Transcripts For SFGTV Planning Commission 32317 20170325

Discussions with the port as well as the Contract Monitoring Division and share the reporting and forest city is already doing for itself to monitor its own performance and share that with the port as well. Great. How are you doing so far . Well, that is for construction level so we dont have that for the predevelopment but we have the lbe goal for the phase one which we exceeded every quarter thus far and doing good on that utilization for the eir phase as we call it. Great thank you. Of course. To jack, david, kelly and the port staff and a special thank you and i know director forbes and you kim and had to get involved and probably have to stay involved but jack i was knowing about and i came on the Commission Six years ago and me and commissioner katz came out and you gave us a tour around the dark buildings and Walking Around and this vision you were laying out to us and i am really so glad its starting to really come into fruition but the Community Outreach jack that you guys have done has been great, and you have listened and you went back and forth and one of the smartest and courageous things you did is that you went to the ballot and it was so good when you went to the ballot and let the citizens. That was smart and thinking out of the box and i think that was very, very good and i just want to commend you for your patience and your due diligence. This is tough. This is tough just us listening to it getting our head around it. This thing is so complex. Its like a helicopter and so many moving parts and you have been patient and working through but last time you were here jack i asked you a question. You mentioned about it a little today and worried about the market going soft and what are your thoughts . You mentioned it earlier so what are your thoughts . Is that something you guys have been thinking about as an organization or anything . Absolutely. I mean we are constantly assessing the market both nationally and locally. We feel good about where the local market is. It definitely has weve seen a softening in rents more on the apartment side than the office side but longterm we think its more sustainable sustainable and instead of drop off an ease off but right now its a strong location. Companies want to be here. Jobs are being created. Interest rates sounds like theyre going up. Will that have implication . What will happen with some of the tax credit programs . Theres been tax about Corporate Tax code changing and softened the value of tax credits, so we certainly were not procost nateors ever the National Economic situation but right now the best indicator is were spending money we dont need to be spending to move the first phase forward 12 months earlier than otherwise which i think is an indication of the belief that we have longterm in the San Francisco market. Thank you very much. Madam secretary next item please. Item 11 c informational presentation regarding recologys proposed integrated Materials Recovery facility at pier 96. Good afternoon commissioners, director forbes, brad benson director of special projects here to present to you maybe i will wait its a lot of people. So another exciting project potential project for the southern waterfront. Recology is a major tenant in the southern waterfront today. Pier 96 they participate recycle center, major recycling facility for the blue bin material and theres a potential opportunity to add to that construction and demolition debris recycling in a new falt facility that would be added it to recycle center and we want to present this proposal today. We have maurice here representing recology and jake macy from the department of the environment with the city so why dont i dive into the presentation, give you a little bit of overview of the idea and invite maurice to present the proposal for recycling and i will come back up and describe proposed next steps primarily around Public Outreach. So recycle central has been at the port for quite a while now since around 2000. They operate within the pier 96 lash facility. Theres a mechanized processing of blue bin material that comes from the trucks that pick up at the curb around the city. Also handles commercial recycling from Office Buildings in the downtown area. Recology also has another lease on the ports back lands sustainable crushing is a recology affiliate and handles concrete recycling and mixed concrete and asphalt recycling on about 7 acres of the port. Recology is a big company handling a lot of materials in San Francisco. Their main facility is at 501 tunnel avenue. Thats hope to the transfer station for organic material on the way to composting. The black bin material trash is handled through that site. Its also home to c and d, our construction and demolition debris recycling today. This is an image of the sorting work that is happening at recycle center today. This is the hard work of being a sustainable city. We really appreciate all the diversion activities that go on here. Recycle center employs 175 people. These are really well paid positions with promotive opportunities throughout the company. Recology has an excellent record of hiring in the zip codes in the neighborhoods around the facility of the zip codes in the area and hired 161 employees. Cities got very strong standards for recycling and landfill diversion. In 2002 i was working and supervisor amianos office when he had this resolution and landfill diversion of 75 by 2010 and ultimately the Environmental Commission had a goal of zero by 2020 and policies that the city should pursue the highest and best use of materials recycled and consumers and producers have a responsibility for the waste streams that they create. Since that resolution and since the construction of facilities like recycle center the city has done an excellent job of reducing the amount of material sent to landfill. Through policies like the mandatory c and d recycling requirements so anytime theres a demolition project in the city materials have to be sorted and recycled, and this goes to the citys broader Climate Action plan so this is the zero50hundred roots strategy adopted through the environment commission. There are four main strategies to reach the climate goals. Zero to wasteland fill. 50 of trips by sustainable modes and 100 Renewable Energy and what can we do to protect and carbon think and composting is a major component of that strategy so now i would like to hand it over to recology to describe the proposed construction and debris recycle facility at pier 96. Good afternoon president adams, fellow commissioners, director forbes. I am the general manager for recology San Francisco, and recently the Recology Company submitted a refuse rate application to the city and county of San Francisco with several key initiatives targeted increasing diversion and furthering the zero waste goal. Recology proposed revamping the Collection Program by combining organics and trash into one truck and recycles into another truck and reduce the truck trips going to recycle center at pier 96. In addition to this it will allow for substantial more capacity on the blue cart routes. As part of the citywide rerouting efforts recology will provide smaller containers and larger recycling bins to reduce the trash generated and increase the level level of diversion and the material from the black carts. Given the nature this material must be processed in the tunnel road facility which is currently very space constrained. The project before the commission this afternoon contemplates moving the construction and demolition recycling operation to pier 96 to allow us to retrofit the building to process unsorted trash or what essentially remains in the black bin. Relocating this operation to pier 96 allows recology to modernize the processing operation and enabling us to source and employ the newest Processing Technology available and move from arguably out dated manual sorting process to a mechanical sorting system that will be capable of diverting an additional 20 more demolition and construction debris. Recology is looking to work with the port of San Francisco to amend the lease on the pier next facility and 7 acres of land next to the existing lease hold. Were interested in securing a lease for any Additional Space within the mnr building to the west of our existing lease hold. The image on this slide shows the existing mnr building, the proposed recology building and the existing recycle shed in the background and image shows a new scale plaza were installing as part of this project and allow us to efficiently and effectively rescale the trucks for the operation and the existing pier 96 operation. This proposal represents a significant investment in the citys solid waste infrastructure. The investment in the structure as well as the equipment in the building will be nearly 70 million and generate additional rent for the port of San Francisco and revitalize portion of the southern most waterfront tell represent a commit to the zero waste goal of the city. The facility will increase the citys ability to process more material to keep up with the robust economy and construction cycle and generate higher diversion rates and the tons processed and provide employ eeth employees modern state of the art facility and free up land at the tunnel complex and pursue waste processing opportunities. Thank you. So thinking about pier 96 today this is the area west of the pier 96 shed, sort of between pier 96 shed and herons head park. Maurice talked about the maintenance and repair building that has a number of tenants in it. We have tenants used some of the paved land in this area. We believe that weve identified relocation space for the interim non maritime tenants. Under the proposal we would keep the maritime access. This is Shallow Water in this area. Its just a depth of about 6 feet so really the maritime users are barge users that can navigate to this area, so a lease would accommodate that continued use. We have rail in this area too both along the stringer next to pier 96 then out to pier 94 terminal used by Sf Bay Railroad and accommodate that use in the area. Unfortunately pier 96 has sunk since it was constructed in 1972 by about 3 feet so we have periodic flooding particularly in king tide events. This is a real opportunity given the size and scope of this project to address the problems the seawall and the flooding that we see today as well as address future flood risks. This is a plan view of the new building next to the pier 96 shed in between that shed and the maintenance and repair building, and you can see you know on the lower portion of the slide some of the maritime activities and barge activities that would continue. The level of investments that is considered here maurice said 70 million. 