south beach marina, south beach harborage area is a beautiful part of san francisco. the harbor itself is a full- service marina consisting of 700 slips, concrete talks, recreational and commercial guest talks, at the pier for the shed, maritime center, and south beach park. i think you know where it is located between pier 40 and it at&t ballpark near the embarcadero. the bay area's premier destination arena. there are 700 slips, home to the south beach and yacht calleclub. south beach is also home to the bay area association of disabled and sailors. it is an all volunteer volunteer organization providing assistance to all sailors and families and those interested in the bay area. baads is a wonderful program. the redevelopment commission who had authority over this can talk about the transition, have supported free berthing to that. we fully support that practice. south beach harbor was built in 1986 by the san francisco redevelopment agency, leased from the port. it was financed through $24 million in revenue bonds, $8 million in california department of boating and waterways

we met last week with the south beach harbor community at the south beach harbor yacht club. we appreciate your hospitality. a number of the members were surprised at this data, quite frankly, and were concerned at the speed it was coming to them. we were surprised at the speed that it was coming to us. the meeting was frank and open. it was a difficult -- in a way, a message to send. the facilities needed revenue enhancement to continue its operation. and to fund capital improvement. we met again this morning. port staff met with members of the tenants association and had a vigorous dialogue regarding revenue enhancement. ports that is setting up meetings for the next couple of weeks to continue this dialogue going forward. in the staff report, recommended coming back to the port commission in july with firm recommendations on different scenarios that would help us to offset the deficit and fund capital plans. after conversations with south beach tenants, we think that that is a bit ambitious, and we can come back to the commission in august but firm recommendations for impl

south beach yacht club. i have been a member for about 20 years and am blessed to have a boat there since 1988. i do not live in the harbor, but i lived in south beach. much of my life everyday is in that harbour. much of my own recreation and my forward looking life plans with my new son being a sailor in the future is also there. i worked at south beach apartment, where i am one of the property managers. for 10 years i sat, as mr. pierce did for a long time, on the citizens advisory committee. during those years, we all delivered on a lot of neighborhood issues. i think that i am privy to know that the harbor was, in fact, a development point for the rest of the neighborhood that was intended to bring the persons of the immediate area to the waterfront. i concur with mr. pierce. if these rents are raised to the extent that myself and other persons who might be able to just nominally afford this wonderful recreational opportunity, we have to move and other people come in to pay these much higher prices, there will be a much different social circumstance in that harbour. the yacht club has worked for years to develop a so

to manage the south beach harbor. supervisor chu: supervisor kim? supervisor kim: i noticed a few of the departments that are not listed on the slide have requested positions related to redevelopment duties. could you address that? i know the city attorney wanted to absorber one attorney and a legislative policy analyst. i think economic development wanted to absorbable position or two. i was hoping that you could address this as well. are these new positions, or are these of the 58 fte's that were eliminated previously? >> a few different things happening. the city attorney's office, there are -- the city attorney is able to absorb much of the work that was previously done by attorneys at the redevelopment agency but is reorganizing and needs to get several positions to accommodate the full workload related to property management,

i mean, megyn, i grew up, actually, i lived for a short time in indian harbor beach, florida, just about a dozen miles souththe cape. i watched the first saturn 5 take off. my biggest fear was by the time i was old enough to apply we would have already been to mars and beyond, and all the good stuff would have been over by now. so this is really frustrating to see us just, you know, plod along and slowly dismantle our manned space flight program and lose a huge source of national pride and a big motivation for students all over not just the united states, but the world to succeed in math and science and do great things. megyn: and now you've got more than 7400 people who were once, i mean, these are some top engineers and so on who worked at gnat saw, i mean -- massa, i mean, walking around the kennedy space center offering oral histories. god bless them. i mean, i represent them for offering their expertise, but we could use them for so much more. they're capable of so much more, doc. >> oh, megyn, i was fortunate to have flown on four shuttle missions, and the thing that was so amazing was i got to go aro