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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 Ramadan community, and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples.

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I am not seeing any public comment in the room of items not listed on the agenda.

Jenica, is there anyone on the phone?

We have no one on the phone, thank you.

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Next item, please.

Item 9A is the acting executive director's report.

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Good afternoon, President Gilman, Vice President Englum, Commissioners, Port Staff, and members of the public.

My name is Michael Martin.

I am the acting executive director of the Port of San Francisco, and I'm very pleased today to be providing our acting direct executive director's report.

Before starting the report in earnest, and as we continue to observe Black History Month, I want to take a moment to acknowledge last week's passing of Jesse Jackson, one of America's elder statesmen in the fight for social justice.

A Baptist minister, protege of Martin Luther King Jr., and founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition.

Reverend Jackson spent more than five decades advancing racial and economic equity in the United States and beyond.

He was no stranger to San Francisco.

Reverend Jackson came to the city many times for civil rights rallies, marches, and political convenings.

San Francisco served as the backdrop for one of his most defining moments of his career, the 1984 Democratic National Convention, where he delivered his landmark rainbow coalition speech calling for a unified political vision that brought together black, Latino, labor, faith, immigrant, and working class communities.

In San Francisco and across the country, Reverend Jackson underscored his enduring commitment to building broad coalitions rooted in shared principles of equity, inclusion, and democratic participation, which have lessons for all of us today.

Now on to the rest of the acting executive director's report.

To begin, I'm pleased to announce uh unique development.

If we can go to the next slide, please or can I control that up here?

Thank you, Jenica, for your assistance.

I'm pleased to announce a unique development that will bring new activation to the Mission Rock neighborhood.

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These uh events will happen on select weekends from this Friday, February 27th, through Saturday, May 16th, which will include a mix of globally renowned headliners alongside emerging DJs, producers, and standout local artists.

On this venture, the giants team with Golden Voice, who are the co-creators of the Coachella Music Festival as well as our own Portola music festival at Pier 80.

And I think we can really see Club Dark builds on the success of the Portola Music Festival as well as the success of all of the music events we saw over the Super Bowl week.

And I think it's really reflective of a real interest in the performing arts to really come to Port Property and take advantage of our unique spaces.

So we're very excited for the Giants and uh Golden Voice moving ahead on this, and we're looking forward to seeing not only the success of these events, but also hopefully what it brings to the future.

Staying in the northern waterfront, or excuse me, staying in the southern waterfront, south of China Basin.

Uh venture Capital firm General Catalyst has signed a lease for the third floor of building 12 at Pier 70.

The lease is for 12 years, and the firm will occupy the space in 2027.

This is an awesome moment for that amazing building.

If you haven't been there, I highly recommend you go check it out.

There's this office space is an amazing third floor space with great views, but having this anchor tenant with a lot more foot traffic will just enhance all of the makers, uh food purveyors, and innovators that are already inhabiting and enlivening building 12.

We also can expect more new tenants and activation from Pier 70 this year, be it uh the elevation sky park with the geodesic domes and the immersive event experiences, an arts and educations nonprofit, the plenary company opening up there, and Bay Padell expanding their indoor offerings with uh 10 outdoor courts for pickleball and uh pickable, I believe.

Um this is really exciting in terms of the green chutes.

This building is sort of in the middle of uh infrastructure that's ready for vertical development, and so we're hopeful that as this energy grows, it sort of throws off that excitement and hopefully Brookfield brings in more opportunities to see that neighborhood come to life.

Uh moving on, uh the port is proud to announce it will continue support of Foodwise's pop-ups on the plaza in 2026 and 27.

Funded by the port and the human rights commission, each pop-up is a free family-friendly event featuring local businesses on the embarcaderoos ferry terminal plaza and adjacent areas, which is put on in conjunction and at the same time as the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market.

Dates for the 2026 pop-ups on the Plaza event series are Saturday, March 28th, which will celebrate BIPOC Women Makers.

Sunday, June 7th, which is the sixth annual, Juneteenth on the waterfront.

Uh Saturday, October 3rd, we'll celebrate Latino and Latina makers.

And Saturday, December 12th will be the Black Holiday Market.

These programs are always great.

Highly recommend people come down and check them out, not only for the immediate experience and seeing uh sort of the great energy, but also because Foodwise does an awesome uh amount of work in lifting up these entrepreneurs when they're ready and looking to scale up to be part of the permanent farmers' market, which is obviously an institution here at the ferry building.

So we're really glad to be part of this going forward, and we're excited for the first event in March.

Uh changing gears to the legislative field, we uh had a number of uh efforts uh over the past couple weeks to advance our legislative and policy priorities.

Uh the week before last, director of waterfront resilience, Brad Benson and government affairs manager uh Boris Delapine traveled to Washington, DC for the annual advocacy trip hosted by the California Marine Affairs and Navigation Conference, which represents ports and harbors across the state.

This was a great opportunity for Brad and Boris to advocate on behalf of our waterfront flood study with both staff from the Army Corps of Engineers as well as our legislative delegation.

Uh the key next milestone for our waterfront study is congressional action, which we're targeting for late this year.

So that was a really great opportunity, and we're happy to follow up on those discussions and keep that advocacy going moving forward.

Last week, Port Staff continued that momentum in our state capital of Sacramento at the annual Ports Day Advocacy event hosted by the California Association of Port Authorities.

I want to thank Port Commission Vice President Stephen Englum for joining uh Boris Delapine, our direct deputy director of Maritime Andre Coleman and me for the trip up there, which was really rewarding.

Um highlights of the trip included uh I had the real honor of uh of uh moderating a panel with state senator Scott Wiener on uh climate leadership.

We also heard from Governor Newsom's chief of staff and other gubernatorial candidates, as well as uh leaders of the select committee on ports and goods movement.

And the fascinating thing about Kappa is we are obviously a boutique port and different than let's say the ports of L and Long Beach, which are major container ports, but the advocacy strength we have together really punches above all of our weight together.

And by talking about goods movement, I think we're also bringing into the conversation uh shore power, which we see as a real key to unlocking the business potential of the southern waterfront, while doing that in such a way that we avoid negative environmental impacts on that neighborhood.

So this was a really great opportunity to continue to advocate for that, both with legislators but also with representatives of the California Surface Transportation Agency.

Now shifting back to the embarcadero, um there was a very delightful, unique, free event that was associated with one of our big art loop portside uh installations.

So building 180, um, who worked with the Zebrandy Foundation uh to put together the big art loop.

Um on February 13th and 14th, a professional photographer captured uh portraits, free portraits for almost 320 people in groups who posed it got framed.

The um installation pictured here that is the 12-foot-tall golden frame with the Pure 7 uh lights sort of going off into the distance behind it.

I will say, having gone by this with friends, with family by myself, I I don't think it's possible to walk by this without taking a picture.

It just draws everybody in, and for them to sort of harness that energy on a day of you know, Valentine's Day when everyone's out trying to enjoy that.

It was just really smart and really fun, and I think it really inspired us to look at different ways we can do uh little things or big things to sort of harness this energy because as we can see, you know, from Coralie in front of Pier 1.

People just love, love these pieces, and the pieces are very much becoming intertwined with the fabric where they are.

Um, so we're looking forward to more of those, and we're excited to tell you about them as we bring more forward more opportunities like that.

Uh moving north to Fisherman's Wharf, we're very pleased to report that the Hyde Street Harbor environmental cleanup has completed uh in an area known as Wharf J 10.

So this is different than the PGE cleanup we've been giving you periodic information updates about.

This cleanup is related to our former our former fuel dock uh operation uh operated by our tenant pilot Thomas.

You likely recall we had a settlement agreement with them that contemplated their completion of this cleanup work as part of the settlement agreement.

Um, and so under uh oversight of the water board as well as port staff, this project removed the underground pipeline, uh also uh addressed uh removed contaminated soils, um, address the uh areas behind Capuros and the parking lot and repaved it and restored it to uh positive conditions for use going forward.

