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Those volunteers and members who went out there that day. Only other remark i wanted to show our appreciation. To you commissioner veronese for this program. Item 6, commission report. Report on Commission Activity since last meeting october 9, 2019. Commissioners ill call for Public Comment on this item. Any member of the public wishes to give Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Any announcements that you would like to make at this time. Vice president covington. Vice president covington i was thanked to thank commissioner veronese for his ongoing support regarding the stress unit. I think its very admirable. He pursued money and training for the peer support group. I thank him for that. I wanted to say that i know that the president of our commission was there but the commemoration of the 30th anniversary was outstanding. It was just absolutely wonderful. It was very uplifting. I would think it might be a somber event, actually we laughed a lot. The st. Francis fire boat was there. The mayor did a wonderful job as emcee. Supervisor stephanie was there. There were people in the department who has been in the department who had time to speak as well. It was heart warming. I saw little bit of it on sfgov today. Commissioner veronese i see your name on the roster. Commissioner veronese just on commission activities. We had the Fire Department hosted a pier support training. There were about 30 members. The training was put on by the International Association of firefighters. My foundation, the National First responders paid for it. It was a Great Program. I stopped in the very beginning of the program to say hello. Sat through an hour of it. Its a Great Program being offered. I look forward to doing as many of these as we can. There were three or four different departments from all over the bay area that jumped in on it. Which is great. Theres more money there to keep doing these things. I hope that the department well do some in Southern California as well. I look forward to the department and other departments contributing to it and with their people. I was really pleased to see it was a good show. Well keep doing them as long as people show up to them. The credit goes to the thousands of contributors that contributed to the fund and everything that everybody that was part of that. Thank you for that. Commissioner hardeman. Commissioner hardeman this will be brief. Had celebration fleet week the day after the last meeting downstairs. George schultz was honored. His 99th birthday, former secretary. There was charlotte, his wife, who has been so good about hosting things. Shes having a hard time getting around. It was a very nice performance. I didnt see a lot of first responders. I think there was an invitation that went out like the day or two before. I think lot of people were missed is what i was told. I was representing the Fire Department. We were there. I enjoyed it. It was fun. Thank you. President nakajo thank you very much. Commissioner hardeman. Commissioner hardeman on monday november 18th we have our retirement scheduled at headquarters at 4 00. Just as a reminder. I wanted to comment as well on the ceremony. I believe chief anita bradley, she gave remarks. I tell you that was some really inspiring and enjoyable comments. Shes got talent. It was just enjoyable how real she was and how honest she was and how she brought everything in perspective. I really enjoyed that. To cap it off with the Vice President we had an opera singer that was really fantastic to be able to add to that and the atmosphere. She said something about us san franciscans everything and we celebrate earthquakes as well. Its the resilience of everybody within the department and city and county of San Francisco. I know everyone is prepping for the next one or trying to prep for the next one. I wanted to remark on that as well. Thank you for all of that. I appreciate it so much. Madam second . Item 7. Agenda agenda for next and future meetings. President nakajo call for Public Comment on this item. What do we have for the remainder of the year . It was confirmed today ems6 presentation with captain payne. And a closed session settlement. President nakajo that is for the Commission Meeting november 13th . Yes. President nakajo we have two more Commission Meetings left in the year. December 11th will be the last meeting of the year. Commissioner hardeman commissioner cleaveland wonder if we can put the grant writer position on. Give us an update on whats happening with that position. Perhaps share if it has to be in closed session to discuss the candidates for the position. I think this position is so critical to future funding for lot of things that our department needs. I like to have that on the agenda and get an update from the department on whats happening. President nakajo well have the chief of the Department Comment on that. Updateed. I gave Vice President covington some of the applicants who we are going to get their reds resumes and who we want to interview. Ill be happy to talk to you about it. President nakajo thank you very much. Madam secretary. Item 8. Public comment on item 9 on all matters pertaining to item 9b below including Public Comment on whether the item 9b in closed session. President nakajo any member of the public that wishes to give Public Comment on this item. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Vote on whether to conduct items 9b in closed session. The commissioner may hear item 9b in closed session to code section 54957b and administrative code section 57. 