All in favor, aye. I make a motion we dont reveal anything that we discussed in closed session. Second. All in favor. Aye. Thank you. 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 too use cellphones and pagers and Electronic Devices are prohibited. The chairman ordered the removal from the meeting room of any person responsible fort ringing of or use of a cell phone, pager or soundproducing electronic device. A member of the public as up to three minutes to make Public Comments on each agenda item unless they are shorter period on any item. Item a Public Comments on not listed on the agenda. Are there any Public Comments. How are you doing. Michael regula gregory heavyt trucking. I just want to bring it to your guys attention. I was awarded a job with Granite Construction for a number of material, about 56, maybe 80,00, right. And when i got the paperwork back, they pushed a number back down to 1,000 tons which which strange when i called the company out on it he said he would use me but he wasnt going to use me for the whole portion. He was going to bring in his team from the south bay. I thought it was unacceptable during the fact that theyre not lbe certified like we are. I think its jacked up these Big Companies come in and use us to get the credit and its part of the workout today on people. So if theres someway we can address that situation. I appreciate it. Which project is this. The horizontal on mission rock. Ive been working with them for a month and a half and getting numbers that satisfy them for the job and they told me that it was mine due to the fact that the numbers were great and i guess they have another agenda. Were look into it. Ok. Thank you. Is there any other Public Comment on items not listed on the agenda . Seeing none public is closed. Good afternoon madam president , Kimberley Brandon and members of the commission, members of the public port staff, im elaine forbes. And the first two items i was going to report on are both canceled efforts, one was our plan port contract open house and the other was a Ribbon Cutting for the Ferry Terminal and both of those events have been canceled at this point and ill explain much more on the next item which is the covid19 update. As you all know, mayor breed declared a local Health Emergency on february 25th. For the city and county of San Francisco to prepare for covid19. On march 3rd, our maritime director and i became aware of a potential issue on the grand princess. That evening, we had a Conference Call at 9 00 p. M. With our city counterparts in the u. S. Coast guard and by the next morning, of march 4th, we had assembled from the federal side health and Human Services hhs, the center for disease control, c. D. C. , fema, the coast guard, cal oes, the California Department of publichealth and our own Emergency Management import staff. We continued to address the grands princess for the entire week and i would like to let everyone, every Port Commission know we have a lot to be proud of in our maritime staff. Our maritime director Andre Coleman was tremendously responsive, professional, calm, accurate, and just terrific in our unified command structure. Joe riley, who served as our planning chief was incredibly professional, on the job, calm, collected and has a lot of experience with the unified command structure and it showed. Dominique moreno was working or not the weekend and the entire Maritime Team just went way above and beyond for this response and i couldnt be more proud of the work that they did to support the effort. We were very also it was extraordinarily helpful and rewarding to see all the federal and state counter parks to Work Together and see the Decision Makers work the problem to the ground and make the best decisions as quick low as they could to protect the health and safety of the local community as well as the passengers and crew on that vessel. The grand princess is in oakland today as everyone knows. And we really want to express our gratitude to the city of oakland for stepping up and to everyone involved. We really hope the very, very best for the passengers and crew aboard that vessel and our pleas that everyone is getting the healthcare they need and the local community is being protected in the disembark and all of our labor partners who stepped up to resolve this situation which is port ants as we deal with covid19 in our community so that brings me to the larger issue of covid19 and where we are as a city many of the numbers in San Francisco are still small but our mayor has been loud and clear that we are to prepare aggressively as possible because all of the science shows that we have an opportunity now to prevent spread that could keep up on a much better trajectory than if covid19 is more seeded in the community. So, there has been lots of direction from the mayor, t. H. R. , for how we are to change our behavior at work and at home so this we can keep ourself safe. You will notice the room today is very different than its been in the past and this is re fleck tive of the best guidance that wove gotten how to prevent spread so i want to go over a little bit about what were doing as a city to minimize the spread to the maximum extent possible. So that we can handle this publichealth epidemic and recover as a community. We are encouraging to telecom ut outeso were pushing telecommutg to the extent it works for the employees requirements on the job. We are also having ability to telecommute into meetings so were limiting our oneonone meetings to those that we node to have happen and offering opportunities to tell conference in so all of these things