on a two-year budget cycle as other enterprise departments are. our two-year budget is really geared to support our strategic plan and it does so in a -- in a variety of areas that the port commission and part a-- port are trying to advantage with our waterfront. first, we are working closely to expand our water system. the network is growing substantially, and as you know, the city needs to increase this. in the area of sustainability as the new director 1.5 years ago, he consolidated the planning and environment -- i consolidated the planning and environment group to continue to excel our sustainability program in resiliency.

we need more people at the ports of entry. we need them southbound and well as northbound and i also know there were infrastructure issues for the second lanes of traffic and the like. i would look forward to working with you on that. i also wanted to touch on another issue that we heard about on the border. as you know, last year congress passed the interdict act which requires dhs to increase the number of fentanyl screening devices available to cvp officers. the officers have faced a shortage of these devices which are short of identifying fentanyl and other drugs and keeping the officers safe from the toxic chemicals. despite the passage of the interdict act the port personnel that i made clear made it clear the devices were still in short supply. when i spoke about the interdict legislation and its mission they were encouraged by the possibility of more devices heading their way, but they had clearly not received the benefits that we intended when we passed this bill and when the president signed into the law. i think tha

i'm elaine forbes, port director. first i'd like to thank you, chairman cohen and members of the committee for having a hearing on this item. i would like to thank director kelley because she has provided a lot of the funding to keep the seawall project going. i'm very proud to represent the port staff and commission in what's really a milestone day for the port as we work together to protect our city by strengthening the embarcadero seawall. i ask that you place a 425 million general obligation bond on the november ballot to support the seawall earthquake safety and disaster prevention program. and if i could please move to the overhead. the seawall, as city administrator kelly said, is unseen, mostly. it's 100 years old and it's served our city and region very well over the last decade, but we now must make significant investment for the seawall to protect the next generation. this bond will strengthen the seawall, to protect the city from earthquake, address flood risk and provide current adaptation for sea level r

given this euro tall and between are ports of entry, dhs is encouraging people to claim asylum at ports of entry instead. the cbp is a persistent problem and i would like to learn how capacity issues are likely to be affected by these policy changes. i thank you for joining us today and i yield back the balance of my time. >> to churn out recognize the chairman of the full committee, mr. mccaul. >> thank you for holding this important hearing. two months ago a caravan of more than 1000 central americans begin a 2000-mile journey from guatemala new mexico border headed towards the united states. the journey was not easy in the migrants were met with great difficulty. so what motivated them to make this journey? the wildest immigrant advocacy group called pablo san frontera through specific gola circumvention of u.s. immigration laws. they organize wh they ought would be the largest united states border and with simple and already overburdened immigration system but asylum claims. this was not the first caravan and did not change her immigration and laws and this will not be the last good

which is between sarnia and port huron. a border crossing that needs to be expanded and in fact the government came in and condemned a number of houses with eminent domain and cleared out land because of the scoms expansion that should have taken place years ago. it's still has not occurred. it's an incredibly problematic situation to say the least for the city of port huron. and it's a piece of critical infrastructure. do you have any idea when that plaza will be completed and is that something that you're prepared to talk about today? >> no. but we'll get you an answer this week. >> well, i would appreciate that as well. we'll follow up. the other piece of nfrastructure is the su -- i -- sioux locks. d.h.s. reported in 2016 that if the polak -- the po lock that can let the large freighters move through if anything happened to that lock within a matter of weeks the entire u.s. economy would go into recession. you would have production facilities, shut -- factories, auto parts would have difficulty being constructed. so it'

at the port of entry they'll be stopped. we need to stop the people and the drugs. but in terms of the staffing model you're discussing, i'm happy to come talk to you in detail. senator mccaskill: yeah. it doesn't -- if you look at your staffing at the united states in terms of mail facilities, it's even worse. i mean, you got 17 officers covering two shifts in cincinnati. screening almost 46 million import shipments in one year. that's just overwhelming. i just think somebody's got to get off the political speeches and get to the problem and be pragmatic. you know, all of us want to support what you need along the border, but this notion that if we can just say, look over here, look over here, it's all about people coming across the border and totally ignore the biggest public health crisis this country has ever faced by not adequately staffing the places where the drugs are coming in is just heartbreaking to me. secretary nielsen: i am not saying that. what i'm suggesting what we find is the best way to identify those drug

of entry versus between the ports of entry. with the new zero tolerance policy in place, if someone is apprehended between the ports of entry and claims credible fear, what happens to them? >> well, in the situation where zero tolerance, they'll be referred to the justice department for criminal prosecution for illegal entry. if they claim credible fear, that's a separate matter. so while they are in custody, they could have an interview by one of francis people or once they are concluded with the u.s. attorney and the justice department, that that would be a separate matter for them. >> did you want to follow up? >> yes. just because you are being prosecuted doesn't mean that you can't make asylum claim. and if that happens, i think what we expect will p ha, i don't think we have seen many cases with are this has happened yet under the new zero tolerance policy, that would go through the process and be sent into i.c.e. detention. at that point we at i.c.e. would interview them in the normal course for credible fear screening.

