not only for the community, but the port. and hopefully with this labor day celebration the community will come out clearly. the port belongs to every citizen of san francisco. i'd like to update my other commissioners. on july 19th, myself and jim malony of mayor [speaker not understood] took supervisor scott wiener, gave him a tour of the harbor. supervisor wiener was really impressed. he had never seen the harbor from the water side looking in. we had about two hours with supervisor scott wiener and clearly he's a big supporter of the port and he said the port is a hidden jewel. it has so much great potential. it's really like a hidden gem down there in the city. and he and the other board of supervisors will continue to support it. on july 21st, i had lunch with three u.s. senators, u.s. senator brian schatz of hawaii, u.s. senators jeff huntley of oregon, and [speaker not understood] of delaware, they were in san francisco. i had a private meeting with them. i took jim malony with me to that meeting. they all come from po

it also houses the port's new harbor office. and as well as home to the san francisco marine unit and their dive team, san francisco fire department fast response crews. and then this past year continuation of this commission direction the port maintenance teams, tom is here someplace, spent close to a million dollars and in record time rebuilt wharf j4 [speaker not understood] to make sure that the home fleet had a place to safely tie their boats up. so, commercial fishing processing predates the port. it is a vital maritime industry that requires continual nurturing and attention. wield salmon, craft, [speaker not understood], and other seafood delicacies do not magically appear in grocery stores and on restaurant menus. fishermen and their family sale the pacific searching for their catch while receivers and processors market and distribute to the region. in closing, hidden -- i want to emphasize -- [laughter] >> this is actually one of my favorite slides because it's the new [speaker not understood] in san francisco. if you l

and the port of virginia. was a huge user to ensure we have the transportation system be it rail or truck or consumer traffic, private auto, make sure the port of virginia has this. is the benefit then to private companies in the state of virginia? if so, can you describe it a little bit? guest: the mission is to stimulate commerce through the port and serve as the eastern seaboard gateway. it is economic development. that is what we are all about. host: christine, democratic caller. caller: hello. [indiscernible] host: christine, i had a little trouble hearing you. say it again. caller: the impact of [inaudible] we able to pick that up? ports?the top five caller: [indiscernible] host: we will take that. i could not understand what she was saying there. guest: new york is the largest port on the east coast. savannah is the second largest port on the east coast. virginia is third. trust in his fourth. on the west coast -- charleston is fourth. on the west coast it is la beach. two. are they are by far the large

the port now has about 86 acres of open space which is 10% of port property. plans call for increasing this amount by 28 acres or 30% within the next eight years. providing open space at or over the water is expensive like you just heard. many projects include pile supports over the water and repair to the sea wall and public spaces are being built for rising tidal conditions as i described earlier. the ability of the port to build this space is dependent on public support and through bonds and capital and to a limited extent grant funding. in the past 13 years the port has spent $109 million on public spaces. the port has been able to do this due to the support of san francisco voters through the approval of two general obligation bond measures. in 2008 for $33 million and in 2011 -- excuse me -- 2012 for $35 million. in addition to these bonds since 2000 the port has committed about $41 million of public funds which include revenues and grants. the port has also assuming the maintenance and liability responsibility of many of these new open spaces. to hold co

the ship line, the port of virginia. so we compete, obviously, by cost which is extremely important, but also by efficiency, how quickly we can get the cargo on its way to its final destination. one of those cost drivers are the ship line costs, how much it costs to move a container across the ocean. they're is a eugenic a player right now, and that is the size of the ship. a ship that carries 5,000 see using go through that panama canal and come into most ports. ships on the ocean right now that carry 12,500 ceus requires adept at 50 feet. so viejo is the only port on the east coast that can take a ship the requires a 50-foot draft. no overhead obstruction, so we can take the big ships now. we set the record a few months ago. came in drafting 49 and a half feet. so it is cheaper to put cargo on a large ship because of volume. those large ships need summer and viejo is the place. >> the president recently has been going around the country at ports in florida talking about infrastructure of the nation's ports, calling for

we're proposing receiptction to the port of about $25,000 a month. it's $300,000 a year. it does escalate, 5% every five years. we are looking for credits against the rent for about qualifying improvements up to 55% of the rent. the port will receive a participation if we were to sell this to a nonaffiliated entity, if we transteder to another entity which we wouldn't consider selling. if the port participates in our profit from selling it, so, it's a short-term quick turn around of the bulkhead building to get it active and we think compelling economic -- compelling economics given the investment into the space. before rehab, as you probably know, is a major undertaking of piers in pretty serious disrepair. we see this as a great, great opportunity to return the project to being a public asset. this is a great pier. it lacks aprons now that are accessible. being able to get back out on this part of the waterfront is going to be really spectacular. it will require a full-size mike upgrade as you probably know. ~ full seismic the shed undertaking, the pier itself being stab

and to compare the port metaphorickally to a business, [speaker not understood], we get everything ready and we manage the revenue stream, a large part of the revenue stream ~ and fill up our properties. so, without our tenants, none of us would be here. and, so, the leasing process starts with an application process and prospective tenants contacting port staff to find out what is available and if what they are doing would fit into port property. so, first, you have the application phase of the process. then it goes to an evaluation phase, lease preparation phase, and then the lease execution phase. and the initial contact from the prospective tenants usually comes in the form of a telephone call. and staff has an in-depth conversation with the inquiring party to ensure the uses are compatible with the waterfront plans and the facility. and once that test is met, then we instruct them to start the application process. and as part of your package you received our lengthy application. ~ in one of the exhibits. so, the first application of phase is mostly paperwork and fact gathering. then