10b. President nakajo in terms of this motion to go into closed session, commissioners . Second. President nakajo we have a second from Vice President is that a motion commissioner hardeman. Theres a motion. Is there a second . Thank you very much. Vice president covington all in favor say aye. Thank you very much. We are completed for this evening. We are adjourned. Thank you very much commissioners. We have been without a major seismic event for over 20 years now. Will happen at a moments notice [ ] today we are practising the activation of our Department Emergency operations center. This is really an exercise for us to train and we are using fleet week and the entire the italian heritage festival as the exercise. We have four different sections that are working today. There is operations, and operations basically is our contact with people out in the fields. They are finding out how things are going, and if there are problems they are letting us know and we can identify through our action plan what what resources are needed and dispatch those resources. They will fill out reports and then the report gets to planning you will identify if Additional Resources need to be happening over a longterm timeframe and then they will provide for that by talking with our Logistics Staff. The logistic staff Logistics Staff is the one that will order labor, materials they will do that, first of all looking within our own organization, then if we dont have that within our own organization, they will contact the p. O. C. And then they will look at getting resources to us. And then last but importantly as our finance staff. And they are here to make sure that we first of all fill out all the paperwork so in an actual event, when the federal government will be reimbursing s. , then we are following the proper protocol, and they are also making sure the money is there in place. Today in the field we have the Environmental Service is following the parade, and doing the final cleanup of the parade. And an emergency situation they would likely be doing something similar to this, only with debris. Also in the field is the inspectors from the mapping. They are doing some live streaming. There is an intersection of beach making sure that everything is safe for our public, our visitors, and everyone participating in the event. There will be so many different departments working during a seismic event or any other kind of emergency. They will all have a separate action plan, and we are here making sure that for public works the action plan for that emergency event is actually followed through. Engineers will likely be doing Damage Assessment of roads bridges overhead passes, architects and engineers as well would be doing Damage Assessment of facilities and buildings. Building repair it would probably be doing some immediate repairs to make facilities operational, especially things like shelters, street and sewer repair as the urban forestry crew also has Big Equipment that can help clear the roadways. [ ] we have been without a major seismic event for over 20 years now, so it is important that we are ready, we know the roles that we need to play, and we are able to act quickly because it will happen at a moments notice so that is one of the reasons why we do this and again the more comfortable we feel in our roles, then the better we can respond quickly to emergencies. For an Emergency Planning communication is very important and so i cant stress enough the importance of figuring out a communication plan for your family and for the department. That is why we are practising today how we communicate and interact with each other how we share information, and how we use that information and then for the city as a whole, so that the city as a halt knows what is going on as well. Second. All in favor. Aye. The motion to not to disclose what we discussed in executive session. Second. All in favor. Aye. Onto item 6, pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Item 7 aannouncements. Please be advised the use of cell phones, and pagers and other sound producing electronics are prohibited during the use of this meeting. Please be aware members of the public have up to three minutes to make a Public Comment on each item of the agenda unless otherwise stated. Onto item 8 Public Comment on items not on the agenda today. Is there any Public Comment on items not listed on the agenda . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Thank you. Item 9a, executive directors report. Good afternoon members of the public and port staff, im elaine, the ports executive director. The first item is i wanted to report on fleet week, which was october 7 through 14, where the port was a very proud sponsor of the event. It was exceptionally well attended. Its an event honoring our services. The city participated in disaster debris management exercise which dem felt was extremely helpful and important to exercise our own planned removal and opening of major roadways and also to process with our federal partners was very helpful. We also had several joint military civilian exercises as well as the parade of ships and of course the air shows. But what i want to do is thank port staff that put so much time and energy into making the event another smashing success. Staff worked evening and weekends every week and much of their work goes unrecognized because they are behind the scenes making sure nothing goes wrong. So first joe riley and ken were on security. From the maritime division, we had our team making sure