Transcripts For SFGTV County Commission 20200126

>> please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any person responsible for the bringing of or the use of cellphone, pager, or other device. members of the public have up to three minutes to make comments unless the board commissioner adopts a shorter period on any period. items 8 are not listed on the agenda. >> diane walton. >> hi. my name is diane walton. i'm the president of the dawson club, a swimming and boating club that some of you may be aware of. we've been around for a very, very long time, doing the same sort of thing, swimming and rowing. we're on leased property. we have a lease with the city. the lease was signed in the 1970s and expires in 2020. just for context. it's a really small problem for you guys we think, but we find ourselves in this catch-22 where all we need to do is repair our dock. our dock is an aquatic park. we had sign off from the myriad sources who sign off on things, bcdc and d.b.i. and the city. and then it got to the port and the port asked for evidence that the apron had been approved in the 1960s but it wasn't under your jurisdiction. we've been at this since september. so i just come to you just in hopes that there's a way to break the logjam and know how we can get our dock repaired because that's how we put our boats in the water to protect our swimmers in the water. we hoped to do it last fall at a time when we didn't have very many swims. the swim season is coming up so we get more and more anxious about it. i come to you and hope there is a way to figure out what to do to make it happen. >> thank you very much. i'm sure someone from our staff will reach out to you. >> we will continue to be in contact with you. >> thank you. >> thank you so much for your comments. >> item 9 a election of port commission officers. >> is there any other comment, public comment? >> election of port commission officers. >> okay. >> i would like to open the floor for nominations for the port commission president. >> i would like to nominate chermalee brandon for port commission president. >> are there any other nominations? are there any other nominations? are there any other nominations? [ laughter ]. >> okay. i will call for the vote. all in favour? >> aye. >> i guess it passed. [ laughter ]. >> okay. i'm excited. thank you. [ applause ]. >> thank you. i really appreciate the support of my colleagues. we have accomplished a lot in the last couple of years and we have so much still to do. so i really appreciate the fact that you would like me to continue in this role. i thank everyone for the support. we have one of the best staff here in the city and county of san francisco, so it makes the job so much easier. so thank you, everyone. i look forward to continuing to work with everyone. so now i would like to open the floor for nominations for the vice president of the commission. >> i would like to nominate willy adams as vice president for the commission. >> are there any other nominations? are there any other nominations? are there any other nominations? seeing none, i close the nominations and we will vote. all in favour? ? >> aye. >> any opposed? congratulations, vice president adams. [ applause ]. >> real quickly, i first of all would like to say that i mirror president brandon's comments about the staff here. the staff is world class, very fine. they work very, very, very hard, very, very great work ethic and just due diligence. i would like to thank this commission. i've often said in my seven years on this commission sha this is the best commission in the city pound for pound. everybody has their own opinions, different personalities, but we seem to find a consensus to move forw d forward. victor akris is not here, he's in hawaii. he's really good. doreen is the nuts and bolts. commissioner willman really says her mind and cares. and the queen of the commission, president brandon who's been on this commission for 22 years. i think he's like the consensus of our commission. she tries to find out how to make things work and understand the true purpose of the mechanism of the commission, that we're servants of the community. we serve the community. even though we're appointed by the mayor, we work for this community and we want the best for the city and county of san francisco. we want people to know in this city, if they have no money or a lot of money or they're homeless, this port belongs to them and we have a fiduciary responsibility. so i look forward to working with my commissioners. i can say that -- normally i seem more stressed and worked up, but i spent two weeks? bali. i got some help. i went to a meditation and yoga resort. i got some help. my blood pressure is 120/80 and i'm looking forward to working. >> item 9 b executive director's report. >> good afternoon, president brandon, vice president adams, members of the commission, public, and the staff. i'm elaine forbes. first i would like to congratulate you, president brandon and vice president adams. i know the public gets to see a lot of the good work that you do for the port and making sure the port is a port for everyone and we're doing it right. thank you for all the guidance and mentorship you've given me. i'm excited to continue to work for you both and the whole commission. i cannot speak enough about the work that the commission puts in. the work traveling, the work getting back to people, the work just making sure that the port really puts its best foot forward. we have commissioners that are really, really dedicated to this work. so i thank you so much for that and for all the good guidance and direction you give me and the team. we are truly better for all of the effort you put in. thank you. i can't wait for the next iteration of this partnership. just a real honor to work for the commission. thank you so much. so now i have the bad job and the good job of giving a commendation to mr. dave romular on the occasion of his retirement. dave romular has been with us for 30 years, maybe a little bit more. he joined in march -- more than 30 years, 1992 as the supervisor of the maintenance division plumbing shop. he came to us as a journeyman plumber and immediately became a very well-respected supervisor. he's really revered by staff and tenants alike because he's a problem-solver. he is always providing input to engineering design for our own repairs and for tenant repairs. he initiated the deduct water meters to capture tenant water use for billing. he developed improved back flow maintenance, repair, and replacement programs. he was the lead person on the design and installation of the automated sewer pump controls and supervisor control and data acquisition systems. more recently in his career, he's been very renowned for his photography. he has been asked by rene and now randy to take the perfect shot for our port information. and he has taken many, many beautiful photographs at port events. i understand he has over 80,000 photographs on his website. so he's quite an enthusiast and a very, very good photographer. what stood out for me about dave is that he is good at his job and he enjoys doing it. he is a people person for sure. he takes time to speak with people and assist them and can even tell a quick joke to give laughter in the day. he's a joy to be around. his shoes will be hard to fill and he will be missed by all. i would like to thank you for your dedication and work on the service and we wish you an enjoyable retirement. congratulations to you. [ applause ]. >> would anybody like to comment on dave's retirement? >> good afternoon, commissioners. director forbes. david, thank you for coming. tom cutter, director of maintenance. all of those things, absolutely that's dave. but you know, in the time i've been here, 15 years, the tenants that contact me and speak of dave, when they have an issue, i want to talk to dave. can you send dave down. dave's done it before. i know that he knows what he's doing. [ laughter ]. >> so that was very, very, very comforting to know that, but he's just gotten to know a lot of people. a lot of people know him. they see him, you know, which is really great from the maintenance team is to have somebody that you know is the go-to person for all of your tenants and the folks out in the community. but for me personally because i get a lot of these phone calls in the middle of the night when there's a problem. we get two types of emergencies, electrical and plumbing. dave, no matter what time now for a look at the extended forecast -- time of the night it was, he picked up his phone and came in so he didn't have to disturb an employee on their time off. i know your staff appreciate it. but then i appreciated it because i knew i didn't have to worry about it, it was going to be taken care of. for me it was a comfort and also for everyone at port maintenance. but the thing that really over the last two years that i've noticed, and it's funny because you can get a sense that somebody's getting ready to retire is the way that he mentored his staff. and i was watching it. and the way that he would communicate to me and i could see him communicating with staff and transferring knowledge. because when somebody leaves and they've been here this long, the knowledge that goes out the door with them is always a concern for us. how are we going to capture that and continue with that knowledge going forward. dave embraced that and he took people under his wings and he just taught them what he knew. and i know this is something they did get. i met with him last week. he said, tom, if anything comes up, even in retirement, i will help you with whatever that problem is. david, we're going to miss you, i'm going to miss you, all of the staff are going to miss you. i know the tenants are going to miss you. i know you will be around hanging out. he volunteers down at the jeremiah o'brien. folks will have an opportunity to stay in touch with him. dave, thank you for your service and it's been a joy working with you. [ applause ]. >> good afternoon, director forbes, commissioners. dave, i just want to thank you. i've been with the port a short time. i'm dave's supervisor, the maintenance superintendent. dave and i worked together. it's been a pleasure. that's all i can say. everything tom says is very accurate. but what i really appreciate the most about you, dave, is you supported me. you dressed me down when i needed it, reeled me back, and focused me in the place. i don't see you leaving but migrating out. you'll be around just like the birds of copasrano. you'll be back. congratulations in your new life and i wish you all the best. [ applause ]. >> would anyone else like to comment? >> dave, i may be the only pier 1 staff person here, but i think it's really important for you to know that you leave a legacy with all the photography that you've done and the connections that you've created between the pier 1 and the pier 50 staff that i think set the model for how we want to be, strengthening those collaborations over time, and for the general public as well. i think your medium of photography is the great joiner. i'm very grateful for that and i'm looking forward to the projects that we can do together to perpetuate it and really highlight all the changes that have happened along the waterfront and what's in store for us. thank you. [ applause ]. >> good afternoon, commissioners, director forbes, rich burman with the planning environment team. dave has had my back every step of the way when we've been dealing with regulatory issues. much of what dave and his team take care of is infrastructure that is highly regulated, and a lot of it is