>> host: to the dubai ports? >> caller: the dubai port yes. >> guest: i have been to hong kong and singapore. >> i have not been to divide but people on the staff have been to dubai. >> host: why? >> guest: it's a major trade center. it's a major shipment hub. a lot of cargo goes to dubai and then it's exported from dubai to its final destination. >> host: john did you have a follow-up? >> caller: i want to say these two gentlemen have to realize that we don't just want to compete inside the united states. the wall is changing. the fastest ports growing in the world and if we want to invest in this country we have to get rid of people like cancer who doesn't want to invest in this state nor his country and that is the whole set of ideas. i've traveled to dubai many times and i've never seen anything like this. i have never seen any port like this in the entire world. number one for safety and security and businesswise, they generate more business than any other country. >> host: hey john as you have been watching

we need our one last lindaism. >> i have enjoyed you all at the port. the only thing i won't miss is the terrible commute and i will miss the activity wonderful things happening and i will follow you and come and see you again. thank you very much. >> thank you linda. [applause] so commissioners i do have one more item that came up after we posted the agenda and renee if you would help me out. on july 4 we lost one of our port employees. i would like to introduce you -- get a better screen, to john bickle and the gentleman on the far left and again down below. john joined the port in 99 and retired due to illness in february. he subsequently passed away on july 4. john is an iron worker for the port. before coming to the port he was a graduate of the john o'connell school of technology something known as the boiler makers and spent 15 years working for a rolling down company as a shop iron worker in san francisco and then he came to the port and had expertise in steel rolling doors and i can't remember how much we have but it's amazing amount and some ar

and all of us at the port commission are extremely proud of that. but i also want to mention as i have mentioned earlier, this is not really the work of just the current commission and i want to thank again mayor ed lee, the board of supervisors, bcdc, and the port commission. and our current port commissioner which leslie is here today, my other fellow commissioners, commissioner kim lee brandon, commissioner willie adams, and commissioner murphy. and our former port commissioners. (applause) >> fx crowley, rodney fong who is here, mike halstead [speaker not understood], and dennis mccarthy and brian williams. they worked hard to make this day possible. and i have to recognize you again, mimi, for all the work that you have done. monique moyer and her staff have been very active in development of the brannan street wharf and i want to especially mention again on behalf of the commission the work of dan hodaf and stephen reid, and our neighbors and friends here in south beach. and as i like to say and in closing, one of the things i'd love to talk ab

seafood and processing center at the port. decades of neglect started to be reversed. 1986, 1200 foot break water was built to protect the fleet, 30 acre commercial harbor which was the first step. and just as plans started to get traction, just like the fisherman have to deal with mother nature, so did the port. in 1989 loma-prieta earthquake altered the timeline and cost for renewal of fisherman's wharf. pier 45 the planned location for seafood center suffered significant earthquake damage and chased away the last number of dwindling company doing fishing at the port. the cost skyrocketed and for a moment it seemed there may no longer be any fish at fisherman's wharf. undaunted, we began a $14 million earthv quake repair project at the wharf at pier 45 which when completed turned into dee cap it seismically pier into a receiving processing center. i can recall pundits at the time saying the industry was too far gone and it would never come back to san francisco. even if we fixed pier 45. luckily, when the facility opened in 1

we would also pay the port 15% of any transfer of sale. we would propose to figure out ongoing transit impact fees because we think along the embarcadaro it's the right thing to do. we'd have parking surplus fee. we have the port have a priority use of the 5500 square feet at the end of pier -- of the pier. and for the public event space. in all, the gross rents paid to the port would be $240 million over the 66 years with the net present value of $31 million. roughly that translates to about $155 a square foot, which is the high end of what's being paid. i think michael [speaker not understood], but it's a high [speaker not understood]. plus you'll get 15% of the sales transfer. very generous offer. hopefully it will knock him out -- >> almost [speaker not understood]. [laughter] >> so, regulatory agency, alicia wrote a very good thing -- how much time do i have here? >> [speaker not understood]. >> alicia wrote a very good thing about this. she said, you have to have a strong stomach and a good lawyer to go through this process. we've don

so i did want to take a minute and talk about the port's response to the bart strike. i'm not sure how many of our public knows about what our response was. we are not responsible for transportation directly, but we definitely want to support our partners of whom there are many when things like this happen, and we have worked through these issues a couple of times when there has been changes to bart or the bay bridge and it came together fairly well. thankfully it wasn't sustained longer than three days and i hope it's not returning to us in august, but i wanted you to know in particular the maritime staff work worked with the ferry operators and passengers and deputized themselves ambassadors of the ferry and the water transit who is here today and thank you for coming. basically what we ended up doing is -- rene if you would start that first. renee is my vanna white today if you don't mind. >> [inaudible] >> all right. so here at the ferry building there are two gateses that run three primary lines. -- or four primary lines. there is gate b that runs a couple lines.

