The pier was built in the 1960 as a cargo shipping container port. By the mid1990s we lost market share to oakland and made a decision to stop cargo shipping and move to [inaudible] initially it was strong but [inaudible] couldnt recover from the 1990s recession and many here remember those jobs that were here and saw the economic decline and the impact that it made to families. It was heart breaking. I see there are Many International long shoreman weir house Union Members here. Bob mu cell rath. Officers from local 10, 10, 34, 91 and 75. I see don marks from the master mason pilots. This is really a day to celebrate labor. [applause] thank you. It has known this is for industrial maritime. The city understands these type of opportunities keep our workforce and city diverse and it is something we need to be intentional bout and fight for. We need to fight for the workers and working families. The Port Commission is here today. I see president adams, the vise president brandon, lesley katz. The Port Commission has been fight toog bring back shipping to this pier and fighting hard. I also see members of the southern waterfront advisory committee. I see kevin gibbons, shirly more, cechben law snl, memberotches the commerce advisory committee, ellen johnck [inaudible] veronica sanchez. These groups have been fighting to bring back maritime to this facility and today everyone we can celebrate. The city commissioned a study and found due to our location and rail issues auto import export was the Perfect Match for this terminal. This industry had been on steady growth spirt since 2009 and the port staff went on a search and hooked the right partner in john pasha. We founds a Business Partner that operated at other ports, san diego [inaudible] and had very very good success. But also found the right corporate flus aef. A partner who is a Family Business and cares about local community and cares about investing in employis. Our partner agreed to offer 50 percent of Employment Opportunities here to the Bayview Community and district 10, and that is a huge success. [applause] i want to acknowledge the family, George W Pasha opened his first automotive facility in 1960. Here in San Francisco at fort mason. While he is not here to see the return today, his children are as is his life partner janet pasha his wife is here today along with his children, george the forth, maureen, michael, jane, mary jane and john. Welcome home to San Francisco, we are so pleased to have you. [applause] the pasha group will build a import and export business that will include preferation of these automotive automobiles. The vehicles will be trucked from pier 80 to Northern California dealerships. The row off row on vessel facility will grow over 3 to 5 years. At full capacity mr. Pasha expects 96 vessel [inaudible] and that translated to about 150,000 vehicles. 50 long shorman [inaudible] and up to 150 additional employees detailing those automobiles so a real Economic Opportunity returning to pier 80. Thank you so much for being here to celebrate this partnership. I know there are pleny fathers and mothers and too many to name but i want to give a special shout out to mow neek moyer, our outgoing director. [applause]. Monique played a vital role insures this agrooment comes together. I like to thank peter daily and his team and roana sandler who drarfted the agreement and renee martin who put this incredible event together so thank you port team. [applause]. With that, i would now like to the introduce a person who has provided exceptional and steady leadership to theports and creates jobs and Economic Opportunities to all san franciscans and who absolutely believes enour world class water front from north to south, mayor ed lee. [applause] thank you, elaine. Good morning everybody port of San Francisco pier 80 this is where things are happening . You know, beforefirst thing i got to do is thank you the iow drill team. What a great performance thank you as soon as i saw these big hooks i ought to say it first because they can pull me off those hooks real fast. What a tradition. Iow and i learned a lot and learning more all the time, i engage with president willie adams and the commission. What a proud member he is and leader of the union. A lot of history with our city and that is partly why we are here and i know mayor willie brown and former supervisor sofy maxwell we always talk about the promises of the city. I always love saying, we aint making new promises, just keeping the old ones and this is what our Port Commission and education leaders here today and Community Based organizations, this is the what the port of San Francisco is revitalizing these places. Not too long ago we were designing americas cup boats right here in this shed and we used that investment to really make sure this building was in tip top shape and want to say thank you to monique for her leadership on that. It was the port staff and the commission and her leadership that brought that investment to the city and we wanted to make sure we continued this invesment. We are making investments across the water front. Look at the new cruise ship terminal at pier 27 and that is a another example. You see all the open spaces. We working constant with rec and park and see the blue green way we are still completing all the way down