the vessels came in and were safe and secure aaron, bren don dominick, michael and edgar. And in the Maintenance Division we had lots of crews out before during and after making sure our waterfront looked wonderful for our guests. So i would like to recognize the laborers division, the truck drivers, ironworkers and specifically tim, alex, oscar dave, kevin and del. Thank you for making us shine once again. A quick update on the safe embarcadero navigation center. I wanted to update you on the Advisory Group which is to advise us as this process and as the center gets cited and services provided. I have appointed Rick Dickerson and alisa rogers as chair and vicechair of the Advisory Group. I seah alice is in the audience. Rick is a former cochair and we know ms. Rogers, she is the cochair of south Beach Rincon Mission Bay Neighborhood Association and the chair of sea wag. So thank you for serving. The next meeting of the Advisory Group is coming this wednesday at 5 30 at the South Beach Harbor room. They will get an update from homeless and port housing. Theyll be announcing who they selected as a provider. Five keys operate the center which is 128bed facility and we hear very good things about five keys. The Public Works Department will provide an update on construction. If youve been by the site the insides are being constructed now. The Police Department will be providing an update on Police Incidents within the safety zone. Theres good collection of data, incidents in september totaled 90, which was showing a continued downward trend since june when 125 incidents were reported. So getting the baseline for the area is incredibly important. And that is something the Police Department is going. I would like to report that state senate bill 451 the state Tax Credit Program has been passed. This is something the port worked for some time on. The historic state Tax Credit Program can be used in conjunction with the National Program of course with tax reform the value of the federal program is lower than it was before the Corporate Tax rate went down. But having this Additional Program will be very important for our piers youll be hearing about today and 12a potentially a financing tool for our historic piers. The program has a cap of 50 million with a 10 million set aside for smaller projects. The projects will be screened by the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee to demonstrate return on investment. Of course all projects will have to conform with the secretary of interiors standards. The Tax Credit Program the federal one has helped other Pier Restoration projects and historic restoration. So the timing couldnt be better for us. And i want to thank mark brad, mayor breeds legislative staff for supporting this effort. So congratulations to everyone. Another tool for historic preservation. Now i would like to talk about the San Franciscos chamber of commerce trip to seattle. Brad, will you play that for me, please. So brad and i joined the chamber of commerce for the city trip to seattle september 25 through 27. We were excited to join the new ceo of the chamber, rodney. We were also joined by many business and electives and a great delegation. Ill wait until the slides come up. Great. That looks like the second slide on the first slide. Yep. Okay. Great. So if you could go back one slide brad. So the first slide shows the delegation. And brad and i went. We also had some of our consultants who were on the seawall team, specifically cmg who was the urban designer. We had two representatives from cmg. And you can see here its a variety of elected and Business Leaders on this day trip. Next slide. We kicked it off with me and brad and some of the consultants talking about the Embarcadero Seawall Program and what we are trying to accomplish portwide. It was a great way to start because we framed for the delegation what we are trying to accomplish in San Francisco and then proceeded to look at whats happened in seattle. Seattle has a lot of similarities to San Francisco. Its earthquake country. When we had our big earthquake the freeway had a collapse issue. When they had their big earthquake in 2001, their seawall failed. Their double decker freeway stayed up, but their seawall failed. So they began a very aggressive effort to replace their seawall to deal with seismic risk. It was fascinating for us to see the parallels in construction of a seawall in earthquake country, to see a historic seawall and some of the decisions they made in terms of keeping the piers open through construction what they did about water levels and their historic fabric and the state actually pulled down that double decker freeway because of earthquake risk. And now the community of seattle is engaged in a multibillion dollar effort to really connect their city with their waterfront in the way we have a connected waterfront with our city. So it was very, very interesting. I have to admit i didnt realize how strongly parallelled our experiences would be and how much we would learn from this trip. It was very very exciting. So some of the points that brad has highlighted here is the parallels they had a Multiyear Program to plan design and build. And one of the things their project team said is you cant design and implement as fast as the world changes. Theres such a far lead time on the effort to plan a capital work like a seawall replacement. The other thing we learned which many people might think is obvious is you cant replace a seawall in the same place the seawall is coming out. The seawall has to continue to do its