heidel stre zb . >> okay. this is the meeting of the san francisco port commission on september 8, 2020. the meeting was called to order at 3:15. [roll call] >> clerk: madam president, all members of the commission are present. item number 2 is the pledge of allegiance. ["pledge of allegiance"] clerk clrk item number 3 is the approval of minutes for the august 25, 2020 special meeting. >> so moved. >> second. >> president brandon: all in favor, roll call vote. [roll call] >> president brandon: motion passes unanimously. the motion of august 25, 2020 [inaudible]. >> clerk: item number 4 is announcements. please be vised that a member of the public has up to three -- advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent public comments on each agenda item unless the court commission adopts a shorter period on any tight. please note that during the public comment period, the moderator will instruct dial-in participants to such a tone-tone phone to register their desire for public comment. audio prompts will signal to dine-in participants when their audio input has been enabled for commenting. please dial in when the item you wish to comment on is announced. to make public comment, dial 408-418-9188, and enter meeting code 146-740-9038. press pound, and pound again. when prompts, less stapress ste to be added to the public comment queue. a bid of advice. if you are in the queue, an audio prompt will indicate when it is your turn to speak. [inaudible]. >> operator: at this time, we will open the public line for anyone who is in the queue to make public comment. please press star, three to enter the queue to make public comment. public comment will be limited to three minutes per person. the queue is now open. please press star, three if you wish to make public comment. >> president brandon: thank u you, danica. do we have anyone in the queue wishing to make public comment? >> operator: president brandon, there's no one in the queue wishing to make public comment. >> president brandon: okay. next item, please. >> clerk: item 6 would be expectative director's report. >> executive director forbes: toda first, for the hyde street harbor update, in the spring of 2020, the port crew started seeing an oil how sosheen from hyde street harbor, and on august 23, the crew saw a distribution of oil from along port why ty-10. since then, we have been working closely with the united states coast guard, the united states department of environmental protection or usaps, and several other agencies to locate the source of the sheen, and to implement cleanup. on july 9, we implemented clean-up measures. [inaudible] has currently spent approximately 300 feet of shoreline. the current contamnent contains 300 feet of petroleum container boom which is an inner and outer boom which had previously migrated from wharf port j-10 to fisherman's wharf. staff removes petroleum from the contaminant regularly using absorbant pads. they have said that they will provide additional emergency sources to the port as needed. as i said, we're working closely with our regulatory partners and have signed off on our response as we continue to investigate the source and look to cleanup the area. we are now reviewing the analytic results of the petroleum product to identify its origin. it could take several weeks or longer. as the response transitions from a water response to an upland and remedial cleanup project, the port has transferr transferred responsibility to the usepa. [inaudible]. >> executive director forbes: is on the ground, making sure that the contaminant follows the requirements and we're using the boom to moving it out of the bay. on the economic reopening, the port's health and safety staff, karen taylor, and again, george vivens continue to work hard to keep us safe from covid-19. we're very longy to have such strong department of health work -- lucky to have such strong department of health workers in us. they are working with maintenance division, continuing training. our reopening continues to be successful along with south beach harbor and the port staff. the wildfire season has complicated reopenings for many departments, and we are included, as well. the smoke can worsen different illnesses from covid, so our occupational health team has worked very closely with port team and d.h.r. to make sure we have appropriate health equipment this season. health and safety is monitoring regarding efficiency of neck gaiters and face shields, so we'll continue working with our workforce to adapt to what's comfortable and will contain and what's most effective in the spread of the virus. also last week, our mayor, l london breed and director of public health dr. grant colfax and assessor carmen chiu made announcements about reopening. it's good for us to understand what's going to be possible in this period of covid-19 along our waterfront, and we're looking to assist our tenants to have a safe reopening. with that, i'd like to talk about the shared spaces program. we have -- shared spaces is a very, very good program that the city has launched and amplified in order to really help with economic reopening, especially outdoor dining and retail taking advantage of outdoor spaces, which, you know, indoor space is not allowed for restaurants, and outdoor space is still preferred for our public health officials. and they are continuing to work with port and pcdc. today, we have 17 applications in. 11 are approved and six are pending review. we see the value of our embarcadero promenade and our shared spaces as a way for people to take part in port and waterfront activities in a safe and sustainable way. every week, we have now issues that we're working on and tackles wi tackling with our tenants to make life as safe as we can be as we prepare for life after covid. i want to share information with you and with the port staff is the way that the port staff has pivoted to respond to covid-19, and thank you to president brandon and staff to see us pivot quickly as city workers. we were able to deploy ourselves to the city's effort, and it was so many port staff. it's a short video. i probably talked about it longer than what it will go, but have a look at what the port staff has been doing to respond to the pandemic. i'll play the video. [video] >> the port of san francisco maintains and manages san francisco's waterfront, but when the city began efforts to mitigate covid-19, the port quickly shifted priorities. the port's employees have been deployed to a wide range of efforts to protect our city as we battle the virus. additionally, the port staff provided access to space and land, protecting food security and housing access for our unhoused neighbors. >> we're here on piers 30 and 32. this is a covid-19 testing center behind me. the project came about because the city needed to establish a covid testing center, and the poured had land that was outdoors. this site was the first high capacity testing site in the city. port staff has been instrumental in helping the department of public health to set up their sites and run them. >> what you're seeing behind me is the san francisco marin food bank operation at lot a. the port was approached by the giant about waiving the rent for the food bank. >> we came together with the port of san francisco so say okay, let's -- to say okay, let's work because this is the most important issue facing our community, making sure everybody is fed. lot a provided a great location. it's a lot of space that would allow for social distancing. we're in the mission bay neighborhood where we don't have a foot pantry. there's a lot of families in need, so this is a great space to serve people in the community. we're serving almost 2,000 people a week. >> we are at seawall lot 344. it was a lot developed for industrial uses, and due to this pandemic situation, we have constructed a shelter in place location for 120 r.v.s and travel trailers. a april 6, we had created a concept to show what it would look like, and within 45 days, we had people shelters here. >> this is the central waterfront navigation center, and then, we have a second navigation center, the second navigation center across from piers 30-32. the navigation centers, in response to the city's covid-19, they had to decrease limits. individuals that are confirmed covid-19, they're tested, and there's protocols in place to keep them safe. >> this project and the other projects at the port related to covid make all of us feel really proud i think that we are able to contribute to, in a big way, to help people get tested, to help people get sheltered, to help people, you know, to feel normal again just by going out and sitting in a restaurant outside, you know, in safe conditions. >> i'm as proud of the all-hands-on-deck from port staff. this is an unprecedented situation that we're in. the port's provided dozens and dozens of disaster service workers to the emergency operations center. >> the port staff has stepped up in front to the covid-19 pandemic, working day and night to ensure that san franciscans get these essential services during this public health crisis. the the crisis is evolving by the hour, and the port of san francisco is evolving with it. >> my name's andre antonio. during the covid-19 pandemic, i served as a field representative to get testing and information out to the community. >> my name is ryan rossum. during the pandemic, i post and pass out health and safety flyers for the public. >> my name is raven. during the covid-19 pandemic, i helped the city's emergency navigation center distribute s resources more effectively and also helped with food distribution at piers 30-32. >> hi. my name is [inaudible]. >> my name is randy kisata. during the covid-19 pandemic, i served as a homeless information officer at the covid-19 moscone center. [inaudible]. >> hi. my name is dominick. during the covid-19 pandemic, i was initially deployed to the covid-19 emergency transportation unit, and it was quickly pulled into the grand princess incident management team. later on, i was employed as a d.s.w. to open the back lands shelter project and serve as the site set up manager. >> hi. my name is loretta bane. during the covid-19 pandemic, i worked in the warehouse, packing food boxes to be distributed during the covid-19 pandemic. >> my name is quinncy harris. during the covid-19, i worked as a disaster working, distributing supplies for covid. >> executive director forbes: hi. i'm elaine forbes, director of the port. during the early days of the pandemic, i worked on setting up testing sf, a great testing site in the embarcadero and soma. >> executive director forbes: and last, but not least, i'd like to provide an equity update. the jacob blake shooting in kenosha provided another tragic ending to that subject. we really must stand together to create a just and equitable society. i feel that it is such a critical issue for all of us at this point in our juncture as americans, and i'm really proud to be here at the port of san francisco with you all that we can take this on as an organization. there's hard work ahead, but we are committed to building an antiracism community and organization. we are very much working under the office of racial equity under the race equity and action plan. the city is lucky that mayor london breed set up this office and gave goals and objectives in this arena prior to covid-19, so we have the ability to do the work quicker. the port's racial equity working group has developed a strategy for staff to given put into areas of the phase one framework. the plan is equity action plan. the working group has created portals of input, such as one-on-one sessions, small focused groups, and drop boxes, that will be accessible port wide for meaningful engagement. the portal will be launched later this month, and it will lengthen our agreements and excepts and really expand our conversation around racism, and we can monitor our success as we implement actions to improve opportunities for communities of color. we'll continue to keep you apprised of our equity milestones. tomorrow, the port will host a contract monitoring protege program. ten l.b.e.s were partners with a mentor on their capacity. we look forward to sharing these results. i want to thank kevin and roddy and our if a sill stafacilitat leads me to our final item on the agenda. we're getting really used to bidding long-term staffers. the first few were a shock to our system, and i think we're learning to say good-bye to one giant after another as they transition out of a very long and fruitful career from our organization to another phase of their life. so today, i want to -- apologies. today, i'd like to bid adieu to mike nerney. he began his maritime career working for william diamond as a ship agent before continuing his work on the waterfront with the port of san francisco. he started his career 21 years ago as a warbinger. his first task was working in the heart of fisherman's wharf, establishing strong relationships with the commercial fishing community. soon mike was promoted to maritime marketing manager, where he continued to use his relationship building talent and business aptitude to build a robust and vibrant fishing community in san francisco, planting the san francisco flag as a viable cruise destination. he developed, manages, and leads day-to-day operations for the port's maritime division. his name and smile are known up and down the san francisco waterfront, and he is a trusted public servant, loyal to the end, and always willing to find positives in any situation. his ability to bring people together will be greatly missed by everyone on the waterfront. i had the great opportunity to work with mike when he was in the marketing position, and it was very important to me because cruise is a big revenue generator for the port of san francisco, and i worked with him in the cruise business development and making sure that -- mike has just been so committed to developing the cruise industry, and to making sure that san francisco really provided that experience, and that we continued