Gilman.

Present.

Vice President Stephen Englam.

Here.

Commissioner Willie Adams.

Here.

Commissioner Stephen Lee.

Here.

And Commissioner Ken McNeely.

Here.

Item two is approval of minutes for the March 10, 2026 Port Commission meeting.

Do I have a motion?

So moved.

Do I have a second?

Second.

We have a motion and a second.

All in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed?

The motion passed.

Next item, please.

Item three is the land acknowledgement.

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

As the indigenous stewards of this land, and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramatishalone have never seated, 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 Rama Tishalone community, and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples.

Item four is announcements.

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To avoid missing your turn, dial in when your item is announced.

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

So this is an opportunity for public comment for items that are not listed on this agenda.

Is there any public comment in the room?

Sir, please make your way to the podium.

How are you doing, Commissioners?

My name is uh Reverend Charles Grace, and I'm a native of San Francisco over about 70 years.

And I've been working down at the uh baseball park since it opened.

I you know, I was selling hats and whatnot around the baseball park.

And then uh over the the last two years they came and they told me that I had to move uh down on Pier 48 by the baseball park, and then uh I was like, you know, okay.

So I moved down there, and then uh they came and I was arrested for trademark issue, which the judge threw it out.

He said it wasn't criminal.

Uh but long story short, I I'm I'm you know, they they that was last year when they arrested me, but this year they just came on opening day and they told me that I had to move from Pier 48 after they gave me a permit and all like that for this spot, particular spot, and I asked him why he told he told me safety reasons one time, but then last week they came back and they shook my wife up pretty bad and you know had a totally scared, and they told her that the giants want us out of there, you know.

And so I don't know if it's the giants or if it's support security.

Uh uh gentleman by the name of Kyle Thomas.

He he uh you know he'd been uh coming and bringing a bunch of cops and stuff, and it's really it's disturbing is a you know it's like harassment, and then they crowd around my stand, and then when they leave all the people parking lot attendants and stuff, and and the giants uh employees, they ask me, what's going on, Reverend Grazer?

You all right?

And you know, and it is getting to be tiresome, is either you know you're gonna let me work or either let me know what's going on.

And so, you know, I I I come here today to you know to plead to the commission that you know I get some support and some help, because like I said, I've been there when they shoveled the first shovel of dirt over there, you know, just you know, making ends meet, selling few baseball hats, you know, and now you know that they push me to the side.

The one police came up, he's taking pictures of my Venmo and Cash App, he's saying, Oh, uh, I hope you paying your taxes, you know.

And I say, you know, you work for DPW on RS.

You know, I I you know, I'm just kind of puzzled the way they, you know, pushing me around.

And so now they they push me way down from Pier 48, they push me down to the uh restaurant now.

Uh I can't think of the name of the restaurant.

But anyway, they keep, you know, pushing me on further and further back.

So I might as well just be out of business.

So I appreciate if you guys would be able to help me out.

Thank you very much.

Before I address that, is there any other public comment in the room for items not listed on the agenda?

Okay.

Reverend Grays, first of all, sorry that you had that experience.

I'm going to direct staff to please um meet with Reverend Grays we and go over our permitting processes here at the Port of San Francisco on property.

That's our we have a permitting program.

So staff will follow up with you after this meeting, or if you step outside, I'm sure staff can follow up with you.

Okay.

I I can't have you speak anymore, Reverend Gray.

I'm sorry.

It's public comment.

Um, I think so right now, yeah.

I see staff standing up.

Yes.

Thank you, Reverend.

And again, sorry that you and your wife had that experience.

Okay.

I see no other public comment in the room.

So, Janica, is there any public comment on the phone for items not listed on this agenda?

We have no callers on the phone.

Okay, then public comment is closed.

Next item, please.

Thank you.

Item 6A is the acting executive director's report for callers who wish to make public comment on this item.

Please dial star three to raise your hand to comment.

Good afternoon, Commissioners.

Michael Martin, acting executive director of the port.

Happy to bring you uh a report today for April 14th.

Um I have asked our government affairs manager Boris Delapine to present at the second half of this report to talk about our state and legislative program.

Um he's led a lot of initiatives over the past several months that I definitely wanted to have you updated on.

Um I wanted to try to keep the first part short because I knew he was coming after me, but there's been a lot that's happened in the five weeks since our last meeting.

So I'll try to move through this as quickly as I can.

Uh the first is a bit of uh commission uh housekeeping, I guess.

Uh you may notice that our commission agenda has been updated in format.

Um our staff reports will be updated soon as well.

This reflects new digital accessibility standards that all city websites, including the ports, must meet beginning April 24th.

These improvements represent an important step forward in ensuring the that information about our waterfront is accessible and usable for all members of the public.

And I like that it looks pretty clean.

So I'm looking forward to the staff reports joining our agendas in the new format.

Moving on to the updates.

Um last month we uh hosted the ninth annual contract open house at Pier 27.

This is a great event where we invite contractors, both large and small, including LBEs, to come and learn more about the port's intentions and future plans as to capital project.

Uh we have uh also uh panel speakers.

Uh I was able to give a keynote address.

Um we also invite workers to learn more about training opportunities.

Um this is a great event.

It really represents how we want to see um our equity program really translate into positive impacts for the San Francisco uh people and the economy.

Um that if those dollars land with local contractors and local workers, it lifts the economy up and gives us more opportunities and frankly more dollars back to us to do the next set of projects with that trained set of contractors and workers.

So it's a great event that's only grown in size over the years, uh over the nine years we've hosted it.

And I very much want to appreciate the work of the human resources department as well as uh especially Tiffany Tatum in putting together a great event.

Uh moving ahead to last week.

Um we have hosted in uh over the months and years past uh a number of volunteer cleanup events at our parks.

Um it seems like we've opened a lot of parks recently.

Um and they are very beloved spaces, and we have a lot of stakeholders and residents who want to join us in beautifying them.

Um and so our maintenance division led by Tim Felton as well as Ariana Cunha really saw an opportunity to start organizing volunteer uh cleanup events at our parks.

Um and the latest one is a crane cove.

Um this resonates especially now uh in light of Mayor Lurie and First Lady Becca Prada's effort to put together one city day on July 11th, which is going to be a series of volunteer uh beautification projects across the city on that day and really try to boost the volunteerism that really makes the city great.

Ariana is also our representative to the One City Day Steering Committee, and we were gratified that First Lady Becca Prada came down and joined our volunteer event and has shared a few remarks about how important volunteerism is.

And so we really appreciate this effort.

It really aligns a lot with what we want the port to be and aspire to, and so we're looking forward to one city day and doing even more to beautify our great waterfront.

Also down at Crane Cove Park or in that area, we hosted Bohem out of the box.

As you may recall, we were planning to do this at Crane Cove Park.

This was going to be the first of several productions that SF Opera was going to put on in parks around the Bay Area.

But as people looked on around at the weather reports as to the weather that was coming in last weekend, we realized outdoor event wasn't going to work.

And so I really want to thank and commend the tenacity and ability to pivot of our partners at SF Opera, as well as our partners at Brookfield Properties, the developer and landlord of Building 12 at Pier 70, as well as members of our maintenance, security, engineering, and real estate divisions.

Over the course of three days, we turned we pivoted and put this event indoors at Building 12.

And it was great.

I went there and just to see arts and culture enlivening another one of our large old buildings that used to be part of the working waterfront, but it's going to be this hub of this new neighborhood that's going to grow up around it.

It really was inspiring in sort of thinking about what this great space can be as we have the housing and the parks and the offices that'll come hopefully very soon.

So thank you to the opera.

Thank you to Brookfield, and thank you to our staff for a great weekend of arts and culture down at Building 12.

We also had uh the Giants opening, uh we had two openings opening night and opening day in a unique opportunity.

Um I was able to walk down the waterfront on opening day that Friday, and the energy was fantastic.

All of our waterfront restaurants were teeming with Giants fans and even a few Yankee fans, unfortunately.

Um but it was just really great to be out and enjoying the waterfront and having a different kind of attraction than some of the arts and culture we've been talking about lately.

I want to thank especially our security teams as well as the maritime team for really maintaining public safety when all of that visitation happens.

And I want to really a big shout out to South Beach Harbor as the immediate neighbors of the Giants.

They have a lot of impacts, especially when supporting national TV telecast life we had.

Um, and they did it with sort of uh a plum and uh efficiency as always at South Beach Harbor.

So a really great event for our tenants and all of our visitors.

Uh yesterday I had the opportunity to do a fisherman's wharf neighborhood walk with Mayor Lurie and Supervisor Danny Sauter.

Uh beautiful sunny day down there, and I was uh very excited to show them the significant progress we're making on a lot of our fishermen's work forward first phase investments.

Um seeing uh the near completion of the smokehouse, seeing the plaza uh at the former Aleoto site coming into shape, talking about the improvements of the inner lagoon for our fishing fleet and the Montereys, talking about our new restaurants coming.

You're you can see the signage out at Everett and Jones on Jefferson Street, Chaska Rio is going to be close behind.

Hopefully, our pop-up cafe at Fisherman's Grotto.

So the whole time I was there, I was thinking I can't wait for the after walk with those same people to show the new energy in Fisherman's Wharf.

We were also joined by Breemon and the Fisherman's Wharf Community Benefits District, our great partners in lifting up and energizing Fisherman's Wharf.

And it was just a really good time to be out there to sort of celebrate what's great about this iconic neighborhood.

Um Fisherman's Wharf CBD reports that in December was the first year uh first month with one million visitors through the Placer AI footfall data since before the pandemic.

So we're really seeing visitation come back, even though tourism is kind of stalled out, especially international tourism, and we want to continue to grow that with our investments and with the private investments coming in from our tenants.

Speaking of fisherman's wharf forward, as we're excited to deliver that first phase.

We know that there's an even more impactful set of improvements that are going to really address the seismic and flood resilience challenges that are faced by that whole shoreline and that in the nooks and crannies up there.

Um and so what we were kicking off is our stakeholder engagement process to really bring forward the vision for what that future project is gonna be.