50 million is this new building, paving the area and Stormwater Improvement and it is other 20 million the new recycling equipment that would increase rates for the city so weve done a little preliminary analysis of this proposal to share with you today. The pier 96 maritime terminal, the cargo Container Terminal closed in 1998. The pier 96 latch facility itself has a very limited water depth and we would continue the berting activeity i mentioned and this would permit industrial uses. We believe that the use that recology proposes is consistent with the piers 80 through 96 maritime eco industrial strategy. Theres a link to that strategy in the staff report for this item, and we would bring substantial investment to the area. Piers 80 through 96 this area is designated by the city as a potential location for debris after an earthquake. Having the c and d recycling capacity there adjacent to the rail and burrs would be good for the city in recovery of a major event. We think that the lease proposal its 12 years and two five year options is consistent with the waterfront plan and leasing in the southern waterfront for a project of this scale. So on to next steps. This is a big proposal, and with the commissions direction staff would conduct significant Public Outreach to the southern waterfront Advisory Committee, the maritime commerce Advisory Committee, the india basin neighborhood association, the echo center at hereon heads park and good to get together with constituencies and to discuss the proposal and see the area from the center and do outreach to the board of supervisors and president breed and district 10 Supervisor Malia Cohen and if i could go over a few steps required if this project is to go forward depending on the results of that Public Outreach. We would need to prepare a more formal public trust and waterfront plan analysis of the proposed use. Part of that would be developed in consult aiz with bcdc and state lands. We would enter or propose to the Port Commission we enter a exclusive negotiating agreement and negotiate a term sheet. Given rent credits that are contemplated in this agreement we think that there would need to be both Port Commission and board of supervisors endorsement of a term sheet and feasibility prior to ceqa and come back to you after public out reach. That concludes my presentation and available for questions as well as jack from the department of the environment and maurice from recology. Thank you. Thank you. David. And david is the one i have a card if you but i notice workers from recology. I am glad you came and if you want to speak please hit the mike. Thank you and i think we should hit from them. I wanted to speak in support of this proposal and the next steps that brad outlined, the importance that maurice talked about. This is a major facility in relocating the cnd processing from tunnel to pier 96 would go towards the citys zero waste goals, improve the capacity, not just the capacity but the diversion because right now theyre limited in both ways, would allow the repurposes of the facility at tunnel to process black bin waste. I agree with all the next steps that brad talked about. Just a couple of quick comments though. I am not sure if the fiscal feablity needs to happen before the ceqa review or if they can run concurrently. If theres a way to start the ceqa process on the proposed facility at risk while the fiscal feasibility is pursued that would optimize the schedule and built and operational sooner rather than later because its a tight time frame in order to get the zero waste goal by 2020 if were going to actually process black bin material by the end of 2020 then this Facility Needs to up and running sooner than later. The stormwater i talked about early item and the rail access is important. I support the continued operation of the rail but i think we could require as part of both the existing recycle center and the i mrf that a number of trips or cargo is done by rail and less trucks and maritime and industrial uses in the area. I am sure the Community Wants improvements to cargo way for a variety of reasons so reports back from the robust outreach and also from Visitacion Valley and the changes contemplated there and not in port jurisdiction but related to the changes here and helpful to the commission so i look forward to your support and hope that they are back as soon as possible with good staff work to make this project a reality for all of us. Thanks. Thanks david. If any workers from recology or the community we would love to hear from you. Please get up and hit the mike. Thank you. Good afternoon. I have been an employee for recology for 17 years now. Im a native in San Francisco and born in the bay view area. I would like to thank recology for giving the opportunity in bay view and hiring from the zip codes and giving us opportunity to work. Recology is a Great Company. I will say we hire from there because were Employee Owned. We dont have too many Employee Owned companies in San Francisco and to be a part of that is a great thing because a lot of companies dont offer that and we give back to the community. Thats another reason i love working with recology. We did a toy drive for the boys and girls club and did it for years and beautified the boys and girls club so recology is a Great Company and open up opportunities for more residents in those areas to have employment and i just want to say thank you. Thank you. Can i just ask you one question before you leave . You mentioned participating in the toy drive. You can tell me the percentage roughly of the employees that participated in that . 100 . We reach out to all the companies in San Francisco. Thats the answer i was looking for. Thank you for doing that. Its extraordinary. Hi. I am damon wilson and working for recology for three years. I am a native of San Francisco by way of my grandparents and in the bayview Hunters Point and i moved out and worked for a company new United Motors and around ten years ago. I was one of the displaced workers there. It was an Excellent Company to work for. A lot of bad things said about the company but i had a different view and allowed me to buy property in my property and travel the world and see things i never seen before. When i was let go i didnt know what i was going to do. I didnt have a degree and even though i worked with people with degrees and jumping into the layoff system but we had families and homes and Different Things we had to take care of too. Coming back to San Francisco being with my family i found myself in a different position and changing the career and it was recology. They gave me the opportunity of a lifetime to sustain my life and my family as well. With the benefits they had i have two new kids its been awesome. If it wasnt for recology i couldnt say where i would be right now. I wanted to share that with you and thank you for your time. Thank you. Hello. My name is jesus torres and i have been with recology for over a year. When i moved to San Francisco and i learned about recology and their ideology it immediately encouraged me to work for the company. After several times apply further position i landed a interview and at the time i got the opportunity to work for pier 96 recycle center. It was a satisfying feel and made me i reached a goal in life. Working for recology allows me to provide for my family and Retirement Plan and benefits makes me it to give it all for the next 30 years at a Great Company like recology. Thank you. Hit the mic. Hi. My name is joe jason and resident of indian basin and i probably live about 300yards from the facility and i live across the bay. I am neutral opinion about this but i wanted to share that there is a lot of audio issues, a lot of decibels so we can hear the forklifts and trucks and hear the train horn going quite a bit in regard to this facility and then with respect to transportation theres a lot of trucks going and out of the cargo way and associated area and they travel at a high speed. Obviously i dont know the exact speed but its a known issue stay away from the recology trucks when on the bicycle because they go very fast and an observation and i want to say am of neutral opinion here. Thank you. Thank you. Can i ask a question . Go ahead. So theyre bringing in a lot of trash. Do you ever have is there ever smell issues . We dont have smell issues but i live southeast of it so i dont know if that has anything to do with it. I guess the wind trafls north. I am just wondering. Just a lot of audio. I can hear the forklifts in the middle of the night. Thank you. Are you going to come up . Good afternoon commissioners. Eric smith with the San Francisco bay railroad. A hard act to follow the great speakers and great to see mr. Benson there. For those that have been at pier 96 and how flooded it gets its a golden opportunity and recology is a great neighbor and i am supportive of that. We only blow the horns when crossing intersections and required by law. I think this is a great opportunity and glad theyre vetting through the community and rail service will continue out there and plans to relocate the rail and i would be remiss if i didnt mention that and this is a great opportunity for the infrastructure out there and Everything Else going on and theyre very good company too so thank you. Is there anymore Public Comment on 11c . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. Commissioner brandon. Brad and maurice thank you so much for this presentation. I think its wonderful and i would like to thank recology for being such a good tenant and hiring from the various communities and thank you very much for that. paused . We have west guard doing berthing along the stringer. We expect the uses to continue. I believe that maurice is already in touch with representatives of sill rad doe who is a marine demolition contractor that autopsies some of the space so we think that theres a way to make it all Work Together and to promote maritime activities through this lease. And so would this lease have any type of Maritime Component . So it depends on theres a couple of ways that silnever rado recology. As to recologys activities we think there maybe opportunities for rail. Cnd recycling produces metal that needs to be recycled so its a potential to have it on rail. We will continue to work with recology on whether or not their water transit opposites for other materials paused . And that revenue is in addition or combined with the total project. Thats in addition to what were getting. We have to look at the various site proves. Pier 96 improvements. Pier 96 seawall is 50 years old. There are holes in it. Port maintenance has to patch the holes. Its maybe the seawall needs to be replaced and this might be a strategy to accomplish that for funding so we have to look at whether you want to invest some of the 1. 7 million in improvements to the maritime terminal and those options will bring forward in later presentations to the commission but this is new rent. Okay. And then there was some mention in the report about rent credits. So there would be site improvements, new paving in the area, things that normally would be you know fit the Port Commissions policy for rent credits. Any Capital Improvements that are proposed for rent credits would be brought to you bless you any proposed Capital Improvements that are subject to rent credits are subject to the commissions approval like this. Would this facility be able to help with the existing piles that we have out there now . So commissioner brandon i believe youre talking about the sustainable crushing piles on the back lands and we know that recology is advertising this material actively right now. Weve got the potential that [inaudible] may need it for the wp sites. I think the warriors are also looking at this material. Port is planning to use some of the material as part of the back lands Improvement Project. I think our shared goal is get the piles down and really to examine whether or not to continue accepting that mixed asphalt and concrete material on the back lands because it doesnt appear to have a longterm market in San Francisco. After you do your outreach you will have concrete answers to the questions. Concrete answers. I love that. [laughter] and hopefully with the new facility the equipment will be more modern and it wont make as much noise for the neighbors. Yeah, and noish is an issue that is examined through the ceqa process. You know were aware that there are a lot of users out there and both residents in indian basin and the park and wildlife and we need to be aware about sound. Thank you. Thank you and can i reference the odor question that came up earlier . So theres not a vector problem at pier 96. Its handling mainly dry recycling materials and not a lot of food stream and the vector stream and i wanted to answer that. But i think theres an odor problem not that recology has it but i think some of the tenants have an odor problem [inaudible] were familiar with what youre talking about. [laughter] commissioner brandon asked so many Great Questions i think that im covered. I just would like to commend the recology staff for coming in and telling your stories. Its great to hear from all of you. Commissioner katz. Similar like commissioner brandon asked the questions that i have been pondering also. I was going to ask about the odor to explain that but i want to thank recology for being a great participant in the fabric of the city and a home grown company that gives back like the employ employees were talking about and i want to highlight the phenomenal participation of the employees in their charitable activity in the community. I dont think you find that many like that and goes toward the citys effort of zero waste and San Francisco has set the standard and been in no small part to the partnership with recology and working to reduce the waste in throughout the city so i just want to thank them and i am looking forward to seeing this project continue and frankly looking forward to seeing more people getting employed locally in San Francisco as the facility moves into the pier there. If and when it does it will bring in new workers and attrition occurs with the workers look to see more locals employed in those spots as they open up and thank you for the efforts and excited about the project. Brad i appreciate the presentation and thank the workers for recology also. Like commissioner kounalakis for sharing your story and anytime you have industrial i myself a union man and in the port there is smells and noise and thats the way it is. Going up and down the waterfront there is noise. Its lively and vibrant and thats the way it goes, but i am looking forward to you coming back and i really think that this could be a great opportunity and to employ people we just got talking about affordable housing. Now were talking about jobs and to be able to empower our community and stuff like that and thats what were supposed to be doing and i look forward to you coming back and how this will work and the Maritime Component eric mentioned about the rail and its important for us and the port to have a freight rail. I know right now that the governor his biggest thing is high speed rail but we need freight rail for the port and if can take trucks off the road and cut down on congestion by rail and more efficient and better for the community so thank you. Can i ask when do you plan on coming back . So i think we havent talked about it so im going to offer an off the top answer here which i think we need probably about a month for Community Outreach component. I think we might be able to be back in front of you at some point in april to talk about some of the next steps, the ena term sheets et cetera. Thank you. Madam secretary next item please. Item 12 a informational presentation regarding the request for proposals for restaurant opportunity at pier 33 north at bay street and embarcadero. Good afternoon commissioners. Jay edwards Senior Property manager and i am joined by sandra. She is the northeast waterfront property manager and share in the presentation with me and were here to talk to you about an informational item and its discussion about this upcoming request for proposals that were planning on issuing for pier 33 north, and im going to share with you a brief overview of the site, venue and location and business terms and sandra will take you through the business criteria and outreach and our schedule so this is an overview of the location and the site. This was occupied by the butterfly restaurant which had a good run of ten plus years and its been operating as a restaurant site for 30 continuous years so theres been a variety of other restaurants there and as you can see its a very good location between alcatraz, our cruise terminals and business parks across the street and residents in the area so were hoping to attract a wide variety of customers for this site, and we think its that its time for a refresh concept the butterfly was innovative when first opened but there is Competitive Pressure for restaurants so we had a mutual termination and now the space is vacant and ready to roll out a new request for proposal. Okay. Interesting so this is a sort of a [inaudible] [off mic] yeah, a rendering of a photo of the bulkhead building and the red awnings is where the former restaurant was located and has good identity along the embarcadero. It also has a high pedestrian Traffic Count and theres parking lot right across the street so now were looking inside the restaurant and if you look on the right you can see theres really great bay views out pier 35 and 33 on the other side, and then theres high ceilings. Its hope but has an intimate feeling and hoping to capitalize on that so the vision is casual, fun, affordable and appeal to a wide variety of customers and were proposing here is that the business terms, the key business terms would be ten year lease with possibly for option to extend depending on the Capital Improvements invested. The rent is greater of a base rent or percentage rent all based on fair market value and the Capital Investment would be sufficient to bring the property up to all the codes, any type of regulatory requirements and plus give it attractive and appealing look, a refreshment of the site if you will, and so with that go to the next slide there. We will move on to the selection criteria here. Our primary goal really is to identify and attract qualified experienced Restaurant Operators to this location. In addition the rfp is expected to identify numerous opportunities for lbe for permitting, design and construction and operations of the proposed restaurant so keeping all that in mind we developed the five primary selection criteria. First is the proposed concept. We are looking at overall appeal to prospective customers, the marketing plan, the plan for maximizing sales, attracting customers. Operating plan hours, how long theyre open and what days are they open . What is the menu going to look like . What is the pricing going to look like or the price point of the items . Design and Capital Investment. We will be looking at what their proposal is for the interior and exterior of the design, renderings floor plans and so so they submit the proposal. What is the initial amount they intend to put into the construction of the improvements . Experience and financial capacity. We want to see that proposers are experienced in running a full Service Restaurant for five of the last seven years at a minimum so were looking with somebody with experience running a full service sit down restaurant. We will also look ata source of funding for improvements, how much cash theyre investing and loan sources, that kind of thing. Well look at rent and Business Plan so the intent is to establish a minimum base rent and minimum percentage rent for this project but we also be looking at pro