job while you construct the new levee and protection. So we cant say we are keeping the line of defense because the line of defense will be different with the new seawall, just from looking at construction very, very interesting for the team. They had a lot of coordination with their community and stakeholders. And we could talk more about that. But they have a lot of homelessness issues and concerns around new waterfront that has just so many parks and open spaces and how that will be managed for the benefit of the community and how to deal with some of the issues that frankly we are having in San Francisco too in creating a waterfront for everyone thats safe and secure. And they, interestingly did already what we are thinking of doing, which is the tax to businesses and Property Owners adjacent to the waterfront to pay not for the seawall construction, that was geobond funded but for the billion dollars of improvements to create parks and open space in connection to the waterfront. And they had a tax rate that acknowledged the closer you are to the waterfront, the more value you were getting from the improvements. And they taxed condominiums and homes as well. The person in charge of the project marshal buster said he still has some scars from negotiating that special tax. But it did get approved and its very supported. They took a while to get there but its a major Funding Source for their improvement. And we are planning to do the same with our downtown cfd. So that gave us a shot in the arm that its possible. Okay. Lets go to the next slide. Thats it. Okay. So it was an excellent trip. And we think in terms of next steps, we are going to want our commissioners to see the seawall in seattle to bring the project here or bring you there. There are excellent parallels and Lessons Learned from our community our sister city up north not true sister city, but seattle up north who really has a lot of parallels to what we are going to undertake. Thank you brad. Next i would like to talk about the American Association of port authorities conference. President brandon, from the Maritime Association and i attended the conference october 14 through 16 in Norfolk Virginia. This association, American Association of port authorities has 130 members all public ports. And it was founded in 1912. So it is the biggest association of ports. At the convention a longterm ceo kurt retired after 34 years. And we welcomed in the new ceo, Chris Connors who was a shipping and logistics veteran. The host city, Norfolk Virginia is known as americas first port. It is a settlement dating back to 1607. So its rich with history in terms of the james town settlement. It is the Largest Naval base in the country. Its the sixth largest containerized Cargo Complex in the United States. President brandon and mic and i were very impressed with the tours that we saw. Theres a robust shipbuilding and repair industry a thriving export and roll on, roll off and cruising. So really kind of an he can electric itan activeport. The conference is interesting. There was an excellent panel on coastal resiliency. There were other topics related to Economic Development and green port. We had an unparalleled opportunity to network with colleagues across the country. And we of course got to receive i already announced the aap Communications Award for the embarcadero seawall campaign. So it was nice to be there and see our own staff awarded an honor. The next convention will be held in september in quebec city. This is an important opportunity for us to network. I want to thank you president brandon for leading this effort. Its important to show San Franciscos best foot forward. I have a late breaking announcement. Im happy to share at the 14th biannual state conference just today the golden gate society and port of San Francisco received an award for outstanding Environmental Protection for the wetlands and upland Habitat Restoration of pier 94. The project was recognized for an exceptional degree of Public Engagement and having aa tenyear agreement allowed for investment in the project. I want to give a shoutout to carol and david who is here. And hanson who really donated a lot of materials to help us with the work and graciously accepted Public Access to their adjacent to them. That concludes my report. Thank you. Is there any other Public Comment on the executive directors report. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner gillman would like to make an announcement. I wanted to make an announcement that actually many people recognize the great work of the port for fleet week. I had the honor to close the fleet Week Celebrations on october 14 to represent the port with betty, the commander at the navys regional southwest sector and the committee that puts on the fleet Week Celebration presented the port which i will give to you to hang this plaque. They wanted to recognize all the work we do every year to welcome hundreds of thousands of visitors and Service Members to the port. It was a lovely closing ceremony. And they wanted to make sure they recognized the port for all the work they did. Thank you. This afternoon we move item 8 to the end of the nights agenda so well move onto item 11. 