the port launched the l.b.e. emergency relief program where we have currently approved 16 loans and reaching about $700,000 in funds approved. we hosted a workshop on over water work to hear from l.b.e. firms about bidding at the port and dispel the myth that all our projects are over water. this is the point of the presentation. we will move from our strategic thinking and outcome in future work. the slide is the same slide you saw in october. it's our basic approach. internal practices, the importance of partnership, the technical assistance and really merging our efforts with the racial equity action plan. for period looking at the last two fiscal years, we looked at the data reported on l.b.e. participation. the l.b.e.s are the ones in blue. the non-l.b.e.s are in yellow. other departments are bars one and three and port is bars two and four. i'm delight to announce in when we compare the port's results to similar departments, they awarded 38% of contracts l.b.e.s and the port awarded 62% of contract awards t

with the port. this is a 3.2 acre site located in the southern waterfront off caesar chavez west of third. this site was originally used to house a temporary operating division during reconstruction of a nearby sfmta facility. next slide, please. the current and proposed uses under the m.o.u. are office, storage, maintenance and repair of buses, general warehouse uses and parking of sfmta staff vehicles. next slide, please. and so the rationale for the proposed use and the term of the m.o.u., from m.t.a.'s point of view, they have been leasing the site for the last 20 years. the site serves as a flex facility that helps in upgrades to sfmta's primary yards and its function flexes with the capital projects. sfmta has made investments into the port facility that has mutual benefit for port, sfmta and the community. from the port standpoint entering into the new m.o.u. with m.t.a. provides a continued income stream at current parameter with no downtime to have to market the site. and it requires no capi

the port launched the l.b.e. emergency relief program where we have currently approved 16 loans and reaching about $700,000 in funds approved. we hosted a workshop on over water work to hear from l.b.e. firms about bidding at the port and dispel the myth that all our projects are over water. this is the point of the presentation. we will move from our strategic thinking and outcome in future work. the slide is the same slide you saw in october. it's our basic approach. internal practices, the importance of partnership, the technical assistance and really merging our efforts with the racial equity action plan. for period looking at the last two fiscal years, we looked at the data reported on l.b.e. participation. the l.b.e.s are the ones in blue. the non-l.b.e.s are in yellow. other departments are bars one and three and port is bars two and four. i'm delight to announce in when we compare the port's results to similar departments, they awarded 38% of contracts l.b.e.s and the port awarded 62% of contract awards t

on the port to continually growing the port and growing the business and growing businesses in the sowe and also sit on the open space committee in the bayview, so we certainly need ms. brandon's support and experience to keep the port functioning and bring it back to viability because of covid. so we strongly approve her reappointment to the board. thank you. >> chairman: thank you. are there any other members of the public here for this item number 3? >> clerk: one moment. i'm getting an update, but i believe there are additional speakers. >> chairman: next speaker, please. >> hello, can you hear me? >> chairman: yes, we can. please proceed. >> yeah. my name is everett brandon, i'm kimberly's dad. >> chairman: oh, good. >> yeah. hello. i just want to support her nomination to the board. thank you, supervisors for holding this hearing which is your great responsibility to do and your responsibility to bring in the finest people into the port and i can't think of anyone finer than my daughter. i usually come on just to affirm she's a native san franciscan. she has spent all her life e

with the port. this is a 3.2 acre site located in the southern waterfront off caesar chavez west of third. this site was originally used to house a temporary operating division during reconstruction of a nearby sfmta facility. next slide, please. the current and proposed uses under the m.o.u. are office, storage, maintenance and repair of buses, general warehouse uses and parking of sfmta staff vehicles. next slide, please. and so the rationale for the proposed use and the term of the m.o.u., from m.t.a.'s point of view, they have been leasing the site for the last 20 years. the site serves as a flex facility that helps in upgrades to sfmta's primary yards and its function flexes with the capital projects. sfmta has made investments into the port facility that has mutual benefit for port, sfmta and the community. from the port standpoint entering into the new m.o.u. with m.t.a. provides a continued income stream at current parameter with no downtime to have to market the site. and it requires no capi

