[applause] >> i'm the point for men at the port of sanford cisco. john has been with me for the last 18 and a half years. he has helped me out. he runs the shop when i'm not there. he has been a good friend. thank you very much. [applause] >> i appreciated, and i have only been here six years, but john always step in with a smile in very difficult times under the pier, supervising at the same time. just a pleasure to work with, and i wish him all the best in the future, and thank you very much. [applause] that it has been a pleasure to be here today. appreciate everybody's comments. thank you. >> thank you. >> thanks a million, honestly. we look forward to [inaudible] right? that is coming up. next, i wanted to report on the annual warm water cove park garden spring cleaning, which took place on january 22, a couple of weeks ago. as you probably recall, that was a collaboration between the green trust san francisco and port maintenance. a coordinated a wild flowers seating event -- seeding event. my thanks to everyone in maintenance, and particular,

the port lives and dies by the revenue it generates on the port property. >> how is the ferry building doing in terms of creating revenue? >> it has been phenomenally successful. we are fully leased. the active merchants are incredibly happy to be part of the vibrant community. >> this is one of the most see places in san francisco. anybody who comes here from out of town, you have to walk through the ferry building. >> there are a lot of visitors here. definitely a lot of locals, too, who feel strongly about the connection to the marketplace. >> you were mentioning that this is pierre -- pier 14. >> first, it was a brick water for the downtown ferry terminal, constructed in 2001. after that, we added public access on top of it and connected it to the land side. now is eight 637-foot-long public access pier to enjoy the day, watched the very activity. there is a little bit of art on top of it. there are swivel chairs on a it and there are little sea >> can you t about proposition a that may affect this waterfront parks -- that may affect the waterfront? >> of the voters approved propos

this lease was approved by the port commission august 12, 2003. the initial lease provided a term of 9.5 years, with an initial rate based on the greater amount of either the minimum rent, which at the time was $3,389, or 6.5% of gross sales, so the greater amount of the percentage rate was raised to 7%, as was negotiated on the second anniversary date. the initial investment that hi dive put into the premises was about $289,000, and it was completed in 2003. fast forward to 2009, hi dive undertook an outdoor seating area, outdoor patio to increase their terms or they're seeking in the restaurant, and the area is about 522 square feet, located on the north side of the restaurant. for the premises currently, it is under a separate license, and rent is paid on a percentage basis. the cost of the construction was $138,000. this value triggers in the court building code. the 100% requirement for upgrades, and therefore, high -- hi dive undertook these upgrades, which were prioritized by our building inspection. the reconstructed the bathroom. there was

this is a critical time for the port. as was mentioned, the billion dollar impact world cup is coming but not just that kind of attraction. we also have the priceless san francisco giants at home at the port. we need a vision for the future for the port. there is the pacific rim economy growing. we also need a story of the port, which is one of our greatest assets. supervisor katz has the experience in bringing things forward. in business, not just big business of bringing together big business and small business. she has the connections from many years building connections in san francisco. she has years of activism, leadership. she has the full spectrum of experience to deal with the complex and complicated issues that will become the -- that will come before the board. she can bring the kind of stickle together to come to agreement and to improve our city of san francisco. i would just like to thank the committee for considering her and i encourage you to support her nomination. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors

this is a small difference and is proposed to be funded by the port's fund balance. notably, we are selling in net operating reserve. we may be able to shrink that sell our revenues are again larger than our operating expenses. following the commission's action on the february 22 notice that this is an informational items only, the budget goes to the mayor, which will then be submitted to the board of supervisors the first of may for final consideration about or on july 31. you are seeing a proposed budget that is going to be subject to change. i should let you know that this budget does not include the cost of data consolidation, which is a citywide i.t. project because those costs have not been developed. it also does not include proposed costs for the america's cup. it will be budgeted separately. i'm joined today now learn from their time and the other deputies to answer your questions. also, meghan of the mayor's budget office is here as well. we are here to answer any questions. >> is there any public comment on the budget? any questions? >> question. while admi

