regarding the non-port cost, there is a provision in the proposed first amendment that the port will not be responsible for any of those costs. and if the project were to now move forward for one reason or the other, up to that point where the project stops moving forward and the party will be responsible for reimbursing the port for those costs the other part that is amended is the performance schedule. and these are the time line for completing the exclusive negotiation period fiveiers when considered in phase one when they were able to get the vinestment of the term sheets. the next phase is the major component of the major milestones to be addressed is a submission of the (inaudible) evaluation application summation and that entails the developer, to be able to provide a project description which is a key come poent nent of the application that they have to submit. currently it is projecting that, and it is on march ten, 2014. and in the next major milestone, is the draft environmental report and that is going to be 15 from the submission of that. and of the super evaluation submi

nominations. >> i now close the nominations for port commission president. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> commissioner katz has been elected president of the commission. >> we will call for nominations for vice president. >> no, when the nominations... comment on it? >> thank you very much for that nomination and election i'm excited looking to the year ahead, but most importantly i want to thank our outgoing president commissioner wo oho it has been quite a year for the port and she has guided us with diplomacy and quite a bit of wisdom through some very difficult and high profile items not the which of was the america's cup. we had the opening of the exporatorium, the opening or the ground breaking and the completion of at least the first phase of our cruise ship terminal on time and on budget, which was historic, and so many other things that have occurred under president dorine woo ho's leadership and everything that you have given to all of us and i know that i have certainly learned quite a bit from

in 2010, the port applied to reorganize the port trade zone and we also had the same time, de designated pier's 19 and 23 and our application for a service area covering san francisco and san mateo county was approved in october of 2010, in the response to the requests from the businesses and economic development and organizations in north bay counties, we further apply to ad morin salano and most of sonoma and napa counties as well to the area and approved for this expansion by the foreign trade zone board in april of 2013. all along, port staff have

secondly, we are in the process of conducting an assessment of our water use by port operations. to make sure that we can identify opportunities for new efficiencies. and we have posted water conservation notices and adherence to the directive at all of the port's offices at pier 1, 50 and south beach and fisherman's wharf and sent out notifications to the tenants, we have rolled out a new car wash plan it typically use recycling, but we will reduce so if they look dirty they probably are. we rolled out the new plan and we actually had one of our new machines that cleans the sidewalk but collects the water and reuse its so we are not wasting as much water as we have in the past. we are looking at upgrading some of our wash racks to a recycle system and we are looking at low flow fixtures and we are looking at different ways to irrigate port, landscaping and talking to the tenants and others about how to conserve water. and then, we have explored not rather successfully, but we explored the idea that potentially cruise ships could fill up their water outside of california, preferab

i think the port has come a long way since the first capital plan was put together. and obviously we have a long way to go. i think one of the most scary things to me is the fact that so much of the capital planning is based on development projects with outside partners and as was mentioned both here and in the previous discussion, we need to talk about the political climate vis-a-vis waterfront development. you can't talk about the waterfront height initiative, you are not allowed to. but i think it's important if you are in conversations with policy makers, particularly the mayor's office, that they understand how critical these development partnerships are to the port's survival because without this infusion, both for state of good repair and for enhancements, i don't know how you get to the future. and i will be advocating for the port for moving these projects forward even though i don't always agree with them. but i think that it's important to keep the process moving and i think it's important that decision makers, the supervisors, planning commission, mayor's

i'm carol the environmental manager in the ports depiction. i'm happy to talk about the lease for the aquarium foundation. recall that in september the port issued an rfp seeking qualified proposers to operate the eco center and provide programming to serve the ports center promoting community access and the store center for a educational process and continuing to coordinate with the educational program with the rec and park department. the rfp and places you under your regular calendar an outreach were presented in detail in a previous staff report and presentation. the rfp included a proposed lease that the secret service tenant would be expected to sign. that lease was considered by the excision concurrent with the rfp. the property lease terms are consistent with the ports standard form with the expectation of rent and maintenance observations. the rent is one dollar per year and the port assumes most of the maintenance obligations. on the proposal due date in november it was from two qualified proposers they institute aquarium company. the

the port gardeners are responsible for a lot of this. a couple of years ago, they have documented over 1600 trees, by species and by block. and they are coordinating when they can with the city's urban forester and it was a fantastic effort, again not required by any ordinance or outside agency, but the initiative of port staff, the gardeners did a great job there. calling on the staff report as well, the city of san francisco has made a significant commitment to addressing the climate change through the climate adaptation but also through the greenhouse gas emissions and the city government, and the mayor's office and the board of supervisors has taken action and we have almost 20 ordinances that governor the climate action and the efforts made by the departments and the community has been represented and the san francisco grand jury is noted in the report took the request and doubted that it would be able to reach the goals and expressing the earlier resolution, and there is absolutely long term prudent in the energy conservation and lo

