also the area off of pier 23 in the half. it is a shallow area between pier 43 and pier 45 that has a great views of the bay and is adjacent to the park. the america's cup also proposes to remove the entirety of the pier 27 shed and a portion of the 29 shed that intersects with 27. that removal is a greater level of removal than the proposed pier 23 removal by and the special area planned. we would propose that that removal would be a trade-off for pier 23, allowing us to keep that historic resources. it will allow us to keep the potential to acre plaza at the end appeared 27 and 29 that needs to be used for cruise ship provisioning when there are cruise ships in place, but it could serve as important public access when it is not in use for crews purposes. without getting too lost in the details, we see a need to plan additional public access improvements. possibly on the west side of the embarcadero. we are also looking at additional removal options. possibly phased removal of the non-historic connector shed. it is called pie

also the area off of pier 23 in the half. it is a shallow area between pier 43 and pier

the market. whereas, by way of example, pier 9 we have a high occupancy rate and we charge $360. >> so pier 80, the use requires you to arrive in your vehicle? >> no public trash -- no public transportation. >> pier 9 is covered office space, right at your front door, premium parking. >> i think the rate should go higher. >> next year. did that answer your question, commissioner? >> is there any public comment on this item? ok, thank you. >> item 10 a., request authorization for award of a contract for professional services for master planning and preliminary design of the proposed pier 70 crane cove park project in an amount not to exceed $708,835, funded through the 2008 proposition a, clean and safe neighborhoods parks general obligation bond. >> the site is located, generally, between mariposa street and 19th street and is approximately 7 acres, as designed by the pier 70 master plan. funding for the design services it is through the 2008 clean and safe general obligation bond fund. on december 14, 2010, the port commission authorized the release of a request for proposals for the services. gen

the stabbings. -- are allowed to do these taggings. ewe have 39 piers, but if you include all the substructures and buildings, we have close to 100 facilities. even inspecting the critical facilities, it will take days, because we have to send people out in the boats, to inspect the pilings underneath, and then let's take for example the ferry building. although we have the building component, we do not have the substructure component. >> the intent of my question -- i just wanted to understand the completion of the timeline of this if it is extend it. i was not sure reading the material with the existing plan was, and allow it to be sure there was a plan. i understand the resources may be limited and may not be as well as what you would like, and this new plan may give you a better road map. i just went to make sure that anything did happen between now and the completion of the new plan we do have a plan. >> we do have a plan in place, but we have limited resources. we may not be able to do everything we want to do in the short time. that is why we're

the project that is coming is really the pier 27 cruise terminal, and there are fairly significant is is at the site. we would love to see a series of stakeholder interviews with people who had been involved in the 2000 special area process. there were about 40 years overall, and the interview process went from about august of last year until about january of this year. we had the benefit of two very professional interviewers in the process. first, blake stephenson, who was the former general counsel for the commission. very knowledgeable about the waterfront. had issued some of the public trust consistency findings. later in the process, a commissioner on the san francisco commission on the environment was hired, and very familiar with waterfront issues, to complete the interview process. we are really grateful. it is an honor to work with people who have a real appreciation of these plans and who could engage stakeholders in a very thoughtful discussion. we also appreciated working with lindy and joe. no one really wanted to engage this process. i was sort of a cheerleader for it. i

some of the changes, reducing the rates at pier 9 office from 250 to 195. and we have included a submerged land rate, which we have not had, which we traditionally charge for, and now we will codify, memorialize the right so we can track it. regarding parking, the number of parking lots, most of our parking is done through a concession lease. however, we maintained it 357 individual parking stalls. they help us maintain office vacancy rates. that market has somewhat stabilized. it is flat, as is the office market, so we're not proposing any changes in the parking rate. we have done exhaustive studies, you have seen the staff reports, so i think everybody is comfortable there. the income to the port is about $390,000. these two areas of business, we contract with a third party, a consultant, and they seem to agree with our conclusions. filming and special events, that continues to be a popular place, sunday streets, filming, major productions. we just had an hbo production, "hemingway." and then there are subsets of events that we have traditionally come to t