to welcome the public in a really world class setting. and mike is so committed to being excellent at customer service, that i personally attribute so much of our cruise success to michael nerney, so thank you so much. i always remember when i began acting head of the maritime division, and i worked with him during his promotive time, and i'll say mike has so many, many, many incredible skills. what i will miss most about mike is his genuine, genuine, genuine desire for people, and his genuine, genuine desire for what's best for them, and his genuine, genuine desire of what's best for the team. i wish you fair winds and following seas in a very, very well-deserved retirement. thank you so much, and that concludes my report. >> president brandon: thank you. before we open up the phone lines, i want to give the staff and commissioners an opportunity to say something to mike, if you'd like to. >> commissioner woo ho: hello. this is commissioner woo ho. i've come across michael several times in terms of visiting cruise ships and talking to him about what's happening in the cruise business, and i think the description that he was always cheerful, all positive, and always looking to extend the business. i really want to echo and found that he was a great supporter and partner with us, and since we did make the portal one of our primary businesses, i just want to thank mike for always being there and being a very enjoyable business partner for all of us. >> mike, this is commissioner gilman. i just wanted to say thank you for expanding the port under our watch, and i hope you have an enjoyable retirement. [inaudible] >> okay. sorry. i just wanted to say mike, it's been a pleasure knowing you, mike. i just wanted to stay it's been a shock when i found out you were retiring. mike, like renee, is one of the most likeable persons that i've ever met, and i would think that mike is one of the ambassadors of the cruise ships. ships captains all over the world are coming to the port of san francisco know mike nerney. mike nerney is a class act. the historical knowledge, mike is from san francisco. he worked closely with peter daly and others. it's going to be hard to replace mike because of his relationships in the industries. they're invaluable. i wish, mike, i had known that you were leaving, but you told me a short while ago. we are so thankful that you came this way, and wish you the best, brother, in whatever you desire to do. bless you. >> president brandon: anyone else wish to say anything? >> i just appreciate the opportunity to say something personal, mike, because we're so constrained in this context, but if i have any words of wisdom for someone so much wiser than me, i would say never say never, and i hope we'll see you around in the future, mike. thanks for all your help. >> president brandon: anyone else like to? >> hi, name. this is andre from the maritime commission. just want to congratulate you on 21.5 years with the port. in my time working with you, you've been one of the most pleasant and positive people that i've had the pleasure being around, and i think those characteristics have helped to grow the port's cruise business over the years. again, it's been nothing short of a pleasure working with you. congratulations on your retirement and best wishes to you and your family. in our future, we will make it our goal to uphold your standard. thank you. >> hi. this is rodney, chief harbor engineer. i just wanted to say that it's been a pleasure getting to know you and working with you over the past 3.5 years, and yeah, good luck in retirement, and i hope our paths cross again. >> hi, mike. it's diane oshima. because i'm a long timer, too, i wanted to say thank you for keeping the ship steady. you provided a great bridge for facilitating all the changes once peter retired and keeping everything shipshape both on the land as well as the sea. i think pier 27 has benefited not only from all the cruise operations that you've facilitated, but the events held there, as well. that's because of your good nature. congratulations, and we'll see you soon on the waterfront. take care. >> president brandon, this is carl. we received a letter from the maritime commerce committee, and they asked us to read that into the letter, and i think now would be a good time to read it, if you don't mind. >> president brandon: sure. i received the letter, and i was going to read it. >> clerk: oh, go ahead. >> president brandon: would anyone else like to say a few words? >> this is brad, and i would like to say a few words. mike, you bring a spirit to any occasion that is really remarkable. for those in the public who don't know, we have these birthday celebrations among port staff, and mike is master of ceremonies, leading the celebration for everybody, and it's just -- it's great. it really builds morale for the team. i just wanted to ask, is it okay to sing, because mike leads us in one of these songs at birthday celebrations. is it okay to sing "for he's a jolly good fellow"? [singing "for he's a jolly good fellow"] >> all right. good. congratulations, mike. [singing "for he's a jolly good fellow"] >> thanks, mike. >> president brandon: would anyone else like to comment? >> that's pretty hard to top. >> president brandon: okay. if no one else, as carl mentioned, we did receive a letter in commendation of mike from the maritime commerce advisory committee that i would love to read into the record. i don't know if i can say it any better. dear president and directors. [inaudible] the maritime tenants of the port have been blessed and are ever grateful for mike's devotion for the maritime mission of the port. mike has been an instrumental champion, an ever exuberant voice for the maritime family, building a strong [inaudible] with the tenants throughout the career in our time at the port. [inaudible] master of ceremonies at the annual p.s.a. [inaudible] mike was always there at our side to be our creative spirit and over-the-top sense of human. mcac sends best wishes to his family for the future. mike, i think i agree with everything that has been said. i just -- i was also in shock when i found out you were retiring. it seems like every meeting, we have a new person who has so much institutional knowledge and so much history with the port and who has so much devotion to the port leaving us. i just want to say it's been so wonderful working with you. you've been such a pleasure to work with. you have such a great representation, not just in the maritime, but everyone, as they said, knows you nationally, internationally, and you just have done so much for the port of san francisco. so from one native san franciscan to another, i wish you much success in your retirement, and i hope to see you now and again at the port. would you like to say a few words? >> hi, yes, please. thank you, president brandon. thank you so much for the kind words. i have been so grateful to be able to work on the san francisco waterfront for the last 41 years, the last 21 which at the port of san francisco, starting in 1999 at the ferry building and at pier 1 since 2001. as the old song goes, it's been a fantastic voyage. there are so many wonderful people i've worked with over the years, too many to single out, except for a few. first, to the san francisco port commission, president brandon, vice president adams, commissioner woo ho, and commissioner gilman for your service to the city of san francisco, for your leadership and guidance to the port. i have enjoyed working personally with you on many projects through the years, particularly in connection with the cruise industry. to peter daly, former mayritim director, who served the port faithfully and well for over three decades. you're a dear fun, and you opened the door for me at the port, and we worked together for more than 20 fun years. to monique moyer, former executive director, who accomplished so many great things during her tenure, by in my humble opinion was the jane r.heyer cruise terminal. the talents and capable colleagues with whom i have enjoyed working so much. to executive director elaine forbes, who is guiding the port through the present stormy waters. there's no better person to be our captain. together with the great team elaine has assembled, i know the port will survive and be resilient. last and most important, i would like to thank my wife, roselle, who also retired last week after working for 24 years at sacred heart cathedral. we are working into the sunset together and looking forward to another fantastic voyage. thank you all once again. >> president brandon: thank you, mike, and congratulations again. we're really going to miss you. >> thank you. >> president brandon: we will now open the lines for public comment on the executive director's report. so members of the public who are joining us on the phone, jennica will be our operator and will provide instruction for anyone who wants to provide public comment. >> operator: thank you. at this time, we will open up the queue for anyone who would like to make public comment on the executive director's report. please dial star, three when you wish to make public comment. comments will be limited to three minutes per person. the queue is now open. please dial star, three if you wish to make public comment. >> president brandon: thank you, jennica, do we have anyone on the phone? >> operator: yes, president brandon, we have one caller on the line. >> president brandon: please open the line for the first caller. >> operator: okay. opening that line now. thank you. >> hello, thank you. this is ellen johns, cochair of the maritime advisory committee. good afternoon president brandon, director forbes, and mike nerney. i'm so glad our letter is in the record. so about all i could add is just a couple of things. my collaboration with you, mike, on the mcac has been absolutely stupendous, and of course we've known each other for years longer. working with peter and jim, we had a great team. the terminal was one of the great achievements. remember the clean air committee, all the work we did on that? i think finally, your outreach to the maritime community throughout the city has been great. all the nonprofits that work to keep the maritime mission strong at the port and at the city, you've really done such a wonderful job on that. so personally, i'm just going to miss you a lot, and i hope to see you soon, and good luck, and lots of love to you. thank you so much. >> president brandon: thank you. are there anymore callers? >> operator: president brandon, at this time, there are no other members of the public on the phone wishing to make public comment. >> president brandon: thank you. seeing no more callers on the phone, public comment is closed. mike, did you want to say something? [inaudible]. >> president brandon: okay. so commissioner gilman, do you have anything to add to the executive director's report? >> commissioner gilman: thank you, president brandon. i just wanted to thank all the staff and everyone that has been doing during covid-19. i found that video incredibly moving, and i think it's something that we should elevate through our social media channels. even our listeners that we have for bidding and other projects at the port, i think we should be celebrating the work of the port during the covid-19 crisis. i wanted to thank the staff who were deployed, and i want to thank the staff who were not deployed who i'm sure stepped up and kept the day-to-day tasks of the port going. it's a wonderful video, and i hope we can prioritize it to show folks in san francisco and the hundreds of thousands of people that we welcome to the waterfront post covid-19 how much the port is a part of the fabric of the city and county of san francisco. thank you for all of your work. >> i totally agree. >> president brandon: commissioner woo ho? >> commissioner woo ho: yes. i wanted to echo the comments. i think, elaine, you did a great job in terms of joining the task force, but in terms of the whole team effort was amazing. my question really is, because i think commissioner gilman did a more eloquent way of putting all this, my question is how is this video being publicized, so if executive director forbes can tell us where this video is being played so we do find out how it's being recognized because i think is it -- it is a wonderful piece. and then, i have another question on her report, but then answer the question on the video first. >> executive director forbes: on the publication of the video, i think we included it in our newsletter, but i'll have to get with randy to find out about that. >> commissioner woo ho: maybe we should send it to some of the -- actually news media, even if they don't show the news video, but they could be writing about how the port has been contributing to the effort as one city agency, and i'm sure there are stories in the other sister departments, as well. this is a great story because it ties -- i have one question. is the food bank still operating because we don't hear much about the food banks, tho those operating in the beginning of covid-19. is it still operating? >> executive director forbes: yes, it's still -- randy is responding, yes, it's been distributed. yes, it's open, and it's serving more patrons than ever before, happy to report. >> commissioner woo ho: and just wanted to know, in the shared spaces, are there any businesses that are using the shared spaces among any of our tenants skprks are there any plaany -- tenants, and are there any plans to increase the shared spaces since this appears to be the only way for certain restaurants to increase their capacity and survive in the long-term. >> executive director forbes: that's a great question. i don't have a list, but i will get the list and share it with the commission in my next report. we are moving to a grou groundbreaking on jefferson street right in the summer, and we are working with new businesses in the shared spaces program. i will get back to you with that information. >> commissioner woo ho: okay. is it only on the waterfront spaces or is it on both