the land is owned by the port authority. the group that operates the parking lot pays the port authority to use it. they've been paying the port authority $900,000 a year in rent to operate that parking lot. well, in early 2012 david samson as head of the port authority voted the port authority should stop charging $900,000 rent and instead start charging $1. $1 a year, again this group had been paying almost a million dollars a year, to use that lot. david samson in private practice is being paid to help that group maximize their profits. he helps to reduce their rent by $899,999 a year. thus depriving the income they've been getting. and whether or not you think the parking lot is worth $900,000 a year in rent or whether you think the market value of that property really is a dollar a year, whatever you think of the merits of that decision. david samson voted on it, he didn't recuse himself. he cast a vote on that while his law firm has a big financial stake in the vote. we should note that david samson's firm has not repli

in 2010, the port applied to reorganize the port trade zone and we also had the same time, de designated pier's 19 and 23 and our application for a service area covering san francisco and san mateo county was approved in october of 2010, in the response to the requests from the businesses and economic development and organizations in north bay counties, we further apply to ad morin salano and most of sonoma and napa counties as well to the area and approved for this expansion by the foreign trade zone board in april of 2013. all along, port staff have been marketing the benefits of the trade program to organizations such as the san francisco chamber of commerce, china, sf. sfoairport, and the county, economic development association or sam seda and the silicon valley, alliance, the redwood city, chamber of commerce. the city of napa and the county of napa and the association, and the napa chamber of commerce, and sf made, a local manufacturer association, and also 101 mfg which is another manufacturer association that focuses on the highway 101 corridor and the counties. and also, the sa

department of home land security for security improvements at the port of san francisco. item 7c, request authorization to amend contract with langan engineering and environmental services, inc., for consulting sftions related to the pier 70 masseter plan area to extend contract term by one year. item d, request approval of a supplemental appropriation to reallocate $1,089,250 of 2008 general obligation bond funds within the southern waterfront from bay front park and blue greenway projects to bayview gateway and tulare park projects to allocate savings. >> so moved. >> second. >> public comment? seeing none, all in favor? aye. opposed? that item carries. >> item a a, information presentation on trends and implications of the port's audit edify napx statements and future financial projections. >> good afternoon, commissioners, elaine ford, deputy director of finance and administration. and i'm opening with this item because it gives you a look at where we've been and where we're projected to be going with the port's finances to set up your review of the 10 year capital pla

but our next item, the next port commission meeting i'll also be coming back to you seeking approval of this item. if there are changes that you need to make, then i will report those to the mayor's office and then in august i'll bring the final budget back to you and report any significant changes that occurred. so thank you for your time and i'm happy to answer any questions. >> is there any public comment? seeing none, commissioners? commissioner brandon. >> thank you very much, this was a great report and you did a great job summarizing everything. and i think it's wonderful that we're asking for 7 new positions. i'm sure they are much needed but i know that in the past we've limited that so how confident are we that we'll be able to get these through? >> we're not confident. we are proposing what we think, what we know we need and what we need to manage our self sufficientry but the process is the mayor's office is looking to see very low rates of position growth city-wide so the mayor's budget director will be looking carefully at our position request and we will need to make th

that serves along the port water front. and a small part of that budget is actually also, for dry docking the boat and that sort of thing. but it is really for water front fire protection. >> okay, just seemeds like a very, large expense. >> yeah. >> commissioner murphy? >> yes. i had some questions at the last meeting and you have answered them adequately in your brief here. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you, for adding the additional reports that i asked and they did answer a lot of questions for me and so thank you so much. and i know that we are spending a lot of money on the blue, green, way and different projects in that and i wonder if we could take in and i know that there are a lot of dead pilings in the water front and so we are beautifying and we are looking at the pilings and so i am wondering have we or they have put it in the plans to be removed? and i know that for example, pier 64 is example. >> it was a pilot report, and it was a condition for the america's cup and we spent about a year, or six months

that's what we were told at the time by port authority staff. that's what we were told -- that's what the legislature was told when senator baroni went and testified before the legislature in november. that's what we've been told all along until some of these e-mails came out on january 8th of this year that indicated that there were some, you know, political overtones to this as well. so as i said at the time of january 9th when i did my press conference, i still don't know whether there was a traffic study that morphed into -- >> you still don't know at this point whether there was a traffic study? >> what i'm saying, eric, did this start as a traffic study that morphed into political shenanigans start as political shenanigans that became a traffic study? >> or was there no traffic study? governor christie still not sure if there was a traffic study, even in describing what happened january 8th when the e-mails came out with his deputy chief of staff saying "time for traffic problems in ft. lee," he just describes that as political overtones as

they are just costs related to running the port like janitorial services, security, and the like. there's a financial policy that was passed through the city for how we manage certain costs in our budget. it's not something that's within our control so that's another reason why our budget grew. and you can actually see these growth trends are consistent with prior years. you can see as the operating budget grew, i detailed it, personnel, debt service and other current expenses are some of the main drivers of that growth in prior years. as far as the personnel are concerned, i mention that there's 1.1 million dollars in that two-year period of increased salary and fringe benefits and that increases our full-time equivalent count so each full-time position in our budget by 7.56 fte's and we tried to address some key issues. so improving efficiency and effectiveness of operations, our maintenance division has identified a number of ways we can adjust our staffing in order to be able to manage workload, identify project needs and just get work done on a more efficient and effective wa