but it paid off in the port of miami. you are right we have to work together and every part of that matters. >> one s final comment to your question of the larger ships coming through ther canal the 6 billion i mentioned earlier, 3 billion of that is specifically for completion funding of those channel improvement projects currently underway or needing additionall funding. we certainly recognize the larger canal and those ships that come without to encourage congress to include that spending with any infrastructure package. >> thank you people around the port have a lot of money really good paying jobs it's nice. thank you. >> thank you senator for your questions saturday are recognized for your questions. >> thank you mr. chairman. one of the fun things about this jobyo you get to hear all of the different states. i come from a very large landlocked state of wyoming. now i think it is the major core door for truck traffic going coast to coast. we see a lot of trucks. we farme on one side i take i 80 all the time. there ar

i'm proud to inform you amongst the 80 u.s. port members that aapa has, 14% of the ceo's of those ports are women, which is about double the average of the fortune 500 companies so i think that's interesting in a rough and tumble business as ports may be perceived to be, that we have such a strong representation of female ceo's. to your question, yeah, i was delighted to see port milwaukee getting that grant. that program is, you know, one of a kind. it's the only program, you know, for ports only. it is amazingly oversubscribed. each time, so we're in our third cycle, i believe now. and the grant requests exceed about a billion dollars where the grant authorization has been somewhere in the neighborhood of, you know, 250, 300 depending on the year. and the grant is up so we're encouraged by that, but these are important dollars to allow ports to improve their infrastructure, to prepare for the challenges that you're now seeing played out in front of us in real-time by the volume surges and the long-term resiliency challenges that w

the ports also play a crucial role in our national defense, as s witnessed by the designation of 17 ofour nation's ports as the strategic seaports by the dod. prior to the outbreak of covid-19, the total economic sol value generated in terms of revenue to businesses, personal income, and economic output by u.s. deepep draft ports account for of$5.4 g trillion annually roughly 26% of gdp.ed as research also shows that nearly 31 million americans were employed in jobs generated as a result of port activity.his c aapa is mindful of and gratefule for this committee's positive efforts on the passage of id mitsara and the increase authorization levels for pidp. it is imperative, however, as this committee considers nd reauthorization of our nation's surface transportation policies that we develop and fund a robust national freight strategy to remain competitive in the global economy. the fast act made significant strides in this regard, through the creation of the discretionary grant program andg the htformula-based national highway freight program. these existing freight programs are primar

as we heard with the port and m.t.a. brought about any number of fiscal challenges in the case of our transportation delivererrer s.f.m.t.a. physical impacts as well. i appreciate director tomming ts going out there and having successes and failures. it is important to acknowledge that publicly. i want to say as an on and off again member of the board of supervisors forgetting on to a generation, that the rate of change around transportation issues at-large in the last half a decade is more than in the last half century. it is things that people like me propose 20 years ago that were anathma are now commonplace. i will say this. i would like to gently admonish the director. democracy is messy, and it is by definition aggressive. now the cold war is rekindled not between the board of supervisors and the s.f.m.t.a., although that comes and goes as well but between the united states of america and former soviet union. it is easy to impose whatever ones dictates are in a different system of government. our system of governmen

on board 59 containers filled with toxic material from the lebanese port of bay root. the nelson company in northern germany will dispose of it over the next few weeks. it's managing director says they deal with hazardous waste like this every day. there are industrial chemicals and household chemicals like industrial hydro, clark acid, but also nail polish remover toilet cleaner and other substances. they seek out uncontrollably and mixed together. we sorted them according to laboratory analysis and repackaged them upon or losing a lot of noise back on august 2020 a devastating explosion ripped across the port of the route and much of the city the detonation killed, more than 190 people. an injured over $6002.00 large areas of the port and nearby residential areas were completely levels. the conditions that the country's main harbor work had struck huge quantities of toxic and highly flammable substances restored without any regard for safety. german experts analyzed the residues with a mo bile laboratory, classified them and then packed them in containers. since they

