the staff are not really sure either. what are the costs to the port? we do not know. future infrastructure, financing mechanisms, actual cost for work at pier 80 -- this may or may not be in the $25 million of infrastructure work. pier 50 -- the cost of accommodating super kyats -- yachts, we do not know. there is an attachment of $890 million. i do not know if that is one year or what. we are not sure on that. the breakdown of the total city costs for america's cup -- we can take a look at that in the budget i prepared. is the city liable for ceqa preparation, yes. the cost of that document? i am not sure. is that $32 billion going to be raised before the 270? is the city protected first or mr. ellison protected first? do not know. for those of you who follow south beach development policy, you know that is the one that is worth something. it is actually on land. there is that title trust issue. in this term sheet, there is a title and trust swap. what program are we going to put on that? we do not know. what is the value of that parcel? we do not know. piers 30 and

today marks a great achievement for the port. it gives us great pride but it also gives as testimony the wonderful things can happen when leaders come together and great minds work on innovative projects. the port, as i mentioned, is over 100 years old. it is a place of great history. these appears you are standing on were built many years ago and have stood the incredible test of time, thanks to the amazing workmanship with which they were built. tremendous ingenuity has been demonstrated over and over again, and we are doing it again today. today, we get to celebrate our collective ingenuity, so it is with great pride that i introduce our leader, mayor gavin newsom, who, frankly needs no introduction, but i will say one thing -- his accomplishments, particularly in leading local government's response to the environment are too much for me to go into today. i'm here to tell you that this would not have happened without his leadership and support. i want to thank you for prioritizing this project and for making sure that once aga

- and the port make them happen, to get out of the way. we had trouble, but our intent right along was to try to find some way to make it happen. i think that pab evident in what happened on the waterfront, the it is better not because of what we did, but because of what everybody did. that partner -- partnership extends to people like michael and bill who have spoken already, who were just as eager participants as we were to figure out what the hell the public doctrine was and figure out how we could use that to make a better waterfront. to conclude, in some respects, the work we all do is honorable in a way that i do not shy away from saying, and i am really proud to be part of that and feel privileged to have had the ability and opportunity to work with all of you. my wife and i often talk about how lucky we are. we are lucky we were born in the united states to be in such a wealthy and great society. we are lucky to have found each other. we are lucky to have great jobs. i feel like i have been lucky to have the career i have and to ha

we lived off the port of new port. we couldn't even get off the mainland unless there was a boat to do so. that's how isolated we were until they finally put a bridge in. it wasn't like anybody where we lived was rich. but our economy was entwined at the time and it was significantly enhanced for all specially windows with greater means did come to the area on a three-year rotation the compete for the cup. i also participated in some of the cup myself in 1980. i feel strongly that san francisco puts its best foot forward in a unified, as much as we can, collect vised way in trying to secure this. to the general public, i know this has been mentioned but this is a very clumsy process. we're the only city vying for a cup. our competitors are two nation, italy and spain. it is the prime minister who gets to make the unilateral decision of whether their countries are going to be able to successfully vie for the cup. they do not necessarily have to seek the blessing of their parliament or therefore the supervisors in order

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and the benefit of the parks that are there and the port role in environmental education. family-focused birding activities led by the golden gate audubon society. approximately 400 native plants and a limited number of hours for a habitat restoration technician to tend to those plants. and various education materials and supplies. an effective presentation for $110,000, i think. however, although matching funds or not a requirement of the rfp, because lej has a track record, it was able to secure financial commitments from other funding organizations outside of the city -- the u.s. fish and wildlife association, the u.s. epa, and others. considering the financial commitment that those organizations have made to the environmental education programs, lej is bringing another $110,000 worth of services. what does another $110,000 in matching funds get you? it increases the funding for park staff so you would have 1.6 full-time equivalent employees working at the park every day. it gets you a full-time americorps member for six months. they are recent college graduates trying

the port may consider other uses as part of the approval process. term sheet may be amended along term sheet may be amended along with subsequent proposals to

footage of the port of san francisco. there is a program called hbo buzz, it will start being on other films coming out where they highlight the behind-the- scenes for a feature movie. in addition to that, we have professional still photographers that will take photographs of the port, which we will provide for you, as well as moving footage of the port. opportunities to have links to various web sites. the average viewer hit on the hbo web site as 10 million for a feature of this size. there are many promotional opportunities there. the campaign would start in 2011. i am here to answer any questions might have. >> commissioners, can i answer any questions you might have? i have a couple of thoughts. there may be more suggestions that some of our properties undergoing development might be featured, using some of his credit as a public relations, so i want to offer that comment. i know that we will hear some public comment first. >> very good. >> i have one card. >> thank you, commissioners. thank you, staff, for allowing