waste water infrastructure, things going to the bay. we get notices of violations or someone calls and there's complaints. and dave from the beginning has had an astute awareness of the importance of that. more than that, when i took over my role of regulating these activities, i don't think i knew what a force drain was from a storm drain. dave pulled me aside and with great patience explained these things to me and helped me craft what i needed to do to keep it in compliance. he was the first one to call me if we were going to get into trouble. he helped build a program that has kept us out of trouble for quite a while. as tom said, he has transmitted all that information to his staff. i know going forward we're going to be in really good hands. i just want to say thank you and what an honor it's been. [ applause ]. >> would anybody else like to comment? commissioners. i just want to thank you for your service to the port for so many years. your shoes are definitely going to be hard to fill. we are going to miss you so much at every port event with your camera. i agree with diane, with 80,000 pictures, we have to do something to recognize all those pictures and all that you've seen over the years. thank you so much for everything. we -- >> dave, i have to say something. today was the first time we met, but just listening, you and i have a kinship in the fact that it's an honor -- to be a worker and that's what you are and that's what i am. and to know you, i can just tell your humility as we sit here and hearing about your photography, you're a true renaissance man and the essence of a working-class hero and i appreciate that. and a person doesn't have to have a suit on in our society to be looked up on. you're a person and even your supervisor got up and said you dressed him down when you had to. to say that. i think the greatest thing we can do is tell people what we think of them when they're alive, not when they're at a memorial service, they can't hear it, they're gone. to hear these words from your co-workers and people like that with the respect and admiration, because a lot of time people don't talk. thank you as a commissioner for all that you've done and the light that you've brought to the port. you will keep that candle going and inspire people all over the world. i appreciate you being a humble man. to me from what i can see, you're truly a class act. thank you so much. [ applause ]. >> so we have a small token of appreciation for over 30 years of dedicated service in the maintenance division plumbing shop of the port of san francisco, 27 of those years as supervisor. also for the many years of historical photography and contributions to the annual calendar, best wishes for much happiness and good health in your retirement. june 1989 to january 2020. [ applause ]. >> i just want to thank everyone who helped me do my job. i got the best crew. it's the best place. thank you for letting me take my camera. thank you very much. [ applause ]. >> congratulations to you, dave. the final item i have is a happy announcement that we have released the request for proposals on pier 38 and 40 as of friday, january 10. as the commission well knows and just to reiterate for the public, the development opportunity at piers 38 and 40 really presents a unique opportunity to bring back to life one of a kind extraordinary piers in an extraordinary location. the port's goal is to provide visitors access to these piers, greater access to the bay, and a vibrant and diverse experience on port facilities. due to our responsibility to safeguard the embarcadero district, we see this as the perfect time for investment in these facilities, both to ensure these public amenities and ensure seismic and sea level rise resilience that can be enjoyed for years to come. this is a draft waterfront plan update process. a successful respondent and project will improve the piers as i just mentioned. the r.p. is available at the port's website. sfport.com/piers. respondents to the r. -- the responses to the r.f.p. are due march 4, 2020, at 4:00 p.m. we look forward to working with potential respondents, the community, stakeholders, and advancing this important project with our commission. that concludes my report. thank you. >> thank you. is there any public comment on the executive director's report? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> item 10 a, request approval of the trust exchange agreement with the california state commission that would remove the public trust from certain streets and impose it on fisherman's wharf with a general plan and the priority of policies with the planning section 101.1 and authorizing the port executive director to execute documents, make certain modifications, and take certain actions in furtherance of this resolution. >> president brandon, commissioners, director forbes, my name is byron rhett. i'm chief operating officer for the port. staff is recommending an approval of trust exchange between the port and city and state lands regarding trans bay and fisherman's wharf street. in particular, if approved the trust exchange would facilitate the consolidation of the trans bay transit site and implementation of a plan to strengthen a substructure for the millennium towers. in 2001 the trans bay joint towers authority was created for the purpose of constructing the trans bay center. so the trans bay center encroaches on the airspace of two streets, freemont and biel streets in the trans bay area. and the city, because of that, is seeking to acquire the air and subsurface rights for those streets as it relates to the trans bay structure and the train box so that the city can create a single legal parcel for the trans bay center site. in addition, the city is asking to acquire portions of mission and biel street to facilitate the construction of a retrofit for the millennium tower residential project at 301 mission street. this street, mission, freemont, and biel are former state submerge lands granted to the city through the burden act in 1968. the burden act prohibits the city from conveying permanent interests in these granted lands, but the burden act restrictions can be lifted with the authorization of the state lands commission which relates to the exchange we were discussing. so in cal trans conveyed the terminal site to the tjpa in 2010 the trans bay joint powers authority to construct the terminal. but when the property was transferred to the tjpa, it didn't include the air rights for these streets. so the transit center was completed in 2018. with the completion of the transit center, the city is now interested in conveying the air rights and the air and subsurface rights of the streets to the city. also -- to complete the site, but also to allow for the retrofit of the millennium towers project. so briefly about trust exchange itself. under state law, the city has the authorization to convey city property that has the trust imposed on it to transfer that property out of the trust if it includes -- if it transfers in other property, city property, it does not have the trust imposed on it. but to be able to do that, the city must make findings of -- related to that transfer. in particular, it must determine that the property is no longer needed for the trust, that it had been filled at one point, and that the property is cut off from the waterfront. we believe that those requirements are satisfied related to this property. the other very important aspect of the authorization to make that transfer of property these streets, the transfer of streets, out of the trust is that the property being transferred into the trust has a value that's equal to or greater than the property that's being transferred out. so the property that's proposed to be transferred into the trust is portions of streets at hide, bay, and beach. i just want to show you a map of the properties proposed to be transferred out of the trust in the trans bay area and the properties to be transferred into the trust in the fisherman's wharf area. so these are the proposed streets to be transferred out of the trust, that is biel, freemont, portions of biel and freemont that have the trust imposed on them and you can see the outline of where the trans bay center is constructed. and then the streets in green are the streets to be transferred into the trust, and these are adjacent to the fisherman's wharf area and provide the public access to the bay. so related to the value of these streets, there has been a preliminary appraisal completed that supports that the value of the propertyies going into the trusts of 153,000 square feet is greater than the value of the property that's coming out of the trust at 143,000 square feet. but the staff recommendation for this exchange is really based on the fact that the square footage of the property going into the trust is greater than that coming out. the preliminary appraisal will be completed before the trust exchange is considered by the board of supervisors and the state lands commission. and related to environmental review, on december 27, 2019, the planning commission published the final mitigated leg of declaration for the millennium tower permit or pile upgrade project, including the proposed permitted easement. so the planning department following the publishing of the mitigated negative declaration adopted secret findings and approved the proposed mitigation monitoring program. following the planning commission's actions, the board of supervisors followed suit and also adopted the secret findings and approved and endorsed the mitigation monitoring program for the millennium tower improvements. so finally, the city is requesting that the port commission approve the trust exchange. the staff supports their requests and the approval of the trust exchange. and if you were to approve the exchange, the board of supervisors land use committee scheduled to consider the trust exchange at its january 27 meeting, the full board would consider the exchange at its february 4 meeting, followed by the state lands commission considering the exchange as well in february, though that date has not been set for that state lands commission hearing. i'm joined by john malamut from the city attorney's office as well as the port's city attorney michelle sexton. that completes my presentation. we're available to answer any questions you have. >> thank you. >> so moved. >> second. >> is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner gillman. >> nothing that see changed since the information we had a month or two ago? >> no, no, this is the same. >> so i have no questions. i'm supportive of the item. >> i have no questions. i support the item. >> vice president adams. >> i'm supportive. byron, good to see you up on the mic again. >> i think it's great that we can do whatever we can to support the retrofit of the millennium towers. this is a great effort. i have one question regarding the maps, how come we own the streets, but not the land that the streets are surrounding? >> maybe i can turn to ... >> john malamut from the city attorney's office. i'm going to give this a try. i'm not a trust specialist. my understanding is a lot of this area that was involved in the burton act, the actual lots had been developed on and removed from the trust over time since the early filling of the bay. so when you look at the map, just the street -- residual street areas that followed the original shoreline remain in the trust. >> thank you. just a question. >> all in favour? >> aye. >> resolution 20.01 has been approved. >> item 10 b request approval for proposed new street names, first street plank road and extension of