on that the city side, retiring police officers. perm errors are retiring. i am going out for special tax measure, which half of the money would go to academies and recruitment. i have budget money for officers, but not for all the extra trainings. oakland police officers trying for nearly a year. i am looking, wondering how many -- we already have a lot of retired military people. i wonder how many joint kind of training activities we could use that would prepare staff for all kinds of occupations crossed the line, military and police, that might eventually help us all save money as we're looking at the boomers retiring in big numbers of the next five years. >> i think the media does a great job -- >> i think we should wait just a moment while the navy practices

they're flying. >> i think the media does a tremendous job reporting the disasters and with follow-up after. the part that i think is missing that would be really helpful is that their reporting these disasters and continuing day after day, they also everyday remind people about what they need to do to make themselves prepared. i mean, i think sometimes people get scared because they keep hearing about the disasters and all the different things that go on. we have been talking about san bruno disaster, and it has been a year now. i think we still hear about it on a daily basis. what you're not hearing is, what are we doing in that community now to make sure they are prepared? how do we tell people what to do and where to go for shelter? if the media to do more of that, i think we would have more people being prepared after a disaster happens. >> and the coast guard. is the coast guard being fairly treated and getting the recognition you deserve? >> i think we talked a lot about

building partnerships on this panel and how important those partnerships are. the media is no different. our need to build partnerships with the media outlets is a vital importance. we try to do that on a regular basis and bring them onto coast guard facilities and educate them about our resources and our plants and responses. i think they have the ability to train flat -- translate to the public and be that entity that we're looking for in a crisis. >> when the four of you go back to your offices and report back to the people who work with you and for you, what are you going to tell them about this particular meeting? do you feel that you're getting something valuable and valuable enough about being here, discussing it in front of this fine audience? >> i think that we are here because we do not want to miss

any opportunity to build new and improved-on relationships, not only within the city agencies, but in particular, this great opportunity during fleet week to work with our various military forces, including our coastguard, that does it every single day with us in different aspects. but also, i think the relationships that we would have with the navy and marines and the expectation that if in the event of a very large disaster, wherever it might be in the bay area, that we can actually start building expectations that would help us with logistics, help us with a lifeline, recovery, help us with moving heavy equipment and materials on the whole bay area and how to do it and how to communicate at different levels most efficiently. and then have our own residents in every neighborhood understand that all of our areas, federal,

state, local, are working together to build those relationships so that their confidence. they are in the best shape in their region when we expect a major disaster to come. there should be less fear about earthquakes and more about getting better prepared for it to and finding new partnerships all the time. that is what comes to mind. i want to exhibit that and reinforce it in the media and in every neighborhood that we have got, better relationships than we do today because of the way we pushed this whole idea of fleet week how well be a lot -- well beyond the celebrations, right into the roles or what to have that enhance our ability to respond and recover fast. >> i agree. when i heard that the navy wanted to discuss this, i thought, that is great. because i know in recent years, the navy has participated in community projects when they

were here. i would like to see next year us do some of these tabletop operations and exercises. i do not know were the admiral is, but i would like to welcome you to put a few ships on the east bay. i think it will be visited at the world cup or something like that. and our harbors are debir anyhow. -- are deeper . [laughter] i think using this opportunity and looking at what we might have to do together sunday, and using this time when you are in our harbors. this used to be our home, but that was a long time ago. we had more opportunities to work closely together. coming from someone who married into a navy family, you have many, many, many people here in the bay area who are in the navy, and we want you to feel very welcome here. so i would love to see any kind

of expanded activity around fleet week, whether it is just recalling the history of the nave -- navy in the bay area or whether it is being prepared and maybe doing tabletop arraus potential future scenarios. >> it is interesting that you ask that question, because right before i left, some said, where are you going, and i said that i would be at fleet week it would be on the panel for disaster preparedness, and that looked at me like -- what? you do not realize, but it is not the local statistics, our federal government. it is our military as well that will help us in the time of disaster. we have our partners around the bay, but we also have a military that will lead to step in. we're going to qualify them in a major disaster. we're going to collaborate and talk today about these different issues and how they can work with us on all those levels of disasters. they come up to me and say, wow

people do not understand that relationship, i think. we recognize it and will continue to work on it and will continue to collaborate, because we do not all have a lot of our resources. but collectively, we have a tremendous amount of resources. >> i would just add that that we build on our success of last year, but this is a unique and extraordinary opportunity. it is an extraordinary opportunity for all of us. i appreciate the opportunity. >> we have just about used up our time here. but i wanted to ask each one of the very brief -- briefly, your number one wish in terms of safety and prevention and disaster preparedness would be

what? >> i will give you more than one. i will give two. >> two is ok. >> as i said before, individual preparedness. that would be at the top of the list, because we're not all going to have the ability to have someone come to our rescue right away. the second one is communication. if the communication is not going to be there between all of our region, we're going to be in a heap of trouble. i think those are the things we need to work on and stay on top of from this day forward, as much as we did in the past as well. >> i would just have to say that we need to continue to build on our ability to build our partnerships and to cross-train with each other, our awareness of each other's capabilities is critical and the key to success. >> major quan. >> i am going to be redundant.

