Roll call. President Gail Gilman.

Present. Vice President Stephen Englund.

Present. Commissioner Willie Adams.

Here. Commissioner Stephen Lee. Here.

Commissioner Ken McNeely. Present.

Item 2 is approval of minutes for the October 7,

2025 Court Commission meeting. Can I have a motion?

So moved. Second.

We have a motion and we have a second. All in favor?

Aye.

The minutes pass of the October 7th meeting.

Item three is public comment on executive session.

Is there any public comment in the room?

I see none.

Is there any public comment on the phone?

I see none as well.

Okay, public comment is closed.

Item four is executive session.

There are three executive session items.

conference with legal counsel and real property negotiator,

conference regarding anticipated litigation matter,

and conference regarding a public employee appointment as agendized.

Motion to go into executive session.

Do I have a second?

Second.

All in favor to go into executive session?

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

The motion passes unanimously.

We are now in executive session.

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in closed session. Second. All in favor? Aye. Thank you. We are now in open session.

Jenica, please. Item six is the land acknowledgement. The San Francisco Port

Commission acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramatish

Ohlone, who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula. As the indigenous

stewards of this land, and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramatish Ohlone

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.

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

Ramah Toshilani community, and by affirming their sovereign rights as First Peoples.

Item 7 is announcements.

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Item 8 is public comment on items not listed on the agenda.

Okay, everyone, is there any public comment in this room for items that are not listed

on the agenda?

Make your way to the dais.

And folks can just line up behind this speaker if you're here for public comment for items

not on the agenda.

Thank you.

We, the Pier 23 Cafe family, want to sincerely thank all of you at the Port of San Francisco for helping us get to this moment,

especially the efforts of Scott Lancetal and Don Cavanaugh.

Getting this proposal presented to you today has been an important journey for us,

and we hope this means a resolution is near.

We believe our request is fair.

We have been Port of San Francisco tenants in good standing for a majority of our 40 years as leasee.

Post-pandemic, with work-from-home policies, economic downturn, changing customer patterns,

our business with the current rent structure is unsustainable.

We have never questioned the terms of our lease until now.

After much analysis, we discovered that our rent was based on a footprint that is mostly outdoor space.

This means for all the winter months, for close to 40 years, we have paid rent on primarily unusable space.

Revising our footprint and lease terms feels necessary and timely.

Our family has demonstrated our commitment to Pier 23 Cafe, and we value our longstanding partnership with the Port of San Francisco.

As a multi-generational business, we request to extend our lease terms by 15 years.

Our hope is that the commissioners and the decision makers recognize our family's dedication to the survival of Pier 23 Cafe,

putting our heart and soul into making it one of the most iconic San Francisco legacy businesses.

Thank you.

Is there any other people who'd like to make public comment on items not listed on the agenda?

I am not seeing anyone in the room who wants to make public comment on items not listed on the agenda.

Oh, okay. Just making sure.

Jenica, do we have anyone on the phone?

We have no callers on the line.

Thank you.

Okay, public comment is closed.

Next item, please.

Next item is item 9A, the Executive Director's Report.

For callers who wish to make public comments on this item,

please dial star 3 to raise your hand to comment.

Good afternoon, President Gilman, Vice President Engblum,

Commissioners, Port Staff, members of the public.

I am the Port Director, Elaine Forbes.

November is Native American Heritage Month.

It's a time to honor and celebrate the deep histories, cultures, and contributions of Native American communities.

Across the nation, Native people once spoke more than 300 distinct languages, each holding unique traditions and wisdoms.

Though colonization threatened to erase these voices, Native communities have endured and continue to teach us about resilience, stewardship, and belonging.

As we observed this month, the port reaffirms its commitment to truth, respect, and inclusion, recognizing Indigenous presence and honoring the responsibility we share to care for the shoreline and the future together.

Next, I'd like to take a moment to recognize our own Commissioner McNeely.

He was recognized and named one of the 2025 San Franciscans of the Year by the San Francisco Examiner.

We're very proud that you were honored in this way as you embody San Francisco's values

and you make a lasting impact on our city per the examiner.

This will be celebrated December 3rd at the Julia Morgan Ballroom.

Congratulations, Commissioner.

All right, I'll begin my slideshow. Let's move to economic vitality. Earlier this month, the port issued our financial statement for the year ending 2025. This is a historic year to our balance sheet position, a 55% increase from $624 million to $967.7 million.

Why this happened is because we accepted infrastructure, like the parks at China Basin and Bayfront, and we issued bonds on our waterfront resilience program.

So very proud of staff, very proud of this commission for continuing to advance improvements to our property that, in fact, hit our bottom line.

All right.

To Fleet Week.

I want to take a moment to thank everyone who contributed to Fleet Week this year.

It was October 5 through 13.

We had to pivot, as you know, because of the federal shutdown.

But nevertheless, port staff persisted.

We welcomed dignitaries from Canada and Colombia.

And we successfully relocated Fleet Week to Fisherman's Wharf at the 11th hour, which was a very good change.

I want to thank our maritime, maintenance, and real estate divisions for pulling it off.

And the crowds actually matched 2024.

So it was really, really well done.

Congratulations.

Next, to the Big Art Loop.

Earlier this month, the port joined in a festival unveiling the art pieces in the Big Art Loop portside collection.

It consists of 10 large-scale pieces, one of which you see right outside of Pier 1.

It was just a wonderful experience and event that was put together.

Eventually, this art loop will bring in 100 large-scale pieces over three years,

creating a 34-mile walkable, bikeable art trail throughout San Francisco.

We're very proud to be part of it.

I want to thank Amy Cohen, who I see in the room, and also the maintenance, real estate planning, and engineering and security team who have pulled this off.

It's quite lovely, and you can see the public really enjoying the pieces, so well done.

Then to Dreamfest in Bayfront Park.

Last month, Dreamfest was in Bayfront Park.

It was an outstanding success.

It was a dual-format event, which featured Benson Boone at Bayfront Park, while Metallica performed at Chase Center.

On October 15th, Bayfront Park reached its full capacity of 5,500 guests, a reflection of the really strong demand, seamless coordination, and the excellent partnership with our city partners to make this happen.

This delivered real benefits for the waterfronts and surrounding communities, and we're just very, very thrilled about how this went for our parks.

Okay.

Then I would like to discuss the CBD and that we are establishing an entertainment zone, which will be...

We've seen these other places in the city.

This is a really exciting thing to come to the wharf.

It will be a destination area where bars, restaurants, breweries, and wineries can sell drinks to go.

Patrons can enjoy those drinks in outdoor common areas during events.

Next step in creating this zone includes legislation from Supervisor Danny Sauter,

development of a full management plan, and community input and collaboration.

But this will be a good improvement, and it will really create a vibrancy in that space for the public.

Now to Pier 80.

The port is preparing to stage more concerts at Pier 80 next month.

In December, dance music like DJ Swedish House Mafia and Fortet will be performing from December 29 to 31 inside Shed A,

located at the southern edge of the pier.

The performances are approved for 15,000 people per night.

We are proud to continue our collaboration with Non-Plus Ultra and Golden Voice,

our partners for Portola Music Festival,

and this is really exciting to see coming together.

Bringing the public to Pier 80 is a really important thing for the Port of San Francisco.

For more information, see peer80ne.com.

I think this is my favorite part of the report, actually, under the equity area.

The port recently installed a new human hoist at the dinghy dock in South Beach Harbor.

It's an upgrade from the manual-powered hoist with a new electric model.

It was specifically installed for Bay Area Association of Disabled Sailors,

which is headquartered nearby at Pier 40.

The hoist is built to support safer and easier transfers of individuals with disabilities getting off and on the boats.

The power lift requires minimal assistance to make the water more accessible to more people,

and it's part of our ongoing work to improve access and create a better waterfront experience for everyone.

Congratulations to the Maritime Division.

Very, very well done.

Now to resilience.

As you know, commissioners, you continue to steward our waterfront resilience program,

an innovative and important partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

to protect our entire property and the city from flooding, earthquakes, and sea level rise.

We've entered a critical and exciting next phase where the city is designing what goes on top of that new line of defense.

The port is working closely with the SFMTA and city planning to integrate transit, mobility, and public realm design into the next generation of waterfront improvements.

The coordination with the SFMTA is essential.

The port continues to engage our community partners.

We're hosting waterfront tours at Urban Transformation Summit, joining the World Economic Forum water site visit,

and partnering with the Exploratorium and Planning to deliver climate resilience training for Alice Griffith residents in the Bayview.

Our nature-based shoreline work in Heron's Head was featured at the State Estuary Conference, strengthening vital regional partnerships.

The Army Corps work is advancing on that waterfront flood study.

We are expecting to have the Chief's Report completed next year, which will be a very major milestone for us.

And that will be the beginning of unlocking the federal investment that we've been looking so hard to achieve.

The SFMTA has begun an important effort, has launched the Embarcadero Connectivity Plan.

This is a long-range transportation plan for the city's eastern shoreline aimed at keeping the neighborhood moving and planning for a better connected future along the Embarcadero.

This is part of the Waterfront Resilience Program, part of what we need to see in order to move forward.

They're kicking off their first phase on December 7th and December 10th, along with an online survey and webinar for port tenants.

We invite the public to participate in this planning effort.

You can learn more on the port's website, sfport.com forward slash WRP.

All right.

Fisherman's Wharf forward.

I'm very, very happy to announce that we are underway.

The demolition of Smokehouse on Alscoma Way is nearing completion.

I hope the public gets out to see that.

The initial work on Alioto's demolition will be on the inside of the restaurant.

hazmat abatement, but then in early December we will see the demolition begin.

We'll be placing fencing around Alioto starting this month,

which will lead to temporary sidewalk and traffic lanes along Taylor Street

between Jefferson and the Embarcadero.

We anticipate that the demolition will be completed by January

with the new plaza construction starting in February.

We are on track, commissioners.

now to more great financial information you agreed and recommended to staff that we

move forward on a cop refunding for the cruise ship terminal debt when we went to port commission

in october we said well we'll save about 2.3 million dollars but the market has improved

and so we're going to save 3.4 million dollars so that was a very good action you took

And I want to thank Carolina and the finance team, as well as Megan Wallace, for making this happen for us.

I want to share with you news from that SF Heritage honored Brookfield and the port for Building 12 rehabilitation project at Pier 70 on October 24th in their landmark luncheon.

We're very excited that the adaptive reuse of this building is getting that sort of attention.

Congratulations to all.

Finally, I'd like to ask that we close our meeting today in memory of Karen Pierce.

Karen Pierce has been a longtime activist in the Southern Waterfront.

She contributed very, very much to the SAC.

She was a friend of port staff.

She worked with port staff to find more ways to engage the community authentically.

She was involved for many, many years.

She also represented the SAC in the waterfront plan work.

So she gave countless, countless hours to the port and community relationship

and to stewarding the southeast.

We'd like to close in memory of Karen and to send our best wishes and condolences to her family.

And I'd like to point out that her daughter is already very involved in following in her mother's footsteps.

So Karen leaves a long legacy with us and through her family.

And that concludes my report.

Thank you, Commissioners.

Thank you, Director Forbes.

Is there any public comment in the room on the director's report?

Please make your way up.

Good afternoon, Commissioners. I'm Alice Rogers, and I just briefly want to thank the Executive Director for recognizing Karen. I only got to work with her briefly on, well, three years on the waterfront plan update, but she was an exceptional addition to the work, and I didn't know she passed, and I'm so sorry at the news, but I thank you very much for recognizing her.

Thank you, Alice.

Is there any other public comment in the room on the director's report?

Okay.

Is there any public comment on the phone?

We have no callers on the line.

Thank you.

Okay.

Public comment is closed.

Commissioner Lee.

He's the first one.

Elaine, I can't believe this is kind of your last full report.

Oh, man.

it's amazing how much we've done in the last 30 days I went to all the art openings I'm glad I'm

all about repurposing and having all those artwork that are coming out of storage from Burning Man

to be part of this project and it's just amazing how fast support staff gets it up there I mean

there was nothing there was no whale there at first and then the next day there's a whale there

So, I mean, it's crazy.

Entertainment is what drives my – I've been doing that for 40 years,

and it's really going to help the port a lot with the concerts

and just bringing in all that extra business as long as we keep the safety.

I just worry about the amount of people, and that's always my thing.

The entertainment zone is going to help that central waterfront area a lot.

And I'm hoping that it reaches down to the Pier 23 area to help the businesses there because, you know, people are going to be driving a lot of more people down this summer.