here. Again, a promise for many generations. You see a constant invesment and i know that director forbes and i, the commission are already talking about how we can make the long Term Investments to make sure that sea wall is protected because thereat what we got to do for the entire city of San Francisco. We are here today to make this announcement and want to begin by saying thank you to had pasha family. To their returning to San Francisco to many generations ago but also returning in such a glorious way where a promise that was made to the residents of bayview and district 10 can be actually kept with this 15 year contract, hopefully many years from now. A lot of Community Folks and Agencies Service the bayview are here today to see the promise begin and the jobs that are here with a opportunity to work with our office of economic and Workforce Development. I know michael car is proud with city build, a program sofy helped start and to now see it in its really concrete fruition touch lives like [inaudible] here as a trainee of city build along with the 10s and scores of others who will get these great jobs. These are jobs for our present and future, they have been working class jobs and ones we always said we will bring back to San Francisco in manufacturing and all the other ways that we are doing. It is not just tech jobs and hotel jobs and hospital jobs, these are good paying local jobs of our unions on ships like this. Ships that you see every day crossing the panama canal bringing goods both ways and this site will be import and export. We hope that in the very near future, the folks that are working down here will be exported tesla motors out in the hundreds. Out to the rest of the world and bringing a lot more income for our residents with our engineering and design work. All the electric vehicles. Maybe a lot of driverless vehicles will be export from here. This is what we get to do in the great city of San Francisco when we collaborate and Work Together and fulfill old promises as we use new technology to do so. I want to say thank you to this investment by the pasha family and generations that are here. Thank you for helping us revitalize the port. Thank you for work wg city build. Over 50 percent of the jobs that we will create, over 50 percent will be targets for residents of bayview. That a hew mungs promise that has been something that we have always wanted to do. They are getting the training for that to happens a well, training through the jobs programs that are right here. We want to say we dont want to train people to train people, we want them to get the real jobs that are the promise of this city. Im happy to be here to enjoy the moment and make sure we do all the right things to acakeen our communities and while we do that i will continue building more Affordable Housing down here as well to increase that. The workforce we promised can own their own homes or be residents orphthis very neighborhood ft i will say this to mayor brown and others and the stof sofy, hold on to your property because the investments we are making in this neighborhood will be so attractive everyone will want to move here now. It is little cooler today it is always 5 to 6 degrees warmer than other parts of the city. I will say again, thank you to all the parts and thank you to the port of San Francisco and all the people that work there. This is proud moment for all of you. I know that for the commission as well. When we Work Together for the infrastruck investments we will do the right thing and see the people that benefit are the people we promised for many generations to be here. I look forward to the canon burst and walking not the plank, gene ann, but these are vital ships and want to see more of these in addition to cruise ship liners lining up the water front and do all the great things in the great city. Thank you very much for being here. Congratulations. Thank you, mr. Mayor. I now would like to introduce a person who has been on the team here since 1951 and has been a champion for labor and working families. He served 30 years in the state assembly and became our 41 mayor of San Francisco, the first African American mayor and he is known as a celebrity beyaunds city boundaries. It is part of the leadership that really understood you need intentional zoning, planning and business twement to make industry strive along with supervisor [inaudible] so please help me introduce mayor willie brown. Im sure you are wondering why willie brown . I actually represent all of the previous mayors who had a challenge of trying to do something that ed lee now gets the sole credit for. [laughter]. Just think how much diane and agnos and jordan and nusem all resent that, ed . You sit up here and laid out the whole program and i am just delighted i received a call to come and participate because when service as mayor. Mayor lee, you recall we started the business of breaking the cargo once they [inaudible] all the business of oakland and the recession came as indicated by mrs. Forbes and the whole thing changed. And you and your administration did wonders. I stand as a member of the long shoremans union. [applause]. Now, i know many of youyou look too dam small to be a member the longshoremans union. I was inducted on the hairy bridges, bill chester, lee gallblat and [inaudible] curtis, pursy and a whole collection of long shore people who are operating at that time. They selected me in the middle 60s when all other members of organized labor looking some other way and they embraced and started the 30 year career that you talked about and it was because of my ongoing work and relationship with the people who worked on the port of San Francisco and how they conducted themselves and how much they meant to every church in the city of San Francisco, every African American church. Every neighborhood in the city and county of San Francisco. Literally the basis of the income for organized labor working on the port and being a part of the weir house operation meant so much to the economy of this city. Hopefully, hopefully, district 10 with this incredible achievement that this Port Commission under this mayors leadership is producing, we can begin to see the city and county of San Francisco no longer going down on the African American population, but going up again to where it was at one time. You are right, mr. Mayor, it takes a culmination of jobs and all the other things that go with it to make that possible. This represents the very first set. Your office of Workforce Development , all aspects of the organizations that will be a part of, it will be 50 percent, but if we work it right, well, somebody looking closely it could be 75 percent which is a way we really ought to do it because if we are to achieve what needs to be achieved on behalf of the people in this city and the economy of the city to keep this city diverse, clearly this family that obviously been successful in san diego and the state of washington, it could now be successful in the state of San Francisco as i call this place. I can just see it and all ill do is watch very very closely because when they off load a lamborghini, it will be one of the items they will accidently miss. Congratulations now i like to introduce another man of the how, john pasha. It is john pasha who is Senior Vice President of the pasha group and has all the enthuse amp and drive andnition vision to understand why they successfully built auto roll on and hauf plans in other jurisdictions and why mr. Pasha will make a successful venchier here. With that, help me in welcoming john pasha. [applause]. Thank you director forbes and how on earth will i follow willie brown . It is a absolute honor to be here representing Pasha Automotive Services as we ainaugurate the new pier 80 today. Pleased to share the moment with the city. Particularly mayor ed lee and his office. Supervisor malia cohen and our partners at theport. We worked so hard so many months to put this together and pleased especially to share it with your pasha family. Our employees here in california, hawaii and globally and my immediate family including my brother george, president and ceo, sister maureen who put many years of experience in automotive opraigdss running the facility here at pier 80. Also thrilled to share the moment, my murthder janet, brother mike, sister mary jane and all their families. A special thank you to my wife aaron and kids for their emens support as we go the business just a little bit more. [applause] today is a bit of a home coming. In the early 40s my grand father george the second started a flying a sunchs station at bay and van ness across the street from fort mason. He then expanded the business to provide storage for privately own vehicles of ww 2 personnel. In 960 my fatherer opened the First Independent port processing facility on the west coast at fort mason and built a body shop on fishermans wharfed to provide a show room ready product for auto dealers. Today pasha automotive provides prosand Distribution Service as the port of San Francisco, san diego, grays harbor, baltimore and man tee florida. As a company and as individuals, we are committed to insureing that maritime uses are supported and our countries valuable waterfront assets receive the investment they need to Service Commercial purposes. This means supporting economic development, job creation, commerce and trade. Our economy is dependent on healthy coastal and ocean resources especially when you consider that 14 percent of u. S. Counties ajais tonight the coast produce 45 percent of the nations gdp. 90 percent the nations consumed products have once traveled by water to this great country. At pasha we are also committed to good paying jobs, which is why we are so pleased to partner with city build and residents of district 10 to bring employment and training opportunities to the area. [applause] and we are commit today providing customers with the services they need to build and grow their operations and Customer Base which is why we are investing in this key piece of port property. With the reopening of pier 80, pasha automotive customers have additional options for their railroad cargo with a consistent demand for auto in the u. S. , we see growing opportunity here in Northern California. By 2020 won in 4 cars driven will come from mexico and San Francisco a hub to serve the import market. We also see Great Potential in the alternative Energy Vehicles which are ink baited and designed here and a intgle part of the World Automotive future. Today you may sit oen folder chairs in a open d somewhat dilapidated parking loss i ask you to look