are important. For events that are discretionary of nature, were just canceling for those the next two weeks. In our public buildings that port owns, theres been a Health Directive around those discretionary public events. We dont have any of those scheduled over the next two weeks so we werent canceling any events in public buildings because they werent scheduled but were applying that to inperson meetings to keep everyone safe and the spread down. We will be, of course, were telling everyone to stay home if theyre sick, thats very, very important whether its a cold or a flu, stay home if you feel symptomatic. We are telling everyone to wash their hands and providing hand sanitation. Cover cough and sneeze, avoid touching your face. Firstly as i implement these protocols its amazing how often i used to touch my face. Dont touch your face. Were not shaking hands or getting into personal contact with others. You can see were practicing social distancing which is an arms length apart or four feet apart just to be especially careful and diligent. All of these things, social distancing, staying home when you are sick, canceling discretionary events, being more thoughtful about inperson meetings and providing Telecom Opportunities will work to reduce the spread of covid19 and we all have an opportunity and obligation to be part of the solution at this time and again i want to reiterate from our mayor and our director of publichealth, we have an opportunity right now to reduce the potential spread and this window will close to us in the future. So its really important that everyone Pay Attention and change your person at behaviors to be part of this solution and that concludes my report is there any comment . I want to thank director forbes, just all the maritime staff for all your hard work and your due diligence. I was in australia last week and i was being kept abreast. Sundays i was in the airport in sydney and i got a call from the governor and he laid out when they were going to bring the ship in and how they were going to discharge everybody. He had over 1,000 people from california on this ship. People from canada and britain and where everyone was going to be taken and how the airport was convenient so no human incompetenter action to get people off and get them to the different bases so they could get quarantine. Theyre going to leave over 1,000 other crewmembers, mostly filipinos, theyre going to leave and maybe take that ship up to alaska and let them be in quarantine at sea. We found out on sundays that they were going to hire our members of the iowu. It was a seven hour meeting. I just talked to our guys on the grounds over in oakland and the discharge of the passengers are going good and they got all the california people off. They got 900 passengers off yesterday. They hope to get 1,000 passengers off today in hopefully the rest tomorrow at the latest by thursday. Mood is good and they said what was really emotional to them when they were tying up the ship when they were there the people in the ship came out and were clapping. They were so happy to get off the ship and see help was coming and they were low on food and to me this is a humanitarian effort. Thats what this is. This is a humanitarian effort and this is our responsibility and i want to give a shout out to the port of oakland because this ship took off out of the port of San Francisco and everything that happened. As americans, i think weve gotten a wakeup call because close to 3,000 people have died over in china but you see with italy on lockdown and what can happen and this is a virus that is effecting the economics and the stock market you see everything that is effected happening behind this so this is a wakeup call and i want to give a shout out to the governor. We have to deal with this and i know that oakland was a little apprehensive because a lot of time oakland felt like they were the step child. Theres a community thats always deal with environmental racism and they wanted to bring coal over to oakland and that is listening to the lady on the board of supervisors over there, they were really concerned that oakland was being used as not a scapegoat but i believe theyre using Everything Possible to get the passengers off and get that ship out of there and so thank you and this is important and the people whose lives can are saved will owe a debt of gratitude to oakland and to the port of sa San Francisco. So thank you. I want to thank executive director forbes and mike and the whole maritime staff that stepped up for this effort because this was a humanitarian effort and we all needed to pitch in where we could and we do have to stay vigilant and make sure that we are taking care of ourselves and our surroundings to make sure no one else gets it. I thank everybody and were practicing social distancing up here too. [laughter] thank you. Thank you. Item 9b information overview but the San FranciscoEthics Commission executive director on recent updates to the citys ethics laws and Resources Available to support compliance with city officials and employees. Good afternoon, commissioners. Thank you director forbes and to your Commission Secretary as well. I, like many of you, i used the port the very building regular will he and i want to add my thanks to both the City Employee for the excellence out of this department everyday. Clearly were in a city in a crisis from the publichealth incident and it has up ended business across the city and i think what you heard from your director today is indicative of the kind of continuity of work and leadership that were seeing from inside the