And Commissioner Stephen Lee.

Here.

The San Francisco Port Commission acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramatish Shalone, who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula.

As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramatishalone have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory.

As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland.

We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the Ramatushalone community, and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples.

Item two is the approval of minutes for the September 12th, 2023 Port Commission meeting.

So moved.

Second.

We have a motion and a second.

All in favor?

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

The motion passes unanimously.

The minutes of the September 12th, 2023 meeting are adopted.

Item number three is the Pledge of Allegiance.

And to the Republic for which stands my nation under God and indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

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Item number five is public comment on items not listed on the agenda.

Thank you, Jenica.

We will now take public comment on items not listed on the agenda.

I have one speaker card, Tammy Blackstone.

Thank you.

Good afternoon.

Uh Commissioners, my name is Cami Blackstone.

I'm the External Affairs Director for ATT in San Francisco.

It's my responsibility to ensure that wireless communication network is reliable, robust, and complies with the FCC and serves the citizens and public safety agencies in San Francisco.

ATT has had a long and positive history leasing space from the port and all city departments for the operation of our cell sites, and we value that relationship and would like to see it continue.

Unfortunately, due to a new and unprecedented provision that Port staff recently added to our lease for Pier 94, ATT cannot move forward with a very critical important new cell site for our network.

The Pier 94 cell site replace replaces an existing site located in the former Hunters Point shipyard.

And that existing site serves not only the residents and workers in the Bayview Hunters Point area, but also Recology, the San Francisco Police Department's training facilities, and Pier 96, which is the designated area for city medical mobile hospital and building inspection facilities in the event of a disaster.

From a public safety standpoint, it's one of the most important sites in our network.

But it's scheduled for redevelopment and needs to be relocated immediately.

So we've been working with port staff for over a year, uh identifying uh Pier 94 and uh working to relocate that site, which would serve an even larger swath of the Bayview Hunters Point area.

Every single lease that ATT has ever signed with the port or any city department over the last 30 years has been a standalone lease, which means if there's a problem with one site, it affects only that one site and not all of our other sites.

Unfortunately, Port Staff has now introduced a cross-default provision in our Pier 94 lease, which would require ATT to lose its entire investment and all of its cell site leases on port property at the same time as a result of a problem at just one site.

ATT is credit worthy.

We've been a tenant in good standing this whole time, and it's given the port no reason to include this cross-default provision.

And unless this provision is removed from the Pier 94 lease, ATT cannot move forward with it, and the port uh with the port and the Bayview Hunters Point area will lose this critical coverage.

Port staff has told ATT that the cross-default provision is a new port policy and that it is reasonable.

However, we believe that this policy has not been adequately discussed nor adopted by the Port Commission, and that the provision is unreasonable and will have an adverse impact on future capital investment on port properties.

I know this cross cross-default provision is not on your agenda today, but I'm asking you in the interest of public safety and to avoid a critical outage in this critical wireless service to the Bayview Hunters Point area that the commission move to instruct staff to remove this one provision so that we can move forward with this project and begin paying the port for our tenancy at Pier 94 and continue serving the first responders, the residents, the visitors, and workers with reliable wireless coverage.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Is there any other public comment?

Good afternoon, honorable president, honorable vice president, and honorable commissioners.

I'm John Newman.

I'm one of ATT's outside real estate council.

Speaking to the same issue as Kami Blackstone, the cross-default provision is unprecedented.