And we don't I I'm tired of calling it the long-term project because that long term is here.

And this, but this pro this process of engaging the community is critical to sort of really dig in and understand what the community wants to see because we really want to we want to do these improvements in such a way that they safeguard public safety, we safeguard our facilities, but we keep that special sauce of what's made fisherman's wharf iconic as a visitor destination, the working waterfront, the retail, the connection from the land to the water side.

And so this stakeholder engagement process will help us really elevate those things that everyone loves and hopefully make our plans even better.

So please come down and join us at Pier 1 on April 30th in the evening and share your thoughts, everyone in the community.

Looking ahead to next week, a few coming attractions.

We have the dynamic SF Climate Week coming with special events that highlight innovation, collaboration, and community engagement.

One exciting event is waterfront explorations, an exhibit that's already kicked off at Pier 1 and will run through April 30th, showcasing climate adaptation focused student work developed in partnership with Cal Poly's architecture program and UC Berkeley's Urban Design Program.

The exhibit culminates in a public panel on April 23rd, where students will share their ideas and engage in dialogue about resilient waterfront design.

I walked in the door on Monday and saw the installation there, and I walked through, and I highlight highly recommend everybody come through.

Our lobby is open to the public.

A lot of thought-provoking, sort of futuristic thinking about what resilience can really bring to a waterfront like the pursuit.

In addition, on the 21st, the port is co-hosting Port Powerhouse West alongside the Port of Seattle and the High Ambition Climate Collective, convening major West Coast ports to discuss how maritime hubs are advancing climate positive economic development in practice.

Port Commission Vice President Englum will deliver opening remarks and welcome our West Coast port partners to San Francisco.

The port will also participate in SF Climate Week Youth Summit on April 24th.

This annual event, hosted by SF Environment, is expected to draw over 3,500 attendees.

Port staff will connect directly with students, showcase resilience efforts, and support the next generation of climate action through career advising and a dedicated port booth.

To round out mine, just two notes.

One, commissioners, consistent with the write-off policy adopted under Resolution 22-11.

Staff has provided a report summarizing two accounts recommended for write-off this month.

You'll have 30 days to review.

If there are any questions or concerns, please contact me and we can schedule a future commission discussion.

And the last item is a bittersweet item for me and for many of us here at the port.

Our intrepid deputy director of maritime, Andre Coleman, has let us know that he's leaving the port to move to an opportunity in the private sector.

Andre has made a huge mark on our maritime division and the whole port over his seven years at the port.

He will be uh we'll have Dominic Moreno stepping in as acting deputy director.

He's been the assistant deputy director, and obviously we'll carry forward on Andre's great work.

The two of them are actually at a cruise conference right now where Andre is engaging with his cruise partners and handing things off to Dominic, so we really appreciate his time there.

That's why he's not here.

Um, but he has promised to come back to a future port commission meeting so we can honor and in some ways embarrass him.

Um but you know, as a personal note, you know, he's been a great partner, and uh we're super happy for his next opportunity, but he'll definitely be missed.

Uh so in closing with that, I'll move it on and hand it off to Boris to walk you through the legislative program.

Thank you, Acting Director Martin.

Good afternoon, Commissioners.

For the record, my name is Boris Delapine.

I'm the port's government affairs manager.

Uh today I'll provide an update on uh recent advocacy trips to Washington, D.C.

and Sacramento, and discuss some of the state and federal initiatives we're tracking.

In uh February, the Waterfront Resilience Program Director Brad Benson and I traveled to Washington, D.C.

as part of the California Marine Affairs and Navigation Conference, or CMAC.

They're a membership organization that includes California's ports but also small harbors and marinas.

Their membership are focused on securing federal investment in navigation, fisheries, and waterfront infrastructure.

CMAC has a very strong relationship with the Army Corps of Engineers.

We use the trip to advance the San Francisco Waterfront Flood Study, specifically exploring pathways to satisfy the Corps' new 35% design requirement for large-scale projects as the flood study approaches its conclusion.

Meetings at the Army Corps headquarters and with Senator Padilla's office helped us better position the program for study completion in the coming year.

Before the conference, Brad and I met individually with the American Association of Port Authorities, the offices of Senator Padilla and SHIFT, Congressman Kevin Mullen's office, and Speaker Amara Pelosi's office.

We then met with many of those same offices a second time as part of the conference delegation, pairing our one-on-one outreach with the statewide delegation message to amplify our priorities.

The third Wednesday of February is Ports Day in Sacramento.

This year, Vice President Ingloom, Director Martin, Maritime Director Coleman, and I attended the California Association of Port Authorities Annual Advocacy Day.

It's an event where California's 11 ports, public ports, collectively raise awareness about the economic and environmental leadership ports provide to the state.

Director Martin moderated a climate panel with State Senator Scott Weiner.

We met directly with Assemblywoman Catherine Stephanie, and I met with uh Assemblyman Matt Haney staff.

Port Stay is a really valuable opportunity to showcase our diverse portfolios and demonstrates how California's ports complement one another.

CAPA, or the California Association of Port Authorities, is managed by Platinum Advisors.

Their connections, their leadership has really elevated the profile of California's ports in Sacramento.

We have a seat at the state table, thanks in large part to the good work of CAP on it.

The most uh recent trip took place in early March when President Gilman, Maritime Director Coleman, and I participated in the American Association of Port Authorities Annual Legislative Summit in Washington, D.C., similar to CMAC.

The summit included a Capitol Hill Lobby Day where we met with congressional offices door to door, advocating for AAPA's priorities.

Those are increased federal funding for ports and a swift passage of WERTA 2026.

The conference featured remarks by Senator Markelli, WERTA discussions with House Transportation Infrastructure Committee staff, meetings with Mayor Ad leaderships, and engagements with numerous uh coastal congressional representatives.

Participation in these conferences is essential for three reasons.

One, it allows us to showcase the Port of San Francisco's diverse operations and unique value.

Two, it keeps us aligned with our port partner ports on shared priorities.

And finally, it ensures that we remain active participants in the decisions that affect our industry.

Commissioner Adams has said it before.

If you're not at the table, you're on the menu.

CAPPA, AAPA, CMAC, they keep us at the table.

In Washington, D.C., it's fair to say that we're not operating in the usual political climate.

Regardless, we continue to advocate for our key legislative priorities.

This includes passage of the surface transportation reauthorization bill.

That's a critical five to six year congressional process that renews the funds for federal highways, transit, rail, and port programs.

The current authorization is under the infrastructure investment and jobs act.

That expires on September 30th.

Making reauthorization an urgent priority for this Congress is one of our primary talking points in Washington.

The Port Infrastructure Development Program, or PIDP, is administered through Mayor Ad, the Maritime Administration and serves as the primary federal funding stream for port infrastructure.

It's a goods movement program.

And through this program, we were awarded a $12 million grant for the Almador street improvements that are happening right now in our Southern Waterfront.

We've applied for 10 million dollars currently to rehabilitate the West Apron of Pier 45 and expect to hear an announcement in the next few weeks.

In Washington, Andre Coleman and I, we met with uh Oregon Representative Val Hoyle.

She successfully expanded PIDP eligibility to include fishing infrastructure.

We're now partnering with the Port of San Diego to advocate on adding cruise operations as an eligible funding category in PIDP.

The Water Resources Development Act, or WERDA, is a biannual bipartisan legislative package that authorizes the Army Corps of Engineers to study, plan, and construct water-related infrastructure.

That means ports, levees, dams, ecosystem restoration.

It all happens in WERDA.

In consultation with the mayor's office and Director Martin, the Waterfront Resilience Program team has been consulting closely with the congressional delegation regarding options to secure approval of the flood study in the upcoming WERTA 2026 bill.

We're also tracking the President's Maritime Action Plan, which targets approximately $70 billion towards shipyard expansion, domestic vessel manufacturing, and workforce development funding.

Community project funding requests, those are earmarks where individual members of Congress request direct appropriations for specific local projects.

We have uh Senator Padilla, who's made our 1.8 million dollar funding request a top priority to support the Army Corps participation in the design of the downtown coastal resilience project.

And we also sponsored a 1.8 million dollar request on behalf of the exploratorium for lighting and tenant improvements at Pier 15.

That was selected for award by Speaker Amerita Pelosi last week.

Turning to the state, Governor Gavin Newsom is focused on education, public safety, homelessness, and climate in his final year.

The primary challenge uh in this year's budget is is managing the impacts of federal funding cuts and ongoing uncertainty from Washington accordingly, as Megan Wallace mentioned in her briefings to you.

This year's proposed budget emphasizes fiscal restraint while prioritizing existing programs and investments.

There are several areas of alignment with the work we do here, including climate resilience funding in Prop 4, clean transportation infrastructure, and offshore wind development.

Uh in Sacramento, we met with Assemblymember Mike Gibson, he's the chair of the Select Committee on Ports and Goods movement.

He drafted a letter to the governor uh that we had uh assembly members Stephanie and Matt Haney co-signed proposing a million dollars, a billion dollars for clean transportation infrastructure.

While that's a long shot, this could support some of our Pier 80 infrastructure improvements on electrification.

And uh as federal support for offshore wind and electrification declines, the the state is stepping in with efforts led by the California Energy Commission.

In line with this shift, we recently submitted a $10 million grant application to the CEC to support medium and heavy duty vehicle charging infrastructure at Pier 80.

Um moving forward, I meet weekly with the California Association of Port Authorities to track federal and state activity.

Uh we meet with the American Association of Port Authorities, they host regular policy council meetings and port briefings, their annual conference is taking place this September.

And uh and since our recent advocacy trips, we've hosted leadership uh in San Francisco from the Army Corps of Engineers.

We had the head of the EPA's Clean Ports Program here two weeks ago.

The uh mayor ad the Maritime Administration's Pacific Region Director, Gus Heim was here last week, and we also hosted Causta's uh port freight infrastructure team from Sacramento that was here in San Francisco.

So hosting these delegation and giving providing tours and hosting meetings at the Port of San Francisco is really invaluable.

