Motion . So moved. Second. All in favor say, aye. Aye. Any opposed . We are now i move not to disclose anything in closed session. All in favor say, aye. Aye. Any opposed . Madam secretary . Pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please be advised. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Pledge which is such an accomplishment because the cruise terminal delivers public trust and Public Benefits to us and to our community. Im also very excited to announce that we have earned cruise Critics Award for the best destination in the u. S. And in canada. This is a vote of cruisers sailing between august 1, 2015, and july 31, 2016. Cruise critics is a leading cruise review and information site which host the Largest Community in the world. Thousands of people visit cruise critics each month to plan their trips. San francisco receiving this award is very important for our cruise facilities and i just want to give a big congratulations to metro who operates the cruise ship at pier 37 and 25 and to peter daly in the meritime commission. The next item is also celebratory. This involves the 2015 mothers award. The San Francisco board of supervisors initiated the healthy mother award for San Francisco employers that support the well being of new parents and their children. This ceremony was this morning and features advocate for health and equity and government officials with board of supervisors wiener and katie tang. The Program Recognizes health and gender equity for lactation and family work balance. Supervisor wiener has provided 6 weeks of paid parental leave to all employees, and private employees in San Francisco. They have passed lactation rooms. This morning winning the silver award. The port received this award because we placed two lactation rooms at the port. One is located at pier one and one at pier 50. The board also developed a breastfeeding lactation policy and notice for all employees. In our category was the by right family of businesses. Nixon peabody, llp, the department of children youth and their families, the Public Health department and the Women Foundation of california. I want to thank the Human Resources director lavaina who sphere headed this policy. Thank you very much, lavaina, we very proud to be a familyfriendly workplace. [ applause ] the next item is the cancellation of the october 25th and november 8th Port Commission meetings. This is to give notice that october 25th and november 8th port meeting is canceled. A special meeting will be held november 15th. Finally i would like to end with a video presentation. Commissioner brandon and commissioner katz welcome pasha to pier 80. I would like to give you more insight that this meritime agreement offers. You will see that many many members of the Community Came out to celebrate as well as dignitiaries who joined. Lets look at what happened august 22nd. [video] this is a great opportunity for the port of San Francisco. For years, ships have not come into pier 80 and with pasha coming in and bringing ships with cars, they are going to create hundreds of jobs and for everyone around. The port is so happy that this is happening. We at city college are we excited because we see it as an opportunity for our students to train and work with pasha. Mayor edwin m. Lee whereas a comment made to residents of the bayview can be kept with this contract hopefully for many years. These are jobs for the present and future and working class jobs that we always said we were going to bring back to San Francisco in manufacturing and all the other ways that we are doing it. Its not just tech jobs and hotel jobs and hospital jobs. These are good paying local jobs from our unions on ships like this coming from across the panama canal bringing goods. This site will be import and export. Its a great opportunities. They are going to offer 50 for district 10. It gives me an opportunity to have a career. Im honored to be here. This has been an historic dock for our men and women to work at. Its been a long time since weve had cargo here and we are very excited about it. We just had a tremendous Port Partnership with San Francisco started almost 2 years ago. Hi, im current at city build right now. I live in district 10 and its an honor to be here as an African American female and part of this community. This right here is big for our community. Its going to offer us jobs. Im so excited because it really symbolizes everything we try to do right here in San Francisco. Its going to create opportunities for local people, will create striving meritime opportunities on the water here and allow a patron to come here to the area importing and exporting automobiles. Most importantly its going to bring us altogether. The community, the Economic Development. Its a great collaboration. It what we do best in San Francisco and in todays event and our collaboration with pasha signifies that. Mayor edwin m. Lee over 50 is going to be targeted. That is a humongous promise. Im trying to get me a career going in construction phase. I think its a great opportunity for employment Job Opportunities for the low income people and family members. Im very excited to be a part of it. When you were a long shore man in San Francisco, you earned a lot of money to take care of your family. The Longshoreman