We could get that done.

So I'm all for it.

But I'm just amazed how much is going on and we can actually find the money to do this.

So it's just crazy.

So good job, and I'm going to miss your reports because this is, since I've been here almost four years,

it's just amazing I'm reading these things every meeting.

So great job.

And kudos to the whole port staff for keeping the place clean and getting the stuff up and running

and making sure that our tourists have a good experience here at the port.

and also we have to support our tenants and everybody does a great job on this

port so I'm proud to be a commissioner on this port

yes thank you director Forbes I join my fellow commissioners

Commissioner and congratulating you and the staff on a very robust and very

accomplished list of accomplishments in this report the the level and quality of

the work that you and the team continue to produce is impressive.

And without forsaking our mission around resilience and equity.

So I applaud you for that.

A couple of shout-outs on particular issues, particular accomplishments.

The art has just been just phenomenal.

And I think that it is a real testament to creative thought around how can we envision greater attendance and participation in the area.

I was hosting some folks.

I'm out of town.

And it appeals to tourists and residents alike.

I mean, it is amazing.

And it shows what kind of city we are being creative and responsive.

The Entertainment Zone, I hope this is the first of a few.

I mean, I think I also joined in the idea and the notion that this can be a real draw to the waterfront in many different ways,

and happy to see that and great success.

I'm really happy to see the progress on Fisherman's War Forward and the work done on the plaza.

It looks as if we're going to meet our summer target to have the plaza open.

I hope we can continue to stay on track with that.

But it's absolutely great work,

and congratulations to you and the staff around that.

Thank you.

Chair Adams.

First of all, I want to congratulate Commissioner McNeely again

on a well-deserved reward in being honored

as one of the top 20 movers and shakers in San Francisco,

and it's great to have you on our commission.

Director Forrest, what do I say?

As always, you and your team, it's amazing.

A lot of your team members were peers.

Now you've developed them into leaders.

And this report just keeps elevating things.

And as we talk many times, there were people in this city that wrote the city off.

And the portents said they were writing our obituary that we weren't coming back.

But we're coming back slowly but surely.

And you can definitely see the changes.

congratulations on a great fleet week

congratulations on what the James Herman Cruise Terminal is doing

and maybe one day within the next five, six, seven years we'll have a million

passengers a year coming in to our great city. It's going to happen. Sometimes

things just take time and I'm excited about that.

And then the demolition of Aliotos

and the smokehouse. In a way it's a foregone memory

but now we're gazing into the future of what's coming into our waterfront it's an exciting time

right and you can almost feel the magic i even feel even a different atmosphere in the city

whether i'm walking on the waterfront up at union square i just feel there's a different

magic and the hope is back and for a while there i felt it was like lackluster but i feel the fire

and the passion is back in San Francisco

and what it's going to look like.

I wanted to say one other thing, the art.

I know I'm the mayor and even the port,

what we're doing with art, the younger generation.

Who would have ever thought the Port of San Francisco

would have like a gallery down here

and have these exquisite pieces of art

that people come, right?

And only thing missing,

and I know we'll get back there is getting back to those 30 million tourists a year

that came to visit our really vibrant and great city.

And this report is just so much to think about what you've done,

and like Steve and the rest of the commissioners,

I know this will be one of your last reports, but, boy, it's stellar.

And thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Thank you, Emblem.

Thank you, Director Forbes.

I guess I want to opine a little bit about the power of strategic planning and seeing the results of that.

I was talking with one of the staff members during the break about how important it is that we do plan.

Sometimes that feels like that can be thankless work.

But in my mind, I think seeing a big statistic like a 55% increase year on year, that's not magic.

That happened because of years of slow, thoughtful planning about how to transform large pieces of land

and important urban design, important economic strategies, important resilience plans.

I mean, that's the kind of, you know, I think we have to remind ourselves, and I was thinking about it as I heard different angles of different aspects of your report.

You know, it's the way that we bounce back and survive in an unexpected thing like a government shutdown.

We have a plan.

There's a team behind that.

There's a, you know, a plan about why we're involved in that.

And then, you know, a plan for entertainment.

I think seeing the benefits of these major events happening flawlessly planned and executed and managed.

That's what the port is doing.

And then even, you know, I love that you touched on the human hoist.

I mean, that's a plan, an equity plan, a commitment to it, executing against the plan.

So, you know, I just think we should be asking ourselves, what is it, you know, in my mind, the art is a wonderful thing that's happening.

I think it's something we can be more on our front foot about and be more thoughtful about and say,

okay, we have these incredible things happening now.

Is there a strategic plan around that?

Because in my mind, it's a very important part of our tourism economy,

and it's something that I think that I see other cities being more thoughtful and strategic about.

So anyway, that's kind of, you know, in addition to, you know, the compliments I heard and share with my other commissioners,

I just wanted to remind ourselves that these things don't happen by magic.

They're sometimes long, and we're getting to reap the benefit of them today.

Thank you.

Director Forbes and Port Staff, I associate myself with all of my commissioner's comments.

I think we can see that particularly coming out of the pandemic,

where things along the waterfront were looking pretty bleak.

I mean, the whole city was, but particularly for us, counting on tourism, cruise, excursion, things that were hit hard.

As I learned on Saturday, touring with Metro Cruise and the brothers and sisters of the IEWW,

behind the scenes of seeing the turnaround of a cruise ship, cruise is bigger than ever.

And so we are coming back, whether that's cruise, whether that's the amazing work that the whole port staff is doing,

but particularly Amy Cohen on the art front.

The waterfront is coming back and vibrant,

and we're here to support all of our tenants in their success as we uplift everyone.

So I really want to commend the staff and your leadership, Director Forbes, on getting us there.

It is truly amazing.

Who would have ever thought that we would be one of the largest park facilitators

or art facilitators in the city and county of San Francisco?

It's truly amazing.

So I just really want to thank you for your report.

And I want to really uplift and have us think about, from a strategic perspective, as VP

Emblem said, how we really are nimble and fluid and pivot as trends change.

Things aren't the same as they were even five years ago.

Commissioner Lee says that often younger individuals want experiences.

They aren't maybe as familiar in just having a neighborhood joint that they want to go to.

So things pivot and change.

And something I learned on my expedition to the cruise ship terminal is that ships are only getting bigger.

The 3,000 passengers is going to start to be viewed as boutique.

As someone who's never cruised, that's a little horrifying, but, yes, for the industry it is.

So how do we look at Pier 80, and how do we look at opportunities to have a second terminal

for birth. How do we look at new trends like the entertainment zone, which was quite massive.

We'll have a lot of stakeholder involvement from the Fisherman's Worth Community Benefit District

to the land side, which is not on port property. How do we make that inclusive for tourists,

but also inclusive for the very neighborhoods that live along the waterfront, someone who does,

being North Beach Chinatown and the residents that live just south of that waterfront.

So I think we have a lot to capitalize, and the port staff is doing an amazing job.

And with that, Jenica, next item, please.

Thank you.

Item 10 is the consent calendar.

For callers who wish to make public comment on the consent calendar,

please dial star 3 to raise your hand to comment.

Item 10A requests approval of amendment to lease L-1662 with California Barrel Company, LLC,

to allow the construction of interim open space improvements as a permitted use on port shoreline property,

portions of CWA lot 349 and pier 72, being developed as part of the Potrero Power Station mixed-use development project.

This is Resolution 2570.

Item 10B requests for retroactive authorization to modify construction contract number 2848,

Roundhouse 2, Roof, Solarium, and Windows to extend the substantial completion date.

That is Resolution 2571.

Item 10C requests authorization for the Department of Public Works to advertise, award,

and oversee construction of contract number 2873, Pier 96, Crane Demolition,

with a not-to-exceed budget of $5,255,218.

That is Resolution 2572.

Item 10D requests authorization to advertise a request for proposal

for employment administration, payroll, and related services

for port workforce development programs.

That is Resolution 2573.

Item 10E requests approval to adopt the 2026 Port Commission calendar,

which sets dates outside of regular meetings held on the second Tuesday of each month

and on the fourth Tuesday during the months of February and April.

That is Resolution 2574.

And Item 10F is a resolution authorizing settlement of litigation

between cross-complainants the city and county of san francisco by and through the san francisco

port commission and the people of the state of california by and through the city attorney

collectively the city cross-defendants pilot thomas logistics llc or ptl and general petroleum llc

collectively pilot thomas in connection with the complaint filed against the city by ptl

on September 8, 2022, for damages related to a fuel leak at Hyde Street Harbor,

entitled Pilot Thomas Logistics v. City and County of San Francisco et al.,

San Francisco Superior Court, Case Number CGC22601688, or The Action.

The material terms of the proposed settlement include payment of $5 million to the city,

mutual releases, and performance by Pilot Thomas of all remediation work necessary to comply

with an October 25, 2024 cleanup order issued by the California Regional Water Quality Control Board.

That is Resolution 2575.

Thank you. Do we have a motion to move the consent calendar?

So moved.

Second.

Thank you. The calendar has been moved and seconded.

Is there any public comment in the room on the consent calendar?

Any public comment in the room on the consent calendar?

Jenica, do we have anyone on the phone for the consent calendar?

We have no callers on the line.

Thank you.

Okay.

Public comment is closed.

I have a motion and I have a second.

All in favor of moving the consent calendar?

Aye.

Thank you.

So unanimously we pass resolutions 2570, 2571, 2572, 2573, 2574, 2575.

They're all adopted.

Next item, please.

Next item is item 11a, which is an informational presentation to consider and possible action to approve

license number 17283

between port and the Institute of Contemporary Art for a two-year license agreement to use the Pier 24 annex as a free public

art exhibition space and to facilitate public and private events on the premises. That is resolution 2577.

Good afternoon, Commissioners.

President Gilman, Vice President Ingram, good to be here.

I'm Scott Lancettle, Real Estate Director, Deputy Director.

I'm here with colleagues David Lay, Amy Cohen, Kim Buell, and others who have helped put together the license we're about to discuss.

I'm happy to stay on the art theme for a little while.

If we go to the presentation.

So, Pier 24 Annex is an asset that sits in a pretty iconic location underneath the Bay Bridge.

It was improved by its previous tenant, the Pilara Foundation,

and was used for 15 years as Pilara's exhibition space, gallery, and collection storage space.

It's about 27,000 feet.

and as the pictures reflect is in tremendous condition it was improved

significantly with the with previous work done in 2010 to establish the

facility and its condition

Pilara vacated the facility earlier this year in June at expiration of their lease

in the run-up to the expiration port staff they considered how to maximize

the utility of the location and of the space. Unfortunately, there are significant facility

constraints that we're bound by. One is an occupancy and low limit of 93 people. We also

have a BCD permit that requires public access. And though Pilara did do major improvements to

the premises, hurdles going forward are with increased occupancy and density and load of

the building, pretty major improvements would be required both structurally and with egress

improvements to the facility. We explored alternative uses such as office that would

yield significant revenue for the port, and that's something that frankly we're still

considering down the road as we look at alternatives for future use, but again are constrained by

these kind of bounds within which we're working with with the current facility.

which really led us to try to capitalize on the energy and activity on the waterfront

and use the facility as an event space.

Staff did outreach and research on event demand, use of the spaces as an event venue,

and did get quite a bit of feedback that this would both be an attractive venue

but also that the space required some improvements to open it up to facilitate that activity.

The Institute of Contemporary Art is a nonprofit organization established in 2022 that recently had a location at 345 Montgomery where they activated a free public gallery.

We engaged in a discussion with ICA and found that really there was a great alignment of use for the space.

they have a nomadic model kind of a purposely nomadic model where they're running a program

to intentionally activate vacant properties throughout the city on a temporary basis really

as a stand-up or pop-up art art exhibition space and something to draw interest in activity to

real estate locations including this one there's a public purpose the exhibitions are free to the

public. The 345 Montgomery space was open five days a week from 11 to 5. And ICA operated

educational programming at these facilities. But also, it's important to note facilitated

events at these same facilities where they would both source and manage execution of

both public and private events.

And here are a few examples of some of the spaces that ICA has,

or the art that's been curated into spaces that have been in and around the city

over the last few years, including the 345 Montgomery space.

In our discussion, right, the ICA is an intent on establishing at Pier 24 Annex

a venue for exhibitions of art,

open to the public all the time,

and then also in parallel,

we'll work with the port to facilitate event activity

to drive revenue and capitalize on that interest and demand,

something that the port is not really capable of executing on its own.