street grid located at sea wall at 337, china base and channel, 3rd street and rock street. >> good afternoon. president brandon, congratulations. congratulations vice president adams. rebecca mancinni. pleased to be before you. the next item has mission rock as well. i'm sure they will introduce their whole team. i note the resolution before you today is regarding street names at mission rock. i'm sad john malamut left. he is our council person. >> he's still here. >> i'm glad you're saying. don't correct anything i say. you all have quite a lot of experience at mission rock. we have been working on this project since 2008. the latest action the port commission took was in september 2019, when the port commission approved the phase one budget. the phase one is shown here. it consists of four buildings, two commercial, two office, ground floor retail, 5.2 acres of park. project infrastructure that encompasses about 5.5 city blocks, going down to the water at pier 48 and then the two streets that will come up to the open space area. we are right now doing testing on this site. the light-weight cellular concrete testing is taking place on lot a. it's about a 25-foot space. that construction test is being completed this week. so we're really gearing up in terms of testing and preparing for phase one. i wanted to also provide an update of where we are in terms of local business enterprise contracting. we last reported on these numbers as of -- in november dating back to july 1. to date the team has completed about a 15% l.b. participation. your printed document in front of you i had 19% and that was my typo. i'm sorry about that. this number fluctuates between 14% and 19%, depending on change orders coming in. the current number is 15% as of the date of this staff report. this represents about 5% of the total project cost, as we're going through horizontal construction. we're working diligently to get mission rock to their committed 20% goal for the construction phase of the project. these improvements we anticipate will begin towards the end of january. that will be site preparatory types of work and then by february/march they will be in full-scale construction. i wanted to also mention we had a meeting yesterday with commissioner brandon and adams and the team which was a helpful meeting. we have a much better understanding of the work that mission rock is doing to reach out to local enterprises, the staff they've brought on, and even since that meeting i met with my supervisor, mike martin, about how we can commensurately match their staff and we've identified one of my staff who can attend their general contractor meeting on a monthly basis and i will be attending on a quarterly basis depending on mine and phil's schedule. so i think this is a really good check-in time and we will be ramping up in a very committed way to track all of this in a more consistent way. there are six streets in mission rock. when we go forward for the map of the project, we will not that i can all of these streets. the map hasn't been introduced. it will be introduced to the board after you all take an action relative to the names. most of the names are extensions of the existing street grid, terry francois, long bridge, bridgeview way, are all extensions. there are two new names proposed for the site. those are plank road, which is this blue road right here, and then spur street, which is the road that goes out to pier 48. those are the streets -- spur street is fully constructed and in phase one and plank road will be partially constructed. the two new street names were proposed by the project proponent. one of them in particular, spur street, has been mentioned at public meetings where the port and mission rock have spoken to community members and it's been mentioned as a potential name of course to reference the site's history as a rail yard which occurred -- dating back to the late 1800s through the mid-1900s. this is a shot of the site from i think the 1960s. plank road is a historical reference that goes back even farther. it references the previously constructed mission plank road, which is a toll road that went across the cove and connected mission delores across mission bay, which was subsequently filled in. the process for -- we don't name very many new streets here, so i put this together with our chief harbor engineer in terms of what the process would be, unlike renaming a street which has a different process because you need to notify people who are going to be affected by the new street name. the only person to notify is the port. in proposing the street names, we go to public works. they're bureau street mapping ensures these names are going to be unique identifiers for emergency response. and for mailing, they have found to be compliant. we presented these names as part of an update to the sea wall and didn't receive any negative responses. we are now at the port commission. if you are all supportive of the name, we would bring this to the board with a final map. the final map is anticipated to be before the board the first or second week of february, depending on how everything goes. and the final map is a really important milestone. it allows us to go forward with the c.s.d.f. formation, the community facilities district formation, for the final map where we can start taxing those parcels. the final map is a predecessor to the street improvement permit, which is a permit public works will issue to allow the phase one infrastructure to be constructed. it also predates the four phase one parcel leases. so the final map is a very important milestone for the project. so with that, i will conclude my presentation and be available for any questions. >> thank you. >> so moved. >> second. >> is there any public comment on this item? seeing none -- oh, somebody's coming up. >> good afternoon, executive director forbes, president brandon, and commissioners. my name is bruce aged. i provided public comment several times over the past few years and i'm here today to support the items associated with the mission rock development. for identification purposes, i'm a native san franciscan, a ten-year resident of mission bay, and a transportation rep of the mission bay neighborhood association. over the past eight years, i've had the opportunity, along with my neighbors, local businesses, and community leaders, some of them for up to a dozen years, to be involved in the planning process for the mission rock development. this included providing feedback on a variety of public documents and had various community meetings and workshops. together we shared our insights and provided input on this project, which will help transport this part of the eastern waterfront into a vibrant and complete community, good for us as neighbors, community, and city. by plan, we have and will have many wonderful parks in mission bay. with that said, the waterfront park as part of mission rock will be a real jewel. the mission rock team did a great job incorporating our values and why theys incorporating a number of unique spaces engaging and interacting with the water and the level of community involvement continued as we were again welcomed back to the park in october to give our feedback on the park and programming. today seeing the construction fences up in parking lot a and knowing prep work is in progress is such a welcomed sight. please approve the elements in this item allowing the mission rock development to move forward. >> thank you. is there any other public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> thank you. thank you for the report and all the research. i really don't have any questions. i think it makes sense that obviously the only question that i have, which you've answered, how the names were chosen and since there's historic linkage and legacy that we're linking them to, that makes sense. so i look forward to the continuing of the development of mission rock. >> commissioner gillman. >> same here. i'm supportive of the item. >> vice president adams. >> well, my only issue is with phil -- i see you hiding back then. there are five names missing from these streets -- [ indiscernible ] -- with that being said, i support. [ laughter ]. >> rebecca, thank you for this presentation and for all the work that went into it. thank you again for mentioning the conversation that we had yesterday and how we have all come together to make sure that this project is successful and that we keep the community involved with every aspect of the build out. i think this could be a pilot for other projects that we have because i think it's a really great team structure, to be a very successful project, so thank you. all in favour? >> aye. >> resolution 20.02, has been approved. >> item 11 a, request approval of the schematic design for china base park for phase one of the mission rock project sea wall at 337 on 3rd street, mission rock street, and san francisco bay as consistent with the developments of the disposition agreement [ indiscernible ] -- and the mission rock design control. >> good afternoon, president brandon and members of the commission. dan hoodack with the port planning commission. it's my pleasure to present the schematic design of china basin park. that's what it's currently known as. who knows in the future. for the commission's consideration and importantly provide the commission the opportunity to review the proposal. this presentation relies somewhat on the background information of the previous item. so i won't go through and repeat the approvals that have taken place and the actions, but they're very related. if you have questions about that, there's many of us here. those of us from the development team here are fran wells, who will be doing the bulk of this presentation. heather tuzala who has been reporting a number of items. heather krou, and brian watson from the port of san francisco staff here. the china basin park open space is the largest of the open spaces for mission rock, with the street extensions it's about 5 acres. the other -- and that's what's the subject of today's consideration. other open spaces in the area are mission rock square which is that dark green space right in the middle. there is the channel open spaces, channel street, channel lane, channel wharf, which are the dark green approximately in the middle of that drawing on the screen, and the pier 48 apron. those public spaces will be part of further phases as we go forward and they will come back to at that point in time. public review has been a major part of the development of these, really stretching back years into the concept design for it and the approvals for the project. and then much more intensely during the past several months. on october 1, the mission rock team opened an open house with approximately 150 attendees at the ballpark, very well attended. then it was presented to the central waterfront advisory committee on october 16. then there was a design review session on october 18. per that disposition development agreement set up in the project, the port director set up a design review committee, that this design review committee is to review pier 70 and the mission rock project and they reviewed it on november 18. the purpose of that review was to determine consistency with the design controls set up for the project. this was done jointly with dcdc's department. they requested further info on several areas, notably the play area which you'll see more of, the title planting and beach waterfront area, the café building and details of the site circulation, how it accommodates all of the users that use our public spaces today. the development