i am a longtime san franciscan who happens to be a partner at south beach harbor. the rates for berths will make south beach harbor one of the most expensive marinas in the san francisco bay area. i understand you are considering charging for extras if they wish to park in the south beach harbor when they visit the marina. whatever your reasons may be for such sharp and drastic increases in fees, the result would be to force many middle income san franciscan boaters to sell their boats or try to find a berth in the east bay or the peninsula. as you know, it converted a blighted area into a desirable place to live and work. it was intended from the beginning to be a community facility, and i would imagine it was primarily for the city's residents. it has been a tremendous success. the dramatic fee hike you are considering now is evidence of that success. unfortunately, the higher fees may compel many to leave the marina we built. this is not right. another example of what i consider unfair to san franciscans is the first-come, first-served assignment of berths. a san

i have the votes at south t beach harbor. -- i have a boat and south beach harbor. i do hear there is some concern that this is a harbor in san francisco. it is owned by all the people of california. we should not even considered that as an issue. as far as residency. early on, when it was apparent that the port was going to inherent this, i talk to jim morale is, who was the counsel for the redevelopment agency in an attempt to get the current mailing list so that the tenants could be notified that things are happening. jim was going to do that and then it became part of the city and therefore have different rules for getting information. made a public records request, tried to talk to jim walter into speaking me a list. that did not work. it is so important that we have come up 500 + tenants. some people have fleets and so forth. the people do not know what is going on. it is going to fall back on the port. it is not going to fall back on any but -- anyone but the port. this does have to go to the board of supervisors eventually. i really cannot plead with you enou

please consider implementing something like a two-tier fee structure at south beach harbor. san franciscans should not be penalized for the city's success in turning around the south beach area. we have been a part of the city's efforts to improve the area. san franciscan residents should be -- should not be charged any greater amounts than is being charged the other municipal or -- municipal marinas in the bay area. i am almost finished. the residents pay less at golf courses. residents visit the city's botanical gardens and do not pay well residents do. please consider giving san francisco residents some advantage over non-residents in getting a berth at south beach harbor. south beach harbor could soon be filled with anyone but san franciscans. >> ok. mike. >> commissioners, my name is m mike. i was born and raised in san francisco. i am not rich. there is an impression that anybody who has a boat has a lot of money. i have very little money or enough money to get by in san francisco, because the prices of san francisco have astronomically increase. i am middle-class, r. c

department, by the board of supervisors,the east harbor is still at rates very comparable to south beach harbor. they are at $8.75 a foot at my boat and i'm paying $8.70 and that was not included in the vary, that the difference in those two harbor as far as i know. san francisco marina gets two parking passes and we get one and have to pay $600 a year for the second pass. i recognize they are hunting licenses, just like a residential parking permit is a residential license like in my neighborhood. i think the port ought to think about giving us a discount on rates if we're only going to get one parking space, especially given the fact our harbor is 25-years-old and probably the east harbor is 30 years old. so we're comparable in age i would suspect. the port staff in some cases seems to treat the report as gospel and not taking into account other studies down by other agencies. have i run out of time? for my lot, they want us to walk out to our boat, and back to the boat for a parking permit. that is a half a mile walk for me. at the end of the pier. i'm okay now with walking that distance, bu

. >> commissioners, i have been a partner in a sailboat at south beach harbor for seven years. under the proposed parking plan, my partner will get a free parking pass he will never use because he does not use the boat. i will have to pay $600 for a special parking permit unless my partners pass is transferable. i would like to say this about other partnerships. there are many partnerships and this marina. some consisting of three or four families. they take a weekend of the month to enjoy these waters. the well-being of these diminished partners is not protected by the port's parking proposal. unless the single permits can be transferred among the minor partners, to use the boat. south beach marina -- there are 670 holders. there is approximately 406 hundred minor partners. we're talking about a community of 10001100 people at that are not represented -- 1100 people that are not represented by the advocates of south beach harbor, which is an organization that represents 150 people. proper notice has not been given to the community at large. i am asking what everybody else is a

in accordance with the bond venture, the port has set up south beach harbor requiring met with the harborrevenue. the small craft harbour construction loan states that the redevelopment agency shall review berthing charges in the general area supporting the same boating public. in the financial analysis section of the loan, page 13, titled "ability of users to pay ," it ensures the ability of users to pay. there was originally $24 million worth of bonds.

. $2.4 is in the port's budget, and $4.3 is from adding south beach harbor. while the operating budget b current year from $11.9 to future capital was removed for budget year, it increased $6.2 [#1*-/] million from $67.6 to $73.7 million a. $1.6 of this is in our operating budget and again $4.3 is adding south beach harbor. to the capital budget also increased, but only l4,000 from $10.5 to $1.9. the key drivers of these changes are the final america's cup agreement. it really is a place holder, that $4.3 million and it's balanced revenues and expenditures. the other changes are from revenue losss that we learned about after approval. related to some lease changes. and the board of supervisors process. this chart here is in your report and shows the overall changes. so i will take these topic areas, fund balances operating areas and expenses and capital in order. basically flat revenues, plus increased expenses equal lower appropriations. so let's start with fund balance. fund balance is down $2 million from what you saw. as you know fund balances is an estim