we thought we, the port, and thus should do that. i thought when you pick somebody, they should be architects and other lawyers available to work on the project. we believe we should go get the best architect in the world, whether is someone on a team, not on the team, whether it is norman foster, and jointly work on that together because we view this as a partnership. in our opinion, the partner you can trust is a big check mark. the all-inclusive track record -- those are our projects in the green. as i said, we cover all the attributes i think you are looking for. public/private partnerships. well leases. we have done successful neighborhoods. complicated land uses. we were awarded the platinum -- the first platinum award from reed for a neighborhood in emeryville, so we understand this things. historic rehabs. you could walk across the street to the southern pacific headquarters building. ground up construction, and intended relationships. we think this project will be driven by a tenant user. we think that the 2.5 million feet is

the buildings are not on port property, but the sidewalk is. if you recall the infamous blue line, i'm talking about things that hang over onto port property. currently, building owners are required to seek a permit from the city's planning department and the department of building inspection. the policy also requires that building owners come to the port for an encroachment permit, and this has caused confusion and frustration with the building owners. and there is also issues with enforcement. so we have spoken with the planning department, and there is a mechanism in place that the board can still achieve what it needs to achieve -- that the port can still achieve what it needs to without having the building owners go through this business steps that are cumbersome. in an effort to make the process a little bit more business- friendly, it was determined that the airspace encroachment portion of the policy -- it is in the best interest of the public to believe that portion of the policy. there are only currently six permits in place, and the

i was an officer on the port commission for some time. the recology contracts, on a encourage the competitive bidding -- i encouraged the competitive bidding process -- i encourage the competitive bidding process. whether in rai l -- it be rail or barge at pier 96, both are considerably cheaper most of transportation, and they are used to further decrease the carbon footprint of any other mode that you have considered so far. this could assure interesting -- existing jobs, almost entirely held by people in a zip code, and they would not be vulnerable to displacement. this was funded, of course, by san francisco taxpayers or ratepayers. the logical thing would be to shift this away from san francisco, and do not forget, recology has the ability to opt out for one of the aspects of what they do with just a one- your notice -- a one-year notice. we should all be preserving maritime in the port of san francisco. this will bring badly needed revenue to the port, but the bottom line is this is an opportunity to bring badly needed relief to ratep

k k -- exhibit k shows railcars at the port. when given the opportunity to compete with recology, we have done quite well. we have taken a 25-year contract come in in another one, we finished in the top two of seven companies in san mateo county. recology did not finish in the top. as was said by a representative from the chamber earlier, we can take a bite of the apple. even though there was a promise, and there were people listening in on the speakerphone, a promise that we would have the opportunity to compete for the transportation portion of this agreement, for some reason, that never came to pass, and neither did a response from myself or another to the department of environment offering this psyche of the port, which is an ideal site for both barging and rail -- offering this site of the port. you can go the machine politics route, the lobby route, or you can go with a monopoly, or you can create a new day here. chair chu: 50. if there are no other members to speak, this will be the last comet -- thank you. >> i am with re

the philadelphia port is one of the large ports that has the ability to grow further and take goods into that port whereas other ports have reached their capacity. but the one, part of the main message that i want to mention here today is it is astounding to all of us as mayors back home, and i'll just make two points, that the federal government does not have a capital budget. i can't run the city without a capital budget. states can't run without capital budgets. the federal government has no capital budget. now, three months into my tenure in march of 2008 a pen dot bridge inspector happened to go to get a classic philadelphia cheesesteak at a store. while on the way going back to his truck to eat, he he happened to look up and noticed a huge crack in i-95. now, i-95 runs through my city, but it's not mine. it's yours. it was closed for three days and compromised commerce and other traffic from baltimore to new york during its closure. i don't have a dime to fix i-95. flipside of that, the south street bridge in philadelphia, historic bridge, a great bridge. we made the decision after

we are looking very good for the port. it was consistent with what we have received in the past. we had the backing of speaker pelosi. then everything changed. the ray of hope is that because, in particular, the army corps budget and defense budget and to a lesser extent, the transportation budget, are so driven by project funding and what is now considered an earmark, there is a great deal