at the future. When operating at full capacity pier 80 wilg handed up to 96 ships and 1 [inaudible] autoabilities annually. [applause]. We are hopeful they employ at least 50 longshoreman per shape and up to 150 jobs for processors many will be fill by the nearby resident. In the near term we invest in property repairs and expansion including state of the art facilities for preparing ooblt ooblts for market, adding accessories and updating software and making repairs for automotive manufacturers from the u. S. And abroad. I dont need to remind the San Francisco audience that having a terminal in San Francisco for auto processing and imports will reduce the environmental footprint of car being unloaded in Southern California that are currently trucked north. [applause]. While thathereare far too many people to thank individually, i want you to know it did take a village and many hours of negotiateating and hard work. To bring this pier back to life. I will be remisif i did not acknowledge port director elaine forbes, Deputy Director maritime director peter daily whos vision leadership and tenacity made them ideal partners as well as Monique Moyer and jim maloney who started us on the wonderful adventure 2 years ago. Pasha is back in San Francisco and it is a back to the future moment. As i look out and see the [inaudible] we launched in 205 to serve the hawaii main land route ready to perclaim peer 80 will open another chapter for our customers employees company and this great city. My only regret is our father and legendary chairman george iii isnt here to mark the milestone but know he is very proud and watching over us today. Thank you very much. [applause] now i would like to introduce the Port Commission president who has since 2003 is secretary treasurer of iowu. He is a artdestx film maker and has hands on commitment to seeing maritime thriv in San Francisco and has brought a breath of fresh air into our portfolio. With that, president willie adams. [applause] the honorable mayor lee and fellow San FranciscoPort Commissioner, kim brandon vice president. Commissioner lesley katz and all aseemed guests welcome. Everyone that put this event together, thank you. It has been said, life is not measured by the number of breaths that we take, but by the moments that take our breaths way. Today all august 22, 2016 is one of those days. The Port Commission is presently leading with a vision that only vose that dare drive the world forward. The commissioners for pier 8096 will be a maritime eco Industrial Center that is great for jobs, great for the bayview, great for district 10, great for the industry and great for the environment. The port[applause] the Port Commission is Crystal Clear that we are to use our port land for maritime industrial, commercial and the southern waterfront. This is our public trust mandate and the Port Commission will use these lands to better our working families and to give skilled workers a path to prosperity and these lands belong to the community for jobs are the foundation of citizenship. As commissioners, we have supported our staff to forge an agreement with pasha automotive that will turn around this cargo facility and make the 60 acres of space warehouse [inaudible] a shipping hub for automobile import and export and more diverse type of cargoes. Pretty window windy up here. It is with great pride and want to acknowledge the esteemed leadership of the nrbt National Long shore and union led by International President robertmic elrath, rea, [inaudible] frank pauns day leon and camera williams and local 10 president ed [inaudible] and Dave Gonzalez [inaudible] i want to say a special thank you because if pasha and iow were unable to hammer out that agreement none would be here today and it took giving on both parts, the unions part and pashas part and gotten there. 3 people in particular i want to thank, melvin mu cay was the president of local 10 and got it down to the one yard line. Sean [inaudible] president of local [inaudible] ed ferrous president of local 10 and Dave Gonzalez of local 34 took it over. We were not on the one yard line and passed, we got it over. [applause] even though there were nay sayers and that is okay because a kite flies against the win and there were people saying nothing will happent a pier 80, lets [inaudible] would you think you are pat the onedf something you are at the beginning of something else. Yet, a year and a half ago the long shore and weir house union and pasha and port of San Francisco sat down and started discussion on transforming pier 80 and a concept of bringing cars and and other commodities. Yes, there were different opinions, lack of trust. Yet at the end the parties understood they were tied together in a garimate of destiny and it was clear to all the parties that ideas dont make things happens, it can be an achilles heal. They took action and lift a torch [inaudible] pier 80 transformed from the past cameo role to a leading role on the San Francisco waterfront. Group moved forward with surgical perscission understanding the fierce urgency och now and im proud to say today that pier 80 has gone from gray skies to blue and this agreement signals that the port of San Francisco is open for maritime business. Mayor lee, i want to thank you for your leadership, passion and for helping to