as we heard with the port and m.t.a. brought about any number of fiscal challenges in the case of our transportation delivererrer s.f.m.t.a. physical impacts as well. i appreciate director tomming ts going out there and having successes and failures. it is important to acknowledge that publicly. i want to say as an on and off again member of the board of supervisors forgetting on to a generation, that the rate of change around transportation issues at-large in the last half a decade is more than in the last half century. it is things that people like me propose 20 years ago that were anathma are now commonplace. i will say this. i would like to gently admonish the director. democracy is messy, and it is by definition aggressive. now the cold war is rekindled not between the board of supervisors and the s.f.m.t.a., although that comes and goes as well but between the united states of america and former soviet union. it is easy to impose whatever ones dictates are in a different system of government. our system of governmen

on the port to continually growing the port and growing the business and growing businesses in the so that we and also sit on the open space committee in the bayview, so we certainly need ms. brandon's support and experience to keep the port functioning and bring it back to viability because of covid. so we strongly approve her reappointment to the board. thank you. >> chairman: thank you. are there any other members of the public here for this item number 3? >> clerk: one moment. i'm getting an update, but i believe there are additional speakers. >> chairman: next speaker, please. >> hello, can you hear me? >> chairman: yes, we can. please proceed. >> yeah. my name is everett brandon, i'm kimberly's dad. >> chairman: oh, good. >> yeah. hello. i just want to support her nomination to the board. thank you, supervisors for holding this hearing which is your great responsibility to do and your responsibility to bring in the finest people into the port and i can't think of anyone finer than my daughter. i usually come on just to affirm she's a native san franciscan. she has spent all her

on board 59 containers filled with toxic material from the lebanese port of bay root. the nelson company and northern germany will dispose of it over the next few weeks. it's managing director says they deal with hazardous waste like this every day of their industrial chemicals and household chemicals like industrial hydrochloric acid, but also nail polish remover toilet cleaner and other substances. they seek out uncontrollably and mixed together. we sorted them according to laboratory analysis and repackaged them upon or losing a lot of noise back on in august 2020, a devastating explosion ripped across the port of a route and much of the city the detonation killed, more than 190 people. an injured over $6000.00 large areas of the port and nearby residential areas were completely levels. the conditions at the country's main harbor work had struck huge quantities of toxic and highly flammable substances were stored without any regard for safety. german experts analyzed the residues with a mo, by a laboratory, classified them and then packed them in containers. since th

on board 59 containers filled with toxic material from the lebanese port of bay root. the nelson company and northern germany will dispose of it over the next few weeks. its managing director says they deal with hazardous waste like this every day of their industrial chemicals and household chemicals like industrial hydro, clark acid, but also nail polish remover toilet cleaner and other substances. they seek out uncontrollably and mixed together. we sorted them according to laboratory analysis and repackaged them upon allusion is wanting to find noise back on august 2020, a devastating explosion ripped across the port of the route and much of the city. the destination killed more than 190 people, an injured over 6000. initially, the containers will be stored at vill hymns, haven't in the village of the house. after that, they are toxic contents will be destroyed by using things like high temperature furnaces. odo kramer has founded a citizens initiative. he's afraid of having the toxins so close to the village. he feels badly informed and doesn't believe a landfill is

on board 59 containers filled with toxic material from the lebanese port of bay root. the nelson company in northern germany will dispose of it over the next few weeks. its managing director says they deal with hazardous waste like this every day of their industrial chemicals and household chemicals like industrial hydro, clark acid, but also nail polish remover toilet cleaner and other substances. they seek out uncontrollably and mixed together. we sorted them according to laboratory analysis and repackaged them upon or losing as a lot of noise back on august 2020 a devastating explosion ripped across the port of the route and much of the city. the destination killed more than 190 people. an injured over $6000.00 large areas of the port and nearby residential areas were completely levels. the conditions at the country's mean harbor work had struck huge quantities of toxic and highly flammable substances were stored without any regard for safety. german experts analyzed the residues with a mo, by a laboratory, classified them and then packed them in containers. since th