forma for operations whether the Ongoing Operations funds are coming from, projected revenues. Is the revenue stream going to support the operating expenses for the lawn haul . And we will look at local business participation. We want to look at see obviously we have a proposer lbe or partnered with one but were not requiring necessarily a specific lbe operator. We will be considering whether the proposer of the team submits and including professional services from lbe partners. That could be architects. Design construction that sort of thing as well as Operations Services that could be provided once the restaurant is open. I will talk about the outreach we have done to this point. We had a table at the Community Contract open house that was hosted by the port so commissioner brandon you were present at that. We had a table there. We actually had this fact sheet for this opportunity available. We had a lot of interest from the community particularly with respect to those support Services Designed construction, operations and so forth so were are encouraged by that. We had outreach and presentations made to Community Organizations for the past months and we will have a partnering session as part of our preproposal conference and outreach and give people again an opportunity to make connections and create partnerships with each other, and part of that will also be then during the meeting the site tour and so forth and people can make connections and proposers can solidify their team. Thank you sandy. So heres the tentative schedule were proposing to move forward on really to deliver this by the end of the year. Thats the goa. Theres a number of steps here outlined from front of and you back in front you have with the rfp in hand to get the approval to go out and interested receiving feedback and that concludes our presentation. Thank you. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment on 12a . Is there anybody have anything they would like to say on 12a . Seeing none Public Comment is closedded. Commissioner katz. Thank you of the i am excited to see something new and lively coming in there hopefully. Just a question on some of the criteria in terms of the i might have missed this the Capital Investment that you anticipate would be required there. Do we have a ballpark of what we think that would be . Weve looked at that. Were actually doing a facility assessment right now to see what that may be. Theres going to be pretty substantial investment in new equipment and also the aesthetic piece of it but we want to ascertain what are the code upgrade costs so at this present time we dont have a number specifically for you commissioner. And you said in terms of experience roughly five years, five year history . Yes minimum five years during the last seven of running a similar type of restaurant. Okay. Just in terms of sort of reaching how we do outreach to finding a little more diversity along the tenants along the waterfront its sort of a catch 22 but perhaps if we have the rfp worded in a way that allow a partnership that would enable or some scenario a partnership of more financial bablging that would bring in more dynamic restaurateur that might not have the requisite of five to seven Years Experience per se but meet the criteria and operated something smaller and step up and perhaps some flexibility in that. Absolutely we can. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner kounalakis. What is the square foot afnlg the site . Its approximately 4,000 square feet for the actual restaurant and there is potentially up to another 2500 square feet of support space that could be available. So this is the first kind of briefing of its kind since i have been on the commission and i am really curious how the process varies from say if you were leasing a restaurant space through an ordinary process, so for instance if it were privately owned piece of property then you could hire a Brokerage Firm and they would advertise it and it wouldnt necessarily be an rfp; right . You would just wait until the user came along that bid that submitted a bid that you thought was good and market rate and then you would move forward, so i guess what i am wondering is how from your point of view is this process different . And do you feel that it really gets out there, the advertising gets out there, so anyone looking right now for space in San Francisco to operate a restaurant knows this is an option . And number two, yeah what kind of both hurdles are there for a cheese cake factory or you know on the one side on the one extreme or a great little cafe that has opened up in a part of the city thats locally you know a mom and pop what kind of hurdles do they have . And just overall the anything i am missing here in terms what makes the leasing of this site to a restaurant different than an ordinary private sector process . And you dont have to talk too long because i know were going over and im the new one here. Thank you for your questions. Perhaps i can take maybe in reverse order if you dont mind . So the rfp process and the way were proposing it here gives us the qualitative approach and maybe a little bit of the private sector. Its more i think the private sector having been in the private sector and more quantitative and whats the rent . Whats the credit . Do we have an existing relationship and so forth . And in this case were using a qualitative approach and why we have the criteria that we set up and allow us to look at the operator, how theyre going to do it, what approach theyre going to take and a lot of details you wouldnt see perhaps in the private sector so it gives us a chance to really provide some sort of analysis and a panel too and a difference of a private sector and that perspective and outside perspective so in many ways it makes it we hope even though its more laborious for everyone here and including you and us. I think we do get a fully vetted process though and its a fair and transparent process and i think thats what the public wants. I believe so. In terms of the outreach its our committee to do the maximum outreach. We really are we have started that. Bob davis who is here with us. He can talk about a little bit if you like but we are trying to get this out to the public and thats why we wanted to be included in the community lb open house. We wanted this to be featured as an opportunity for the public, so with those efforts accommodation biened with the good combined with the overview and input from the panel we hope to get somebody special from the site and fit in with the port and we look at that on that basis and in the private sector you may look at this particular location you have we need to take a broader perspective so i think thats a long answer. Im sorry but hopefully that answered most of the questions. [inaudible] [off mic] from your perspective youre the leasing agent basically; right . I guess you could call me that. So do you feel this gets advertised widely across the city and beyond for people who are out there looking for restaurant sites in San Francisco . I think it does so between the outreach to a lot of the Community Organizations, the event that we held, interest lists that we have been developing and continue to develop you know it gets out in the community that this restaurant space is available and people start calling so the network in that industry is out there and were getting phone calls from people, and taking down information to let them when the rfp is actually released and available. Okay thanks. Commissioner brandon. Thank you so much for this presentation. This is a wonderful opportunity. Do you know why it seems like there have been multiple restaurants at this location . Do you know the challenges of this location . And why theres not a lot of success . We have thought about this and rob did a good job running the restaurant. He had success in its own way. I think that the challenge i see or that we see collectively is its busy there. Theres a lot going on so it can get kind of lost in the mix a lot bit. You have alcatraz and pedestrian traffic and potentially cruise dates that are happening all around it and its a little bit kind of midblock somewhat so its in a long stretch of a pier 29 bulkhead building. I think in terms of the also. You have to appeal to the mark that is there and im not sure its been done yet. I dont think the operators if you go back in history a lot of things have change the but if you look at the amount of people in the neighborhood that are going by daily. All of us weve gone by it a couple of times a week at least. I think if somebody can capitalize and provide a wide variety to meet kind of a broad diverse population i believe they will have some success but thats why were excited to see what we get and what happens. If i may jay one of the things you told me along with sandra that the Dining Experience is long dining and higher price point and staff is targeting a grab and go and lower price market and kacialg and on the go. So thats what were looking for, not fine dining but grab and go . Yes. So with the selection criteria say you have five proposals and they all have the minimum qualifications how will you differentiate between the proposals and select one . So thats a bit of art. Its going to be a panel basis. Were going to be really you know, getting the panel i think thats number one, getting a really good panel put together. Thats key. People that have experience with this, so its not just our thoughts outside groups that can really contribute and i think its one of those things im not sure we can describe it to you, but we know it if we saw it a little bit. But how would i know it . You will know it when you see it. I mean are you [inaudible] to each of the criteria or you know is it and then the local business participation. Where does that play into it . Yeah, we want it but you dont get anything extra for it. So its a point system and how you set up the points and theyre all i wouldnt call them heavily weighted on one side or the other. It has to be were looking for a balanced approach. We dont want to see too much of one or another and i know this is i am being im sorry, vague. Okay. But you will get a chance to see because we will