support our working families and being mayor i know it isnt a easy job. The chips are always downism i want to make sure along with my commission the entire southern waterfront follows pier 80. In closing i want to say to the community, the Job Opportunities are a start with lots of work to be done over time. If you want to leave your mark in life, now here is your chanls chanced. I learned to elevate the mental is be poor no more. One does not have to have a title to have honor. In the wurbds of mohammed a alee [inaudible] thank you very much president adamsism now i would like to introduce to you all one of the highest ranking non elected officials in San Francisco, city administrator nayomey kelly. Mrs. Kelly over sees btd 25 departments including public works, contact administration, purchasing, real estate and many others and the woman behind the scenes making it all happen all the time. She has been committed to the port every step of the way and achievering the best for port land so please, mrs. Naomi kelly. Good morning i am pleased to be here with pasha automotive and be at the great new location here at pier 80 in San Francisco in the southeast sector of the city. As our economy grows, it is so important we make San Francisco work for every community and for our local businesses. The port of San Francisco has been a great leader in creating jobs and creating opportunities for our local business entrepreneurs. In this last half year, 76 of all contracts that support have been awarded to lbe firms and also more than 50 percent of payments on all contract dollars went to local firms. These numbers dont happen by accident and want to thank Kimberley Brandon and willie adams, director elaine forbes, former director monique moyier because under that leadership we make sure we have local businesses working here. As i know this project is a maritime use, i will work with the port to make sure we have local businesses working on General Service contracts or if there are subcontracting goals we will make sure that happens. The pasha agreement we are celebrating represents meaningful local commitment. Pasha automotive will team with bayview residents to insure at least 508 percent are hired from the bayview and district 10. This is so critical to making our economy grow. I see many partners sheer whether it is Young Community developers or others. As city administrator im tasked with the punchs of city fleet and maintenance the fleet and very impress said by pasha automotive here at pier 80. The unique design the facility isnt only loading and unloading cars but operating as a mini autoplant in San Francisco. On site employees will fix flaws in customize vehicles. It is a slunt to create skilled jobs for residents of this Community Working win the automotive industry. As the city rebuilts the central facility in San Francisco, this is a great opportunity to partner in the growing of the profession. Thank you mayor lee, mayor brown, pasha automotive, port of San Francisco and our San Francisco local community. Thank you. [applause] as many of you know, patientish entered an agreement with city build, which is a very Important Program that the mayor oversees to break free any type of barriers to employment and get members of the Community Job ready. It is michael car who is the director of the Workforce Development group and he will oversee the agreement with pasha to see the local hire numbers come to fruition. I would like now to introduce a young man, alex montarot who enrolled in city build in 2015 and i would like you to hear a little from him about what the program meant to his life. Alex. [applause]. Hi everyone. My name is alex montono. Im a city build student, cycle 24. Today we started week 11. I can tell you that it is not very easy you know, going to school every day, running a couple miles, sitting in class and writing down everything the teacher says. I have to say it is a challenge. It is also great to be a part of this event and learn what is geing on here. Im actually a 3 Year Graduate from delancey street and thankfully that is i i learned to be responsible enough to take on school at city build, juggle two jobs and all the other responsibilities you need to be successful in life. As a student at city build, i can tell you that city build will give you everything you need to be successful in the construction industry. I dont know if you ever seen someone use a hammer for their first time, but it is kind of funny. What i like about city build is it doesnt matter if you have a criminal background, it doesnt matter if you come from a poor family where nobody went to college or if you dont know anybody in the union. City build will help you get a career, not a job, but a career. So, if there are any of you out there that are looking to get inside of a union, city build is the way to go. I can tell you that. [applause] i want to say thank you to city build and the staff and to be honest with you, i dont look at the staff at city build as just staff, i look at them as people who care and want to see you succeed. It may be hard on you sometimes but they want to see you make it. Thank you to the aufs of economic and Workforce Development and special thank you to mayor ed lee and city and county of San Francisco and thank you so much for giving People Like Us