the port of redwood city used to be quiet. sidents in the community didn't even know it existed. now that's changing. the port has spent the pandemic reinventing itself. they started with drive in movies, then graduated to the zombie family circus, which brought night after night of entertainment. the circus brought horses to the port. and when you think about it, we haven't had horses at the port. since the gold rush next up, dragon productions variety show running weekends through june, with their theater still closed due to covid. they say outdoor set ups were great option. they'll have everything from taiko drums to magic to comedy. it's a little bit like you know, old school johnny carson is gonna be a really good show. the next edition to the port happened almost by accident. commercial fishermen just happy pani c called them out of the blue. he had lost his spot in san francisco do to covid. and needed a new place to dock. he found redwood city by looking on google earth, and i said, how would you guys like us to come do

the port property which is still under negotiation is shown here in yellow. as this triangular piece and the streets of bancroft and griffith. again, hawes is outside the project area as is carroll avenue and armstrong. we are basically looking at this block here for the site of a new fire training facility. the fire training facility is located in two locations. one the main is from that is the that is the with the with this function from the location at treasure island to the bayview site as well as the with two two paper streets and is owned by prologis. and the city would be pie buying the subject property, merging the lots and creating a 7.5 acre which would be the site of the fire training facility. >> it needs to move from treasure island for the with just enough time for us to acquire, plan, and permit and build out with this in the from the bay view after we have been unable to locate others in the the county and out and commence on board approval but no later than june 11. if not approved and executed by june 11, there is the option of walking away f

the port has spent the pandemic reinventing itself.drive in movies, then graduated to the stop a family circus, which brought night after night of entertainment. the circus brought horses to the port. and when you think about it, we haven't had horses at the port since the gold rush next up, dragon productions, variety show running weekends through june. with their theater still closed due to covid. they say outdoor set ups were great option. they'll have everything from taiko drums to magic to comedy. it's a little bit like you know, old school, johnny carson is gonna be a really good show the next edition to the port happened almost by accident. commercial fishermen just happy pani c called them out of the blue. he had lost his spot in san francisco do to covid and needed a new place to dock. he found redwood city by looking on google earth and said, how would you guys like us to come down and may be selfish and your harbor, so far because all the sudden it was just like exploded in the background? oh, we'd love to have you guys. you

in september 2019, the port made amendments with special taxes. with the foration of the district and the additional assessment and the first issuance of not to exceed in cfd special tax bonds. the project is currently working to price and close on those funds, and we expect to do that before the end of the month. we recently posted the preliminary official statement for that issuance last week. quickly, there are four cfd special taxes at mission rock. the special tax that we are requesting bonding capacity for is the development tax which funds infrastructure and parts at the site. the office special tax which is shorter term and more flexible and the shoreline protection studies and facilities along the waterfront and resilience work and the services special tax which funds ongoing maintenance at the site. this brings me to why we are in front of you today. the amount of bonds that can be sold at mission rock is limited by two factors. the first is the ongoing special tax revenues paid by the building owners and the second limiting factor is the

um hurt who was the port collector in new orleans and that stated 9th of april 1841. so basically the creole's taking about a month to get from richmond to to north new orleans. next slide please. i want to look at very briefly at the the root of the of the creole and this is document number three and it's in the book rebellious passage because this will give you some sense of the coastal routes to the lot of these hundreds of these coastal ships made next. next slide please. and here you can see a via the arrow the historical journey of the creole in late eight in the fall of 1841 october 25th. 1841 the creole left for the richmond in virginia three days later. it stopped at norfolk where it boarded more captives then it turned southward staying largely toward the coast 200 miles off the coast and on november the 7th 1841. that was the date of the slavery rebellion, um after which the slave steered ship the creole to. abaco island and the bahamas um and on november the 9th 1841 two days after the rebellion the creole entered nasa harbor 10 days later on november the 1