Um it allows state and federal representatives to see firsthand the opportunities that our port offers, and then by you know successfully delivering on the dollars that we've secured under previous federal programs like PIDP, the American Rescue Plan Act, EPA's Clean Ports Program.

Uh, you know, we're building a track record that will position us to compete effectively when the federal funding landscape becomes a little more favorable to us.

Uh I appreciate your time and support.

I'll turn it back over to Director Martin, and I'm uh available in case you have any questions uh about this portion of the executive director's update.

Thank you.

Thank you, Boris.

That concludes our report.

Thank you.

Okay.

Now we're going to open up to public comment on the director's report.

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

I see no public comment in the room on the director's report.

Is there public comment on the phone, Jenica?

No colors on the phone.

Thank you.

I am now going to close public comment.

Commissioner Lee.

Um I mean, great report.

Uh Martin.

Um I just have a couple interesting uh questions and Boris.

I mean, the work of Washington and keeping our self on the agenda, I just have a few things.

Um locally, um walking here from the parking lot.

Um I saw a woman uh I think she's part of the water taxi group, and then she was kind of in the cuts holding a sign saying, Um, you know, anybody want to go on the water taxi?

And I'm just wondering how come we don't they don't have a stand or some kind of place where the people walking on the promenade can actually maybe want to take a $10 taxi ride on the to see the rest of our port.

And so I just kind of was curious when I was walking by, she's just kind of like, are they allowed to to kind of solicit people on the promenade?

Um, because I would think that would be good for their business and also good experience for the people that come visit the port.

So I'm just kind of curious about that.

Um another thing is with all this uh parks and everything going on, dog patch area, and um, it's great that Pier 70 was used for um that big event.

But because everything is kind of centralized here, and we want more commerce to go down maybe to the dog patch area and all these parts there.

I'm just curious over, and maybe I don't know because I've only been here four years, but like uh Sam's and Tiburon, how boats would actually come out on the weekends and park.

We don't have that people, but a lot of people go to Tiburon and stuff with their small boats and have lunch at these restaurants and things.

I was wondering how come we don't have and maybe maybe now that dog patch area or the southern waterfront, we're kind of developing that and there's more room there.

I remember uh back in the day when Mission Rock had a lot more events.

I used to see um boats come in from Marin County to to visit Mission Rock and get off the boat and have lunch, either at the ramp or at Mission Bay.

But since there's no events there anymore, they don't come.

And I was just wondering about that.

So uh I don't know that's maybe something we can't do or something we could look at in the future about getting more local people since international travel, as Boris was saying that um you were saying that's kind of on the stranglehold.

We really have to promote our local business to come.

And this morning, uh I th I I kind of briefly heard on the news how the waterfront, how the port has been really bringing tourists back to San Francisco.

I mean, maybe Eric will uh find that article, I think it was Channel 7 this morning, uh saying that the waterfront is doing their job to bring tourism back to San Francisco, which is great.

So I want to make sure we keep that up.

Um the uh federal level in Washington, uh with Boris, you're going up to Washington and and it's great that we keep our waterfront in the mix.

But after the study is over and what's going on with the government, do you think we're ever gonna get any funding to start our our seawall projects or anything just to get started?

Because whatever I'm sure is just any construction, whatever we get started now that's been already appraised and developed, uh it's gonna change if we don't do anything about the next five to ten years.

Then we got to do another study because environments changed.

So I'm just my question is is uh you think after all this advocacy, do are we gonna get some funds to start putting shovels in the ground?

So that's my question there.

Um and uh and curious when um Speaker Pelosi or ex-Speaker Pelosi retires, who's gonna be our champion to keep getting us money?

Because it seems like she's always out there uh getting money for the port.

So I don't know.

Have you guys thought about who's gonna be our next champion?

It seems like maybe Senator Padilla is going to be our next person.

Uh I'm just curious about that as well.

Um the state level, um, I've always kind of wondered with the climate change and everything, and the whales changing their patterns.

Um has there been any conversations about changing uh the crab season, maybe moving it up, moving it back, or uh readjusting it so the fishermen can actually uh maybe start their or get a longer time for fishing on the on the bay or things like that.

So these are all state level situations.

I think I've talked to um assemblyman Haney about this and something that he wanted to look into because you know when the crab season gets sh uh shuttered or they don't get to do their thing early enough, they got such a short window to try to you know make money on the pier.

So um so those are the my comments.

But otherwise we're on the right track, as usual, doing a lot of good stuff.

And uh, but but I guess we have to really focus on our local people to have the experience for people to come from the East Bay and Sacramento or San Jose to really come down to the port on the weekends.

And so that's just my comments and good job as usual.

And Boris, I think I when I went to Washington, and I saw you up there uh when I went with the chamber last year or two years ago.

So I'm glad you're still up there.

You probably got frequent flyer miles to Washington.

So anyway, thank you.

I'm done.

Okay.

Thank you.

I think there might be direct um actually.

It sounds like some of that is new business.

Yes, that's what I was gonna say.

And I think there might be questions for Boris.

So I thought we could do is maybe run through Commissioner Comments, and then if there's themes for switches to address, since it's uh a rarity that uh this is gonna be more of an annual thing, but this is the first time he's presented on this agenda.

If not, it can all fall under new business.

Sounds good.

Um Commissioner McNeely.

Sure, uh just uh just uh some observations.

Um I wrote down three words as you were going through uh Mike, your presentation uh uh at different times, uh, which are I think very um uh very instrumental in how I see the port and the staff and the commission uh energizing around the city and the those three words were the first was engagement, uh the second was stewardship, and the third was advocacy, and and uh you're doing a brilliant job at all three from the report and from what I'm seeing going on in the community, it's great.

I think that the the work that you're doing, engaging residents, uh engaging our partners, uh stewarding our partners, and then the advocacy with our policymakers are all leading to uh the kinds of um of opportunities that that we've seen um occurring throughout the waterfront and what we're hear a little bit more about later, I think in our meeting today, and I so I wanted to congratulate you and the staff on that.

I I think the uh this the energy around the waterfront clearly is uh is um is uh palpable, and I think that um uh I didn't hear the news report around that, but I would agree that I think that this is the kind of the bottom of the pyramid that's really helping support the rest of the activity that's starting to happen in the city, and I think the I wanted to commend you and the and the staff for for the energy around that.

My my only question that I had was uh how do we advertise for these volunteer opportunities?

Because I think that there's so many others in the community that would look for opportunities to participate and to be part of uh this resurgence and the this revitalization, it's a real opportunity that starts to create relationships that I think can be um morph into other opportunities for participation around the waterfront as well.

So I just look for opportunities to even extend uh the communications for the volunteer efforts uh to a broader audience.

Thank you.

And to that last point, I think this one City Day opportunity is going to be a great way to get more people into that orbit.

But I think we can do more ourselves to push out those opportunities.

But thank you for those comments.

And I will say if anyone signs up on our website for the newsletter, you get every opportunity pushed to your email box, because that's how I, as a citizen, find out about them.

So I just want to encourage folks to go to our website and you can sign up for news and alerts and updates from the port.

It's one avenue, but I think there's many more we could do to improve.

Thank you, Commissioner McNeely.

Commissioner Adams.

Extraordinary report.

Um Mike, Morris.

The port is uh is moving on all cylinders.

This was a very, very excellent report.

High energy, um, high octane.

Um it's good to see that.

You see the mayor and you see everyone down on the ground.

And people always come, people get excited about energy, it's contagious.

And you can feel the energy and feel the direction that we're going.

And the energy, and you made the statement about you can't wait till you do the final walk through, and that's just extraordinary.

Um it's just it's just an exciting time, and there's really something down here for everyone at the port.

It's just uh it couldn't be a better time to live and be here in San Francisco.

Um people have counted us out, but we're back, so that's this this is exciting.

I wanted to tell Commissioner Steve, um, Stephen Lee.

Um, the report that you got from Washington, D.C.

and in the state was excellent.

The work is being done.

And you worried about Nancy Pelosi.

We have a strong bench.

You have John Giramondi, we have a port caucus, we have so many people behind us names that you never hear about.

And you know, maritime and even the ports.

They're not democratic republic.

They're they're both.

They're both parties.

It doesn't have a party behind it.

And one person doesn't stop.

Uh I see us moving full steam ahead.

Um, being involved in even the energy, whether you were up in Sacramento and the different issues that you talked about, Mike.

You were there with Scott Weiner.

Stephen, you you you talked about all the things that we're talking about, offshore wind and other energies, and then all the ports are coming together.

LA Long Beach and Oakland is one port.

But then San Diego, San Francisco, Redwood City, Port Miami, San Diego, Stockton, Sacramento, we're another.

But we're all teaming up together.

It's all for one one for all.

And because when you're talking about the fourth largest economy in the world, California, everybody's got to be on board.

And everybody understands everybody's port is a little different, but everybody is helping everybody.

And so everybody is pulling together.

I want to thank our president for going back to Washington, DC.

And we can't really worry about the politics.

We have to go and we have to lobby.

And we got to ask for what we want.

And make no apologies about it.

Because what's happening today won't be happening two or three years from now.

Things things change constantly.

You can't like live in fear of, oh well, oh my God, the you know, the sky's falling.

The sky's always falling.

But you keep moving forward and you keep plugging away.

And people are hearing us because once again, ports are something that people talk about, and you know, and even what's going on in Iran.

I mean, with the blockade and everything, it's given a highlight to ports.

Because normally the only time people would ever talk about ports when the IOW, when we were in negotiations with all the shipping companies and whether we were going to go on strike or we were slowing it down, or whatever we do what we do, right?

That's the only time you'd ever hear about ports.

And even in the State of the Union addresses, even going back whether it was President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, I don't care.

Very few times in the State of the Union address, do you ever hear them talk about ports?

And it's really a good time to be in the ports and and what's happening.

So I'm excited, so I could tell my commissioner here to my right, Brother Stephen Lee.

I wouldn't worry.

Especially here in in California and all the ports going up there.

I mean, you think about it.

We're working with Seattle, Tacoma, Vancouver, right?