you can -- >> piers: what did you find was the best way? me a 12-step program worked for me. >> piers: did it save your life, you think? >> i know it is saving my life a day at a time. for sure. lucky me for fining it. it's funny because i had gone to ten treatments. i'm not saying that treatment isn't a great way to kind of detox an get better and find some help. but at the end of the day, there's a way that you can save lives. can you save your own life and i think it would be better to be great to get some more women in there because i feel like women are not coming in as much as men to this program and not getting the help that they could -- >> how do you physically feel these days? >> amazing. >> piers: do you miss drugs? >> no. not even a little bit. not even -- >> piers: are you surprises about it? >> i'm grateful. i don't really think about it because it's like why should i think about something, if it's not broke don't fix it. but i'm just grateful that i'm -- that i don't need to change the way i feel. like i always felt so uncomf

the first, ab-418, regards pier 7-0 and the trust status out at the pier, at the other bill is regarding the cruise terminal and the sites that will be in the america's cup. just as background, the port works with legislature, in conjunction with the city legislative committee. this is the group convened by the mayor's office, and generally puts together all of the specific needs that the city looks at, what is planning to move toward it at this time, and we are part of that process. ab-418 is really an administrative trust bill. it is a trust exchange mechanism. at this map shows the report that port staff that did a number of years ago about the trust status of the area components of pier 70. many of the pieces of property were acquired with the original grant. many of them were acquired afterwards, specifically the shipyard, which support purchased for $1. each of these parcels, some of them were filled land, some of the more i planned. -- some of them are upland. they have specific stories that affects their legal status. when we are going through our normal process, we have a couple

the bed the beach master as i remember coat motioned to me come on the shore and i was to go to the pier you see what sticking up there is the remains of the pier i came ashore about here between here and the pier and i crouched behind the sea well. and the chaps were shooting at me from up there some water. they were shooting at me from every angle there was you see they had this whole thing enfiladed and designed sort of that all the approaching boats came in under murderous crossfire so there wasn't any way of getting them out of the line of fire they were shooting at from here from there and from there every goddamn angle was covered and we own will and stumble right into all this. slaughter. by the end of the day the marine second battalion was holding on to a seventy to three hundred foot stretch of sand and fifteen hundred of the five thousand american to be cheered with your dad who. i'm just. i can't stand it. look at the look at this sand here i couldn't get anywhere near the sand i was going up on the reef. there was a tank right about here half in the showroom of. gone. we go

for the pier 70 contract. it was a very discreet task, and to answer your question, that is based off of that experience and something similar to that. i think your point is well taken. >> my experience is there has to be some sort of went up for them to understand and maintenance, and addition to be about to respond to the special circumstances. >> it is not a large sum of money for all of the work we have between now and then. bu>> having been on both sides f this process, and that many of the contracts, many of the contractors recognize public agencies did not have the same kind of funding as the private sector, and they recognize that in their response. it does not go as far as many of the responders would recognize. >> my only point today, is this going to be sufficient funding. i think it is good to try to work these issues through. >> and it was a big stretch for us to come up with that much money. i will say for your benefit and the public's, if it proved to be too little and we are able to find other

saved the day one was a young lieutenant alexander bonnie bell it is meant to push him and be on the pier to the sea world. after sixty five years leon cooper finally returned to play a faithful stretch of sand that had shaped his destiny. ironically his first encounter with the airport would be descendants of his former us. i'm from the united states. well of course all bets are off. i was here sixty five years ago. i was a member of they both got attacked the japanese for here defending this island. and we were not very friendly toward each other. we were angry toward each other and a lot of people got killed including over four thousand of your of your your people are you here and i want to honor your country men what died in the battle of carolina. they all the sudden i see things happening. and i feel like. i'm not really here and on. the first item of business was for me on a test to meet with the assistant to the president of care about in the hopes that they could access the president of the police chief in the first indiana we have the short list of what entitled to businesses bu

