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Port tells committee it reallocated Islais Creek funds; Crane Cove, Heron’s Head and Agua Vista on staggered schedules
Summary
Port of San Francisco staff told the committee the waterfront parks portion of the November 2012 bond ($34.5M) has one project complete, five active projects and $12M remaining; the Islais Creek allocation was largely reduced to $250,000 for feasibility and design and money moved to Heron’s Head Park. Members pressed for documentation on which body authorized the transfer.
Shannon Cairns of the Port of San Francisco updated the committee on the waterfront parks component of the November 2012 bond, saying the bond was approved in November 2012 and carried a $34,500,000 allocation for waterfront parks projects. Cairns said one project — Cruise Terminal Plaza at Pier 27 — is complete, five projects are active, and the Port has expended about $23,700,000 against the allocation, leaving roughly $12,000,000.
The Port described schedule milestones and recent funding adjustments. Crane Cove Park is under construction and expected to be completed in spring 2020; Heron’s Head Park is at about 95% design with delivery scheduled in fall 2020; Agua Vista Park is in design and expected to be delivered with the Mission Bay Ferry Landing in fall 2021. Islais Creek was “defunded…all except for $250,000” for a feasibility study and possible design; the Port said it moved most of the prior $2,000,000 allocation to design work on Heron’s Head Park and will seek additional construction funding later if the feasibility study supports it.
Members and the liaison pressed Port staff to identify which administrative body approved moving the $2,000,000 between projects and asked for a written response. Port staff said they would follow up in writing; Dan Hodap (Port) did not have the approval authority information on-hand during the meeting.
Public comment and committee members repeatedly requested more financial metrics in future presentations: itemized change‑order totals, the sum of change orders as a percentage of original contract value, and a breakdown of project management (soft) costs versus hard construction costs for large projects such as the Public Safety Building. A member asked for the specific project-level body or vote that approved the reallocation; Port staff said they would provide the answer after consulting project records.
Why it matters: the Port’s reallocations affect which parks are built or delayed, and the committee’s oversight role is to verify that bond proceeds are spent in accordance with ballot language and to document when funds are moved between projects.
What’s next: Port staff committed to providing the committee with the record of who approved the fund transfer and to answering the public’s financial-metrics questions in follow-up materials. The committee asked staff to include those data in future standardized presentation templates.