Union was a grateful minority. Everyone of the black churches in the city had its share of its members from the iowu and then the port lost it and that was awful for us and the population started going down. Maybe now with the commitment of doing 50 at least and i want them to do more for us, well start the population going in a different direction. At pasha we are also committed to good paying jobs which is why we are so pleased to bring new employment and Training Opportunity to the area. [ applause ] well i think the city has an opportunity to have a Huge Corporation that has global significance. Its a win win for everybody. As far as the community, Economic Developments brings stability to a community. It means people are going to stay, they are going to shop, they are going to raise their children. This is a good thing for everyone involved. Without families, without diversity, San Francisco is not going to be what it always has been that is a leader to bring jobs to people. Thats what Economic Development is, that is what a corporation, a group like pasha can bring. These plans belong to the community for jobs, for citizenship. As commissioners we have supported our staff and pasha automotive to make this a cargo laid out space and warehouse, a shipping hub for automobile of import and exports. This is a very very significant day for labor, its a very significant day for the port and a very significant day for the city to have inaugurated our working water front. The port of San Francisco has been a great leader in creating jobs, in creating opportunities for our local business entrepreneur. Pasha coming here is going to have a huge impact on the community committed to hiring within the community for jobs to working with people that live right nearby and thats the ideal situation where we create Economic Opportunities for everyone in San Francisco and dont leave people behind when we bring businesses to them. This is going to bring jobs to San Francisco residents. Because of that, to be a part of city build you have to be a San Francisco resident which work in our favor and the hiring of Bayview District 10. [ applause ] thank you. That concludes my directors report. [ applause ] is there any Public Comment on the executive directors report . Being none. Public comment is closed. Madam secretary, next item. Item 9b. Port directors report. Colleagues, several months ago, i want to thank commissioner leslie katz, she brought commissioners from india. Anyway, i wanted to commend commissioner katz for doing this. It was a great turnout. Leslie, thank you for your vision and interaction with that and may we continue doing that. Before we have a moment of silence for the late legendary rose pack, to my fellow commissioners for some comment on the late rose pack. Commissioner wu . Thank you, it is with a sad heart that we are going to talk about and obviously we are going to remember her in memoriam. My husband james and i have known her for 35 years. I did attend her funeral on saturday. She was oneofakind, a trailblazer, a Community Leader for the Chinese Community and for all of San Francisco. I just want to node on the community side, the things she did accomplish very briefly. She did preserve chinatown and still a destination authentic and how we present ourselves as this gateway to the pacific. She did raise 30 million for the chinese hospital, one of her labor of love and for my husband also. She instilled the way for Chinese Americans to get involved in this process here. Not all were successful, but many many were and i know that you all know that in terms of the history of the port. On a personal level, i want to say that i knew rose very well personally. My children would call her as she was affectionately known to my children. She would talk to the children and give them advice and where they were going to college. She was human enough to cared. So both on the Community Level and very personal level. But rose was also a very tough person to deal with. As you know she was controversial and she was tough love. Winning was everything to her and she didnt like to lose, when that happens, she was very unmerciful. She was known for the parade and in the newspaper. I want to say her passing is tremendous for all of us, she was bigger than life and she will be missed accordingly. Im so proud that we are going to remember her today and for my family, we are going to remember her. Aunty rose, its very personal and professional, the journey she had with my daughter in las vegas. There is so much we are going to remember her by. Commissioner katz . Shes known as a Community Activist in our community and also trained a new generation of active and political engaged young people and simultaneously she schooled and held the old generation accountable. I was always with a little trepidation if she wasnt happy or was happy. Also struck me was her unwavering commitment to community. She will be so sorely missed. There are few people that have the single focus looking out for the good of the people they care about. I have a couple of funny stories. Of course i was one of the ones as one of the comments through the Chinese New Year parade. My part was at the end where she made a correction and okay, now come sit next to me. That was rose. She