including the added responsibilities for managing south beach harbor and pier 40. in july, port staff issued a request for qualifications and solicited over 600 identified parties and vessel operators throughout north america. and we received responses from nine very interested parties. in august, port staff organized a screening committee, composed of two members of port staff, one operations, one sales and marketing, as well as one manager from the san francisco municipal transportation agency, and a director of transportation policy from the office of mayor of the city and county of san francisco. this committee reviewed all submittals and held interviews and in line with the recommendation of 2009 feasibility study, the committee endorsed a small business that currently operates one vessel that meets the requirement of the rfq, which is less than 60' and no more than 49 passengers. and we endorsed an operator that can commence service by october. that operate is dave thomas, who is here today. and his company of san francisco water taxi. dave has been running s

form of some sprinkles as we did further to the south, around calbert county, you're looking at a few light showers around chesapeake beach, eagle harbor, even south of golden beach. other than that we are pretty much dry around the state. we do have a flash flood warning that's in effect until 5:45 for carroll county and also fredrick county and then we'll basically be in the clear as we go throughout the day. we will begin to see some more sunshine moving in here, especially as we go into the afternoon. mostly clear skies this evening, going to drop those temperatures off really chilly, but for this morning we're at 60 degrees. this is pretty much where we should be now for this time of the year, right around 58. we're at 60 in aberdeen this morning. and as we look at what's going to be happening as we head through the rest of your day, well, that temperature coming in right around 70 this afternoon. let's get a check now of the abc 2 time saver traffic with lauren cook. good morning. >>reporter: good morning, lynette. we do have our first accident of the day. it's in howard county right in west friendship on maries mill road at driv

scheduled between the hide street fishing harbor pier 39 and south beach marina. >>> we are coming up on our 5:00 hour. up next more than a dozen people are homeless now after an overnight fire in the east bay. you are going to see how fire crews came to the rescue in alameda. >>> also a huge international story with bay area ties. the u.s. ambassador to libya was among americans killed in a rocket attack overseas. >>> good morning. developing news u.s. ambassador to libya is among americans killed in a rocket attack overseas. his ties to the bay area. >>> we are live in alameda where a firefighter saves a man in a wheelchair from a burning home. >>> residential burglaries are up again here in palo alto. we will show you the effected areas and what you should do to protect yourself. >>> it's another big day for apple. the announcement that is expected in san francisco this morning. >>> good morning. thank you for joining us on this wednesday morning september 12th i'm pam cook. >> the middle of the week. i'm dave clark. let's check your weather and traffic. steve is here. how do you w

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will run on a regular schedule and shuttle passengers between the hide street fishing harbor, pier 39, and the south beacha near at & t park. >>> 45 homes are being voluntary evacuated in vegas. look at this. heavy flooding. helicopters even. the concern is the flood waters may have damaged the electrical systems in those houses and that could trigger fires. yesterday about 20 people these folks had to be rescued from their cars that were stranded in those rising waters. very same storm system caused flooding of about 80 people in river side county. >>> more information is coming out about the man that killed a chp officer in alamo. court documents show that the detectives seized items including ammunition, three shooting targets, six computers, and $1,500 in cash from the home of christopher lacy. lacy shot officer kenyan youngstrom on september 4th. a private memorial service will be hold for officer youngstrom tomorrow morning in vacaville. >>> we have new details about last months fire at the chevron refinely. federal investigators say the walls of a pipe that triggered last months fire was dangerousl

harbor, and down to the south, st. mary's county, that's where the heaviest rain is right now. and even thunderstorm activity. we go back to the west in through the fredericksburg area, calvert beach, that's where we're seeing some of the heavier rain there. back to the west around loray, culpepper, there is more rain to come throughout the evening if you're south, as i mentioned, of 66. be on the lookout for that rain. because back behind it, take a look, even more rain here. we're going to see this whole area just kind of float through throughout the rest of the evening hours. so it is going to be a little rainy south of d.c. by tomorrow, the front sweeps out. i think we'll see sunshine. i think it will be a little bit cooler, a little bit better fall-like conditions. and then sunday, area of low pressure moves in and we're cloudy and fairly cool. this evening, plenty of clouds, showers and storms mostly to the south. 69 to 74 degrees. tomorrow morning, waking up on a pretty good note. i think we'll be okay tomorrow. 49 to 59. tomorrow afternoon, we'll see the temperatures bp up into the 60s and 70s. cooler, sun and clouds, and more fall-like. tomorrow a great day. speaking of f

south florida beach saturday have survived despite a day-long effort to save them. officials say two calves and three juveniles have been transported to the florida atlantic harbor branchd of natural causes or were euthanized. the pod came ashore yesterday morning. and a discovery saturday morning caused beach closings in rhode island this holiday weekend. at dawn, a local fisherman spotted the carcass of a 13-foot great white shark that washed ashore. beaches were closed to swimmers as a precaution. marine scientists confirmed the fish was a great white shark. they say great whites are rarely seen in that area. >> the country's oldest zoo is breaking new ground with an attempt to make things more wild. the latest phase of the program at the philadelphia zoo is just opened and the zoo plans to spend $2 million to expand it. >> right now they're going to do a feeding. we've come up with this contraption. >> zookeeper samantha nestor feeds orangutans this way there is where they like to hang out, part of a system of trails the philadelphia zoo is building from an animal's point of view. >> the idea of creating this network is really coming out of our interest in creating