would be the port. these are proximate depending on the start date and end date. the port will receive about $57,000 per month, or $230,000 for the term of the lease. plus, service valued at $350,000, the total would be called would not be expanding any of its own resources the benefit from these leases because of with awareness of its public opinion with local production persons and i think that those numbers are fairly impressive. in the there were two dollars in there, 50 cents kovac to a, -- into the local economy. home productions is wrapping up to this point, $500,000 locally on local labor. prosing in kind services for the discounted rates i noted. at this time i would like to introduce susanna robins to make a brief presentation. >> the port has been working with the production company to find space for them. a great office space and potential for using the building, just when a production company needs. it would help to draw other productions here in the future. they do not even need to shoot t

to convert the port shed space to commercial space. on the table on page 9, that shows that the board would be paid for the first five years of this lease the base rent. and then the option would total this. as you know, the administrative code requires the board of supervisors to make a finding if it was impractical to award a lease on a sole source basis. this lease was awarded in 1996. it has never been competitively bid. there have been various rituals and extensions. it has never been subject to a subjectbid. mr. benson advises that it was inadvertence that the finding was not included. he also advised us that based on staff reports, the board routinely finds it is not practical. as you know, the port, in the situations, where it is not practical to competitively bid. the port explains that they have maintained this lease on a noncompetitive basis because it has been a good tenant. they feel it has been an excellent tenant. we would typically recommend that any lease renewal be however, if the board agrees, if there's justificatio

you have is the port 80% is under the city's jurisdiction, not the port)lñ pe you have structured an entire deal assuming you can take city portlegy it is in two different places. you aredj÷ assuming you will hae an infrastructure finance district for improvements, and that money is going to come from the parcel that is not it is under city control, but the monlls to the port pirie even more important, you are assuming that you are the redevelopment agency and you can expandwk what the redevelopment agency used to do, which is a tax increment to city property. youdh have 20% of the site. you are assuming you can takeeu 100% of the tax increment with -- buy or lease in"-ñ the city. i do not see anyone from the city on these papers as having endorsed it. !wthe board of supervisors has o agree that you can take general fundpnkuup'd use it exclusively for the port pirie you hideum in these documents. my guess is a number of civilians that read it and understood it is veryfy small. but how does the porthéñ justify taking general tax revenues and dedicating them to the entire financ

at the port separate from the world -- from the american cup events? >> that's a very interesting questions. all of those approvals would have to come through this body. i'm hopeful that in light of this conversation that we would have the support of the board of supervise ors. i know thea with have the support of the mayor's office to try get the port to the position it is that it can even contemplate doing this. >> yet, the mayor is not going to be here -- this mayor won't be here a long type. so it will be the board of supervisors that will -- many might not be here either at the time. >> i have noted that. >> so thank you, director moyer. >> colleagues, i do have a lot of concerns about -- about this resolution before us today as well. and you know, we have a whole process how we do our work here where we often want to follow the rule of the law in terms of approving projects, approving term sheets and approving sequa guidelines for projects. i feel like we're jumping the gun on this to roll out the red carpet. once again in this case, roll out the

four for this opportunity that we have -- thank the port for the opportunity that we have. that goes for my sister. we met with john about two months ago to try to put together something. john expressed his interest in helping with organized labor, and we have been going at it in that light ever since. we look forward to the opportunity. i would like to thank you for this opportunity to speak to you. >> all right, thank you. >> good afternoon. i came today to speak in favor of this. just as a little background, i wanted to go back to where we started in 1999 on the dream of actually doing facilities that would accommodate a water taxi. we put a proposal in and made it one of our gives to the waterfront. it is a fabulous opportunity. we have worked for that many years -- 10 years, i think we have spent. it hundred thousand dollars the first time building new water taxi, and another $100,000 to rebuild it -- it hundred thousand dollars the first time building the water taxi -- 800 the -- $800,000 the first time building a water taxi. we work to get landings. the port staff ha