sides of the embarcadero? >> executive director forbes: the program can be on either side of the street. it's citywide. >> vice president adams: i just wanted to echo what my fellow commissioners said. i thought that video was off the charts, and this year, 2020, will be a year that this commission -- this is a defining moment in history for this set of commissioners, port director, and port staff. not only was that video a shot in the arm, but it's been reported last week that over 1,000 people a month are leaving san francisco. so the old san francisco, it will be changed. it will be changed forever, and we will be ushering in a new era in san francisco. you can see it in the retirement, as president brandon laid out, with all the people that are leaving, and a new san francisco will be emerging right under our eyes. so under president brandon's leadership, commissioner woo ho, gilman, we will be moving forward with port staff and taking leadership, and i will say i wouldn't be prouder to be with this -- i couldn't be prouder to be with this set of commissioners. we need to expand distribution of that video, and we need to let everyone know that we're undergoing a makeover, as we say, and we'll be back bigger and better, and going into 2021, i think we will layout a new course of history for the port of san francisco, so let's enjoy the ride. thank you, president brandon. >> president brandon: thank you, commissioners. and i really appreciate your thoughts upon the video. i just happened upon the video. i think i saw it on facebook, on one of our social media sites, and i saw this, and i said to director forbes, we are doing such an amazing job in getting our story out and showing what people are doing. the staff has just stepped up in such an amazing way during this crisis, and all that we're doing along the waterfront for san francisco to keep us healthy and make san francisco a better place is just phenomenal, so i want to thank involved in creating that video and looking forward to much more press and videos to tell our stories. we have amazing things going on, but especially want to thank staff because they are just phenomenal. thank you. next item, please. >> clerk: item number 6-b is the commissioners' report. >> president brandon: okay. commissioners. does anyone have anything to share? commissioner gilman? >> commissioner gilman: i don't have anything to share at this time. thank you, commissioner brandon. >> president brandon: thank you. commissioner woo ho? >> commissioner woo ho: no, i have nothing to share at this time. thank you. >> president brandon: thank you. vice president adams? >> vice president adams: i think i said it earlier, president brandon. thank you so much. >> president brandon: yeah. i think we had the discussion during the executive director's report. thank you so much. we will open up the public comment for port commissioners' report. >> operator: thank you, president brandon. at this time, we will open the queue for anyone on the phone who would like to make public comment on the commissioner's report. please dial star, three if you wish to make public comment. the system will met you know when your line is open. others will wait on mute until their line is open. comments will be limited to three minutes per person. the queue is now open. please dial star, three if you wish to make public comment. >> president brandon: thank you, jennifer. do we have anyone on the phone? >> operator: president brandon, at this time, there are no callers on the line wishing to make public comment on the commissioners' report. >> president brandon: thank you, seeing no public comment, public comment is closed. next item, please. >> clerk: item 7-a is an informational presentation on the responses received and scoring panel results for the r.f.p.s for the development, lease, and operations of piers 30 and 32 and sbl 330, generally located along the embarcadero between bryant and brannan streets, consistent with the goals and policies of the draft waterfront plan and the port's resilience program. >> thank you. i'm going to be joined this presentation by the director of real estate development. she's going to handle some of the slides, but before i launch into the slides, i'd just like to do a shoutout to some of the staff who made this feasible during this particular time. we have on-line a financial expert and there's a whole list of people on the quarter front plan who really helped us get through what was such a complicated project even if we weren't hit with covid at the same time. so if that's okay, i'd like to go right into the slides. next slide. in this outline, what i'm going to do is just give a little backdrop on how we developed the r.f.p. and the structure of the r.f.p. that includes making sure we were consistent with strategic plan priorities, giving a little bit of context to the sites themselves. it's helpful to renew some of the high points there, and the process of developing the r.f.p. because that was so important. i'll give a quick overview of the respondent development concepts, but we're going to be joined by three teams submitting their proposals to the project. they'll have 15 minutes to hit the highlights of their project, and i'll talk about the scoring plan, scoring of the different proposals and coming up with some final recommendations in terms of scores. we'll then have the overview presentations from the three teams, and then, i'll have the next steps. next slide. the strategic plan priorities that we reflected on in the r.f.p. hit on all of them because this is a unique site. we have the unique opportunity to talk about this as a sustainable project affecting the building conditions, affecting the quality of the quarter. this is both a structure that has to be seismically sound, so it's on the water and anticipates flooding and flooding protection. [inaudible] but also meeting the general public. the priorities of equity, now more important than ever, but one of the most premises of developing the waterfront, is that the activities that are developed along the waterfront are going to be promoting equitiability and accessibility for all. stability, maintaining the port's financial strength. we've talked in previous commissions doing nothing with piers 30-32 is not a viable solution because that just costs us money to leave it into the state it is, so in order to contribute this to a more stable extremity that generates money for the port, making them productive members of the waterfront community also allows us to address other portions of the port, especially the waterfront district, which flanks these piers. next slide. so in the premise of framing this, we started with the quarter front plan. we wanted to make sure that we were emphasizing diversity, looking at them with an equity focus, making sure that the people enjoying these activities represented a broader cross section of san franciscos. we looked at a broad range of uses and also income general races uses. we talked about how the r.f.p.s would be shaped by nine port wide goals. with your staff report, have you the nine port wide goals, you have the north beach area goals, and you also have the community values, which is such an important point for all of our community engagement, reflecting what the priorities were for a broad cross section of the community. it isn't just the residents, it's the people who work there, the people who want to use the waterfront, the maritime advisory committee. so many people have an investment on so many of these proposals. next slide. and so with that, to frame the development of this r.f.p., as i mentioned, it's been a series of commission hearings with you where we talked about the questions you wanted answered. could we get to the bottom of some of the numbers, to also make sure that we're reflecting the very changing and evolving priorities of the community. that meant meeting with seawag, central waterfront advisory group, northeast waterfront advisory group, the maritime advisor see commit, but also the rincon, south beach, and mission bay community. we also june through october, reflecting what identities should be reflected in the r.f.p. so that the r.f.p. is a reflection of the community that cares the most about what's happening here. with that, we went to you in december, and you gave us the approval to issue the r.f.p., and we did. we issued it on february 3. we had a prebid meeting on february 18. now i'll get to that gap, which was february 18 to the approval process starting on june 26. from that deadline, we received three qualifying responses that advanced to scoring. i'll talk a bit more about that, but i'd like to go to the next slide and talk about the offering itself. the offering. so piers 30-32, historic piers, built in 1912. of course, the historic structures were destroyed in the fire of 1984. so what we have is a 13-acre deck. it's about 620 feet by 950 feet. it's zoned n-2, which is sort of a wide-open industrial mixed-use zoning, but the substructure conditions is one of the greatest concerns. discussions always came back to the effort to shore you be and stabilize the structure. as it is right now, only 1,000 parking spaces can be allowed on pier 30-32 because of the condition of the pier. across the street, we have seawall lot 30, 2.3 acres, about 100,000 square feet. it was a rail yard, paved over, used as a parking lot. the zoning district is south beach downtown residential. as it is today, a little less than half, 47,000 square feet, are used for the temporary navigation center. the balance of the port is used for parking. next slide. so a loyal more details on -- little more details on the r.f.p. process. that talks about how we manage through the covid pandemic, and still keeping in touch with all the community members and the developer proposals. we did issue the r.f.p. on february 3. we got about 100 prebid downloads. at a meeting in south beach, we had over 50 people attending. we got five responses that were submitted on the deadline of june 26. two of them were deemed nonresponsive by the standards of the r.f.p., meaning they did not demonstrate that they met the minimum qualifications. they were proposals by the enterprise consortium, and the earth prize. we reviewed their protest to the determination that they did not qualify, we sustained our determination, and we moved forward with three proposals that advanced to the scoring final. those three -- and this is just alphabetical order, strata, fishma tishman spire, and tornado. i'm only going to give you a proposal on each one because you'll hear more from the adjoining teams. we do have the shorthand table which just puts sort of the important top numbers that come out of their proposal. they proposed 376,000 square feet of office, about 31,000 square feet of residential retail cafe space, mostly in the pier site. there was 610,000 square feet of residential across the street, but on the peers was 150,000 square feet of open space. in the -- across on the seawall lot, there were 643 market rate units, mixed in with 57 inclusionary affordable units, with a total of 850 units on the strata proposal. just from spire, and you'll see the numbers in your proposal, too. they had 520,000 square feet of surface, 75,000 square feet of office space, a building for the port at 41,000 square feet, and across the street were 304,000 square feet of residential. they had about 330,000 square feet of open space on piers 30-32 and across the street in the residential side was 230 units of affordable housing, so while strata had a 25% affordable housing inclusion, this proposal was 50% affordable, totaling 460 units. on the vornado project, you'll notice one thing, and if we can stay on the slide, you may remember we were looking ad bidders who were looking to bid on both sites, bidders who were interested on bidding at one site. we were lucky to have teams who came forward to bid on proposals at both sites. they submitted a complete pro forma, which was important to the commissioners to activate things on both sides. in vornado's presentation, there was 270,000 square feet of residential across the street. the open space component was about 530,000 square feet. they'll talk more about that, a very interesting concept about how to handle green roofs. in their seawall lot proposal were 270 market rate units and 90 affordable units, so again, they were the 25% affordability ratio. the city likes to see a minimum between 18 and 20, so all three proposals give a little more or a lot more than the affordable housing component. now at this point -- let's go to the next slide. this is where i'm going to ask rebecca to join me. she worked area carefully with the experts on the proposals and looking at the finance. rebecca? >> thank you, peter and good afternoon, commissioners. so respondents were asked to provide a proposal to the port that included both a base rent or an amount that would be a stable revenue stream, and then, they could also propose other element that's would come to the port, depending on the perform jean of the project. so that's what these two rows represent. so today, the port, numbers that are a bit precovid, last year, we received about $2.3 million from the site. this number is sort of precovid. we were at about $2.4 million without really a capital program in place to improve the pier particularly. so the proposers came up with base rent. you see strata and vornado proposed 1.5 million per year base rent. strata also estimated about $3 million per year just for the seawall lot with the residential program. however, the rest of the proposal -- they didn't address elements that made that a proposal at sealot 35. spire, they proposed that they build a culturally oriented building that the port would program and gain rent from that building. so they proposed to provide the court about a 41,000 square foot building, and the port would get net rent from that building, and our expert said we'd maybe be netting $750,000 a year. i think spire's expert said a little higher. the base participation rent, each