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Good morning, all, and welcome to the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners, regular and special meeting today Thursday, August 11th, 2022. The Board is now in session for both meetings. Our first item for is item a roll call, President Lee. Vice President Renwick. Commissioner Middleton. Here. Commissioner Maruano-Linarez. Here. Commissioner Prozi. Here. Thank you. Our quorum is

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confirmed. Moving on to our next item B, Executive Director Marks, Wajeez Rocajee.

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Thank you Amber and good morning Madam President, Commissioners, Harbor Department staff

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distinguished guests and members of the public. I'll begin this morning's remarks with a short

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video concerning the Port of Los Angeles sponsored community boat tours that took place on Saturday, July 30th.

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Dustin, please play the video.

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We're celebrating World Trade Week in July.

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Traditionally, we host our boat tours in May in honor of World Trade Month, and we kind

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of share with the public and our families and friends the importance of international

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trade, all the goods and services that come through the ports.

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Today, we have about, I want to say, nearly 3,000 folks joining us, so it's very exciting.

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We haven't done this in three years, so it's great to have this great turnout.

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every bud's been so positive, everyone is excited and we're excited to have

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everyone back. On the boat tour they're good to see gantry cranes, they'll get to

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see cargo ships up close. Even maybe a sea liner too, a sun baby. It's very nice

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about to appear for a hundred. They come back around the bridge. How many

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opportunities do you get to see the Vincent Thomas bridge from beneath the bridge?

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And you'll get to see the battleship Iowa, SS Lane Victory as well as the

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XC and Irving Johnson tall ships.

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It's a lot to see they're beautiful

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and you don't get to do that every day.

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We really appreciate everyone who came out today

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to celebrate this with us, families, friends.

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They brought their dogs, they brought their pets.

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It was an amazing turnout

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and we're just so honored and grateful

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that our community loves us

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and we love them and we've got to spend the day together

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and we'll see you next year.

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Many thanks for our own Sheila Gonzalez

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of Community Relations for coordinating

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this successful event.

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Now, for the latest on the import container 12E, directed at ocean carriers. Initially expected to take effect back on November 15th, the fee will remain on hold until at least Friday, August 26th.

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It's important to note that since the fee was announced nearly 10 months ago, no monies have been collected.

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We'll continue to monitor this data and reassess the fee implementation accordingly in the days and weeks ahead.

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As an update, the San Pedro Bay Ports had a peak decline of 71 percent combined in that

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aging cargo on the docs since the fee announcement in late October of last year.

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As of this past Friday, August 5th, the combined percentage reductions due to 26.

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Data from the LA Port Optimizer today indicates that Los Angeles specifically, as import containers

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Enter sitting on the docks have dropped by 36% since October 24th.

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That's down from nearly 95,000 container units to 60,500.

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Cargo sitting nine days or longer has dropped by 39%,

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from 37,400 to just shy of 23,000 units.

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All this since October as well,

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and it's now climbing primarily because of rail.

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As has been shared in this setting for a number of meetings now, rail volume has increased

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sixfold in the past several months and is just not able to move off the docs fast enough.

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Railboxes are currently waiting 8.2 days to get on a train here in Los Angeles.

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That's nearly four times the dwell period compared to pre-pandemic days.

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More on this in a few moments, but as I state every board meeting, this issue continues to be a focal

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point of the Biden-Harris administration and the port and supply chain envoy retired

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four-star general Stephen R. Lions.

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Now for the latest on our port operations.

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On Monday of this week our port police led by Chief Tom Gasey captured drone footage

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of the vessels at anchor as well as our marine terminals.

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As you can see on the screen, the number of container ships at anchor within the 40 nautical

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mile radius of the port complex remains extremely low. In fact, per yesterday's report there were no

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container vessels headed to the San Pedro Bay within that 40 nautical mile mark and it must be said

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we answered the call of the community who saw it at time when vessels were anchored close to our

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neighborhoods the pollution was increasing. The industry rallied to answer those concerns.

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There were, however, nine container vessels awaiting birth assignments, six destined for

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Los Angeles and three for Long Beach.

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As a baseline comparison, there were 89 vessels under these parameters back on November

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16, which is when the new queueing system went into place designed by the private sector.

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We saw a peak of 109 vessels at anchor back on January 9th of this year.

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Concerning our marine terminals, you can see from the drone footage that they look about

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the same as they did at this point last year.

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Truck cargo is moving smoother, however the issue with on-dock rail remains, as already

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noted.

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Yesterday, there were 14 container vessels at birth and working here at the Port of Los Angeles,

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so 40% more than our average prior to when the surge began.

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The dwell time of containers here at the Port of Los Angeles on terminal over the last

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month is standing at 4.4 days well off its peak of 11 days dwell time. And the

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on-dock rail dwell time over this past month stands at 8.2 days while off the

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peak of 13.4 in more normal times you'd see on-dock rail cargo waiting

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about two days. Containers and chassis dwelling off terminals as of the last

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30 days stands at 9.7 days, inching towards that peak of 11 days, and back when things were a

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little more normalized, we would see the dwell time on the street at about three and a half days.

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The number of containers waiting to be loaded to OnDoc Reel here in Los Angeles stands at just a bit

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more than 33,000 units, 20,000 of which are nine days or older, and concerning our empty containers

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at Port of Los Angeles Marine Terminals and near dock facilities. We stand at 53,600 units

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and that's a pretty good sweet spot for us to load those back against the vessels.

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Before moving to the recap of my business meetings, just a few comments about the vessels

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in route to the San Pedro Bay from Asia and on dock rail imports waiting to be loaded.

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First, let's take a look at the vessels in route. We have 46 container ships that have departed

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toward Asia, traversing the Pacific. That's a very solid number showing continued strong

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import volume as we go through our traditional peak season. And there are only nine container

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ships waiting to enter the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach at anchor between the 40 and

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150 nautical mile range. Down from 109 in January, we've been steady state now in single digits

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for the past week and continue to work through this backlog of cargo. Great credit to the International

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Longshore Warehouse Union, the Marine Clerics Forum and all others involved as well as our marine

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terminals, trucking groups and liners shipping companies. Concerning the on-dock rail imports

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that await loading, busy slide, but in the green block middle.

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You see the 33,000 container units there on the ground, and more than 20,000 that have

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been sitting nine days or longer.

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Bottom line here is that the inland rail terminals in locations like Chicago, Memphis, Dallas,

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look like the ports did last year.

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They're simply overloaded with cargo, and the importers here in the United States need

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to pick up their containers much quicker so we can load up the next crane and get them out

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of the Los Angeles area.

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This graph shows the breakdown of the aging containers between

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both the Union Pacific Railroad and the BNSF. The numbers continue to climb and we're working

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around the clock with both companies as well as the administration and other private sector parties.

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And now for my meeting recap over the last two weeks. Since we last met on July 28th,

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I've had eight media interactions, including birch tool and telephone interviews, as well

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as taped and live segments for CBS, City News, the Journal of Commerce, CNN, News Nation,

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Yahoo Finance, Transport Topics, and Local News Radio Station, KNX 97.1 FM.

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Topics discussed were all about the supply chain, organized labor, inflation, China-Taiwan

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on issues 2022 outlook cybersecurity and our nation's leading

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port optimizer. Also occurring this reporting period where the

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standing weekly supply chain disruption task force meetings led

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by general lions, usdot and key stakeholders. We've had check in

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calls with the White House on the free logistics optimization

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works and our biweekly supply chain optimization and resilience

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steering committee meetings also known as score. Other

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After important meetings or as follows, beginning Friday, July 29th of the morning, we'd

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a Zoom call with Martin Overman, the surface transportation board chair and his team.

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I was joined by David Libetique and Avine Sharma.

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Later that afternoon, we had a coordination meeting with active via Zoom.

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I was joined with Marla, Mike D, David Libetique, Tony Juello, and Mike Luay, the managing director

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of active.

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In the evening, I attended and provided remarks at the first annual ILWU Women of the Waterfront

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event in Long Beach.

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Many thanks to our friend Fran Grove of ILW Local 94, one of our walking bosses for

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the invitation to participate in this inaugural event.

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On Monday morning, August 1st, I joined the CAPA Zoom meeting where retired Army 4 star

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General Stephen R. Lyons was the keynote and shared his updates on the current port

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and supply chain issues facing him as our new envoy.

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In the afternoon, I had a meeting with former Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Trade Representative

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Mickey Cantor in Santa Monica.

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That afternoon by a Microsoft Teams, I had a meeting with Scott Dickerson of CMACGM shipping

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line to discuss the port's cyber-resilience center.

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The meeting was led by our Port Police Chief Tom Gazing.

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In the afternoon, we had a meeting with Councilman for the 15th District Joe Buscaino in his

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San Pedro office.

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Tuesday afternoon, the 2nd of August joined the Northern California on ramp stakeholders

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meeting by a Zoom, organized by Don Barton of Gold River Orchards.

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Reps were present from the BNSF as well as CMACGM.

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I was joined by Mike D and our marketing team led by Eric Harris.

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This is all an effort to work with various sectors of California's agriculture community

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and get their cargo moving.

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As a side note, it reported recently in the media, here in the state of California, we are

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storing 2 billion pounds of almonds, 2 billion with a B, because they can't find transport

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space.

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And our job is to bring those parties together to get those goods to their overseas markets.

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In the afternoon of August 2nd, we had another Zoom meeting with Martin Oberman, the Surface Transportation Board Chair,

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and Joe Gregorio Senior of Pacific Crane and Maintenance Company to talk about land use opportunities

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and how best we can start pushing out more of our designated rail cargo.

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David Libetique and Avine Sharma joined me for that meeting.

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In the evening with Mike DiBernardo and Eric Carris, we had a business dinner with Paul Navarro of Costco.

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And on the 3rd of August in the afternoon, I had a business lunch with Joe Gatlin here in San Pedro at Raffiella.

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Thursday morning, the 4th of August, we had a meeting at HAB with Mariam Brown, President and Neil Naven, the Vice President for Clean Energy Innovations of SoCal Gas,

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talking about the hydrogen hub concept and better ways to navigate our future

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towards zero emission capabilities here at the port and with on-road trucks.

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Monday evening on the 8th of August, I attended an event at Ambassador Jane

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Duke's home, the Australian Consul General. The featured speaker was Senator, the

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honorable Don Ferrell, who was a spray-as-appointed minister for trade and

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tourism. The afternoon of Tuesday August 9th, I had a meeting with

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with Nilsa Serrano, working on our project at AB 59

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under the guidance of our State Secretary of Labor

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and with the team from Guggenheim Investments

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in Santa Monica.

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The ideas here are to create these inland ports

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and other opportunities to bring folks

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that are our customers closer to the port.

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Yesterday morning, August 10th,

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I joined the California inland port system project

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meeting by Zoom, led by Tony Boren

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of the Fresno Council of Governments.

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And yesterday evening, I joined the USC Kendrick Global Supply Chain Institute Executive Board

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meeting, followed by a reception aboard the Harbor Breeze Vessel Triumph in Long Beach.

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And a bit of outstanding news before I conclude my remarks this morning.

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Yesterday, California's Senators, Diane Feinstein, and Alex Padilla announced the eight local

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government's

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It's transit agencies and tribes in California that will receive more than $119 million in grants

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from the U.S. Department of Transportation. This funding comes from the rebuilding American

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infrastructure with sustainability and equity. Discretionary grant program also known

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as raise. The bipartisan infrastructure law that senators voted to pass last year increased

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the funding available for the RAIS program, which will help communities modernize transportation

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infrastructure. Specifically, the Port of Los Angeles will receive $20 million for our

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Maritime Support Access Terminal Island Rail System Project. This project will construct a

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four-lane rail roadway grade separation that will eliminate a significant impediment to truck

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access to an important container terminal support facility located on Terminal Island

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at the center of the San Pedro Bay Port's complex.

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Additionally, yesterday, the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration

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awarded a $3 million advance transportation and congestion management technology's deployment

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grant to our Gateway Project.

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The grant will help us here at the Port of Los Angeles deploy advanced technologies to improve

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trucking, grayage, and terminal operator activities. This grant will accelerate our digitized data systems

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to further improve fluidity at the nation's busiest container port. With our port optimizer,

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the first of its kind information portal, we've proven that we can streamline maritime shipping data

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for cargo owners and supply chain stakeholders through secure channeled access.