the port of redwood city used to be quiet. e residents in the community didn't even know it existed. now that's changing. the port has spent the pandemic reinventing itself. he started with drive in movies, then graduated to the stop a family circus, which brought night after night of entertainment. the circus brought horses to the port. and when you think about it, we haven't had horses at the port since the gold rush next up, dragon productions, variety show running weekends through june. with their theater still closed due to covid. they say outdoor set ups were great option. they'll have everything from taiko drums to magic to comedy. it's a little bit like you know, old school, johnny carson is gonna be a really good show. the next edition to the port happened almost by accident. commercial fishermen just happy pani c called them out of the blue. he had lost his spot in san francisco do to covid and needed a new place to dock. he found redwood city by looking on google earth, and i said, how would you guys like us to come

on board 59 containers filled with toxic material from the lebanese port of bay root. the nelson company in northern germany will dispose of it over the next few weeks. its managing director says they deal with hazardous waste like this every day of their industrial chemicals and household chemicals like industrial hydrochloric acid, but also nail polish remover toilet cleaner and other substances. they seek out uncontrollably and mixed together. we sorted them according to laboratory analysis and repackaged them upon or losing is a lot of noise up on in august 2020, a devastating explosion ripped across the port of the route and much of the city. the destination killed more than 190 people. an injured over $6000.00 large areas of the port and nearby residential areas were completely levels. the conditions at the country's main harbor work had struck huge quantities of toxic and highly flammable substances were stored without any regard for safety. german experts analyzed the residues with a mo, by a laboratory, classified them and then packed them in containers. since

on the way to the port we see animal transporters on the return journey. the transports unload on the pier. electric prods are used to drive the young bulls onto the ship. this load is mostly made up of animals from france or destined for lebanon. one man stands out among the workers at the port you want to start off an animal export or out of here is from morocco. as we establish later he's bought the animals for an arab company. but he's prepared to talk to us so we arranged to meet with him a few days later. steve what's your job. most contiguous and exporter i work as an export eartha companies here in spain and organize transport to arab countries. i drive around and pick out the animals. i make a selection by them try to negotiate the best price to export them to arab countries they always end up at an avatar. which countries do the transports go to. most. they clearly will look more i work a lot with lebanon but i also export to jordan. saudi saudi arabia libya. morocco tunisia. almost all of the arab countries to be on a computer design the more ma

the first sign that we are plans is the port chicago trial. that was the important trial that happened on yerba buena island following the disaster and the trial that followed and the public outrage. that was de segregation of the navy that occurred on yerba buena island. we want people to go about that event. that sign is being planned for infinity point, the western point on yerba buena island designed by a design studio landscape architect. working on the content of the sign where the museum. now the concept for the sign is to have metal panels. you can see them here. affixed to the remnant water tank at the major overlook at infinity point. as people read and learn about the disaster and trial they are looking in the direction of port chicago in the east bay. you can see where those signs will below indicated adjacent to the main overlook at infinity point. the second interpretive sign is about habitat management and the island stormwater treatment. we have a range of diverse habitats on the island. we are working with the san francisco dep

on board 59 containers filled with toxic material from the lebanese port of bay root. the nelson company and northern germany will dispose of it over the next few weeks. it's managing director says they deal with hazardous waste like this every day of their industrial chemicals and household chemicals like industrial hydro, clark acid, but also nail polish remover toilet cleaner and other substances. they seek out uncontrollably and mixed together. we sorted them according to laboratory analysis and repackaged them upon a loosen is a lot of noise up on in august 2020, a devastating explosion ripped across the port of the route and much of the city. the destination killed more than 190 people. an injured over $6000.00 large areas of the port and nearby residential areas were completely levels. the conditions at the country's main harbor work had struck huge quantities of toxic and highly flammable substances were stored without any regard for safety. german experts analyzed the residues with a mo, by a laboratory, classified them and then packed them in containers. since