Um, and now we're entering the long-term groundwater monitoring phase.

I want to thank the Port Maritime Planning and Environment and Maintenance Divisions for their work to cooperate and oversee this to see it to completion.

And this really clears the way now for us to work towards reopening, you know, re-establishment of a of a of appropriately constructed and safe fuel dock uh in our in our uh Hyde Street Harbor area.

This is super important, not only for our own fishing fleet and the recreational fleet, but also for emergency responders and law enforcement on water assets, and so we're gonna work uh uh towards uh figuring out the plan for how to restore that, and we'll come back to you with an update uh as that comes into shape.

Um, but this is really good news, and I think their willingness to work really expeditiously on this and work with our tenants as to their concerns.

I think bodes well for hopefully re-establishing our relationship with them and getting the fuel dock up and running again.

Moving to dry dock two, something we reported to you about um frequently uh since we had our challenges in November with the uh uh the tears in the tanks and the um the lists that we observed.

Um so we gave notice to proceed for the emergency contract with power engineering construction on January 26th, and since then I'm happy to report the team is ahead of schedule.

Um, one of the main things they've been able to do is install some temporary patches on some of the worst leaks.

And you know, I uh yesterday at our check-in, I was able to see the graph of how often the pumps are running, and like that day, those pumps went down precipitously.

So we're we're using less energy, we're not wearing out the pumps.

Um, we're able to also, they were also able to install some uh automated pumps as well as a dashboard system.

So our ability to monitor conditions and address um things going wrong is much improved and no longer requires us to have rotating port staff on a 24-7 watch.

Um so that has greatly reduced that strain as well.

So I just want to report that the early stages of this emergency contracting is going in the right direction.

This stabilization contract will complete in the third quarter of this year.

In parallel, we're working to get ready to procure the actual um uh removal and demolition part of uh the contracting, and we're sort of working out the right plan with that with our designers.

Um, and so that hopefully procurement will follow closely after the stabilization work and put us on a path towards addressing this liability in a way that's environmentally safe for the bay.

Um, in addition, I did want to report also the supplemental appropriation that you authorized us to go ahead and pursue that is being used to fund the rest of the work under this contract and the new contract.

That was handed up from committee with recommendation by the Board of Supervisors last week.

It is on their agenda today, and we're optimistic for passage.

So all in all, things are proceeding as we had hoped they would.

And I just want to again thank port staff from across of all our divisions for really all hands on deck and making sure this emergency has been contained to date, knocking on wood.

Moving ahead to back to Fisherman's Wharf to talk about the fish market.

So we have had the pop-up fish market um moved over to uh right next to Wharf J9 where the off the boat fish sales uh take place, and over the time since January 17th, the first uh opening they've had more than 450 customers, which we we are just blown away by in terms of the numbers.

Um their service also now includes crab cooking and cleaning, so with the start of crab season, um we've seen a lot of interest, uh, and that's just fantastic because it also pairs with the fish.

We have a number of fishers actually working at the market, can tell you about the catch and where it came in on.

So it's just been a really a really great addition to our already successful off the boat fish sales program.

Um over the past two weeks, crab season has slowed, but the customer demand remains high, so they intend to keep operating.

I highly recommend if you want crab, get there early.

I did that a couple weeks ago and was lucky enough to get there before they ran out.

Um, but it's awesome.

And so I highly I highly uh welcome anybody down there.

It's a really great addition to to the to the off the boat fish sales.

Um in the same vein, a key contributor to that is shown here, the Wharf J9 project, which uh was a new uh handicapped accessible float that we put in next to a red tagged wharf that allows for the vessels to berth here, and this is the key location, one of several, but this is one of the major locations of the off the boat fish sales program.

And I'm proud to report that we uh earned a project partnering award from the city for our execution of that project.

Um, Steve Real and Chris Horucci of the Waterfront Resilience Program, which led the work, accepted the award on behalf of the port a few weeks ago.

Partnering is a San Francisco initiative in the in the sort of uh capital contracting world for construction projects to foster a collaborative team-based approach.

Um they found that this approach looking at collaborating and not sort of, you know, kind of adversarial, reduces litigation and accelerates schedules by up to 20% and cuts budget, cuts budget overruns by as much as 10%.

What set this project apart for uh for the award was the team's commitment to innovation and how they serve the needs of nearby businesses to protect restaurant operations and responded to address urgent repairs nearby.

And I I want to sort of relate this back to last meeting when we talked about our strategic plan and the new first chapter, which is exceptional customer service.

This is what I mean.

This is what we mean about exceptional customer service.

I mean, it aren't necessarily customers in the same vein, but by making sure we're looking at all aspects of what we're doing, and we're treating not only our contract partners as partners, but also our restaurant tenants nearby.

Um, we created a project that has lifted up the off-the-boat fish sales program and came in in a way that was on budget, and our restaurant operators have you know appreciated the communication, and so this is how we bring in more partners for the future by being the kind of partner that delivers on what we say that that has the consistency and the awareness to make sure we're addressing problems before they become big problems.

And so I just really appreciate the symbolism of this award at this time, especially when we're celebrating the fish market next to this very wharf.

So uh we're looking forward to to how this has built trust and collaboration pathways, especially as we move forward on fishermen's wharf forward, where we're gonna have a lot more construction challenges and construction impacts, and this is the way we need to do that so that our businesses aren't uh negatively impacted, but we lift up the whole wharf with our investments.

So that concludes my report.

Thank you all very much.

Thank you, Mike.

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

If you have public comment on the acting director's report, just make your way to the to the podium, please.

Hello, L Jennison.

Um Mike, I got a question as far as Pier 68.

Why is that not designated a super fund area and any funds for it?

Why can't we get them from the federal government for that?

And at least not for the um the state first from it, because we absorb the the waterfront from the state.

And it seems like on uh the dry dock being removed, uh they've offered us, I've heard 750,000, and that's minimal amount of money.

But it seems like the whole tier 68 is with the toxicity of it.

It should be considered a super fund area.

Thank you.

So, sir, first of all, thank you for your comment.

Um, staff will get back to you because we can't do QA in public.

We can't do a back and forth, but we noted your question and staff will follow up with you.

I just wanted to assure you of that.

Thank you very much.

I just wanted to make it on the record that that's that's what I feel is necessary.

Thank you, sir, for your comments.

We appreciate it.

Staff will follow up with you.

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

Okay, I'm seeing none.

Jenica, is there anyone on the phone for the director's report?

We have no callers, thank you.

Okay, public comment is closed.

Um, Commissioner Lee.

Um, great, great report, Mike, it's very brief.

Um I'm glad that everything's kind of working down at J9.

I mean, uh the off-boat fishing is uh sales is very important, especially when uh crab season is so short.

I'm hoping that maybe Sacramento or somebody up there will think about extending the crab season so they can have a little extra month there.

Um the Height Street uh cleanup as far as the gas station, that one is really needs to get up and running because uh especially I I understand there's something going on in the marina about their gas station being closed, that could help bring more traffic to us and also help, like you say, the uh emergency boats.

Um, is the previous tenant done after they do the cleanup, or is there a new opportunity now for a new tenant to go in there?

Uh what's the deal for that?

So part of our settlement agreement expressed our openness to negotiate with the prior tenant once they completed the cleanup, and so that's what we've moved into doing as we're engaging with them on a what would a new lease look like and and what would a new uh construction of a new uh fuel uh you know tank and and service facility look like, and that's something we're hoping to bring back to you uh in hopefully the next few months.

So are they are they interested in that?

Or they are okay.

Because I understand the uh there might be another tenant that might be interested once this is all done.

So, um but they get the fart first writer refusal, I guess.

They do, and in some ways a new tenant may uh be more challenged to understand the conditions in a way the prior tenant already understands, having done the cleanup.