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Many thanks to the federal government and so many agencies that helped us

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participate in these grant awards by selecting the Port of Los Angeles to be

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recipient of these grant funds and to the staff here at the Harvard Department for

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working so diligently on applying for the grant funding for our critical port

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projects. And what these grants do are accelerate our ability to deliver projects

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in the bricks and mortar infrastructure space as well as our industry leading digital

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infrastructure platform, the Port Optimizer.

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Madam President, that concludes my remarks for this morning and wraps up yet another

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busy two weeks here at America's Port.

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Thank you so much, Shane.

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Congratulations also.

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So exciting about all of the grant funding coming through the race programs.

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So congratulations on that at this point.

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I'd like to open it up to any commissioners who have questions for the executive director.

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Thank you for that report, Jean.

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Just two comments. One, thank you for acknowledging Sheila Gonzalez and the staff that put together the boat tours.

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The boat tours were very exciting, but I was also thrilled to see people crowding the docks along the new promenade.

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And I think it's a harbinger of things to come and how wonderful it will be when West Harbor is officially open

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and there can be more access to the community.

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Great videos.

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Also, I mean, it really has to be noted,

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when you go from 109 vessels waiting

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to none within the 40 miles,

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and only nine, half the 40 miles,

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and only six destined for LA, tremendous progress.

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Congratulations.

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I hope the community can join with us

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and acknowledge the wonderful work that was done, particularly around this issue of pollution

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and how it will help to have those vessels off. Nothing more. Thank you.

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In Commission Middleton on that note, we've worked that backlog down to the nine container ships,

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as you've mentioned, all while continuing box-for-box on the record setting pace that we set just last year.

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So the work of our longshore and all the other members of our supply chain that I mentioned have been at the highest levels

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while going even further to work down that backlog. Appreciate your recognition.

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I was going to say a couple things presently. Gene, thanks for that clarification and thank you, Commissioner Middleton.

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I was thinking the same thing as you were talking. We're still hitting records and we burned down the backlog and the

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the ILW team and industry and everybody working to resolve this all the way up to the administration has been just amazing.

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So thank you for your leadership, thank you for the leadership of ILW and everybody involved to make that happen.

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I wanted to also thank the recognition of Sheila Gonzalez for the attended public tours.

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Wow, I didn't realize there was going to be 3,000 people there. I thought that was fantastic to note that and show that.

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and people are excited to get out.

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I'm sure there was a lot of employees there.

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Folks at work on the docs have brought their families

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as probably like a family date,

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like bring your family to work day or something.

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So that's fantastic.

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And then I was gonna ask you regarding the grant funding.

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What's the timeframe of receiving that you may have said?

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I may have missed it, but what was the timing of that?

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I read that, I thought was great.

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And I was just wondering what the timeframe of that was

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to receive those grants.

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Yeah, we want the grant funding to come on yesterday, Commissioner, but in the days and weeks ahead we'll learn more from the USDOT and the Federal Highway Administrator on exact timelines and the progress that they'll be making to push the money out the door and the responsibilities we have on our project timelines.

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All right, great. Thank you. Congrats, all.

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Thank you so much, Jane.

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I appreciate it. Amber, back to you.

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Thank you.

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Just a note for the record.

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I understand there are people calling in who are trying to view our board,

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meaning which at the time we do have technical difficulties,

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we do understand it's audio only.

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So thank you all for your patience while we've worked through that technical difficulty.

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Moving on to item C, comments from the public on non-agenda items.

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Call Center, I do believe we have one caller, Kathleen Woodfield.

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whatever Kathleen is available, bring her on in.

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Kathleen's been admitted.

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So I'm here.

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Hi there. Welcome.

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Your time will begin.

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Kathleen, your time will begin when you begin speaking. Welcome.

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Okay, this is Kathleen Woodfield from Stampede Joke and

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IntelliHomeowners Coalition.

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My public comment is actually about your public comment process.

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Your process for public comment is so cumbersome.

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that it discourages public comment, other public agencies such as ACUMD have set up procedures

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that make public participation and comment a simple user-friendly process.

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I assume your goal is not to discourage public comment, but that is the outcome.

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Many of my colleagues opt out of giving their input to you because of this.

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Please investigate alternatives that can be implemented to make public comment

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more accessible to the public.

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I know today you're having even more technical problems.

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For instance, right now I don't think anyone is able to see the board meeting.

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at least when I called Joey back that's what he said and I've been looking all over Channel 35

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and the internet to find you. So you're down may have been solved by now. But my experience

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today is no different than on other days which is I put into a dark waiting room and I'm listening

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to this music going over and over and over again on my phone and then I hear you. And that's all I get.

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I have no idea of anything else so please reconsider how you're conducting these meetings for the public because it really shuts us out. Thank you very much.

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You're on your day.

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Thank you.

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Presently, would it be possible in a future meeting to have some kind of report back on this.

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This comment that public comment has burdened some.

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What are other agencies doing that makes it easier than what we do?

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Because I know we have a great IT staff.

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So if there's a way to improve it, I know we'd all be in favor of that.

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The last thing we want to do is shut out public comment.

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So if there are specific recommendations, you know, within the parameters of what it's possible to do, it'd be great to hear them and hopefully implement them. Thank you.

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Yes, I agree. Thank you for that comment and if it's possible to admit that Amber.

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And also, I just spoke with Chris came in here to speak with me and just a reminder that the city

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phone, city council phone rather is a resource for a lot of people if they need to see that.

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Again, we apologize, but the stream is down. Moving on with the meeting, that concludes item C

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for the regular agenda. Moving on with the meeting reports from the neighborhood council representatives,

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there are none to report today. Item E, report to the commissioners.

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should meditate.

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Nothing to report.

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I was going to note this during Jean's comments, but let me add it now.

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I live right above birth 46, and I am delighted to report that there was an event last Saturday

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that apparently went from 9 in the morning till 9 at night, didn't hear a thing.

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So whatever is being done around noise, we should acknowledge whenever it's really good.

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But I personally am in favor of our waterfront getting the greatest use possible without disturbing the neighbors. I'm willing to put up with a little disturbance because I believe in public participation.

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There wasn't a thing to be heard. Good news. Thanks to staff for coordinating that. Thank you. Nothing more.

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Thank you.

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from where you're at, our sound monitor, I think, I think what, you know, making light of it,

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but in seriousness, that's why we have three commissioners on this,

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local commissioners on this commission because we're all kind of in locations that we can monitor

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certain things in our spare time, so thank you commissioner and for stating that. I did want to say

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that, let's see, my report out is I participated in the Harvard Department's softball double

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elimination tournament. As you could see, the trophy is right here on my desk. The team wanted

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me to at least say that the honey badgers won it for the second time last time was in 2019 and we've

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been this is the poor police team by the way. We've been down now since COVID for a couple of years

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obviously and I've been teasing people that we've actually held the trophy for four years but

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then I get some banter from the other teams that have won it actually for four years or five so

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But anyways, in all seriousness, it was fun.

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I wanted to thank everybody who participated,

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who organized it, and it was just nice to get out

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and be with the Harvard Department

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folks playing softball once again.

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I did want to mention, though, we did have before the game,

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we had a moment of silence for an employee

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who suddenly passed away named Tom Crenshaw,

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played on the green machine.

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I mean, I know we will do what we normally do when one of our family passes at one of these meetings that I thought it was fitting to at least.

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I mentioned Tom and his passing and he was an LA city employee for over 21 years, Harvard department employee for over six played on the green machine and was part of the CNM division family.

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So I just wanted to send our thoughts and prayers out to his family, his friends,

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the team, everybody who has known him and worked with him.

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And I just wanted to offer a moment of silence here for him.

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And then I know, presently, we'll do something that probably the follow-up meeting

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and more detail in recognition of Abtong and his contributions.

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So if we can do that, I'd like to take a quick moment of silence.

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Thank you.

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Thank you so much for that commissioner. I look forward to honoring Tom's memory and recognizing his family had a future meeting as well.

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For my work for I do not have anything to report this meeting. Thank you board secretary back to you.

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Thank you.

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Moving on to item at for board committee reports would be for the audit committee meeting of July 28, 2022 commissioner prosy.

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Yeah, so we went over a portion of the agenda we had some time constraints. So there's a few

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items on here. We will continue on to the next meeting, but we discussed grants and updates on

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grants and then the remaining nine items we will discuss at the follow-up meeting at the next

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meeting out of committee meeting. That's all I have. The next item approval of the minutes for the

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I would like to make a motion to approve both sets of minutes.

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So moved.

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Second.

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Thank you roll call vote commissioner Prozi.

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Yes.

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Commissioner Marino Linaris.

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Yes.

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Commissioner Middleton.

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Yeah.

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President Lee.

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Thank you.

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The minutes are approved.

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There are no presentations on a category age or level one closer to

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developments permits for item I. Next, J, board report to the executive director. Consent

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items number one through two. There are no comments on either of these items. Item one is a resolution

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to approve a local permit number 228 with so-called ship services, a California corporation,

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and item 2 was

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The resolution for the approval of dedication of our boulevard as a public street. Motion to approve items one and two. Second, roll call, please. Thank you, roll call, vote, Commissioner prosie. Yes, Commissioner marine on the rise. Yes, Commissioner Middleton. Yes, President Lee. Thank you. Item one and two are approved. Moving on to our next item item number three before we get into the record. There are three commenters.

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for this item. Item three is a resolution for the approval of U.S. Department of Transportation,

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fiscal year 19, court infrastructure development, program funding agreement for the Phoenix

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Container Terminal Intermodal Railyard between the City of Los Angeles, Harvard Department,

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L.H.G. and the U.S. Department of Transportation. And here to discuss today is Sue. Welcome, Sue.

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Good morning, commissioners. I'm Sue Lye,

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Harbor Engineer with the Engineering Division, and I'm here to present item number three for

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your consideration. This is a grant funding agreement with the U.S. Department of Transportation,

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Maritime Administration for the U.S. Department of Transportation, fiscal year 19,

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Port Infrastructure Development Program funding for the Phoenix Terminal Intermodal Railyard.

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Next slide please.

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The project location is highlighted in yellow on the diagram and it's located

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on Terminal Island within Pier 300 Terminal. The project scope consists of expansion of the

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existing rail yard. We can't see any slides. Did you think you put them up? Oh, I apologize for that.

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I don't know if you meant to, I don't want to interrupt.

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Yeah, I did, I did mean to.

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I'm sorry we are having an issue with the slides.

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We're trying to get them up as quickly as possible.

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Okay, thank you. I just have one slide to share.

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And I can, I can speak to it, describe it.

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So it was just a diagram and aerial views showing the project location.

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and this project is going to be expanding the existing rail yard.

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Yes, thank you Commissioner for showing you have a printout of the presentation

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and you'll see on that printout there's a yellow highlighted area

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and that's the project location, right adjacent to the existing rail yard.

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So the project's scope includes expansion of the rail yard and it includes new loading

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tracks, rail signal improvements and civil infrastructure and electrical improvements.

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The total cost of the project is $55.2 million and the project is currently in design.

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Thank you, Andrew.

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the project is currently under design with construction schedule to begin in July of 2023,

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where at that time, the construction division will bring a construction contract for the

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board's consideration. And then completion is scheduled to be done by June of 2025.

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Now, the project has three sources of grant funding.

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The first one pertains to the Funding Agreement under your consideration today,

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which is the US DOT, Port Infrastructure Development Program Funds,

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in the amount of $18.2 million.

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So both Merad and Port Staff have been working closely together

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to meet a deadline of September 30th, 2022,

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to have this funding agreement in place.

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The other two grants for this project

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consists of 8.9 million of US DOT national highway,

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freight program, and state corridor enhancement funds.

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And 10.3 million of state trade corridors improvement funds.

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A funding agreement for both of these grants were approved by the board in August of 2021.

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The project is also funded by our report capital improvement funds in the amount of 17.8

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million.

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This concludes my presentation and I'm happy to answer any questions you may have.

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I guess I have a quick question.

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Thank you for this.

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I think it's great.

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This is what we need to be doing.

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do we know just offhand how many rail lines for this will be there? I can see adjacent to that

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looks like there's three but it's such a high view. I'm not sure three or four but you know what

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that's going to add to some. Yeah. Yes good question commissioner. We're adding five tracks to the

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187. That's fantastic. Okay that's great. So what I wanted to hear thank you if any other questions

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if they don't I'll make a motion to prove. We do have comments. Okay.

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Mr. Middleton. Um, were there any collars on this side of

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member? We have three. Because we're going to take the collars

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before. Are we going to take those? Yeah.

