Time. I will take roll. Commissioner. President matsuda here. Commissioner Vice President warren here. Commissioner wright here. Commissioner. Vergara here. Commissioner. Foley present. Commissioner campbell here. And commissioner baldauf here. Great. Next up on our agenda our first up on our agenda is general Public Comment. At this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except for agenda items. With respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting, well take people in the hearing room first and followed by our reasonable accommodation request. Good afternoon. There you go. Good afternoon. Commissioners, city Staff Members of the public richard carrillo, full disclosure, i am a city employee, but im speaking before you today as a resident of San Francisco, as you may have read in the news, the c
Dont get the support. There are many factors. One of them being that again, its largely an immigrant community. You have a lot of the resources, that are provided by either the government or by lgbt organizations, not always in the languages that they speak. Theyre not always addressed to their specific needs. In a lot of the Hindu Community centers, there tends to be a lack of focus on lgbt people. I think thats because its such a new issue for many. There hasnt been a very large hindu Lgbt Community. It is growing very quickly. As a result, when you have issues, hindu students who to want come out and fight, any potential backlash, in many cases they face communities who dont know how to help them. So they are in a curious bind. In my time, i have had a chance to have these conversations with them and also, to work on both sides on educating the community, on how to help them and serving as advocate. Its important to expand this conversation beyond just the Public School system. Talk
Costs, to develop, and the ports property, particularly the historic piers. And there is a high expectation for Public Benefits in these projects, which drive up the cost of the project. The foundation of the water front plan has provided access to the capitol that the port would not have had. And also, a great deal of creativity from the private sector that comes through the public, private partnership, at the staff level we have worked to add Public Financing to the equation, to help to address some of these high costs. It did not address, the unique opportunities, the 34th americas cup and the exploretorium and these are the kinds of projects that present themselves that really the cities pursue, if they have become available and, so you cant hold the same kind of predevelopment planning process, and Competitive Bidding process for the opportunities, like this. And so, the water front plan does not articulate it, and a process. And in each case, when these projects have presented th
Projects have presented themselves, the port staff and the city staff have worked to develop a public process, like that, articulated in the water front land use plan. And sometimes, it has been wildly successful. And such as at t ballpark that draws 4 million visitors a year and the explore torium is already drawing 1. 2 million visitors and drawing the kids down to the water front that meets that sort of diversity of people and activities and the goal in the water front plan, and the americas cup, was great success. And the port staff, and delivered, some 32 Million Dollars, of improvements to the water front. And we saw, a million visitors in 2012, and 2013, and it help us to expedite the cruise terminal project, and the wharf project and the pier, 43, and the other projects have not been. As successful. The warriors project, and it drew a lot of controversy, the people wanted to talk about the other locations, not on the port property. And the americas cup initially envisioned the
Project and the pier, 43, and the other projects have not been. As successful. The warriors project, and it drew a lot of controversy, the people wanted to talk about the other locations, not on the port property. And the americas cup initially envisioned the Long Term Development rights which did not come to pass. And there was a proposal for the International Museum of women at pier 26 which was a soul source authorization for the board of supervisors and so the report tries to take stock of the unique opportunities that did not go forward. And draw lessons learned, for the public, to think about as well as the Port Commission, and when we have done the same with the Development Projects that did not go for ward. All of who are implementing the projects port wide and, the ports engineering division, rebuilds the two piers before two major fires and pier 48, and pier, 29, and both of those were about 15 Million Dollar projects and the pier, 29 project has rebuilt from the original pla