And so we think this is the shortest distance to get to the goal we all have, um, and we think an appropriate lease that you know protects the rights of the port and the and the environment is uh is a way to make sure this goes off in the right way.

But their their successful completion of the cleanup and the way that they did give us give us more confidence that this is a good path to try first.

Are they gonna offer more than just diesel and their improvement plan?

We we are looking at at whether they can add gasoline service because that is something to your point about the San Francisco Marina project that is uh leaving uh with their project.

So we're we're trying to see uh how that works in terms of permitting and and adding the the actual infrastructure, and does it work?

But that is something we definitely, if that works out, we'd like to bring back to you for consideration.

Okay, great.

Um, I'm glad that they're the fish market as far as the pop-up is is doing well.

I still think for people walking by that are tourists, we still need a larger sign, maybe on the building, saying fish market, you know, off-boat sales, you know, so when people walk in on Jefferson, that they maybe can see that.

Because I still think, you know, unless you're a local person, we know how to drive in there.

But I think people from the street cannot see uh the J9 Harbor, just it's kind of in.

So I kind of like to, you know, maybe a part, well, they'll add that a new business to look into the cost of that.

Okay.

Uh, but other than that, I'm glad it's moving forward.

Um, we're doing so much in that area that I really hope Jefferson Street really picks up, right?

So I'm glad entertainment is really coming back on the pier.

Pier 80 is doing really well with Super Bowl.

I mean, I'm kind of biased.

I'm an entertainment guy, you know, so uh that's how I earn my living.

But um the Giants making a big move of turning their shed into a another concert hall is very interesting.

So I I hope that um uh we piggyback on that and maybe have more opportunities for small business to be around there, maybe small pop-ups, more pop-ups to serve food, and uh and the main thing for me is public safety.

There's a lot of people coming down there, so uh with all the traffic, and luckily the police stations there.

Uh but good job.

Uh I think uh we're gonna have a big comeback in summertime.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Commissioner McNeely.

Uh, sure, just a couple of observations, uh, Mike.

Uh great report.

Um, always impressed at the level of activity that the staff, you and the staff are engaged in.

It's um it's a lot of work.

Um the work that's going on about the around the dry dock.

Um, encouraged to hear that it's under budget and um moving along.

Does that mean that we revise the cost of repair or are we still on on plan?

So, so this is the stabilization work.

Um, and I guess I I should say I misspoke.

We are ahead of schedule, uh, but that rec that required in some ways you can look at that as more spending that's happened, especially as we did the monitoring.

So I don't think it's under budget in the sense that we've got more resources at the end of the work.

We've been able to pile in more work to get it stabilized and monitorable in the early part of the contract than we thought we would.

Okay.

I think thank you.

Thank you.

So it's more kind of accelerating the accelerating the stability, which I think has benefits for us being able to turn our attention to what is the best strategy to keep moving towards demolition.

I guess is the better way to say it.

And um, I join uh Commissioner Lee and and in hoping that um the giant foray, continued foray in the entertainment, uh, creates even greater opportunity.

Um I know that they are also engaged in or recently purchased uh the current theater, and um, so maybe opportunity for synergies there as well, and um driving more track even more traffic to that area.

Thanks for that.

That's it, madam president.

Thank you, Commissioner Adams.

Okay.

Uh stellar report, Mike.

Um, as always, so much is is really happening, right?

It's really exciting.

I will say that I still am on the best commission.

It's exciting to be work with these uh commissioners.

Um before I get started, I wanted to say uh yesterday, myself and Stephen Lee, we went down to City Hall to celebrate uh Chinese New Year.

Uh Mayor Lowry was great.

I really appreciate them.

Hosting that for Chinese New Year, I learned a lot.

I really appreciate the support for the younger generation and also uh Mayor Lori.

Uh he's doing something this week for Black History Month, and I think that's important.

I appreciate Mikey starting off with Jesse Jackson.

Um it's amazing.

And in 1968, he was there in Memphis when Dr.

King was assassinated.

But in 2008, he was in Chicago when uh Barack Obama became the first black president of the United States.

So I think that's historic.

And yes, Jesse was definitely uh civil rights apostle, and uh he did a lot.

Um it's kind of sad they refused to allow him to lay his state and the nation's capital, but that's kind of kind of where our uh country's at right now.

But also I want to pay homage to uh Black Wall Street.

Black Wall Street was a city in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

That was the driving force for black economic empowerment in the 40s, and they had a race riot there, and African Americans owned their own stores, their own banks, their own businesses, and they had a race war, and it was it was just amazing all these people got back, and they continue to continue to celebrate Black Wall Street as a part of our history.

Um, you know, Mike, you know, when you you're laying out our history, and I want to take a mental flight back into history for a few minutes, and it's kind of how the port of San Francisco is transcended it from a shipping hub to a uh a destination hub, right?

A w a waterfront.

And thinking back, you know, when you go back in history, think about it in 1948.

San Francisco only had 2,000 people in this city.

And then, no, I'm sorry, 1848.

I'm sorry.

San Francisco only had 2,000 people in San Francisco, 19 1849, uh, it was the busiest port on the West Coast.

But what I think is really unique because we're talking about another sea, a seawall, 1863 was the first state of the art seawall.

And they followed up in 1879 with the second seawall that basically formed the embarkadero.

And I just think that's so so awesome.

And now we're talking about a third seawall in history.

Now, history repeats itself and how we continue to progress.

Uh then the 1960s for containerization, but I just it came to my attention.

A lot of I don't know if people know this, but that San Quentin, before it was built, the port was used basically as a prison to keep the prisoners on the ships out in the harbor before San Quentin was built.

And I just thought that was just a kind of historical notice that this port has done a lot of different things.

This is transforming itself into all these different things that the port of San Francisco is, right?

And now today we're talking, I know Steven's talking about the blue economy, and then I wonder how tariffs are going to affect us too.

Also, these things.

But it's an exciting time to be at the port because no matter what, history continues to move forward and progress and to think about that, to go back in that history and a lot of things that we're doing.

Nothing, nothing is new under the sun, as they say, and history is continuing to move forward, and then I'm also thinking about the vision.

We're talking about maybe building a new cruise terminal.

When will we get to that?

And those things happen, right?

And it's about it's about people and bringing it back and working from the inside.

It's just an exciting time, I think, to be at our port, right?

And you he may mention that you and Steven were up in the Sacramento and all the ports were together, and collectively, we have to work together because every port is different, the big ports, the small ports, but when we collectively fight together, dream together, we can make this, we can make this thing like uh come full circle.

So thank you for the you know the work that you and the staff are doing.

Uh Megan, congratulations.

You weren't in here.

But uh, and the only thing about the Chinese New Year I wanted to say that we got the notice at the last minute, but uh thanks to Jenica, I got it.

We didn't get it to the last minute, and I'm glad Steve and I were uh able to go and to celebrate uh lunar new year, and it was good to see everyone come out to support it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Vice President Emblem.

Yeah, um, thanks.

Thanks, Mike, uh great report.

Um, couple of thoughts.

Um, one is just maybe we could close the meeting in honor of uh Jesse Jackson.

That would be a nice thing to do.

Um I really appreciate you reminding us I didn't know that.

Um his famous speech happened in San Francisco.

So that's and I learned a lot from uh Commissioner Adams also.

I didn't know some of that history about our our waterfront as well.

So thank you for that.

Um I guess I'll I'll just focus just in um respective time.

Uh I was really struck by the meetings in Sacramento last week.

And you know, thank you.

Um Acting Director Martin and um Boris and Andre.

It was I was really proud to be there representing our city and seeing how we are working with uh with the um the other ports in Kappa's um advocacy on our behalf.

And just one thing that really struck me that I'll mention that uh some of the assembly people, there were multiple calls for the port industry in general to raise awareness of how important we are to the state's economy, because the more that we can help them help us, they need to hear from us the reports, but also our cities, our mayors, thinking about our we have our uh advisory committees.