team has agreed when the design progresses into this more detailed level to present this info at a future design advisory meeting for review and input. if there are any significant changes, it would come back to the commission. that's not what we anticipate seeing. it's more refinements of attaining quality and maintainability within the site. they've expressed their intention to continue to work with staff in the community to create the best possible public space. staff in the design advisory committee believe this proposal is consistent with the development controls, which is reflected in the resolution for your consideration. next steps for the project, in addition to the future design advisory review, include the commission's consideration of a parks and open space operation, management, and concession agreement, which will come before you in the coming months. with that, i'm going to turn it over to fran wells, who is going to present all the detail and fun facts. >> thank you, dan. thank you, president brandon, vice president adams, and commissioners. my name is fran well. and i'm very happy to be here today to talk to you about the schematic design for china basin park and the plans that lead you there. i'm joined by my team and partners. as you know, projects of this scale require many, many people, but i just wanted to acknowledge my partners with me julian pancrose, heather drezala [ indiscernible ] -- and i'm hoping you guys can all just stand briefly as you're able to acknowledge the hard work of that crew. many of you know jack bayer who is unable to be with us and he sends his best regards and we send him a speedy recovery because he's ready to get to work on this aspect of the project. we view china basin park, as i know many of you do, as a crown jewel of this part of the waterfront. it's really a linking feature between the northern embarcadero and the southern waterfront that is evolving as we speak. it is the focal point of mission rock, and particularly of the phase one of development. so this rendering that you've seen many times focuses on this incredible 5-acre park which is right in front of phase one and the four buildings that we're building. the site is directly across china basin from oracle park, from the ballpark, and really is the entrance point to mission rock from downtown san francisco. it's part of an increasing amount of public space that's been built in this neighborhood over the past decade. bruce mentioned this in his kind remarks. mission bay has delivered more public space as per capita than the rest of the city in order to overcome an industrial legacy of this part of town, being relatively low in terms of green space, acreage per capita. so mission rock continues that trend and legacy and china basin park is a big part of making sure that our neighbors and our community have natural resources and access to the environment and the outdoors. today there is a small linear park along the water's edge. the site is really dominated by this sense of expansion and the views that you get when you're standing on this site and the connection to the water, to the bay, which is so relevant to many of the projects that you all do. china basin park has many masters. we've looked at this as really an intersection and a coming together of multiple different goals for the public use. first and foremost, increasing access to the waterfront for the public is the primary goal and doing that with environmentally sensitive and responsible design always at a forefront. those are kind of our two biggest goals. we have an outward and a social space. we also have community needs. we want to be looking at recreation. and also an acknowledgement that this site is used by frankly millions of people per year in terms of infrastructure along the bay trail and to the south and central waterfront. a lot of priorities for the space. this image will look familiar to you. the commission approved this in our entitle program several years ago. what we'll be here looking at today should seem familiar. it's really just an evolution of the concept that we have talked about and looked at in the past. 4.4 acres for china basin park, when you add in the paseos, we're looking at 5 acres of open space. the design has been geared towards creating a diversity of different experiences, from unique tidal shelves which you see on the northern part of this site which i'll go into in more detail to a lawn and a promenade along the building front, we've really got into detail of how does a person use this site, how does a person experience china basin park when they're here on a day-to-day basis. the programs that we have have been put into place looking at, in particular, the aadjacencies of the different parks. this slide may be a little bit hard to read, i'm sorry about that, but we've gone through a day in the life of somebody who is using china basin park and thought about what would they need. looking at if we have a family play area, the restroom should be close by to that. if we have a kayak launch where folks are getting launch to the water, we'll put a picnic area near to that. you can imagine someone coming down and spending a day on the water and having those two experiences. so the evolution of the site that was more programmatic, today it's about putting those programs together, making sure that the adjacencies work and that the infrastructure that each of these uses require is accounted for in our designs and our budgets. china basin park also plays a very important role for the entirety of mission rock in terms of our sea level rise and resiliency strategy. we have three primary bands of elevation here, going from the 98-foot elevation all the way up to 104. and 104, as you probably recall, is the elevation that the interior of mission rock will be located at. so china basin park is a transition zone for us and the uses and the plantings have been designed in order to achieve this important sea level rise resiliency. i can't present this slide without mentioning karin woods. this is a karin woods memorial slide. it is our park phasing plan. and you will see here that we are delivering everything that is shown in pink shown in china basin park in the first phase. we're holding off on the water access to a future phase because that's tied into some of the pier 48 work and that design is yet to come. so everything you see here, this grand gesture, the welcoming, the waterfront access being part of the project team's commitment to the first phase, we're really very excited about. so now i'll walk you through just a few of the specific elements and provide some detail. again, this is the schematic design, so we don't have exact species or materials selected, but we have much more concrete direction than we had before. the site has two main plaza areas. this is the center plaza. and we have also what we call a handshake plaza. these are spots where we need to be able to accommodate and a large number of people as they're moving through the site and getting up onto a dual bridge. then we're also looking at how do we make this experience unique? so we have introduced a lifted grove into the center of the site. i guess this is showing here, but i don't know if you can quite see it on your screens. there we go. this will provide sort of an area of respite in the middle of this busy corner of the park, you can get up into this lifted grove. you will see the trees that we're thinking about there are beautiful, almost sculptural trees. they will be an intimate and beautiful one raised above the plaza below. we also have, as many of you know, a little bit of a wind issue on this corner. the prevailing winds in the summertime come from the west down the creek. so we have a few strategically located groves of trees there to act as wind breaks for the whole rest of the china basin park. we're stepping up the elevation from china basin to the building's edge, and in doing so there are several opportunities for unique seating and areas to pause and dealing with that stepping in a way that we actually turn a sea level rise challenge into a recreational -- not recreational, a public opportunity. the central plaza, just to orient you, what you're looking at is on the north side of building g, this is in the middle of the site. this is a central plaza that almost is a living room of china basin park. it's where the bay trail comes in and meets the food and beverage building. it's where the lifted grove comes back down into the elevation of the park. it's where the coastal gardens and access to the waterfront is pulled further south. so we see this as being a really central gathering area. we're looking at different paving opportunities and options along the ground plain of this plaza to indicate that it's a special, unique space. we're also looking at different areas. this is just a placeholder really for that food and beverage pavilion. but there's some very fun ideas that we're exploring around tucking that food and beverage pavilion under some of the raises in our lawn which i'll go into in the future and being able to create an incredible experience where the infrastructure and the natural environment are integrated together into one. the paseos are pedestrian only in between the buildings, in between the residential and the office buildings. we have two paseos. they have been designed -- they're largely infrastructure. it's almost like an extension of the street, but we want the park to feel like it's coming down into this. so we're knitting together the feeling of a street with a park. again they're pedestrian, but they're protected areas. they do serve as important emergency vehicle access for the park, but they're designed to feel welcoming and almost an extension of the park. you see here an image which is looking right into one of the residential buildings and how we have the public area and the staircases and access to the lobbies and to the public parts of the building, very integrated with the design of the park. so these things are working together and, in fact, our design teams meet often together to make sure that we don't have any issues in terms of coordinating those. this is a bird's-eye view of the two paseos. well, the shared public way which is now officially called plank road. is it official yet? so on the left, plank road, and on the right bridgeview way. and you see how we have important infrastructure elements, but we're integrating with the park design. the promenade of the buildings is another important piece of this, again for infrastructure. some of our utilities are under that promenade, but we want to make sure it's integrated into the design of the park itself. and the cross-section that you'll see here in front of building a, you get a sense of that lifted grove coming back and then lifting up into the promenade and in front of building g into our grand lawn. the promenades will also be lined with retail, so we may have some café tables and chairs outside. the great lawn is a key feature of this site that has remained very much at the forefront of the design in terms of providing a recreation opportunity that's currently missing and that's part of the waterfront and celebrating the incredible views of the bay. we've designed it to be a little bit more multi-use process. the grading allows for flexible public programming and events. you can imagine a pick-up soccer game during the middle of the day. when night falls, you can put up a screen and have a movie night for the community. the left-hand or the western part of this lawn is also what i was mentioning we are looking at. that will be pulled up a