we also designed, the horet website is fish ermines warf events.com. it shares information about events and meetings at the warf and listed the venues. we kicked this off with a launch party. we had over 200 people representing the venues [inaudible] local media. we were also able to get facebook and this took years to do. [inaudible] that means our posts are getting more engagement and became a valuable marketing asset. we also rezerected our news letter which receives about a 37 percent rate open rate, which is good. it continues to grow about 12 percent per year. one of the big things we did that year and this happened ath the beginning of the fiscal year is the fisherman warfs crab sign was in jeopardy of being red tagged by the port of san francisco. it rusted out so we irk would the muchant association and the port and at a cost of about 115 thousand dollars it was replaced and we replaced the incandescent lights with led lights talight it up. for the first time ever we hired a marketing manager and she created a marketing plan. we were able to g

warf. when troy was up with his presentation i guess we have to keep really pushing forward with the rest of the relevant departments and agencies of the city to figure out what we can do with traffic and also to help both those who work on the water front as well as the sros to the water front because i think that's one of the issues. it will be some out of the box thinking because i think unless we just think sitting in traffic is going to be the answer in the future. because i reported in one of our other commission meetings that on a cruise ship terminal day when we had two cruise ship it took 45 minutes to go from the folsom street to cruise ship terminal. we have to think of keep diverting traffic. i agree with you 100%. i don't know the solutions, but i just hope we can keep putting focus on it. >> thank you for your comments. i agree. >> thank you for your presentation. i really appreciated that you laid out about the loyalty of your staff and the people that work for you and sounds

warf now but when it's build-out. bae is going to be squeezed. parking is going away and we don't have decent transit yet. it is critical that we get your support for the water front transportation assessment and for implementation of improved transportation particularly transit and other non-single occupancy vehicles around that entire water front because pier 70 is goes to be in the same position, i hope in not too many more years as the northern water front with congestion and the inability of workers to get to work unless we can improve alternative means. thank you. >> thank you. that was the last of my speaker cards. is there anyone else wishing to make public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, commissioner whoo-hoo? >> i would like to thank ricky and all the port staff for this presentation. it is a complex lease and situation and i want to say we want to appreciate some of the improvements that have been made since the last discussion in november. i appreciate that you listened to the commission and made modificati

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according to members of the warrior beach retreat project they were enjoying a vacation at the lake town warf panama city beach. the fraternity members of the beta came through the parking lot ripped the flags off their cars, some personal magnets. there were reports of them spitting on veterans, even in spitting oone of the veterans' service dogs and insulting them. they went on to throwing beer bottles off of the balcony and just a lot of behavior that the university administration found very disgusting in the words of the vice president for student affairs. >> as has the fraternity admitted to this? >> they, in a letter apologizing to the warrior's project they apologized for the bad behavior of some of its members. they didn't really seem to take full ownership of it they didn't go into details of what happened. but the international organization has since expelled three of the frat members from the fraternity. and they are looking into it further to see if any other action is warranted from their end. >> you know, it's really sort of hard to believe this could happen. i mean, spitting on

you know, one of the things he told us is that he remembers that he used to run the warf to warf andat . >> i'm believing he intends to do it and he will do it. incredible story. >> he has a strong will. >> thank you. janine de la vega, thank you. >>> three people are in stable condition after being stabbed inside a san leandro bar. police received 911 calls around 8:30 last night about a stabbing at shilo's cocktails. police found three men that had been stabbed. 6 to 7 people were involved in a fight but the suspects ran before the officers got there. police were seen questioning a man with a motorcycle club but investigators this morning announced that the bikers are not suspects at this time. now, back in february, a man was arrested outside the bar on charges of firing a gun there. however, no weapon was found that night the next day though, the next morning, an 11-year-old boy discovered a gun in the bushes. >>> authorities say foul play is not suspected in the death of a palo alto man who went missing after a hike. search teams found the body of 70-year-old irwin myers yesterd