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Before we're trying to do right now. Okay. Well, what would you like to do

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then? Because I want to hear the collars. And you did send us one

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letter from Jasmine Egaladus. And I have questions about her letter. But if there were other comments,

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I just assume listen to everything. Okay. Thank you. We do have three. Okay. Our three callers are

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Kathleen Woodfield, Jan, Jan Victor Addison, and Yasmeen who did write the letter from

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or justice. First caller is Kathleen Woodfield. Call center if you would let Kathleen in.

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All three callers have been admitted. Okay great. Kathleen, you'll be our first speaker. Your time

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will begin when you begin speaking. Okay, can you hear me? Yes, thank you. Hi, I'm Kathleen Woodfield

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with San Pedro Peninsula Home Owners Coalition.

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We oppose this project because for the environmental review,

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for this expansion project is deficient,

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as it relied on behind-the-scenes approval

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and wrongfully used and addenda process on an existing FEIR.

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Environmental reviews need to be thorough and transparent and allow for public input.

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A proper SQL review should not be circumvented in this manner.

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The commission should delay this item until, after a proper sequel, a NEPA review has been

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completed.

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This expansion project will have significant emissions and health impacts for and on the

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community, and it needs to be properly studied.

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Dicbala is very important and should be followed, not circumvented.

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This project should be zero emissions as the technology is currently available.

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I'm really surprised that a $55.2 million project would be addressed in this

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manner and circumvent sequence through a dendiprocess. Thank you.

440
00:38:22,850 --> 00:38:28,570
Thank you for your time. Next caller, Jam. Jam your time will begin when you begin speaking.

441
00:38:31,330 --> 00:38:34,010
Hello, can you join me? Yes, thank you.

442
00:38:35,130 --> 00:38:42,370
Thank you, thank you. Hi, my name is Jam Victor Anderson. I am a resident of the city of Carson and

443
00:38:42,370 --> 00:38:49,850
a number, a senior organizer with GPRD in the age of 25 years

444
00:38:54,420 --> 00:38:57,900
since I've been in the U.S.

445
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:06,780
and I'm meeting today because I found out about this rail yard expansion, I think, just

446
00:39:06,780 --> 00:39:07,660
a few days ago.

447
00:39:08,140 --> 00:39:13,480
And as a resident, it not only has lived in the region, right, I feel, but compact, but also

448
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:15,900
was very invested in environmental issues

449
00:39:15,900 --> 00:39:18,860
and various pointing facilities that affect my neighborhood.

450
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:24,660
I urge the board to lay the board on this process

451
00:39:24,660 --> 00:39:26,880
by which this project is moving forward.

452
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:29,940
Under mines, many of the laws that

453
00:39:29,940 --> 00:39:31,880
are meant to protect frontline communities,

454
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:36,860
living next to places that my hub environment will impact.

455
00:39:37,240 --> 00:39:41,320
I'm really disappointed that it's already here

456
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:47,240
and this place where y'all are discussing about funds versus how have you engaged community

457
00:39:47,240 --> 00:39:53,240
when in my city, in person, there's 100, you know, there's hundreds of thousands of

458
00:39:53,240 --> 00:39:58,080
people and along each, there's half a million people in Romance and in San Piro, you know,

459
00:39:58,180 --> 00:40:00,180
there's so many residents and how are they engaged?

460
00:40:00,660 --> 00:40:05,860
How are they able to voice the potential impacts, but there are, that they're going to be dealing

461
00:40:05,860 --> 00:40:08,140
with as a result of this facility expanding.

462
00:40:08,140 --> 00:40:13,600
Any type of extension that's going to increase emissions, especially after what we've learned

463
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:19,100
in this pandemic, where my community, as a person who will maintain West Long Beach,

464
00:40:19,720 --> 00:40:24,860
are immunocompromised until additional pollution adds additional burden to us when we see

465
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:26,600
global pandemics like this.

466
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:30,320
The poor really needs to delay this process.

467
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:35,560
They need to engage residents and community groups, and that is the letter that I think one

468
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:39,420
the board members was referring to since my organization signed on, along with their

469
00:40:39,420 --> 00:40:39,820
justice.

470
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:47,920
It needs to be a stop to these backdoor behind-the-scenes review process because it undermines

471
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:52,580
the fact that this board is actually supposed to represent and protect the communities and

472
00:40:52,580 --> 00:40:58,420
really think about how projects, yes, well, benefits are economics, but also protect residents

473
00:40:58,420 --> 00:41:00,180
who make sure that our health isn't compromised.

474
00:41:00,180 --> 00:41:07,060
And finally, if there are any conversations about rail reports that the poor of Harvard

475
00:41:07,060 --> 00:41:11,020
commissioners really invest in zero emissions, but we can't move forward with that until

476
00:41:11,020 --> 00:41:18,680
you go through a true transparent and robust process of engaging residents to eat part of this

477
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:20,320
process so that we can voice a concern.

478
00:41:20,720 --> 00:41:25,700
Thank you so much for your time and I really hope that there is a delay to this conversation.

479
00:41:26,060 --> 00:41:26,300
Thank you.

480
00:41:26,300 --> 00:41:34,600
for your time. Our next caller is Yamine. Is it Ag-E-Lidus?

481
00:41:38,980 --> 00:41:41,400
And for the weather. Yes,

482
00:41:41,580 --> 00:41:47,940
Meane did provide a letter which has been provided to you. Welcome. Your time will begin.

483
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:55,400
Hi, this is. Okay, wonderful. Can you hear me? Yes, thank you. Okay, perfect. Thank you so much.

484
00:41:56,980 --> 00:42:03,160
Hi, my name is Yasmin Agiletus, I'm an attorney with Earth Justice and I want to start by saying

485
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:09,340
I really appreciate the opportunity to make Paul the comment today and that I fully support

486
00:42:09,340 --> 00:42:16,960
the testimony that my two colleagues just gave. Yes, I submitted a comment letter along with

487
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:21,960
Health, Environment Suggestions and Environmental Groups yesterday afternoon asking the commission

488
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:29,880
to delay voting on approving the $18 million in federal funding for the Phoenix Railway Project.

489
00:42:30,500 --> 00:42:36,640
We're asking the board to delay this vote until after it's able to perform a new proper

490
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:42,260
environmental review for the project under both Sequa and NEPA. In fact, we think that it's

491
00:42:42,260 --> 00:42:46,620
actually unlawful for the commission to move forward with the funding vote today until it fixes

492
00:42:46,620 --> 00:42:52,020
those environments review documents. So the review documents for this project were completed

493
00:42:52,020 --> 00:42:58,060
in 2012 and the project was then significantly expanded in 2016 and again in 2021

494
00:42:58,770 --> 00:43:03,500
and the expansion proposed last year and approved by the board in the second addendum

495
00:43:04,210 --> 00:43:09,880
was very significant to add at least five tracks and to increase throughput by an additional

496
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:16,800
520,000 TEUs annually, this is a big, you know, these are big changes and we think that

497
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:22,380
just doing a, you know, cursory, non-public addenda to approve that is just not right.

498
00:43:22,980 --> 00:43:28,080
And then under federal law, a project is not able to receive federal funding until a proper

499
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:29,140
need to review is complete.

500
00:43:29,380 --> 00:43:31,140
So that's why we're raising these comments today.

501
00:43:31,780 --> 00:43:35,520
And there's really two reasons why we think the need to review and secure reviews should

502
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:36,080
be redone.

503
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:38,700
First, is that the COVID-19 pandemic

504
00:43:38,700 --> 00:43:41,460
had brought on significant increases in freight pollution,

505
00:43:42,060 --> 00:43:44,660
which were all very aware of from the shipping locomotive

506
00:43:44,660 --> 00:43:47,620
and trucks, and that was not accounted

507
00:43:47,620 --> 00:43:49,540
for any of the environmental reviews for the project.

508
00:43:50,260 --> 00:43:53,040
So we think that new SQL and NEPA reviews need to be done

509
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:56,120
in order to address this increase in pollution.

510
00:43:57,580 --> 00:43:59,480
Just as, you know, and as part of that,

511
00:43:59,580 --> 00:44:03,300
these increased circumstances, there's also cumulative impacts

512
00:44:03,300 --> 00:44:08,660
from the rail yard and other surrounding projects including the increase in shipping

513
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:14,400
that couldn't have been addressed under the current condition. So we think that the reviews

514
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:20,700
need to properly show that and evaluate that. And then second, as my colleagues mentioned

515
00:44:20,700 --> 00:44:25,220
as well, the environmental reviews for the project relied on two, you know, behind-the-scenes,

516
00:44:25,380 --> 00:44:31,060
backdoor approvals. This just isn't acceptable, especially for significant changes to the projects,

517
00:44:31,060 --> 00:44:36,300
like we've seen here. So we really need that all environmental views are going to be transparent

518
00:44:36,300 --> 00:44:41,360
and public in order to comply with CEQA and MEPA. And then finally, you know, if the port of

519
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:46,340
L.A. is going to, you know, if this project does move forward, it should use your mission locomotives,

520
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:50,280
trucks, and railroad equipment. You know, this technology is currently available. We've been

521
00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:56,420
advocating for it heavily because we know that it is a way for industry to be able to meet its needs,

522
00:44:56,420 --> 00:44:58,680
but also not for single communities.

523
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:08,680
Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner, is that does conclude the commenters for item number three at this time?

524
00:45:11,630 --> 00:45:17,350
Sounds like we need report back from council and Commissioner Melton has a question.

525
00:45:20,300 --> 00:45:32,700
May I speak now? Yes. Okay. I'd like to thank the three callers, particularly Ms. Aginitas for the specificity that she provided.

526
00:45:32,700 --> 00:45:40,800
I thought this was a pretty routine resolution, but I think there have been some very serious

527
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:46,980
questions raised, and I'm happy to see, as always, representation from the city attorney,

528
00:45:47,580 --> 00:45:51,620
and I think I don't know if Chris Cannon or someone from that department's around.

529
00:45:52,140 --> 00:45:58,340
But here's what troubles me, and what I find very problematic, and I'd like some answers

530
00:45:58,340 --> 00:45:58,960
on the record.

531
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:06,360
First of all, it appears that there is a deadline to apply for this funding and that staff

532
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:09,920
has been working very diligently to meet that deadline.

533
00:46:10,180 --> 00:46:14,600
And when I'm done, Ms. Ly, perhaps you could address that because we certainly don't want

534
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:18,160
to lose the funding because we haven't complied.

535
00:46:20,220 --> 00:46:28,640
Secondly, my understanding is that rail is considerably better than trucks in terms of

536
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:35,580
pollution and that we want to put as much cargo as we can on rail because it reduces pollution.

537
00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:42,380
So it would appear that anything we could do to further the efficiency of rail transport

538
00:46:42,980 --> 00:46:51,700
is a good thing for the port, for our clients, and for the community. Next, we heard in Mr.

539
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:57,340
Siroka's reports, we're having problems with rail now. We don't want to do anything to delay rail.

540
00:46:57,340 --> 00:47:00,040
We want to do something to improve it.

541
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:07,460
Now, I know the collars, I'm hoping the collars are responsible and would not make allegations

542
00:47:07,460 --> 00:47:16,060
likely when I hear that there wasn't a proper sequel and there are things like circumventing

543
00:47:16,060 --> 00:47:23,840
the process behind the scenes, dealings, backdoor approvals, those all sound pretty horrific.

544
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:28,000
But as a commissioner, I don't want to rubber stand something if that's happening.

545
00:47:28,720 --> 00:47:36,260
So I'm going to ask whoever, Chris, or Sue, to address those because I don't take those

546
00:47:36,260 --> 00:47:42,080
allegations lightly, and I don't think we should be accused of those sorts of things

547
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:43,540
that there's no factual basis.

548
00:47:45,720 --> 00:47:50,440
Ms. Agilita's in her presentation mentioned 2012.

549
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:57,340
Well, there's obviously this enormous time lag between a project being proposed,

550
00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:04,600
SQL and EIR process, everything being put in place, funding being approved, and it coming

551
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:11,520
to the board, to say that we need a more current SQL, it's only going to delay the process

552
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:17,440
another couple of years, and that will then lead to the allegations of conditions of change.

553
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:19,400
Conditions have always been changing.

554
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:22,820
I mean, that's the nature of a dynamic port.

555
00:48:23,580 --> 00:48:25,900
So those are some of the concerns I have.