little bit and we can tuck that food and beverage pavilion underneath that. really an incredible layering of view quarters that come from the different elevations of the park, as you see by this section. our stormwater gardens has been consolidated and brought together into the eastern part of the site. this is an incredible resource. environmentally all of the stormwater runoff will be treated here. so these are performing infrastructure. and we have designed to allow for these boardwalks that walk over, perch over the stormwater gardens. it's important that there's not public access inside of them because they are performing important work, but that we get a sense of connection to them and we can use this as an educational opportunity telling a story around environmentally and sustainably designed. there is a dog run also here for many fun afternoons. and the knuckle wharf and the pier water access as well that comes off of pier 48 has been integrated here. this also is the start of where the bay trail comes from the terry francois condition into china basin park. so ensuring that we have enough right of way so that we can have multiple different types of uses on that bay trail and ensuring it's well signed is a big goal of this corner intersection and entrance to the park. finally i'll touch on the coastal gardens. they're my favourite feature and they're new from when we may have last reviewed the park ideas around design together. this is the long china basin, the northern part of this site, across from the ballpark. and we see this idea that san francisco is a city on the bay, but there's only a couple of places you can actually access the bay as a person. a lot of the parts of the waterfront you're raised up on the sea wall, on the soon to be newly done sea wall, and you feel a little bit disconnected from the water itself. we asked ourselves can we provide an area at china basin park where you can actually get down and experience that water, experience what it means to be a bay city? so the tidal shelf -- and this is just a picture of a lot of the activities that do go on inside china basin today, they have to be pre-planned, you can't assemble on the waterfront. you have to know that you're going down and make the plan to take the boat and get out there. the idea was creating a family friendly and easy-to-access part of the waterfront here. we want it on the northern side because we're sloping down towards the water. it's also well protected from wave action. so this is a nice entry point to the water. so we have tidal shelves that go down at different elevations. they'll experience tidal pools, they'll experience different tides of water at different times of the day and they'll enter into a coastal garden and a teach area. we're still working out the details around that material to make sure it's safe and accessible, but the general idea is that we're sloping back down into the water here. the plantings there will be focused around saline tolerant planting and the incredible thing is that we've seen through these types of project, the reintroduction of native habitat and species because we've seen the type of habitat that they rely on. even different elevations in a couple of feet of the tidal shelves, you'll see vastly different species populating those areas. pretty ecological work here and we think an opportunity for education and for telling the story of the waterfront. this is a few of those tidal shelves from the bay shelf. that is my presentation. my team and i are available for any follow up. >> thank you. >> so moved. >> second. >> there is public comment. shelly carol. >> hello, director forbes, president brandon, commissioners. i am shelly carol. i've been living in this area for 20 years. i've been going to many meetings. i want to complement the port and the giants for giving us the opportunity to be part of this for ever. i enthusiastically support the project and hope for your vote for that and remember. >> and you're a giants fan? [ laughter ]. >> bruce. >> my name is bruce aget and you can tell i'm very much in support of this item, so much so that i provided my public comment early. so on item 10 instead of item 11 a. so with that said, with all due respect to port staff, the commission, to members of the attendees here, the public here, i'll just pass on my comments and not go through them again. but, please, i am definitely in support of this item to move this development forward. >> thank you. is there any other public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner gillman. >> thank you, fran, the mission rock team, and staff. this was a very thorough presentation. i have one macro question about the stormwater garden and meckling wharf. the grading that we're seeing on here, will people be walking on that? i know it's a very in-the-weeds question. >> the grading -- >> when you look at the slide, all the shading that's gray, i assume that's in the circle. >> right, yes. the gray area, the concept is a boardwalk that will be accessible by the public. >> so my only comment and maybe i'm the only person who has shown up in your games in high heels, i've gone flying when my heels get caught in grating all over the financial district. there is grating you can put in that won't do that so it's safe for everyone to walk on. >> thank you. well noted. i'm wearing my only pair of heels today. >> i get caught in the bridge all the time. >> yes, the bridge. >> i'm so enthusiastic for this project to move forward and the activation and the open space. this is great for the existing community. this will be wonderful for the office workers and the new residents that are moving in. thank you again for having the housing in phase one. i can't keep thanking you for that and it's a benefit for all of san francisco, so i'm supportive of the item. >> thank you. >> commissioner. >> i have to say this has been a very exciting and a very comprehensive presentation. i think that we want to thank the giants for putting this forward. i think it's going to make it exciting to have this whole park. i listened to your presentation and listened to the absolute detail in terms of thinking about the division of the park, the various constituents, the various -- and i think during the times of day who will be there, that it will change. you have morning joggers who want to come through the bay trail and it will be a different trail throughout the day and you will have dog walkers. i wasn't sure if it would be pet friendly until i saw the dog run. are you going to have little dog waters holes at their level. i think that you're going to have your dog walkers, the families come out at certain times, the office workers. i have to commend you for really thinking through all the different demand levels and the different times of the day. and i like the fact that you have -- it's not a flat park, that it does have its different levels so it will be interesting. i think it's going to be one of the most exciting parts that we have seen not just for the city, but this is an award-winning park once you execute it. so i really am very excited to see how much work has gone into it, particularly since this is a public benefit. we know it's very important. the idea that we can have a lot of activation which we talked about early on, not just in terms of developing a green lawn and leaving it and saying there it is, but there will be continued activation, particularly what you did with your popoff and how you introduced that concept to the neighborhood will be well utilized. i think everyone is very excited and you will attract a lot of tourists. it won't just be for the local neighborhood, but this will be one of the most innovative parks we've seen in a long time. i am very excited and look forward to seeing this executed. >> vice president. >> i think my commissioners have said what i felt. but i will say clearly to the team, great work. this is due diligence. what i really like about this, this is visionary. this is cutting edge. what we're seeing happening in front of us is a new san francisco. you're shaping the future and taking us to a new place we've never been to. you mentioned karin, and i'm so glad you mentioned karin because she was the conscience of this commission because she was also here, but also to the late mayor lee and how he thought and felt about this. to see this thing come to fruition, but the due diligence that the team has done, the nuts and bolts, i tell you this will change the culture of san francisco. and as i said before, if anybody wants to do business in san francisco, they need to look at the giants' model of inclusion. >> fran and dan, thank you very much for this report. this was wonderful. very detailed, very exciting with china basin park and crane cove park coming online, they're going to be great additions and bringing people to the waterfront. thank you so much for this. just a couple questions. when you did the public review and you had the community open house and the seawall presentation, what were the comments? were they all favorable or were there any concerns? >> i was on maternity leave, so i'm going to ask one of my colleagues to join me. roscoe or julian, would you like to join me? >> congratulations on the new baby. >> hi, good afternoon. executive director roscoe maps. at the open house we had invited the public to comment on some design. we had them comment on the programming they would like to see in the different areas. we set up the open house so that the general area had different stations that reflected the unique areas that fran had anticipated. so with each area, the general public got an opportunity to comment on specifics. some of the things we had heard were excitement about yoga classes and being able to touch the water. there was some questions about how we're going to manage the park, a little bit about security. there were a couple of questions and comments about tents and encampments that we're experiencing city wide and how we were going to handle those. they were all really, really helpful as we continue to think through this park. >> right. is there any intention to do a presentation before the flat? >> we would be happy to. >> i'm just wondering why we haven't. >> we would be happy to. >> i think it would be great to include everyone along the southern waterfront who will be able to enjoy this park. >> i agree with you. >> who is on the design advisory committee? >> i believe we did go to the swac on this. >> we have. we went to the swac to provide an overall in-depth view of the entire project. >> but not the park specifically. >> we talked about the park, but not in this [ indiscernible ] -- >> thank you. >> commissioner dan heart. the members pointed out when the open house was up, all the advisory groups were invited to that. so it was an inclusive meeting where everybody gets to hear and see what everybody is saying, and i commend the giants to that approach. so there was some good outreach done on that. the advisory design committee pulls from the waterfront design advisory committee which is set up, but it doesn't cover this area. it stays north of china basin the way it's laid out in the city planning code. the members on this one are marsha maiden, katherine lor, chris wosney, and jimmy chan. i believe we had three of the five available and we hope to have all five when we look at the further design details of it which are a natural progression of going through a design process. >> they were pulled from where? >> three were pulled from the waterfront design committee. jimmy chan and chris wozney are new. two of the five come from the waterfront design