On the screen here is one of the exhibits,

the exhibitions that ICA is currently working on

with Dominic Fung and Heidi Lau,

which they would hope to debut this spring in this facility, I think March of 2026.

This exhibition would run for a number of months next year

and again be a new public exhibition

and in addition to the great art that is establishing itself up and down the waterfront.

So the proposed use and license terms,

as I mentioned, this will be public exhibition space.

where we would facilitate events in the event that the event eclipsed the 93-person occupancy limit,

a temporary use permit would be required for those activities,

which would be permitted through the port permitting desk.

And here I outline the terms of the agreement.

So it's a two-year license with a target commencement of January 1, 2026.

We're trying to hit that target.

monthly license fee of $10,000 a month that would be paid on a semi-annual basis,

really with accrued event revenue such that ICA is able to fund operations and through fundraising,

support their operation and rent for the facility, and then a 50-50 share of net event revenue that was able to be produced from the facility.

An important thing to point out is that ICA will really act as a steward of the building.

Port staff have struggled with, upon acceptance of this facility, figuring out a way to maintain both the condition

and perhaps enhance the viability and use of the facility for both office use in the future and events.

and so one of the things that ICA brings is one kind of the watchful eye of someone on site every day keeping it clean,

operating in good condition, and then ICA has committed to invest some of their own capital

to do some light demo in the space to open it up and make it more functional generally.

And again, the ICA team will promote and coordinate events,

both that they source and procure or ones that are leads through the port that we

can direct to this facility so in summary the the benefits that we see

port staff sees to the port are the quick activation of a vacant space that

was just brought back to the to the port a new attraction and community benefit

on the waterfront adding to the art loop and the art trail really augmenting

what's already been established leveraging the temporary occupancy both

to collect revenue but also to continue to explore a future long-term use and

potentially additional investment to increase the utility of the space and

then again the ongoing revenue and care of the facility next steps we hope to

get the license approved with action today.

ICA, once the license is executed,

will step in to do some of their prep work and set up

for their first exhibitions, which they hope to start

within the next six months.

We're targeting May of 2026.

And I'll leave it just with a quote from our mayor

about waterfront or ICA, and I think just generally

keeping on the theme of kind of how great art is

within the city right now and everything that's happening and really the spirit of our kind

of bringing the city back to life of late and open it up for questions and comments.

Thank you.

MS.

Thank you, Scott.

Do I have a motion to move the item?

MR.

So moved.

MS.

Second?

MS.

I make a motion.

Second.

MS.

Thank you.

We have a motion and a second.

Is there any public comment?

MR.

I forgot to introduce Allie Gass and Lauren Hurst of ICA, who will make a public comment and would love to speak.

Hi, everyone.

I'm Allie Gass.

I'm the founding director and chief curator of ICA San Francisco.

I mostly just want to say thank you so much to the Port Commission, to Scott, and the entire team that's been working with us.

We are really thrilled at the prospect of this partnership and the potential to activate Pier 24.

I'll just quickly say that ICA San Francisco has had a wonderful amount of press in the last few weeks as we've announced our commitment to evolving into this nomadic model to activate significant architectural sites and public sites around San Francisco, really seeing contemporary art, as all of you have been talking about, about a really incredible cultural and economic force for our city that's really inextricably entwined with the mission of ICA.

So we're just incredibly excited.

Thank you guys so much for having us here today.

I'm happy to answer questions if helpful.

Okay, thank you.

Is there anyone else in the room?

Please just make your way up, and you can form a little queue.

Good afternoon again, commissioners.

That's my hearing aids, I think.

I'm Alice Rogers.

And I just want to say that I think this is a brilliant solution.

It's just the kind of thing we thought was a pipe dream

when we were working on the waterfront plan update

to do pop-up installations while long-term solutions came together for the piers.

And the activation that you've been doing around the ferry building

and all of that has been spectacular,

but this is an even longer-term pop-up that really, as was just said,

maintains the integrity of the site over time while longer-term development can happen.

So I am cheering this on.

Thank you.

Commissioners, Enrique Landa, I'm the project sponsor of the Power Station Project.

I'm also a partner with the ICA who will be activating part of our site,

and I cannot think of a better partner to come in and activate our waterfront than them.

They have shown an incredible resiliency from where they started in Dogpatch

to what they've done to the Financial District

and now bringing their power to the waterfront, having heard from all of you, the power of arts.

I can tell you as a partner they've been terrific for us.

I can't wait to see them at our site and also at Pier 24.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Is there any other public comment in the room on this item?

I'm not seeing any.

Do we have anyone on the phone?

We do not have anyone on the phone.

Thank you.

Okay, public comment is closed.

Commissioner McHealy, do you have any comments?

Sure.

I think it's a very creative solution.

I'm happy to hear about it.

A couple of questions.

I have attended the exhibits at the current facility, photography, which is very impressive.

I think it's a great space for art.

I'm also on the board of SFMOMA, and I know that SFMOMA, one of their most anticipated

and participating events was SFMOMA on the go when the Fisher Wing was being built,

and they had exhibits and installations around the city that were very, very popular

and really drove traffic to the museums.

And I'm confident that this can do the same thing.

I had a couple of questions for you, Scott, around the sort of a long-term use of the pier,

and that is around the capacity limits.

my understanding from our earlier discussions it's it's a result of the

the weight or perhaps I'm mistaken or something else that was yes it's a it's

really a classification of the space within the building code right that

that dictates the limits on occupancy and as such the the seismic requirements

and and exiting requirements right so once kicked up to a higher threshold

with a more dense use that's a permanent use,

and you move out of the current designation,

it triggers a required structural upgrade

under California Building Code.

I believe in this location the substructure

is in pretty good shape.

It's really the superstructure that would need to be upgraded,

and then there would need to be additional exiting built

or established to handle that occupant load.

Those are two things I know of.

Is the current limit going to be an impediment, though, to the success of the space?

Well, I think that's the elegance here with events, right?

So on a daily basis with the exhibitions, right, it's unlikely that we would exceed the 90-person limit at any given time during the day if there are specific events.

Events, yeah.

The ICA would submit for a special event permit, which would be processed through the port's permit desk,

which would establish kind of the rules within which that tenant would work for that specific event,

both handling the additional occupancy.

For example, if you had 100 people plus in there or more, you might have to institute firewatch to just manage life safety and exiting.

So there are things that would be implemented on a temporary basis

that could facilitate those events, but they're not permanent fixes.

I see.

Which is why events are compelling, because you can, for short periods of time,

use the facility in a much more efficient way.

Makes a lot of sense.

This is a two-year term.

what happens if a long-term tenant surfaces during the course of this term?

Are there provisions for that?

Yes, within the license we have a kind of there's really a mutual termination option, right,

that we've established with six months notice.

We've committed to allow ICA at least a year to run the first exhibition

because they need the time to allow for that commitment and development of that program.

Beyond that, really, it's to be seen what happens.

And yes, there's a potential that we may have another opportunity that presents itself

that is sensible for the port to pursue, and we would have an opportunity to get the space back.

That's not dissimilar to what happened at 345 Montgomery,

where Fornado had a tenant step in or a deal negotiated who will ultimately move

into the space that ICA is currently vacating. All right sounds good thank you so much.

Commissioner Lee. I really have no questions we had a discussion earlier about this lease. All I

could say is arts and entertainment is again the experience that the mayor is looking at.

when I came to port three years ago I told staff that we have to give the

opportunity because we had so much real estate available and I think this space

is already like turnkey you could just move right in and get started right away

so which is great I wish them all the luck I mean I I kind of have a little

art gallery of myself and it's not easy but you know hey it's it's all about

giving the experience and having more traffic on the port so I'm 100%

supporting this issue this lease so invite us to your your grand opening

I'm in support this is this is it's a beautiful space this is about culture

this is a right time place in our history and it's endless and opportunity

for artists and art.

It's a part of our society, our culture

to express that.

And it's a part of the new

vibe of the San Francisco

waterfront.

And I think it will enlighten people.

I hope when people get off the cruise ship

and people come out, that they will

go inside and advertise

very well so we can showcase

this. This is something that's

another side of the port they haven't seen.

And plus the space is beautiful.

So I'll be voting in favor for it.

Thank you. VP Enlund.

I'd just like to congratulate the team for SWIFT and Sure Action. This is great. Great news story.

I do have one minor question, though. The term steward, is that – can you –

Well, I think I was – they are – it's actually under the license.

It's a non-exclusive use under the license, right?

There's still a Willoughby event use, and I think I used the word steward really just to indicate that there would be someone there as kind of the keeper of the space to keep watch and help us manage the facility.

So with the license, for example, ICA will manage kind of a baseline in terms of management of the systems in the facility, right, the mechanical system, the security in the facility, such that we know it's being maintained in good condition.

again, really, you know, with the purpose of making sure that the space itself does not deteriorate given the condition.

That's it.

Well, I think this is a phenomenal item.

I'm absolutely supportive, and I think it's really great to continue to have spaces like this,

particularly one that is open to the public without a mission,

which I just think as stewards of a public trust in public land is really important.

So with that, we have a motion and we have a second.

Commissioners, all enthusiastically in favor, say aye.

Aye.

We have no nays.

The motion passes.

Thank you.

Next item, please.

Next item is 11B, which requests determination of the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing's compliance

with option exercise conditions, an affirmation of 24-month extension of Memorandum of Understanding

number M-17094 for continued use of a portion of CWA Lot 330 for the Embarcadero Safe Navigation Center.

That is Resolution 2578.

And for callers who wish to make public comment on this item, please dial star 3 to raise your hand to comment.

Good afternoon, President Gilman, Vice President Ingram, Commissioners, Executive Director

Forbes.

I'm Kimberly Beal, Assistant Deputy Director for Real Estate, and I'm joined today by David

Lay, who's the property manager for the Ferry Building, South Beach area, Emily Cohen and

Dylan Snyder with the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing.

And today I'm seeking the Port Commission's affirmation that HSH has met the conditions required in order to exercise an option to extend under MOU M17094 for an additional 24 months.

And this MOU covers use of a portion of Seawall Lot 330 for the Embarcadero Navigation Center.

So to provide some context, in 2019, the Port Commission approved Resolution 19-16, authorizing construction of a temporary navigation center on a portion of CWLA 330 under MOUM 16518.

This initiative was part of the mayor's broader strategy to expand shelter capacity and address unsheltered homelessness in San Francisco.

The original MOU was for a 32-month term.

That 32-month covered five months for construction, 24 months of actual operation, and there was then a three-month demobilization period for the site.

This MOU also included one 24-month option to extend.

Subject to Port Commission approval.

HSH submitted their notice of its exercise of option on October 26, 2021, under Resolution 2145.

The Port Commission found that HSH had complied with the exercise of option conditions

and affirmed HSA's exercise of option.

So under the current MOU, which is M17094, it was approved by the Port Commission on October 10, 2023, under Resolution 2345.

I'd like to mention that 2023 was the first year that this Navigation Center actually was actively occupied at full capacity.

Because, of course, we originally entered into the agreement in 2019.

It opened in December of 2019.

COVID hit March of 2020.

And so with social distancing and everything that it took to ramp up, again, 2023 was really the first year that the center acted as intended with full occupancy.

With the new MOU, it established an operating term from December 30, 2023, through December 31, 2025.

Like the prior MOU, it also included a 24-month option to exercise, which is contingent upon HSH meeting specific conditions.

If approved, operations would be allowed to continue through December 31, 2027, with a six-month demobilization period at the site,

where they would then need to surrender by June 30, 2028.

So the reason we're here today is because this extension is not automatic.

It is conditional.

It requires HSH meet three key conditions, those being provision of dedicated services.

So this includes public safety presence and cleaning services in designated areas.

Quarterly reporting where HSH must submit detailed reports on crime statistic programs, utilization, and community impact, as well as good neighbor policy compliance where HSH and Five Keys, which is the site operator, must maintain strong community engagement and address neighborhood concerns proactively.

So by extending the MOU, it supports several of the port's strategic objectives, one being equity, because the navigation center serves vulnerable and historically marginalized populations, that of economic recovery, because the port does receive market rent for the property, so that ensures a steady income, economic growth.

as the center contributes to public health and safety, which are foundational to revitalizing the waterfront,

and engagement as HSH and Five Keys maintain open communication with the community

through the Embarcadero Community Advisory Committee, or ECAC.