the first sign that we are plans is the port chicago trial. that was the important trial that happened on yerba buena island following the disaster and the trial that followed and the public outrage. that was de segregation of the navy that occurred on yerba buena island. we want people to go about that event. that sign is being planned for infinity point, the western point on yerba buena island designed by a design studio landscape architect. working on the content of the sign where the museum. now the concept for the sign is to have metal panels. you can see them here. affixed to the remnant water tank at the major overlook at infinity point. as people read and learn about the disaster and trial they are looking in the direction of port chicago in the east bay. you can see where those signs will below indicated adjacent to the main overlook at infinity point. the second interpretive sign is about habitat management and the island stormwater treatment. we have a range of diverse habitats on the island. we are working with the san francisco dep

on the way to the port we see animal transporters on the return journey. the transports unload on the pier. electric prods are used to drive a young bolt onto the ship. this load is mostly made up of animals from france for destined for lebanon. one man stands out among the workers at the port you want to start an animal exporter are our heroes from morocco. as we establish later he's bought the animals for an arab company. but if he's prepared to talk to us so we arranged to meet with him a few days later. what's your job. most contiguous and explore i work as an export earnings of companies here in spain and organize transport to arab countries. or societies i drive around and pick out the animals i am i make a selection by them try to negotiate the best price to export them to arab countries they always end up at an average want. which countries do the transports go to. most. people you know i work a lot with lebanon but i also export to jordan. saudi saudi arabia libya. morocco tunisia. almost all of the arab countries to be a computer design the more

s concern they'll blockade the island's main port a french ministers also threaten to cut off the elec tricity supply to the island let's cross over to natasha butler who's on a french fishing boat off the port of san tellier in jersey not much. going on at the moment in the channel islands there natasha what seems to be happening you've been following events through the day. yes. it's all i'm on a french fishing boats as you say so we came in the early hours of the morning from the normandy coast in france and we've been here for about 6 hours and just off to sunrise were joined by dozens of other boats you can be there if you'd sort of use it you could see some of those boats behind me on just that but not the way. now all around this area they're all fishing boats started around french fishermen probably c'est ing against what they say is unfair treatment by jersey authorities they say that the authorities in jersey are limits in back so as to be able to fish in these waters they say that they've been fishing it for decades generations been fishing it for centuries but now that has

on the way to the port we see animal transporters on the return journey. the transports unload on the pier. electric prods are used to driving. hold on to the ship. this load is mostly made up of animals from france or destined for lebanon. one man stands out among the workers at the port you want to start an animal export or out of here is from morocco. as we establish later he's bought the animals for an arab company. but if he's prepared to talk to us so we arranged to meet with him a few days later. what's your job most contiguous and exposed us you know i work as an export of the companies here in spain and organize transport to arab countries. cities i drive around and pick out the animals i am i make a selection by them try to negotiate the best price to export them to arab countries they always end up at an avatar. is it which countries do the transports go to. most. clearly bill you know i work a lot with lebanon but i also export to jordan. saudi saudi arabia libya. morocco tunisia. almost all of the arab countries to be on our computers on the m

from or to france region have been given access leading to a blockade in the port to boulogne so the u.k. denies these claims saying the licenses have been issued to all 87 french vessels that have applied for them and met the criteria well more than 40 boats have been specifically authorized to fish in jews ease routers. as the realities of briggs it. islanders and french fishermen alike it seems have been left trawling for answers. r.t. paris. months of a stomach pains and headaches have left a mother terrified for her son's welfare already born as just one parent sounding the alarm about the british government's approach to it. everything back. to. well mark his getting them and i'm sure they're looking and i know well that may have. the issue maybe not such a degree of my funds got or some other kid for me live a lot worse than my son the government got to. get one by rest and that we need and or children and that we can take our children and or and the main thing they need there and the port that they need if it can be mentally and emotionally and that is what we need here in th