one of thuem came up witha different metric. spire provided the 1.5% in each capital event, so each time the leases are transacting or selling, then we would receive net 1.5% of those proceeds, and vornado proposed a net of 6% of income after the port provided a rent credit in order to rebuild the career. our financial consultant analyzed by perhaps by about year 30, the credit would be exhausted on building peers 30-32, and the port would receive a relatively significant 6% of income until 2052, at least. i want to identify the source of the funds. each of the proposal provided a significant equity contribution, between 32 and 40% of the total project. it's funded by equity. the rest is debt. strata and tishman proposed using financing. both of the proposers also proposed using jobs housing link age fees, so thee aose [inaudible] as part of the affordable housing development. i only mention these to note that in order to effectuate the use of these funding sources, we would have to make sure that the funds would go through the city. we would have to enter an agreement with the city in order to direct those fees to remain on-site on port property. just wanted to mention that. we've done those things before. we didn't provide greater or lesser points, just something to be aware of for the proposal. next slide, and i'll hand it back to peter. >> thank you, thank you, rebecca. now i'm going to talk about the scoring panel, but before i do, i wanted to talk about some of the expertise that we thought would make deal for what a successful r.f.p. would look like. because it was important to -- i believe it was commissioner woo ho that said we have an unusual opportunity to have extraordinary design on the waterfront and on the seawall lot, could you make sure that we're looking at the architecture in a way that understands how important this opportunity is, so we engaged the subcontract services of a company to look at some basic architectural aspect, pedestrian viability and streetscape design. the other memo was contracted with port staff, and that was a port engineering memo, following work that we did with the commission over the last year over the challenge of either rebuilding or renovating the piers, given the seismic standards, the sea water rise, the flooding, taking all of that into consideration into not just costs but engineering strategy. we had the port preservation staff on hand, and on the call today, i believe we have matt bell, who was on the engineering calls, as well. next slide. the commission asked us last year to outline a panel of about five people with a diversity of representation for san francisco, and that included diverse communities, but it also included diverse skill sets. so we included a development expert, kirk bennett, he's retired from the port. he's the port assistant director of development in the past, and we had the waterfront plan manager. from the community, we had a resident of south beach. she's been on the central waterfront advisory group now. she's the present of the south beach rincon mission bay neighborhood association, and that ended up helping us, especially with the community value aspect of our work. from the regional policy perspective, we brought in jasper rubin, so he had a great familiarity with the port's waterfront issues. and then, because of that concern about design in making sure that we had good skill sets on looking at the different proposals, we brought in michael willis, an architect, and so working with the scoring panel -- and this is so instrumental to me to have the help of stephanie tang. i cannot thank her enough for her professionalism and integrity of making it work. from july 20 to july 30, we sent to the scoring panel, once they volunteer and agreed to volunteer, we sent them the r.f.p. submittals, score sheets that they'd fill out, including the priorities of the port, and the memos that i outlined, technical memos, structural, and feasible messages. on august 13, we convened the oral interview with the three teams. on august 14, the port staff received the complete scoring sheets from the scoring panels. next slide. now, the criteria for the scoring of this, this is straight off the fact report, but i just wanted to sort of emphasize that there are two score numbers that we are working toward. the written submittal is a total of 100, and then, in the oral interview, we focused on quality design and development, and then, the organization of the team, including how they might be set up to work closely with the community and different stakeholders. the written submittal was for a total of 100 possible points, and the oral for a total of 30 possible points. next slide. so with all of that process done, we had a process of throwing out the highest and lowest scores of each panel, so we could make sure we were achieving more consistency across the panels. stratah stratah stratah stratahad -- there were some really tough scores, and i do want to emphasize how impressed i was the panel was with each aspect of these proposals. and now what i'd like to do, rather than paraphrase the strength of the proposals that we evaluated, i'd like to invite the people who submitted the work and submitted to the oral interview. they're going to spend 16 minutes with you, one minute of introductions and 15 minutes of proposals. so with that, i'll introduce strata. >> hi. my name is jessie, and i'm with strata group. i just wanted to give a special shoutout to peter and his team, rebecca for running a thorough and incredibly transparent process. i'm the founder of strata, and we're a ten-year-old real estate company fully based, po born, and bred in san francisco. really, in many ways, there's no developer based in the bay area that has the depth of experience working on complex waterfront development projects like we do. as one indication between michael cohen and i, i think we have helped draft and pass eight different state lands related bills in the state legislature for san francisco waterfront projects. next slide, please. just a little bit about our development team. you know, i'm not going to go into detail, but one thing that's important to note here is every single firm on this list here had had direct experience on working on port 32, and that's important on a project like this. and so this team represents expertise in that area. with the exception of grim shaw and james corner field operations, who will be working in this presentation, but we're thrill today have both of them on board, and they also have experiences we'll discuss on port projects. next slide, please. one of the things i want to say before we get into the specifics of the proposal is a little bit about team engagement. the slide you just saw represented a portion of our full team. ultimately, we're going to add another 20 firms onto the design and professional services side of this, and we're very committed to equity and inclusion during that process. frankly, all phases of this project, and just as an example, strata's own experience, for instance, our mission bay project, we hit 53%. we oversaw the warriors project, and we had 89 f.t.e.s, total instruction $245 million on that construction project alone. in terms of strata and trammell crowe company, it combines the best of both worlds. we've got the local experience on strata here, and tramell crowe, who has a global footprint to allow them to tap all sorts of tenants and other relationships, and they also have experience in waterfront development. just a few of our team's project experiences. we've got the project -- by the way, i'll mention that david and his firm have touched 75% of san francisco's piers over the last ten years in the form of some construction or other work, so you couldn't ask for a more capable and kind of plugged in partner on the water construction side. next slide, please. this is pier 70. strata worked closely with forest city and then brookfield on the entitlements phase on pier 70 from its inception. chase center, clark miller, who is the lead for this project for strata, will be the lead on this effort, as well. obviously, this is one of our signature projects, and we spent two years crawling all over pier 32 before we switched down to mission bay for this project, a $1.4 billion project that we successfully entitled and had completion of. one mission bay, housing project with a 200-room hotel that we completed in mission bay, and this is an incredible river front development that strata recently completed. we brought this incredible team of water engineers and in-water instructi construction experts on early in this project. it's a 13-acre pier, and it's very, very expensive. we got our experts around the table and worked on a solution, pretty quickly, the light bulb went off. what if we reduced the footprint of the pier all while building the appropriate amount of program to address all of the competing goals of the port and all of the regulatory agencies. as this diagram indicates, we end up with a 45% reduction in total pier area. so we're building back new 7.2 acres, which leaves about 6 acres that we'll be restoring, removing and restoring the bay. it's obviously cheaper to build 7 acres than 13 acres. second, by rebuilding instead of retrofitting, we're going to be creating greater cost and schedule certainty. third, it has a tremendous environmental benefiting, both during construction and obviously long-term with removal of six acres of fill from the bay. a few other things before i turn it over to grim shaw and james corner field operations. at its core, this project is grounded in precedent. we are proposing 375,000 square feet of office on the pier for a reason. that is the footage that mirrors ab-39, otherwise known as the lend lease project. in that case, the legislature and all the other regulatory agencies signed off on 375 square feet of office. you know, obviously, you know, we could have added more to the pier, but we felt like, you know, in this particular instance, going with precedent made sense. in terms of the public access, we have some incredible public amenities that we're delivering as part of the project, the center piece of which we all the water room, a public facility, swimming facility that's the center of the pier site, but we also have incredible access around the pier as well as an access beerm for deep water ships. we are generating $325 million in total revenue over the life of the lease, and almost $7,370 million in investment and seawall development. we're talking about a mix of housing and commercial. 25% affordable on the residential side, fully paid for and financed by the project. we felt it was important to generate enough revenue and not rely on on us housing. in terms of -- on outside housing. i i also wanted to say that we're focused on making sure that the swimming facility and the access to that is free, or in some cases, low cost to low-income residents, and folks who don't have the means to pay-for-access to swimming in the city. we intend to create a nonprofit to manage that facility. so now, i'll turn it over to richard from field operations, who's going to talk about the public realm. next slide, please. >> thank you very much, jessie. as jessie was describing, we're so excited to be sharing the vision with the commission and the public for a project that we believe creates the maximum number of diverse public benefits for the city, the surrounding neighborhood, and of course the whole region. next slide, please. we started with the effort to create as much environmental, ecological, and sustainable achievements as possible to make sure that our project is actually achieving biodiversity goals and environmental goals but also displaying them and making them visible to the public. we've been inspired by the bay area's pursuit of healthy lifestyles and initiatives, and that has persisted throughout all of san francisco's life. there are other spaces around the bay where people have a rugged access to recreational access and bases in the bay with close proximity to water and natural resources. our effort does exactly that. it puts people and nature right in the center of the piers. this image depicts the opening between piers 30 and 32, now publicly accessible with a floating pool, floating wetlands in a visible display of nature. this site plan depicts an effort to create as green a space as possible. this diagram depicts the public access ways. we've ensured that we wanted to make connectivity all the way to the water's edge. public access all the way from the embarcadero to the eastern berth on the far east side, unique features, such as access ways and plazas around reds that are remaining in the top left corner there, kayak launches down to the water's edge on the embarcadero. overlook spaces called the city room, with views to the downtown skyline, the view room with views to the bay bridge and the horizon, and the floating public pool in the center. next slide, please. we've also ensured that the project accommodates and maintains maritime uses. we've made sure that all the functions make this effort a unique activity that continues well into the future. next slide. and just lastly, the image and portion of the project with an open public center open and accessible to all with tfloatig pool at the stocenter, and the front and center. >> i'm going to talk about the accessibility of the piers. it allows us to carve away the buildings in particular locations to create these public realm spaces and to also maintain the main street view corridor. next slide, please. it allows us to create two main spaces. the city room on the left-hand has a unique relationship to downtown and the embarcadero, and on the right-hand side, on the northeastern side of the development, the bay room, which sides there under the dramatic skyline of the bay bridge and the vistas towards the east bay. next slide, please. care was taken when we developed the buildings to of resonant -- [inaudible] understanding the requirements of sea level rise and the measure of the height limits from