We're I mean, we're just going up and down these 29 West Coast ports, and we're really like interweaving and really making this thing happen.

So I think it's a great thing.

And only thing I would like to say, Boris, is that I would hope that at some point, and I'm not being biased, but I would hope that you would invite somebody from the Federal Maritime Commission to come out.

And one commissioner in particular, his name is Max Vecch.

Um I know Max because he used to be a member of our union until he retired.

And uh he understands ports, and he's out of the Pacific Northwest, and I would love for him to come out here as a commissioner of the Federal Maritime Commission to be our guest.

Because you know what?

I can tell you that, and I know this for a fact that as we're thriving here and uh San Francisco and all the other ports, I can tell you the port of Sacramento is fighting for its life right now.

Because there are people up there that want to shut that port down.

We cannot have all our ports or our valves.

We have to have every port in California moving at full capacity.

Because say there was an explosion or a terrorist attack, or something was to happen, heaven forbid it would happen.

We got to have all ports open because it's that vial and it's the supply chain.

And we've got to put all our resources into it.

And I'm gonna tell you something.

Boris and Mike, that was one of the best reports that I've heard in my 13 years about you guys doing the work, reaching out and connecting the dots.

Please keep it up if there's anything that I can do, uh, count me in.

Brad, you weren't here, but when we talked about a couple port commission meetings ago about the first seawall, when it was built 1860 something, and then in 1879, we did another seawall.

Now we're getting ready to do another seawall.

I mean, that was over a century ago.

Can you imagine that commission back then what they were thinking?

If they would have had to look forward, and one day none of us will be in this room, but there'll be a group of people coming behind all of us, they'll go, what the hell were they doing in 2026?

You know what?

We were doing what we were supposed to do for this date, time in history.

And so anyway, I just want to say excellent report, thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Eki Emlem.

Um thank you.

Uh thanks, uh Mike and Burris.

Uh great, great report.

Um inspiring comments from my fellow commissioners.

And put another way, maybe how do we continue to inspire and also realize.

So it's this constant, these two muscles in each part of our organization.

And all of the things that you reported about today, I see that happening.

Starting with the uh your Pier 49, and I I also the fisherman's wharf.

I I really like how you uh framed it about you can't wait to come back and see it realize.

I mean, it's happening.

Um I I really like the story about pivoting from Crane Cove Park to building 12.

That's you know, that that's both, you know, first the the team, the part of the team that had the inspiration to host that event and collaborate with our our sister agencies across the city to make that happen, and then the team who are out there, you know, there's sort of your early, early part of inspiring and planning, but then the perspiration of the people that are actually you know making the stuff happen.

I'm I just want to thank the teams that really made that happen so quickly.

That's really a great story.

Um I would just say that I think we we have to I think our job is uh commission and uh is to just say to ourselves well where are we where are we um I I like the uh comment earlier about sort of working on all cylinders where where in our organization are we to sort of check in with ourselves and say okay which parts of our organization need to be pushing for harder on the inspiration and which parts more on the on the perspiration and the sort of enacting and um and if there are any spots in our uh in our team that uh need to um uh push on that, I would say that's that's what I'm really curious about because I know we've talked about diversifying our uh our portfolio and you know, so that's that's where I think there is a lot of action going on about how do we how do we inspire ourselves and push ourselves into thinking about things that don't even exist on our waterfront yet.

So that's because we're we're our team is enacting that that whole waterfront project that is an enormous, you know, once in a generation, the very few projects of that scale in the world, and we we're we're it takes a long time to uh make that happen.

But you know, if it weren't for the people that came before us 20 years ago saying, hey, what are we what do we need to do?

We need to be the people thinking about what what needs to be uh what are we feeding at that part of the life cycle that that will be our priorities 20 years from now.

So thanks.

Thank you.

Um I just want to say, you know, echo my fellow commissioners have said a lot, an amazing report.

Um just really want to thank you.

And um particularly around sort of the flexibility of seeing so quickly how the and I know it's our next agenda item to talk about the naming of the plaza, but how that concept and idea moved in a way that since I've been on this commission, I've never seen move before.

And so I'm as someone who was just recently down there too.

I'm really really excited to see kind of this revitalization, revamping of Fisherman's Wharf with lose, you know, with Lou's Blues Barbecue, Everett's barbecue coming into the blue spot um to the new restaurants that we're having, and really trying to figure out how we create a space both for locals and for tourists.

I was just recently in New York City and again looking at the Hudson Yard and how that's been redeveloped by Shelter Island, so much of the um of the amenities in the parks there, you know, are for locals.

Um, tourists alike, but on their lunch hours, there's people coming, throngs of business workers coming to eat their lunch on the waterfront in the Hudson Yard, which when I was a child was an industrial wasteland of like of like just industrialism.

Like no one went there.

Like you were told not to go past 11th Avenue.

Like so to really see that revitalization and how we incorporate also activities to make this is you know, my soapbox to maintain that when it is pouring rain or storming, those businesses will live and die on local San Franciscans.

Um they can't just be on tourists alone.

So really excited to see that moving forward.

Um just one observation.

I think for just I don't need a comment on after thought is if there is any ability, it was just something I noticed was on that sort of uh more western end um past Pier 39, um, availability of public restrooms.

If folks don't partake, if families come down there with picnic lunches or with things or to buy fish.

It it came up when I was buying live fish, someone asked, and I couldn't point them in the right direction.

So I think something that we should just think about for folks that are that are down there, but really amazing work.

And I do want to, you know, remind my um commission commissioner Lee.

Um I think we all are advocating every day.

Um salmon season also just got delayed to open up our waterways for fishing, but that is um state and state, the state fishing commission, which I do know that representatives um the um from the um oh my god, what are they called?

That's Sarah Bates and others from Fisherman's Wharf sit on those councils and participate in.

So we're advocating every day, and I know the port is as well.

I also did want to just elevate something that Commissioner Adams said.

When I was in DC, I need to say one of the most remarkable things I had on my trip was the unity among all ports in San Francisco, and how our brothers and sisters in Oakland, our largest um refrigeration container port, which was something I learned, backed us up when we talked about how the um we needed to lower the um the match and the design threshold for the Army Corps of Engineers, and how we mirrored our ass with the port of San Diego, which much more is a compliment to what we're looking at, and then we all supported Wyame, um, besides being a strategic um a strategic site from a military perspective is the largest importer of bananas.

So I do want to say I think this this network is something that in the past when I'd gone in trips I hadn't seen a strongly articulated pre-pandemic.

And so I really want to commend the work of Boris and that team and our and the partners we have at Platinum Divide Advisors to really make us a unit.

Because when we go to DC, we're just we're just stronger.

Um when we go to those conferences, we are sitting with red states that have the same exact issues, except most of them are elected, so they think we have it easy, but as commissioners, but we have the same issues they do, and there's a synergy that crosses political lines.

And I really wanted to say that's how much I value um this work.

Um, and I'm very excited about how we're moving forward.

I think on that note, uh Boris, I don't think you need to add anything.

Are you good?

Okay.

I think on that note, we are going to move to the next agenda item.

Next item, please.

Item seven is the consent calendar.

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

7A requests authorization to adopt the for the naming of port facilities through recognition and commemoration of people, places, and events.

This is resolution 2619.

Okay.

Um do we have a motion to move the consent agenda?

So moved.

Second.

Okay, thank you.

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

Is there any public comment on the phone on the consent calendar?

No colours, thank you.

Okay, we public comment is now closed.

We have a motion and the second.

All in favor of the consent calendar, please say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

The consent calendar passes.

Resolution 2619 is adopted.

Next item, please.

Item 8A is an informational presentation on a proposal to name the port's new fisherman's wharf plaza located on the site of the former Aliotos restaurant on Wharf J1 along Taylor Street, Aliotas Plaza, consistent with the port's newly adopted recognition and commemoration policy.

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

Good afternoon, commissioners, President Gilman, Vice President Englum, David Beaupre, Deputy Director of Planning and Environment.

Um I am joined here today by Mark Johnson, who submitted the nomination, as well as uh some of the Iliotto family.

I know Gina von March is here as well.

Um I'll basically go through the following presentation, which is a little bit of an overview of the nomination received, how this aligns with our strategic plan, the recognition type uh falling under the criteria, and then what our next steps are.

So again, I mentioned the nomination was received by Mark Johnson.

He gathered 67 signatures and uh came up with the justification on the connection to the waterfront, the legacy of the restaurant, the cultural heritage, the community support, and the economic contributions to the waterfront.

For a little bit more history, I just wanted to go through the history of the Aliotos restaurant, including the connection uh to San Francisco that began in the late 19th century with the arrival of the Sicilian immigrant fishermen.

Nunzio Elliotto uh immigrated from St.

Ilia, Sicily, arriving in San Francisco in 1897 at the age of 10 as a part of a large wave of Italian immigrants between 1880 and 1920.

Like many of the immigrants who settled in San Francisco waterfront, the Alliotto family became deeply involved in the fishing community and fishing industry.

In 1925, Nunzio Aliotto founded Aliotos Fish in stall number nine, so Aliotto's number nine.

This later developed into a restaurant on Taylor Street.

The restaurant quickly became a cornerstone of the wharf's dining culture and a recognizable seafood establishment in San Francisco.

Aliotos played a significant role in shaping the identity of Fisherman's Wharf as a destination for seafood and waterfront.

And over the decades, Alliottos became an institution within San Francisco's culinary and tourism landscape.

The restaurant helped to find the water the wharf's identity while supporting the local fishing industry and maintaining a continuous presence within the community.

How this naming aligns with the strategic plan?

Is it aligns with the goals of economic growth?

Evolve equity and public collaboration by bringing the nomination.

Just going back to the policy that was just adopted within it are various criteria, including how we recognize places, the types, and the locations.

So the type for this would be a naming marker within the plaza.

The location is on the uh former site of the restaurant, and the eligibility is made on the significant contributions to the port and the waterfront.

And then briefly, the next steps uh consistent with the policy that was just adopted is uh the applicant submitted nominations for the request.

