Secretary . I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please be advised that the ringing of cell phones and pagers and other Electronic Devices are prohibited from this meeting. Please beware that anyone maybe subject to removal for ringing of such devices. Public comment on any item. Item 8. Public comment on items not listed on the agenda. Is there any Public Comment on items not listed on the agenda . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Madam secretary. Item 9a. Executive directors report. Good afternoon, im elaine forbes, the port director. Im pleased to report the port is starting out with the new year with some very good news. We have been discussing with the public and with the commission the vulnerability of our seawall mostly unseen infrastructure, the downtown embarcadero, the streets apparatus is very vulnerable. Weve known its been vulnerab
Thank you, come to the podium please. Good afternoon, commissioners, the Ruth Goldberg building, she is on her way but i think we might miss our opportunity so i went ahead and jumped up. We want to thank you for being placed on the nofr 19 agenda, we are moving forward, were excited about our report and the progress in trying to preserve our building. Thank you so much and well see you on the 19th. Any other member of the public wish to speak on an item not on our agenda . Seeing none we will close Public Comment. Commissioners, that will place you under department matters. Item 1, department report. Tim fry, department staff. The directors report was included in your packets. Happy to answer any questions you may have about the report. Seeing no questions, we will move on. Item 2, review of past events at the Planning Commission, staff report and announcements. Commissioners, again tim fry, department staff. Nothing to report from previous Planning Commission hearings, just wanted to
Commission hasz, here. Commission johnck, here. Commissioner john, here. And commissioner matsuda. Here. Members of the public may address the commission on items of interest that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except for agenda items. With respect to agenda items your opportunity to speak will be afforded when the agenda is reached. I have no speaker cards. Thank you, come to the podium please. Good afternoon, commissioners, the Ruth Goldberg building, she is on her way but i think we might miss our opportunity so i went ahead and jumped up. We want to thank you for being placed on the nofr 19 agenda, we are moving forward, were excited about our report and the progress in trying to preserve our building. Thank you so much and well see you on the 19th. Any other member of the public wish to speak on an item not on our agenda . Seeing none we will close Public Comment. Commissioners, that will place you under department matters. Item 1, department report.
Convene the meeting. [speaker not understood] . Here. Commissioner [speaker not understood] . A here. [speaker not understood] . Here. Item 2 [speaker not understood]. So moved. I just have one amendment, under a section on something that i said, page sorry. It says it also helps in [speaker not understood] not to release, but relieve, relieve some of the pressure. So, is the motion to approve the minutes as amended . So moved. Second. All in favor . Aye. Minutes are approved as amended. Item 3, [speaker not understood]. Is there any Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Is there a motion to move oh. Second. There is a motion to move into executive session. Moved. Second. All in favor . Aye. Do i have a motion to reconvene in open session . Moved. Seconded. All in favor . Aye. I move to disclose that in closed session the Commission Voted 4 to 0 to approve the Settlement Agreement with carl h. Heinz jr. Described in the 41a and nothing else discussed in closed session
Respond to in writing in the comments and responses document and i believe what you are ruefr r referring to is the alternatives considered but rejected section. We will provide some more detail in response to your question in the cr anything else . I have a lot of comments but i can wait until later. Okay, commissioner johns. Has there been a presentation of this item to the commission before i arrived . There hasnt . I guess im surprised about that and was expecting that today, that there would be a presentation in order to, that we can look at the environmental document in context and particularly environmental documents, while absolutely critical to the understanding of the project, they can be kind of mechanical and kind of functional and what you miss is an overall vision for what were trying to achieve here. Because this is a huge change in the city, its very exciting but lets say i was expecting a presentation. And the other question i have, at some point i think it would be im