So at this time, I'd like to introduce Emily Cohen, Deputy Director of Communications and

Legislative Affairs with the Department of Homelessness and Support of Housing.

Emily will walk us through a background on the Embarcadero Navigation Center and its

role in addressing homelessness, a summary of operations at the site since 2019, and

including the services provided and community engagement efforts,

and lastly, a detailed review of how HSH has met the option exercise conditions.

And so with that, I will turn it over to Emily.

Thank you very much, Kim.

Good afternoon, Commissioners.

Good afternoon, Executive Director.

My name is Emily Cohen.

I'm with the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing.

And as Kim said, I'm going to give an overview of how we've been operating in the community for the past six years and the work that we're doing to live up to our goals and the expectations set in the MOU.

I also want to note that we're joined today by several folks who are instrumental in making this all possible.

Steve Good from Five Keys is here, so if they're operational questions.

Also, Captain Horwitz from Southern Station is here as public safety has been a critical part of the success of this project.

And Alice Rogers, the chair of the Embarcadero Community Advisory Committee, is also here.

So thank you all.

Full background, no mystery or surprise to anyone in this room,

but we are facing a monumental challenge in our community around affordability,

particularly for the lowest income members of our community.

And that results in significant homelessness.

In our 2024 point-in-time count, we identified over 8,000 people

experiencing homelessness in our community,

with about 4,000 of them being unsheltered.

We have made incredible strides, though, in recent years

to move more people off the streets and indoors.

We have 13% fewer people sleeping on the streets than we did in 2022, and that count was our lowest in 10 years.

And having critical shelter capacity and interim housing capacity is essential to continuing to offer people a safe, dignified place off the street and improve conditions for everyone in San Francisco.

We shelter and house, the city shelters and houses over 15,000 people every day.

and the demand continues to exceed what we have available.

We have a fairly robust temporary shelter program with just under 4,000 units of shelter available throughout the city.

Some of those are in navigation centers like the Embarcadero, more emergency shelters.

We have some temporary hotel vouchers, some tiny homes or cabins that we use.

And we have our shelter system is incredibly well used.

You can see in September we had a 98% occupancy rate across our navigation center component of the shelter system.

And system-wide, our occupancy rate averages about 92% every single night.

So very well utilized system.

system. We've also added and diversified our shelter system in recent years, including a new

shelter serving older adults. We've also added recovery-focused shelter and expanded partnerships

with the Department of Public Health to provide more intensive clinical care within our shelter

sites. The Embarcadero Navigation Center is a critical component of this portfolio.

As Kimberly mentioned, we opened in 2019 to provide shelter to adults experiencing homelessness in a welcoming and supportive environment.

We have partnered since the beginning with Five Keys schools and programs to operate the site.

They provide 24-7 staffing. They provide case management, meal, two meals a day, laundry, showers, and hygiene services, wellness checks, support groups, social activities, and a robust engagement process with the neighborhood.

So the option to extend, as was mentioned, our MOU does include the option to extend for an additional two years to December 31st, 2027.

And we, of course, would like to take advantage of this option with your approval.

We understand that there's a potential that development on the site could begin sooner than the end of this MOU.

and with the agreed upon notice, we will vacate when needed.

We don't want to get in the way of anything, the long-term development.

We have worked into the MOU a six-month wind-down.

That will give us time to move all 200 guests either on to permanent housing

or into comparable shelter if there's not permanent housing available

and physically wind down the site, which if you've seen it,

that won't be the easiest thing to do super quickly, but we can do in six months.

So the option to exercise the extension really focuses on our ability to continue to live up to our MOU commitments,

which include public safety, dedicated cleaning, reporting, regular quarterly reporting, and abiding by our good neighbor policy.

So public safety in the safety zone, which you can see on the map here.

And although our partners at SFPD have faced some staffing challenges in 2025, we have continued to partner to ensure regular deployment of SFPD to the safety zone through a strategy of combining overtime patrols from Southern Station, which are in effect now and provide coverage seven days a week from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

We're also supplementing that with SFPD community ambassadors who began in April of this year and are in the safety zone Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., with focus on specific hotspots, including the Beale Street cul-de-sac and the parking lot adjacent to the navigation center.

In August of this year, SFPD graciously assigned Sergeant Smith from Southern Station as our liaison, and so we have a dedicated person that we work with very closely at Southern Station.

And that partnership has been essential to ensuring a much more robust coverage of the police and safety personnel in the area.

Dedicated cleaning. This is an area where Five Keys has really excelled and leaned in.

Since April of this year, in response to increased concerns from the community, Five Keys went from cleaning the perimeter a couple of times a day to cleaning hourly.

So on an hourly basis, their staff is walking the perimeter of the site, picking up trash, discouraging loitering, reporting up things that they can't clean themselves.

So if they need public works to come in and take something large out of the area, they can do that.

and maintaining situational awareness about what's going on in the neighborhood.

They keep a daily log of any interactions they have with people outside of the property

who might be loitering or lingering, as well as calls that they get from the community.

And they, in fact, and we'll get to it I think in a moment,

they've also launched with the financial support of the Department of Homelessness

a neighborhood ambassador program to complement the services that they were already providing.

So that would free up their site staff to focus inside the property and on their clients while dedicating two staff people every day to the outside of the property and even across the street to the pier to help address any issues or behaviors that might be going on.

And that, again, is happening from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily.

Reporting requirements.

we are required to report monthly and that is done through the Embarcadero

Community Advisory Committee. We report on the operations of the program, we

report on publicly available crime stats, we report on neighborhood concerns and

responses and then those are posted on our website and distributed to all

members of the Community Advisory Committee. Our Good Neighbor policy was

developed in partnership with the community and as a part of our grant

agreement with five keys to operate the site and the policy will remain in place

throughout the operations of the program it includes nine key areas I don't read

them all to you but they are on the slides and we are evaluating all of our

providers now much more stringently in terms of how they live up to the good

neighbor policy and we have seen five keys meet and excel at every one of

these items that are listed in the policy and frankly just to say that this

has become a model that we learned at the Embarcadero and that we done in

partnership with all of you and is now spread to all of all of our shelter

sites so definitely learned a lot through this process and the inter

departmental letter of commitment this is a supplement to the MOU there are

many departments involved in the success of any shelter or navigation center both

from within the project and the clients that are served to its integration in

the neighborhood and certainly for this project the Department of Homelessness

the port the police department Public Works and the Department of Emergency

Management are all critical to the success as we went through the community

engagement process leading up to the request to extend we revised the

interdepartmental agreement based on feedback from the community and a signed

version of that is included in the file as I mentioned we have an America Dero

safe navigation center community advisory group which was started when

the project opened and has really been an instrumental tool I would say for the

community to hold the city accountable to all of our commitments and again big

thanks to Alice for chairing it gracefully and firmly and holding our

feet to the fire when we start to slip and we will continue to work with the

advisory committee throughout operations of the project you know in the project

the committee has leaned in to really understand what's going on within the

site and also is a voice for neighbors who might have a question or concern

about the conditions outside the site frankly that may or may not have anything

to do with the project itself, but people experiencing homelessness or people loitering

and hanging out outside do cause concern, and so this advisory group is the perfect

venue for that and, again, has become a model for what we do in other communities as well.

So leading up to this meeting and to this request to extend, we've held three meetings

with the advisory committee.

One was our regular scheduled quarterly meeting, two special meetings.

we have presented to the Northern Advisory Committee and they submitted a

letter of support and we also presented to the South Beach Rincon Hill Mission

Bay Neighborhood Association earlier this month and I will stop here and happy to

take any questions when the time is right thank you thank you Emily

thank you Emily so to conclude port staff has reviewed the documentation and

performance metrics that have been submitted by HSH. We find that HSH has met the option to exercise

conditions outlined in the MOU and are therefore recommending that the Board Commission affirm

HSH's exercise of the option to extend the MOU for an additional 24 months. And if affirmed,

the navigation center will be allowed to continue operations through December 31st, 2027,

with a final surrender date of June 30th, 2028.

And with that, both Emily and I, as well as the other folks here on the team,

are available to answer any questions that you may have.

Thank you, Kimberly.

Do I have a motion so we can move this item?

So moved.

Second.

Okay, thank you.

So we have a motion and a second.

So first I'm going to ask if there's any public comment in the room on this item.

Yes, you can just make your way up, sir.

Anyone else who'd like to make public comment can please form a queue and come on up.

Good evening.

I'm Dr. Mark Hall.

I live about a block from the Navigation Center at the Brannan.

The Navigation Center certainly made a change in our community.

but not in a good way.

Some of the things I've heard I thought were interesting.

I'm still waiting to be outreached by somebody,

and I've lived there for quite a while now.

I've witnessed people from the navigation center

go to where the addicts are, were in the Beale Street cul-de-sac,

and go back to the navigation center.

So I'm assuming there's no drug testing by anybody.

the residents at the brand and asked me read a letter to you it's been submitted

with with exhibits photographs let's see how fast I can read it is the port

considers whether to review the lease for the Embarcadero safe navigation

center we ask that you carefully review the city's performance under the

existing memorandum of understanding all the city has met some of its

obligations, several key provisions have not been fully implemented.

Most notably, the commitment to provide dedicated police officers for the safety

zone has never been fulfilled consistently. Today, we have

police coverage with voluntary overtime instead of assigned officers as

required by the MOU. Furthermore, coverage

is for weekdays only. There's no staffing at all on weekends.

And since the shelter is open, our neighborhood has suffered significant

blight. The adjacent park, the Beale Street

cul-de-sac has been plagued by open drug use.

Our market, which was in operation for 35 years, had to close

because of shoplifting, threats of violence, and actual violence

coming from the same people.

That's unwelcome.

The shelter has recorded the highest overdose rate of any block in the city,

even exceeding the tender one.

One major factor that contributed to these problems was the Department of Homelessness

and Supportive Housing's past practice of referring the most acutely affected individuals,

those struggling with severe addiction and mental illness, to this site.

That decision overwhelmed the staff, destabilized operations, and led to a blight in the surrounding area.

The Embarcadero is one of San Francisco's greatest treasures, a jewel on the waterfront

that should be safe and welcoming to everyone.

The mayor has made recovery one of his top priorities, but yet we are still plagued by open drug use.

To the city's credit, HSH, SFPD, DPW, OCII, Port, and Five Keys have worked hard in the past few months to improve the conditions around the shelter, but we still continue to see open drug use.

If the port renews this lease, it must do so with firm conditions, full compliance with every provision in the MOU,

strict adherence to safety measures.

Almost got it.

I'm sorry, sir.

I believe we have your letter, so thank you very much.

Thanks a lot.

Next person for public comment, please.

Good afternoon again, Commissioners.

I'm Alice Rogers, and I'm here as co-chair of the Embarcadero Navigation Center Advisory Committee,

where I served with Rick Dickerson for almost 16 years.

I apologize for reading, but there are some points I want to make for sure.

As you've seen in your packet, our committee is supporting the MOU before you today.

I want to elaborate on this a bit from my perspective as a chair and really just from my personal chair's perspective, not speaking for the committee.

This new MOU is the most responsive that we've had to date.

The provisions attempt to address the community concerns about reported high drug use in and around the center,

vandalism resulting in blighted conditions on your Beale Street cul-de-sac and loitering gathering around the center

with a significant proportion of people engaged in drug use, sales, or its aftermath.

All of this, unfortunately, is common in pockets throughout the city, but this has happened on our watch.

over time.

And when we insisted that the navigation center

was only responsible for the population

within its confines,

we ignored the reality that

when there is a vulnerable population,

predators follow.

Thankfully, our prior southern station captain

called out the situation for what it was.

Then Brandy Marshall of Five Keys stepped forward to make Five Keys a part of the solution.

And ultimately, all city agencies collaborated to walk back the devastation that was unfolding.

The new MOU includes critical incident reporting, radically increased supervision of port property adjacent to the center with logs recording the conditions, and new five keys ambassadors walking the area to troubleshoot, problem solve, and diffuse incidents.

This last is an unprecedented addition, and it's a miracle in the current budget environment.

And we want to thank Emily Cohen enormously for pulling it off.

For now, we are likely the most privileged shelter in the system,

But I truly hope, and Emily has said, that this becomes the model and the new standard for all shelters.

And before I leave, I want to thank David Lay and Jasmine Kuo from OCII for really walking back the damage that happened to the Beale suit cul-de-sac.

Thank you.

Thank you, Alice.

Next person, please.

Hello, Commissioners.

My name is Shelley, and I manage the Rincon Hill Dog Park.

