commissioner adams >> so dweckter [inaudible] asking a question this will be covering pier twaevl and 35 the old cruise terminal? [inaudible] park sunchs and that other stuff but it just helps out-can you explain that to me? >> yes, so to my knowledge we do not do dredging at pier 31 and a half, is that correct? that is dredging done by horn fwlouer >> there isn't pier dredging there in the past several years. it isn't required to do for the activities there this contract covers dredging the port pays for at port facilities and may dredge at facilities paid by tenet and that is not covered in this contract. >> just for clarification for everyone this is just for the remainder of the 2015 year and then as i understand it there will be a new rfp put out for dredging for us after that date? >> correct, the increase in the contract amount is to cover the jobs that are scheduled for this year at 27 and 35. this will then conclude the contract period and we'll nishiate a new one in the next contract cycle. >> thank you. all in favor? >> on average how much does it cost to draej a year, is i

when you get off the ship and go through custom at pier twaevl it is like a airport. in the ort days you do customs on the ship. initially the lines were long and delayed the disembark which delayed the embark which caused traffic so the port and pcst staff met with u.s. custom and boarder protection to discuss the issue and find other way tooz speed up the process. the good news is that u.s. customs is very helpful in streamlining the procedures for disembarking guests. it is well received by the guest and save enormous amount of time and our [inaudible] increased mpt customs cannot help is wrong tharks have been a ally and stake holder. secondly the biggest issue is the trafic on the embarcadero. the first several calls were a learning experience and there was back up on the embark dairy. we have since then worked with the san francisco public work squz the san francisco metropolitan transportation authority to streamline vehicle ingress and egress. we hired sfpd officers for traffic control at the entrance to keep down traffic and insure pedestrian and bike safety

san francisco simpphony will be hosting a free simpancy in the park at the james a hurmen at pier twaevl mpt it is 3 decades or more since the simpphony hosted a [inaudible] the last behind the ferry plaza and that fs in 19 aithd 3 so it has been a very very long time so we are excited to well can come them back. it is my honor to introduceicatey nicely who is the [inaudible] san francisco simpany to say a few words in r to engage you of what a great event this will be on july 12 at pier 27. catty, if you would >> thank you i am again-one other thing i wanted to high light is we vavule nl toor group called symphonics which is young profession lt group. they organized a facebook event and sent it oit last week and found that over 11 thounl thousand people said they are coming. we will have maybe additional thousand people more we would have had without their help reaching out and telling other union professionals about that event. i can't hesitate all you to come but also want to mention i like the repertoire we are doing because it is a mix oaf jan rus we have seen in the past so we are

lengthy crubz period when you varevenue service you have to build the plat form squz cal train has twaevl of themp. there is also a california waver need said because there is freight on the cor dor and have several [inaudible] ace capetle and amtrak have different height than cal train today and in the future and high speed rail. we have 7 historic stations. there are different ramp jz different site specific needs that have to be taken into consideration for boarding height. today i'll turn that ourfb how that is modified for our thipging and come back to the staff rementdation going forward >> thank you casey. as we pull forward in conversations with each one of the car buildsers, we are trying to take into account what the requests have been for many of the stake holders. as casey said a few minutes ago, the original process was for cal train to have a 25 inch boarding height and high speed rail to have 50 inch. what was put in front of aus is what wecan we do teat get to that common height and how do modify the emu. we started a 6 munlt process in conjunction of high speed rail [inau