556
00:48:26,500 --> 00:48:30,160
I mean, my original intent was that we need to move forward.

557
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:32,200
We need more on doc rail.

558
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:34,640
And if this is gonna facilitate it,

559
00:48:34,940 --> 00:48:35,960
we don't wanna hold it up,

560
00:48:36,220 --> 00:48:38,500
but I'd appreciate it if someone could address

561
00:48:39,220 --> 00:48:42,180
those concerns because I certainly don't wanna ignore them.

562
00:48:42,700 --> 00:48:43,360
Thank you.

563
00:48:44,140 --> 00:48:44,860
Thank you.

564
00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:47,020
Well said, who would like to jump in first?

565
00:48:48,380 --> 00:48:52,480
I can start. Go ahead. Why don't you start? Maybe you can talk about the deadline. I think

566
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:58,320
that's probably the big thing here. Thank you, Chris. In regards to the deadline we're

567
00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:05,260
facing for this funding agreement, both Merad and the Port are meeting a, are working towards

568
00:49:05,260 --> 00:49:13,960
a September 30, 2022 deadline to have a fully executed funding agreement. So the process

569
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:23,460
will be that the port goes through its approval process, and then the document will be sent to

570
00:49:23,460 --> 00:49:30,820
Maraad for their final approval. So we're getting close to that September 30 deadline.

571
00:49:35,590 --> 00:49:40,950
As far as the the SQL issues are concerned, first of all we are always appreciating from

572
00:49:41,730 --> 00:49:43,830
the community, especially Earth Justice,

573
00:49:44,070 --> 00:49:48,250
they're a good commenter, and they participate

574
00:49:48,250 --> 00:49:50,430
in a lot of the discussions that we have.

575
00:49:51,090 --> 00:49:53,990
That being said, I think, maybe I can clear

576
00:49:53,990 --> 00:49:55,130
by a couple of things.

577
00:49:56,170 --> 00:49:59,470
First of all, this project wouldn't increase

578
00:50:00,130 --> 00:50:05,130
the terminal's capacity by 520,000 cubic rupees to use.

579
00:50:05,710 --> 00:50:08,690
It just increases the rail yards capacity.

580
00:50:08,690 --> 00:50:19,210
But the overall terminal capacity stays the same and that's actually described in the document and our addendum that's described there.

581
00:50:19,830 --> 00:50:22,490
So the terminal is birth limited.

582
00:50:23,150 --> 00:50:33,290
I can try to explain that to the engineers and carry it out. There's probably get into the details, but essentially the limitations on throughput have to do with the amount of cargo that can be moved across the birth.

583
00:50:33,290 --> 00:50:45,070
And so increasing the capacity of the rail yard doesn't change the limitation of what can and cannot come across the birds. There's limitations on just what is humanly possible to be unloaded.

584
00:50:45,810 --> 00:50:53,270
That's my sort of easy explanation. I'm sure that the engineers could describe it in a much more precise manner, but that's essentially it.

585
00:50:53,270 --> 00:51:07,010
So changing the capacity of the rail yard simply allows for a mode switch into your point commissioner militant. That's good if you can take trucks off the road and instead put cargo on to trains.

586
00:51:07,570 --> 00:51:15,170
We like that it has an overall benefit for greenhouse gas and for the environment so so that's a I think that was a.

587
00:51:16,850 --> 00:51:23,130
clarification that is needed. The second clarification is NEPA. NEPA was done for this project by Merad.

588
00:51:23,550 --> 00:51:34,850
We have the NEPA document and it can be circulated. I don't know where it is right now, but Merad completed the SQL for this project last September.

589
00:51:35,790 --> 00:51:44,050
and it, sorry, I said NEPA for this project in last September and so that part

590
00:51:44,050 --> 00:51:50,330
has been taking care of us before. Our, the adendum was brought to the board. You

591
00:51:50,330 --> 00:51:57,050
considered it also want to say last September and I can confirm the date but it was

592
00:51:57,050 --> 00:52:02,650
not done behind the scenes or anything. It was brought to the board. So I think

593
00:52:02,650 --> 00:52:07,810
those are the main points. The last one is as far as zero emissions is concerned. We can't

594
00:52:07,810 --> 00:52:14,610
speak to the specifics of this project because the nature of the way the grant process works and so

595
00:52:14,610 --> 00:52:24,810
forth. But the Phoenix terminal has been very active, communicating with us and it's a desire to

596
00:52:24,810 --> 00:52:30,050
meet our 2030 cap goal of being zero mission cargo handling

597
00:52:30,050 --> 00:52:34,070
equipment. We are going to continue to work with them in that, you

598
00:52:34,070 --> 00:52:38,330
know, will certainly include activities in the rail yards. So we'll

599
00:52:38,330 --> 00:52:42,050
need to continue to work closely with them on their activities as

600
00:52:42,050 --> 00:52:45,470
they lead up to 2030. But we have no reason to think that they are

601
00:52:45,470 --> 00:52:48,270
not serious about that commitment because they've made that

602
00:52:48,270 --> 00:52:58,270
Publicly. Thank you very much. I could just add Commissioner that I did look at the May

603
00:52:58,270 --> 00:53:08,350
20-21 agenda and and and a denim number two was item 11 on that agenda not on the consent

604
00:53:08,350 --> 00:53:14,370
agenda and and the denim was considered and accepted by the board. Thank you Ken. I couldn't

605
00:53:14,370 --> 00:53:17,570
remember if it was September. Thank you. It's made last year.

606
00:53:22,380 --> 00:53:28,640
I hope those clarifications sufficiently satisfy the commissioners that this has been a

607
00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:35,920
transparent process has been completed with full participation and support

608
00:53:35,920 --> 00:53:42,960
amera and that all of the environmental was taken care of as well as the process by which

609
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:48,240
it comes to the public through this board and these stages in order to accept this

610
00:53:48,240 --> 00:53:50,080
grant funding, which I'm posing.

611
00:53:51,260 --> 00:53:56,380
Yeah, I was going to say, I remember when our late colleague Dave Arian was on this commission.

612
00:53:56,900 --> 00:54:01,160
I learned a lot from him on one of the things he talked about was expanding rail, the importance

613
00:54:01,160 --> 00:54:01,580
of it.

614
00:54:02,380 --> 00:54:09,440
So, I reflected back up now when I saw this and I can't help but think of the positive impact

615
00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:14,260
of this by taking trucks off the road.

616
00:54:14,260 --> 00:54:20,800
would be able to offload, especially now when we think about how impacted our docs are

617
00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:24,660
because of the what's going on in different parts of the country.

618
00:54:24,860 --> 00:54:30,680
This provides us an opportunity to not only load up more cargo on trains, but it also provides

619
00:54:30,680 --> 00:54:36,720
us to get the ships in and out of here quicker and then not sitting off the coast here polluting.

620
00:54:36,720 --> 00:54:57,780
So I think about all of those elements and I hear the callers I appreciate when they call in I've heard the you know we have to make it green we have to use green locomotives and I'm sure we will go down that path because we are heading down that path to get the zero emissions here within the next decade or so.

621
00:54:57,780 --> 00:55:05,460
so I still would like to move forward the motion and get this project designed and I think the

622
00:55:05,460 --> 00:55:13,080
opportunity to get even more input on not just the what but the how in this this opportunity for

623
00:55:13,080 --> 00:55:16,280
us and the community so I'd like to put that motion forward.

624
00:55:20,120 --> 00:55:27,160
Thank you motion for commission

625
00:55:31,700 --> 00:55:32,900
Thank you.

626
00:55:33,140 --> 00:55:34,940
Item three of today's agenda is approved.

627
00:55:40,740 --> 00:55:44,180
Moving on to item number four of today's regular agenda.

628
00:55:44,760 --> 00:55:46,800
We do have one commenter for the record.

629
00:55:47,420 --> 00:55:51,620
Item four is a resolution for the award of contract number 39981.

630
00:55:52,320 --> 00:55:56,480
To thermal environmental instruments LLC for the purchase of air monitoring.

631
00:55:56,480 --> 00:56:00,760
screen instrumentation. And here to discuss is Christine. Welcome Christine.

632
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:05,860
It's actually going to be me this time. Sorry. We. Oh, it's me.

633
00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:12,560
So I'm going to cover Christine. So let me share my screen.

634
00:56:20,550 --> 00:56:21,930
Can everyone see it?

635
00:56:22,750 --> 00:56:32,510
Yes. Okay. So today we bring before you an item for purchase of certain monitoring equipment instrumentation.

636
00:56:33,190 --> 00:56:46,130
About a year ago we received instruction from management to replace all of the monitoring equipment for the four monitoring stations that exist at the port.

637
00:56:47,310 --> 00:56:56,110
There's the, as you can see in the Wellington Community Station, the St. Peter Community Station, the source dominated station on terminal island and coastal boundary station.

638
00:56:56,110 --> 00:56:59,550
and we received instructions to do that.

639
00:56:59,790 --> 00:57:03,750
The equipment, some of it is getting a lot,

640
00:57:03,810 --> 00:57:05,190
most of it is getting very old

641
00:57:05,870 --> 00:57:07,810
and so it needs to be replaced

642
00:57:07,810 --> 00:57:09,950
and so we were given that instruction.

643
00:57:10,870 --> 00:57:13,230
This is what's happening at the stations now.

644
00:57:13,470 --> 00:57:14,390
These are the four stations.

645
00:57:14,390 --> 00:57:16,950
As you can see, the source down there

646
00:57:16,950 --> 00:57:18,390
and the coastal boundary stations

647
00:57:18,910 --> 00:57:22,570
don't have as much operating of the coastal boundary station

648
00:57:22,570 --> 00:57:24,830
was shut down in anticipation of construction.

649
00:57:24,830 --> 00:57:30,550
that was going to go there. And then that's been delayed. But because of all the old equipment,

650
00:57:30,590 --> 00:57:35,610
we need to replace it. And then the source-domain station also is getting old. And so the community

651
00:57:35,610 --> 00:57:39,950
stations are largely still operating or there's some maintenance activity that's needed at those,

652
00:57:40,150 --> 00:57:48,630
but they're largely still operating. So once we began, once we received instruction about a year ago,

653
00:57:48,630 --> 00:57:56,570
to upgrade all of the equipment we had to go through a process. We first had to identify

654
00:57:56,570 --> 00:58:01,190
a list of all the equipment, figure out how much it cost, get internal approval to move forward,

655
00:58:01,550 --> 00:58:08,630
and then we entered the city's procurement process. That process is lengthy and it's designed

656
00:58:08,630 --> 00:58:18,250
to make sure that others get a chance to offer proposals or equipment. That is what has happened.

657
00:58:18,630 --> 00:58:25,470
Um, the, our, our staff, uh, Christine, who you, whose name we mentioned, and we also have, uh,

658
00:58:25,850 --> 00:58:31,490
technical advisors for this station, the two of them, uh, undertook this process. They've been

659
00:58:31,490 --> 00:58:37,890
working very, very hard and, uh, we're going through this process, including, uh, coming up,

660
00:58:37,970 --> 00:58:42,590
coming up with a good idea, they were able to piggyback on a solicitation for some of the equipment

661
00:58:42,590 --> 00:58:48,230
that was done by the, by the state of New Jersey. And so that actually speds things up. If it weren't for

662
00:58:48,230 --> 00:58:52,270
that we would have to go through an additional step.

663
00:58:53,030 --> 00:58:56,490
So the equipment is evaluated and reviewed and it's awarded.

664
00:58:57,390 --> 00:58:59,570
Some of the, depending upon the cost, if there is a,

665
00:58:59,630 --> 00:59:03,710
we reach a certain level of cost, I think it's over $150,000,

666
00:59:03,790 --> 00:59:04,990
we have to come to the board.

667
00:59:05,970 --> 00:59:08,190
So we're going through that process.

668
00:59:08,530 --> 00:59:10,490
We've ordered all of the equipment

669
00:59:10,490 --> 00:59:14,090
that can be ordered without going to the board due to the cost.

670
00:59:14,090 --> 00:59:17,250
And then now we have to come to the board and ask you

671
00:59:17,250 --> 00:59:21,670
for approval for ordering some of the other equipment.

672
00:59:22,970 --> 00:59:25,090
So this is what we're going to ask you to do.

673
00:59:25,330 --> 00:59:33,270
It is a recommendation for certain, it's SO2 carbon monoxide and multi-gas as you can

674
00:59:33,270 --> 00:59:39,650
see all, and there's four of each, so they all will be installed at each of the stations.