i'm here today to speak in support of the port seawall project. the embarcadero seawall is the foundation of 500 acres of downtown neighborhoods, the under pittance of critical infrastuckture. we think it's important to note that one out of every eight jobs in the bay area is located in downtown san francisco, and a 2007 study estimated that the seawall protects over $100 billion of assets and economic activities, so for these reasons, we ask you to support the seawall project. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. >> good afternoon, chair cohen and members of the committee. my name is thea seldy, and for identification only, i am the former chair of the citizens general obligation bond oversight committee, and i am the current chair of the san francisco transit riders, which is a grassroots nonprofit that is the voice of the san francisco muni, b.a.r.t., and caltrain riders. and i'm here today to urge you to support this $425 million bond. as you know, the embarcadero seawall supports the regional transportation network system that moves a s

of -- excuse me, port of san francisco, the s.f. library, s.f.m.t.a., environment, public building inspection and public utilities commission. so -- we can begin with the international airport. thank you, welcome back. >> good morning. thank you, madam chair. members of the board, thank you for coming back and addressing any follow-up questions you may have. i believe you are in receipt of our written response to a number of the questions raised last week in the budget hearing and if it pleases the committee, i would like to walk you through the analysis we did on the -- >> yes. >> on the police department staffing. you'll see on the first page a lot of the analysis was based, the 0 based analysis based on a number of factors and see the factors relate to the significant growth we have seen since 1997 to 2017, and probably most meaningful is the column on the right that talks about the percent change in the factors, and it's a function of the growth we have experienced and some of the impacts that it's had. you can also see it, our

and issues around the port and activating the port, i think her knowledge of what's needed and people who aren't at the table. there are a lot of people who aren't at the table and i think gail represents a constituency that really needs to be at the table adjacent to our port, our families, low-income families, seniors and people looking for economic opportunities out there. you know, [buzzer] [mic cut out] >> supervisor safai: thank you, ma'am. next speaker. >> unlike her competitor who is applying for the position of being commissioner, ms. gilman has learned through hands on demonstrating experience and executive director of the community housing partnership which charges tenants 30% of their income, unlike the past administration, the giants portd, mr. adams and board of supervisors kim and breed claim 40% affordable housing, you have people making $191,000 $98,000 and $72,000 part of a low-income affordable program and they don't need to be in a low income affordable housing program, that's called price fixing and price gaunlging. gouging. we have emergency housing shortage in s

this is view of the richmond port from sky 5. coal piled up and visibly to the naked eye.data shows the port exported 23,000 me trick tons of coal, and drops to 120,000 metro tons in 2016 but last year exports skyrocketed to more than 1 million me trick ton, mainly headed to overseas markets in asia. >> i always assumed it was about the same. >> reporter: the port told us last week coal exports have been about the same. but when we told spokesman jim holland about the census bureau numbers he said quote an honest mistake. he has refused multiple times to give an on-camera interview. >> i heard people postulate that the coal that would have gone to oakland went to richmond but i don't know that that is true. >> reporter: but the reports say the increased mines are comiro

the port of long island -- long beach, rather, the port of long beach's executive director mario corridornow -- cordero. the timing's perfect, you're in town here. first, you don't get oil from the middle east, but you may get countries who continue to do trade with iran, and now the united states has said we will sanction not just iran, but any countries or companies doing business with iran. what's the domino effect you see? >> i think, number one, we're mainly a container, movement of goods at the port of long beach. we do have a crude oil portfolio, so there is cause for concern. liz: what type of concern would you see, you know? how closely does a guy like you watch the headlines? >> we have a great staff. we keep our market, we keep our eyes on the market with regard to cargo in general. but, again, with regard to crude oil, most of our crude oil comes from alaska. but nevertheless, as you referenced, liz, there is a portion that comes from other countries, so we'll continue to watch this closely the in terms of the impacts. liz: also just hitting the tape that germany's trade assoc

troops have also taken control of the main port and denied the yemeni prime minister and most of his cabinet permission to leave situated off the coast of somalia and the unesco heritage site known to many as the galapagos of the indian ocean is famous for its unusual wildlife and scenery but with a three thousand meter long runway ideal for fighter jets and large military aircraft the island is also situated between the horn of africa and yemen just be on the red sea and some of the busiest sea lanes in the world what they have done here is they have found an island which is very remote from both yemen and somalia very far off the coast but it's very strategically located and it kind of acts as a quasi aircraft carrier in the main over the u.a.e. in the middle of the indian ocean where they can control traffic and obviously to control the traffic you can also give favorable access to the sea lanes to companies that are related to the u.a.e. so it's a military and geopolitical strategy which is very much linked to the economic strategy of you know united arab emirates having already