money, money, money for infrastructure retrofitting. one thing i have not asked for but injury to me and the previous presentation is i would like to really learn more about how you were able to take the google maps and the data and move quickly. secondly, what lessons you learned in helping restore roads, transportation, and schools. schools are key to rebuilding the community and keeping that connectedness. any of the lessons from japan or the disasters that your help in, to share those, because the military institutions have access to technology and experience that a local government would not. >> my wish is that knowing that there will be disasters of every kind that we may face, my wish is that every resident, business, and a person that goes to school in the bay area can appreciate the individual

responsibilities they have to be part of a strong neighborhood and strong cities that are doing everything they can to take the fear out of these disasters and the building relationships and communications. and actually, being part of decision making that makes us that much more higher level ready responsible. i think it takes everybody not only talking about this. it takes an attitude where this is part of the way we live in the bay area. we have to be better prepared. this is our responsibility as says it -- as citizens to work together, to bring down the communication barriers, and have an attitude that we will overcome any disaster because we're working together to strengthen every place that we live and work in order to school in. >> if we still have someone in the audience with a microphone, we would be -- is there someone

here who still has the microphone? a and theirh, a nice person with a microphone. -- ah, there is a person with a microphone. there must be at least one question here for our panel. they have answered every single thing that you ever thought about your entire life? no. here is the question. and from a famous person. here we go. >> governor barbara -- barbour said will have a big catastrophe, it is going to encompass one city usually, so he thinks a governor should be in charge. but in this panel, nobody has mentioned the governor.

what role leading the governor of california should have? >> i think you have to remember who the governor is. i love jerry. [laughs] i clearly think of the wildfires and the earthquake that the governor has a role that is pretty critical for mobilizing the r and maybe resources outside the region. let's think about an earthquake. the kind of earthquake we're all theory in the bay area could also take out the levees, which would disrupt the water system for a lot of northern california. i would have to think twice. i mean, i think that the governor has to rally the state resources, but the governor may have multiple disasters on his hand, so rallying as overall resources to take care of what

is probably going to be a multi- city, multi-issue kind of disaster, because it may be search and rescue and fires in san francisco and oakland, but it could be water supplies throughout the rest of the state. it could be later-after-later in a major disaster, and i think the state is going to have to rally resources from the entire state and probably from washington in a major event like that. >> good. do we have another question from the audience? the gentleman over there was starting to raise his hand. well, if we do not have any more questions, i think that we have pretty much settled the issue here. we thank you all very much for being here. would you like to say a few words? >> jack, i appreciate you

moderating. i appreciate the officials here for participating in the panel. i do not know, i felt pretty good about the commonality here in terms of the agreement that you all had on the things that need to be done, particularly your expression of support for what we're trying to accomplish here. so would all of you please help me give them a big round of applause for this panel? [applause] i know that we have two mayors here and the supervisor, and i know your schedules are hectic. i appreciate you taking the time. and our port captain, we love her. she is one sharp cookie, and she does a great job here in san francisco. thank you also much. appreciated. i will ask all of you if your mind, take a quick break, because we're going to transition to our next panel. everybody has talked about the role of private sectors. we think now that we probably

should someday do a whole day on the role of private sector, and we're going to have a great panel here. i would like to say, let's start this, if we could come in five minutes. let's take a five-minute, maybe stand in place or if you need to make a head call, and get the panel up here so we can start it.

>> this is holly lee knox. there are some proud pet owners in san francisco and they have brought all their pets here to strut their stuff. >> it's an annual event that we've had. this is our 18th year. we bring in rescue groupers, vendors, supporters, lots and lots of animals. it's a proud day for us and for the animals of san francisco. >> the costume contest is really fun. people get really creative. it's a really fun event.

people go all out, create costumes, buy costumes, whatever it is. but there's some really fun ones. >> we're just celebrating the pets and just their companionship and how they are invaluable. so everybody's having fun. >> we're the city's open door shelter. that means we take in every animal that comes through our door regardless of age, condition, species, everything in the city comes through us that is in need. >> animal care control, it is such an important agency and is very understaffed, has very few resources. but we make animals don't have a home, that we get them a home and that we don't put the animals to sleep, that we're able to adopt them out.