have more categories put in there with points. When we come back with the rfp you will see more detail so its lacking in detail but we will provide it. Good work. I have a question and follow up on that question. Are you limited to a certain type of restaurant to me can they pay and i used to eat at butterflies, right and, have 4,000 square feet so should it be open to anybody that can come in and maybe transform that . Because we live in a 30 with 30 million tourists a year and people from the cruise ship or alcatraz and stiems its how you run a restaurant and not everybody is good and run it in different styles but maybe he had a good ten years . Thats a good run. Its like a stock. You might buy a stock and it might be good for a couple of years and then you have to dump the stock and get another stock. Its the way it is; right . In sports and you win and go through a period and dont win and get traded but i will say is it open to everybody and have you reached out to all over the city and maybe somebody has a specialty restaurant and they own three, four restaurants and not a big restaurant but a smaller restaurant and it can be nice; right . Like i like go to kak aris and is it hope to everybody . We want it open from the port staffs perspective want it open and diverse to everybody really. Thats wearing what were serving. Were serving a diverse population and the operator is key and looking for experience and a well run you can see it as you go out to restaurants as you do commissioner. You can see a well run experienced and bring in the components. We want that and encouraging that and want a team approach. Weaver back to commissioner brandons question and evaluating the team they put in front of us and going to start with the operator who is hopefully can rally this great team around him and with that we would then get something that maybe we havent seen or even thought about and yes the outreach component of it going to be really important and thats what were really going to focus on in the next phase is how do we get the word out . How do we promote this as a great opportunity . So were excited. You want a great professional coming in and not somebody struggling. Absolutely. You dont want somebody struggling and somebody that is well established and knows what theyre doing and knows how to win and run an efficient restaurant so we can have a great restaurant there. Thank you. Youre welcome. Madam secretary next item. Item 13 a and request for proposals for Program Management Engineering Consultant services to support the seawall resiliency project. Good evening commissioners, president adams, i love the hat. Executive director forbes. Im a stanford grad so be careful im a beers. Bears too. Equal opportunity. Were here too. Members of the public. I dont know i didnt am wearing red. Just happens. I am the project manager Engineering Division and we have staff here and the coordinator from finance administration will present this item. This is an action item to request Commission Approval to request request for proposals for engineering and Consultant Services to support the seawall resiliency project. This project supports the ports strategic goals of resiliency and leading the efforts to address threats from earthquake, flood risks and livability and increasing the funds spent by the port by engagement enterprises and knowledge of the Seawall Program and the relationship with the bay and stability by increasing innovative funding solutions. The seawall resiliency project is to improve earthquake safety and protection along the waterfront and the mission is have a program to repair the seawall and critical improvements by the end of 2025 and include advantaged age and deter action and earthquake and coastal flooding due to extreme storms and Sea Level Rise. Level of the bay increased 8 inches over 100 years and expected to raise 36 inches in the century. And the full cost for the seawall upgrades from pier 35 to Mission Creek is between two to 5 billion. 500 million is currently estimated for critical upgrades and the budget carrying forward subject to modification during development of the Overall Program. Current project fund suggest 9. 5 million. And were scheduled to go before voters for approval of 350 million in general Obligation Bond funding. We established phases and budgets and general timeline. Weve completed the initial studies to define earthquake and flood vulnerables and the goals of overall objectives and engage stakeholders develop alternatives and develop an Overall Program and complete preliminary design and engineering and Environmental Review on the critical improvements followed by final design and construction. The budgets here are total budgets and include port and city staff, consultants contracts and project contingencies. To complete this project we will need resources and expertise beyond port and city staff. The strategy we developed includes the opportunities. The Program Manager and Engineering Consultant, this is the subject of todays request. They will provide Planning Engineering design and Environmental Services to develop the overall Seawall Program and complete design and Environmental Review for the improvements. This Contract Value is up to 40 million with a term of ten years. Communications consultant. This contract will provide Marketing Strategic Communications and Public Outreach for the project through planning and design phases. The rfp is advertised currently. Final design one or more contracts for final design of the improvements. One or more Construction Contracts will done for the improvements and may contain any of these issues and contracts and Construction Management support. We anticipate Construction Support Services will be required to assist port and city Construction Management groups. Program management and Engineering Consultant contract is vital to moving the project forward. The primary scope includes planning and Program Development, Environmental Review, preliminary design and initialing, management assistance and review of final design and construction by others, essential skills and expertise of this include infrastructure planning, Program Development and management, coastal engineering, structural and geotechnical engineering, earthquake engineering and seismology, Environmental Assessment and permitting, waterfront urban design including Historic Preservation. I would like to invite boris up to go over details of the rfp. Good afternoon commissioners im the ports contract coordinator and joined the Contract Monitoring Division Compliance Officer thats assigned to the port. In terms of a schedule our goal is to commence the advertisement and so lisment in late march and two weeks later we will hold a presubmittal meeting at the office. Proposals are due in late april. We anticipate reviewing the proposals and selecting a winner by the end of may and returning to you for contract award in june. The resulting contract is a solicitation of over 10 million which requires a board of supervisors approval. Our goal would be go to the board in july and then commence this contract notice to proceed in august. The Contract Monitoring Division set a 15 lbe subcontracting goal for this project. The potential roles include geotechnical engineering, structural engineering, civil initialing and cost estimating, environment services, testing and inspection services. There are a number of contracts as steven mentioned that are resulting from the seawall resilience project and the first was issued last week and the communications contract. It has an not to exceed amount of 1. 7 million and subcontracting goal. The bulk of the subcontracting dollars allocated from the seawall project will come from the final design and construction work. Based on similar projects that we have researched we anticipate that goal to be about 20 that lbe subcontracting goal. Working with cmd to set goal for this project we looked at similar programs citywide. The closest in size and scope were programs that were issued through the Public Utilities commission. We looked at the sewer system Improvement Project and the water system Improvement Project and similar large scale multiyear contracts. Ssip had a 10 lbe goal and the wsip to hetch hetchy and goal of 13 so we will work to go higher than 15 on this specific contract but we will also be able to increase the Overall Program goal with the final design and Construction Contracts which at this point were estimate to be about 20 . In terms of the Selection Process similar to the last presentation we will appoint a evaluation panel. The Selection Panel will be made up of at minimum of two port employees and two non port employees. The panel will have expertise and knowledge in the area and the objectives. Once the proposals are submitted we have an internal group to review the minimum qualifications and determine whether they have met all of the formatting requirements, the lbe requirements and whether the proposals are responsive and responsible to the rfp. After that happens we convene the panel. The scoring criteria will include the experience of the firm, their knowledge of the port, the experience of the project team, the work approach, how they will how they will preach each of the disciplines, how they work with port staff. We will score references. Written proposals are worth 100 points and we will invite the top four highest ranked firms to return for oral interviews. The interviews will have a similar break down and worth 100 points. We will the final score, the highest ranked will have the highest combined scores and do that with the highest rank prop poser and return to you for award of the contract. In terms of outreach we formally initiated the rfp process on march 1 with our contracts opportunities open house. Over 200 individuals attended that event and very successful. This initiative and rfp was the trigger for that event. We featured it prominently. Once we issue the rfp we will also post it on the website. The Contract Office of Contract Administration website. I have attended meetings. Ive gone to the africanamerican chamber of commerce to promote this opportunity. We will go to other chambers and outreach to lbes and presubmittal meeting in april which will another networking opportunity for prime and subcontractors. At this point we feel good about the outreach, the word is out. I think theres a lot of contractors standing behind me now and they know this is coming and theres a lot of interest in working with the port and on this initiative. In conclusion we respectfully request your authorization to issue the rfp and steven and i are here to answer any questions that you have. So moved. Second. Is there any Public Comment on 13a . Is there any Public Comment on 13a . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. Commissioner brandon. Thank you so much for this report. You guys did such a thorough job that joaf any questions. Thank you. [laughter] really . Really. Commissioner kounalakis. All right. I have a couple. I am trying to remember from the last time we talked about the seawall. It seemed to me it was still unclear what the best solution was going to be in terms of repairing, rebuilding where . So it seems to me that i mean i dont know but it seems to me you have the estimated cost of the conceptual level between 2 billion to 5 billion for full replacement or critical upgrades of 500 million and the scope to be determined but then schedule and budget it looks as though you decided were going for critical upgrades and the question is that correct . That what i am reading . Thats correct. Between the last time we had a presentation on this and now how did we come to that conclusion . The initial vulnerability study, the earthquake vulnerability study and the flood protection study completed previously weve identified a zone around the Ferry Building that appears to be have both seismic risk, has initial flood risks today and a lot of our critical facilities so we honed in in on that to set up the initial budget. However, its important to note that we have not done the extensive Stakeholder Engagement and Program Development thats needed to really finalize a first package. You know were definitely focused on life safety improvements, Critical Infrastructure improvements that need to be functional post earthquake for the City Disaster Response functions, and there maybe other criteria that comes out as we get Program Development phase. For example the constructivity of some of the how much impact they do . If theyre spread out in different areas do we want to attack different areas with an initial project . We may find out that the five human million 500 million are not enough and search for out additional funding and we have to start now and with what we know now this is the best weve got. Okay. Because its a fairly big leap to make that determination and also to identify further that were not looking at rebuilding the seawall. Were looking at fixing the seawall in the critical area around the Ferry Building. Not necessarily. We have to go through the planning process to determine what that project is going to be, those critical improvements. We have ideas now but theyre very much internal ideas. Theyre not and they need to be informed with extensive engagement and a thorough process of additional engineering study, alternative analysis, and alternatives refinement. Right planning phase. Because initialing consultants who Engineering Consultants and how to do critical repairs but not draw the lens back on the bigger question which is the vulnerable itd of San Francisco from flooding or earthquake, what did venice do kind of level of analysis . So are you looking at i mean there are different consulting firms. Some could figure out how to fix what is there and others that take the wholesale innovative look and what do you do about this problem. So will you be targeting firms that have that ability to look at this complex problem from multiple angles . Yes, the latter, definitely the latter. We need to look at it from all the angles. And i can add extra content here so this is considered the planning phase of the project and while engineering is a big part of the contract planning and design will be a big part as well so we will be looking to set a conceptual framework how to respond to Sea Level Rise along our seawall, our vulnerable seawall looking to we have earthquake risk and current risk and Sea Level Rise which is emerging threat and look to what areas we should make secure first and but we will be in this planning phase developing a framework to tackle the entire seawall. Thats what was my understanding so thats why i was surprised by this leap from replacing the seawall to critical upgrades and it was decided but it sounds like its in part decided by the money, so we are on the bond schedule for 350 million in 2018. Were looking for 500 million for the First Investments and critical improvements that relate to San Francisco Emergency Response et cetera that should be addressed first and tackling the repair of the seawall now is not realistic from either a funding standpoint or a project delivery standpoint so we have a staff recommended that we start with critical repairs first and eventually tackle the larger seawall fix or replacement. Okay. Thank you. Commissioner katz. Thank you steven and boris, very thorough. I just had a couple of questions given its going to be broken out in terms of the large share going to the preliminary design environmental work. Is there anything that would preclude any of the or successful bidder on phase from being involved in the subsequent final design and construction phases . So the Program Manager will be on board through final design playing a review role and assisting us, so they would not be able to compete for final design work. Okay. And then just confirming this isnt going to be necessarily a lowest bidder but the whole monopoly of services and as ranked it will be somewhat based on a range of responses as opposed to purely fiscal . Yeah, theyre ranged purely on qualifications and so negotiate with the highly qualified firm to come to an acceptable value and scope. If we cannot do that and we will give ourselves a time limit for that and if not we stop negotiations and move firm two. Got it. Just confirming and thank you very much and for all the outreach done to the community and really and this is a significant project on so many levels and i think really having gone above and beyond in terms of outreach to ensure that we get a broad Cross Section of people aware of what were doing is great so thank you. Boris and Steven Steven i think you guys are both geniuses but i know you had a chance to go to amsterdam to do studies about Sea Level Rise and stuff like that and what was happening over there and in october director forbes and commissioner brandon we were in dropped and talking to leader pelosi and her direct and talking to the army corps of engineers and getting money from them. I am with you. I want to do something because and really go for it because if something happens and were not prepared where it might be 2 billion to fix it and like new orleans and not prepared to fix it and then its eight, 10 billion and where we will come up with the money . I would like to get ahead of that and i was in sack ac and the transportation bill and david chiu is up there and assembly member, scott wiener and we need to ask them you guys need to get money for San Francisco and its out there and get on top of this and dc and meet with secretary chow and make you come to San Francisco and see what were up against. We can do this the easy or hard way. We pay now and up front and look like heroes and if not if something happened and here and come up with the money and i know its a priority for the port and elaine when youre back there and the business people, the chamber need to be knocking on the doors in dc and republicans and democrats and we need to be up front on the issue and need money for San Francisco and need close to 2 billion and we want to fix the whole thing. And i will go back would you work on it from the inside or from the water side in and from the inside its down the embarcadero and people doing business; right . And we want to hurt them doing business and this is our city of tourism and can you work on the water side. Did i say that right . You did. Right now there are very high level concepts how to improve seismic safety on the waterfront. The deal with ground improvement land side highly disruptive to businesses and to the embarcadero and so we also looked at the water side construction technique. We would go out into the bay, do your construction out there and buttress the existing wall and let life on the waterfront exist while this is going on water side. That is controversial because it includes bay fill. The Environmental Review and approval process would potentially take much longer but it may actually be a less cost alternative so its a valid alternative and in this planning phase we need to look at all alternatives. We need to get everything on the table and then develop those, rank them, refine them, start to whittle that down and thats the intent of this planning phase. Our goal is to be complete with the planning phase by 2018 so we have a good idea what works along the waterfront. Have you guys had any discussions with the army corps of engineers and have they said anything . We sure have and were working on the final strategy with them. There are pitfalls but right now we actually next Commission Meeting were bringing to youa i feasibility cost sharing agreement with the army corps of engineers for a project and continuing Authorities Program and federal interest of 5 million and its looking at a portion of the waterfront for flood protection improvements south of the Ferry Building. Thats our start with the corps. We think that can pivot to a larger general investigation project and so we do have our foot in the door with them under the cavstudy. They determined federal interest for us and ready to kick off the Feasibility Study in partnership with us and our goal is turn into a general investigation. Huge project. Yeah. Its huge. Its exciting, right, but its historic as well. And of course theres lots of changes with regulation you know. Who knows whether or not there is staff at the army corps. Who knows if there is massive deregulation. Who knows if there is an