advisory committee and the committee was supported by our executive director. >> and the other two came from? >> knowing people in the community who have participated. i think chris wozney was with the central waterfront advisory group. jimmy chan is a landscape architect locally and laura kresenamo did the urban design for development for pier 70 and is a well-known voice and also participates in some other contracts with port. >> great. thank you. >> i want to highlight one thing i want to comment on, and that is i want to commend you for the biodiversity effort near the tidal stream areas. i think we're all very sensitive now in terms of understanding environment and the fact that you are picking on the biodiversity of plants that thrive in san francisco is great and i thin it is an educational opportunity as you mentioned. i hope that gets mentioned so people can come to the park to understand that. and you'll have some explanation there for people to see the biodiversity because that's becoming a more popular thing to be focused on. >> thank you, yes. and jeffry miller who is here from our associate landscape architect spent a lot of time on this, even down to the organisms that thrive in the bay mud, you can go deep on biodiversity. >> did anyone from the community ever say anything about congestion and how we deal with congestion? were there any concerns raised about that? because that is a problem in our city, congestion, right, and traffic flow. did anyone say anything about th that? i'm sure you worked with the different agencies and stuff like that, but how is it going to flow? >> i can take a shot and please add if i miss anything. so in the recent outreach that's been focused on the schematic design for china basin park, i don't think that's come up specifically. but certainly over the years as we've talked about developing here and in this part of town, accessibility and circulation has been a topic of conversation. in recent years with the third street bridge under construction and closed for substantial parts of many weeks, it gets even heightened. so it's definitely something that the neighborhood is aware of. i think that the focus on pedestrian bicycle circulation and focusing on different modes of transportation that can help alleviate some of the congestion that's on the streets is helpful in terms of mission rock. and then also when we look at congestion, it can often be -- it kind of means a whole number of things, right. it's an umbrella for just sort of ease of access and getting around. so the way we've designed our streets which have general dropoff and loading areas. so if there is a car, a ride share that you're in, it can pull off out of traffic, it can get off the street for a safe access point. all of these details of the design alleviate congestion so cars aren't double parked on third street. it is something we talked to and that our design responds to. roscoe is more up-to-date on that. >> actually, when we were at swac, the question of traffic and coninvestigation came up as a concern for the community. we walked them through our entire program and mitigation measures that we're looking to do. one of the things we've done early is hire a transportation director to start looking at these things in depth. over time we will implement a lot of these mitigations that we talked about in our documents. >> i would like to follow up just to know -- because you're talking about street and street congestion and what to do about that with bicycles and pedestrians. within the mission rock, maybe you can refresh our memory in terms of what you will have, in terms of water landings and maybe not at this scale of ferry, because there are other things going on, but in terms of smaller craft water landings and taxi landings and the plan for that. that can help, even in the immediate vicinity, particularly people coming from the ferry building working at mission rock, maybe they can find another way to get there instead of surface transportation. what are the plans in that regard? >> absolutely. i agree that water access is an untapped resource. the public dock that is on my screen right now, i'm not sure if it's showing on your screens, it will come off of the knuckle wharf in pier 48. that will be a lower-level dock more for a water taxi vessel. the rehabilitation at pier 48 will serve for larger vessels such as ferries and the temporary ferry facility at 48 has been a step in that direction. we're adding on a new level of dock here so it can be used for things like a water taxi service or personal, small craft. >> any other questions? all in favour? >> aye. >> resolution 20.03 has been approved. >> 12 a request authorization to advise for competitive business for construction contract new brunswick 2813, 19th street extension and georgia street.net extension and georgia street.on street extension and georgia street.lnew brunswick 2813, 19t street extension and georgia street.new brunswick 2813, 19th street extension and georgia street.no. new brunswick 2813, 19th street extension and georgia street. b extension and georgia street. 2813, 19th street extension and georgia street. >> everybody's leaving. [ laughter ]. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is erica peterson and i'm the port manager for the crane project. i'm here to request authorization to request construction -- sorry. we're here to request authorization to advertise construction contract 2813 which is 19th street extension and georgia street construction, which is part of the overall crane project. in this presentation i will talk about how this contract meets the port's strategic objective, climate change, a bit about the background, discuss the scope, budget and funding, local business enterprise goals, versus v.b.e. goals, and the proposed schedule. this contract supports the goals of the port's strategic plan as follows. the project will extend the blue-greenway by constructing a sidewalk and bike path connecting 20th street to crane co park. it will provide accesses to the main plaza of the pier 70 shipyard. the federal funding for this contract does not allow for local business requirements, but the project promotes living wage jobs by requiring the contractor to participate with disadvantaged business enterprises. i'll talk a little bit more about that. the overall crane cove park design include best management practices for stormwater management and energy-efficient lighting. the project will provide new and approved access along with providing improved access to the pier 70 area. the funding for this comes from an external source grant. the roadway is designed to remain functional for up to 28 inches of sea level rise. this contract is part of the larger crane cove park project that you are all very well aware of. it's been split up into five construction projects. the end product will be the park which includes building 49, a parking lot, and then this road. contract 1 and 4 in the table on the slide have been completed. contract -- package 2 is currently under construction and anticipated to be complete this spring. this is number 3 in the slide. contract 5 was bid in may of 2019 and the bids were rejected. the strategy for building 49 has been to value engineer and reduce the scope in order to lower the costs. and more detail on the strategy for building 49. completion will be discussed on a later slide. the scope of work for this 19th street extension and georgia street project includes new roadway and sidewalk along with streetlights, fire hydrants, and a combined sewer. the roadway will be divided into two segments. the first one is a 700 foot extension, after which the road makes a 90-degree turn and a 200-foot-long segment of georgia street will be constructed. this will provide access to the pier 70 shipyard, a greater development area, and primary access to the new 19th street parking lot that is currently under construction. the engineer's construction cost estimate including a 10% contingency is $4.3 million. this is based on port staff evaluating a 90% and an 100% design cost estimates from two different estimators. because the estimates came in higher than previously budgeted, we have been evaluating the remaining budget for the project and developed a strategy to fund the remaining projects for crane cove park, which is this project, the roadway, and building 49. this plan will maintain the current scope and schedule, but delay the finishing until the completion of this contract and the bidding of this contract. until that time we will have more information about the remaining budget for building 49. the costs and funding are shown in this table. the projected costs for the roadway is $4.3 million. the costs for building 49 is $2.87 and $3 million. the funding sources are cal grant, port capital, and potentially the port contingency project fund if required. the potential additional funding source sources are also shown on this slide and that could add up to $950,000. with this strategy in place, the 19th street and georgia street is fully funded through the federal grant and port capital. as briefly mentioned before, cal trans does not allow for contracts to have local business enterprise requirements nor does it allow for local hiring requirements. this is subject to cal trans d.b.e. your staff report says 29%. i just received an e-mail where they confirmed they advised it to 18%. that's why i corrected it on the slide here. but despite the requirement for only d.b.e. firms, the port will perform outreach to contractors and invite them to the meeting. we've also looked at what d.b.e. firms are in san francisco that have relevant trades for this work. there are 17 that i've found and 14 out of those 17 are in dog patch and bayview neighborhoods and also they're also l.b.e.s. we'll make sure to do outreach to them and make sure they're at the pre-bid meetings. all necessary approvals and permits for this project will be secured prior to start of this construction. we will be on track to have substantial completely by april 2021. we request that you approve this resolution to advertise for competitive bids. mike bellson and other staff are here to answer any questions. >> thank you. >> so moved. >> second. >> is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner. >> so this -- i guess i'm just trying to make sure i understand the scope of the contract. i can't seem to understand the building and the roadway. >> this contract is just for the roadway and we just wanted to give you information on the overall crane cove project and how we will be funding the remaining contracts. >> currently what's there in the space that's contemplated as the new roadway? >> currently, i have a good picture. it's a dirt lot/ -- i want to see if one of these has a good picture. you can kind of see in this picture it goes through part of crane cove park and then continues through what used to be the old shipyard and is currently storage for a bunch of contractors' equipment i believe. and then georgia street itself is a functioning road that you can drive on and it provides access to the shipyard and some of these development buildings here, some offices. >> my only reaction is i just had a road repaved in my house in napa and it was about half a mile, so not something too dissimilar in terms of length. i didn't pay $5 million. but in terms of the amount of basin, i did learn a little bit about roadways. the amount of basin and everything else because obviously a private road is different than a public road. but i just find the contrast in terms of cost quite enormous. i think whatever you all estimated in the