675
00:59:40,730 --> 00:59:46,530
When this is the timeline and this is something that was being asked for, this is how long

676
00:59:46,530 --> 00:59:52,950
it's going to take to install all of the equipment as you can see some of the equipment is already installed

677
00:59:53,690 --> 00:59:59,870
where you see there where it says PM 2.5 continuous monitor and PM 10 continuous monitor. We back

678
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:29,420
We actually already received that equipment. It just came in last week. So we will begin installation of that by the end, hopefully the end of this week. It's going to begin. We say by the end of September for completion, to give ourselves a little buffer in case we have any issues that come up during installation. The ultra fine particles counters. One of them will be installed by the end of this month, another one by the end of October. There's a delay in one of the pieces of equipment that's being shipped in.

679
01:00:29,420 --> 01:00:36,680
And then the green items are the ones that you are going to be approving or considering,

680
01:00:36,680 --> 01:00:44,020
I should say today, the NO2 analyzer we actually ordered last Friday and the meteorological

681
01:00:44,020 --> 01:00:47,700
instruments are actually already being installed.

682
01:00:47,900 --> 01:00:53,360
They will be installed as part of the work with the continuous PM 2.5 and PM 10 monitors.

683
01:00:54,040 --> 01:00:58,480
And then of course the data log in the communication system is all going to be automated now.

684
01:00:58,480 --> 01:01:11,400
So all of that is most installed. There's one station where we're still finalizing that when it's all done. This is what each station will have was just all of this equipment will have four of them.

685
01:01:11,820 --> 01:01:27,240
And they'll all have this these full systems and so we're pretty happy a lot of that equipment is brand new and it will be newer and perform better than the existing equipment.

686
01:01:28,020 --> 01:01:46,380
We had a meeting there were concerns raised by Andrew Rico who was with USC and so we actually had a meeting on Tuesday with Andrea and two of her professor colleagues from USC as well as certain members of the community.

687
01:01:46,960 --> 01:01:54,960
they were concerned about the length of time that it takes or it has taken, I should say, for this to occur.

688
01:01:55,600 --> 01:02:03,380
They were also concerned about data gaps for information that they were looking on the website and they saw certain information that would be.

689
01:02:03,780 --> 01:02:06,240
Here's the time where data were shut down.

690
01:02:06,800 --> 01:02:11,740
They wanted to make sure that the overall maintenance was maintained on the site.

691
01:02:11,740 --> 01:02:18,440
they were worried that that was not happening, and then who all was, you know, making sure that

692
01:02:18,440 --> 01:02:23,740
the data quality is good. We explained to them the city's procurement process, but we agreed

693
01:02:23,740 --> 01:02:29,020
that we would see if there are ways to expedite this kind of thing in the future. For certain things,

694
01:02:29,020 --> 01:02:33,420
there ought to be a way to do it. They said, you know, if you hadn't or had to order all the equipment

695
01:02:33,420 --> 01:02:37,760
at once, maybe you wouldn't go over the threshold to have to go to the board, and that's true.

696
01:02:37,760 --> 01:02:41,800
So going forward, we need to obviously pay attention to that.

697
01:02:42,470 --> 01:02:48,340
The data gaps that were identified have to do with replacement of existing equipment that is breaking down.

698
01:02:49,040 --> 01:03:01,740
And so we explain that, but we also have since that meeting talked about a system where when we take some equipment down for replacement in the monitoring stations,

699
01:03:01,740 --> 01:03:11,540
They immediately pops up a notice online or on the station, excuse me, the website which says equipment down for maintenance.

700
01:03:12,100 --> 01:03:17,020
And so it would pop up immediately. It doesn't say that now. It just goes down and then you can't see.

701
01:03:17,520 --> 01:03:27,640
So we're actually trying to build in a system so that the moment we pull it down for maintenance or replacement or whatever, something pops up so people know what's going on. So that's something we're working on.

702
01:03:27,640 --> 01:03:34,880
We also agreed to have quarterly meetings with Andrea and her USC colleagues as well as members of the community.

703
01:03:35,460 --> 01:03:45,600
The first one would be in three months, which would be right around the time that those near term items that you saw here are going to be completed should be there around October.

704
01:03:46,840 --> 01:03:54,160
And so we at that time we can explain in more detail our ongoing maintenance activities that are planned.

705
01:03:54,660 --> 01:04:00,640
We'll talk about our quality control that is going to be occurring and is already occurring

706
01:04:00,640 --> 01:04:01,580
and it was occurring.

707
01:04:02,280 --> 01:04:04,500
And then we can answer any questions.

708
01:04:05,140 --> 01:04:10,740
And then the last thing is we want to invite once this is completed, I think, as early

709
01:04:10,740 --> 01:04:16,960
as January, we will have at least one of the stations done.

710
01:04:17,060 --> 01:04:22,640
We would like to invite new members of the board as well as Andrea and others for a tour.

711
01:04:23,560 --> 01:04:29,580
We'll take and show you all of one of the stations and show you exactly what's there.

712
01:04:30,120 --> 01:04:34,740
We'll show you how the equipment works and how it's downloaded and monitored on the site on our website.

713
01:04:35,480 --> 01:04:36,780
And so that way everybody can see.

714
01:04:36,980 --> 01:04:42,640
And at that time, we can talk further about, you know, data collection, data quality, and other issues.

715
01:04:42,640 --> 01:04:54,400
So the last thing I want to say, I just want you to want you to know that our staff and particular Christine Batikian who is in charge of this program for us has done a fantastic job.

716
01:04:54,620 --> 01:05:05,460
She's working very hard and she's very concerned about the issues that have been raised and wants wants to address them as best she can.

717
01:05:05,460 --> 01:05:07,720
And so she's done an excellent job.

718
01:05:07,780 --> 01:05:09,860
I really want to give her a lot of credit

719
01:05:09,860 --> 01:05:11,000
for the works that she's done

720
01:05:11,000 --> 01:05:14,340
and let you know that she's been doing her good job.

721
01:05:14,820 --> 01:05:15,840
So I'll stop there.

722
01:05:15,920 --> 01:05:19,400
I know that there is a caller.

723
01:05:20,120 --> 01:05:21,720
And then I'll be happy to answer questions.

724
01:05:22,760 --> 01:05:24,440
Yes, let's go ahead and hear from the caller.

725
01:05:34,600 --> 01:05:34,920
Thank you.

726
01:05:35,420 --> 01:05:38,740
I'm having difficulty getting my camera available,

727
01:05:38,960 --> 01:05:40,380
but let's just go with audio for now.

728
01:05:41,120 --> 01:05:43,560
So we do have one caller,

729
01:05:43,560 --> 01:05:47,700
Kathleen Woodfield who was on hold and we did receive one letter that was

730
01:05:47,700 --> 01:05:51,960
provided to the board from Pacific Environment that was provided upon

731
01:05:51,960 --> 01:05:58,500
receipt. A call center of Kathleen is on. You may begin speaking when your your

732
01:05:58,500 --> 01:06:01,280
time will begin when you've been speaking. Thank you.

733
01:06:14,090 --> 01:06:16,150
Hi. Hi. Your time will begin

734
01:06:16,150 --> 01:06:22,850
speaking. Hi. Thank you. I was trying to unmute. This is Kathleen with

735
01:06:25,810 --> 01:06:37,630
I thought Chris Cannon's presentation was very comprehensive and candid, and he kind of covered everything I was going to say.

736
01:06:37,950 --> 01:06:44,370
I just want to say that we, of course, approve of this purchase.

737
01:06:44,370 --> 01:06:55,270
and we are encouraged by that in the future things will work better. There have been data

738
01:06:55,270 --> 01:07:01,530
gaps and also breakdowns and some monitors shut down as long as some three years I think

739
01:07:01,530 --> 01:07:07,470
at this point. So you can imagine that this was very alarming to the community that feels

740
01:07:07,470 --> 01:07:16,310
this is a very important asset to both support and to us to know what's going on, but I do want

741
01:07:16,310 --> 01:07:23,290
to say I appreciate everything that Chris said and I was on the phone call and I do plan to

742
01:07:23,290 --> 01:07:30,450
be involved and I greatly appreciate Andrea Rico for bringing this to our attention.

743
01:07:36,010 --> 01:07:36,770
I'm a

744
01:07:36,770 --> 01:07:43,030
more time than should have been allowed for certain things to go on without being addressed

745
01:07:43,030 --> 01:07:49,990
and I hope that the communication between the consultant and the support improves.

746
01:07:50,770 --> 01:07:57,130
And I'm hoping that someone at Onport staff will actually be assigned to keeping an eye on

747
01:07:58,150 --> 01:08:02,750
the monitor data as well and make sure that everything is working properly.

748
01:08:02,750 --> 01:08:11,510
So thank you very much. We look forward to these systems being new and being functioning properly.

749
01:08:14,710 --> 01:08:14,870
Thank you.

750
01:08:19,330 --> 01:08:23,150
I take the clock down. I think it's interfering with the camera.

751
01:08:24,170 --> 01:08:29,750
Okay, there we go. That does conclude our comments for this item number four.

752
01:08:30,490 --> 01:08:31,670
Thank you.

753
01:08:31,670 --> 01:08:32,690
First,

754
01:08:36,020 --> 01:08:50,220
I'd like to thank staff for a really comprehensive presentation, everyone who worked on it, and I particularly like to thank the person who submitted the written comments and also Ms. Woodfield.

755
01:08:50,920 --> 01:09:00,400
I mean, I believe that there's no ill intent on anyone, from anyone on the staff, and I had a lot of comments and a lot of questions.

756
01:09:00,400 --> 01:09:06,340
but once I heard Ms. Woodfield say, I really want to thank staff for bringing us into the process.

757
01:09:06,920 --> 01:09:13,100
I'm glad Ms. Woodfield was able to participate in the call with Dr. Rico. I think it's a great

758
01:09:13,100 --> 01:09:20,260
example of cooperative work. I'm obviously in favor of this, but because this topic has been

759
01:09:20,260 --> 01:09:26,080
the subject of quite a bit of letter writing and comments and public comments and so on,

760
01:09:26,080 --> 01:09:28,980
I want to ask you a couple direct questions, Chris.

761
01:09:29,320 --> 01:09:32,420
So there's no doubt on the record of what's happening here.

762
01:09:32,880 --> 01:09:35,780
I particularly appreciated the PowerPoint presentation.

763
01:09:36,340 --> 01:09:38,020
Could you turn to page three?

764
01:09:38,800 --> 01:09:44,300
Current monitoring station operating status.

765
01:09:45,340 --> 01:09:49,220
Do I correctly understand that within the port of LA,

766
01:09:49,620 --> 01:09:53,700
there are a total of four monitoring stations?

767
01:09:54,940 --> 01:09:56,220
Yes, that's right.

768
01:09:56,840 --> 01:10:00,880
And do I further correctly understand that there was a problem with one of them,

769
01:10:00,880 --> 01:10:06,020
whether we want to call it being shut down, turned off, malfunctioning,

770
01:10:06,100 --> 01:10:08,240
and that was the coastal boundary station.

771
01:10:09,180 --> 01:10:10,460
That's right, it was shut down.

772
01:10:10,820 --> 01:10:16,660
We anticipated that there was going to be construction for the outer harbor.

773
01:10:17,520 --> 01:10:22,700
The ports policy for construction is that you can't have somebody

774
01:10:22,700 --> 01:10:37,100
somebody on an operating actively on a construction site who's not part of the construction team, so we have we have a technician who goes to each of the monitoring stations probably about once a week.

775
01:10:37,680 --> 01:10:48,040
Sometimes more if there's maintenance and other things that need to occur and so we can't we couldn't have somebody go to that station when it's in the middle of a construction zone.

776
01:10:48,040 --> 01:10:55,860
So we shut it down. Now that being said, we're about to put it up with new equipment and there will be construction in the future.

777
01:10:56,460 --> 01:11:11,600
And so we're actually going to work with our construction team and with the port to find a way to get access to that station even during construction for our technicians so that we can make sure we keep that operating that we don't have to shut it down.

778
01:11:11,600 --> 01:11:17,860
Perfect. That was a longer answer than I anticipated. So let me go back and break it down a little.

779
01:11:18,320 --> 01:11:25,180
The bottom line is, of the four stations in the past recent history, let's say the last two

780
01:11:25,180 --> 01:11:30,580
three years, the three stations were functioning. The only one that had a problem was coastal, correct?