if you think about that, that really has been the era for the port of development and rehabilitation of all the waterfront, so nothing has been done could have been done without all support. as you probably know, the state lands commission has the very difficult job of interpreting what is exactly the public trust, what it means for the state as a whole, and how it can best be applied to san francisco. i have to commend you and your entire team and being willing to work with us, being able to think creatively. in the time i have been here, and i have to say i think you were one of our first partners that really understood the crossroads that the ford was at in terms of its future, and you step right up to help us, and i'm really grateful for that. it means a lot to me personally, and i hope you will counted among your many accolades and legacies that you are leaving for all of us. hall is the only person i know that kind referred to himself as a bureaucrat. for the rest of us, that is a four-letter word we do not really appreciate, but he says it with such love and endearment. he has

i have been influential with the development of the port. i advised willie brown to create redevelopment of the port because that is where the money is, and you know that. so i think i know a little bit about real estate, having had that career all my life. the two things that are the worst features of this proposal is the condominiums. there is no need, only greed involved in this condominium. what we do need is affordable housing. everybody knows that. we have an oversupply of condos. i do not care what all those figures are. the underground garage is ridiculous because i defeated the underground garage underneath lot two ferry part because it was not feasible. there is water underneath there. all the developments have to be pumped out. they have to have pumps for the water because there's so much seepage, and it is unbelievably expensive to build. there is no need to cut three jackson. we already have washington and the other one, broadway. the worst hypocrisy is that the study says connect the bay to the water -- i'm sorry, connect the l

to convert the port shed space to commercial space. on the table on page 9, that shows that the board would be paid for the first five years of this lease the base rent. and then the option would total this. as you know, the administrative code requires the board of supervisors to make a finding if it was impractical to award a lease on a sole source basis. this lease was awarded in 1996. it has never been competitively bid. there have been various rituals and extensions. it has never been subje t

to shut down the port of oakland. today they are calling attention to the sentencing of officer johannes mehserle for oscar grant's death. carolyn tyler explains what is going on. >> reporter: the port of oakland came to a standstill two years ago as they protested the war in iraq. now longs shore men say they will protest on saturday to honor oscar grant. >> we're sending a message to the powers that be that justice has to be served here. >> port spokesperson says it's a change in the date of a monthly union meeting. >> all the work schedules are adjusted accordingly. >> reporter: but organizers say 1300 long shore workers will not show up for work. >> the port of san francisco, port of richmond, oakland, benicia, redwood city, if they have anything scheduled for that day, it's not going to move. >> reporter: its battle by both sides of the volatile case to influence public opinion. beyond the protest rallies they are doing it in the bay, carrying messages in the oscar grant case. the unarmed man johannes mehserle sh

is the port plan for this area? >> there are a lot of great ideas. this is extremely expensive to replace it it would not be as economic as purchasing land across the street. there is not a concept of those, including on the seawall lot. we are marion that asset with 332, where we would never be able to make -- we are marion and those assets, where we would never be able to make that work -- we are marion -- marrying those assets. pier 50 is in a growing community. it is a sizable pier. while it would be great, it would be more difficult. if we can work with the access for pier 50, which does not have public access, that would be great. supervisor mirkarimi: with a value, the downturn, how has it been effected? >> as i said earlier, it is pretty much in negative valley. they had to put twice in in order to get to that. we do not have an appraisal on seawall lot 330, but we would need to do that moving forward. pier 50, it is harder to know what the value of that is. our capital plan calls for approximately about $60

down the port of oakland and other ports around the bay. mehserle will be sentenced next month. caroline tyler joins us from the oakland waterfront to explain. >> reporter: they say it will be a day long shutdown on saturday not just at that point but throughout the bay area and a new rally outside oakland city hall as you said trying to influence hearts and minds. the port of oakland came to a virtual stand still as long shore workers protested the war in iraq. now, they say they will do it again throughout the bay area on saturday to honor oscar grant. >> we are sending a message to the powers that be that justice has to be served here. >> reporter: a court spokesperson is down playing the the planned demonstration saying it is simply a change in the date of a monthly union meeting. >> so all the work schedules have been adjusted accordingly. there won't be any significant impact on cargo or maritime operations on saturday. >> reporter: organizers say 1300 longshore workers will not show up for work. >> the port of san francisco, port of

port of san francisco, the port of oakland the port of richmond ports of van nearby shah redwood city. if they have anything scheduled for that day, it's not going to move. >> it's the latest in a battle by both sides of the volatile case. to influence public opinion. beyond the protest rallies there are now dueling boats in the bay carrying messages as a former bart police officer johannes mehserle and oscar grant, the unarmed man mehserle shot and killed on a bart platform new year's day 2009. >> you see the boats out there and you think that's kind of niles but it's not nice. it represents an ugly side of this case. it represents the side of this case where people are angry. >> michael rains is mehserle's attorney. he said there's always been a public relations aspect to the case but he doesn't understand the port shutdown. >> i don't know looking at it from my perspective that achieves something they really should want to achieve. the attorney for grant's family believes it's part of the healing process. >> i think it brings out a good side of the human aspect of society, that peo