the embarcadero, we understood took an assessment and knew that the three to 4 foot rise to sea level required us to make sure that we could develop a building within a 36-foot height limit, and we determined that two stories was the only appropriate way to deliver a building that was accessible to the high level demands. we have a direct relationship across the embarcadero to the seawall 330 site with a direct relation to the waterfront space. the use of the state density bonus allows us to create a building higher than the existing building and enables us to create this really trs and sculpted building form along that edge. finally, we just wanted to speak about the importance of creating an active and successful public realm where community and retail based activity will be creating a positive relationship to the streets and an affordable offer on bryant street. next slide. >> i think our time is up based on that beep. is that correct? >> yes, i think so. >> okay. well, i'll stop there. >> i appreciate you working with the time limit. we have a long day with the commission, but it's such a complicated project, and i really appreciate your patience with us. now, we'll have the next time, which is tishman spire. we really appreciate you working with our schedule that way. >> all right. thanks, peter. for those of you who don't know me, i'm carl shall nnnon, and n our northern california operations. i'm here with team members from our seteam in san francisco. we have a team of about 50 professionals in san francisco and thousands of professionals worldwide, and we're happy to present this to you today. we believe that we've worked in the existing zoning in the waterfront. we believe that we've provided a flexible structure to deal with the realities of the unknowns that come with this site. we believe that we've provided the project with the most amount of retail and public space at the ground level of the pronl, and we've provided a very special treat in a building specifically building for the port. we committed to 50% on the residential. we would love, as peter said, for this to be a conversation. we would love to work with you and answer your questions, and with that, i'll turn it over to sarah to start the formal part of our presentation. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm sarah dennis philips, and i'm glad to be back before this commission since working on pier 70. water side and water recreation space, where people can get close to and into the bay, but also actual useable public open space where the public can gather for events, watch water shows, play frisbee, and even picnic, and that squares retaining as much as the piers as possible. what you see here in our overall land use proposal is essential garden promenade. we have two signature one-acre public spaces on the embarcadero side and the bay sides of the piers, along with a new public serving cultural asset. we have a string of water side dual-like spaces along both sides of the piers getting people around the retail. next slide, please. the six distinct open spaces you see in our proposals are called out in this diagram. altogether, they makeup six years of walkable, useable open land space. here you see an image of south beach plaza, located along the embarcadero. we really want to activate that, get people excited about the piers, and bring them into the site. its welcome canopy acts as a source for all kinds of areas. and the bay bridge plaza, with its 40,000 square foot cultural building, is its counterpart, a dramatic amphi theater looking out to the waterfront and beyond. our proposal takes inspiration from the typical pier shed, but it breaks it down inside, creating smaller blocks and building do buildings. it's a large idea broken-down into special moments. it creates the kind of places where visitors can find their own place and have their own intimate experience with the waterfront. with that, i'd like to turn it over to matt. >> next slide. the photos of the projects in front of you represent breadth of tishman spire's experience in projects in san francisco. notable recent projects include mirror up, located a block from the embarcadero, this is a project that includes 392 homes, 40% of which are affordable. next slide. an image of the mission rock neighborhood, an stra neighborhood. renderings are exciting and important to illustrate a vision, but there's nothing more exciting than actually building and delivering a project. this is a photo taken last week. we are so proud to be leading the team that is actually building mission rock, a project that is very much under construction. we have an extensive track record of working on projects that are multifaceted and complicated, projects that include building over the water. this is a photo of a project that we just completed in boston harbor, the full redevelopment of a historic pier structure, and restoring public access to the quarter front. next slide. each and every project on this screen is one that we designed, entitled, and secured the required approvals. while designing and securing approval approvals are important, they only represent the first steps of bringing real estate development to life. each and every project on this screen is one that we've actually worked and delivered. when we make a commitment, we say what we will do, and we do what we will say. nothing is more important than selecting a partner that will stand by you, solve problems together, and deliver on their promises. i'll now turn to my colleague, andre. >> next slide. good evening, port staff and commissioners. my name is andre krause. i'm here to talk about our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and at tishman spires, we understand the importance of difference and experiences, and we understand the local connection and commitment. and on these important waterfront projects, we recognize that diversity and equality means public accessibility, not just bringing in community voices in the design process, but also insight to shaping the programming activity and functions, including things like water sports programs for disadvantaged youth. next slide. working towards equity, we recognize the value of working on and involving local small business participation, including minority owned and women owned small businesses. we also learned the success with building the project team on both inside and the outside by partnering with our broad project team members. next slide. during construction, we're not only seeking to have low-income and disadvantage worker population, but those who previously joined the project. ultimately, we look forward to have opportunities growing with the project from its beginning to ongoing projects, so when you join the project, you're a part of the project family. next slide. speaking on inclusion, we have some specifics that we're proposing, including 33% of retail space made available for small, local, and minority owned retailers, establishing training, mentoring, and internships with officer tenants, mentoring and internship programs like stem sf, stem talent pathways, and the community colleges pathways trust. these are just a few of the things that we're proposing. so close my -- to close my section, i want to invite your questions on this extremely important topic of diversity, equity, and inconcludilusion. with that, i hand it off to nick. >> next slide, please. good evening. i'm nick, and it's a pleasure to appear before the commission this evening. the intent of the financial construct imagined and presents for peers 30-32 and seawall lot 330 includes all the learning lessons from over 20 years of development experience in san francisco. we've aligned our interests with the port all with the intention to create a new, unique, dynamic waterfront community and realize the port's vision for this site. for the one-time revenues, our program assumes $92 million in net rates to the port and port participation at the time of stabilization. the $92 million payment should be viewed as a form of base rent. to accommodate the port's desire for ongoing revenues, we have assumed 100% of the revenues from the operations at the new cultural building will be a benefit of the port, estimated to generate 750 million to $1 billion revenue each year to the port. we welcome all commissioner questions on this topic. next slide, please. more qualitative in nature, the scale imagined offers a number of community benefits including as many as 500 new homes, up to 250 of which will be permanently affordable, a new cultural building to be deeded to the poor, a new bike path, 7.5 acres of useable public open space, and 2,000 square feet of unique linear access, and to our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, we will go beyond the development and procurement phases. we will offer 33% of ground floor spaces ad heavily subsidized rate to make sure that everyone has a voice at this destination, with half of the units permanently dedicated to a range of renters. in closing, i would like to turn it over to carl shannon. >> we'd just like to say thank you to the commission for their time this afternoon and thank you to the port staff. we think we've put forward a flexible structure. we'd encourage you to pick a partner for this incredibly complicated project who has the wherewithal to not only see this through entitlement but to actually get it built, and we think we have a very strong track record of actually building projects in san francisco and providing the kind of opportunities we've laid out. we're committed to the ground floor retail, we're committed to the ground floor public open space, we're committed to 50% affordable public housing, and we're committed to the diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies that andre laid out in detail. we hope that you will pick us, and we hope this is the beginning of a conversation, as peter said. look forward to working with you in the future. thank you for your time this evening. >> thank you, carl. so that brings us to the last team, vornado. if you're ready to be on deck, that would be great. >> okay. peter, you ready for us? >> we are. >> nice to see you again. good evening, everybody. we appreciate the opportunity to present our plans for peers 30-32 and seawall lot 330 to the port commission. i hope all of you have been staying safe and healthy during this challenging time. before we get started on our presentation, let me introduce the people from our team today. michael, president of vornado realty trust. i'm a trustee for the urban institution and for the last five years have served as the chairman. der derry langer has seen all of our developments over the last two decades. jared is one of our senior investment and capital investment professionals, and i think importantly, continuity is important when dealing with long-term projects, particularly ones of this prominence and complexity, so the team you see now is the team you will always be dealing with. jeffrey heller, who served on both the port's waterfront plan, citizen's advisory committee in the early 1990 and bcdc citizens' advisory committee in early years. so with that, let's go to our presentation. as we again -- next slide. as we begin or presentation, you know, the three key points that i want to emphasize, first, stla, our plan will deliver a world class destination and waterfront amenity for the city of san francisco and all who visit. and lastly, vornado is the group who ultimately delivers on the port's goals. as you'll see in this rendering, our proposal delivers a monumental 12 acre public park, including eight acres of rooftop green space, offering residents and visitors spectacular views of the skyline and bay. we extend to maximize water line availability for the public as well as maritime uses for ferries, docks, and water taxis, a marina and over 600 feet of frontage to welcome tourists. importantly, we have proposed projects that are zoning compliant and economically viable individually with private financing based on low-rise and residential space. we inte we are committed to honoring waterfront height limits and partnering with a local affordable housing developer to deliver a minimal affordable housing of 25% and potentially more. we have a track record of working with and using wmbe firms and intend to have them on this, as well. for a number of reasons, we believe vornado is a group best equipped to develop the piers. we are a large, publicly traded business, with enterprise revenue of roughly $25 billion. calpe calpers and calstrs are two of our largest investors. we have extensive experience with large projects such as the 30-32 piers, some of which have taken years. third, we are a long-term owner of the who believes that developing projects to the highest quality standard will help themmen did you remember. this results in enhancing the cities and communities that we develop, and we have many examples of in our portfolio. fourth, we have been an industry leader for years in sustainable operations, and we plan to apply those same items here. we have the capital, experience, and patience to see this through and transform the piers into public green space. our proposals are 100% zoning compliance, reflecting lessons from recent community engagement. we have maximized public access, preserving over 85% of the piers for public enjoyment. financially, we are an investment grade company with $4 million on our billion sheet to self-finance the project, and from an affordable housing stand approximately, we are committing to at least 25%, possibly more. one of the three buildings will be dedicated for affordable housing. our proposal incorporates a host of maritime uses in the r.f.p. including the deep water berth. our plan is 100% privately financed. next slide, please. next slide, please. utilizing green roofs affords maximum public enjoyment of the piers, accessible via seamless striking connection to see the embarcadero. the rooftops create unique views of the skyline and bay, and public viewpoints are among the city's most