11a is an informational presentation on citywide resilience efforts. Were having some technical difficulties. So for people using the laptop today page up and page down. Good afternoon president brandon, commissioners brad benson the ports waterfront resilience effort. Im here to introduce two presentations today. Everything that we are doing in the Waterfront Resilience Program is nested within a broader citywide policy framework. Back in december of 2018, a port and city staff presented some of these citywide efforts to the commission. And we wanted to provide updates about two of the efforts. First we are going to have adam garett, the Deputy Director of citywide planning provide an update about the double rise vulnerability and consequences assessment. And then we have brian strong, who is the citys chief resilience officer here to speak about the hazard and Climate Resilience plan. These are two very important plans for the city for understanding about hazards. The city is facing and how we can be more resilient in the face of them. And so no further ado ill invite adam up to present. Actually i think this is in the opposite order. So lets have brian start. Sorry. Just page down. Good afternoon commissioners. My name is brian strong. Im the chief resilience officer and director of the office of resilience and capital planning. Its very nice to be here. I appreciate the opportunity to come and talk with you. A little bit more than well, not quite a year ago, i think it was in december i came and did a presentation on this hazard and Climate Resilience plan. And it was all the things we are intending to do. So its nice to come back some ten and a half months later saying most all the things have been completed. And ill give you an update on it. And we are beginning to put together the strategies and get ready to submit this document to fema. So it does work. There we go. By the way, this is a recent picture we got. We shared it with some of our Public Information research. A lot of people are talking about. Im the last person that should be marketing San Francisco. Its why the chamber of commerce never invites me to anything. So im jealous. However, this is more in the area of what i end up dealing with from the citys perspective, which is how are we preparing for hazards. And now weve been doing this local Hazard Mitigation plan. Its a fema requirement. If you dont complete it, you are not eligible for fema funding. General assistance funding after major disasters, that includes Hazard Mitigation Grant Programs of which the city applies for a number of them that we receive on a regular basis. So its a very big carrot that they have for us to get this done. So we will get it done. And in the past, it was really it came out of the department of Emergency Management and it was really more reflective of some of the efforts in our capital plan and some of the approved plans instead of reflecting on whats happening as opposed to what we think sets some strategy for where we want to go as a city. So thats how we are changing it this year, trying to make it more forwardthinking. And there is state legislation as well, sb379 that rerequires we do a Climate Action plan. So you no longer think of hazards as just earthquakes and major things but you have to think about heat and climate and air quality and Sea Level Rise per the states requirement. So it actually fits with what we are doing. The picture here again two years ago when we were doing a lot of our resilience planning work we never thought air quality was going to be an issue. We barely thought heat was going to be an issue. A lot of these things, its a rapidlychanging environment that we are facing. And certainly the 30th anniversary of the one who created one of the buildings in the marina, that has been a big part of our program all along and it will continue to be a part of our program to make sure we are resilient for the next large earthquake. Certainly the seawall applies to that as well. So some of the goals we have, its really to make San Francisco a safer place. Thats really what its about. Reducing risk, advancing partnerships among agencies throughout the bay area but within San Francisco as well. A lot more work around coordination. One anecdote is i think we were looking at how many departments are working on Climate Change or Sea Level Rise, and it was 17 departments are working on it. So just getting San Francisco departments to Work Together is part of what we want to do. Aaddressing inequitable impacts that we know are happening, especially in the Southeast Side of the city, increasing awareness and building capacity. Those are some of the goals. As we are working with the board of supervisors in the Mayors Office we expect some of these goals may change as well. So think about how we put the plan together. These are the hazards the primary hazards the city is face. We are focused only on Natural Hazards so we are not thinking about terrorism, those are addressed in the citys Emergency Response plan. But we are not addressing them in this plan. But you can see theres the geological, the weatherrelated i mentioned to you high wind, as we know with the Public Safety power Shutoff Program thats associated with high wind and dry air and heat. So actually you can have three of these things happening at one time, which can be extreme heat, poor air quality because of fires and winds which contribute to all of it. We have combustion related like fires following earthquakes. And we have pandemics like pandemic flus and Hazardous Materials that are either there and some can be naturally occurring some can be from former shipyards and so forth but some of that can be stirred up after earthquakes or Sea Level Rise or if groundwater goes up, we need to be aware of those issues. In the developing the plan, this is just my way of organizing it. So we understand the hazards. Weve gone through and looked at