781
01:11:31,200 --> 01:11:35,920
No. There were two stations that were functioning, the two community stations, the Wilmington and

782
01:11:35,920 --> 01:11:41,180
San Pedro stations were functioning. The coastal station has been shut down for I think two or three

783
01:11:41,180 --> 01:11:44,100
years, the, the, the, uh, uh,

784
01:11:44,100 --> 01:11:47,060
terminal island station has been shut down for a little over a year.

785
01:11:47,300 --> 01:11:47,760
Okay.

786
01:11:47,960 --> 01:11:48,700
About a year and a half.

787
01:11:48,740 --> 01:11:51,460
Your comments with references to the technicians.

788
01:11:52,240 --> 01:11:55,380
Again, I appreciate Ms. Woodfield's concern.

789
01:11:55,700 --> 01:11:58,140
And the fact that she said,

790
01:11:58,280 --> 01:12:02,840
could staff have somebody looking into this and monitoring it?

791
01:12:03,020 --> 01:12:08,300
I think your answer made clear that it's not like you set up these stations and forget them.

792
01:12:08,300 --> 01:12:29,100
There's a technician there every week and you indicated in the answer you just gave that not only is there technician there every week, but you are trying to figure out a way to keep that technician checking up on the systems, even if there's ongoing construction, which here to four has meant technician couldn't be present.

793
01:12:29,760 --> 01:12:31,620
You're trying to work around that correct.

794
01:12:32,300 --> 01:12:33,040
That's correct.

795
01:12:33,240 --> 01:12:35,540
And may I correct something that I said a moment ago as well?

796
01:12:36,080 --> 01:12:36,200
Sure.

797
01:12:36,580 --> 01:12:36,820
Sure.

798
01:12:37,100 --> 01:12:41,780
The source dominated station, which is the terminal island station, was shut down for about

799
01:12:41,780 --> 01:12:42,120
a year.

800
01:12:42,300 --> 01:12:43,340
It's back up.

801
01:12:43,360 --> 01:12:50,800
As you can see, it's not fully, but it's got PM 2.5 and black carbon monitoring occurring

802
01:12:50,800 --> 01:12:51,500
there now.

803
01:12:51,780 --> 01:12:59,880
And so I just wanted to be clear that it is limited things, but it is functioning now and

804
01:12:59,880 --> 01:13:03,200
And obviously we'll be completely functional when we finish all of this installation.

805
01:13:03,780 --> 01:13:06,860
But yes, the other question was somebody looks at the data.

806
01:13:07,360 --> 01:13:11,640
We have a technician that goes out and checks the sites, each of the sites about once

807
01:13:11,640 --> 01:13:12,000
a week.

808
01:13:12,460 --> 01:13:16,680
And there are people that look at the data including Christine, there is a person who is assigned

809
01:13:16,680 --> 01:13:17,220
to it.

810
01:13:18,180 --> 01:13:20,980
She sees the data as well as our technician.

811
01:13:20,980 --> 01:13:31,000
So we're going to describe all of those QA procedures kind of in a kind of a slow to call.

812
01:13:31,780 --> 01:13:36,980
And that's one of the things that we'll go over with the people in our first quarterly meeting in two months.

813
01:13:37,800 --> 01:13:39,100
Okay, next slide.

814
01:13:39,600 --> 01:13:48,360
When you've had the monitoring network upgrade process, I understand that this is taking longer than any of us would have liked.

815
01:13:48,360 --> 01:13:57,660
But as I look at this slide, when I look at the four steps in procurement, I mean number

816
01:13:57,660 --> 01:14:03,840
one, you have to figure out what you needed, which is specifications, and you have to submit

817
01:14:03,840 --> 01:14:04,560
it to the board.

818
01:14:05,940 --> 01:14:12,420
Solicitation, I mean, we certainly don't want to just pick either the old provider or the

819
01:14:12,420 --> 01:14:18,120
first one that comes to mind, so you have to go through a transparent solicitation process

820
01:14:18,120 --> 01:14:24,260
which would be two and three, and then four is what we're doing right now, correct?

821
01:14:25,220 --> 01:14:30,880
That's right. It's frustrating, but it is important. You need to give people access to the

822
01:14:30,880 --> 01:14:36,060
you know, potential bidders access to a process to allow them to be able to

823
01:14:37,120 --> 01:14:43,540
participate and submit their quotes and potentially provide a service. It takes time, but it's

824
01:14:43,540 --> 01:14:48,620
necessary in order to, you know, provide full access. So yes, that's right. So it's

825
01:14:48,620 --> 01:14:56,920
completions expected by September 31st and we're going to vote on this today. Hopefully we'll be

826
01:14:56,920 --> 01:14:59,840
six weeks ahead of time. A little bit less

827
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:29,600
And that, but yes, it has to go through the city council, you know, acceptance period, and that takes two or three weeks, but, but we say completion expected by September 31st, just to give ourselves a little cushion in case there is a delay. Okay. And then the final question I have is installation timeline. You say on this slide, completions expected by March, 2023. But when we look at the installation timeline, you've actually

828
01:15:29,600 --> 01:15:37,060
installed some of these items already. And it looks like many of them may be in by the end

829
01:15:37,060 --> 01:15:42,320
of January. And I trust that if it's available in the equipment here earlier, you're certainly

830
01:15:42,320 --> 01:15:48,800
going to comply and it'll be installed earlier. So the installation timeline is dependent on when

831
01:15:48,800 --> 01:15:55,160
the equipment arrives, correct? That's right. We again tried to be conservative. We didn't want to

832
01:15:55,160 --> 01:15:59,640
predict and then have a date arrive and people say hey wait a minute you said you know it's going

833
01:15:59,640 --> 01:16:09,580
to be done and it's not so just to give you an example the the the NO2 analyzer has a four to

834
01:16:09,580 --> 01:16:16,860
six month timeline that it takes to to have it delivered we ordered it about I think a week ago

835
01:16:16,860 --> 01:16:22,520
so four months puts us at the end of the this year so it's possible that we could receive it by the

836
01:16:22,520 --> 01:16:27,600
end of this year and then it takes a little time to install. So that might put us into January.

837
01:16:28,160 --> 01:16:33,600
We said March because we went with the six months because it's four to six months and so if it

838
01:16:33,600 --> 01:16:40,480
takes that long then it'll go into March. So same as true with the carbon monoxide and the ozone

839
01:16:40,480 --> 01:16:46,440
and the SO2 analyzers, all of those and the calibration system. Those are things that we will be ordering

840
01:16:46,440 --> 01:17:01,500
today if you approve this, we'll order it right away as soon as we're finished with our process, and then we hope it comes faster, but we are comfortable with saying it'll be installed by January.

841
01:17:02,300 --> 01:17:16,420
Okay, and again, without putting words in your mouth, but as Mr. Matthew will say, we're not in the court of law.

842
01:17:16,420 --> 01:17:18,300
and you're ready to put it in when it arrives.

843
01:17:19,180 --> 01:17:20,680
We sure are, it is correct.

844
01:17:20,980 --> 01:17:24,260
And again, I want to emphasize that our staff, Christine,

845
01:17:24,260 --> 01:17:29,520
and others are very, very concerned about this

846
01:17:29,520 --> 01:17:32,920
and even a little frustrated that things just take

847
01:17:32,920 --> 01:17:34,000
the time that they take.

848
01:17:34,200 --> 01:17:35,920
And so we're going as fast as we can.

849
01:17:36,120 --> 01:17:38,360
And everybody is trying to do their job.

850
01:17:39,180 --> 01:17:43,560
Theresa Pasano is the director of the manager of that team.

851
01:17:43,560 --> 01:17:48,280
and she's been very, very hands on along with Christine to try and make sure this is getting

852
01:17:48,280 --> 01:17:51,620
in. So they're going as fast as they can. They really are.

853
01:17:52,180 --> 01:17:55,920
Okay. No other questions. Thank you. Very comprehensive answers.

854
01:17:57,580 --> 01:18:00,960
Thank you, Commissioner. Are there any other questions from the other commissioners?

855
01:18:03,410 --> 01:18:05,890
Seeing none, would something like to put forth a motion?

856
01:18:07,430 --> 01:18:09,070
So moved. Second.

857
01:18:09,070 --> 01:18:11,590
What was the rain of the next a year?

858
01:18:16,790 --> 01:18:18,610
Yes there was a rain of the next year?

859
01:18:18,610 --> 01:18:19,450
Yes, there was a rain of the next year.

860
01:18:19,450 --> 01:18:19,590
As you can.

861
01:18:19,590 --> 01:18:21,070
Thank you.

862
01:18:22,720 --> 01:18:22,900
All right.

863
01:18:22,900 --> 01:18:23,220
I see.

864
01:18:23,560 --> 01:18:24,760
It is a rain of the next year.

865
01:18:24,760 --> 01:18:24,960
Thank you.

866
01:18:24,960 --> 01:18:25,600
Thank you.

867
01:18:25,860 --> 01:18:26,300
I'll move it.

868
01:18:30,140 --> 01:18:35,220
That does include open session items on the regular agenda.

869
01:18:35,440 --> 01:18:36,960
Moving on to our special agenda.

870
01:18:38,200 --> 01:18:41,440
There are no comment cards under C how do we do have a

871
01:18:41,440 --> 01:18:44,300
a few speakers that are waiting to speak.

872
01:18:45,280 --> 01:18:47,140
So for item number one is a resolution

873
01:18:47,140 --> 01:18:50,280
to approve the fifth amendment to lease number 915,

874
01:18:51,060 --> 01:18:52,840
the San Pedro Public Market LLC,

875
01:18:53,360 --> 01:18:54,720
and here to discuss this mic, Alvin.

876
01:18:54,900 --> 01:18:55,280
Welcome, Mike.

877
01:18:55,800 --> 01:18:56,560
Thank you, Amber.

878
01:18:56,720 --> 01:18:57,340
Thank you, Amber.

879
01:18:57,780 --> 01:18:58,520
Any commissioners?

880
01:18:58,940 --> 01:18:59,360
Any commissioners?

881
01:19:04,670 --> 01:19:05,630
You have the second device.

882
01:19:07,980 --> 01:19:09,000
Why is it doing that?

883
01:19:14,190 --> 01:19:15,810
I don't have two devices open.

884
01:19:16,030 --> 01:19:16,170
All right.

885
01:19:16,590 --> 01:19:17,650
Hey, that's better though.

886
01:19:18,970 --> 01:19:20,810
I'm whispering, that's why I think.

887
01:19:20,810 --> 01:19:21,750
It

888
01:19:29,750 --> 01:19:31,570
sounds like you have a device.

889
01:19:32,810 --> 01:19:33,490
You know, it does.

890
01:19:56,650 --> 01:19:57,190
Okay.

891
01:19:57,510 --> 01:19:58,150
Morning, everybody.

892
01:19:58,370 --> 01:19:59,910
Sorry about that technical glitch there.

893
01:20:00,130 --> 01:20:01,570
I think we're good with audio now.

894
01:20:02,350 --> 01:20:03,310
So my galvan director,

895
01:20:03,310 --> 01:20:08,390
Washington commercial will stay here to present on the fifth amendment to

896
01:20:08,990 --> 01:20:15,350
least number 915 with the centimeter public market just as a little bit of context on May 16, 2016.

897
01:20:15,350 --> 01:20:23,270
2016, the board approved the initial lease with the developers and

898
01:20:23,270 --> 01:20:25,970
Peter Public Market for redevelopment of the site,

899
01:20:26,230 --> 01:20:28,810
firmly known as what's a call on St. Pedro.

900
01:20:29,410 --> 01:20:31,210
The last amendment was the fourth amendment,

901
01:20:31,410 --> 01:20:36,910
which was on May 20, in May of 2022, and that extended the current

902
01:20:36,910 --> 01:20:43,270
option period, the September 17, 2022, to allow for the completion of five

903
01:20:43,270 --> 01:20:48,750
milestones, which were included in a previous amendment, and those milestones include the

904
01:20:48,750 --> 01:20:49,190
requirements.

905
01:20:49,290 --> 01:20:54,790
She released that marketing package, which was done, received first bona fide term sheet

906
01:20:54,790 --> 01:20:59,270
for project construction debt, which was completed, execute term sheets with the selected

907
01:20:59,270 --> 01:21:03,870
lenders, which was completed in required internal finance staff in May of 2022.

908
01:21:04,570 --> 01:21:08,470
And then the last two steps still exist, which is keeping credit for the approval from the

909
01:21:08,470 --> 01:21:09,950
selected lenders and closing the loans.