I'm also frequently at the Brannon Street Wharf and along the Port Walkway,

and I want to raise a public safety issue affecting both residents and the dog park community.

We've seen an increase in open drug use in the area since the navigation center began.

now especially since the benches were removed from the Beale Street we call it the navigation

center cul-de-sac but Beale Street cul-de-sac that chance change has pushed more activity outward

toward the wharf the walkway and into the surrounding blocks as a result dogs and children

are now ending up passing extremely close to the active drug user without any warning or context

Just to give you a sense of what I mean, we often see people slumped over onto their own laps or onto the floor.

Their head is down with the substance still in their hand.

The dogs and kids can walk right by this.

Most of the dogs are off-leash in that area.

Sometimes they're inches away, and there's nothing in the environment telling the public that this is real exposure risk.

It only takes, like, one granule of fentanyl to, you know, kill or harm a dog.

I saw a video this morning just in Nextdoor that a dog ate a methamphetamine

and was like tweaking and going crazy in the veterinarian office within the last 24 hours.

Citywide, there have been confirmed cases of dogs exposed to fentanyl.

For those of us who manage dog safety every day, this is beginning to feel like a very real concern.

And because the activity from the navigation center naturally spreads outward,

the dog park is now affected I mean it has been affected the whole time but

what we would what our community would really appreciate is simple safety

signage throughout the neighborhood guidance on what to do if a person or

pet is exposed access to Narcan and basic training for residents dog walkers

and volunteers coordination with city partners who specialize in overdose and

poisoning response early interventions to help prevent a serious incident at

the wharf or the dog park or you know in the surrounding area this is an isolated

to one spot patterns from the nav center have area have are impacting multiple

public spaces clear signage safety information and narcan preparedness

would make a meaningful difference we all love the wharf and these waterfront

areas we want to help keep them safe and welcoming for everyone I have another

second. I'm a dual citizen of Italy and the United States. I've seen how the cruise ship

emissions have contributed to air quality and pollution in the port cities of Italy.

As San Francisco considers cruise ship expansion, I hope environmental and health impacts are

thoughtfully included. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you so much. Is there any other

public comment in the room? Is there any other, is there any public comment? No one else in the

room just want to make sure is there any public comment on the phone we have one

caller on the line I'm caller please give us your public comment can we open

the line yes can you hear me yes we can please give us your public comment okay

good afternoon Commissioners my name is Katie Liddell and I am the co-chair of

the ports northern advisory committee and also a member of the embarcadero navigation center

advisory committee both groups have submitted letters to you in support of the of the nav center

i was very surprised and disappointed yesterday just yesterday to hear of the change of personnel

working at the NAV Center. We had based our recommendations on the improvements

which have taken place over the past few months in the surrounding area. But

there have been problems because the clients at the center are able to come

and go as they please. This has caused loitering, drug use, and vagrancy at the

Beale Street cul-de-sac, the Brannan Street Wharf, and the adjoining sidewalks.

I personally walked by many times to witness this.

Thanks to the port and to David Lay in particular, the benches were removed from the cul-de-sac to discourage loitering.

Things are slowly getting better.

I am personally still supportive of the center's extension, but five keys in the city must continue to improve the area.

We, the neighbors, have worked hard with side keys and HSH personnel to make this happen.

It must continue.

Thank you.

Thank you, caller.

Do we have any other people on the phone for public comment?

We do not.

Thank you.

Okay.

Public comment is closed, but before we transition to questions from the commission, I'm going

to ask, we have two special guests in the room.

I'd like to I want to recognize Steve good who I think I see in the audience who is the CEO and president of five keys

If you could come make some remarks, please and maybe walk us through operations of the center

And I think it might be necessary for you for you also to define harm reduction for the commission

And then I'd like to hear from the captain of southern station

Who I thought also thought was in the room about security measures then I'll open it up for commissioner comment

Sure, thank you

I stated I'm Steve Good, the CEO of Five Keys.

Currently, we operate about 18 different properties across the state, providing services to the unsheltered.

At the Embarcadero Now Center, I first want to address the change in leadership.

We recently changed our on-site assistant director and the other director at the location,

not for a performance reason, but part of our routine of providing new opportunities for staff to transition throughout the city

and work at our different sites as part of a cross-training exercise that we routinely do.

It also provides an opportunity for a fresh shed of eyes to come into the shelter

and see perhaps things that the other site managers had not seen.

We found it to be an incredibly effective way of making sure that the quality that we expect at our shelters remains high.

Operations at the shelter.

So as Emily presented, the daily operations include wellness checks on our staff, meeting with the case coordinators where we have a 1 to 25 ratio, daily meals, cleaning.

And one of the most important things that was talked about is our good neighbor policy where we go around the neighborhood, pick up trash.

That was actually something, I believe it was Five Keys idea when we first came bid on the project.

We propose the idea that we implement a good neighbor policy with a hotline for the surrounding community to call should they see something.

It's been an incredibly effective tool, albeit it has limited in its scope what we can do.

We can encourage people to leave.

We can provide them help and support if they're in crisis.

But we have no real authority to force them to move.

But through building relationships, which is our entire model of how we work,

treating the residents as guests and seeing them as individuals, as who they are,

and developing that relationship plays a big piece in the effectiveness of that.

One of the key things about Five Keys in our operations is we don't have security at any of our sites.

Our ambassadors are cross-trained from custodial to security to being the ambassador.

And the idea being is individuals don't really respond well to authority figures when they're disenfranchised and have just a long history of negative experiences.

The idea being that the ambassador who is building a relationship with you, checking in daily with you to see how you are doing,

is the same person that's trained in de-escalation should there be a conflict,

and we actually have to have the function of a security person stepping in.

Those are the same individuals that do the perimeter checks and pick up garbage.

With the implementation of our street teams now, again, it's taking the approach of community building,

checking in with people, relationship building, and seeing how the individuals are doing

and using the relationship approach to try and move people along and encourage them to not loiter.

We also offer assistance if folks need it.

We encourage folks to get into treatment and anything we can do along those lines.

We've seen it being very productive, but again, we're limited in what we can actually do in terms of making folks move.

I also want to point out that the individuals that are around the Embarcadero Center that often people see and they associate as being residents of the shelter,

the majority of folks that we run into that are doing the loitering, we know aren't residents of the shelter.

There are individuals that have found their way out to the most beautiful parts of the city

and wanting to enjoy the sun and fresh air out here as well.

But I could easily see how they could be confused as being a resident of the shelter.

So that's important.

The other thing that I just want to leave you with is homelessness is a big problem in San Francisco, as we all know.

And it's here.

If we go away, the homeless individuals aren't going to go away.

but the tool you currently have to try and reduce the loitering, the drug use,

the encampments and graffiti goes away as well.

And we think that we've made a real important improvement in the area.

So thank you.

Are there any questions?

So I think I'm going to just have you sit down,

and we're going to ask the captain to speak,

and then commissioners will make comment,

and Mr. Goody might be invited back up to answer questions.

Hi. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Amy Hurwitz. I'm the captain of Southern Station.

And I was not expecting to speak today, so you'll get genuine, unrehearsed answers.

If I had the opportunity to take questions, I would be more than happy to.

So what I can do, I'm not here to give my opinion one way or the other, but what I can do is I can tell you about my experience.

So what my experience has been has been a lot better than many sites that we deal with, that we work with.

And I understand that public nuisance crimes and drug use on the street are things that people do not want to deal with as residents in the area.

Because I don't want it next to my house.

I understand that people don't want it next to their house.

So we are doing the best that we can to sort of make that go away.

Now, that said, we are under a staffing crisis.

Like, there is no joke about it,

and people still expect us to do exactly the same amount that we had.

So Southern Station is rolling with anywhere from 60 to 70 officers.

So when I was a sergeant at this station 12 years ago,

I started working when I was 11,

we had 150 officers so we are really we're really short we're trying to make

up with it by having officers come in on overtime and that is that is what

that's what's happening so we have officers filling shifts and coming in on

overtime they're giving up their free time with their friends and their family

and they're coming in and they're working here so the other thing that

we're doing because we're not filling all of the shifts. We're just not. But the other thing that

we're doing is we have ambassadors, and the ambassadors are there every day. We have four

ambassadors assigned, and they're doing a great job. The other thing that, you know, I find pretty

amazing is, you know, the five keys ambassadors and the people that are working from the shelter

or with the shelter to make the neighborhood better. That is something I haven't really seen

before and I think it's super helpful

and it makes our job

a lot easier.

So, yeah,

we haven't had any major incidents

to speak of lately, which is great

and most of it is, you know,

sort of the lower level stuff.

So, thanks.

Thank you, Captain. Great.

So, Commissioners,

before we go to Commissioner

questions, the questions need to be for

our staff.

And that right now is being

represented by Amy Cohen and Kimberly Beal.

And if they need support from our special guests,

which are the operator and the captain,

they will seek that.

But I just want to caveat that

before we go into commission discussion.

And on that note, Commissioner Lee,

do you have questions for staff?

For staff?

Yes.

I don't have questions for staff,

but I'd like to talk to the captain and the operator.

I mean, but.

Yes.

Okay.

Yes.

So why don't we go through the staff?

Through the staff.

Yes.

So if you'd like to present your question, Commissioner Lee.

Yes.

It's only different because, you know, I was on the Entertainment Commission 10 years.

And usually I get to talk directly to the captain because, you know, a lot of this stuff sounds very familiar.

It's a little different situation because homelessness is a tricky issue.

A few things on the staff changes that has happened that I would hear from public comment.

It seems like it just kind of recently must have happened because this extension came up before and we didn't have this kind of contingency.

It seemed to be okay.

At first, before I heard all the public comment, I thought, hey, this has always been, even before I was commissioned on here, I always see the navigation center.

And I use Embarcadero a lot, every day almost.

And I don't see much activity.

Now, a lot of times I know in Chinatown, and I do more nightlife stuff.

the ambassadors and maybe some of the outreach people are during the day.

There's nobody at night.

And I don't know if these occurrences are happening at night or what,

but I know there's a staffing issue.

I know we're short officers in this department.

I'm in this situation, in the entertainment situation.

So I'm just saying, are we giving them some more time for this new staff member,

new manager of this facility to ramp up.

And now that you hear all the public comment, to do something about it.

I have a few questions like what happens when the ambassadors are in the safety zone and

they come across these people that are maybe not residents of the shelter.

I see that there's other departments, but I don't see DPH.

Isn't DPH supposed to reach out to them as well?

And I know, you know, they don't want help.

It's an issue.

You know, you can't really touch them, and this is the same situation in all neighborhoods.

I don't know how you guys address that.

Do you talk to them and say, hey, come to the shelter?

I mean, what is your procedure when you run into these people in the safety zone?

I'm going to ask Emily Cohen to come up.

Thank you, Commissioner, for the question.

I'm going to unpack it.

I think there are a couple important questions that you raised in there.

One was the recent shift for the site manager from Five Keys,

and we fully support Five Keys to deploy their staff in the way they feel is best

for their own professional development and for the operations of the site.

That said, the program and the on-site staff continue to report to Brandi Marshall,

who is the deputy over housing under Steve at Five Keys,

and she has been the linchpin to sort of making this all work.

She's the one who pulls us all together and says we need to move here, do this, do that differently.

And so that leadership remains steadfast.

We are very confident in Five Keys' ability to staff.

The assistant managers are not changing at the site,

and so I think there's plenty of continuity to ensure that the site continues to be very, very well run.

So we are very confident in Five Keys and their ability to manage their on-site staff.

In terms of the ambassadors, the other question you asked, in terms of the ambassadors in the neighborhood,

now we have two sets of ambassadors.

We have SFPD ambassadors, which the captain can speak to, as well as the HSH-funded ambassadors from Five Keys.

And their role is to really have a lot of situational awareness about what's going on in the community

and to intervene to the extent possible.

right and so they will do they will be walking their mobile team walking around the neighborhood

around the zone and if they encounter somebody who is experiencing homelessness what they can do

is say they can't offer them a bed right at the nav center we have a centralized placement process

but they can call it in and say hey they can ask them do you want shelter tonight and if the person

says yes they will call the hot team the hot team will come and place that person into shelter that

night. So we don't want to encourage people to come and camp near the site. We don't have a

you can come right in process for that reason. But the ambassadors can absolutely offer somebody a

place to be and our team will come and make that placement. Another thing that they do is obviously

picking up trash. If they see graffiti that might be, you know, not what they can get in the immediate

moment, they will report that in to Public Works for support. They also will ask people who are

loitering to move on.

