Good morning.

The meeting will come to order.

Welcome to the October 2nd, 2024 meeting of the budget and finance committee.

I'm Supervisor Connie Chan, Chair of the Committee.

I'm joined by Vice Chair.

I'm joined by Supervisor Mayor Namgar, shortly by Vice Chair Rafael Mendelman, our clerk, it's Brent Halipa, and uh would like to thank Eugene Labadia from SFGov TV for broadcasting this meeting.

Mr.

Clark, do you have any announcement?

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And finally, Madam Chair, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the Board of Supervisors Agenda of October 8th, unless otherwise stated.

Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr.

Clerk.

And as always, uh in this committee, we will have department uh presentation and for those that actually have budget and legislative analyst report will be followed by the BLA, and then we'll go to questions and then we'll go to public comments.

And so with that, uh Mr.

Clark, please call item number one.

Yes, item number one is a resolution authorizing the port of San Francisco to accept and expand the grant award in the amount of 7.8 million from the California Coastal Conservancy Climate Ready Program for Southern Embarcadero Resilience and Enhancement Project for the period of October 1st, 2024 through May 31st, 2027.

Madam Chair.

Thank you.

And we have Essa Port here.

Good morning, board members.

Chair Chan, David Beaupre, Deputy Director at the Port.

Uh joined here with Boris Delapine, our government affairs manager, uh seeking uh approval to accept and expend the Coastal Conservancy grant for $7.8 million dollars for project we're calling the Southern Embarcadero Resilience and Enhancement Project.

Uh the grant allows us to look at ways to address sea level rise, which we anticipate to being anywhere from three to seven feet along the embarkered arrow.

This would allow us to protect the South Beach neighborhood.

It's a 7.8 million dollar grant that requires no matching funds, no new positions, no direct costs.

This slide illustrates kind of what we're looking at in the South Beach area.

The two black dashed lines are what we're calling a floodshed that show the South Beach area.

The colored along the shoreline edge show the potential uh depth of flooding that can occur with sea level rise at 2100.

And then the red, purple, blue, and green lines illustrate four distinct projects in this floodshed that will allow us to provide protection, including the uh port's early projects at Piers 30, uh 26 and 28 on the left side, piers 3032, which is a development project with strata where we would be leveraging private funds to invest and provide the protection.

Piers 38 and 40, uh, which is another development project with Pacific Waterfront Partners, and then we have the South Beach Harbor that's already protected through the uh breakwater we have here.

So this grant will allow us to look at how to build the elevation we need along the embark it arrow while also maintaining public access in a good public realm.

It'll develop detailed designs for the marginal wharf area at piers 30 uh 3032.

It'll also allow us to do demolition plans for 3032 to help advance that project quicker.

Um, and then incorporate green infrastructure opportunities and lastly looking at the opportunity to uh build an interpretive program that talks about our cultural and natural history of the shoreline in this area.

As a part of this project, we'll be coordinating closely with a lot of the other city agencies that have jurisdiction or utilities and infrastructure in this area, including uh SFMTA, the PUC, public works, and partnering with the planning department as well.

Uh if we get approval of accepting the grant funds, we'll be advertising for a consultant to help with this work in November, award the contract in January, and have the project completed in 2026.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I don't see uh we have no question at the moment, and uh we'll go to public comment on this item.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Yes, we now invite members of the public who have joined us today who wish to address this committee.

Regarding this item number one, that is your opportunity to approach the lectern.

Madam Chair, we have no speakers.

Seeing no public comment, public comment is now closed.

And with that, um, I don't have any additional questions, and I'm just excited to see this continue to move forward.