city. At a particularly troubling time. Its uncertain and theres a crisis in Public Confidence about how much we can do with something that is really maybe unmanageable but we have ak lent people from my observation working very hard and so i just wanted to add my thanks to that. And im here because i was here four years ago when i first took on this role as Ethics Commissioner and i would say we are in a different type of crisis on the front of Government Service and trust in our Government Service and that happens. And im here to just give you a bit of a highlight of some of the new items that have taken place place over the last several years. Weve been reaching out with our resources to try and support city and workers and understanding not just the letter of law but the spirit of the law and why to we have a lot of rules that can quite seem quite complicated at times. California coming up on apri. You know this very well and its the opportunity to make sure that were taking a stock of our own economic interest that could be effected by our work and i wanted to touch on that the requirement for an annual refish err on ethics that is also here to help support you and other City Employees and their work and provide you information about individual assistance and some new laws. Also, some general tips and tools foray voiding conflict of interest and those are things that can sometimes creep up without thinking about it and its an opportunity at this time of year every year to really stop and take stock and think about a very consciously and put some practices in place good practices that will carry us over the course of the year. There are additional provisions that took place that took effect last year after an extraordinary joint meeting and work with the board of supervisors and the Ethics Commission that responded to putting new requirements in place that really try to expand preventing conflicts of interest in the appearance of conflicts so that our work can be and can be known and trusted for its integrity and i also have information and some of these are very familiar with if you are not, you will see and information about Political Activities that are new provisions on the books and resources from our office at how we can assist you and how were supporting this work throughout city government. Our Ethics Committee is a place that you can a resource for you. Our website, this is a copy of the banner that you will see when you go to our main website and we try and taylor it every few weeks or months depending on what is going on but for folks who have a responsibility to report their financial interests to ensure that we are avoiding conflicts and detecting them when possible, Good Government starts with good reporting and the place to start is our Ethics Commission website weve been working with staff to make sure folks have this conversation. You will find a lot of resources and tools available to you. I mentioned the economic interest filings is known as a form 700. This is a requirement through out the state of california and these are helping identify once a year through this annual filing due april 1st the financial interests we may have to influence in the conduct of our official duties and it does not require us to report everything we own. It requires us to look at our disclosure categories and identify what we may have the opportunity, the influence in the conduct of our official duties and there are certain types of reportable financial interests and ive listed those here i wanted to highlight for you in this presentation where theres that little eye sign, the information icon, those are live links that when you get the presentation or you take a look after or if the public wants to look after, these will take you directly to more information about these requirements and again, far more information than we have to cover but i hope you will have chance to look at that if its useful as you work to comply with the provisions of the lieu. Theres an opportunity that the city and state has created for Public Officials to have annual ethics refresher. This is building on a state requirement ab1234 where all individuals who file statements of economic interest, because we make or participate in making government decisions, we have a chance to influence those decisions and to potentially influence the interest that come before us. There is a required training as you know and one thing i would say over the last couple of years we have done to streamline this process is to sink it cron lon i cannil icronlogically anda cyclical thing and it was hard to remember so now its when you go to the place to file on our website, you have your training and you can can complete it again and complete your filing but it also is due by april first of this year. I would underscore for the public who making following your meeting, that as you know, the statements of economic interest are Public Documents and thats to help let the public know we want them to hold us accountability and its ok to look and ask us questions because we disclose something on one of these forms doesnt mean we have a conflict of interest. It means that theres something we got to be cabeful about and maybe ask for advise about so we can avoid stepping in a problem area or getting close to it. There is information on our website where people can look at individual forms and people can search across forms and we work very closely with open data in San Francisco and so we have information across 6,000 forms filed by over 500 economic interest filers who have been filing online with the Ethics Commissio