So they can ask people who are hanging out.

They can ask people if they feel safe doing it, if they're using substances to not use

substances there.

Now, they're not the police.

They can't enforce the law.

They can't force somebody to move.

But they have built relationships with folks on the street.

And they say, hey, you know, you're right by a navigation center.

Your behavior here is actually kind of hurting it for the rest of us who are trying to do

this work.

And sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

If things escalate, we can always call the police.

So I have one.

What about if they're having a mental health?

Yes, absolutely.

I mean, is that a DPH issue?

Under Mayor Lori's leadership, we have reorganized neighborhood street teams

that include the integration of our traditional outreach

as well as behavioral health and law enforcement.

And so what we ask all of our ambassadors to do is to call that in.

So if somebody is having a medical emergency, which includes a psychiatric emergency, we ask you to call 911, and our integrated street teams will respond, or 911 dispatchers will figure out who the response team is.

It's either an integrated street team or SFPD, depending on the severity of the situation.

And public health is absolutely a partner in that.

They weren't listed on the MOU because we have a separate agreement with public health, but they are at the site.

They operate a clinic at the site and provide shelter health services on site.

Okay.

So, like I said, I'm a true believer of public safety and neighborhood, you know.

The good neighborhood policy actually started with the Entertainment Commission,

and other departments have used it.

I mean, I authored that, and I'm glad that you're using it because it does help.

Captain, in the past, other captains, when we had issues with nightclubs and neighbors,

they used to have neighborhood meetings and training with the club owners i think this is

something that they're asking for maybe to do some kind of narcan training you know for their dog i

mean i think they're asking for southern station to maybe have a monthly meeting with the the

neighbors uh to kind of like mitigate some of this and help them train and know how to deal with

some of the situation and it really helps a lot i think captain orcs was the starter of the

meeting with us back 20 years ago when it was the war against fun you know it was nightclubs against

neighbors it's a very similar situation and i really helped with the captain meeting with the

neighbors and maybe with the staff of the navigation center so because you know for the

last six years i mean i mean really amazing how suddenly something had changed abruptly because

we didn't hear this before. So anyway, that kind of ends my comments. I mean, I'm still supportive

of the Navigation Center. I think it's just a little work with the neighborhood and maybe with

the new staff to get back in sync. So that's kind of my comments for this one. President Gilman,

if I may respond very briefly, just to assure you, Commissioner, that SFPD is at our quarterly

meetings with the neighbors, very much engaged in a part of this. The call for NARCAN training

is interesting. You know, all of these ambassadors are trained to use Narcan. Overdose reversal,

unfortunately, has become a part of our work and is something that all the five key staff are

trained to do, the SFPD ambassadors, everyone is trained to do. If the neighbors want a voluntary

Narcan training, we could bring DPH in to provide that, but that'd be on an individual volunteer level.

I'm just saying because you can't be there 24-7 every single minute.

we should all be trained

I think the neighbors want to know

and they want to be trained

that's difficult and if it's available

my staff all knows

how to use Narcans at the clubs

because it could happen

and it's all free training

but I just think

it's just a good neighborhood

community thing that you guys

can set up

I'm done

you're good? okay awesome

that's a great suggestion

Commissioner McNeely, do you have any questions for staff?

Yeah, I mean, I did have a question about the ambassador's right,

but I think I better understand now.

I was confused as to whether or not there was one set or two sets.

So one set reporting into the operator five keys

and then one set supporting the SFPD.

I think

during one of your statements

during the staff presentation you stated

that there was now

perhaps this was from the city

of

hourly walking around the perimeter

is that

something that's recently

started or has that been

engaged for a while

Thank you Commissioner for the question

originally in our original

work plan with five keys, it was three times a day, and now it has increased to hourly,

and that increase changed in April of 2025 after we started to see more complaints and

concerns raised from the neighbors.

So it was responsive.

And that was a result of a community meeting where you were able to address the concerns.

Are there other items that the community's raised that you are yet to implement or have

but it's kind of in the game plan going forward?

You know, I think most of it is baked into the plan,

into the MOU and the interdepartmental letter.

A big advocacy push from the neighborhood group

was the removal of the benches from the Beale Street cul-de-sac.

Surprisingly complicated,

even though I've worked in government for 10 years,

it shouldn't be that surprising.

It took a while to get the benches removed.

They are now removed.

You know, we wanted the, we added the five keys ambassadors.

That's a recent addition as a request from the neighborhood.

And then really working with PD to ensure staffing of the safety shifts are our top priorities.

Is there, there seems to, someone made the point that there is, that some of the laudering going around

may not be folks actually admitted to the facility.

Is there a way of – I assume that this is open 24 hours and residents are able to come in and out at any time.

Is there any – one question I would have is whether or not they're able to exit, get illegal substances, reenter, and how does that work?

How do you safeguard against that or even vice versa?

Yeah, absolutely.

Thank you for the question.

Illegal substances are not permitted in any shelter site in San Francisco.

So if guests are found to have drugs on site, they will be confiscated and asked to remove the drugs from the site.

It will result in a write-up, and a certain number of write-ups can result in removal from the shelter.

We don't want to remove somebody immediately.

It just pushes a challenge to the street.

It is an opportunity for case management, an opportunity to talk to that person about their substance use and how it's impacting their life.

And we hope that we can leverage that moment into treatment or into a service plan.

When that doesn't happen, we do, of course, have the lever to remove somebody for bringing illegal substances onto the site.

People, you know, this is not part of the carceral system.

People, of course, are free to come and go as they please, and they do.

Some people are working.

Some people have family that they're visiting.

But we've made it as homey as possible inside because we want people to hang out inside.

You know, we've got outdoor space.

We've got covering for hot, sunny days or rain.

We have a little dog park area.

We want to make sure people feel as comfortable as possible doing their chilling and their hanging out within the property rather than, I mean, Embarcadero is pretty nice.

You do want to go out and walk along the water and be part of the community as well, but we want to encourage folks to stay in touch.

Thank you for that.

And just to comment that these are really challenging interests to balance, and I applaud your ability to balance these, listening to the community.

I think we can never over-communicate to our residents and encourage their participation in solution and strategy around it.

So I applaud you on that, and I would encourage even more outreach.

And if we can increase the number of ambassadors to kind of deal with and monitor the situation, the likely the better.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Commissioner Adams.

Wow.

I was here in 2019.

I chaired that meeting.

Boy, it was a doozy.

We had 30 police officers in this room.

We had about 500 people for and against.

And, you know, this is from those that were for it, were for it, those that were against.

And, you know, everybody can be judgmental.

Nobody wanted it in their neighborhood, right?

You know, anybody can wind up home, but some people wouldn't want that.

I appreciate you coming out today and coming out and expressing your concerns.

I expressed that nothing is perfect.

But let me tell you what happened in 2019.

At the time, Mayor Bree said we got to do something bold.

Our director put her neck out there on the line.

And this commission, we listened to everybody.

And we said, we need to do something that's right.

And FDR said it best.

A nation can be strong without being cruel.

And some people think they could probably never wind up homeless.

But that's where it went, and we supported that.

And I hear you.

There should be law and order.

I agree with you on that.

People should feel safe in the neighborhood, but nothing is perfect.

Several years ago, we renewed this.

Not one single person came.

Alice always shows up.

Some people only come when it's their issue.

Alice is always here.

And Alice was here, and Alice spoke on it, and Alice goes,

So it's still a work in progress, but we're getting better.

I've never seen you guys here before.

I didn't see you in 2019, and I didn't see you two years ago.

I see you tonight.

I didn't see you.

I didn't see you.

Maybe you were here in 2019, but I didn't see you when we had that big meeting.

And like I said, I appreciate that.

But everybody, I think, is working hard as they can to try to make this happen.

And as I said, I know, I lived on 388 Bill.

Nobody wanted it in that neighborhood.

Ma'am, if you should have had something to say, you could have said it at the mic.

But I'll just tell you that.

But that being said, we're doing the best we can.

And your concerns will be listened to.

But you think it's perfect, everything that they're doing?

No, it's not.

But this was something that was needed in this community, in this neighborhood, this homeless shelter.

And it'd be nice to move it somewhere else.

And one day, because it's poor property, it's going to be gone.

But I will speak what I have to say as a commissioner, because I voted for it.

And some of my neighbors, because I lived on 388 bills, stopped speaking to me because they didn't want it in that neighborhood.

Where do we go?

What do we do?

We're a money-making organization of poor.

But also, we have a social conscience.

and when I feel that they're trying to do the best that they can do,

and then those that donate their time to help those that are in need,

because I know some people that are homeless.

I don't walk by them.

I don't treat them any differently

because I might in my sense be doing better than them.

I could be that way myself one time.

But we need to help.

And all you guys on the advisory committee,

I'm sure Alice can find a spot for you on the advisory committee.

Work with us to try to make it better.

But we've got to help them just like we've got to listen to your concerns

that you want to say, I lived in that neighborhood.

I wanted a safe neighborhood too.

But I don't think all of the people that are in the shelter

are causing a lot of other problems,

and there's other people in this city roaming around

causing problems that come in there with them.

and if somebody in that shelter is doing something they shouldn't be doing,

they should be gone.

Straight up, I think they should be gone.

They shouldn't be there.

And I'm going to vote in favor of this.

And we have another one down in the dog patch.

And until our society ever deals with this homeless problem,

we're going to have to deal with it,

and we can't run and we can't hide from it.

I guess I could go live in a gated community.

But now what do they do?

They ram cars into jewelry stores,

and 20, 30 people jump out and they grab everything.

This is a part of our society now.

I don't like it neither, but we got to deal with it.

I have not heard any shootings down at the homeless shelter.

I have not heard of any shootings or any assaults.

At least the director has not reported this to me or any other commissioners.

I haven't heard that.

Fentanyl, it's bad, and a lot of the other things.

but work with us as we're trying

because we want that neighborhood to be safe.

I used to go to that grocery store that you're talking about.

Yeah, they're right.

Look what happened to all these Walgreens stores

that had to close down.

I get it.

I understand.

Look at Delancey Street.

Know what that's about?

It was started for people that got out of prison.

We try to give society, give them a second chance.

The president of my union started that,

along with some politicians in this city,

the late John Burton, Pelosi, Art Agnes,

to give people in this society another chance

and not look down on them.

So I'm going to vote in support of it.

You want my number ever to talk to me.

I'll sit down, be willing to have lunch with you,

listen to your concerns, and run it up the platform.

I will fight with you.

But I ask you to fight with us to help to make it better.

And when we have these meetings, show up.

Like I said, I've never seen you before.

And I've been on this commission 14 years.

I've never seen you here before.

Anyway, I'm done.

Thank you so much, Commissioner Adams.

Commissioner Emblem?

Well, it's a complex issue.

I want to thank our residents, our people coming and being part of the process

and letting us know what's going on.

Thank the volunteers on the advisory committee.

It's what makes our city great.

Thank you for people who are volunteering in the neighborhood.

I'm a dog owner, so hearing these stories are very upsetting.

Thank you to the operator and the police captain for coming to talk to us.

It's a really complex issue.

I believe, though, as a point of process, we're being asked about the MOU.

Yes.

so I think in addition to hearing all the the the concerns that we have to

address as a city no I just you know I believe that I've heard that the you

know the operator is meeting the conditions as per the staff so that's

why I'll be supporting this thank you Commissioner I just want to say

as someone who was with Commissioner Adams back in 2019 when we had that

hearing and as someone transparency full disclosure has dedicated 25 years of her

life working on anti-poverty homeless issues and economic security issues I

think it's really important to remember that everyone in this community has a

seat at the table to come to the Advisory Committee as someone who is

cited supportive housing in district 2 and across the city we need an equitable

distribution of navigation centers of affordable housing of supportive housing and i have never seen

a neighborhood negotiate such a strong good neighbor agreement as i saw in 2019. we have

shelters and other parts of the city that originally when they were founded in the 1980s

and 90s didn't get this kind of response all throughout the tenderloin the tenderloin community

deserves the same benefits as the community along the waterfront and i want to commend the department

of homelessness and supportive housing for stating that this is now the benchmark for how they move

forward with their contracts and supporting them in financing five keys to be able to up their

ambassador program this is an issue of poverty this is an issue of disenfranchisement this is

an issue of system involvement that commissioner adams was right as a society we need to solve it

and each and every one of us has an obligation socrates said we all must care for all of our

members of society those with means and those without i think as a commission we've tried

really hard to balance and hear the neighbors and soon as commissioner adams said this navigation

center will be gone and i hope that all of you will support the housing both affordable and

market rate that's going in at the site because that's what's going to come to piers to see wall

30 31 um i'm seeing all 32 that's what's going to happen but until then i am honored as president

of this commission that I'm helping 200 of my fellow San Franciscans have a safe place

to sleep every night to receive the resources, the care, and the love that they're getting

every night because to me no one should be outdoors.