this opportunity. [applause] that was very beautiful, alex and you hit the nail on the head. We are trying to build careers here, not just a job, bullet but a year. Our final speaker today before father michael ryan does a blessing to give the facility a blessing in good luck and good wishes, i like to introduce to you supervisor sofy maxwell. Supervisor mexual was elected in 2000 and reelected in 2002 and 6 and she worked tire lassly on issues just like this one today. She worked on environmental justice, clean energy and equitable distribution of resources and i know she worked very hard on the early iterations of the city build program along with mayor lee. We are very happy to have her. She is also a electrician by training and understands the importance of having a good skill and job. Supervisor max well. Well, good morning isnt this amazing . I know all of you have been watching the olympics and you have seen some Amazing Things happenism you have seen teams that have come together. Here we have. This is a gold moment i give you the gold moment here this is the golden moment. You heard the team, you have seen the teams, and heard from the teams. So, i dont know need to go into all of that. What i do need to say is we are already successful. When i look at city build, when i look at all of the people that are there and all these yellow hats and these people that the city has really given some confidence in that we invested in our workforce, pasha, this is a good thing you are doing. This is a smart move. These people already live mere. They dont have to worry about the high housing prices. They live here. They can walk and bike and nay can take the t like i will do going back home. So, i think it is a smart move and it is smart move for our city to invest in this neighborhood and invest in our city. And lets talk about the port of San Francisco. What a vision. Thank you so much for that. Thank you so much because without a vision what can you do . Thank you very much to kim who told me i have to do this, i appreciate that. We are on our way, this is a wonderful event but it has to go on and have to keep going and have to realize there will be challenges but we can over come everything. Thank you and we got the goals, it is a win, win, situation. Thank you. I also wanted to acknowledge supervisor cohen. Supervisor cohen couldnt be here today but provided a proclamation for us just announcing how wonderful it is that our ships aribeing and Economic Opportunity will flow and that pier 80 will employ district 10 residents and be filled by workers of various skill levels and will enhance the Economic Opportunity of this place. Supervisor cohen is with us in spirit and i just want to thank you everyone for coming out and celebrating with us, all the dignitaries. I want to thank Port Commissioners who saw the agreement as it evolved and kept saying where is there jobs program, elaine. I want to thank oewd and mayor lee when i same and said where is the jobs program they all came together to figure how this would work and of course to mr. Pasha for saying, heck yeah, we can do that. Thank you all and like to bring up father michael ryan who will do a blessing which is in pashas honor then we will hear a canon, the fire boat is here, also the chief is here, chief hayes white is here from the Fire Department so thank you chiefment. We will then have lunch and celebrate. Thank you again. Thank you elaine. I want to you know i came fromciateal for this and trying to overlook the earlier comment about [inaudible] probably enough to be said. Before the prayer or blessing, which is brief and promise you would you join me in a quite moment to remember george pasha the third, my sisters husband and brother in law, the greatest guy in the world who i know he left us two years ago on saturday and from his place with god, i know he is with his dad and mother smiling as well today and lets just take one brief moment to remember. [moment of silence] i think he provided the sun. Gracious god, we thank you for this day for this home coming. Pasha has come back to where it all started. Pasha has come home. We ask your blessing on this new beginning and all the people who made it happen as well as on all who will make it happens in the days, months and yours aheadism we ask your blessing for all the comings and goings that lie ahead here at pier 80. For the ships that sail in and out of the golden gaetd and cars and cargo and crews and long shore workers and each and every member of the pasha team. We ask your blessing for this great city of San Francisco. Citizens and elected officials alike that it will continue to be a place of Economic Opportunity for all especially for those who live in the margins and struggle to sur vive. Lastly, we pray thinew chapter in the long history of pasha will be successful and exciting as all the other chaptersment. In your name we pray, amen. [canon fire] [applause] [dog barking] [rocket whistles] [boom] call the first item. Thank you, madam chair the first order of business is item one roll call commissioners respond commissioner pimentel commissioner bustos is absent commissioner singh commissioner mondejar is absent commissioner rosales commissioner mondejar and commissioner bustos are absent all other members of the commission are present the nexter