epa tomorrow. All of these difficult to predict scenarios but i think its just were in such a fortunate situation that the mayor is prioritizing it and up to us to talk to the public and fix it quickly and the best solution at the best price and stanford okay and maybe berkeley would have been better but its really a huge challenge and opportunity. Its a huge challenge. The dual threat, the earthquake threat which is at the door step any day and the Sea Level Rise threat which is emerging and trying to balance those, what actions we can take now, its going be extremely difficult to hone in on the project that supports both. I support you being very proactive. Thank you everybody for going out on this and doing what we have to do. Okay colleagues since there is no more discussion. All in favor of resolution 1714 . Aye. Opposed . Pass unanimously. Madam secretary next item please. Informational presentation on the ports report on contracting activity for first and second quarters of fiscal year 201617. Good afternoon. I am the administrator with staff from the Contract Monitoring Division. The matter before you is an informational overview of the ports contract activity. For the first two quarters of fiscal year 201617 thats the period that covers july 1 to december 31 and follow up to the report september stwefn. I will talk about the ordinance. I will go quickly. I know you had a long meeting tonight and talk about lbe certification and the firms and contracts awarded and payments made on open contracts. I will talk about local hire and upcoming opportunities. The local Business Enterprise program was designed to level the Playing Field for businesses bidding on contracts. It affords bid districts and subcontracting goals for certified lbes. There are 1197lbes and increase of 30 since the last time i came here. I had a conversation at length tw the certification manager. They have made changes and growth in firms for the first time in a few years and over the last five months theres been a study increase and so i think in the next report we will see even larger increase in lbe firms so i think thats a positive note. They also made Administrative Changes and the time to become certified has gone from 60 days to 45 days and 25 increase in the certification process. The break down of firms is 23 women owned and 40 other Business Enterprises and 37 minority owned firms with 45 of minority firms as Asian American, africanamerican firms make up 25 of the currently certified lbe and Latino American firms are 23 . In terms of our contracts awarded during this period for the First Six Months of the fiscal year we awarded 9. 2 million in contracts through six new contracts. Five of the six contracts went to lbe firms as prime contractors. Thats 83 of the contracts awarded at the prime level. The bulk of the contract dollars that we awarded during the period came from two specific contracts and the Mission Bay Ferry Landing and the crane cove park Site Preparation contract. Those combined were responsible for 92 of the contracts we did award. The remaining contracts however we issued as micro lbe set aside and as Small Contracts put out to bid for only lbes and oarve all we were able to award 41 of all dollars to lbe firms. Heres another look at the prime contracts we awarded again six valued at 9. 2 million and five went to minority owned businesses. Of those five contracts three went to Asian American owned firms and two went to africanamerican owned lbe businesses. Whereas the last slide showed the number of prime contracts awarded this represents the contract dollars. As from the pie chart on the left the performance was 41 and o bes 4 of dollars. Women owned firms 12 of awards and majority owned businesses won 25 of the contract awards. Those dollars can be further broken down by ethnicity. The chart on the right shows 82 of dollars in the mbe minority enterprise slice went to Asian American firms and the 13 split between africanamerican and latino owned firms. As i mentioned before these charts were dominated by two contracts. 92 or 8. 5 million of the dollars awarded came through the construction at crane cove park and for the Mission Bay Ferry Landing. The lesson here we need to come up with diverse ways to increase our dollars awarded to lbe firms and encourage diversity at the subcontractor level. We have been on message at the contract open house with the contractors when we have presubmittal meetings this is something we want to see when you do business with the port. In terms of payments we issued 6. 2 million in payments during the reporting period. 31 of those went to lbes. Overall we are our professional service and Construction Contracts are meeting or exceeding the average lbe subcontracting goals. As needed contracts fell 2 below but we expect that to increase as the different scopes of work come online. This slide compares the awards and paymentses over the six months of the past three fiscal years. We awarded six contracts in the first half of each of the last three fiscal years. This time weve gone down a bit with 41 going to lbe firms but we did well in the last two fiscal years and were exceeding the mayors citywide aspirational lbe participation goal of 40 . In terms of local hire these are Construction Projects that are over a Million Dollars. Theyre subject to the local hire ordinance which is implemented by the office of economic and workforce development. Since the inception of the ordinance back in 2011 there have been 15 contracts at the port that have fallen under the ordinance and its requirements. They have all met the ordinance requirements. Currently we have one contract that falls under the threshold and that is the pier 31 roof repair project. The threshold currently for local hire is 30 of hours worked must be done by local San Francisco residents. That project is currently at 40 40 . During the reporting period through the directors delegated authority we a authoritied 2lbe micro set aside contracts and one to Butler Enterprise Group and the other to rdj enterprises and the goal of the work theyre doing for us is to link residents in the surrounding communities, district 10 to port employment opportunities. Though the contract is new one of the considerers has hit the grand running and hired three district 10 residents there and have additional seven individuals that have been cleared and awaiting start dates. Bob davis is managing the other project with Butler Enterprise Group to recruit and promote and hire local residents from the citys sector on port jobs and excited about that initiative and if the work that the team is doing. We have a ton of contracts coming in the next three months, four months and include the one that you heard before. We had Contract Opportunities and open house. People want to come and work for the port. There is buzz out there. Some include construction pier 31 upgrade and the belt line building core and shell. There are seven construction opportunities coming in the next seven to eight months. We have a number of professional Service Contracts and the Sea Level Rise resiliency management and two communication contracts out now and the as needed environmental Service Contracts coming on line next month so theres a lot of activity and a lot of opportunity at the port and all our projects we work to have at least a 20 lbe subcontractorring goal and that is a floor and not a ceiling and we have been able to exceed a lot of those goals. Finally in conclusion the lbe performance for the past six months and 40 to lbe and 30 of payments and one project under the local hire ordinance. We have some contract initiatives that are happening on a parallel track and then just a lot of work coming down the pike in the next six months to a year. That concludes my presentation and i am available for questions that you have. Thanks. Is there any Public Comment on 13b . Any Public Comment on 13b . Seeing none. Public comment is now closed. Commissioner katz. As always boris very, very thorough, so i appreciate your presentation. Are there any a broader question. Are there trends that you see or things that we should be aware and think as we focus on improving our outreach efforts or where we see other things where we might want to address and reduce barriers for participation . I think on the contracting realm you know there are a lot of insurance requirements and barriers that come through working on water for instance and things of that nature so working we im on the lbe Advisory Committee and growd up representatives from different departments and looking at that and bonding and those types of initiatives. I think thats one area where we could have some bonding support that would help firms bid on some of this work. I think were doing we try to break up contracts as much as possible by awarding micro lbe set asides and thats the first level getting into the City Contracting process. We had four during this period i think continuing on that line is important. Is it at all helpful for us to encourage you to explore or encourage the port to explore the feasibility of providing some of that bonding support to potential contractors . I know youre working with citywide but maybe there is something we at the port can do to back that up. We have been talking with the Contract Monitoring Division. They have a program through merry whether and williams that we want to bring to our next open house and feature and talk about some of the Resources Available at the city for bonding and things of that nature. Thank you. Thank you. Boris commissioner brandon doesnt have anything to say. Commissioner kounalakis is next. Commissioner brandon is happy. Actually that was a great presentation, very thorough. Thank you and its terrific. It is really great to see the progress and ensuring that local businesses can really have a good crack at doing work for us and the diversity you know the work to create diversities in terms of hiring practices is also it seems like its really doing what was hoped when these initiatives were put into place so its terrific. Boris thats it no, commissioner brandon. I have nothing to say. [laughter] no, boris thank you so much for this report. I really appreciate all of the effort and everything that has gone into making these numbers what they are today. This is really, really a great much better than the last report, much better so thank you for that. I think the contract opportunity open house was really great. I think it was really well attended and think it generated a lot of interest and i agree that we need to find some way to try and diversify our outreach and interest in all the opportunities that are coming online pier at the port, and i had the opportunity to introduce our executive director to ingrid merrywhether last month and i hope we bring her in prior to next years annual open house. Hopefully we can find some way to at least start the dialogue sometime soon. I think thats an excellent suggestion and these done excellent work for the contractors and businesses in the city through the Bonding Program in the city and working through creative ways to make it easier to do business with the port of San Francisco so boris and i will reach out to her directly. Thank you and thank you so much for all of this. Thank you everyone for making this these opportunities available and a priority. Thank you. Thank you. I second all what my my commissioners said boris. Director. Thank you. You have been listening and a longterm process and were getting there. I am sorry i missed the breakfast that bay but i understand from commissioner brandon and commissioner forbes and great and 200 people and i appreciate it. Madam secretary next item please. 