all the assets the city has. And these are sort of categorized around people Emergency Response, housing business and industry, transportation, utilities parks and open space. We do mention contaminated lands as well, utilities and infrastructure those are the assets that the city has. And then we are looking at how those hazards are going to impact those the vulnerability and consequence assessment. So we combine the two. And now we are able to understand what assets are exposed whats the risk of their exposure. And then whats the consequence of that exposure. What does that mean for the communities what does that mean for equity, the economy for our environment. From there, we are looking at how do we address these issues. And thats the Strategy Development. And thats the phase we are in right now. Weve been in it for several months. And ill talk with you a little bit more about what those strategies look like or how many we have. But this is really been a lot of the work of getting down and meeting with departments and understanding whats in the Strategic Plan and what are you doing that affects resilience or could you do things a little bit differently to think about resilience when you are doing it so it would be broader and have multiple benefits. So while weve been doing this, we also made sure we did Public Engagement. So this started in june and went through early september. And this is sort of prior to submitting the document to fema. So we had workshops about 50 plus communitybased organizations and ten plus local businesses to talk about resilience and hazards and their concerns around those issues. We did a survey. We received 500 or so responses, 500 plus responses from san franciscans asking them questions about how have you been impacted by a hazard. You can see the table on the right what and the heat if we had extreme heat, what types of facility would you be willing to go to . Would you be willing to go to a library or rec center . Or what are your concerns about going to those types of places . You can see in the survey its interesting, that its not surprising the number of people who were exposed to poor air quality and heat, its been a recent issue. But i was surprised you have 15 percent or so that experienced flooding. And we expect those storm flooding events to happen more and more often. So we expect these numbers will go up. And we are going to want to follow up with additional surveys in the future. After we submit to fema in december, and by the way, we are not allowed to have the board fema requires we submit it to them they give conditional approval and then the board gets to vote on it. So thats their process. Once we submit it to fema we want to make sure this is a living plan and not something we tuck in the drawer for five years. But were you going to have a website, we are going to have constant discussion about it. We know theres a real craving for information. They want more information about whats happening about what hazards they may face, what the what the city is doing about it, how we are able to communicate with them before and after an event. What the process is for doing those things and how can they be engaged and part of the process. I think sometimes they feel we are telling them whats going to happen and how they should respond as opposed to working with them to understand how t role they would play in addressing the issues. And then we also i mentioned we would be going back to the board of supervisors with the resolution after fema approves it for them to approve it and then theres a final fema approval. So just quickly, we have over 70 or so strategies right now we are looking at to mitigate risk. They are categorized in three different areas around resilient infrastructure and thats going to involve a lot of the Port Properties and assets, resilient buildings. Again this gets to a lot of the privately owned buildings but also cityowned. And then resilient communities. And those are some of the plans we have around working with communities whether its the neighborhood empowerment programs we have or the neighborhood Emergency Response teams the nurse teams or those types of efforts. And then we really see the citys role in doing these if we are either an asset owner we deliver services, we do a lot of Research Planning and sort of guidance documents. We have Sea Level Rise guidance document we are just updating now. We are doing research on extreme precipitation to understand what types of storms we can expect in the future but we also have adopting and enforcing regulations. So thats where we see the strategies falling into seven different categories so people can understand the citys role and how they can participate. Finally, this just shows the overall timeline of the program. So i mentioned the assessment phase is done where the strategy phase is actually is partially done. We are still doing some Strategy Development is what i would say. And we are in the process right now of drafting the document. In fact in two or three weeks we will have an internal draft out. And then in about three weeks, three to four weeks well have a Public Comment draft that will be available. And then in december well be submitting it to fema. So that was a lot of information. I hope i didnt speak too quickly. But im happy to answer any questions you may have before passing onto adam who will talk about one of the big strategies that the hazard resilience plan is proposing and wants to see moved forward. Thank you. Good afternoon commissioners. Adam from the planning