We reviewed the submittal for compliance.

Uh we're at step three here with the port commission reviews at a public hearing the nomination.

If the port commission is supportive of this, we would wait for three months and bring it back to you in July.

Um during that 90-day period, we would work with the nominator and the family to identify how we would recognize it uh through signage within the plaza.

And with that, I'll let Mark Johnson who submitted the nomination uh say a few words.

Commissioners, good afternoon.

I'm Mark Johnson.

I own one of the Montereys on J 4.

So I, along with the other Monterey owners, have watched as the decision was made to take down the restaurant.

And we thought, well, what are they gonna do?

What are they gonna call it?

And it was just obvious to all of us.

We gotta call it Polly Our's Plaza.

So we put together a petition, circulated it around, and if we would have kept out there longer, I'm sure we would add hundreds of signatures.

Everybody signed that and told about it.

But it's you know, I've been down the wharf since I was a little kid.

And I got to meet all the old people and so forth.

When you're a little kid, you don't really appreciate it, you know.

But looking at Nunzio, he came here as a little kid, he was 10 years old.

He started to fish, he started to sell fish, and you have to recognize he had minimal education.

He spoke a language.

Sicilian is not Italian.

And Italians don't understand Sicilian.

But he over overcame that, and look what he built.

He, along with you know, all the others, Paladini, Giraldi, uh La Roca, all of these different people.

They built the wharf.

The wharf is known worldwide.

I have friends that I'd worked for Chevron Overseas Petroleum.

So we had people coming in from overseas.

Everybody will ask about Fishman's Wharf.

Can we go to Fishman's Wharf?

And it just for us it was a no-brainer.

I think it's the proper thing to do, and we hope that everybody else agrees to it and moves forward.

And that's pretty much it.

Thank you, Mark.

Thank you, David, for your presentation.

Before we open it up for um conversation, is there any public comment in the room on this item?

Just make your way to the daisy.

Hi there, my name is Gina von Esmark, and I am great-granddaughter of Nunzio and Rose Aleotto.

Sorry.

Um, so just wanted to I I didn't really plan on saying anything here today, but I'm uh definitely inspired to do so in hopes that um the naming does move forward.

I obviously have um a lot of pride in what my family has been able to do amongst all the other Italian American immigrants that came here and really made it Fisherman's Wharf just versus just part of the port.

And I think there's a great sense of pride and history that um I look forward to hopefully bringing to the next generation that can see what we built or what was built by those that came before us and hopefully make it consumable to the next generation, my kids, my kids' kids, and to know that there is some tribute to what formerly was the place where our restaurant stood would be uh a great way to move forward.

Thank you.

Thank you so much for your comments.

Yeah, thank you.

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

Jenica, is there anyone on the phone?

Um I want to give it a minute.

No hands.

Okay, no colors.

We have no one on the phone and no one else in the room.

Public comment is closed.

Commissioners, there are comments, Commissioner McNeely.

I have no comment, thank you.

Okay.

Commissioner Lee.

No, I mean I think uh Ali Otto's as we all grew up here, and I from Vacaville came to visit Ali Odo's sign was always what I could see from my grandma's house from Russian Hill.

And you know, as far as uh history a legacy, we have to um really really let the public know, and our generations who live here who actually you know develop these areas, just like Chinatown or whatever, and I think the Aliota family, not just as immigrants, and especially nowadays, immigrants built this nation.

We really gotta highlight uh these things when we're unfortunately tearing these places down because they're kind of obsolete, but at the same time, memories need to be uh remembered, and I'm hoping that when we do the uh well, when the developer finally figures out what we're gonna do with that area that the Elliott family can maybe find some stuff in the closet to donate and have a little tribute or a museum for the family.

So I'm all in support of this uh naming of this area, new areas as for that.

So thank you for the recommendation.

Thank you.

And Commissioners, um, with your grace, we had a caller who did want to make public comment.

There was some confusion, so we're gonna let that happen, and then we'll go back to Commissioner Comments.

Thank you.

Let's open up the line.

Um, hi, caller.

Whenever you're ready.

Hello, caller.

Can you hear us?

Please speak.

Hi.

Um I think you just recognize me.

Uh my name is Greg Champot.

I am a 30-year resident of North Beach, and I wholeheartedly support uh naming it Aliolo Plaza in recognition of the restaurant and the family's contributions to the city.

Thank you, sir, for your um comments.

Thank you.

Okay, that is it.

So now officially again, public comment is closed.

Commissioner Adams.

I couldn't be prouder to uh to support this.

This is what um this is very historical.

This is what how dreams come true and microscope.

Okay.

I'll speak well.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

Thank you.

I'll talk well.

Okay.

Um as I said, I couldn't be prouder.

Because it's gonna be where it all started.

And I consider the holy ground.

And it was dreams of people that came from Italy.

Not knowing what was going on, but to come and go for it.

You know, courage.

There are a lot of people that have liquid courage in a bar they can drink and they've got courage.

But it's another courage.

To leave the country of your birth, go somewhere where you don't know anyone, and to make a start.

And that's what's happening.

That's what happened.

And um we just passed a resolution to talk about these things here today.

So I can be proud of this would be the first action that we do.

And and to one so well deserving of it.

Um I could only think, you know, you said generations of your family to come.

They dreamed, they worked hard.

And a lot of times the younger generation forgets about those that came before.

But there are a lot of people that set the table for us and had that vision and had that courage and they came forth.

And as the new waterfront and the new fishing was worth, I hope that they're looking down from heaven and they can see this and be proud that change is constant and is continuing, you know, to move forward.

And I can feel your passion and your tears when you were talking about how proud you are.

Because we all are proud in this room.

And this is the great day, this April Day to have this come in front of us.

And you totally have my support.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner.

EPM Lum.

Do you have any comments?

Yes, uh, I just want to say, you know, um hearing the speakers make it easy to support this idea about naming the plaza in honor of the history.

Um I I guess I would just say that any time uh I feel like it's easy to support something, I just always say, well, what do we have to challenge ourselves in this then?

Because I think that in a real, you know, I I'm always my my thought about the history of San Francisco is we're so we're also lucky to be recipients of you know what your family have done for our waterfront and what other immigrants have done and what the fishing industry has done and continues to do.

I guess I always put it in I think our job as a commission is not just to support this, but also to challenge what else do we need in order to make sure this is a sustaining idea.

Like, how does it become a platform for education around the fishing industry?

How does it become a place that's a kind of a lightning rod for investment in uh you know we've been discussing a lot, and it this isn't I mean it's it's a it's a challenge that is a is kind of a compliment to this idea about naming the plaza, but it's something that I've been sort of struggling with in a lot of meetings about how do we how do we create a platform for sustaining places on the waterfront?

Because you know we're we're investing in uh making it a public open space right now, but that doesn't mean that it's gonna be how do we how do we um attract philanthropy or um some sort of sponsorship of this?

Is there some partnerships with education programs that would bring you know the the uh future fishermen of the world to this plaza so that it's you know more than just a tourist spot.

It's it's it's really about educating people about what what happened here and why it became a uh uh important place to begin with.

So anyway, that's just uh my way of just saying I love this idea about the naming, but I I think we have to attach it to some sort of long-term way to sustain it and attract further investment in in the the spirit of what your great grandfather did and what I hope that will continue to happen at that part of our our waterfront.

So if we do that well, I think we'll be uh realize that it wasn't just about naming it for and to honor the future, but it's about creating so that it means something in the future also.

Thank you.

Um I just want to say um I'm just so thrilled and excited this is moving moving forward.

We have been grappling the whole time I've been on the commission about what, you know, particularly after the family um side, you know, to shutter and release the restaurant, what we were gonna do with with this iconic piece of the waterfront, if someone lives on the northeast section of the waterfront and lives in North Beach.

Your family's history is alive and well there.

Um and to see the plaza happen again.

I said this in my opening remarks so quickly so fast in such a great way.

It it is absolutely a slam dunk in some ways, a no-brainer that um with this naming policy that the first inaugural thing we would name would be Aliotis Plaza.

So I'm thrilled to be on the belief.

I'm excited in three months, which is a mandatory waiting period, we have to work with the family.

Um I know we'll um want to see the designs.

So I think that will be an exciting meeting for us to have.

Um I only you know, other requests, and uh, you know, and I actually think this is our responsibility, um, not the family's responsibility is I do I am aware um that that you have you have so many cousins um and such a large clan of family.

So I want to make sure we're as expansive as possible in making sure even if they're not the direct lineage of your great-grandfather.

I know many of them came to the restaurant.

Um I I know some folks on the other side of the family.

So I want to make sure we invite them all when we do the unveiling of this name in this event that we'd be as expansive as possible, and the other families that were mentioned from La Rocca, etc.

I think we could coordinate with the Italian um Heritage Society and the Italian Athletic Club to help as anchor institutions for those communities to make sure that we really invite what I call the old school, the OGs of that particular neighborhood in San Francisco to come on down and be and be part of this opening.

I think that would be really appropriate.

That's a recommendation to staff.

So on this very lovely supportive item, we're gonna go to the next one.

Next item, please, Jenica.

Item 8B is an informational presentation on an unsolicited and artist-sponsored proposal by the CBRandy Foundation in partnership with Building 180 to place additional temporary public art along the Port of San Francisco's waterfront as part of the port's public art program and big art loop port side.

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

Hi, good afternoon.

Uh I'm Amy Cohen, I'm business generation manager in the real estate division.

I'm here under the planning and environment item.

Um so thanks to David and other directors and the art team at the port who includes Ryan Wassum and Ariana Cunha and also Kathy Hickey, who's not here.

Um and I'll be joined a little bit later by Meredith Winner from Building 180 and Julie Flynn from the Street Plans Collaborative.

Um I'm going to give a very brief uh overview of the art that we have done so far, but we're here today to show you new pieces that are coming.

So you might recall uh that the Big Art Loop is a public art initiative that is philanthropic funded.

Um it's an effort to bring a hundred new sculptures to San Francisco by 2028 with a focus on creating a loop around the entire city.