beginning was probably more accurate. i'm just hoping that this cost is really justified because i just find for a roadway this is a lot of money. >> commissioner gillman. >> thank you. i'm excited to see it move forward. i have no questions. thanks for your presentation. >> vice president adams. >> i agree. it does cost a lot of money. i will support it. i wish i had known a little bit more about it, but i will support it. >> i do have to say this is very confusi confusing. if it was part of the overall project, it would be great to see numbers for the overall project. we have a $36 million park. is this $4.3 million out of this $36 million or $7.1 million or in addition to? >> it's not in addition to the overall budget. it's -- what's happening here is the original cost estimate was much lower on the roadway, as the commissioner had said, it seems like a better number. but staff has done a lot of work with cost estimating and has concluded that it was too low and it will cost more to construct this road. of course this will come in lower and that will be a very happy fact for building 49. so we haven't added budget to the overall park whatsoever. but what we've done here is acknowledged that the roadway will likely cost this amount and that the part of the park that will need to be rethought and come in for less is building 49. so we're still waiting, once the bid goes out and we know the actual figure, staff will know the real plan for building 49, but we're planning to scale down for 49 because the road is looking to be more expensive. >> okay. so originally we had $1.2 million for the street and how much did we have for building 49? >> around $3.5 million. >> so the additional, what is it, $3 million to $4 million. >> so the business for building 49 came in, the average of them was $6 million. and then -- well -- >> i guess what i'm trying to figure out is last time we saw the total budget and we had the numbers for the street and for the building which were all included in those numbers. and now we have totally different numbers. so how does that really affect the overall budget? and if we approve one after this, what does that really mean as far as -- because the $4.3 million is more than what we've budgeted for the street and the buildi building, if i'm hearing you correctly. >> i think what would be -- the bottom-line number hasn't moved. so when we came to you for all of crane cove park, the bottom-line figure is the same. but we don't quite yet know how to accomplish building 49 within our budget because the road is looking to be much more expensive. i think what would be best for us to do is a side-by-side walkthrough from where it was from commission and where we are today. we are settling for a shortfall in the crane cove project and we're making a policy decision figuring out what to do on that and the improvements in building 49 because we believe the roadway is essential to the park, but the plan for building 49 we feel we have more room to value engineer and make decisions that won't affect the operation of the park. >> okay. i'm going to just mention my limited knowledge of roads. i understand in california we mostly do asphalt. like in the state of texas they do concrete, which is a lot more expensive. are we doing asphalt or concrete? >> we're doing asphalt. >> i guess i still find this number -- >> is very expensive. >> do you want someone else to speak to it? our colleagues have been looking closely at the engineer's estimates and the analysis so that if you can explain why this is such an expensive road. >> this is a short distance. >> exactly. the problem here, the expense i think is trying to figure out how the contractors have priced this. there are varied utilities. it's been a shipyard for over a hundred years. there are unmarked utilities along this stretch that we believe the contractors will put -- include in their price to develop the road, and they're going to say, well, we're got -- we don't know what's underneath here. we need to protect ourselves and our bid. this is what we think the price is to actually do the roadway. >> so given that, can we -- because they're saying they might find -- they dig up the road, they're going to have to, they're going to find utility or lines -- and if they don't, how can we make sure that they feel they have to cover themselves, but in the event that they don't run into the complications or complexities in digging up to prepare for the road because -- how are we going to be paying for something we didn't have to pay for? protect ourselves? >> i think we have done some pot-holing of the defined utilities in the location, but you can only do so much of that. and i think that information will be available in the bid documents. i'm not exactly sure how we can ask contractors not to bid the risk of this. >> i'm sorry. are we also including in this similar to other projects in the city. the city has the three-shovel rule, when you're paving a new street, you're looking at p.e.c. utilities. is any of that included in this bid? >> not really because this street has been a porch street and there aren't any p.u.c. utilities under that street. >> i thought we just said when we open up the street because the maps are old we might discover things the contractor has to remove. >> that would be port utilities from the shipyard. another item that has -- that is probably adding some costs to this street and making it more complicated, that we are requiring the contractor to allow for shipyard access throughout the duration of the project and access for the tenants in those buildings along 20th street. so they essentially -- well, this is what we recommend. it's going to be up to the contractor to decide. but they're going to have to potentially only do 19th street segment and then the adjacent street segment which makes it difficult to separate those out. >> the reason i'm asking is i was asking something last night and m.t.a. was saying how the cost has skyrocketed. the maps are old and when they opened up the street they found debris and things they had to deal with. is this a similar scenario? with the shipyard, the maps are inaccurate. is that part of the rationale you're pricing the bid the way you are? >> that is true. to add to that, that brings up another thing. we have discovered on crane cove part some of the soil is contaminated and has to be disposed of in a certain way that's more expensive. they had done studies in the past that gave us an idea of how much contamination there was, but of course you're not going to know until you start digging. for this contract we added in some allowances that paid for [ indiscernible ] that soil. there is a potential that they might not counter that and we wouldn't have to pay for that. >> if you could break it down, what is the cost per square foot. taking the removal of the hazardous materials, are we also comparing with what d.w.p. would know about roads? because i would think they would know a lot about roads, comparing what they typically see in pricing? >> i have looked at some information i've received from public works' information. i could not tell you off the top of my head the square foot costs because my mental math will be off. >> i would be interested to know what that is. >> i have to make a correction. when asked about the total budget, staff has added $1.6 million as a potential new source here as a contingency. the port c.f.o. just pointed this out to me. it's something that's been budgeted and appropriated by the commission for projects when they go over and it's a potential funding source. i misspoke when i said the budget has not moved at all. president brandon, those two numbers are more, the roadway is more than the budget for the two building and roadway as previously discussed. i did want to clarify and correct that. >> right. so i think we need to have an update of what's going on at crane cove park because i think we were very specific. >> about that budget, agreed. >> and about bringing it in that budget. so now we're significantly over budget because at this point we don't know what the business are going to come in at. >> right. >> so we're now taking money from other sources along the waterfront to put into this $36 million park that's already funded. >> there's two choices. we could have an information on the overall of crane cove park or we could bid this contract and see what it will actually cost and, with that information, figure out what next steps are. >> okay. so this contract is just for 19th and georgia street. >> yes. >> >> nothing else? >> nothing else. these improvements -- >> 50% over what we thought -- 100% over. >> yes. it's significantly more than we thought it would cost, yes. >> is the caltrans grant particularly for that work? >> it is. >> the grant can only be used for this work? >> correct. >> and does the grant expire if we don't take action? >> yes. >> when does the grant expire? >> well, my understanding is i'm supposed to -- they have to -- the grant is through m.t.c. and they have to let us use the money and i need to get caltrans' approval on this project by january 31 in order to -- for them to appropriate the money for this year. otherwise, we could still get the money, but we'd have to -- we would be in a list of other people who are requesting it. >> do you need us to take action for you to do that process? >> i -- well, yeah, we need to approve advertisement. so i need to have your -- obviously your approval to even do the contract. and then also i will be getting caltrans' approval. that's separate from this. >> i'm going to finish asking my questions and i'm going to ask you guys if you have any questions. so $1.2 million is caltrans grant and $3.1 million are our funds, but yet we have to go with the d.b.e. program, not the l.b.e. program? >> correct. >> so do we need to separate these or explain to me how the d.b.e. program differs from the l.b.e. program and what our limitations are. >> so what i've been told is any time federal money is touching your contract, you have to use the federal requirements. so the d.b.e. program is somewhat similar to the l.b.e. program. you apply through the state and you are applying as a disadvantaged business. they have all their technical definitions of what a disadvantaged business is, but it's usually somebody coming from a socially or economically disadvantaged background. so then they apply and become a d.b.e. when i was looking at the list of d.b.e.s in the san francisco area, a lot of them -- in fact a lot of them were also l.b.e.s so you can see they overlap. >> i can explain more about the program. the local l.b.e. program includes bid discounts or preferences. so competitors who are local small businesses receive bonus points or reductions in price, depending on if you're talking about a low bid process or a qualifications process. so it really encourages local small businesses to come to the table and compete. the d.b.e. program doesn't include that part of the program and it's based on percentages of businesses that are available and you have goals set based on those percentages. it's a best, safe effort standard. so our san francisco program has significantly more teeth to it than the d.b.e. program. in terms of compliance, it's required. when you have an 18% or a 20% requirement, you have to meet that goal in order to move forward with the contract, whereas the d.b.e. program is a best efforts standard. they don't want us to discriminate -- i'm not sure if that's the right word to use, but to put preferences on businesses located in san francisco versus oakland versus alameda. they specifically say you may