910
01:21:09,950 --> 01:21:13,750
So what we're here for today is to provide enough time for that to happen.

911
01:21:13,890 --> 01:21:22,410
It's been out another 60 days, the option period to November 16th, 2022, and approve various documents,

912
01:21:22,410 --> 01:21:29,630
including consent with the do the lenders, as well as an established certificate and a memorandum of

913
01:21:29,630 --> 01:21:37,070
police. So, General, we understand what the site is, 48-year site, which is the main commercial

914
01:21:37,070 --> 01:21:43,690
development site here in San Pedro. We're asking the board today to do various things that

915
01:21:43,690 --> 01:21:49,010
that are required really to take the loan into the last these loans into the last process of

916
01:21:49,010 --> 01:21:56,530
escrow and allow them to be closed by the lenders and the developer. So going through item by item

917
01:21:56,530 --> 01:22:02,670
the option that's encouraging which I mentioned just for 60 days. November 16th 2022 will be the new

918
01:22:02,670 --> 01:22:07,590
option extension period deadline. We had to change the definition of lease hold mortgage,

919
01:22:07,830 --> 01:22:12,690
and that goes to what we have as the two lenders here. So let me give a little detail on that.

920
01:22:13,350 --> 01:22:20,870
We have Part View Financial, R-E-P-I-T-L-P, which is a conventional lender that is securing

921
01:22:20,870 --> 01:22:26,430
their rights to the money that they are lending through a deed of trust. And then we have Petra's

922
01:22:26,430 --> 01:22:31,710
Pace Finance LLC, which is not conventional, but they issue bonds and secure their rights on the

923
01:22:31,710 --> 01:22:38,650
property be assessment. And so we had to change various issues with the lease to allow for that

924
01:22:38,650 --> 01:22:44,910
assessment to be used on leasehold interest to collateralize the leasehold interest through

925
01:22:44,910 --> 01:22:50,890
the assessment process, which wasn't perceived to be an issue earlier, but had to be changed as

926
01:22:50,890 --> 01:22:56,310
a developer went out looking for lending opportunities in the marketplace. The Petros Pace piece,

927
01:22:56,310 --> 01:23:04,110
which is a senior piece is approximately $55 million and Petra's piece is a lending vehicle

928
01:23:04,110 --> 01:23:13,750
that allows for lower rates, longer term loan, which can be used only for green type improvements

929
01:23:13,750 --> 01:23:14,430
on the facility.

930
01:23:14,630 --> 01:23:19,090
So it can't be used for all components of facility improvements, but can be used for specific

931
01:23:19,090 --> 01:23:21,730
improvements, which relates to the dollar amount that they have there.

932
01:23:21,730 --> 01:23:28,510
The junior loan here with CARPU financial is $44.5 million, and that can be used for

933
01:23:28,510 --> 01:23:30,530
any purposes on the site.

934
01:23:30,970 --> 01:23:37,230
The developer has the remainder of the equity through their own monies and sponsors

935
01:23:37,230 --> 01:23:43,190
through Oscar E financial that amount to a total cost estimate of about $155 million for

936
01:23:43,190 --> 01:23:44,030
the first two phases.

937
01:23:44,930 --> 01:23:49,110
So other issues that need to be addressed based on the lending vehicles that are being used

938
01:23:49,110 --> 01:23:54,510
are allowing the police hold to be used as collateral for the assessment, modifications

939
01:23:54,510 --> 01:24:00,110
to exhibit end to allow for or to require the port to provide the forms that have been

940
01:24:00,730 --> 01:24:09,830
received and are attached to amendment 5 as new consenting documents to future lenders

941
01:24:09,830 --> 01:24:14,210
that would come into the transaction in the future whether that be a lender that was approved

942
01:24:14,210 --> 01:24:18,530
by the board or a lender that was affiliated with these existing lenders and therefore did

943
01:24:18,530 --> 01:24:22,970
need to be approved by the board. Approval of the form of a stopping certificate, which will be

944
01:24:23,810 --> 01:24:30,190
required once escrow opens, will be deposited into escrow, to basically state that the tenant

945
01:24:30,190 --> 01:24:37,430
in our case SBPM has about a tenancy here is not in any issue, does not have any default issues

946
01:24:37,430 --> 01:24:42,790
with a tenancy that the police is valid to go for, and also to disclose whatever existing leases are

947
01:24:42,790 --> 01:24:47,430
on the property at the same time. Memorandum of lease will be used to record against the property

948
01:24:47,430 --> 01:24:54,210
at the close of escrow, and then the consenting documents which are in favor of the lenders

949
01:24:54,210 --> 01:24:59,010
and SPPM that relate to various obligations between the port and the lenders to allow for

950
01:24:59,010 --> 01:25:04,550
notice to be given in case there are issues of default with the existing loans.

951
01:25:05,890 --> 01:25:10,910
So recommendation is to request to approve the proposed Fifth Amendment to be seminar 9-1-5

952
01:25:10,910 --> 01:25:14,230
with San Pedro Public Market just to give a little bit of context of where we are in

953
01:25:14,230 --> 01:25:14,750
the process.

954
01:25:14,750 --> 01:25:25,350
So once this approval goes through and then goes through city council and everything gets approved there, our expectation is is that that will allow escrow to open quickly thereafter.

955
01:25:25,850 --> 01:25:29,910
We expect once escrow opens that it's going to be 30 to 45 days to close.

956
01:25:30,250 --> 01:25:39,990
There are several conditions that still need to be met as far as the least being triggered, which is important to understand after escrow opens and after all conditions are met.

957
01:25:39,990 --> 01:25:45,370
the rest row title insurance appraisal environmental report system sent to documents being approved.

958
01:25:46,370 --> 01:25:49,910
In addition to that, a financing condition, which is a final financing condition,

959
01:25:49,950 --> 01:25:55,470
meaning that the loan must close for the developer to actually take the option on the lease.

960
01:25:55,830 --> 01:26:02,110
They also need California State Lands to provide a documentation of the termination of consistency

961
01:26:02,110 --> 01:26:06,650
under the State Lands Act. We have to have received that and they needed to enter into a project

962
01:26:06,650 --> 01:26:12,050
labor agreement, which they have already done. So this is the loan closing, which I said would occur,

963
01:26:12,250 --> 01:26:18,570
sometime likely in the next 60 to 75 days, based on when this approval gets received from City Council,

964
01:26:19,090 --> 01:26:24,550
will then create the condition for the last approval there, and we should be ready for them to

965
01:26:24,550 --> 01:26:29,570
trigger the option and begin the lease and then construction will start soon thereafter.

966
01:26:31,390 --> 01:26:36,030
So that is the end of the presentation. I'm hoping up to any questions. I believe there

967
01:26:36,030 --> 01:26:37,950
or maybe are some commenters involved?

968
01:26:39,450 --> 01:26:42,270
Yes, let's see the colors first, please.

969
01:26:52,290 --> 01:26:53,010
Can you hear me?

970
01:26:53,490 --> 01:26:54,110
Yes, there you go.

971
01:26:54,450 --> 01:26:55,430
Okay, thank you.

972
01:26:55,890 --> 01:26:57,910
We do have three speakers,

973
01:26:58,170 --> 01:27:00,530
or excuse me, there are four commenters for this item.

974
01:27:01,510 --> 01:27:03,490
First commenter is Rock Ashfield.

975
01:27:03,850 --> 01:27:05,430
Your time will begin when you begin speaking.

976
01:27:05,750 --> 01:27:06,110
Thank you.

977
01:27:07,530 --> 01:27:08,390
Hi, thank you.

978
01:27:08,510 --> 01:27:11,590
This is Rock Ashfield on the local wheelchair here in San Pedro.

979
01:27:11,590 --> 01:27:17,890
In fact, we just opened the office on the 200 block of 6th Street, which is blocks from the West Harbor development.

980
01:27:18,510 --> 01:27:21,590
And I'm here to support the West Harbor development and this amendment.

981
01:27:22,250 --> 01:27:33,090
When I moved to L.A. 24 years ago, I worked for a local consulting company that actually did the initial analysis on the pike, which was then known as the Queensway Bay project.

982
01:27:33,090 --> 01:27:36,030
So yes, development projects can change your name big way.

983
01:27:36,230 --> 01:27:37,850
I remember at the time people were saying,

984
01:27:37,930 --> 01:27:39,950
well, people really come to downtown Long Beach.

985
01:27:40,110 --> 01:27:41,030
Well, we know they did.

986
01:27:41,670 --> 01:27:45,170
So I've lived in San Peter 921 years waiting for the opportunity

987
01:27:45,170 --> 01:27:47,550
that we're seeing now with the developments

988
01:27:47,550 --> 01:27:50,430
in downtown San Pedro and the West Harbor development.

989
01:27:50,570 --> 01:27:53,310
I know people who are enjoying the prom night already

990
01:27:53,310 --> 01:27:54,690
who take walks there.

991
01:27:54,850 --> 01:27:56,250
You know, we've had two events down there.

992
01:27:56,490 --> 01:27:58,150
The Urban Land Institute had something.

993
01:27:58,890 --> 01:28:01,470
Joe Pescano had something with a tent where the prom night

994
01:28:01,470 --> 01:28:03,890
I go there so we can already see the feel for it.

995
01:28:04,470 --> 01:28:07,470
So I want to compliment the porch and the development team

996
01:28:07,470 --> 01:28:09,790
for the work they've done and the progress they made.

997
01:28:10,270 --> 01:28:11,570
Development is not easy.

998
01:28:11,850 --> 01:28:13,490
So the fact that we're here in the precipice

999
01:28:13,490 --> 01:28:16,070
of this financing is frankly fantastic

1000
01:28:16,590 --> 01:28:19,290
and I appear to support their project.

1001
01:28:19,550 --> 01:28:19,870
Thank you.

1002
01:28:22,840 --> 01:28:23,100
Thank you.

1003
01:28:24,600 --> 01:28:27,460
Our next caller is Elise Swanson.

1004
01:28:28,000 --> 01:28:28,880
Elise, welcome.

1005
01:28:29,060 --> 01:28:30,500
Your time will begin when you begin speaking.

1006
01:28:41,710 --> 01:28:42,550
Please start you with us.

1007
01:28:44,210 --> 01:28:47,170
You may need to hit star six to unmute.

1008
01:28:48,670 --> 01:28:50,230
Okay, thank you.

1009
01:28:50,270 --> 01:28:51,530
I did hit star six.

1010
01:28:51,710 --> 01:28:52,450
Thank you so much.

1011
01:28:52,570 --> 01:28:52,890
Good morning.

1012
01:28:54,990 --> 01:28:57,330
Elise Wanson, president of the San

1013
01:28:57,330 --> 01:29:00,090
Pedro Chamber of Commerce and a resident of San

1014
01:29:00,090 --> 01:29:00,550
Pedro.

1015
01:29:01,070 --> 01:29:04,150
The San Pedro Chamber is in strong support of the

1016
01:29:04,150 --> 01:29:07,370
West Harbor development, and we support the staff

1017
01:29:07,370 --> 01:29:10,910
recommendation for item one on the special meeting agenda.

1018
01:29:10,910 --> 01:29:15,850
We know that the West Harbor development will revitalize and reimagine our

1019
01:29:15,850 --> 01:29:21,450
LA waterfront, provide new jobs and investment in our community. Also, it is

1020
01:29:21,450 --> 01:29:26,770
such an important project for the revitalization of downtown San Pedro and

1021
01:29:26,770 --> 01:29:31,390
our entire business community. We are so close to realizing the new

1022
01:29:31,390 --> 01:29:36,330
development. COVID-19 presented many in the business community with economic

1023
01:29:36,330 --> 01:29:41,650
challenges. So I feel the least extension is warranted through mid-November to allow the

1024
01:29:41,650 --> 01:29:47,450
West Harbor team to complete their financing and move forward with the development. We're so

1025
01:29:47,450 --> 01:29:53,510
excited. We truly appreciate the work of the real estate staff at the port and commissioners all

1026
01:29:53,510 --> 01:29:59,970
of your time and energy on this project. Thank you so much. We look forward to joining

1027
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:04,380
With all of you, once the development opened, thank you.

1028
01:30:06,780 --> 01:30:09,260
Thank you, our next caller, Xavier

1029
01:30:09,260 --> 01:30:17,300
Hummer-Cirlo. Hi there. I have a number of questions.