Um the funding is made possible by the Sebrani Foundation, and the production is orchestrated by Building 180, which is a women-led production firm that Meredith is co-owner of.

Um this isn't gonna be very easy for you to read, but this is our current map of art.

Um it includes, and we have a northern and then a southern, so this is the northern.

Um, the dark blue are the new big art loop pieces that we have already installed between October and January.

There's 11 pieces that have already been installed.

You can see the new sculptures that we will be installing, and they are lighter blue.

And you can also see the yellows, which are existing permanent art along the way.

Um so I am not gonna go through this in any detail, but I will just say that the new pieces are coming to Pier 9, Pier 28, uh, South Beach Harbor, and Bayview Gateway Plaza.

Um in addition, uh Big Art Loop is talking to some of our master tenants, uh, including the Giants and Jamestown for Waterfront Plaza about some additional new sites that we're not talking about today.

Um but a quick review of what's out there.

Um we have Lewis at Bayfront Park, we have Bloom at Heron's Head, we have Dr.

Fisharian's runaway something something something at Crane Cove Park.

We have Steelhead at Pier 52, we have Echoes at the downtown Ferry Terminal Plaza, we have Corpus at Pier 14, Attabay at uh Rincon, I'm sorry, Brandon, Street Wharf, uh, Coral Lee uh Pier 12, and got framed at Pier 7, Desert Shark at Pier 45 Plaza and Pulse Portal at Pier 27.

Okay.

So just a quick review.

This is temporary art.

It's here for a year with the option to stay another year.

This is part of the port's public art program.

We have a program, it has criteria, it has a process.

We created some additional guidelines and criteria, and building 180 brought it forward to us, and we are in a process with them that includes a lot of feasibility and safety evaluation, but they bring the art to us and have an open call for art and have done a lot of outreach around the city and the region.

Um today's informational item is just to let you know what are the pieces that we intend to place, but we actually have a first and second choice option for each of the sites because we're still in the feasibility phase.

So now I'm going to call Meredith up here, and she will show you the four sites and the eight proposed pieces, but hopefully four.

Hi there.

Um for those of you don't know me, Meredith Winner, the CEO of Building 180.

Um it's been a real pleasure to do work on the port.

And we're excited to bring these four pieces and hopefully more in this part of in 2026 as well.

This is a sculptor on Pier 9, is Gled Gleg Dubyzki.

He is a Norwegian artist internationally known.

And this piece is, we call this the Barnacle site, which is those white benches at Pier 9 that look a little bit like Barnacles.

It also is a nod to the wildlife on the waterfront and to letting people come play and interact.

The second choice for this site is a piece called Measure of Air.

And I won't go too much into detail about these pieces, but again, as Amy was mentioning, we have to go through extensive feasibility studies in order to get these approved.

We're in that process right now with the port engineers and also our team of engineers, which is Rubu Engineering firm based in San Francisco.

There's a lot of difficulties on the port because there's there's water underneath.

It's not as straightforward as putting these on land.

We have an Italian-American artist from Berkeley named Giuseppe Palumbo.

These pieces really struck us as the port is a very international destination.

There's a very diverse city we live in in San Francisco, and the symbols using hand gestures are very well known without without needing to use words.

And so as people come to visit the city, they're welcomed by these pieces and are recognized right away.

The second choice here is the red popsicle by Catherine Mayer.

She's from Seattle, Washington.

This one, we are definitely in to the weeds with feasibility just because of the way that the structure is held.

At South Beach Marina Harbor, this is by local artist named Finch, as you may know him as.

He does a lot of those iconic honey bears you may have seen across San Francisco.

And this piece here, it's a, you know, there's a lot of people coming in and out of the waterfront where the giants are.

We're hoping this kind of becomes a new little kiss spot.

Um, it's a very bold and immediate expression of presence, and we think it's very playful for tourists and citizens of SF to come see.

The second is Measure of Air, or excuse me, it's called Updraft by Michael Hansel.

And that's like again a number two choice.

And then we have a Bayview Gateway, New Clear Neural by Gazelle Dosti, who's an Iranian American woman that lives in San Francisco.

Um this was a piece that's at the intersection of human perception and technology, very fitting for San Francisco as all of the technology things happening here.

But it also becomes a landmark and it really invites people to pause.

And you know how your own individual awareness contributes to a larger shared consciousness of the city.

Second runner up here is Dominic Ponziera and Daniela Garofolo.

Um again, we're we're working through these with these options here.

We're currently in the phases of as feasibility as we mentioned, and then we have to go through all of the permitting process, which we've navigated with your lovely team.

Um this includes stakeholders key stakeholder outreach, including local businesses.

We have learned just for your awareness that the local businesses where the artwork is currently installed, have seen an uptick in visitors coming to their establishments, especially at Coquetta, where Pier uh where Got Framed is, where people are taking lots of pictures all of the time, and the restaurant has has definitely reported to us.

I don't have statistics, but they are very pleased with people coming in and out.

And the same was for Draw Ride Pizza, which is where Coralie at Pier 1 half is.

Um, you know, a lot of people come see the sculpture or have a piece of pizza.

Anyway, that's a little sidetrack about this, but um, just wanted to throw it in that throw that in there.

So we're doing stakeholder key stakeholder outreach, which includes the local businesses, um, BCDC review, then we go through a long license and encroachment permits, permit process.

We already hold a license with port, so this will be a little bit streamlined in terms of not having to do the license on top of that.

Uh our license is currently for two years.

And for the first round, once we get engineering, uh the engineering done to you, then it takes about a month to get the permits finalized, and then we'll schedule the installations between June and August, hopefully.

Thank you.

Thank you, Meredith.

Julie.

Um, I'm neglected to say at the beginning that um the initiative that we're working on with Sabrandy Foundation and Big Art Loop is really part of a strategic goal of the port around establishing a waterfront walk.

And we were here in December at the commission authorizing a grant or asking you to authorize a grant to Street Plans Collaborative, who is an urban design firm that we have brought on to help take advantage of this opportunity of the art and really make us the first couple of layers of a waterfront walk.

And by that I mean a kind of path that you know is a series of attractions, and you don't just kind of come upon them, but you are kind of led to them.

And so I'm gonna have Julie explain a little bit more about what we're going to do in order to string the art together into the first phase of this walk.

Great.

Thank you, Amy, and good afternoon, commissioners.

Happy to be here.

I'm Julie Flynn from the Street Plans Collaborative.

Um and as Amy mentioned, we're a placemaking urban design firm, but we're partnering with many local organizations too, as you'll see in the slides today, the downtown San Francisco Partnership and numerous other local organizations.

And just a quick recap from December.

You know, really a lot of this grant scope is about, as Amy said, kind of the first steps and the initial layers.

So thinking about ways we can work across marketing, temporary trail markings, you know, really recognizing that the art is changing, there's new art coming all the time, so there's a real need for flexibility there, um, and uh new art pieces such as murals to kind of really start bringing some awareness and in there there, um, with the sense that this is maybe a first layer of it, and and it can kind of grow over time.

Um the foundation of all those layers is is kind of what's the name of it?

What is it called?

Um and so uh, you know, a brand um was developed this summer that kind of pulled from the big art loop identity citywide, but developed a specific identity for the port side segment.

So that really allows for the kind of distinct look and feel of this waterfront um area of the trail.

And with that as a foundation, now our work is to sort of really think about how that brand can be applied in a bunch of ways to bring community awareness and really proactively invite people to come check it out.

So that is, as I mentioned, some trail marking elements.

You know, right now that the sense of discovery is fun, but if you come to see an art piece, there's a plaque, but you may not be aware that there's more.

You may it may be surprising to you if you hadn't heard about this before.

So, how do we give people some sense of hey, this is something bigger than just this one piece you you found?

Um part of that is also merchandise.

So if we have programming partners out there, you know, where how are they wearing something that kind of gives a little bit of a sense of a cohesive project?

We're also working on um with a collaboration with a local artist on a physical map and handout.

Um then finally a dedicated web page for this component.

So as we fund of events through this grant, um, there's a landing page that we've worked on in partnership with the downtown SF Partnership that is a kind of a digital home for the port side segment specifically.

And we're working really closely with the Big Art Loop website and making sure kind of content is mirrored across.

I should say, well, those uh four items are a big focus now.

We're also looking towards you know what's the next phase, and we've done a lot of research about um there are many platforms that have branded apps for types of things like this where you can have layers of attraction.

So we've started to research and make some recommendations to the port about where that could go in the future as well.

Events and programming have been a big component of this.

Many of you know, you know, we had a great launch in November.

We since we've talked to you about this, there was an amazing event on March 20th that was produced by Coven, a local place-making nonprofit, and this was just if you had the chance to come to it.

I I did myself, and I just have to underscore how magical it was.

Um, you know, I had a moment of just feeling like this is like Barcelona or you know, just so many cities, great cities of the world who really invest in in their waterfronts, and it's so amazing to see us doing that here in San Francisco.

It felt very organic and was such an amazing um way for this trail to be a platform for for many different actors and celebrate um the great waterfront that we have.

So you'll see more on that front.

Um, fall events will come from um additional nonprofit partners, and we're also thinking about finer grain events and there's running and walking tours out there all the time.

So engaging folks like that who are already out there using it to know what this trail is all about.

Um another piece of the picture is is really being very thoughtful and planful about the route itself.

Um in 2023, many of you may have seen it.

Um, the waterfront walk report that Sight Lab produced was an incredibly thoughtful piece about kind of where the trail could go, but it was produced before these big artworks came online.

So we're just kind of taking a re-look at that to make sure the actual route that we're inviting people to walk really takes into account that great work as a foundation and some of the new pieces that have come, um, including some permanent artworks like the one shown here that are uh really need to be featured as well.

And then the last piece of it is the grant does have space to um install up to three large-scale temporary murals.

And you know, while murals are not um a focus for the big art loop directly, you know, it's it's more focused on a sculptural pieces, there are so many opportunities on the port to do this, and and the image you see on the top of the slide is a great success that's already out there.

Thank you.

Okay.