You know, just really if if staff could really think about how can we uh you know respond to that ask to you know help our assembly people and and the senators with the messaging that um our the impact that the ports have on our state's economy.

Uh they gave an example of how um how high profile the entertainment industry is in their advocacy for you know the governor out there talking about a lot of the state's um assistance for the uh entertainment industry uh and um really was a call out action to the ports to uh you know do do more to uh talk about how important we are to our state's economy.

Um and then I would say, you know, um that uh really got me excited and on March sixth.

Um proud that we're sponsoring a uh our first of these uh blue economy work sessions on the uh workforce development here.

Um we're doing that in partnership with Port of San Diego uh and um uh the nonprofit center for sea level rise.

I think it's really exciting uh to see us go from you know something that we're just starting to talk about to out there sponsoring, talking about how that's that's a great example about how we can really connect the dots between what our uh port does for not just for the economy but also for workforce development and uh creating high high paying jobs and uh positioning us for the future.

So I'm really excited for that.

And um I think also, you know, just just connecting the dots between your announcement about the VC firm taking the top floor of building 12 at Pier 70.

You know, I think that that in my mind is a uh incredible asset.

Like San Francisco Bay is the global hub of venture capital, and how can we, the port become um someplace that's really you know benefits from that, you know.

So there's a lot of uh exciting small businesses on our waterfront that are doing some incredible things, and so I think um that workshop we're really hoping to raise the profile of those efforts.

Um and um just you know, again, congratulations, Megan, on um thank you for your leadership.

And also I want to thank all the people that are behind the scenes working on uh keeping the port safe and clean during all these events.

I mean it's one thing to talk about all these uh concerts and um uh you know the uh farmers markets and the pop-ups, but you know, thank you to all the staff who are are keeping our um uh safe and clean and um enjoyable to be at.

So thanks.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Um Mike, thank you for a great report as always.

It's such a great reminder to always understand how much activity is really happening on the seven and a half square miles that we are the stewards of, and so I really appreciated it, um, and just really happy um you know that things are moving forward, um, both you know, on such a focus on fishermen's war, but also um with the demo of the dry dock and our policy work, it's really important that we be locked step with everyone here in California, um, because as we know, you know, things are not as um innovative and bright these days um at the federal level.

So it's really important that um we engage in these activities.

Um I also just really wanted to say congratulations also to Megan.

Um we're so excited to continue our journey of working with you.

Um you have been in the acting role for over a year now, and you've really shined through.

So congratulations on your permanent appointment um to that role.

Um, and to Pier 70, it's really great to see things finally get to move there.

So maybe we can get to some vertical development, which is what we need on the southeast end and sector of our water front.

So thank you so much for your report.

And that concludes the director's report.

Next item, please.

Item 10 is the consent calendar.

For callers who wish to make public comment on the consent calendar, please dial star three to raise your hand to comment.

Slides, please.

Item 10 A requests approval for the president of the San Francisco Port Commission to travel with port staff to Washington DC on March fourth to sixth, 2026 to attend the American Association of Port Authorities at 2026 AAPA legislative summit.

This is resolution 2607.

Item 10B request to confirm and align port commission and department head contracting authority.

This is resolution 2608.

And item 10C requests approval of the Port of San Francisco's fiscal year 2026-27 and fiscal year 2027-28, biennial operating and capital budget.

This is resolution 2609.

Can I have a motion to move the consent agenda?

So move second.

We're not second yet.

We're just moving right.

Um, is there any public comment in the room on the consent calendar?

Is there any public comment on the phone?

No colours, thank you.

We have no public comment now.

Can we I think now we second?

I'm losing my mind.

Sorry, it's convenient.

Okay.

So we um have a motion.

We um to move the consent calendar.

All in favor?

Aye.

Thank you.

Resolutions 2607, 2608, and 2609 are adopted.

Next item, please.

Item 11A requests authorization to amend the port's harbor traffic code by one modifying the prohibition of overnight parking on port streets within Pier 70 special use district, and two, establishing a metered on-street parking zone on 19th Street between Georgia Street and Illinois Street within the Pier 70 shipyard.

This is resolution 2610.

For callers who wish to make public comments on this item, please dial star three to raise your hand to comment.

Um President Gilman, Vice President Engelblum, Commissioners, acting Director Martin, Steam Colleagues and members of the public.

Thank you for having me today.

I am Paul Chasen, Port Staff, and I'll be presenting this item.

Um this is actually a fairly anodyne item, I think.

Um I was reminded, I thought it was initially going to be on the consent calendar, but our attorneys reminded me that as it's a code amendment, it requires a full presentation of the commission.

Can you speak a little more into the mic?

Yes, thank you.

And hopefully you will like it.

I'm gonna get the slides, please.

So we're going to be going over some kind of minor tweaks to the Port Harbor Traffic Code today.

Um I'm gonna talk a little bit about the Harbor Traffic Code.

I'm gonna then give you some key legislative milestones, recent ones at Pier 70 and the shipyard, and we'll then go through these Harbor Code amendments with you.

Um so the Harbor Code um regulates regulates um on-street parking under under the 7.5 7.5 mile waterfront off the streets within port jurisdiction.

Um that's curb size uses such as on-street parking, and it also kind of tells us where parking is not allowed.

And if you read the fine print in the amendments, you'll see some of that.

Um we are at after Pier 70 was adopted, we came through and establish an overnight parking ban at Pier 70.

Um the reason for that was um, you know, this is building 12 over here, and that's the one building that kind of exists.

The rest of these white buildings over here haven't been built yet.

So we built all these streets, so we didn't have the vertical development due to the Dalmarku to activate them, and so um we we put this overnight parking ban in to help us manage the streets um on these on these roads.

But we'll talk about the white the yellow and the pink streets.

Um and then I apologize, there was some back and forth editing, and the slide got dropped, but in your packet, you'll see there's also a picture of Georgia Street, which kind of runs up between building 105 and 106 and then turns into 19th Street as it meets up with Illinois, and there's a loading bay on the south side of that one block of 19th Street where we're adding um some new on-street parking spaces.

So, today's action does two things.

Um we establishes overnight parking ban between the hours of 12 a.m.

and 5 a.m.

And we are reducing the hours that that prohibition on overnight parking is in effect by one hour, so it now ends at 4 a.m.

And the reason we're doing that is we have this wonderful bakery tenant at Pier 70, and their staff get there early so they can make the yummy pastries for everyone to enjoy, and some of them have gotten parking tickets, and so we don't want we don't we don't want them to be able to, you know, we want them to be able to park legally while they're at work.

So to encourage and support our local businesses, tenants, and we want to rechange that.

And the other one we're doing is we're establishing this metered parking zone.

Initially, this was um painted as a commercial loading zone and was intended to serve the shipyard.

Unfortunately, we lost our industrial shipyard tenant, and so now we don't feel like we need this industrial kind of parking support.

And so by converting it to just general meter parking, we can open up access to the waterfront, increase um public access to Crancove Park and Pier 70.

And so that is a seems like a no-brainer.

Um the um we've also made the parking overnight parking prohibition, um, apply to this new parking on 19th Street.

And I should just also add that the intent with this overnight um parking prohibition is that it's really considered an interim thing.

We'll continue to monitor and modify it as needed, and when we get some vertical development, our plan is to remove it and so people can park overnight.

Um, and then in terms of next steps, you know.

So, assuming you agree that this is a good idea and approve it today, port staff will work with MTA staff to implement these changes.

We will um update the existing signage to reflect the new hours of the overnight parking ban, reprogram the parking meters at Pier 70, install new park meters and regulatory signage and cropeside paint at um the new loading bay on 19th Street.

And that concludes my presentation.

So I can't seem to change the slide.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you so much, Paul.

Do we have a motion?

So moved, second.

Thank you.

We have a motion and a second.

Do we have any um public comment on this item?

Pi, the first time in history on parking, we have no public comment.