came in just slightly above 30% and the port's intention to exceed h.r.c. goals and contractor has indicated their willingness to meet their prior bid for l.b.e., so that would be 30% or more of the contract amount. supervisor campos: thank you, and thank you and the rest of the port staff for your efforts and it's great to see that. i hope to see more of that as contracts come before us. president chiu: supervisor mirkarimi? supervisor mirkarimi: thank you, mr. president. as many of us are co-sponsoring on this particular waiver, not to lose sight as to what we hope is the outcome of this whole contract. one is, is that, when we initiated our process in the city to try to secure the hosting rights of the america's cup, the city seriously dodged a bullet because the early contemplation was, was to seek an exemption to ceqa through the state legislature so that we would then be able to expedite the process because there was a great amount of pressure being applied to the city by b.m.w., or and the racing team to go that route. i think cooler heads and common

just walking through the peers with members of the port. i can not only say that not only did we make the right decision, the world has made the right decision. this is one of the most beautiful places on our -- earth that this 34th america's cup could possibly be. when you look out today, you'll get a glimpse of what millions of other people and viewers and visitors will see in 2013. my first thought was to let you know that this was a very high priority for me. many of you know i was not here december 31, so i have been looking for the unopened champagne bottle that was supposed to be left in room 200. maybe it is in some supervisor's office, but there has got to be one unopened bottle there to celebrate because knowing that this is coming -- on december 31, it was a culmination of what i saw was a whirl wind, a solid year of activity. ever since the cut was one in february and the immediate negotiations that gavin newsom and others had started, culminating in the negotiations and certainly working very closely with our board of supervisor

that is what will be the most ever source of revenue for the port. but the reality is, those buildings are not actually what the community experiences. what the community experiences is the experience of the place itself. as a master developer, by handing off some of the vertical development task, we spend more time focusing on what that experience is about, what are the connections on the sidewalks, streets, bike paths come out to the amazing open space? how you integrate them back into the community? we get that what development is about, from the city's standpoint, community's standpoint, is what you experience on the ground floor level. our attention is freedom to make sure those community benefits exist, and the experience that you have at pier 70 is a special place. we also get we are in a partnership. that means the benefits, economic, resource-wise, need to be experienced at every stage of development. they cannot just be about what we make at each stage of the development. the question needs to be, what backbone is in place to help support th

i am a tenant of the port, and member of the central waterfront advisory group. we are down to three port commissioners right now out of fines. slie on the port. thank you. >> good afternoon. i am the acting chair of the ricon point citizens advisory committee. i am also a member of the jewish community relations counsel. i am speaking as an individual and not in my capacity with those organizations. i have worked on the port- related matters through the south beach redevelopment project for the past 10 years and i know how it portraitist to have informed members on the port commission because we have worked with the commission frequently. -- i know how important it is to have informed the members on the port commission. we are excited to be working with the commission because piers 30 and 32 will be unimportant part of the america's cup process. i have known her for a number of years. i know her to be thoughtful. i have known her to be a strong supporter of important issues. she will be a reasonable voice for all that is important to us in san francisco. she is a

obligations, and also, work with all the tenants throughout the port. our public works department will be part of this executive student committee, and i know that the dpw are all busy. they are busy already doing the work. and they have a tradition of doing great work. they are engineering. they are -- their architectural divisions, their project management divisions. i've been working closely with them on the 10-year capital plan, so i know they will be able to deliver. working with the court already on the cruise ship terminal project here at this year, pier 36 and 32, they are already eyeing here for that, and they will be assisting the america's cup event authority in the development of all the major infrastructure improvements that have to occur. our planning department, of course. we have a lot of regulatory things we have to comply with, and our planning department will be helping us lead the effort, lead all the city agencies in undertaking and completing the environmental reviews under our california environmental quality act obligations, and w

the collaboration between the committee and port staff resulted in the program expanding from 150,000 in 2005 to a budget proposal $700,000 serving low-income and young adults and disadvantaged residents. skill sets offered range from landscaping and recycling to ship repair. budget analysts recommended that we prepare an overview of youth employment and workforce development programs, which we have done and handed out today. specifically to the reserve programs for the sheriff's garden project, this would be expanded for the earth stored program to hire two apprentices and one senior apprentice to provide enhanced park maintenance on the southern waterfront and do native plantings for parks. the requested funds funded four months of the program. next year the program is fully budgeted and will be before you in may. the maritime program collaborates with the california maritime academy with a preference for severance as the residence. designed to provide a university setting combined with real experience of portfolio attendance. the immersion program will have to intern's. and next ye