catamarans would be merged in the base itself near pier 32. the event the authority would do substructure improvements to the deck. the teams would have tent structures to perform team operations in. there would be cranes on the south face of 32. the boats would be lifted of groundwater and there would be a device between our round pier 32 end pier 36. dredging would happen to a depth of 15 feet. this would be just off of the wharf. so, again, this amendment proposal would be for the temporary use of anything like was contemplating the rate in the area so that we potentially have the same issues here that we have to work through with ac/dc as we do in the 24.5 area. all three of these amendment requests have been submitted. i would like to go over the next steps that we are facing in this process. the first step is that bcdc staff brings a subscription notice of the application. the commission says whether or not to go forward with processing the application. this has already happened with the cruise terminal in the early commission. that appli

a body was discovered dead in the bay near the pier. right now the public information officer is on scene tried to gather more >> the biggest thing here is the trail of blood. >> was found on the ground? >> yes. from near the pier all we down to the 3600 block, there is a trail of blood. police are trying to figure out what happened. they have section of this area, there are police tape and people are not being allowed through. a lot of people carias but again, that discovery happened around 6:36 a.m.. >> does it look like someone was bleeding and then went into the day or, the other way around? if >> it is hard to say, the body was found in the bay. it looks as if the trail of blood happened before the body was in the bay. again, details are still kind of an surfacing at this point. >> we will check back with you as you get more information. they do, liza. a body found in a bid earlier this >> we have a lot of big stories we are working on for you, the body found in the bay, the fire in san jose. and the heat. triple digits expected for

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>> yes, that was the project at pier 32. commissioner antonini: brannan street was part of that. that it was part of it, but it was only programmatic at that time. at that time, the ire was published in approximately 2002 -- the eir was published in approximately 2002 and was not identified as a store until approximately 2006 when the national registry district was about it -- it was not identified as historic until approximately 2006. commissioner antonini: thank you for the clarification. commissioner fong: i am familiar with this project and have been tracking at the last four years tracking at the last four years or so.

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the angle of repose. it is stable. san francisco came and built piers on piles over the top into the water. >> the piers are built up over the water. >> refusal is when you cannot advance the pile anymore. this is under the bay mud over there. they meet refusal. they gain support and bearing on top. saltwater attacks concrete. in the old days, they did not understand the effects of salt water, chloride on concrete and steel. a lot of these piles may have started out 24 inches in diameter. they may only be eight or 10 inches in diameter now. whatever steel was in there is long gone all along the waterfront. >> wonderful buildings. at the double dog and a beer. >> this is wonderful. it is right on the waterfront. it is due piles. >> that is the location of what is now the san francisco port authority? >> yeah, port offices. and there is a new office there and slip. this is one of the few places where they recently provided a small boat docking on the waterfront. there are very few places where you can stop on the

$7,783,556 from the department of homeland security, 2009 port security grant program fund, for the pier 27 cruise ship terminal security system at the port of san francisco. >> good morning, mr. chairman. director of homeland security at the port of san francisco. i come to request approval of an accept and expend of $7,783,556 to install and maintain the infrastructure. supervisor avalos: thank you. public comment. >> good morning. my name is douglas yepp. i would like to speak in favor of this item. i know this may bother some people but in my discussions, it seems san francisco has been overlooked as a target for terrorists. some people think that no one would dare to damage san francisco's reputation as a tolerant city, but i, among others, feel like our enemies might be bold enough to use our tolerance against us. this item should be approved, and it would be well-used, especially when there has been some emphasis on the federal level to inspect incoming cargo containers. thank you. supervisor avalos: thank you. we will close public comment period moved forward as a committee repor

and in the end, piers, you cannot put a wall up to win this game. you've got to have policies that allow you to win. for example, we're the only country in the world that taxes foreign earnings. what does that do? keeps all the money over there. because they don't want to bring it back to get taxed. people say, why don't you bring it back? because if you leave it there, you don't pay taxes on it. even japan and the uk in the last few years have broken that and have said, wherever you may make your money, bring it back, it's free. >> president obama according to a new cnn poll today, his personal approval rating is falling. it went up a bit after the bin laden assassination or killing, waver you want to call it. down six points since then. many people saying the reason is that the economy appears to be tanking again. and this election, a cording to another poll there, what are the issues that you must care about, americans were asked, 4 of the 5 subjects were economic-based subjects. one was terrorism. so it looks to me and to most observers here this