Um do we have any public comment on the phone?

We have no colours.

Um public comment is closed.

Commissioners, do we have any does anyone have a question on this item?

We have a motion.

We have a second.

All in favor.

Aye.

Thank you, Paul.

Thank you, Paul.

Item 12A is an informational presentation on leasing and activation efforts under the fisherman's wharf forward project for callers who wish to make public comments on this item.

Please style star three to raise your hand to comment.

Alright, good afternoon, commissioners.

Uh, President Gilman, Vice President Englam.

Um, I'm happy to be here this afternoon.

Um, my name is Scott Lansettle.

I'm the deputy director of real estate for the port.

Um, I'm here today to give you an update on our leasing and activation efforts related to Fisherman's Warfare Forward, um, staying on the fisherman's wharf kind of progress theme.

Um I want to give a call out to a couple of fellow um support staff from the real estate team, um, Kerry Morris from the development team and Don Cavanou Kavanaugh and Harold George from the real estate team who have been instrumental in um pushing this along and and really fishermen's war forward has been a uh kind of all hands on deck effort within the port.

Uh, and it's exciting to see um Aliotos down now and the plaza coming together, and uh us really making some progress.

Um, so for the agenda today, I'm gonna um cover a little background uh on our leasing on really dig into the conditions of the existing vacancy, uh specifically on Taylor Street Taylor Street adjacent to the plaza, and then talk a bit about our marketing efforts and then the future tenant selection process, um, and then and then finish with some um discussion of our next steps.

Oh, is this okay?

Um, so as a refresher, and I think this was presented when we originally went through the fisherman's war forward item, uh we're really trying to align with a couple of key waterfront plan um uh motivators and goals.

Specifically here.

I think talking about uh adding new attractions to Fisherman's Wharf really to draw locals to draw new interest, really to diversify our offerings in the district, uh, and the uh further activation of the public realm, which has been successful with the grant in our partnership with the CBD, and with kind of just the continued interest and activity in pop-up events and entertainment that we saw so clearly during the Super Bowl week.

The leasing efforts for the team here has really been focused on our near-term actions under the fisherman's war forward plan, which revolved around the plaza as a central hub of new activity and interest.

Really focusing our efforts on the grotto and understanding the viability of leasing at the grotto as well as Tarantino's and more recently with Nick's Lighthouse coming back looking at viability there.

So for background, you may recall, but in 2023, we engaged Maven as our commercial broker to support us in pursuing a tenant for the then vacant full Ali Otos restaurant.

They went out to the market pretty extensively, did outreach to not just the local community but really nationally to restaurateurs and operators to see if there was interest, and we really saw that the space presented challenges and obstacles to leasing that were just too too hard and difficult to overcome.

Really, given the condition, given the size, really the the retail market had shifted from big concept sit-down formats to more grab and go, casual, entertainment-driven concepts.

Further, the seawall integrity underneath the restaurant, limited our ability to offer term, which really prohibited the investments necessary to get uh new restaurants and new concepts off the ground and an ability to amortize those investments.

Uh while Fisherman's Grotto and Tarantinos, which were also vacant during this time, were not formally marketed.

We did respond to a number of inquiries related to those.

The conclusions were similar, just given that the conditions and size didn't really align with the tenant demand in the market.

Um the result was really a strategy shift and our move, our big move to uh move the fisherman's war forward project forward and demo aliotos.

Just to summarize some of the existing conditions and challenges uh of now the remaining grotto and Tarantino spaces, um, we really have a condition where these facilities are at the end of their useful life.

Um there are significant code deficiencies just given the vintage of when these were built and when uh occupancy began.

Um specifically, there are numerous DPH uh deficiencies.

Um we did have DPH come and do inspections of these facilities, uh ADA life safety deficiencies, uh, and then just some hazmat issues that uh need to be dealt with with remediation or further capital repairs, right?

Um, and in conclusion, found that Tarantinos, which also did not have any vertical transportation, it does not have a fire and life safety system, uh, really required upwards of a million to a million and a half dollars of investment just to get to a working condition, which was really prohibitive for any um short-term retail opportunity.

Um, so really we made a decision to move our efforts towards really looking at finding pieces of these facilities that uh could function as standalone contained spaces that would be adequate for DPH and approvals there would be self-sufficient uh and and maybe could meet the market in a way with uh with these smaller formats.

Um, and this is really where we where we move to this fisherman's wharf grotto or fisherman's grotto cafe opportunity, which which I'll describe here.

As you can see in that rendering, uh the cafe is a space that sits off of the plaza that's uh forthcoming and will be delivered in the summer.

Um, and is something that in our original Fisherman's War Forward concepting had thought about and had received feedback from the public on, which was we want further engagement in and in the plaza with retail, we want more outdoor seating, we want opportunities for these retailers to really interact with this plaza and enjoy the new environment.

With the plaza contract and the put back contract under the program, we were able to scope and bid with that contract some initial work to help restore and improve this small piece of the grotto.

And to be clear, this is just the ground floor of the space adjacent to the plaza, so it's roughly two to three thousand feet of space.

But we were able to leverage those contracts to make repairs that were necessary for facilitating delivery to a tenant and ultimately tenancy, and these included uh adding some demising walls to isolate the space, ADA improvements to reach compliance, new storefront windows, new flooring, and some uh exterior work just to even the grades and facilitate kind of the interaction with that plaza area.

Um, and so that budget within the larger contract was roughly about six hundred thousand dollars of uh allocation to cover these costs, and as I said, it was bid with that award, and this work will be done by the summer 2026 when we hope to have a tenant in tow where we can deliver the space.

As I touched on, touched on with these investments, um, we really are left with something that's a lot more compelling to the market, right?

A smaller space, something that uh is easily explainable in terms of its size, uh, the interactions with the plaza, uh, and requires minimal minimal investment from a new tenant moving in to get open quickly and align with our strategy of activations in the summer of 26.

Um, we really want to encourage engagement with the plaza and look forward to this retailer uh really being a piece of that story.

Um, so once we kind of landed on kind of this this smaller pop-up strategy, uh we would leverage our relationship with Maven as an advisor to get out in the market and really understand a target set of uh tenants that would be good fits that would be new diverse offerings within the district and I think could uh perform in the sense that they'd be able to move quickly, uh open by summer, and not necessarily be a full-service restaurant, which we we found was a challenge, right, to just meet the requirements and the investment required became a challenge.

Um so we can miss the market, and ultimately received four final, not final formal offers for tenancy of the cafe, which we are currently as a staff going through.

Um that selection uh and our anticipated deal structure, you know, includes finding something that uh or finding an operator that's experienced and competent that will agree to terms that are short.

So we're really looking at a two to three year term that sets us up and remains, you know, keeps us flexible for our longer-term ambitions within the Fisherman's War Forward Project.

Um, someone who would commit to being open by summer of 26 or in the third quarter shortly after the plaza is opened, and we anticipate a flexible rent structure where we would these would be percentage rent-only deals, and with minimal further investment from the port.

We really we really don't anticipate any TI.

What we're hoping is to deliver the space as delivered with the plaza and allow the tenant to put their stamp on it with um fit out signage, furniture, etc.

Um this all said, we uh continue to work on leasing efforts related to Tarantinos and now Nick's Lighthouse, which we got back at the end of the year.

Um, we think uh along similar lines, we might be able to find small um sub pieces of these spaces.

So NYX is a was a functioning restaurant right off of the plaza, so there's an opportunity there once the plaza opens to attract uh new interest in that vacancy.

And um for Tarantinos, we've talked with Maven a little bit about a couple of the small spaces which might be ideal fits for a small coffee operator, ice cream, um, or potentially some soft goods retail that might be local and um again something a little new and fun in the district for for the activity there.

Um I should point out that uh within the greater fisherman's war budget, fishermen's war forward budget.

We do have an allocation that can further support some minor improvements to these spaces, like the cafe, where we would be able to do some remediation, demising, some light touch work to reach a delivery condition that was adequate.