in listening to the conversation i am reflecting back on my arrival at the port when we were dramatically cutting our budget i think from the first 10 days i was here we cut it by 20 percent, which was very painful. and if you were to look at a 5 year projections then the numbers much much more horrific than it is now and i think the lessons learned in the historical presentation is really important and it has been that the capital plan has really helped us to guide our investments but also to guide our negotiations with our regulatory partners to be more persistent and effective in seeking grant funds when with we have been shut out in the past and one example of that has been with respect to expenses of the ship repair yard and the water basin that is there, they have worked very hard to try to get us reclassified from a federal perspective to be eligible for those grant funds. in 2006 our capital plan showed that we would lose 8 piers. one of those piers was pier 38, we now have a new plan for that. one of those piers was pier 31, we now have a new plan for that, and we continue to wor

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the executive director of the port authority has now asked the port authority inspector general and the port authority police chief to investigate the role of at least that one port authority police officer who apparently drove around david wildstein on the first morning of the closures. other reporting tonight suggests that the new internal port authority investigation may be broader than just that one officer, that it may be a wider look at the role of port authority police on the bridge that day and their role in the overall scheme. during the bridge lane closures, the mayor of ft. lee, this was on thursday of the week that the bridge lanes were shut down, so this is day four, on thursday the 9th of -- excuse me, the 12th of september, the mayor of ft. lee wrote to the port authority pleading for help. pleads. it has been four days of this in our town. we are totally gridlocked. commutes that should take minutes are taking hours. kids cannot get to school. people are missing work. it's been four days now. you have to stop this. and he said this, specifically, as to why it might be ha

so that's a nice rented payment to the port. for the 26 year option period there would be a new appraisal process recommended by the budget analysis. getting back to the hoe down yards. the ports only goal with the hoe down is the use and in complication with the other city departments. we saw an opportunity to change the use through the rezoning effort and maybe generate some net land precedes that could be used. the port is getting a healthy rent and actually, the department of real estate will have a transferable option either for the city or to transfer to a private developer. to build whatever residential port commercial use on the site. we have a fixed industrial land value that's set by the process of $8.3 million that's the purpose of pg&e pg&e will have to find another place to conduct the operations. and we've done this revised this slide shows on estimated net land value of 4 to $7 million. we've received some revised stimulates we've been work with the city for the hoe down yard and the net land of the purchase price

who he then installed at the port authority as the first deputy counsel once he didn't get the court job. and then there's david wildstein getting paid an annual salary of $150,000 plus change. that's him on the payroll in 2013. this is the same payroll document from the year before that, making the same, $150,000. the director of interstate capital projects, also in 2011, same deal. david wildstein, $150,000. same deal back in 2010, there he is. here's the thing, though. if you go back one year further than that, you go back to 2009, david wildstein is not there, he's not listed. that's because david wildstein couldn't get that job at the port authority until chris christie was sworn in as governor in 2010. david wildstein not on the payroll in 2009. here's the interesting part, before he joined the payroll at the port authority in 2010, not only was he not there, his job was not there either. there was no job called director of interstate capital projects, if that job had existed before he was there, where that red arrow is is where that job title would have been listed in the payr

. >> and if there's the port would have solar panels and going to the grid they have the opportunity to do that. >> broadly yes nothing being built curling would exempt them from using the lines. >> any future questions colleagues. okay staff or budget analyst. public comment. seeing none, public comment is closed. >> so colleagues i'm comfortable supporting the new underwater line as well as kind of uncomfortable with the hoe down line but would like to see what the california commission saying how rates can be passed on with the construction of the what were the - the section of the building around or the wall around the yard the other yard. >> a quick question do you have a cost estimate a and b if we were to delay the other item on the sheet that that matters. >> i'll let the city attorney address that issue as well but nothing in this term sheet for the license agreement binds the city for any particular action with respect to that screening so theirs not a commitment for the city funds there's no commitment it be built all this option does it allow the city to say we prefer i d

busiest port in the united states, but the busiest port in the world.d bays, philadelphia had 37 miles of waterfront. baltimore had 120. boston, 140. while the port of new york had almost 800 miles of waterfront. by 1915, the port of new york handled about half of our country's exports and imports. and bistate cooperation between new york and new jersey have become crucial to the future of the port. a few years earlier, the governor of new jersey, woodrow wilson, a more eloquent speaker than the current governor said, the states recognize that a wise cooperation is imperative in the common interest. but they lack the means, the stu instrumentalities that would serve them in their new community of action. it was in the last year of woodrow wilson's presidency, 1921, that the authority authority of new york and new jersey was born, and the port had the instrumentality it need to continue to thrive. the port authority was the child of the progressive movement, the primary aim of the progressive movement was cleaning up government, which was then rife with