I live in North Beach.

I walk by people in Washington Square Park all the time who are actively using or having

issues with substances.

I would never judge whether those people are unhoused or not.

are people in the condos across the street from us who I'm sure are using substances in their own

homes. And I hope that everyone with substance abuse issues receives the treatment, love, and

support they need. And I have every faith that is happening at this site and at every site across

San Francisco that we operate. So for that reason, I will be voting to support this. And I believe

we have unanimous decision at this commission. So I'm going to call for the vote. All in favor

of extending the MOU with the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing

for another two-year period.

Please say aye.

Aye.

This item is closed.

Next item, please.

Next item is 11C.

11C requests approval of a proposed memorandum of understanding

with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency

for the management, operation, and enforcement

of on-street and off-street public parking facilities

on Port Property. This is Resolution 2579. For callers who wish to make public comment

on this item, please dial star 3 to raise your hand to comment.

Good afternoon. President Gilman just stepped out. Vice President Engblum, Commissioners,

Director Forbes. I'm Jennifer Gee, the Senior Property Manager for the Southern Waterfront

in the Real Estate and Development Division. I'm here today to request your approval of

a proposed MOU with SFMTA. This MOU covers the management, operation, and enforcement of the

port's public parking facilities, which includes on-street parking, which are the meters and

colored curbs, as well as off-street parking, which are public parking lots. This proposal

reflects a huge collaborative effort across all port divisions. I wanted to take a moment to

recognize the folks who made this MOU possible. Kimberly Beal, Albert Hahn, Annette Mathai-Jackson,

Becca Benicini, Scott Lancetill are all of our port property managers, the teams from our maritime

planning and environment division and our finance division, and a special shout out to Kyle Thomas

and our security team, as well as Tim Felton and our maintenance crew who will be working closely

with us in real estate to manage the properties under this MOU.

We, of course, are partners with SFMTA who are here today and have been instrumental in

shaping this proposal.

The port oversees a mix of public and private parking on our seven and a half miles of waterfront.

Under the port's harbor traffic code, we manage metered street parking, public parking lots,

and private parking areas for tenants, maritime operations, contractors, fleet, and trucker

operations.

Today we're proposing a shift to bring all port managed public parking both on street

and off street under one unified management model through an MOU with SFMTA.

The goal of this new structure will modernize and streamline how we manage parking, improve

customer experience, boost the port's financial performance, and align with the city's broader

parking system.

The proposed MOU meets several of the port's strategic objectives.

The MOU allows the port to tap into SFMTA's existing infrastructure and expertise, which

which will improve efficiency, reduce administrative burdens, and ultimately retain more of the

revenue generated from our public parking assets.

Effective parking management will also improve access and usability across port property,

which will make our property more attractive to current tenants and future prospective

tenants, which will in turn drive more activity and economic activity along the waterfront.

Through SFMTA's operator contracts, the port will be aligning with SFMTA's LBE goals, which

promotes inclusive and equitable contracting and opportunity.

This MOU also supports the port's broader effort to modernize how the port operates

and reflects its commitment to evolving the waterfront to meet the changing needs of the

public and our stakeholders.

So let's take a quick look at the current parking at the port.

In fiscal year 2023, parking and citation revenues brought in approximately $21.2 million in total operating income for the port.

That revenue came from four main sources.

About 40% came collectively from SFMTA, with 27% from SFMTA managed on-street parking, plus 13% from citations issued by SFMTA.

About 56% came from leased parking lots, and the remaining 4% came from port-managed individual parking stall agreements,

which are spaces reserved for tenants, maritime users, contractors, and fleet truck operations.

Since 1996, the port has partnered with SFMTA to support on-street parking operations.

Today, that includes about 370 parking meters and roughly 1,500 on-street parking spaces.

Under our current agreement with SFMTA, SFMTA handles meter procurement programming and installation, revenue collection, citation processing and enforcement, and event-related traffic control as needed.

The port retains 100% of the gross revenues from both parking fees and citations.

In return, the port reimburses SFMTA for administrative and operational costs.

While the formal agreement expired back in 2017, both agencies have continued to operate

under its terms.

This graph shows the revenue trend under the SFMTA agreement and how the partnership has

continued to generate consistent revenue for the port between fiscal year 2018 and 2025.

For our off-street public parking lots, they are run a little bit differently.

The port currently controls 11 public parking lots.

Four of those lots are currently leased to reimagined parking, formerly known as Imperial

Parking or M-Park.

Six lots are leased to SP Plus Hyde Parking Joint Venture.

And one of the lots is operated directly by the port through the SFMTA partnership.

Under the lease model, the lease gives the operator the right to use the parking lot

for parking operations.

The operator handles revenue collection, cleaning, maintenance, security, and utilities.

Most sites are unstaffed and offer minimal services.

The operators keep 33% of the gross revenues under the lease agreement.

It's also worth noting both leases are expired.

The lease with reimagined parking expired in 2005 and SP Plus expired in 2022.

The one lot managed under the SFMTA port model mirrors the on-street parking agreement.

This map shows the locations of the off-street parking lots that are proposed under the SFMTA MOU.

So let's take a closer look at how the current partnership with SFMTA is performing.

Under the existing model, the port retains, again, 100 percent of the revenue from both

parking fees and citations.

SFMTA is reimbursed for their administrative and operational costs.

This slide shows the revenue versus reimbursements over the last three fiscal years.

On average, the port nets about 72 percent of the total revenue after reimbursing SFMTA.

That net revenue goes directly into the port's general operating fund.

The data here reflects on-street metered parking and the one public lot managed under this model.

You'll also notice a slight increase in expenses in fiscal year 23-24, which reflects when

the port aligned with SFMTA's initiative to upgrade outdated meters and pay stations citywide

to newer pay-by space, pay-by-license meters.

The port retains ownership of the new equipment,

which means future costs are limited to maintenance and repairs

unless replacement is required when the equipment is damaged beyond repair

or reaches the end of its useful life.

So what is the impetus for change and expansion of the ports partnership with SFMTA?

One is the proven success with SFMTA on the on-street parking model.

Our existing partnership with SFMTA has been effective and reliable.

In contrast, our off-street lease model has delivered lower financial returns and offers

limited flexibility.

Also under the lease model, private operators keep a significant share of the revenue but

provide minimal on-site services, often just the bare minimum in terms of maintenance and

security.

Building an in-house parking program would require major investments by the port in technology,

staffing, operational expertise.

These are resources that the port does not currently have.

our partnership with SFMTA offers a more integrated, efficient, and cost-effective solution and

also aligns with the city's broader parking program.

This MOU still preserves, it keeps the port in the driver's seat as it still preserves

the port's policy oversight and operational control, but reduces the port's administrative

workload, freeing up staff to focus on broader property management and planning priorities.

This transition would replace the outdated lease agreements with a centralized citywide management approach,

one that's more modern, more efficient, and better aligned with the port's long-term goals.

So let's talk about the terms of the MOU.

The MOU will continue SFMTA's management of the on-street parking,

which includes, again, the meters and the colored curves.

The MOU will also expand SFMTA's role to include 11 of the parking lots, which fall into two categories.

Seven metered lots, which are pay and leave lots where users pay at a kiosk or a pay station.

Four operator managed lots, which are a little bit more complex, sites that may require special event coordination, validations, on-site staffing.

The MOU also allows for facilities to be incorporated or removed at any time by the port.

SFMTA will provide full operational support for all port managed parking assets, which includes meter procurement, installation, maintenance and repairs,

revenue collection and citation processing, enforcement and compliance, signage and curb painting.

SFMCA will also handle all the administrative functions, such as financial and data reporting,

account management and system oversight, regular performance and maintenance reporting,

monthly parking programs, validations, and special event parking.

Under the MOU, the port will continue to retain 100% of the gross revenue from both

parking fees and citations. Port will reimburse SFMTA for administrative and operational costs.

Due to their complexity for the operator managed lots, the port will piggyback on SFMTA's existing

operator contracts, which is a flat fee model where SFMTA or their contractors will handle

daily operations for a fixed monthly fee. There is no fixed fee for the metered lots.

When this transition happens, the port will be responsible for maintenance, security,

utilities, and cleaning across all of the parking facilities.

For the operator managed lots, the port may choose to use SFMTA's third-party contractors

for repairs or maintenance when needed as well.

The MOU will take effect once approved by the Board of Supervisors and executed by both

parties.

Whether port or SFMTA can terminate the MOU within one year's written notice effective at the end of a fiscal year.

The port also has the flexibility to terminate a specific parking facility or a part of one at any time for any reason.

All right, so the projected fiscal impact for initial investments to get the expanded program up and running,

The port will fund initial setup, which includes purchasing and installation of the new pay stations, fabricating and installing regulatory signage.

Something to highlight, in 2023, the port was awarded a $200,000 grant from Caltrans,

which will help to offset the costs of the purchase and installation of 28 multi-space pay stations.

Ongoing costs.

While staff expects net revenue to increase, a portion of that income will go toward reimbursing SFMTA for their expanded operational role.

We also anticipate higher operating expenses for cleaning, maintenance, utilities, and security, as well as deferred infrastructure and capital repairs.

Overall, however, staff projects a positive fiscal outcome from this MOU that's driven by full revenue retention,

improved enforcement and compliance, operational efficiencies, increased internal capacity,

alignment with citywide systems and policies, and an enhanced customer experience overall.

The expanded partnership with SFMTA offers the port a range of operational, financial, and strategic benefits.

By leveraging SFMTA's citywide infrastructure, staffing, and technology,

the port can modernize our parking operations without having to build a program from scratch,

which means lower administrative burden, reduced capital investment, and a more efficient system overall.

Transitioning our off-street lots from a revenue-sharing lease model to direct public management

gives the port full revenue retention, better enforcement, and stronger support for our financial recovery and long-term stability.

Unifying all parking operations under a single system also improves the public experience

with consistent signage, rates, and enforcement across the board.

And finally, the MOU gives the port the flexibility to adapt as needs evolved

with built-in safeguards to ensure that we stay aligned with the port's strategic priorities.

In closing, port staff recommends that the Port Commission approve Resolution 2579.

I welcome any questions that you may have our partners Robert Cadia with us

MTA is also here to answer any technical questions that you may have as well

Thank You Jennifer can I get a motion to move this item

So moved

Thank you so now we're going to open it up for public comment is there any public comment in the room on this item I

Don't see any do we have any public comment on the phone on this item

We do not have any colors on the phone.

Okay, I am closing public comment and moving to Commissioner discussion.

Commissioner McNeely, do you have any questions on this item?

I have no questions. It seems like an elegant solution.

Commissioner Lee, do you have any questions on this item?

Okay.

Okay.

So I have the pleasure of working with Robert Arcardi from SFMTA

because I volunteer on the Portsmouth Square Garage in Chiantown,

and I worked with this guy for the last so many years.

At first we started off as a rough, you know, I used to complain to him a lot,

but he's actually become understanding where I come from for the community standpoint.

So I'm kind of used to working how SFMTA runs their garage,

but I have a few questions, and maybe for Jennifer.

Okay, so we lease out, currently we lease out the lots,

and they retain 33% of the income.

So going to this model,

obviously it's going to be a lot less burden on staff

because we're kind of short.

But how much of the 33% are we going to retain?

Because, you know, there's going to be costs, right?

Of course, we've got to, you know,

they all like technology

because I keep hearing from Robert

that we've got to upgrade our little gates.

Me too.

So I'm sure this is going to happen at the port.

And I'm just saying that, you know, right now we lease it out and we do it ourselves.

The operators is getting 33%.

So we're giving basically 33% away.

Do you find that this program is going to be able to save us the 33%?

Well, so for the revenue cost structure under the MOU,

we'll receive 100% of the revenues for parking fees as well as citations.

currently we don't receive any revenues on citations from uh the lease model under the

lease model yeah um and so we expect the revenues to increase because not only will we be retaining

that 33 but we'll also be gaining an additional revenue stream so we don't get any ticketing at

all on the parking lot so if anybody's in violation yeah they just basically skate basically yeah they

can. All right. And then on the maintenance part, you kind of mentioned you're going to use outside

contractors when they need it. What about our own maintenance people? I mean, are we that short that

maybe we're going to put people out of a job? No, no. Don't put me in that position with Tim.