Um in parallel, uh, I want to just call out kind of the activation strategy of the plaza itself, which I really think is is coupled closely with whatever happens in this cafe grotto space.

Um, you know, we intend to leverage uh at least in 2026 through the duration of the grant with the fisherman's wharf CBD, um activations of that plaza that really become an extension of what's already happening happening down there with the pop-up fish market, with the crab wheel plaza activity, um, some of the concerts down at the wharf, and in some of the early discussions, the you know, court staff and fisherman's wharf um community benefits district have focused on, you know, are there more family-friendly activities that we can bring down there?

Uh maybe focusing on um kids, focusing on uh education about some of the activities history and the fishing community there.

So we're thinking through some fun um fun things and would want it to be pretty well integrated with the retail, and it allows an opportunity to evaluate um kind of that success of the activation and of the plaza this year, which will lead us towards um kind of aligning on a strategy to continue to fund those activities in 2027 and beyond post-grant expiration.

So next steps uh to wrap up.

So uh as I mentioned, we are working uh to finalize uh our tenant selection with our respondents on the cafe.

Uh we will be back to the commission with an approval uh action item related to a short-term lease for that space.

Uh I'm hoping that we can have that back to you as early as April, um, and then uh really work to set up delivery of that space as soon as the plaza is finished in uh mid-summer, uh, and then have a tenant open in the cafe uh shortly after the plaza opens to capitalize on the high season this year and build momentum into next year where perhaps we can have success with short-term uses at NYX and uh Tarantinos as again we continue to focus on the longer term fisherman's work forward effort.

That's it.

So that all said, uh happy to take questions and and comments.

Thank you.

Thank you, Scott.

Thank you so much, today.

Okay, on this incredibly exciting it topic, which is really exciting.

Is there any public comment in the room on this topic?

Okay, do we have any public comment on the phone?

We have no callers.

Thank you.

Okay, we have no public comment, but I think we're gonna have a robust commission conversation.

Commissioner McNeely, we'd love to hear your thoughts.

Oh, sure.

Uh thank you.

Um, I mean, I think excellent presentation, and it looks like a lot of work has gone into it.

Um, um, June is fairly close.

Um, how confident are we that a cafe tenant will be identified and able to open when the uh when the um uh when we activate the space?

Um, um as I said, we have four respondents, so that they are aware of our our goals from a timeline standpoint.

Uh I think they vary in terms of complexity uh and the work that would need to be done to get them open, and so that is one of the selection criteria is to find someone that we feel confident we can work with in the next few months and move quickly with.

Um so I it is ambitious um given the short-term nature of the agreement.

We're hopeful that we can get through a lease negotiation very quickly in parallel to the plaza construction.

Start working on any required permits that would be necessary for further fit out, and then uh ultimately hand that off and um hopefully aligned with plaza delivery, be ready to go with that final work to get that tenant up and running.

Um, and a couple of these are very light touch, right?

So, as I showed here, uh when we think about coffee or a little wine wine bar or tap room, there's some basic stuff that you can move very quickly on.

Um, also given the conditions, we don't anticipate a full kitchen, so it would be you know pre-prepared foods or or light food use, um, that wouldn't require significant permitting with DPH either.

When we talk about pop-up, are you talking about the cafe as a pop-up or pop-ups in addition to the cafe?

Uh really talking about the cafe, and when I say pop-up, kind of just it's the short-term nature of it, right?

Um I didn't I was envisioning food trucks as well or some kind of kiosk or something.

And that's something we have talked about is like is a backstop or fallback to bring in some true temporary uses to support the plaza food trucks or containers.

Um, but we're hopeful we can have this, you know, kind of short-term lease in place and really you know allow them to kind of drive the activity and program.

I'm not sure what's the criteria that you're using, maybe to evaluate.

I'm sure it's multiple criteria to evaluate uh the the potential tenant, uh, but my hope would be even if there's some slippage in the um in the um um the opening date for the cafe that you'd look for a tenant that has um the the widest um uh opportun the widest possible um um customer base, I mean opportunity rather than a very narrow slice, given the fact that it's probably going to be one of a few food opportunities there and and look for some um uh a purveyor that has a fairly uh wide um uh uh array of options, if it means maybe some slippage on the timing of it, and you could always sort of backfill that with some of the pop-ups that you're talking about uh if it's a delay in the opening of the plaza.

Yeah, okay, thank you.

Commissioner Lee.

Okay, you ready?

First of all, I have to say uh you guys are going in the right direction because when I came here, I I went with a tour, I think, Megan.

Were you there with me?

Man, I tell you, every single thing in there based on TPH's review would have to be ripped out.

I think I mentioned that.

Um I was surprised when you guys even decided to tear down Ali Otto's, which actually gives that infrastructure a good chance to be repaired because when I looked under the pit under the pier, it was looked like toothpicks holding it up.

So that was a great move.

Um in today's world in small business, it's either the rent kills you or the labor costs gonna kill you.

And since um we're now creating these small spaces.

If you look at what's happening downstairs at the ferry building, why they're completely full is because the spaces have been smaller, and um they're able to operate and they have less people to work it.

If you're looking at um $20 minimum per hour plus benefits, you're talking about a hundred and fifty dollars a day per person, and if you have a restaurant that has twenty-five people working there every day, you can imagine how much your cost is gonna be.

That's why we're having a hard time getting people to rent the space.

So these pop-ups, these coffee shops, is bakeries are exactly what we're looking for as far as that goes.

So we're in the right direction.

I applaud you guys listening to Maven.

I'm I'm sometimes very uh hesitant on some of these brokers, they just sign up but they just wait for the people to walk in the door and try to rent the place.

But at least Maven is consulting you guys in the right direction as far as how to do the spaces.

I just maybe have a few recommendations that instead of going out and and already improving some of the outside spaces, wait until you get some people interested in the space and offer that money that you want to put on the exterior to maybe offer that what would they like to have and offer that as a TI improvement.

Again, it's less money for them to, you know, they might have a design of their own space of how they want their place to look like.

So instead of you already inventing the wheel for them, unless of course you want a uniform look on the promenade, but if you want to give them a little bit of incentive, save some of that money and offer that to them as a TI, right?

Um let's see.

When you guys um, okay.

So we're focusing on the ground level.

Correct.

That means we're still have the second floor of these restaurants still empty, correct?

Correct.

So my advice there is to strip them clean, keep the hookups in place, strip all the stuff, like you say, level the floors, maybe uh fix the bathrooms up, you know, make it at least where it's a nice clean shell.

And as soon as all the traffic comes back on the bottom, we could do more fine dining on the second floor.

And it means it's a smaller footprint, so we'll probably get more opportunities to rent to people once the traffic comes back and there's more activation downstairs.

So, because I'm looking at it.

I would want something turnkey, and all I have to do is hook up my equipment, maybe change the floor, put my own tile floor in, and I'll be ready to go in two or three months.

And I think that's what we're looking for.

And since we got the time, because you're not gonna be able to rent the second floor right away.

And since you're focusing on the ground level, I think you have a lot of work to do already, and if we want to get open for summer, I think we could focus on that.

So I could I give you guys 100% props on what you guys are doing right now, and I think if we follow the timeline, we should have a good opening this summer.

Yeah, and two and two comments.

I think um the work we're doing is really intended to get to that shell integrity, and the hope is that the tenant would come and add a little flavor to it, and there may be ways to support that through the lease structure.

Um, but again, we we want to move quickly.

Um but I hear you on the TI.

Um, and then I think starting small does allow us kind of this proof of concept.

If things take off if the market comes back, if the longer-term plans allow for the facility to remain a longer period of time, um perhaps the the tenancy can grow within the space, or we can find new ways to use some of the leftover space.

So I think we'll continue to try to be creative and find um find ways to use what's left, right, to the extent possible.

Um, and to go a little beyond that.