beloved spaces. next slide, please. next slide, please. next slide, please. thank you. here, you can get a sense of how you enter the project on the public green space in a park which goes on top of all the buildings there. next slide, please. think a visual top-down, where you can see the scale of the park and how it is utilized in the linear waterfront around it so that the public goes around it, through it, on top of it. next slide, please. in addition to our local team, the relationships were built over 13 years with california's and san francisco's historic 555 project. our architect and engineer's extensive experience with the port, leading government and community relations specialist, and we have a local land use planning and zoning expert. the ownership of 555 california street have been involved in numerous charities over the years, giving back to the community. we've hosted the annual tree lighting event there for many years, introducing the community to public programming in an involvement of local firms to not only help build it but also to be a part of it. next slide, please. on the affordable housing side, we currently over own 2,400 multifamily units, including affordable housing and have developed many successful multifamily and condominium projects in multiple cities. as such, we acknowledge the nuances of housing development in each city and have committed to partnering with the local firms as i mentioned. we're going to bring in the local experts in san francisco and make this a premier affordable housing project. next slide, please. finally, with respect to overwater experience, vornado is developing two finger piers in the hudson river located just west of man hat tan. development on the waterfront presents similar regulatory and maritime challenges similar to san francisco. we will select a marine contractor to rebuild the piers and seawall via competitive bid, resulting in not only the best outcome but a project which is cost effective which ultimately results in delivering a participation sooner to the port. finally, i'm going to turn it over -- next slide, please -- there's a picture of piers 92-94 in new york city, as is as well as a public-private partnership with the state of new york. i'm going to turn it over to barry to talk about a significant public-private partnership that we are just completing. >> thank you, michael. next slide, please. as a key study of our abilities to do public-private partnerships and one of the most complicated projects we've worked on is a project in new york city. much like pier 30 and 32 which have a long history of projects proposed and failed, the farley building in new york is the same. finally, in 2016, we are designated by the state of new york to build a new train station for the people of new york. in 2016, we were designated to build this. we started construction on the train station soon therefore, and started speculatively building the office space well in advance of us ever finding a tenant. i'm proud to say this project will open on time and on budget, notwithstanding covid, in december of this year, delivering a huge improvement to new york city's infrastructure at a time when most other developers would have put their project s on pause. this is an example of our capital delivering on a public-private partnership for san francisco just like we were able to finally do for the city of new york. next slide, please. here's a picture of that train hall. it's a size of union station being added to penn hub, which is the busiest station in north america. next slide, please. and with that, we thank you for your time today, and we look forward to continuing the conversation with you. michael, would you like to add anything else? >> no. we thank you for your time. we are confident in our ability in developing the pier, and we are confident that we would do a good job for the city of san francisco. thank you. >> thank you. this was really the end of the presentation. i just want to wrap it up before we continue to conversation. i think you can see, commissioners, what a difficult task it was for the panel to evaluate all three of these, but we worked closely with the r.f.p. standards. i want to thank the scoring panel. they took each issue very seriously. i want to thank the consultants on the call, and i want to sort of just go over what the r.f.p. stated. the commission can go with the top scorer and recommend on an action item as early as september 22 that the port enter negotiations with the top scorer. the other option is the commission could cancel the process and go to a different course of action with the r.f.p. i am scheduled to speak with the port's northern advisory committee on the 16, depending on what we talk about today, but i map out the 22 possible action item with the commission, and if we go forward with that, we would be working in the fall 2020-2021, work wg the port to enter into an exclusive agreement -- negotiation agreement. with that, this concludes my presentation. again, i want to thank the proposing team, the panelists, the experts, and the port staff. >> president brandon: thank you, peter, and thank you, rebecca, for the presentations, and the teams. this is just great. this is absolutely wonderful. now, let's open it up for public comment. we'll ta we'll open it up for public comment [inaudible] jennifer will be our praoperator who wi provide instruction at this time for anyone wishing to make public comment. >> operator: please dial star, three if you wish to make public comment. the system will let you know when your line is open. others will wait on mute until their line is open. comments will be limited to three minutes per person. the queue is now open. please dial star, three if you wish to make public comment. >> president brandon: thank you, danica. do we have any public comment? >> operator: yes, president brandon. at this time, we have two callers on the line. >> president brandon: please open the first one. >> operator: okay. opening the line. >> hi. my name is russell. i'm a local resident in district 6. i live a few blocks from the project from pier 30-32, and i'm just calling in enthusiastic support of the proposed development. i -- as a resident of san francisco for a sfu years, i've been hoping that the city can increase the supply of housing. i appreciate that it's a high-scoring proposal, has so many housing units, and it would be a great addition for the waterfront. what's really important is the speed at which all of these projects get approved and can be developed. i think we've seen it take a long time for major development projects to go through all of the regulatory committee approvals, etc., and of course there are good reason for lots of those, but i would just emphasize to the commission that every day we don't have a beautiful waterfront that we can't enjoy, so i would urge the commission to pefeel of urgency of whatever proposal moves along the furthest, to move it along so we can enjoy the waterfront of san francisco as early as possible. >> president brandon: thank you. next caller, please. >> operator: okay. thank you. here's the next line. >> good afternoon. my name's john william templeton. i'm a his totorian and cofound of national black business month and chairman of the his torque committee in new york city. as i mentioned in my remarks last october, the first building that was built on the port was built by an african american in the 1840s, and in 1960 in the port's history of a working port, after americans were the second most numerous group in the -- african americans were the second most numerous group in the city, and they were living along the waterfront. so i would urge the commissioners and the staff who have been leaders on this issue for a long time to take advantage of the interest that's been placed in this property and the -- the international players that have gotten involved and to really use that leverage to change the paradigm from large entities getting tremendous public subsidies and then tossing crumbs to the community. the research that we've done across country indicates that unless you have ownership, unless there's equity that's diverse, you wind up with the waterfront looking like walnut creek. down in l.a., you have people who were building an 80-story building that would be the tallest building on the west coast, so there are definitely african american firms that have wherewithal to complete with private flight like this, and we need to make sure that, you know, we're part of the discussion. i sent a note to the preferred candidate and asked them questions about their workforce and other track projects around the country and have not gotten a response yet, so i definitely urge the port to beyond kind of filli filling -- to move beyond kind of billing in the blanks and what the city has been doing. what the city is doing now is working, so that's why we have gone on this and fred and i have been part of the folks who encouraged the california legislature to pass prop 15. >> president brandon: go ahead and finish your thought. >> oh, yes. so i'm doing architecture in the city on the 14 and on the 17 to talk about the role of african americans in architecture in the city. thanks. >> president brandon: thank you so much. next caller. >> operator: it looks like we have one last caller. i'll unmute now. >> my name is john, and i've been a resident of this city for about 25 years. interesting designs, but one thing that strikes me on the strata design on the seawall lot is much more striking in the design proposals. i've been involved in other proposals to the port and the development going all the way back to the original end lease, and that was always a design issue that always seemed to get whittled down. vornado proposal, you know, certainly, the massing is much more, i think tolerable effect. i just really hope that you folks don't get caught up in trying to maximize density on that seawall lot to the detriment of it not just fitting scale of the rest of the project. but any way, i think all of those projects are impressive, and i think they'd all make good replacements for that fallow pier. please just don't maximize project density on that. it's going to defeat the project. thanks to all the teams who put those projects together. they're all impressive. >> president brandon: thank you. danica, do we have any other callers? >> operator: president brandon, at this time, there are no other public callers on the line wishing to make public comment on this item. >> president brandon: thank you. seeing no more callers on the line, public comment is closed. commissioner woo ho? >> commissioner woo ho: okay. thank you. okay. i just want to start, because i think one of our calers was a resident who was concerned at the time that this project went up, i think we said that we would open this up for development. i think we have fulfilled our commitment to the residents in the community that we were not going to hold that fight permanently for the navigation center, although it has served a very noble purpose during the pandemic. i just want to note that we are fulfilling our commitment that we are going through this process right now. first of all, i want to say all three times, i am very impressed with the creativity and innovation and thought because this has been such a difficult project, particularly given the state of the piers and the infrastructure involved, and of course, we always knew that seawall lot 330 was the carrot to the project, and i think all three came up with some excellent answers and appreciate that they're all three extremely qualified. i want to thank all three teams for bidding on the project. moes impressiv most impressive. my understanding from reading the staff reports, number one, my concern was the investment in the infrastructure of the piers to make them earthquake resistant, sea level rise, etc., and to meet the demands of any massing on top of it. so my impression at the moment is that the strata plan is much more specific, is that correct, in terms of the investment structure required for the piers even though it is a rebuild for the piers? so that is my question number one. >> commissioner, you'd like me to answer the questions as you go? peter albert, real estate and development. what you're looking at are the resulting scores of the panel that reviewed, especially that question. they referred to the engineering memo. they talked about the pros and cons of each approach. if you look at how the scores was given for the engineering response, strata got strong response for their views to reduce the overall size of the pier. it would reduce the cost making it smaller, and building from scratch. not trying to renovate the existing structure. that also ended up being a strength, but i think what you see in the high scores from the panel and someone who's listened to the whole conversation it was the clarity and sort of absolutely certainty to the approach that strata brought to that engineering challenge that stood out. >> commissioner woo ho: okay. because that was sort of the number one deterrent to sort of developing that out, so i'm glad that that obstacle has been dealt with. obviously, there's a lot more work to be done, but at least everybody is really clear on what the challenge is. my second question relates to i guess the fact that two of the proposals have public financing involved with all the various facilities that we've used in other projects, as well, and i guess just to comment on you or from brad benson or anybody else in terms of whether these public sources, any risks involved with that that we should be aware of, and if it's something we should discuss in the final presentation, but i would like to get a better feel for, versus the vornado financing, so that we could be very clear on the risks associated with public financing, given the environment that we're in today. >> i'll open this up -- >> this is rebecca. sure. i'll opine, and if brad is around, he can add to the answer. thank you very much, commissioner. sthafs around