department. And im here to give an update on the Sea Level Rise vulnerability and consequences assessment. Its actually a good thing we had brian start because the hazard and Climate Resilience plan he presented is sort of looking broadly at the climaterelated hazards that are affecting the city. And this work, it started earlier because we were thinking about Sea Level Rise and we werent necessarily as aware of some of the other climate hazards. But it really nests within that. And its sort of a deeper dive into Sea Level Rise as a specific hazard. So just quickly i work for the planning department. I work in the Citywide Planning Division where the city comprehensive or Long Range Planning and policy function. We work on a variety of topics anything from housing to transportation, land use and community plans. We work with the board on a number of those major developments with design and resilience and sustainability. Its all underpinned by the authority of the general plan, which we kind of steward and maintain. So this fits obviously within the resilience bucket. And so im going to talk a little bit about the background on our Sea Level Rise plan. You will have heard some of this before but its sort of a refresher and update. Some of the methodology of what we use to develop this study, youll notice a lot of similarities to the methodology the process that brian just presented. Some of the key findings and some of the specific findings as they relate to Port Infrastructure and then finally a couple of our next steps. So by way of background, in 2015 then mayor convened a group of agencies to form the Sea Level Rise Core Committee to think about the current and future impacts of Sea Level Rise and coastal flooding on the city. It involved a number of agencies. It is chaired by brian strong who just presented, and my boss emery rogers. One of the first kind of products the committee developed was a Sea Level Rise action plan, which came out in 2016. You can see here the vision from that plan to make San Francisco a more resilient city in the face of Sea Level Rise. And that plan also set out a series of steps of what we should be undertaking to help the city become more resilient citywide to Sea Level Rise. So the first step there was to review and understand the science involved in Sea Level Rise. And what we should be expecting and projecting out by the end of the century. We have done that and worked with folks in both the state and our local government to do that. And then the next step is to assess the vulnerability of the city and the risk of the city to Sea Level Rise and what are the consequences. So similar to the hazard in Climate Resilience plan, we are looking at vulnerability and consequences. And thats the report im going to present on today. And we are going to have a final draft and expect to be publishing it within the next month. From there we will be working to develop strategies adaptation plans and strategies in implementing those over time. And as you are probably familiar, working with the port theres already a lot of work in the realm underway even as we continue to have a greater understanding of whats vulnerable and what the risks to the city are. So just a little background, what weve been using in terms of methodology these are Sea Level Rise projections. These come from a 2012 report of what level the Sea Level Rise we should be expecting over the next century or by the end of this century. You can see as time goes on, the range gets wider because less is known about how much carbon the world will emit and what the feedback loops will be. So the ranges of Sea Level Rise get a little wider. And we are looking at an additional 40 or so inches of storm surge and tidal surge. So the upper range we looked although was a Sea Level Rise of 108 inches above knee high water. So thats what our report was based on. And we looked at ten different scenarios within that range from today to 108 inches. Since we were well underway on this report, the state has updated its guidance and revised those ranges. The nearer term wasnt really change. The longerterm ones projected out a wider range including a higher high end which we havent looked at. Its not a huge amount of different area for San Francisco because we are already capturing most of the areas that are former fill areas and the city starts sloping up beyond that. So we are not talking about a significantly different area. But we want to acknowledge the state revised their projection process. So what do we do in this report . We looked at exposure first based on those scenarios and what would be exposed and we looked at the vulnerability of cityowned infrastructure and assets. I should say publiclyowned because theres noncity entities as well. And vulnerability is really a consequence of both the asset sensitivity, an electrical substation would be highly sensitive. A park might be less sensitive. And adaptive capacity, what is the ability of an asset to adapt to flooding or sea level removeable objects are there things that can be doneesly or are they more fixed. And finally we looked at consequences on the economy. This is the same hazards as brian just described. This maps shows the vulnerability zone. This is the area of the city that would be exposed within that 108inch Sea Level Rise scenario. And what the orange circles represent is where there is work underway or active projects that will build Sea Level Rise adaptations into their project. So this shows the city as it is today. But as you know, we are building out a lot of the