14 new business. Colleagues is there anything you want to the port calendar . Seeing none next item please. Adjourn. In the memory honor. In honor. I move to adjourn the honor of kathryn dodd in retirement. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed . It is 6 35 p. M. Thank you. [gavel] San Francisco is known worldwide for its atmospheric waterfront where spectacular views are by piers and sight and sounds are xhanl changing we come to the here for exercise relax ball games entertainment, recreation market, exhilaration a wide variety of contributions easily enjoyed look up the bay the waterfront is boosting for activities boosting over 25 visitors every year the port of San Francisco manages 7 may have Million Dollars of waterfront from hyde street and Fishermans Wharf to the cargo terminals and name shoreline the architecture like pier 70 and the Ferry Building is here for the embarcadero and a National Treasure the port also supports 10 different Maritime Industries alongside with the recreational attractions making San Francisco one of the most viable working waterfronts in the world but did you think that our waterfront faces serious challenges if earthquake to damage the seawall and the embarcadero roadway rising seawalls will cause flooding at high tides and Major Repairs to a safe many of the piers the port is at a critically turnl point time to plan for the future of San Franciscos waterfront this year the port is updating its marts plan the Plan Working Group to invite a wide variety of poichdz from the city and bayview and other advisory teams to share their expertise if intense and Maritime Operations the waterfront Land Use Plan has guided the use and development of the lanes for the last 20 years major physical changes take place along the waterfront and now is the time to update the waterfront plan to continue improvements that will keep our waterfront vibrate, public and resilient the Biggest Challenges facing the waterfront are out the site an aging seawall along the embarcadero roadway and seawalls that will rise by 21 hundred to provide and productivity of tides seawall is built over weak soils and mud the next earthquake will cause it to settle several feet without the urgent repairs that will damage the promenade and other things weve been fortunate over the last hundred years less than one foot of seawall over the next hundred years Scientists Say well have 6 feet of seawall rise imagine the pier 30 32 will be floated, the embarcadero will be flooded our Transportation System is fog to be heavy impacts unfortunately, the port didnt have the Financial Resources to repair all the deteriorating piers let alone the adaptations for Sea Level Rise. It is clear that the port cant pay for the seawall reinforcement or deal with the Sea Level Rise on its own needs to raise money to take care of the properties at take care of the maintenance on the properties no way absent anti funding the issues of Sea Level Rise or the schematic conditions of seawall can be development. As studies talk about the seawall challenges the working group is look at the issues please come share our ideas about recreation, pier activities, shoreline habitat, Historic Preservation and transportation issues and viral protection. We know this planning process will not have one question and one answer we need the diversity of the opinions how people feel about San Francisco waterfront and want to hear all the opinions. The challenges call for Big Decisions now is the time to explore now and Creative Ideas to protect and preserve San Francisco waterfront. Now is the time to get involved to help to shape the future of our waterfront. We need the debate please come forward and engage in the process. This is your waterfront and this is your opportunity to get involved be part of solution help San Francisco create the waterfront we want for the future. This is really to dream big and i think about what our waterfront looked like for all san franciscans today and generations to come. Get involved with the planning process that will set the fraction for what is coming at the port. Find for in upgrading dates on the ports website. ship blowing horn in distances issue. Homeless in San Francisco is a challenging issue that effects owner in the city in many different was as of the 2014 Homeless Census over 64 homeless in individual in the city to try to address the issue weve got a program for chronic homeless welcome to the Navigation Center. This Pilot Project is for People Living on the street what makes it different the Navigation Center is able to accommodate homeless encampments lowell u allowing people to keep their pets and bring their personal bloonlz. The full realization that people dont want to be homeless not refuse services but from the services dont meet them and not relevant theyre not going to be successful if you look at the budget losses weve got a community sacrifice important people to get food and laundry were standing next to the bathrooms it is designed to be a dynamic and brief residential experience where right of on this site city staff to connect you to homeless places to return to family dine is up for medical and all those things that are complicated for people. The other exciting thing city agencies come on site and provided the services for folks this is existed to see when the goal of streamlining a a whole processes of getting people on go gentle assistance into housing as much as possible. Way totally different you can come and agree as please and get Laundry Services and showers any time of the day and night its twentyfour hours a day whatever and twhefr its not like any other she recalls. They come and help people for what it is theyre required the issues they need and reach out and do what we can to say okay how can we accommodate you to get you set up and straight never in my mind imagined a program like this this place it different and a a lot a lot that better it works. The navigation is center is a collaboration of partnerships too city departments one is the Homeless Outreach team managed by the San Francisco distributing i look forward to the Navigation Center well have our agents go out and help and say dont go anymore over and over send our dayshift out theyve meet the population and hang out and hang in the encampment and transport people and be with them and make immediate impacts with me and my staff. Bringing our wloongz whatever you go presents a problem this place their help with the storage i dont have to worry about it staying here you know youre getting things done they need to get things down done to get off the street avenue of the hope alsoness is gone. They help you if youre hungry go eat if e you need to go places go. Theyre 4th district it awe auto. It was funded through a unanimous donation and of may 2015 an additional 3 million to help to continue the Program Beyond 18 months. You see people coming out theyre ready to being so the future homes you know how variable the Navigation Center is my message for the constituents yes something can be done do break chronic homelessness it is being done. This is a community that sets an example but i how to pick an area that was funky theyve seen were trying to do is help their neighbors theyve seen getting sicker and more frail and broken down on the streets and welcomed us thats a powerful Statement People are exist and president in theyre becoming to see the movement for folks and people on the streets are only survival modes where is there next meal and their itch more carefree. The staff here is interpretation the first day i have a appointment and everything was made all you do is go through them this makes a huge difference. To get settled in a helping hand, to get on my feet, take care of the issues i have and get out of bed and help. Even though the Navigation Center has been up in march 2014 the program is creating successful outreach for its clients. A month ago they came to me and asked me to go into a new program i moved into here and now 3 months later i have my own place it is mine i lock my door dont worry about my stuff it feels human again calling this hearing to order good afternoon and welcome to the Historic Preservation commission for wednesday, march 15, 2017, id like to remind the members of the audience that the commission does not tolerate disruptions of any kind. Proceedings. And when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. Id like to call roll at this time. Commissioner president wolfram commissioner vicepresident hyland commissioner hasz commissioner johnck commissioner johns commissioner matsuda and schaem commissioner pearlman commissioners, the first item on your agenda is general Public Comment there are no speaker cards. Does m