during precovid, and it seemed like absolutely we would be using public financing on these piers because the feasibility gap we know is very difficult? i think it is an extra step that we have to be aware of doing, but throughout the whole -- throughout developing the r.f.p., we anticipated that this would be the type of mix of uses that would be applied in -- to the piers. in some of our sessions, we don't get to totally require why somebody did one thing and somebody did another thing. it's an extra step, but we think that 30-32 could make a very strong argument to, but it is a but-for type of project. unless we get that subsidy, it could be very difficult to fill that gap that those piers represent. >> commissioner woo ho: onkay. i guess just to understand before we sort of make a final call on this, what would be the other risks when we make the alternative back ups, so if you could work with the extraa team to make sure we have a fuller picture there. >> so commissioner -- just wanted to add to what rebecca said, looking at the stores, as we go along with the scoring panel because i know that that's the baseline that you have to look at, what they were looking for in the response was a track record. a track record of a proposal team that had navigated the similar public finances proposals. i do want to acknowledge the vornado keys proposal not to use public financing was considered a strength for the team's proposal. the final thing was the question of financial capacity and the financial strategy, it was also looked really carefully at the cost estimates, and those are some of the numbers that the commission wanted us to look at. so to the term that that ended up shaping the discussion. >> commissioner woo ho: okay. next gets to the number of housing, and i just wanted to -- and i know we're at the conceptual stage, but is there clarity whether -- because we've talked about the affordable and also the market rate. so is this going to be -- is there a mix of rental versus condos or what is the mix of the housing? >> i mean, i'm going to stay right now it never came up in the conversation, the mix whether it was ownership or rental. it was always a conversation of degree of affordablity and how the affordability was going to be cross sectioned with the developer and the pier. >> and commissioner, this is rebecca. we assume it's all rental and not for sale. >> commissioner woo ho: okay. so whether it's market or affordable, it's all rental? >> right, that's correct. >> commissioner woo ho: okay. so that gets into a little bit more of a nit, but i'd just be curious to know if you've had more of a discussion into the cost of the units, type of the units so that we all understand particularly the affordable, nonaffordable? >> i don't remember a variation of two to three-bedroom units, studios. to be fair, the contract was all we expected anyone to advance until we got it out to covid restrictions. i'll put it out to anyone else in the team to answer anything that i've left out. >> hi, peter. this is debbie kern. strata includes a mix of studios, one, and two-bedroom units. tishman spierz has the sam tishman spires has studios, one, and two, and vornado only thinks about families. >> commissioner woo ho: okay. i think we would want to have that in consideration of the type of mix of the units to say are we talking about singles, couples, or families, and what we envision as residents of these units. our next question relates to -- this is sort of rebecca bailiwick here. you gave us a high level proposal, but i wanted to get a better feel -- and maybe this is a question not to answer today, but for us to understand what's up front in terms of cash flow, what is overtime, and my understanding is that one proposal, i think strata's after x years, we would get something. if we could have a little more elaboration of what that looks like, even if it's not conceptual because it's getting into the bolts and nuts because you're going to have to go into e.n.a. discussions, so we can have a sense of the financial feasibility versus how much we're going to give back in terms of credits, etc. so when do we actually see some cash come to the port? i understand the base rent, but even that could be applied to some of the development costs. so i'm not sure i can have a full understanding of that yet. >> yeah, i can start, and debbie, please elaborate. what i presented as the base rent, the $1.5 million for strata's and vornados, debbie, correct me if i am wrong, but that would be the rest that goes to the port -- rent that goes to the port no matter what from day one, and tishman was providing a building that the city could lease out, and we would get the next revenue from that building. debbie, did i get that correct? >> yes. that was my understanding, as well. >> okay. this is not something that we go down the line for 30 years and then, after 30 years, we start to see revenue, as well. we'll obviously want to know about the financial and economic viability of the project. and lastly, just want today -- about the floating swimming pool which i'm very intrigued about because i'm a swimmer miself-. -- myself. i just want to know is this floating swimming pool a contract that's already been proven to be feasible anywhere else in the world? >> as the facilitator, what i'd rather do is make sure that the experts who can talk about the floating pool concept -- my understanding is it's on the barge. it's not on the bay, it's on a floating barge on the team. anyone with strata like to weigh-in on that? >> sure. this is jessie, and ask if there's anyone else who would like to weigh-in on this. this is based on very much other experiences, not so much in the u.s. but in europe and australia. there's one in copenhagen that's amazing, and one in helsinki. in this particular case, the design that we ended up with was a steel bathtub in the water that floats between piles. some of the detailed engineers that we've got into the r.f.p. response was based on experience from another project in san francisco. >> commissioner woo ho: okay. i think this is a very interesting design, and i think it would be valued by the public to have that amenity, so i guess it's going to at ocean temperature, right, so it'll only be for the hardy. >> it'll be bay temperature, although on the drawing board, we have a possibility of using bay cooling for the office buildings, and that could warm up the bay water and be used in the pool, to the extent we want to vary the temperatures in the various pools. several ideas have been kicked around, none of which have been decided on yet, but drawing on a real history of public swimming facilities. richard kennedy mentioned two that were community resources, so we're excited to add to that history with the -- >> commissioner woo ho: yeah, no. i think it's a great concept, and particularly if you have any heating facility, particularly if the water is going to be the way you're planning it, it would be cleaner than going out to an aquatic park. >> yeah. it would be cleaner than going to the bay. >> commissioner woo ho: okay. i think i've taken up enough time. thank you. >> president brandon: thank you. commissioner gilman? >> commissioner gilman: thank you, president brandon. and i want to thank commissioner woo ho. she asked a lot of great indepth questions. i just have one question for staff, and then, a statement about observations. rebecca, i was wondering if you crunched numbers -- you showed on the strata team proposal, that we would receive 20% after they received 18% on the i.r.r. can you tell us when strata's predicting to reach their ri return so that we would start seeing our 20%? >> thank you for asking, and i will defer to debbie kern. what's been helpful in these proposals has been having staff to keep port staff one wall away from evaluating all the proposals. debbie, i'm looking at your memo, and you tried to project the year that strata would declare the 18% but i don't know if you were able to come up with that or when it would be in the future. >> i can start -- if you want to look at another question, and i'll get back to. >> commissioner, we'll get right back to you, but that was a good observation. [inaudible]. >> commissioner gilman: yeah, i just think i would find that interesting. i didn't find that in the staff report. >> thank. >> commissioner gilman: and then -- and then just on observations, i wanted to thank all three teams in putting together tremendous proposals, and i wanted to thank the scoring panels. this is a difficult and hard assessment for the scoring panel to be looking across the same scoring criteria that, from my perspective, were so different in their proposals. it seems clear to me from a scoring perspective, you know, that the strata team, particularly on the engineering, really was head and shoulders above the rest, so i did want to acknowledge that from a scoring perspective. and then, i also just -- well, i know this is a preliminary part, and i know you'll be able to come back to us. there'll be many more points of touch. i just want to say from an equity perspective, which i think is so important today, you know, strong l.b.e., w.b.e. participation, having partners on the team that represent the community and the community of san francisco is vitally important. but for me, what's also really important is that we have a community along the waterfront where we have diversity of individuals who are living there, renting there. and so the affordable component, i will just say, will be a particular interest to me, so wanting to drill down here to some of commissioner woo ho comments at a later date around level size and affordable. and while i admire that strata will not be seeking any local funds for the project, i'd be curious to see if they're going to be seeking state funds for the project. while he won't need numbers for that, i'll be keeping my eye on it, along with access to office and retail that's on the pier where everyone in san francisco can continue to enjoy this tremendous development. >> president brandon: thank you. vice president adams. >> vice president adams: first of all, i want to thank all the teams that were involved in this particular project. i took a lot of notes, but i want to thank commissioner woo ho for digging into the issues, and commissioner gilman. but i'm going to get all of this information, i'm going to thank a lot about this tonight. i like the commitment of all the teams, and like i said, in these kind of weary days that we live in, this is something that's very, very positive for the port and for the citizens of san francisco. so i'm really excited to see how this complexity unfolds, and i really think it's will something really great if it comes to fruition, pier 30-32. thanks, president brandon. >> president brandon: thank you. again, i want to thank all three teams for your presentation. i think you have all put us in such a hard position because we have some great proposals that we have to choose from. i just want to back up for a minute [inaudible] and understand that we have [inaudible] so i just want to understand [inaudible]. >> sure. that's probably a good question for me. two of the proposals that i highlighted in the staff report but i can explain it in more detail here, they didn't demonstrate some of the minimum qualifications. there, the minimum qualifications indicated that they had a project successfully completed that was at least 40 million, they had a project entitled for $40 million, and a project that was worth $40 million. we hadneeded a signed statemen that they were going to honor the blackout period. there was also a lack of earnest money presented for the projects. so we sent a letter outlining those elements. they came back, they appreciated our letter but didn't address the aspects of our proposal. we continued to keep it in a nonresponsive mode, so we determined they were nonresponsive. we did determine the three that met the qualifications and demonstrated the other aspects of the r.f.p. to be fair, everybody was working off the same script. the r.f.p. was the rules for the competition, and we held everybody to those same standards. we were as fair and equitable as we could despite all of the challenges, and the r.f.p. became more important than ever. >> and commissioner, this is rebecca. to the respondents that didn't make it all the way through the project. we wanted to highlight that tishman didn't complete one of the requirements, so they also received a letter said you didn't provide that piece of information, and they provided that piece of information, and within that five-day protest window, we evaluated that this is what they intend today do, and we will a -- they intended to do, and we will allow them to go forward. at the end of the process, when we let the respondents know how their ranking came out, vornado reserved the right to protest. we provided them score sheets to let them know about the process. we understand it's a difficult process, it's hard to put so much into it and to not come out on top at the end. we just wanted to make sure we're providing all the information to the respondents about how we're determining this process. so we're so happy that we had stephanie and peter and david and i watching, providing everyone the same information, and we're holding everyone to that same bar. >> president brandon: right. thank you. so at this point, there are no protests? >> there are no protests that we've received regarding this latest determination, the score summary. >> president brandon: right. i think commissioner woo ho did a great job of asking a lot of technical questions and [inaudible] i think we had three phenomenal proposals, and i want to thank [inaudible] for taking the time to go through all these proposals. i think what would be helpful for the commission is the assessments that were provided to the panels [inaudible] i think it would be helpful to see the real estate, the financial feasiblity and assessments, and theose would e extremely helpful. i think i want -- i think that all projects