not use local preferences in selecting firms. instead, we just want a diversity of firms. that's the big difference between l.b.e. program and d.b.e. program. >> why was it lowered from 28 to 18? >> i'm not sure. we calculate 28%. we have a calculation based on the availability and then we send it to caltrans and they have internal staff reviewing it. they have more resources to determine what the actual availability is. they sent us back the 18% number. >> okay. i personally would like to continue this, but i really need to understand the delay, what that would cause. because we don't want to lose the $1.2 million, but i really need to understand where we're going here at crane cove park because we can't just continue to spend money. >> there's one thing that's definitely to your advantage that we decide we need to move forward, we will not award the whole contract. a couple of questions for you in terms of scheduling and getting the roadway in and the grant. we need to know what is your timeline in terms of when we want to break ground and have those roadway improvements in for the park and the developments that are going on at pier 70 and what is the specifics related to the grant dollars and when you need commission action. are those two questions you can answer, maybe with katie's help or rod's help? >> so my understanding is i need to award -- they -- i need to advertise in march because -- the deadline for caltrans are to get their separate approval, which is separate from this. and then we need to break ground or issue the first invoice for the contractor in the summer. i can't remember. i'd have to look that up. and so that's why bidding in march is important to have the contractor hired then. >> what was the january 31 deadline that you gave us? >> that's for caltrans to approve our construction document package and then they give us instruction to advertise. >> so they need to look at our packet and they need to approve it before we can advertise. they need to look at that packet by january 31. do you need our approval to advertise -- i have several questions. question one, do you need our approval to be part of that packet that you submit to them by january 31? >> no, i do not. >> so that means we have the ability to, if we wanted to, postpone this item without jeopardizing the caltrans grant? >> correct. >> question two, we could advertise this as is, receive all the business, and make a decision not to move forward because we think it's economically not feasible? >> correct. >> we in some ways have two options as a commission. >> i would like to add some provisos to the second one. normally we put out and say up to x. obviously i understand from what i heard, you've covered the bases in terms of what if the contractor finds hazardous material, what if the contractor finds utility issues in terms of preparing to pave the road. i think i'm interested in seeing how can you structure the bid so that if these issues don't come up to the max, as we might anticipate, that we might not expect all that money and that we could be more economical. i just want to know the base price for actually paving the road. if we could structure it so if the contractor doesn't run into it -- otherwise we're paying for it and we really didn't need to if you understand what i'm saying. >> i do. i believe we've tried to structure the bid items like that as much as possible. the risk with the utilities is hard to piece out as a separate item and like rod mentioned, they're probably going to be including that in their base bid, but we have separated out the soil. >> okay. and i guess we're also doing the finishes on the road because apparently i understand there's different ways to finish roads. so we're doing everything, everything including oil, something or other. they're choices. i've learned now, there's choices of what you want to do with a road. so we're doing everything to finish this road, because it also depends on what you think the traffic is going to be on the road and how much finish you want to put on it. >> right. we're designing it to city standards, so yes. >> and this road will be accepted by d.p.w. when it's complete. >> that's something we will have to work on. >> any more questions? >> you know, i want to go back to what president brandon and all the commissioners said. it's funny. this whole project has been an a acheles' heel. we have two options. are we better to hold this thing over or to vote it. i just feel like in a lot of the questions there was a lot of headsation not knowing and uncertainty in the way questions were answered and stuff. i'd like to make sure we're right. >> i personally would recommend we move forward with it because i think we'll know more when we get that bid in terms of what we want to do than not having that information. so i think putting the business out there and knowing what the road will really cost and looking at the side by side in terms of where we were with budget and what the key elements are is going to present a much -- a better set of facts for us and for you to grapple with in terms of how to close the park. so i would suggest we move forward with the bidding, get the number, and we would come back anyway to award, but at that time we answer all these key questions and figure out how to come across the finish line in the park. >> but i think what's at issue is the funding and where we're getting these dollars from even if we bid it, understanding where the dollars are coming from and what the total budget is now. >> yes. >> so at this point if we bid it out, is it the lowest bid? is it best value? what is it? and is it up to a certain amount? how is it being bid? >> we are bidding it low bid and then we get to decide if we have the budget. >> so where does best value come from? i thought that -- >> we had done best value on the building 49 business back in may. >> they came in very high. so we tried the best value approach with building 49 and the business were very, very high on building 49. here because it's a simple road construction, i think the low bid is the way to get the best price. this would go out as a not to exceed $4.3 million bid and the lowest price. is that what you said? >> i don't know how it works with "not to exceed." in the business in the past we say "engineer's estimate," and they give us their estimates. sometimes they come high or low. >> that figure would be the engineer's estimate and we would let the contractors tell us what it costs. the lowest-qualified bidder we would recommend for award. what we have is the original crane cove park budget except for a potential of $1.6 million which you have previously appropriated as a project contingency for the port to use whenever projects go over across the board and the decision -- and i'm not certain how high that contingency is, but the decision here is to potentially use $1.6 of that contingency for the roadway. so it's essentially a budget increase to crane cove park. >> is that contingency $2 million or $10 million? >> using this $1.6 million will close out the remaining funds in the contingency that we've appropriated through the current fiscal year through 2019-20. the expectation is we come to you with our capital budget for the two-year cycle we're working on right now, we would refund the contingency at a level that we can afford with in the capital budget for the next two fiscal years. so this -- using this $1.6 million will wipe it out. >> so we would have no contingency through june 30, 2020. >> part of me is curious to see, since we're not advertising it, we're not committing to funding it, i feel some of what we're -- we have the engineer's best estimate at $4.3 million. i would be curious to see what we get, with the caveat that we might take no action unless we think how that would hurt our reputation from a contracting perspective, i'm curious to see what we get. >> how does it make us look putting these out and they keep coming in over. >> we do routinely reject business because they come in too high. you mentioned how difficult this park has been, commissioner adams. the construction climate is very hard. we often get business that are all over engineer's estimates and we have to reject all of them. we reject more business than you see. >> i can just add that we understand that this is a big concern to the port. we can understand it's public money. we have taken extra measures to get different cost estimators and different points of view for these projects and for other projects. we are taking an extra step to get independent cost estimates. >> okay. i'm okay with moving forward. i just want to say, as i said before, we don't have any more money to spend on this park. we do not have any more money. so even though we're taking this $1.6 million contingency to put into this park and we still don't have a play structure -- we don't have any amenities. we're just building a park. we can't just keep dumping money into crane cove park, we can't. so i really need to say the plan for how we're going to bring this park in with the budget that we have. so we can advertise all we want, but if it's not within our budg budg budget, i don't think i can support it. >> right. >> okay? >> okay. all in favour? >> aye. >> resolution 20-04 has been approved. >> could i ask, do we have any idea how much the mission rock park is going to cost? >> rosco, do you have the budget for the mission rock park? he's going to make us look good fast. come on up, we'll get that to you in writing. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you. >> item 13, new business. >> i have an item for new business. first of all, i'd like to -- i guess he's not here, but we'll congratulate tim wonderland for becoming the new chair of wheata. i was excited to read about his vision and strategy. i would like to request that we ask him to come to present to the port commission when he feels appropriate, when he thinks he's got a little bit of sea legs under him in terms of his plan because i think he would be a great partner for us to work with, given that he is going to push wheata to move faster and more ostensibly. it may be time to hear from our friends at our other regulator bcdc, just to hear what their plans and strategy are since we've been moving forward with our waterfront land use plan and it's good to know all of our partners that we need to work with to execute, because we can't do it all by ourselves, we need these others to be in agreement, that we also hear from them and they also hear from us. i would like to suggest that as a future agenda item. they don't have to be at the same meeting. obviously you can schedule them. >> i also have a new item. i would like to in february after public comment get an update on what's happening with the club. public comment indicated they've been working with us for several months and their perception is they're caught up in some bureaucracy. as a non-profit organization, i'd like to get an update in february on where we are with them and their improvements. >> i have two items. first i know president brandon and commissioner gillman know more, but i want an update on the navigation center. i'd like to know what's going on with that. i live only a block away, but i would like to know what's going on with that. secondly, what's going on with the shipyard and where are we going to go from there? and then an update on ferries and water taxis and stuff, what we're doing with that. thank you. >> is there any public comment on new business? seeing none, can i have a motion to adjourn? >> second. >> all in favour? >> aye. >> 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