After we get these improvements done and what's available, and I think Commissioner Adams and I talked about this offline is and I maybe put this on new business site, maybe every quarter.

You give us an update on what's happening, what's what's available, what's been cleaned up, and then let the general public who are watching us, you know, see what's available.

Because maybe they don't look at the listings all the time.

Maybe they, you know, they don't watch us on Facebook, but maybe they watch us here, and I think maybe they have an update and all us commissioners uh would know, like where we're at, you know, maybe uh uh more suggestions for you to market, but like Northern Waterfront, Central Waterfront, and even Southern Waterfront, Pier 68, Pier 70.

What's under our control that we can actually give you the advice to help you uh get those places rented?

Yeah, be happy to come back and and regularly give an update on what's available and the and the new or continued opportunities so and one more comment before I leave on the food trucks uh I would only do that during construction but once we get these things up and running and we have tenants I would uh I would limit the food trucks and really focus on getting the businesses to our small business that are our tenants so yeah and I did I do want to make a point about that I think um that is critical and as we've looked at tenancy here we don't want to um unnecessarily you know cannibalize business from other tenants and and we really want to lift up continue to lift up the district and so I think with the plaza that's where you know some of the entertainment and additional seating and other things comes in where we will continue to work with the adjacent tenants so that all are benefiting from kind of that new asset there and how they're engaging with it so I think that's a great point.

Great great job.

Commissioner Adams good report um my fellow uh commissioners I think they said a lot of things I want to say I'm really excited about this renaissance that is happening uh down at Fisherman's Worth and uh you can definitely hear from Commissioner Steve here his energy and his passion and uh we want him to ride around with you in the truck down there and just ride around red tag and suggest because I just love his passion and stuff like that.

Now this is exciting and it's more to come and I understand that this is a work in progress and I appreciate that.

Two questions how what's the relationship with the fishermen or the fishermen are they happy down there?

And and what kind of where are we at with that and they are they happy because we've always said that that's important.

Because we I mean we know that it's got to be a sacrifice on everybody's front right I've always said that in any situation negotiations is is when both parties walk away unhappy then you got a good deal that just everybody it's never one sided.

So are they are they happy in how things working and are they getting what they need I believe that we're working hard to make sure that with the fisherman's war forward project we're engaging them.

You know the fish market and the work the CBD is doing has really engaged them they're really leading that um fish market effort um I I know that with the plaza itself right um there's our team has continued to reach out to that community to involve them and you know what we want to talk about there.

Um you know I I don't know if there are other comments that uh yeah Mike go ahead.

So as part of the this phase of fishermen's war four we are looking actively at improvements operational improvements to the lacoon for the fishers to really benefit from in terms of lighting utilities better ladders.

So we're planning to come back in April with sort of the water side update um that would include also Pier 45 improvements we're looking at so we'll have a fuller but but I do want to compliment Maritime for continuing to engage with them through this process.

We've had a number of public meetings where we've gotten sort of the feedback about those operational improvements and so we'll we'll come back and try to give you that update kind of as that work continues in parallel with the landside work.

Okay thank you.

One other thing too it's been said that um in a lot of situations especially since COVID that in a lot of restaurants the cost of food has gone up 35% labor's went up 30% is that has anybody said anything to you about that or is people are just moving along and then just add in the call stand.

It's an issue right so we're seeing across the board with our smaller restaurants right the more the mom and pop or traditional restaurants they're continuing to be squeezed on their margins with rising costs and I'd say stabilizing revenue as the cities come back so they they continue to struggle and um real time we're we can working through those right we've had a couple of those tenants here we're gonna be back with a few of those with um some potential adjustments to facilitate you know helping them out um but it is definitely an issue for the restaurant uh industry and I think that when you talk with Maven they talk a lot about that it is very difficult um particularly this in this environment where it's expensive to borrow money as well uh to to not only start a restaurant but to operate one successfully so um for the ones we have you know we're trying to work hard to to work with them to keep them here um and with the new ones I think establish structures that are flexible and and work and that's why in this scenario with a percent only structure and I know they do that here um for a number of the leases right for these small mom and pops and for retailers that are getting up off the ground and really proving themselves and establishing a foothold on the market really need to do that because it's a sharing of the six success and failure that thank you we want to make sure that the restaurants succeed and also we want to make sure working people and labor is taken care of also okay thank you.

Thank you Commissioner Commissioner Adlem.

Thanks Scott uh and team um I guess I don't have any further questions um that that are I think my fellow commissioners have asked a lot of good questions about the ground floor um I still every time I look at these renderings I still can't help but think that there's some sort of uh revenue opportunity at the upper levels with uh some sort of signage or jumbotron uh we're we're creating a a space that we're hoping to make an active attraction we're opening a portal to the window um last month there were some pretty high profile um signs talked about down at Fisherman's Wharf yeah I just wonder I know in the past I've asked about this and I was referred to some sort of um signage ban on our waterfront I guess I'm just curious like knowing how much we're investing in this and how we're trying to make up some uh you know patch some holes in our revenue pie elsewhere could we explore what revenue opportunities are you know if you look at these uh renderings every time I see I keep seeing this drawing of the you know the the the fish and and the two upper levels facing this plaza I just think there must be some opportunity for us there and I don't know what it is but I just want to ask again is there some way that we could create some revenue stream at those upper levels since they're not at least in the next couple years going to be something I mean yeah I I think it's a new it's a it's a good point.

Something I think that we can dig into to the extent we're allowed right I can't speak to the specifics of the signage you know um controls we have in place but I think it's something we can we can explore um when we started you know this was very much seen as a um kind of you know the start of something that we intend to grow right it iterates and so we start with the plaza establish the program build off any momentum and it leads us to our our longer term vision but um in the district there are other facilities Anchorage Square with new signage I think it's something we should look at yeah like somebody I mean we we're celebrating all these concerts that are happening inside warehouses elsewhere like couldn't there be like a simulcast or like a simulcast with the SF Symphony like happening down on the waterfront for people who aren't going to the symphony like just a way to draw people down to our uh waterfront here that we're investing so much of the public uh wallet in just think it would be worth exploring what what could happen up there.

That's it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um well thank you Scott again I really just want to commend you and your team for moving with speed as someone who lives a stone through from the area you're talking about it's it's super super exciting um and um and I think you know, as a commission, we've really, I think, been really active in pushing you and pushing the team to act with speed to invest the dollars.

You know, as you said, we were able to nest under this contract the ability to bring on those two soft shells.

You say it was close to six hundred thousand dollars at at what we call the fisherman's grotto building, which is very different than our ability to go to the upper floors and and do that.

So I do want to acknowledge that that you know it was nested, it was nested under this project of opening up this wharf and really revitalizing fishermen's wharf.

And we've been investing a lot, you know, in these historic large spaces to make them more adaptable to the community, and I think open this plaza, the site line to the Montereys, the um benefits that will bring our fishing community is amazing, and this revitalization of fisherman's wharf I think is great.

And I think if if when you're you know, I I know you will bring us um the best offering back to commission from the proposals you have, but I do want to put a shout out that while tourism might be our one of our largest revenue generators for the port and possibly for the city and county of San Francisco.

I actually do think it's really important to keep these communities vibrants for the residents that live here.

And while right now there aren't a lot of residents in the immediate blocks of the wharf, with the family zoning plan, there will be in the future.

And as folks who live a little more upstream from there, um, in North Beach, um and in Chinatown, I really hope there could be offerings that are affordable to the people who every day are making the city work who live here and work here.

Um, and and I love the idea of a simulcast of art or culture for people who maybe can't get there.

And it's I think what's great about our commission is we can agree to disagree.

I want us to be careful about monetizing signage.

I I'm not saying I agree with our signage ban.

I think that might be a topic under new business when we conclude this commission to talk about.

But um this isn't Las Vegas, and this isn't Disneyland, and I think one reason you don't see as many locals going to the wharf is there's a perception that that's what it is.

