Good afternoon and welcome to the first monday, the first working monday in january. This is partnership of three organizations. My name is adam powell. I am the director of washington operations of the university of Southern California and president of the Public Diplomacy council. Those are two of the partners in the monthly event. The third part any is the Public Policy alumni association. Im pleased to have the president of that organization here to also welcome you. Its my pleasure to welcome all of you and if i could take a moment to just highlight three events that many of you will be interested in. The office of historian of the department of state is putting out the volume of the Foreign Relations of the United States. The documents for Public Diplomacy from 1961 to 1963, which is the kennedy period when many of us date back to. You have to sign up in advance and i think it will be a very interesting exploration of the history of Public Diplomacy. Secondly, one of the things p
To the first monday, the first working monday in january. This is partnership of three organizations. My name is adam powell. I am the director of washington operations of the university of Southern California and president of the Public Diplomacy council. Those are two of the partners in the monthly event. The third part any is the Public Policy alumni association. Im pleased to have the president of that organization here to also welcome you. Its my pleasure to welcome all of you and if i could take a moment to just highlight three events that many of you will be interested in. The office of historian of the department of state is putting out the volume of the Foreign Relations of the United States. The documents for Public Diplomacy from 1961 to 1963, which is the kennedy period when many of us date back to. You have to sign up in advance and i think it will be a very interesting exploration of the history of Public Diplomacy. Secondly, one of the things pdaa does is provides awards
Making sure the feedback we hear are incorporated into the planning and it is a living document. We are out there in the Community Outreach and we have seen a few of you. We have an on going city wide outreach campaign. At sunday streets and festivals and smaller opportunities at farmers markets and libraries and that kind of thing. We know from that work that people identify with the water front, they love the waterfront. It is a nice sell to say why do you love the San Francisco waterfront . Do you know about the sea wall. We are gettingbrate feedback getting great feedback. We are not asking for anything. We are tell about the sea wall. We have got great feedback thanks for talking to us. This is a quick map so you can see city wide as we keep going over the next few months, many more stars will fill the map. In addition to meeting people on streets we meet online. We have fun social media. The port has a great following. We are going to add sea wall messages to what is happening. I
Are in the same business, and its if you really think about it, portland took 60, 70 of our work. So what did we do and i dont believe in living in the past. I believe sometime you cut your losses, you look to the future, and we find out what may have to go there. It may be ship repair, it may be something else, but i think we can get some revenue. I think this is a good plan, laying it out there. I think we got some work to do, but i truly believe that a port runs so different than a corporation, and as i say, the shareholders of the port is the public, and none of these commissioners up here, we dont get shares like a corporation do, so its totally run totally different, and this is what i do every day, dealing with all the west coast ports for the last 40 years of my life, so i clearly understand how that runs, but i do understand commissioner woo hos concern. I think well continue talking about maritime, i think well keep going at it, but also, i think theres a lot of facets to thi
What each of the positions are. You know what the salaries are. We have a new what do you call it . Real Estate Development and planning and environment division. To understand how it all works together. We will work on what documents to prepare for next time. The city shifted to a new financial system. It is harder than in prior years to produce this detail. We will look at what we produced in last year and get more detail. I will say the position changes are all taking that Operations Division that executive director moyer created before she left and i chose not to execute. Creating the chief operating position merging planning with the environment and you will see how that looks and we can produce an Organization Chart as well to explain. Many of these changes have been in place since you appointed me executive director, but the budget is catching up to what i implemented some time ago. The changes within every division . There are cleanup changes within every division. We will show