No. So we have the first right of refusal. So if our maintenance crew can do it,

we'll do it. But if it's a job that might be too big for them, we can contract out with DPW,

who SFMTA contracts out with,

or we also have the opportunity to also contract out

with the subs under their operator contracts.

Okay.

So my last request, if we go ahead and move forward with this,

is to fix the Pier 3032 getting out of the parking lot after an event

because it takes an hour to get there,

so I'm hoping if SFMTA takes over, they will correct all this flow.

And I'm going to call Robert Accardia every time if I get stuck out there.

I think I'll call Robert Accardia as well if I get complaints.

No, but we definitely are working towards that.

That is an issue that we are aware of.

And we are planning to partner with SFMTA to prevent that from happening.

Especially Pier 3.

trying to get into Pier 3

and trying to dodge not only people

but those scooters that are going 60 miles an hour.

I mean, I don't know how,

if that's even part of their jurisdiction,

but I know it's SFMTA.

Maybe they could work together.

Pier 3?

Well, the bike lanes

and going into the parking lot.

I'm hoping that this becomes a synergy

that all departments,

because the way SFMTA,

he has the garage,

somebody else has to bike lanes so I'm hoping that there's going to be a

communication with both departments if we decide to move forward we're definitely

partnering with SFMTA they're the parking experts I think we've tried to

establish ourselves at the parking experts for quite some time and we're

just not those people and so we're we're looking to the experts to help us okay

good because yeah public safety is number one for me so I just don't want

anything else to happen.

All right.

I'm done.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Commissioner Adams.

I'm going to vote in favor.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Adams.

Commissioner Emelum.

No further questions.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Jennifer.

I support the item and have no questions.

Great interdepartmental coordination.

So we have a motion and we have a second.

All in favor of this item.

Aye.

Aye.

There's none opposed.

This item passes.

Next item, please.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Item 12, 12A is an informational presentation to consider and possible action to approve amendments to the 2025 Port of San Francisco Building Standards Code.

This is resolution 2580.

And for callers who wish to make public comment, please dial star three to raise your hand.

So, good.

Coming through?

All right.

Good evening, Commissioners, President Gilman, VP Engelbaum, and Executive Director Forbes.

I'm Matthew Bell.

I'm the port's acting chief harbor engineer, and I have a short presentation on our updated

building codes.

All right.

So a little background.

So amongst our many roles as a port, we are a local building department, and we are separate

from the Department of Building Inspection in San Francisco.

So all local building departments in the state are required to enforce the latest state of California building codes.

But we can and we do add local amendments to the state's codes.

And so the combination of our local amendments and the state's codes coming up

will be called the 2025 Port of San Francisco Building Standards Codes.

And confusingly, the 2025 codes will come into effect at the start of 2026.

So we've been working on the code update for several months now.

Our goal going into this are kind of up on the screen.

We're very aware that the waterfront has unique engineering and architectural requirements,

but also the port is part of San Francisco,

and we want our regulations to be as similar as possible on both sides of the Embarcadero.

So one way we achieve this is we align our amendments with DBI's amendments.

This provides consistency and it also ensures that the port is implementing

citywide ordinances that change or impact building code language.

Beyond that, we try to actually minimize new requirements.

The state codes are now over 7,000 pages long, and DBI has a lot of San Francisco amendments

as well.

So what we do in the port code primarily is we have our own administrative section because

we run our business a little differently than DBI.

And then we also add some technical requirements specific to waterfront construction.

And as part of the cycle, we know that these are not perfect documents, so we just try

to clean things up and correct typos and clarify things and whatnot.

So again, we wanted to minimize new requirements, but we did make some changes that we wanted

to bring to the Commission's attention.

I think for sitting up here, the appeals are probably the big one.

So we have not actually gotten any building code appeals in many, many years.

Kind of the way the port works is pretty unique and our plan review staff are engaging with

tenant projects, developer projects early.

So we know what's coming and we're discussing any potential issues well ahead of time.

Versions of the code have referred to a port building code review board for appeals, but

because we haven't actually gotten any appeals, this group hasn't been engaged at all.

And so with this update, we took the opportunity just to simplify the code language.

And so we worked with the city attorney and confirmed that ultimately you all sitting

up here have the appeal authority to hear any challenges to code interpretations made

by the chief harbor engineer.

So we've updated the language to refer to the port commission whenever the code talks

about appeals.

And so if an appeal were to occur, we have some thoughts on how we would provide the

commission with independent technical expertise so you can make an informed decision.

We started talking to DBI about modifying an existing MOU that we have with them, mostly

for plan check and inspection services to potentially allow their Board of Examiners

and their Access Appeals Board to hear our appeals and then basically provide a recommendation

to you all.

So, we're still talking about that.

We could of course also just form a group of technical experts that's appropriate for

whatever the appeal might be.

So again, this is probably not something that we expect to come up, but we are planning

ahead and once we have a little bit more clarity on the procedure, we'll publish something

on our website so that it's clear to you all and it's clear to anyone who might need to

file an appeal.

And then the next item is actually not a change, and it relates to our fees.

So according to the state building code, building departments can charge fees to cover their

administrative costs, but these fees cannot be used to just supplement the jurisdiction's

revenue.

So at this point, we are not increasing our fees, which have been lower than DBIs since they increased their fees in 2023, and we did not.

So as part of this code update cycle, we did a financial review, and we did confirm that our fee intake covers our direct staff costs and our software costs for administering permits.

So that's good news.

But that said, we've kind of recognized the need to do more in-depth fee studies in the future

to account for overhead costs and things like that.

And we plan to make that a regular practice as part of kind of the end of fiscal year.

So once we go through that exercise and if we feel like fee increases are justified,

we would be coming back to you all for approval.

And then a small technical change relates to under-peer plumbing,

which gets a lot of abuse from waves and floating debris and such.

So we certainly have our own technical requirements

that go above what the California Building Code says.

But working on our own projects,

we kind of realized that some of our code language

was a little too restrictive,

and so we've made some slight changes

to allow different kinds of piping materials that are appropriate for under the pier, but

just making the language a little less strict. So those are kind of the highlights. Again,

we just didn't want to add too much, so it's not a long list. So I'm already at the last

slide. This explains some of the next steps and timing. So prior to this meeting, we've

posted the codes online and sent public notices.

Obviously, we're here in the hearing today.

But, you know, absent any groundbreaking public comments,

we're asking the commission to approve the resolution

to adopt the 2025 Board of San Francisco

Building Standards Code today.

If you approve, we'll file the code

with the state's Building Standards Commission.

we will be making some small minor corrections

that we've noticed during the public comment period

which are some dates referencing old versions of the code

and we have one instance of kind of a duplicate line

in our green building code that I just happened to find today

so we're going to fix that too

so once we file with the state

the new code would take effect in January,

and it would be in effect through the end of

2028.

We will be able to come back to the commission for any

changes during that three-year period. We will have to.

So, for example, if we go through the analysis

and determine that we need to increase our fees to cover our costs, we can come

back to you and request approval for that.

We're also working with the Mayor's Permit SF initiative,

and if that produces any policy changes that

require language changes to our code,

we'll come back to you all as well.

So that concludes my presentation.

Happy to answer any questions or open it up to public comment.

Okay, thank you, Matt. Do we have a motion to move this item?

So moved.

Second.

Second.

Thank you. I have a motion to second. Is there any public comment in the room on this item?

I'm not seeing any. Is there any public comment on the phone for this item?

No, there are no callers. Thank you.

Okay, then I'm going to close public comment. I'm going to make an unusual move to throw everyone off their game.

Because of Commissioner Emblem's technical expertise in this area, I was going to offer him questions and comments first.

I don't have any questions. I really appreciate the report and am fully supportive.

Thank you. Commissioner McNeely.

I have no questions.

Commissioner Lee.

I have one.

When you were doing your research, because, you know, police code, planning codes, building codes.

Did you find that a lot of these codes that were there for 20-something years or 30 years do not apply to current standards in technology?

I mean, maybe DBI is a little different, but I know in the planning code, and I'm just curious.

I mean, I'm glad you guys are doing it because this is what I fight when we open a small business,

that we always run into these codes that are 20 years old.

Did you run into anything like that?

We definitely found language that was unfortunately still in the code

that was kind of referring to the code that had been in effect two or three cycles ago.

And we tried to clean that up.

I mean, I won't say that we caught everything.

That's also part of why we try to duplicate what DBI does as much as possible

because they have much more staff.

I'm really glad you took the initiative to do it

because we might talk to other people and they said, oh, whatever.

But you guys actually took the initiative to do it.

I'm really glad.

And we acknowledge that these are not perfect documents,

so if there's some inconsistency that comes up,

we have a lot of processes to kind of work with the applicant

and come to a resolution and come to a common understanding.

I just hope that our department or the port is another model

for other departments to do the same.

So that's the end of my comment.

Thank you. Commissioner Adams.

No questions.

I have no questions for you, Matt. Thank you so much.

We have a motion, and we have a second all in favor of this item.

Aye.

Motion passes. Next item, please, Jenica.

Item 13 is new business.

Commissioners, I have not recorded new business through the meeting.

Is there a new business?

I have a special point of privilege, Madam Chair,

that Commissioner Emblem sent us all out of the thing yesterday about the blue water.

and we give him his time to speak he's been very patient with us today

thank you commissioner adams um i'll pass this out to my fellow commissioners just um first off i'd

like to um thank um the port and my fellow commissioners for uh sending me to the uh american

association of planning uh port authorities uh meeting last month that's why i wasn't here with

with you all last month. One of the things that most impressed me was how well connected and

well respected our port staff was at the AAPA. Boris Delapine, Dominic Moreno, and Simon

Bettisol really did us proud and really appreciated them spending time with me, helping me meet

people in the network. And one of the things that I have mentioned, this blue economy,

which is a very important multi-trillion dollar economy globally that is squarely in line with a lot of what we as a port do.

Marine transportation, ocean tech, coastal resilience.

This is an economy that is threading its way through all of our real estate, all of our maritime, all of our resilience programs,

and really becomes, I think, an important communication tool with our labor partners and our community partners.

So the point of my – so that happens.

I was really impressed.

One of the meetings really reinforced my interest in this area.

I learned from our colleagues at the Port of San Diego about how they really become more proactive

with organizing this as a blue economy initiative, which really was very inspiring.

They are very interested, and our team has already had follow-up meetings with them,

learning that they're interested in us being complementary partners.

I also think that this is a really important way for us to move in line with our responsibilities

with the Burton Act and the public trust in that it's a way to be forward-thinking with our current maritime partners.

So, you know, in the past couple months we've talked about some of the challenges with the fishing industry,

some of the, you know, things that we've been very interested that have come and gone with new energy economies.

I think being more organized and more proactive with this is very important.

And just last month also, a couple weeks ago, there was the Norwegian tall ship at Pier 17, which was an amazing global initiative in Norway.

Our partner for the zero emission ferries has been globally building an identity for their own economy and private sector to go out and partner globally.

So I think there's a lot of opportunities.

And then, you know, so I guess my ask here is to ask staff to look into this as a way

to help us be more efficient, more organized around the blue economy in general.

I think it makes a lot of sense.

It's in line with a lot of what I hear Mayor Lurie talking about.

It gives us an opportunity to create a platform with private sector in terms of, you know,

San Francisco is the global hub of technology, the global hub of VC.

the blue economy right now could really use a place and a thought partner in all of this

that, you know, we can bring all that energy and excitement to help us be more efficient

in our efforts.

And I think, you know, building on the success we already have, I think now is the time to

be, to seize the opportunity and be more proactive.

So that's it.

Thank you for the opportunity to speak.

Of course, Vice President Emelon, and thank you for all of your thoughtfulness in putting

this together and for the feedback loop on the conference.

I know I appreciate it.

Is there any other new business commissioners?

Just to end in memory of Karen Pierce, please.

Yeah.

I make a motion that we adjourn in the memory of Sister Karen Pierce.

May she rest in peace.

I second.

We are closing the memory of Karen Pierce this meeting today.

thank her for her service to the port of San Francisco and the southern waterfront

and I adjourn this meeting in her honor at 5 51 p.m.

Thank you.

Thank you.