1030
01:30:19,700 --> 01:30:21,640
And can I share with this motion

1031
01:30:21,640 --> 01:30:29,020
that you had before you for funding? Which I have a little over $100 million. What happened

1032
01:30:29,020 --> 01:30:32,840
to the two tranches that came from Osprey,

1033
01:30:33,060 --> 01:30:37,280
whatever that money, because I haven't seen anything that suggests

1034
01:30:37,280 --> 01:30:41,560
that the debate for the work that the port has done is,

1035
01:30:41,640 --> 01:30:45,440
you know, spursing up the old land.

1036
01:30:46,020 --> 01:30:48,800
I'd like to give an answer on that, if that's possible.

1037
01:30:50,380 --> 01:30:55,140
I'm also in looking at the issue

1038
01:30:55,140 --> 01:31:09,780
of the the the project itself okay you know I there are I'm not sure who it is

1039
01:31:09,780 --> 01:31:15,480
it's probably you know the the developer they're talking about bringing in a

1040
01:31:15,480 --> 01:31:23,200
different crowd okay and and and you know they want to upgrade the facility to

1041
01:31:23,200 --> 01:31:30,120
bring in other customers. And, you know, we've heard comments, I have it to be of Mexican descent,

1042
01:31:30,620 --> 01:31:34,600
but, you know, we've heard comments made about, you know, dirty Mexican, this and that,

1043
01:31:34,720 --> 01:31:42,240
and, you know, employees, and we're people from the hill, et cetera. And, you know, it concerns

1044
01:31:42,240 --> 01:31:49,900
me because, you know, people kind of, for example, we can contrast that against the fact that you've

1045
01:31:49,900 --> 01:31:57,400
the mouse that you're going to have a babysitting thing for dogs or whatever it is. And so, you know,

1046
01:31:58,140 --> 01:32:06,220
bringing dogs, you know, keep out mechsons because they're not the economic target that you

1047
01:32:06,220 --> 01:32:13,940
want to reach. And so, I hear a lot of talk and it's kind of hushed because they don't want to get

1048
01:32:27,230 --> 01:32:30,610
It appears Mr. Hermesio you did himself, I believe.

1049
01:32:32,450 --> 01:32:35,610
Mr. Hermesio, if you can hear us, can you please unmute and we'll start the time again.

1050
01:32:37,050 --> 01:32:38,470
Okay, I'm not sure what happened.

1051
01:32:39,630 --> 01:32:41,450
Let me move the needle away from there.

1052
01:32:41,630 --> 01:32:41,710
Okay.

1053
01:32:42,810 --> 01:32:47,830
I was saying that this proposed constant haul, 6200 seats.

1054
01:32:48,530 --> 01:32:51,030
If people come through to a car, that's 2100 cars.

1055
01:32:52,510 --> 01:32:57,550
and I haven't heard or seen anything to suggest how that's going to be addressed

1056
01:32:57,550 --> 01:33:02,490
from an environmental perspective and all these things you want to put there

1057
01:33:02,490 --> 01:33:07,010
then it lines just doesn't look you know big enough for that. The noise, you know

1058
01:33:07,010 --> 01:33:11,210
when they had the last professor you could hear all the airport these bands and stuff

1059
01:33:11,210 --> 01:33:20,250
and then those restaurants and tables that are in the channel, is that gonna require

1060
01:33:26,690 --> 01:33:38,770
I'm going to send to the commission a link of a fellow for Mexico, a drug lord who says he is a partner with one of your partners here in this project. That's a great concern.

1061
01:33:39,290 --> 01:33:44,570
I know my time's run out, but you need to address that.

1062
01:33:46,590 --> 01:33:52,210
Thank you. Our next caller is Bruce Hainan. Welcome, Bruce. Your time will begin when you begin speaking.

1063
01:33:53,170 --> 01:34:16,090
Good morning, everybody. President Lee, commissioners, Jean and staff. Thank you for the opportunity to come before you today. My name is Bruce Hainan. And I'm the executive director for Los Angeles Maritime Institute and also a proud San Pedro Chamber board member. I'm here on behalf of a lot of people in the community to speak.

1064
01:34:16,870 --> 01:34:20,090
in encouragement of adopting this measure,

1065
01:34:20,390 --> 01:34:21,610
hopefully unanimously.

1066
01:34:22,730 --> 01:34:25,070
You know, I think this has been a really tough job

1067
01:34:25,070 --> 01:34:26,750
and I really want to thank, you know,

1068
01:34:26,850 --> 01:34:29,950
the port, the developer and a lot of people in the community

1069
01:34:29,950 --> 01:34:32,390
for really working hard putting their shoulder

1070
01:34:32,390 --> 01:34:35,170
into this very heavy and very consequential boulder

1071
01:34:35,170 --> 01:34:36,090
to push it uphill.

1072
01:34:36,430 --> 01:34:38,330
So thank you very much.

1073
01:34:38,470 --> 01:34:41,530
I'm encouraging full adoption and thank you.

1074
01:34:47,920 --> 01:34:48,440
Thank you.

1075
01:34:49,040 --> 01:34:51,620
That does conclude the commentaries for today's item.

1076
01:34:51,620 --> 01:34:53,920
and we did receive one letter as well

1077
01:34:53,920 --> 01:34:55,920
that was provided to the board upon receipt.

1078
01:34:57,400 --> 01:35:01,160
I can just respond to some of the comments.

1079
01:35:01,700 --> 01:35:03,640
In regards to the question about Osprey,

1080
01:35:03,920 --> 01:35:07,800
so that dollar amount is included in the $155 million.

1081
01:35:08,260 --> 01:35:10,760
As I mentioned, there's more or less $100 million

1082
01:35:11,020 --> 01:35:15,440
as that is being funded through both Petrus and Parkview

1083
01:35:15,440 --> 01:35:18,560
and Osprey and the developers' portion of equity

1084
01:35:18,560 --> 01:35:21,300
makes up the remainder more or less $55 million.

1085
01:35:22,180 --> 01:35:23,500
So that's where that is related

1086
01:35:23,500 --> 01:35:26,760
to the proposed concert hall that's not at issue here

1087
01:35:27,360 --> 01:35:29,180
because that is going through a sequel process

1088
01:35:29,180 --> 01:35:31,560
that's separate from this at this time

1089
01:35:31,560 --> 01:35:34,000
and that's not what they are moving forward

1090
01:35:34,000 --> 01:35:36,880
with development of nor is this funding related

1091
01:35:36,880 --> 01:35:37,960
to that at this moment.

1092
01:35:38,580 --> 01:35:40,140
And in regards to overwater seating,

1093
01:35:40,220 --> 01:35:41,860
everything that is being developed

1094
01:35:41,860 --> 01:35:43,720
has already gone through the sequel process.

1095
01:35:44,620 --> 01:35:46,760
And everything has been approved

1096
01:35:46,760 --> 01:35:54,320
through various sequa actions over the course of the last 12 or 13 years since 2009.

1097
01:35:54,960 --> 01:35:57,500
So, just want to address those issues that were brought up.

1098
01:36:05,490 --> 01:36:05,970
Any other questions?

1099
01:36:06,330 --> 01:36:06,790
I wish you're welcome.

1100
01:36:07,730 --> 01:36:11,590
Um, some of this question you've had all day, Mr. Gallon.

1101
01:36:11,890 --> 01:36:15,630
Gallon, um, this is denominated.

1102
01:36:15,890 --> 01:36:17,130
Send people a public market.

1103
01:36:18,630 --> 01:36:21,310
We know that's now being called West Harbor.

1104
01:36:22,930 --> 01:36:27,430
Do the documents need to be changed? Are we going to have to do all this again?

1105
01:36:28,290 --> 01:36:33,750
No. We brought a previous board action that allowed them to use the name West Harbor as the

1106
01:36:33,750 --> 01:36:37,890
development name, but the entity, the legal entity that we're under contract with,

1107
01:36:37,970 --> 01:36:40,170
the lease is still synced with the public market LLC.

1108
01:36:40,670 --> 01:36:45,330
Got it. So it will be marketed. I assume it's the developer's choice, but at this point,

1109
01:36:45,330 --> 01:36:52,390
it looks like they're going with West Harbor, but legally, we're good because legally the documents

1110
01:36:52,390 --> 01:36:57,830
are in the name of San Pedro Public Market. And they have the allowance for the lease because

1111
01:36:57,830 --> 01:37:02,370
of previous action that we took to use the name West Harbor for the development.

1112
01:37:03,650 --> 01:37:11,330
And I'd really like to thank Elise Swanson for the support of the chamber and Bruce Haman,

1113
01:37:11,330 --> 01:37:16,930
who spent a great partner can't wait to get going on this and fully in support of this resolution.

1114
01:37:17,190 --> 01:37:20,110
Thank you no question. Thank you. Is that a motion, Commissioner?

1115
01:37:23,610 --> 01:37:26,610
Motion to approve. Thank you. Second.

1116
01:37:27,270 --> 01:37:28,090
Wait a moment, RS.

1117
01:37:28,690 --> 01:37:31,330
You will call vote, Commissioner Prozi. Yes.

1118
01:37:31,830 --> 01:37:33,710
Commissioner Ruin Alonaris. Yes.

1119
01:37:34,190 --> 01:37:37,390
Commissioner Middleton. Yes, President Lee.

1120
01:37:39,770 --> 01:37:52,550
President, if I could just thank some people that were really instrumental in helping us get to this place, the city attorney did a lot of work in the last several months and getting these documents into place, this isn't something the port goes through.

1121
01:37:54,130 --> 01:38:08,810
Transaction of this complexity very often with private money coming in and being used for properties, so I really want to thank Helen Sock and Carl McQuerry for their work on this to work with Lenders Council to get us to this point.

1122
01:38:08,810 --> 01:38:14,030
point and make it the potential that it can be going forward and getting us to a place

1123
01:38:14,030 --> 01:38:16,710
where we can close us grow in the very near future.

1124
01:38:16,810 --> 01:38:21,190
I also want to thank Gene, Marla, and Tony for all the leadership they provided as well.

1125
01:38:21,430 --> 01:38:24,110
And getting us to this point, it's been a long haul.

1126
01:38:24,350 --> 01:38:28,410
We've been working on this and I'm hoping this has elapsed the amendment for construction

1127
01:38:28,410 --> 01:38:29,530
starts for sure.

1128
01:38:30,130 --> 01:38:35,010
So I just want to thank the board for all the support and the community for supporting

1129
01:38:35,010 --> 01:38:35,690
our efforts here.

1130
01:38:36,510 --> 01:38:37,670
Thank you very much, Mike.

1131
01:38:38,410 --> 01:38:42,130
It is to you as well on all of your work on this transaction.

1132
01:38:42,670 --> 01:38:47,510
And for any years already, it will be a few more years still before we see a completed project,

1133
01:38:47,550 --> 01:38:48,870
but we're looking forward to it.

1134
01:38:48,950 --> 01:38:53,550
Anything could be great addition to the water time, which is why this board has been supported.

1135
01:38:54,270 --> 01:38:56,830
The actions to drive this development forward.

1136
01:38:57,670 --> 01:38:58,330
Thank you.

1137
01:39:00,490 --> 01:39:00,990
Thank you.

1138
01:39:01,450 --> 01:39:06,130
That does conclude all open-session items for both the regular and special meeting for today.

1139
01:39:06,130 --> 01:39:09,270
Moving on to closed session, item K, Ken.

1140
01:39:10,210 --> 01:39:11,010
Thank you.

1141
01:39:11,310 --> 01:39:16,810
Amber, at this time the board will recess in the closed session to consider that 12 items

1142
01:39:16,810 --> 01:39:17,990
on the published agenda.

1143
01:39:19,170 --> 01:39:26,110
Mr. Dibernator will be recused on item 10 and 11 and will not participate in the discussion.

1144
01:39:27,110 --> 01:39:33,070
Any reportable actions taken will be announced at the conclusion of the closed session.

1145
01:39:34,850 --> 01:39:35,310
Thank you.

1146
01:39:35,310 --> 01:39:36,310
Okay.

1147
01:39:41,120 --> 01:39:49,920
In the closed session, the board considered the 12 items on the published agenda and took no reportable action.

1148
01:39:52,850 --> 01:40:01,790
You want to mention my fee. My fee was did not participate in items 10 or 11. He was recruased. Thank you.

1149
01:40:02,110 --> 01:40:08,910
Thank you. And please search during this meeting at 12.48 pm. Thank you everyone. See you next time.