waterfront, particularly the southeastern waterfront. Projects are building adaptations as well. So this map changes over time as projects get built. Next we looked at vulnerability and consequences across a number of sectors. You can see here utilities, Public Safety infrastructure, transportation across a number of different roads, open space and port facilities and development projects. And we also looked at it we also took a different slice of the same information but its how do these systems interact at a neighborhood level. So we looked at all the neighborhoods in the city that touched on a shoreline and their individual profiles for each of the neighborhoods and how do the different systems that get affected impact each other. So for example if a bridge goes out that impacts other transportation infrastructure and the ability of people to access various different things. Our key findings, these are just numbers of people businesses, jobs and infrastructure at a very basic level of what would be impacted over the ten scenarios you can see its pretty significant. Again, this is with no action by the city. This is if Nothing Happened between today and the end of the century and we didnt do anything, this is what would be impacted. This is to give a sense of the magnitude of the area and whats in the area that would be affected. Of course we are working already on addressing some of these issues. And then we identified a few sort of themes or high level issues that really kind of rose to the top in terms of things we need to be thinking about. So one is sort of transportation impact. Its important to note here that this is both local and regional and requires governance and collaboration efforts from across the city. But it also involves cal train transit terminal major pieces of the infrastructure, the embarcadero station or various yards within the Sea Level Rise exposure zone. The significant loss of shoreline open space, particularly on the eastern side of the city, which is a pretty valuable resource for communities across the city. Its a good amount of area. On the one hand, this is the type of infrastructure that Sea Level Rise can creep up without major disruptions. On the other hand, it is a major resource for people across the city. We talked about new development and the adaptations that some of these Major Projects like mission rock or pier 70 are doing, at the same time the science continues to evolve as we move along in time, well know more about where those curves will go. And we may need to revisit some of the reimers or risks of those developments as well and. And the last two are i think very crucial one is to really think about holistically the joint risk from both overland prescription precipitation flooding where you have at odds needs of what you need to do. With overland flooding you need to let the water out. With coastal flooding you need to keep the water out. So thats become an engineering issue and something to think about in some of our lowlying areas particularly around mission creek. And lastly i think brian alluded to this but as sea levels rise, groundwater levels rise. At some place it may emerge out of the ground and it impacts the potential to mobilize contaminants in formerlyindustrial areas. Its largely an issue in the eastern side of the city. And this is an area we need to do additional research. We dont know all of where the groundwater would rise, and we need to keep looking at that. So for each of the shoreline areas we developed maps like this. This is a lot of information. This is just sort of an example showing the financial district and all the different aspects that are publiclyowned within this district that would be affected. So you are looking at embarcadero, muni station the building we are standing in, some Public Safety buildings, the muni light rail and various piers and port structures. Heres another one from the creek where you have a treatment plant, you have various port cargo facilities. You have a number of muni maintenance and storage yards. You have the bridge over the creek. How do these systems impactinteract with each other. It doesnt happen all at once, it doesnt happen overnight. Although in some cases it could be more stormdriven. In some cases we are seeing flooding today. In the creek you can see the area where the numbers 7 and 8 are by the top, theres a muni yard there and that yard flooded in past year during a minor storm event combined with more higher tied. Tide. These are just a couple examples im showing you today. The last piece is more of a deep dive into the port facilities themselves. So we looked at the port multihazard Risk Assessment for the Seawall Program is looking at the embarcadero facilities. So this report actually is not looking at this. This is looking at the southern waterfront facilities and what would be impacted there. And we looked at it across a number of categories, port structures which is Historic Buildings shipping piers open space, which is self explanatory. Transportation which is varied and the Ground Transportation links to port facilities. A stormwater sewage infrastructure and ongoing adaptation projects. Heres a couple examples of maps we have produced. You can see the faint blue line showing the 108 inches. And you know, the entirety of the jurisdiction is captured within this line. So were really seeing that all the port facilities are potentially at risk from Sea Level Rise and coastal flooding. And so this is showing all the port structures that are there. The map on the right is showing the port open