On this item um is there any public comment in the room?

And thank you for the presentation.

Any public comment?

Janica do we have any public comment on the phone?

No colours on the phone?

Okay.

I'm now going to close public comment.

Commissioner McNeely sure.

This is I mean it's beautiful, fascinating and and exciting.

I have uh just a couple of questions.

I think one you answered I was going to ask whether or not the permanent exhibits were going to be or the permanent installations were also going to be part of the loop with the instructions.

You had mentioned um some literature the the this your final presentation was what I was a actually thinking about and that was tying it all together.

I mean how how do you how do you as a as a resident or tourist know that it's not a one-off and you admire that but you don't know that there's many others.

Have we considered rather than um creating a um a physical map uh a QR code on your on your phone that that way we avoid the littering and when it's all over and and you could also include information about the artist and their background.

Please come up if commissioners ask questions at the presenters please come up to address them.

Okay, great.

Thank you.

That's a wonderful question.

I should have said it's a bit of a both and so I think the idea is that there is a there is a QR code and that links you to the map the big art loop the big art loop as a citywide initiative has developed a a really good Google map where the QR code that we'll use in the kind of temporary trail markers would route you right to the map.

So the beauty of that is you can see your own blue dot and kind of also see all the sculptures.

So it's pretty navigable in terms of hey where am I and where can I go?

So I think I think yeah the emphasis really is on the digital at this stage is very true.

I think the handout we see is maybe sort of a fun artifact that maybe lives in in you know restaurants or and I think we're being careful to create it as almost something you'd feel really excited to bring home as as a as an artifact that you got on your trip.

Not so much you know a leaflet that you feel like you're just gonna kind of toss out because totally that's that's on our minds too and you know I think every aspect of this there's a bit of testing.

So it's not it's it's sort of to run a first small run of the map handouts how do they do but also monitor traffic in terms of um how people are visiting the QR code and and kind of seeing the results of that as well.

But yes definitely both and excellent it also gives you an opportunity as you said to um to um um to see how many people are actually utilizing and how long they stay on the app and all that.

So great information great report thank you.

Exciting thank you.

Commissioner Lee um well when I I was there when you guys launched the first one and I thought was um my thoughts are what I like about them is they're so massive I mean they're huge.

And it's such a learning experience you see the kids looking at the whale and and everything's kind of related and I'm looking at the new pieces.

Everything is Instagramable which is great for social media.

So that's really great.

What I was worried about in the beginning was upkeep you know and I noticed that especially like the the big fish down at you know near the ballpark and stuff I don't see any graffiti on it.

I don't see I mean that I mean that's amazing how things are so clean.

I think the get the more outreach going just like that that taxi stand and I saw that lady holding the sign.

You can't hit everybody and you don't have the manpower to give out these flyers.

I mean maybe you know uh like there's an art fair going on at Fort Mason, you know I mean you should have brochures and say hey go see these things around the city.

I mean I also have kind of an art gallery in Chinatown we could put the brochures there when people the tourists come in and they could see that I mean there's a lot of galleries around the cities that you can put these flyers and people might like these things.

So the QR code's great uh has a lot of information.

But I think maybe you should think about a competition.

You know a citywide uh competition and some kind of you know media blitz and say hey how many artworks can you find I mean the it the whole thing is about experience and that's what's bringing the younger people back.

You know they're tired of being home on their computers.

They want to actually get out.

They might not be drinking as much but they're doing more things you know to get the experience.

And that's what I'm doing right now with my businesses is really expanding the experience.

I think I think to get that out, and once they get there and to see how big it is.

My only question is when the program is over, where do these where do you put these things?

You know, I'm I mean, are you gonna sell them or are they gonna be auctioned?

I mean, put in the world.

They're borrowed.

They're going back home to wherever their homes are.

Oh wow.

We hope we'll get new ones.

I mean, that's really the the hope is that we can partner with this philanthropic partner and others to get new ones.

But these are all borrowed.

I mean, they're so huge.

I can't that's her problem.

She operates crazy.

You need a barge just to pick it up, you know.

You weren't there for the whale installation.

Um the just to your question about maintenance.

We were also very nervous, and every piece has done so well.

It's a combination of factors.

Um our maintenance department trained our on-the-ground folks to look every day around and at the art and report any issues really quickly.

And then Building 180 has a team and the foundation pays for them to come out and fix things immediately.

So there have been small issues, but very few.

I mean, it's amazing how you've how fast you got them up, and they're so big, and then they'll I mean it's it's so clean.

I mean, I can't I have to give the port credit, you know, and staff for for getting it done, and how it's in such great taste.

And like I say, it's it's everything from the picture frame to I mean, everything is so experience, you know, and that you guys are on the right track, so uh I I can't wait to see more.

Thank you.

Commissioner Adams.

This is this is a good fit, I think, for San Francisco.

I really uh appreciate it because the artist it's uh it's it's out of the box thinking, which I really enjoy, but also it gives it gives the waterfront an edge, but yet it has an intellectual part of it.

And this has been a great reset for the port, and I think we need more of that.

And I think that we want people to come down to the waterfront and to come out and see something like this.

I think it's so engaging for people.

And I don't care if you're a business person, you're a student, you're on your roller skates.

I mean, you're just walking down, you look at this and you go, where did this come from?

And it's also I think it's good exposure for the artist and for them willing to share with us.

I think that's huge for us here in San Francisco and to showcase our port.

And it gives us certain energy having these structures here.

Um I'm really excited, and I can't wait for director Mike Martin to do his commercial and Mike Martin, here I am, Mike Martin walking around and and you do a day following Mike around and he takes you around, and you know, and you go, where's Mike Martin Hydenet today?

And you go down there on the waterfront and you get a prize if you can find director Mike Martin.

Really serious, I think it would be good for someone.

They would like that if you go you get a prize, if you can go down there and you can find out which one of these is Mike Martin Hindlin.

So thank you.

Love it.

Um thank you.

Um this is a a great um I like uh all the comments, and this is a really interesting.

I really appreciate the context that we heard today.

Is it it's really helpful?

I guess I I just want to ask some questions about how does this I think one thing that we're trying to do is collaborate with our sister agencies around the city more.

So I'd like to hear a little bit about how are we how are we collaborating with the arts commission?

How are we collaborating with, we're lucky to have world-class museums here like um SF MOMA and the Fine Arts Museums?

Um then we have some incredible art pieces on our waterfront already, like how does this relate to the Oldenburg or the you know, I understand there's some challenges with the Ruth of Sava sculpture being maintained or both trying to I wonder just because I I've I've uh nothing but supportive of this program and I think it's great.

I just wonder like where we're we're what's the ambition around this?

Like are we because I think San Francisco is at a uh turning point in its identity.

I mean, you you read some articles and you think, oh, there's no artist left in San Francisco, like the demise of the Art Institute and CCA.

Like how is the how is the waterfront showing up as a new chapter in the city as an arts destination?

And you think about places around the world that are doing this well, and there are a lot of them.

And I've I've lived here, you know, I think about you know how inspiring uh it must have been 20 years ago, that Mark DeSuvoro show at the Chrissy Field was.

I mean, that was incredible.

And that that um, you know, I just wonder like what is our ambition around this?

Because I I and I'm uh one slide that it was in here that showed the whole city art walk.

I I think that's amazing.

And I don't know, I just I'm supportive, but I'm just I'm curious now.

Too, because you've you've really like we've started a conversation.

I wonder how far do we want to go and how do we keep pushing ourselves because I think this has like incredible potential, and I'm just wondering like the the the two year, like we've already solved for the two-year thing, it feels like great, that's wonderful.

But like what's next and where do we want to go?

Well, I think um the port has been lucky with the opportunities that have presented themselves given the changing landscape for the arts and the fact that big expensive buildings are no longer succeeding as homes.

We have the public space and we have the less expensive, well, still expensive, but less nice buildings.

And so we're, you know, with Pier 24, we're gonna put an ICA exhibit in there and Pier 29, you know, with CAS project and all this art.

It's these were opportunities that the waterfront is a really good fit for.

So um that's in the near term.

You know, I can't speak to the actual long term of how do we house the arts in San Francisco, but I think this is how people are wanting to experience the arts in a more informal and free kind of encounter.

Um with respect to the arts commission, um, and I can let Meredith talk for a minute too, but you know, we're the arts commission is a partner sort of gently in this, but because we're not under their jurisdiction, it's we're not going through the process with them so they know about it.

They, you know, they're approving the other pieces that are off port jurisdiction.

But frankly, they haven't had the resource to commission art very I mean we we have Moreas, we've had we've had commissions, but there haven't been those kind of resources, so they also are supportive of the fact that like this is an opportunity um right now.

And then other partners, um, you know, we've started to pull together different waterfront stakeholders that are interested in this.

So the exploratorium comes to a meeting that we have every couple of months, and um, you know, the ferry building who has some art and has been doing art events, and so we're trying to create a kind of loose network.

But in terms of the formal arts institutions, um I wouldn't say that um the ones that are not with that don't have a presence on the waterfront, we don't have any formal relationship yet.

And as for a longer term vision, I um I think the longer term vision for me is just like these are layers on a walk that's got art but also has other things.

We we could use more recreation and more affordable food and all sorts of things.

So it's it's it's all of that to me.

Do you want to and she knows something about the Ruth of Sawa?

Oh no, I won't speak to Ruth, but I just do want to know that we do work closely with the Arts Commission and Wreck and Park is our other main partner in this endeavor.

And so actually tomorrow presenting six pieces to the Arts Commission for approval from their commission board.

Um but just to speak about the you know, Oldenburg and and and what this market is that we're doing, it's it really is an emerging market, and we are supporting emerging artists, and I think that that is a different landscape than the Capital A art market, and that's okay.

And we're we aren't taking funding from those long-standing institutions.

We're inviting other people to be an involved in a new um and a new um wave of arts in San Francisco and in general, or encouraging people to use their their tech resources and their and their money that they've earned in San Francisco to put it back into San Francisco, which is what our seed partner of the Sibrandi Foundation has done so wonderfully in supporting this project.