amy, is the port still open? >> reporter: the union workers tell me they are not doing any work here at the port of oakland today. i left several messages for the spokesperson or spokes people at the port and i have not heard back, but here's the action going on here. you can see protesters are on the move. they held a rally here, and now they are marching to the plaza. they did listen to some speakers organized here, and it was not just rights activists, but joined by activists against police brutality. this is a day for workers rights, members want to join forces and bring attention to police brutality. >> i think we have to start thinking a little more about people instead of just profit in this country, and so, no, i don't feel bad at all about taking the day off and marching with my brothers and sisters. >> reporter: there's video of the activity happening here just moments ago before they headed off on their march. workers tell me that if this day of action changes one person's way of thinking about workers

put it on our ports. are they trying to do better as we said geo says that's not the case. this was petroleum traders have a deliberate strategy for are exploiting the weaknesses of the standards that apply in africa and bringing high quality fuel to europe those are trying very inferior very dirty products to africa and retaliate for the the trimmers has started. it all that is perfectly legal. so as a prophet yes it is perfectly legal within the permissible limits and we think that it is unacceptable for swiss oil traders to benefit from weak regulation in africa to make profits at the expense of millions of people. that strategy is at the heart of the accusations the investigation by the ngo public eye focuses on swiss based crude oil traders like traffic gura whose african subsidiaries puma energy as well as whose partners in africa vivo energy and shell child's traffic orders revenue is close to one hundred billion dollars a year its net income is reportedly two point six billion. an extreme heavyweight turns over one hundred sixty eight billion in sales but that's all

gilman for the port commission for the term ending may 1st, 2022. and let me start by saying the obvious, which is unlike the previous discussion we had, i believe ms. gilman has been driving us all crazy, so no lack of contact. in all seriousness, ms. gilman who hails from the third supervisorial district has steeped herself in port policy and i have to say i have watched her in her role in the building inspection commission and when she indicated to me she was talking to the mayor's office about potentially becoming a port commissioner, i said do you know the public trust doctrine of the state of california and she was honest and said she didn't know it yet, but weeks later, she was able to recite the intricacies and nuances of that complicated piece of public policy backwards and forwards, which i doubt any other member and i mean no disrespect to mr. adams, can do. for those of us watching our emails and letters, the breadth of support that ms. gilman has received has, i think, spoken volumes. so i am honored to make a motion approving her nomin

traffic in ports around the world including amsterdam. at all just a little spot the red bars are actually means that so you can see there's a lot of takers and we are here and you can see the protests is here so let's let's see what they actually what information they get so they give them a picture of the ship so it's crude oil tanker many times you can see black little bits the federal truck where the ship has been and then you can see it's the flag of the tanker is from behind us it's two hundred thirty meters length almost it's in port ok but nothing about the owner of the people that friends know but it's very difficult is to find out who's actually renting that tanker who's owning the cargo and of course deeds are the most interesting people because they are instructing the tanker to up to do where to go but to blent it's not a public information at all though it's it's shipping intelligent database where you have to pay for as well so it's a bit but it's the only way to get some more information about it. that's all we learned pub

downtown in port au prince and the earthquake damage streets can seem full of working children . rest of this is a common sight and with little evidence that there is a. we attempt to regulate all monitor what goes on. why isn't it more of a political priority in this country i think it's because this system is so ingrained into the culture that people become so desensitized to it the haitian ambassador said that haiti is too poor haiti does not have the resources necessary to combat the system and then plus he said that the system is too ingrained into the fabric of our culture that it's difficult to eradicate it. america has long been haiti's biggest international fund this year alone it has sense more than twenty seven million dollars to tackle the aftermath of the two thousand and ten earthquake. america is also the leading international player in the fight against modern slavery yet its commitment to help haiti's child slaves is undermined by a simple problem of terminology. the rich countries of the north have anti trafficking units and they don't quite grasp that it's all

downtown in port au prince and the earthquake damaged streets can seem full of working children . rest of this is a common sight and with little evidence that there is a. we attempt to regulate all monitor what goes on. why isn't it more of a political priority in this country i think it's because this system is so ingrained into the culture that people become so desensitized to it the haitian ambassador said that haiti is too poor he does not have the resources necessary to combat the system and then plus he said that the system is too in going into the fabric of our culture that it's difficult to eradicate it. america has long been haiti's biggest international fund this year alone it has sense more than twenty seven million dollars to tackle the aftermath of the two thousand and ten earthquake. america is also the leading international player in the fight against modern slavery yet its commitment to help haiti's chance slaves is undermined by a simple problem of terminology. the rich countries of the north have anti trafficking units and they don't quite grasp that it's all abo