the port. >> how does it compare to the other banks? >> they belong to the same family of programs. what is interesting about the grounding bank, we ought to know them for micah finance and that they give loans to the portrait the story is not about credit for it is about such things as asset building for the port. it is about political power building among the poor and most importantly, about a savings programs. the poor may need access to savings much more than the need loans that put them in debt. >> ananya roy, yet made a comparison to some micro financing to subprime loans. explain. >> the book was being written while the subprime crisis here in america was unfolding. i was struck by the parallel between what we were sitting in this world of public capital and the subprime crisis here in the american housing market. i think the idea of micra finance resembles subprime and that they both are responsive to the redlining of certain social groups, some financial institutions -- from the initia

down the ports around the area. they are alling attention to mehserle for the shooting of oscar grant. carolyn tyler explain hass is going on. >> reporter: the port of oakland came to a virtual stand still two years guy as long shore workers protested the war in iraq. now, they say they will do it again throughout the bay area on saturday to honor oscar grant. >> we are sending a message to the powers that be that justice has to be served here. >> reporter: a port spokesperson is downplaying the demonstration saying it is simply a change in the date of a monthly union meeting. >> and so all the work schedules have been adjusted accordingly. there won't be any significant impact on cargo or maritime operations on saturday. >> reporter: but organizers say 1300 longshore workers will not show up for work. >> the port of san francisco, port of oakland, the port of richmond, ports of benitia, if redwood city if they have anything scheduled for that day, it's not going to move. >> reporter: it is the latest in a battle by

as you know, the port, in the situations, where it is not practical to competitively bid. the port explains that they have maintained this lease on a noncompetitive basis because it has been a good tenant. they feel it has been an excellent tenant. we would typically recommend that any lease renewal be however, if the board agrees, if there's justification that you year. supervisor avalos: thank you. we will open this item up for public comment. >> supervisors, you're talking about an area, as a gentleman from the san francisco fire department stated, is under the jurisdiction of the united states navy. in the year 2000, there was a raging fire there. i hope the fire department has spoken to someone in the chain of command and they know what i'm talking about. the gentleman has not alluded to this. what you supervisors and the public at home should know is that when it comes to radiological elements, and that was one of the concerns in the year 2000, the san francisco fire department technically is tendered to address this. the gentleman stated that there were only 20 runs

thank you for coming to appear 27, one of the best ports if not the best appear in all the world. it is great to have you here as testimony of this amazing feat that we are doing. so i just want to call out a few people in addition to the dignitaries on the stage with me, and mayor gavin newsom, ed harrington, jared bloomingfeld, dean brown, and board of supervisors president david chiu as well as the port commission president, rodney fong, megan miller from senator boxer's office, the captain of this fantastic ship, a representative from metro ports, among many colleagues, many from the iowu, will travis, bruce wolfe from the regional quality control board, michele from the quality association of port authorities, captain strode from the u.s. coast guard, welcome. and many more that i'm sure did not make it onto my little card, so thank you very much for coming today. [applause] thank you. thank you. on behalf of all of us at the port of san francisco, we are honored by your presence and your demonstration of partnership. today

the bay itself, the port, -- ok. we are set up for this kind of event in the city. this is a tourist city. of course, we have the hotel rooms and the office space to accommodate

, including the port of oakland. m mehserle claims he accidentally shot grant when he meant to pull his taser. this fight also took center stage during the singing of "america the beautiful" during the seventh inning stretch of the giants game last night. in mccovey cove some boats flew signs that said "justice for oscar grant." a boat owned by johannes mehserle's father had a sign that said "free johannes mehserle." the planned work stop should not have a great impact because they do have a planned work stop once a month and the port authority has had time to adjust the schedule. in oakland, kris sanchez, "today in the bay." >> thank you very much, kris. >>> new developments this morning in the case of cal grads still trapped in iran. scott mcgrew has been monitoring the very latest in the case. >> yeah, good morning. iran has set a trial date this morning. they along with sarah shourd have been charged with spying and this is kind of what everybody has been waiting for or dreading. shourd is free on bail back here