on the waterfront are very complex and take a lot of different skills. i do want us -- and it's unfortunate that it wasn't part of the r.f.p. [inaudible] and i was surprised to see, in strata's presentation, no mention of diversity, equity, and inclusion. luckily, i know with the chase project, they set a standard and model for other projects throughout the city to look at. so i hope that that continues, and like john william templeton said, i hope there will come a day when we see it at the front, and not the back end. i hope when we're looking at this project, we're inclusive of all san franciscans. i think the community outreach and input is going to be very valuable in the success of this project. so i can't wait to hear what the normal advisory committee comments are about the project, and i look forward to you coming back in two weeks. >> commissioner woo ho: commissioner brandon, could i make one last comment? you know, when the staff comes back, we have conducted many e.n.a.s. we start e.n.a.s, and if you look at mission rock, it takes forever, and others. i would like to -- if you could talk to strata and map out -- this is not a commitment, but at least a timeline of when we think, you know, entitlement, all these things that have to happen over time, ceqa, and everything, so we have a timeline of how long it's going to take to get this realized. we have a lot of experience now with a lot of different projects, and many of them have been delayed longer than we anticipated, but if that's something you could present at the next commission meeting so this is not going to be 20 years from now -- i hope it's in my lifetime -- i'd love to see it. so if you could give us a sense -- i realize i'm not asking for a firm commitment, but if we could at least get some sense of when will this potentially be realized. and if you want to put in a best case, likely case, worst case basis, that's fine with me. if the rest of the commission agrees, but at least to have a sense of at least how long this is going to take. i think the neighborhoods would also want to know, that, as well. the community would like to know how long it's going to take. >> thank you. >> president brandon: commissioner gilman? >> commissioner gilman: thank you. i also think similar to your request, commissioner, you did request that we have the teams come up with an equity diversity and inclusion plan. were you thinking of that before the 22 or were you thinking about that throughout the process? i was just wondering what you articulated? >> president brandon: i did hear it today, but i think the other respondents were a little more -- i think they gave -- it's a little more meat on what that entails. >> commissioner gilman: yeah. no, i was going to say, in a similar vain, i think they're so interwoven. i would just like to have a little more understanding from the strata group on their afford i can't believe housing component. so much of it was out of our authority and not really procedurally where it fits with the planning commission and other entities in the city, but i'm just curious conceptually what they're thinking because the there's affordable housing for a family of four making $100,000 a year, and a family of four that's a taxi driver and a starbucks barista making $40,000 a year. so i'd like to have a best understanding of that, as well. >> president brandon: thank you. any other comments, commissioners? >> i appreciate this. i just want to check in. we had -- >> yeah. i'm sorry, if i could jump in, if this is a good time. i just wanted to offer some feedback in terms of where we are in the proposal and what we can provide with specificity, and i understand specifically all the commissioner questions, and we're taking them down. in terms of the timeline, we are at the stage just to confirm for the commission to consider and confirm the panel's recommendation, if you feel inclined to do so, based on all your due diligence. the timeline will be following the execution of an e.n.a. will be something that relates, in large part, to the regulatory framework, the regulatory approach, the entitlement approach, and we can give you ballparks, but it won't provide detail with specificity and it is in everyone's interest to tighten timelines and deliver the project in a more expeditious project than we have done so for -- with other projects. staff has a lot of ideas about that, and as you heard in the presentation, the preferred respondent had a lot of ideas, as did other developers. the timeline with specificity before execution won't give you much, and so i just want to set expectations there. on the equity and inclusion plan, we have entered into some sort -- and they are getting better over time. it started out as just the l.b.e. plan. we have expanded much further what we include in equity and inclusion in those plans, but those plans are brass tacks of how the projects are delivered, that also, the details of that will come in the future. and finally, issues of affordable housing will be ongoing conversations should you move forward with the panel's recommendation in terms of policy and approach to equity and affordable housing. so i just wanted to set expectations with how specific we could be and wanted to remind the commission of those things. thank you so much. >> president brandon: thank you. >> i just wanted to circle back, to see if debbie had a chance to round out those numbers or if you needed more time to do? >> yes, i was able to look at that. this was an i.r.r. participation, so when that wi will occur is when the lease interest is sold, and the applicant has indicated that would be in years 2028-29, about the tenth year out from today. >> commissioner gilman: thank you so much for clarifying that for me. i appreciate it. >> and with director forbes' comments, we can provide you those technical memos, and then, we'd be happy to get back to you with the comments that we hear from the n.a.c. when we hear from them on september 16. >> president brandon: thank you. great. thank you so much so all the presenters. we really appreciate it. next item, please. >> clerk: item number 8 is new business. >> president brandon: commissioners, is there any new business? >> commissioner woo ho: commissioner brandon, i think maybe not at the next meeting, but at the next meeting, i think an update on our tenant rent forgiveness meeting. not the next meeting, but let's put it on the agenda again at some point to get an update. >> president brandon: update on tenant relief and loan program. any other new business? >> commissioner gilman: commissioner brandon, i'm curious, when we bring that back, if it's going to be october, november, i'm just curious -- if it's possible, i'm just curious to find out if there's been any complaints from the public around covid-19 violations within the port or any port businesses, with the number of tourists coming in. i was really happy to see part of pier 39 and at least part of the northern waterfront coming back to life. but they were not san franciscans, and san francisco has a very different guideline in terms of other parts of the state, so i was just wondering if we could get an update on what's going on with that? >> president brandon: thank you. any further new business? >> vice president adams: yes. [inaudible] are they going to hire, as mayor breed, have a freeze on hiring? what are we going to do? we've got some heavy weights in the next couple of months, and i just want to know, are we going to replace them or just going to go how we are until things go better? >> president brandon: is there any other new business? director forbes you want to add anything? >> executive director forbes: no, i'm good. thank you. >> president brandon: okay. can i have a motion to adjourn? >> commissioner woo ho: so moved. >> commissioner gilman: second. >> president brandon: all in favor? meeting is adjourned at 6:05 p.m. thank you. bayview. >> a lot discussion how residents in san francisco are displaced how businesses are displaced and there's not as much discussion how many nonprofits are displaced i think a general concern in the arts community is the testimony loss of performance spaces and venues no renderings for establishes when our lease is up you have to deal with what the market bears in terms of of rent. >> nonprofits can't afford to operate here. >> my name is bill henry the executive director of aids passage l lp provides services for people with hispanics and aids and 9 advertising that fight for the clients in housing insurance and migration in the last two years we negotiated a lease that saw 0 rent more than doubled. >> my name is ross the executive directors of current pulls for the last 10 years at 9 and mission we were known for the projection of sfwrath with taking art and moving both a experiment art our lease expired our rent went from 5 thousand dollars to $10,000 a most. >> and chad of the arts project pursue. >> the evolution of the orientation the focus on art education between children and patrol officer artist we offer a full range of rhythms and dance and theatre music theatre about in the last few years it is more and more difficult to find space for the program that we run. >> i'm the nonprofit manager for the mayor's office of economic workforce development one of the reasons why the mayor has invested in nonprofit displacement is because of the challenge and because nonprofits often commute technical assistance to understand the negotiate for a commercial lease. >> snooechlz is rob the executive director and co-founder of at the crossroads we want to reach the disconnected young people not streets of san francisco for young adults are kicked out of the services our building was sold no 2015 they let us know they'll not renew our lease the last year's the city with the nonprofit displacement litigation program held over 75 nonprofits financial sanction and technical assistance. >> fortunate the city hesitate set aside funds for businesses facing increased rent we believable to get some relief in the form of a grant that helped us to cover the increase in rent our rent had been around $40,000 a year now $87,000 taylor's dollars a year we got a grant that covered 22 thousands of that but and came to the minnesota street project in two people that development in the better streets plan project they saved us space for a nonprofit organization national anthem and turned out the northern california fund they accepted us into the real estate program to see if we could withstand the stress and after the program was in full swinging skinning they brought up the litigation fund and the grants were made we applied for that we received a one thousand dollars granted and that grant allowed us to move in to the space to finish the space as we needed it to furniture is for classes the building opened on schedule on march 18, 2016 and by july we were teaching classed here. >> which we found out we were going to have to leave it was overwhelm didn't know anything about commercial real estate we suggested to a bunch of people to look at the nonprofits displacement mitigation program you have access to commercial real estate either city owned or city leased and a city lease space become available there is a $946,000 grant that is provided through the mayor's office of economic workforce development and that's going to go towards boulder the space covers a little bit less than half the cost it is critical. >> the purpose of the organization trust to stabilize the arts in san francisco working with local agency i go like the northern california platoon fund that helped to establish documents of our long track record of stvent and working to find the right partner with the organization of our size and budget the opportunity with the purchase of property we're sitting in the former disposal house theatre that expired 5 to 10 years ago we get to operate under the old lease and not receive a rent increase for the next 5 to 7 years we'll renting $10,000 square feet for the next 5 to seven years we pay off the balance of the purpose of this and the cost of the renovation. >> the loophole will that is unfortunate fortunate we have buy out a reserve our organization not reduce the services found a way to send some of the reserves to be able to continue the serves we know our clients need them we were able to get relief when was needed the most as we were fortunate to arrive that he location at the time, we did in that regard the city has been - we've had tremendous support from the mayor's office of economic workforce development and apg and helped to roommate the facade of the building and complete the renovation inside of the building without the sport support. >> our lease is for 5 years with a 5 year onyx by the city has an 86 year lease that made that clear as long as we're doing the work we've been we should be able to stay there for decades and decades. >> the single most important thing we know that is that meaningful. >> it has been here 5 months and even better than that we could image. >> with the economic development have announced an initiative if ours is a nonprofit or know of a nonprofit looking for more resources they can go to the office of economic workforce development oewd.com slashing nonprofit and found out about the mayors nonprofit mitigation program and the sustainability initiative and find their information through technical assistance as much as how to get started with more fundraising or the real estate assistance and they can find my contact and reach out to me through the circles of the city through the announcement into the record on february 25, 2020, the mayor declared a state of emergency related to covid-19. further more, the mayor and governor have issued a law making it possible to hold hearings remotely. on april 3, 2020, the planning commission received authorization from the mayor's office to reconvene remotely through the end of the shelter-in-place. this will be our 20th remote hearing. i am requesting everyone's patience in advance

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