Twenty twenty-four.

Roll call.

President Kimberly Brandon.

Here.

Vice President Gail Gilman.

Here.

Commissioner Ed Harrington.

Here.

And Commissioner Stephen Lee.

Here.

Commissioner Willie Adams is absent today.

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

As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Rama Tushalone 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.

Item two is the approval of minutes for the April 9th, 2024 Port Commission meeting.

So moved.

Second.

All in favor?

Motion passes unanimously.

The minutes of the April Ninth, twenty twenty-four meeting are adopted.

Item three is public comment on executive session.

Is there any public comment in the room?

Seeing that, do we have anyone on the phone?

Let me open the lines for callers on the phone.

Please dial star three if you wish to make public comments.

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.

Second.

All in favor?

Motion passes unanimously.

We are in close.

San Francisco.

San Francisco government television.

Morning, everyone.

Good morning, good morning.

So normally when we gather on these stairs at the Department of Emergency Management, it is not for great news.

Okay.

Sometimes we're up here talking about stuff going down or uh other things about warning people.

But today we are here, and I'm so thrilled to celebrate.

Um, and so we're gonna get into why we're here.

Uh, but mostly to celebrate the uh ribbon cutting of our new nine and one dispatch operations center.

So I'm gonna thank you.

So I'm gonna turn it over to my boss, the woman that helped guide us here, and for whom I'm so proud to work, Mayor London Breed.

Answering over three thousand calls every single week.

And more importantly, during sometimes the most stressful times in people's lives.

You know, we are lucky that we have people who are patient that are kind that are understanding.

And in fact, this community works together as a family to lift one another up because even after those calls in, there are still sometimes things that stick to you and you need support from the people around you to help get through it.

Today is special because we have made the needs of the people who work here every day front and center by rehabilitating this space and making it a better working environment.

That's why we're here today to celebrate this extraordinary milestone.

And again, I want to thank so many of the folks, including our general contractor, as well as the Department of Technology and others who had to be very creative in getting this done as quickly as possible because we know how important these calls are every single day for the people of San Francisco.

And with that, I want to turn it over to the folks who helped to lead this effort and express my appreciation again to Public Works and the director of the department, Carla Short.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mayor Breed.

Good morning, everyone.

I'm so excited to be here representing Public Works, the team that helped deliver these critical improvements on behalf of DEM and the people of San Francisco.

As the mayor said, our 911 Dispatch Center is a critical nerve center that never sleeps, acting as the connective tissue between dispatchers, first responders, public safety, and the communities we serve.

But because the 911 Dispatch Center is a 24-7 operation, the work was not without its logistical challenges.

My project team is nodding over here.

The project team, construction workers, and the 911 dispatchers worked together to make sure the project advanced without hindering the critical functions of the 911 operation.

And I do want to thank our project team led by Lisa Zhao.