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
Prove it this is going to stick around then maybe ill invest in it myself. I think we have early adopters. We call them lowhanging fruit and people that are more cautious and thats fine. They have to be around it. They have to experience it and taste it and feel it themselves then we have people who are no matter what you say, its going to feel like we are giving special attention to some people and not others because they have trauma. And we have to work on that. So we have to it is a horizontal approach but its bottomtoop. I think the 2pointal , theyre the people that have a hard time trusting that we mean what we say. There is no funding. Were doing it from the inside out. Its not like were going to lose funding. Were doing it. This is not costing a lot of money to the department. Were not relying on external grants or consultants or anybody coming in from different parts of the droin. Were doing it ourselves. No matter who leaders are, we want to create the change and embed it into
Questions . Roll call commissioner president adams commissioner Vice President brandon commissioner kounalakis and commissioner woo ho. Item 2 approval of the minutes for the april 2016. 2013 opposed . Inclusive session any Public Comment seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Collective session. All in favor, say i. I. Motion motion second all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . Were in executi congratulations. I move to call the meeting to order. Second. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . Meeting is in order. I move not to disclose anything discussions in session. Second. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . Next order pledge of allegiance 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 the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar soundproducing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Are prohibited at this meeting. The ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, o
I. Opposed . Were in executi congratulations. I move to call the meeting to order. Second. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . Meeting is in order. I move not to disclose anything discussions in session. Second. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . Next order pledge of allegiance 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 the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar soundproducing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Are prohibited at this meeting. The ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar soundproducing Electronic Devices. Please be advised members of the public has up to 3 maintenance for each agenda item unless the Port Commission adopts a shorter air item 8 items not listened on the items on the agenda Public Comment is closed. Next item, please. Item 9 a executive directors report gm good afternoon commissioner president adams
Are a hazard to our environment and the shipment of the materials are increasing throughout the country concluding Northern California and resulted in more than one million gallons of crude oil from cars in the last 4 decades while the Media Attention is on the real estate of the Waterfront Development our port has an xribl maritime potential a few months ago i was approached by advocates about the cargo facility specific that it might one day be used to transport o Hazardous Materials while our port and Port Commission has a leadership ability to guide us by consistently rejecting patrols from companies that are seeking to transport those materials through our terminals and as policymakers i see it as our job to insure this policy continues to be applied long after were gone from this current leadership and long after the current leadership of the port has moved forward on its no secret with the low Income Community of color like the Bay Area Community has suffered will bear the brunt