so, i'm wondering if the port -- i'm just trying to help here -- if the port would look at something like that because we do -- we were don't have a great reputation as far as getting things done as far as leasing -- most people i talk with are hard to deal with. [speaker not understood] i get. i'd like that to improve, you know, not have that sort of stigma that the port is hard to deal with as far as renting space or -- you know, like the commissioner to maybe try and work with some ideas to maybe expedite some of this stuff. and also -- also processing a lease would take 40 to 90 days if it's just a lease for an office space for rent for office [speaker not understood] would take that. maybe it doesn't take that. i just need to be enlightened. that's all. >> for a standard lease going into an office, if it's office for office, that's usually 30 days. >> right. >> and anything beyond that is because there are layers of regulatory or policy reviews that need to be done. and, you know, going back to the slide with the regulatory partners, some of the tenants you may be talking to are

and all the city and port has leveraged through the planning and preparation for the event. from that initial feedback that we received on april 9th, we're coming back before you today to present an m-o-u, memorandum of understanding as well as the underpinnings of the goals of the program. at the last presentation you asked about what specific considerations, specific assets that we were considering, how the funding would work, both in term of the funds that were raised and what expenditures there would be spent on as well as proposed schedule should this be approved. as you are well aware, there are other departments here in san francisco as well as cultural institutions that have donor recognition programs whereby individuals, family foundations, really local companies that want to support that institution have the opportunity in turn to be recognized for that contribution. and we've looked at the partnership between the san francisco parks alliance which supports the rec and park department. they have our bench program support a number of local parks and organizations th

i think that the port -- this is the premiere port in the world. this is a world class port. how dare we not have something like this for our community. we should give as good as we get. and i think this is a great starting point for doing this and for those young people. we never know where those young people one day will end up. all sometimes people need is a helping hand, some positive role models and it's just a chance. and, so, i'm clearly in support of this and i know my other commissioners are, too, because we all started somewhere ourselves. and someone along the way gave us an opportunity. so, you clearly have my support. i along with commissioner murphy will come down to see what you're doing. when you came last time, i have to say this, i have never seen you. and i thought, i said, why did he only come this time? i hope you keep coming down to the port because there's one thing you need to know about the port of san francisco. we are a community partner of yours. we're a friend. and show up at these meetings. sometimes people always want to be like monday morning q

that's a 10th of the history of the port of san francisco. and there's a lot of people to thank and monique's already thanked them, but it's worth repeating. i think the big conservation development commission, the port commission, our port staff, public works, all our departments behind me, rec and park, our federal partners have certainly been extremely important. thank you to everyone for getting to this point. and thank you for the contractors as well, because this has been one of the most visible projects where people along the waterfront have traversed this project for quite sometime and did not experience any public safety challenges along the way. so, i want to thank them for that high level of safety. 840 feet alongside our embarcadaro promenade, really blessed to have two beautiful acres of open space to welcome more people to enjoy our waterfront. that is what our city does, especially in these times along our waterfront. you've seen all the things that we've done literally in the past year. brannon street wharf today. last june we

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

and, so, the port will determine what the projects are that need doing. we go out and say, okay, so, here's a scope of work and here's how many young people we have. here's how long it will take. so, it gets adjusted according to how long the project takes. and we've gotten pretty good at estimating. sometimes it's less, sometimes it's a little more. >> okay. that sounds better than up to 10 youth being employed, more like 40 sounds a lot better given the amount of the contract. thank you very much. >> you're welcome. >> any other questions? >> no, no more questions. but i just want to thank all of you so much ~ for putting this partnership together, for increasing the amount actually going to youth. and hopefully with our next rfp we can get even more money to the youth. so, thank everyone. ~ for that. all in favor? >> aye. >> resolution 13-30 is approved. >> item 12 a, informational presentation on the port of san francisco's leasing practices. >> thank you, manny. we had to wait for manny. what would we do without manny and his friends from guest servi

we're a small business and the port real estate staff was very accommodating and they really assisted us in our move in. we went through the environmental procedures and all the regulatory compliance and the environmental staff was a big help. we understand that they have a tough job. there's a lot of requirements and a lot of regulatory people looking down and checking their work. so, it's a tough business, but you have to -- we have to comply in order to make sure we comply. it was kind of stringent, but we understand that that's the requirement and they made it very accommodating so i'd just like to thank the port and your staff for their efforts. >> thank you. welcome to the port of san francisco. is there any other public comment? come on up. >>> hi, good evening. i'm paul [speaker not understood] with bill group. we're a general contractor building a project across the street from crane park. and we moved in about six months ago and the process was pretty easy. i heard it was difficult to get a lease, but it really wasn't. took about 30 days and got some good land, and it helped