Um and I think there's room for everyone really, and it doesn't just have to be institutionalized our work, it it can be a new form of artwork, and we're really putting money into the hands of of new artists and really giving them recognition that they deserve Thanks.

Thank you.

Um this is just such an exciting project, and I think it's really, as we've heard, helped our businesses, help bring people back to the waterfront.

And I will say the awe of especially children at all these sculptures, how digestible it is to very young children and older children, has just been amazing to watch.

I'm absolutely supportive of this project and of us of us doing this, and we're fortunate to have these pieces for two years um on our waterfront.

I did have one question though for Meredith, and this is I think just more off of because I I you know, not to opine on it, but you know, there was a recent chronicle story sort of giving a different lens to the art that's been part of the big art loop, and particularly for big Bayview Gateway on the Southern Waterfront.

Um I was just curious if there was any solicitation of local artists from the Bayview or any how how do you do the solicitation for the art to ensure besides having an international presence that we also invite our local artists and particularly BIPOC communities to participate in this.

Yeah, absolutely.

Um we did just place an artwork um down in at India Basin with a uh BIPOC artist named Zulu Harrow.

It's called Whispers of Waste.

He's also a local artist.

Uh Gazelle Dasti, the artist that's in Bayview Gateway is also a local artist from San Francisco.

Um and she's an Iranian American woman.

Um we are we have an open call for artists.

So the way that the call is distributed is through our website, through newsletters, through other arts organizations, the arts commission has put it forth as well.

So the the opportunity is open to every everyone.

We do want to support international artists and local artists, and we definitely keep an eye on the percentages of you know who's from where and um all of the things all the things that we need to be looking at so that we're we're diversifying the artist pool and you know, not just doing it from one area for another, but spreading the wealth and the love.

No, I think that's a great clarification because I'm the big myth buster, so mythbuster that not all our art is coming from the garage of burning man.

So I think that's just really important for the public to understand that there are local artists um participating and that it is an open call.

That was an issue when this first was before commission a couple of years ago on the case.

Yeah, we're we're also we're we're acutely aware of of the criticism we've received from that.

But we also want to embrace the culture of Burning Man.

It started here.

Um there aren't a lot of pre-existing sculptures that exist in the world that are that are just available uh that were just you know in storage that can have a second life.

We're also keeping an eye on on those metrics as well in terms of what has gone to Burning Man, what has received funding from Burning Man and what has not, and trying to keep it a mixture of of all the things so that we're not leaning heavily to to to one side or the other.

No, I super appreciate and by no means was where my comments to criticize Burnham in any kind of way.

I just meant I think it's I I've been on this kick lately.

I think folks have a lot of preconceived notions or myths and think they believe things that actually aren't true.

So I wanted to give an opportunity for you to explain, particularly for us as a public trust, that many of the artists along our waterfront, and particularly on the Southeast Waterfront, which I think we as a commission um have a sensitivity to um even more strongly than we normally do involve community and involve a community um that hasn't always had shoreline access or other access due to the industrialization of that part of the waterfront.

So the fact that we have local artists who are contributing from those communities, I think is amazing, and I appreciate all your efforts in that.

Thank you so much.

Yes.

Sure.

And I want to follow up with the president.

I want to follow up with President Gilman within about the uh diversity.

But you know, when I looked at this presentation, it makes me remind me of the song when I was growing up, taking it to the streets by the Doobie Brothers.

And that's what's really happening, taking it in the streets.

And don't forget Mike Martin has made himself available, taken in the streets, and the doobie brothers will be Michael McDonald.

Thank you, Commissioner.

I think on this high note, um I um I'm gonna close this item and ask for the next item, please, Jenica.

Item nine is new business.

Thank you.

So, Mike, actually, I'm sorry, before you get to what you recorded, I did um we have what everyone recorded, but I also I just also wanted to add something I didn't say in the director's report.

I'd like to have an informational presentation on um the um the private firework shows that have been happening on the Northeast Waterfront, particularly at Pier 27, um, and how community outreach is done as a commissioner who received many phone calls um from neighbors.

Um I think we need we should have an informational about that to understand how how we do public noticing.

I think that's a great idea, and it will help us push that out to people to be uh how how we can keep keep people in the know next time.

And also we're looking to expand what we do do based on that experience.

So appreciate that.

Um I've recorded a few new business, including apparently amending the grant so that I'm part of the art loop somehow.

Um let's see, uh water taxi uh Commissioner Lee's comments about water taxi signage and kind of our ongoing hope that water taxi becomes more of a reliable service coming back to you with more information about that.

Um births and restaurants and having sort of the the sale up uh uh uh community.

Um we can provide more information about different opportunities that have had that that haven't really come back, uh, but also our public guest stock opportunities and where that might might align.

Um we talked a little bit about the crab season schedule, but we can come back with a little more on that.

Um we'd like to come back with a WR uh waterfront resilience program funding update.

I think we get a little further in this congressional process so we can report on how how what kind of traction we get.

So I would say that's in the next few months.

Um but I think that's all I recorded.

Is there other new business?

Is there any other new business commissioners?

I asked a good question.

Um I um during the naming of the plaza made a suggestion about uh thinking about um sponsorship or or uh uh philanthropy that could go along with that.

Is that during the three-month process that we all just agreed to is is that now that I've suggested that, will that become part of the process to sort of explore what um how a clause like this sustains itself.

So I I have a couple of thoughts on that.

One is we do have uh a group working on interpretive signage to get at the historical aspect of what you're doing that we're going to be posting.

So we'll bring that back as an information item on its own as we kind of come closer to the plaza.

Um in terms of sponsorship for the plaza itself.

Um it is a public uh improvement, and we're definitely working with the CBD uh to to sort of activate it and so we can come back with some more about that.

I also want to note that we have the Fisherman's Warfare Revitalized Project that is seeking to do an experiential museum uh using their private capital.

Um and so maybe when we c they are actually um in the process of of of updating their designs for Pier 45 that includes that.

And so that can be sort of a piece, I think, of our answer.

Um so I would suggest we kind of keep talking about this topic through those um uh through those information items and those updates and see what we can knit together that sort of layers on top of that work.

Does that does that resonate?

Yes.

Okay.

I got one extra just on top of my head because of public process.

The uh the naming and the petition, I mean, it's great.

But I mean uh in the three months that we planning, we don't expect any no, right?

Well, I mean the policy my understanding, Mike, you can correct it.

My understanding is the policy is in this three-month waiting period, they work on design, they work on interpretation.

Um it's also a bit of a a letting the milk cool a little bit for you.

So that in the future someone may say, you know, name it today, and you can point to the policy and say, we're definitely interested in that.

This is our process, and there's going to be a three-month waiting period.

So that you know if if there's some major event, there's there's a chance to take a step back from that.

That's the real idea of the waiting period.

Right, and uh yeah, and I will say we're not gonna have this on consent.

We'll have this because we'll have designs, silicon and things.

We will be hearing this as an action item in in three months.

I think that's a good thing.

I think I think the concern was that um La Roca might come forward now and say that their family heritage like the Plaza named after them.

I'm using that as an illustrative example to the LaRoka family.

So I I think that's what Commissioner Lee was worried about, but my understanding.

Well, this is our way to get it out, right?

Like people know this is coming.

And if you hear comment and your goings around this community, if we hear comment, we'll definitely bring that back to you.

But there is an action at the end of this three months.

I just remembered uh a time in Chinatown when we were naming something.

That was a nightmare.

Yeah.

Um, I was gonna ask, and if if if in that process during this three-month period, I don't know what kind of due diligence is being done, but given the historical nature of what's been going on in the city and naming rights, and then people finding out certain things about certain names and histories and all that.

If the due diligence includes that, you know, kind of is there anything surfacing that might embarrass the city at some point if if that name were to go forward.

There's certainly that in relation to specific persons naming.

Part of why we're naming it Ali Odo's Plaza is to honor the restaurant and everybody that worked with it.

So it's a little it's a little different.

But but to your larger point, that is absolutely something we want to make sure we do that due diligence on.

Um but ultimately we're honoring our partners at the restaurant that really helped us make helped make Fisherman's Wharf what it is.

Yeah.

And I just think to that point, I do want to say one thing I just as a reflection.

Um is there's great the great the great grandfather, and I'm not I'm not a historical expert on the Allieto clan.

Um but um I think it was either his brother or his cousin was also like our first superintendent when we had superintendents of San Francisco, but no one really knows that side of the family.

Um they weren't involved in the restaurant, they're just cousins.

So I actually do think in some ways I want to lift up this way of honoring without it being a human being that we could a decade from now have someone come forward with an allegation.

Because it I just think I like that it is because of some protection from this.

We're not naming it Joe Ali Odo or the grandfather Alia.

We're naming it the Plaza, which I just think is an important I really appreciate what you said, but I think it's also a really important nuance.

Which, you know, it is is a little different.

Yeah, I mean I I I think so, but um, you know, five years from now, it could be a distinction without a difference.

I mean it just says Ali Odo.

I mean I think I I do think we should do in this three months period, let's do due diligence to make sure there's no skeletons in the closet.

That's all.

Um and then we will hear it as an action item.

And if if we're gonna do it.

We could just see what we've seen in the last couple of days.

I mean, I think it's I think in spirit.

I mean, in spirit, we want to do that because they they they were there.

They were the founders.

But who knows?

And we know that people will leave and attack you when you did.

Yes.

I mean, it's just about the limits no more.

So just give everybody the opportunity.

So we we have a three-month waiting period where the staff of the Port of San Francisco will be doing their due diligence and as much background checking as they can to make sure that we have efficacy in naming this plaza, the Alley Odo Plaza after the restaurant, and we will be back here for an action item in 90 days.

Um and any findings from the staff, the staff will um be in conversation with us and the family.

I'm sure it's all gonna be great and fine.

Sounds good.

I'm gonna end this conversation.

Uh I think there's no other new business.

So do I have a motion?

Um do I have a motion to adjourn?

So moved.

Thank you.

All in favor?

This meeting is adjourned at 5.06 p.m.