>> we have a huge number of volunteers who come in and they will walk our dogs, socialize our animals, play with cats, play with them, bring them to adoption events today. >> i volunteer with the animal control center and i do that every week. >> we're in an organization called friends of a.c.c. with that organization, you can donate money if you don't have time. if you do have time, you can come down to the shelter and volunteer to actually have one-on-one time with the animals. if you're like me and you don't have time to give to an animal, if you actually have one of your own, you can get your fix on the weekends, come in and pet them and love them and it's great. >> this has been pet pride 2011 brought to you by san francisco animal care and control. to find out more, visit them on the web at sfgov

>> welcome to "culturewire." today we are at recology. they are celebrate 20 years of one of the most incredibly unique artist residency programs. we are here to learn more from one of the resident artists. welcome to the show, deborah. tell us how this program began 20 years ago. >> the program began 20 years ago. our founder was an environmentalist and an activist and an artist in the 1970's. she started these street sweeping campaigns in the city. she started with kids. they had an exhibition at city

hall. city officials heard about her efforts and they invited her to this facility. we thought it would coincide with our efforts to get folks to recycle, it is a great educational tool. since then, we have had 95 professional artists come through. >> how has the program changed over the years? how has the program -- what can the public has an artist engage with? >> for the most part, we worked with metal and wood, what you would expect from a program like ours. over the years, we tried to include artists and all types of mediums. conceptual artists, at installation, photographers, videographers. >> that has really expanded the program out. it is becoming so dynamic right now with your vision of interesting artists in gauging

here. why would an artist when to come here? >> mainly, access to the materials. we also give them a lot of support. when they start, it is an empty studio. they go out to the public area and -- we call it the big store. they go out shopping, take the materials that, and get to work. it is kind of like a reprieve, so they can really focus on their body of work. >> when you are talking about recology, do you have the only sculpture garden at the top? >> it is based on work that was done many years ago in new york. it is the only kind of structured, artist program. weit is beautiful. a lot of the plants you see were pulled out of the garbage, and we use our compost to transplant

them. the pathway is lined with rubble from the earthquake from the freeways we tour about 5000 people a year to our facility, adults and children. we talk about recycling and conservation. they can meet the artists. >> fantastic. let's go meet some of your current artists. here we are with lauren. can you tell us how long have been here so far and what you're working on? >> we started our residency on june 1, so we came into the studio then and spent most of the first couple weeks just digging around in the trash. i am continuing my body of work, kind of making these hand- embroidered objects from our day-to-day life. >> can you describe some of the things you have been making here? this is amazing. >> i think i started a lot of my

work about the qualities of light is in the weight. i have been thinking a lot about things floating through the air. it is also very windy down here. there is a piece of sheet music up there that i have embroidered third. there is a pamphlet about hearing dea -- nearing death. this is a dead rabbit. this is what i am working on now. this is a greeting card that i found, making it embroidered. it is for a very special friend. >> while we were looking at this, i glanced down and this is amazing, and it is on top of a book, it is ridiculous and amazing. >> i am interested in the serendipity of these still life compositions. when he got to the garbage and to see the arrangement of objects that is completely spontaneous. it is probably one of the least

thought of compositions. people are getting rid of this stuff. it holds no real value to them, because they're disposing of it. >> we're here in another recology studio with abel. what attracted you to apply for this special program? >> who would not want to come to the dump? but is the first question. for me, being in a situation that you're not comfortable in has always been the best. >> what materials were you immediately attracted to when you started and so what was available here? >> there are a lot of books. that is one of the thing that hits me the most. books are good for understanding, language, and art in general. also being a graphic designer, going straight to the magazines and seeing all this printed material being discarded has also been part of my work. of course, always wood or any kind of plastic form or anything

like that. >> job mr. some of the pieces you have made while you have been here. -- taught me through some of the pieces you have ma while you have been here. >> the first thing that attracted me to this was the printed surface. it was actually a poster. it was a silk screen watercolor, about 8 feet long. in terms of the flatwork, i work with a lot of cloddish. so being able to cut into it come at into it, removed parts, it is part of the process of negotiating the final form. >> how do you jump from the two dimensional work that you create to the three-dimensional? maybe going back from the 3f to 2d. >> everything is in the process of becoming. things are never said or settled. the sculptures are being made while i am doing the collages, and vice versa. it becomes a part of something

else. there's always this figuring out of where things belong or where they could parapets something else. at the end goal is to possibly see one of these collage plans be built out and create a structure that reflects back into the flat work. >> thank you so much for allowing "culturewire" to visit this amazing facility and to learn more about the artists in residence program. is there anything you like our viewers to know? >> we have art exhibitions every four months, and a win by the public to come out. everybody is welcome to come out. we have food. sometimes we have gains and bands. it is great time. from june to september, we accept applications from bay area artists. we encouraged artists from all mediums to apply. we want as many artists from the bay area out here so they can have the same experience. >> how many artists to do your host here?

>> 6 artist a year, and we receive about 108 applications. very competitive. >> but everyone should be encouraged to apply. thank you again for hosting us. >> thank you for including us in "culturewire." ♪