Please be advised that the ringing and use of all cell phones, pagers and similar sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room of my person responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager or other similar sound producing Electronic Devices. Please be advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent Public Comment on each agenda item unless the Port Commission adopts a shorter period on any time. Item 8, Public Comment on items not listed in the agenda. Is there any Public Comment . Seeing none. Item 9, executive directors report. Good afternoon, president brandon, rise president adams, commissioner woo ho. I am elaine forbes, and i am the ports executive director. First i would like to congratulate the hit toric pier 70 and the historic pier 70 and the orton project. On march 7th at 8 30, they will receive an award honoring their outstanding contribu
Now, they will be tested in court. The motorcycle driver Oscar Nilsson says the selfdriving chevy bolt started to change lanes so he moved up. But the bolt then veered back into the lane knocking him down. He is now suing. I would too, sure. I definitely would. Good for him. Thank god he didnt die, you know. But, yes, they shouldnt be on the streets, period. Reporter accidents like this one make those who arent too sure about selfdriving cars even more nervous. We got a lot of pedestrians, a lot of bikers, im one of them. And i think for emergencies someone should be behind that wheel at all times. Reporter there was a backup driver in the car that collided with the motorcyclist in San Francisco, but as he went to grab the wheel, it was too late. The Police Report blames nilsson for passing whether it wasnt safe. Gm does, too, saying it believes the motorcyclist merged into lane before it was safe to do so. His attorney calls the move unpredictable and dangerous. Gm says as it tests th
February 2, 2017, meeting of government did it and oversight committee. We have supervisor aaron peskin and supervisor london breed . I would like to recognize leo daisies and from sfgovtv. Org. They provide transcripts to the public. Madam chair, would you like to make any announcements . Yes, please silence all cell phones and any copies of your speech should be submitted to the clerk. Thank you, madam clerk. I have acknowledged all in todays meeting. Please call item 1. Clerk hearing on existing building standards in seismic safety zones, including infill and waterfront neighborhoods; and requesting the department of building inspection to report. Supervisor jane kim thank you, this item is to continue to discuss the structural safety concerns at 301 Mission Street. Will for clarification purposes, todays hearing is related to file no. 161299, a motion passed by the board to issue a subpoena for professor jack moiler. A Structural Engineer who designed the 301 mission as a third par
Quorum but we will take the other items okay. Communications. I have two. One is the question is do we want to make the election of chair and vice chair do we want to postpone until supervisor john kim has asked that it be postponed and arguing in favor is that chairs are supposed to serve a year and i was appointed in february. So we could do that, too. I dont care. What is the boards preference . To postpone it . [inaudible] [off mic] we will postpone that for a year. The other thing that is that until next month . Yes. X month i suppose. I just i apologize for my voice today. I spent the last few days in washington at the Transportation Research board. It was extremely cold and i came back with some sort of cough and deep throat. It was very interesting about that meeting was the overwhelming interest now. You could not get into a room that haven to do with Autonomous Vehicles. Everybody in the industry is trying to figure out what to do with those things. And of them that i attende
What systems are resisting those actions. But the scope is usually a seismic scope. And in current practice, the peer reviews are generally structured with a chairperson. The chairperson i think is required in this city to be practicing and registered Structural Engineer. There is typically a geotechnical engineer or engineer with seismology background who is skilled in issues related to the Foundation Design. Geotechnical parameters, earthquake ground motion. And then there is generally an academic who is brought in. The academic is not so much to bring an academic perspective, but to bring to bear the Specialized Knowledge that might be required to understand the design of a particular building. So, i might be brought in as an academic reviewer or as a reviewer are academic background as my related expertise in concrete construction. In steel, someone might be brought in with a structural steel kind of background. And the review is is in the city and county of San Francisco. Lets ste