And so I think this revitalization to me as someone who is a district three resident has always been about that we're revitalizing it to draw more tourism, which is our is our is what during the summer months and holidays and spring break keep fisherman's wharf alive.

But January 20th, when it's cold and rainy, it's the locals that keep it alive.

It's the locals that are going to buy fish, which I've done twice already, and so I really hope that we have offerings that are affordable to that group.

Um there is a perception, um, you know, that nations and apple bees and taco bell and in and out burger are not what flow is floating the locals' boat.

So I just really hope that and those are not our properties, um those are not our seawalls, but um it's and it's great that they're there.

Um, but I think folks are looking for something different from a from a neighborhood that is so dense and a district that's as dense as district three.

So that's just my commentary.

But I am so excited about all of these and cannot wait for the openings of um Everettson Jones and Casario and people are excited and talking about that in the neighborhood.

So I want to encourage all of this, and I would love to see some sort of free simulcast of cultural events throughout the city on the plaza.

I think that would be amazing.

But I think we have to think about it from every perspective.

So that that concludes my comments.

Thank you.

Thank you, no, that's great feedback.

And one closing comment.

So on the signs, I'm about to, I like the sign idea, but we have to be careful it is very historic.

And if I remember my grandmother's house on top of Russian Hill looking down at the wharf, Ali O's had a red neon sign, and we could bring back the neon signs in Fisherman's Wharf and make it more of a tourist attraction to bring people back and see all the nice historic neon signs back.

I mean, that would be something that probably the public would like, rather than oppose us to have electronic billboards and fisherman's wharf.

I think I see where he's looking at a revenue generator, but I think if we keep the integrity of the historic of the wharf, bring back the neons, because in the city we lost all our neons, and if there's a way that uh we can have be another museum, another reason to come to Fisherman's Wharf and see all the beautiful neon, that that might be another way of using the second floor areas as an attraction to bring people to the wharf on the off nights.

So that's my only conclusion on that because I don't want to get into a fight with the neighbors and the historic people or electronic gearboard going across where Ali Otto's used to be.

So yeah, appreciate it.

Great ideas.

Of course, Commissioner.

And I I agree with uh President Gilman.

Um, you know, about the vibrancy last night, uh Steve and I, we were in North Beach, and it was on a Monday night.

It was booming.

Yep.

People were all in those restaurants up in North Beach.

It's just amazing.

And no, and you're right, those were locals.

Those weren't people from out of town.

Those were local people that are supported.

And I I agree with her about we we want the tourists, we want the 25, 30 million tours, whatever we're at now, but we want our locals to come back and say this is their city.

And we want them to join.

So I I agree with her, thank you.

Thank you.

Well, I think that concludes this amazing conversation.

Um Jenica, next item, please, because I think we do have quite a lot of new business, so I'm happy to help.

I track some of it.

But um, what do you have for new business?

Item 13 new business.

I've recorded several pieces of new business.

Uh uh, these include um uh improving signage at Wharf J9, um, and uh uh scomaway, excuse me, wrong place.

Um, a big sign.

A big sign.

Uh uh quarterly or regular updates on the spaces available on fisherman's wharf and other elsewhere and available opportunities to use this as a as a way to get the word out on those, which um we're I I'm sort of expanding that past fisherman's wharf because I think there's a there's a there's a lot of opportunities we'd like to put out there.

Um I would like to bring back a discussion about signage and screens as we just talked about, um, just to underline underscore underline or understand uh the legal restrictions and if we can do a little bit of feasibility work on some of the other pieces and just it seems like it was a fruitful conversation, and while we didn't have a unity of thought, I do think bringing it continuing that conversation in a public forum might get us to something that really really sings, so I want to do that.

Um and then Commissioner Englam, I'm not sure this was new business, but your note about the importance of port uh to the city and state economy.

I think not only for our legislative work, but more broadly for the port's efforts.

I think that's a real good thing, and so that's something else I'd like to bring back and talk to you about in more detail at a future meeting.

Um but that was the full extent of my new business.

I welcome additions.

I think the only other one.

Um, fixing our microphones and our equipment, which can be an item for new business.

Um the only other thing, um, actually, no, that's that's everything.

Think thank you.

I do want to prompt VP angblum, though, because I know in closed session, yes, that's I think I held back from a discussion.

Yes.

Do you want to articulate that one?

I are we allowed, yes.

I just wanted to make sure.

We can write an item.

New business.

We took it out of closing.

So that's what I was going to do.

Uh I would like staff to um develop a um uh sort of just develop a position about the idea about bundling our peer um improvements and modernization and deferred maintenance.

Uh and I I think there's somewhere in there that it's like a you know a bonding approach, and then also potential to bundle for uh uh to take it to market to a concessionaire who would be interested in in helping with the capacity uh the ability to sort of bundle those peer improvements as a package.

And then the other idea was to look at the uh viability of uh hotels uh on the waterfront as sort of uh you know update to prop age.

Thank you.

Commissioner Adams has some new business.

Two things.

The first one is um we've never done this before, and I guess um, Mike, I'm gonna ask you, and um Michelle may rule me out of order, but or Madam Chairman may, but we have never, I would love to have a commissioner's retreat, port commissioners retreat with the director and port leadership.

We have never done that before.

Sometimes you got to do things you've never done to get somewhere you've never been.

And where we could talk frankly, and I don't know, Michelle.

If I'm out of line, tell me.

I'm just throwing that out there to Michael, Mike.

Acting director, Mike.

We can talk frankly, but a retreat won't be a public meeting.

So it depends on location.

It doesn't necessarily have to be here, but that's something that we all discuss with Port South, and then we'll get back to you on the way to Mike to get back to us.

And okay.

You have anything to say about that, Mike?

No, I I I that was one of the mechanics of, you know, I I think rather than a social occasion where we've talked at different times, this would have to be a little bit approached a little differently if you want to talk substance.

And so that's where I'll consult with Michelle and come back to you.

Okay.

And Michelle, I asked you about uh and Mike, about Pier 94.

And the uh issue that's in the news about that homeless about that shelter.

Um, and could you get back to us on that?

Because someone was indicted, and I don't know, was that homeless shelter?

That was all was that on our property.

So this was the Pure 94 trailer site, one of the organizations that operated that site.

Um, one of the leaders of that organization was recently indicted.

Yes.

Um so we'll work with the city attorney to reach out to the district attorney and give a report on how that related to the work at Pier 94, if at all, which we don't believe it did, but we'll definitely provide that detail.

Okay, thank you.

And and I think just on that note for the public, um, it's my it's my understanding that the trailers are no longer there if you're 94.

Correct.

I think I think we should talk about that.

I mean, I think it's absolutely Commissioner Adams.

I think if I think it would be nice to close the loop on that for us, but for the public, that is no longer operational and isn't is not taking place on our property.

There is no longer a Pier 20 Pier 94 trailer site for uh for that we established during COVID that has been uh re you know since dismantled and it's been decommissioned.

Decommissioned.

There are no trailers out there anymore.

I just think that was important.

Yes for folks who might link it.

Yeah, we were talking shorthand.

I appreciate that.

Um other new business.

We do we did have a uh a request that was so fitting in today's time that we close this meeting in the um honor and reverence of Reverend Um of Rever.

Oh my god, I'm having a Jesse Jackson.

I'm having a senior moment of Jesse Jackson.

Thank you.

I had Jackson.

Um, um, and all the work that he did um to fight for civil rights throughout his career, and something that the Port of San Francisco has continued to stand up for in the equity of its own work for our tenants and our staff.

So we close this meeting in honor of Reverend Jesse Jackson.

Do I have a motion to adjourn?

So move.

So we have a motion to second, and we adjourn at 4:46 p.m., before I need more coffee.

Thank you.

Because I'm obviously losing it today.

You did great.

That's all for what?

Um, I'm not sure.

San Francisco government television.