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ports but. then many more. the mobility that the maximum safety measures for airports are very huge because you're moving to aircraft which is multi multi 1000000 word and on the other hand in a sea port you are moving containers and amount of containers move. a few millions every day compared to a montauk aircraft moves around your saying and you've said in the past that you think your valuation will be $2000000000.00 in a few years time on the face of it that sounds like a lot of money but with with respect to you. chicken feed compared to the big big big hitters who are trying to get in there how do you play catch up. i'd like to say that we're already ahead of many companies out there trying to get your technology out on the roads because they are not just behind try to see how this technology can be implemented but they're also behind the regulations of the technology can be incorporated or authorized or regulated on the on the public roads by the area that we operate obviously we have a huge demand to have ne

french fishing boats surrounded the islands main port this morning. se is a new rules shut them out. >> they don't want us to -- fish. >> we need to manage our fish stoc no question. we need to manage the resource out there. jersey has done nothing wrong. >> in india, 400,000 covid-19 cases have been recorded in 24 hours. there is evidence the government is not capturing the true human cost. in one hour, the bcc -- bbc saw funerals, the authorities recorded seven. this shows the devastating impact the new wave is having on rural hospitals. toilets are overflowing. families are caring for the sick because there are not enough doctors. we will have more on that and we will hear from afghan women on the impact cuts from international aid are having on basic health care. ♪ >> welcome to those of you watching on pbs in america and to everyone else on bbc world news. the island of jersey in the english channel has become the latest then you for brexit tension between the u.k. and the eu. for the first time, fishing rights are at the center. your pictures fro

there is also another piece of property there that we're purchasing that is owned by the port of san francisco, and there are all sorts of complicated regulatory processes that we are working through in terms of, you know, the state lands commission and getting them to agree to the sales, as well as ceqa and other before we can move forward with the final purchase, and we have been, you know, speaking with [inaudible] about this for a long time, and right now what we need to do is get this purchase option agreement. it should be allow us the time that we need to complete all these other sort of tricky processes that are required, and what i can tell you is that the purchase option is $15,000 a month for up to 12 months. the money is not coming out of general fund, and this is going to be month to month, so if we complete all these regulatory processed before the 12 months, we can move from the agreement to final purchase. now, the thing with the final purchase of this, we are locked in here for the purchase price. we are locked in to this purchase price at $38.5 million. that is for t

in september 2019, the port made amendments with special taxes. with the foration of the district and the additional assessment and the first issuance of not to exceed in cfd special tax bonds. the project is currently working to price and close on those funds, and we expect to do that before the end of the month. we recently posted the preliminary official statement for that issuance last week. quickly, there are four cfd special taxes at mission rock. the special tax that we are requesting bonding capacity for is the development tax which funds infrastructure and parts at the site. the office special tax which is shorter term and more flexible and the shoreline protection studies and facilities along the waterfront and resilience work and the services special tax which funds ongoing maintenance at the site. this brings me to why we are in front of you today. the amount of bonds that can be sold at mission rock is limited by two factors. the first is the ongoing special tax revenues paid by the building owners and the second limiting factor is the

the first sign that we are plans is the port chicago trial. was the important trial that happened on yerba buena island following the disaster and the trial that followed and the public outrage. that was de segregation of the navy that occurred on yerba buena island. we want people to go about that event. that sign is being planned for infinity point, the western point on yerba buena island designed by a design studio landscape architect. working on the content of the sign where the museum. now the concept for the sign is to have metal panels. you can see them here. affixed to the remnant water tank at the major overlook at infinity point. as people read and learn about the disaster and trial they are looking in the direction of port chicago in the east bay. you can see where those signs will below indicated adjacent to the main overlook at infinity point. the second interpretive sign is about habitat management and the island stormwater treatment. we have a range of diverse habitats on the island. we are working with the san francisco departm