can also give you a big hug. Coming to port, coming to a meeting with director moyer and i was going to be standing at the meeting and we had found a solution to the problem and rose didnt know yet. I was going to tell her at the meeting but i saw her downstairs and rose launched into the meeting with fears advocacy and we told her we came up with a solution. And she had to get it out. She needed to make sure her point was made. Rose has made so many points to San Francisco and she will be remembered with great fondness. Im glad we are adjourning in her honor and her memory with a great sense of thanks from all in San Francisco. She made this a better place. I met her a few times but that was enough as i read about this greater than the life and this nature in San Francisco. I guess for me i have always looked around at Women Leaders because they are not as common as you might think even now, although San Francisco has had its proportionate share across the country. But its interesting to me to see a woman to be so central in a political life in the community because its such a competitive world of influences and ideas. I think whats absolutely clear is that she had the community always at heart. It was always about making the community better. You can see it. You could see it then and you could see it now in future generations when they walk into the beautiful chinatown hospital, when they walk around chinatown and see how much was preserved. Her legacy will go on forever. Her impact will be felt for generations to come. Vicepresident brandon . Rose pack will definitely be missed and San Francisco will never be the same without her. May she rest in peace. Rose pack, broker, icon, activist, one of the last giants. One of the four runners, 68 to me is so young. But its not how long you live, but the mark you leave and what you did with the time you got here. Clearly she paved the way and her story will go on for eternity. Rose pack, with the time she had on this earn, clearly made a difference. At this time may we have a moment of silence. moment of silence god bless you, rose pack. May you rest in peace. Next item. Item 10a Transit AuthorityStrategic Plan. Good afternoon commissioners. From planning and development. Im going to present the draft Strategic Plan joined by reynolds and mike geraghty. After they present the Strategic Plan, i will come back and give a quick update on the things we have going on with the water taxi. With that, kevin . Thank you very much, dave and the commission for having us this afternoon. I will just build a little bit on the scene that we heard about the introduction in the meeting about collaboration and mission. We are also a partner with you and its a very fruitful partnership. We are the Fastest Growing in the bay area. We grew our ridership 73 over the year and it was 33 last year. It would not occur if it werent for the staff here and the facilities as well as all the planning and development that we are doing with your staff in particular dave and his staff. We really appreciate that and you have been a part of that success. Part of that success is from our standpoint is a double edge sword. We are experiencing the growing pains of having that much ridership with a short amount of time, we are leaving people behind and we are having trouble meeting that demand. Thats why its critical for us to introduce the Strategic Plan at this time which is a vision for where we want to be 20 years from now. Its represented by the graphic in front of you which is where we are today and where we are going which is quinn tupling what we do. Obviously we have stakeholders like yourself here to creating this vision which we expect our board to adopt october 6th. Our mission which was created in part of this process, im not going to recite it, but the highlights that we are providing a service for the entire bay area and it be comprehensive in that way. Our vision again builds on that. We want to build a reliable state of the art and attraction. If you look at our riders and one time riders recreation, the attractiveness of the experience is what sets us apart from other mobile transit. Plus another part of our mission is to provide Emergency Response capability that will be up and running after any natural event. Our Strategic Plan, im not going into this. But we have seven focus areas, our expansion and funding and quality of work and leadership. Im going to talk about our Expansion Program which has been an interest of yours. We have today four Services Operating in vallejo, alameda and San Francisco. We anticipate opening in 2018 and island and lagoon, Berkeley Road and hercules and mission bay which i know you are very interested in. Off on the horizon are projects that we consider emerging areas in the south bay. No defined projects yet but its on going with them. Operating budget today of 33 million. We think we need to have another 49 million in order to operate this extensive of a ferry system where we start to see people using the ferry as their first choice as transit option. We have 80 projects in some form of delivery all the way from construction. We have three projects under construction right now to design and in the planning stages such as mission bay. You will hear a lot about the downtown Ferry Terminal