local public library. this is where i read the children's book about abraham lincoln and caesar chavez and mahatma gandhi. this is what inspires who we are as a people, as a city. i want to thank you today. look around at this crowd today. we represent the diversity, the mows mosaic, not just of san francisco but the world. it's a library that gives us the knowledge and culture of what our world is about. i want to thank you for being part of this village that is not just the bay but san francisco. i want to thank the city staff, our mayor, our local supervisor for coming together for building the 28

libraries. i'm very excited that we finished 27. no. 28 sin my district. it's time to get to north beach. i want to thank everybody in this community because every image is one of you here wanted to make sure that this library is fit for the 21st century. congratulations. >> thank you supervisor chew. just so you know your library is under construction. it's also my pleasure to welcome supervisor and he's got libraries in his district as well. supervisor scott. >> thank you. congratulations to the community on this wonderful building, this wonderful library in community.

i was here for the ground breaking ats and it's so wonderful to see the project complete. some people ask me why do you go to the library. i try share vicariously through other communities the joy of getting a new library. we might be divided into neighborhoods and directs and lecture supervisor by districts, but we are one city. if you are in castro or north beach or rich mond, we've to work together and i'm so proud of our city to supporting our library system. there are other parts in the state and country that are shutting down libraries. we are improving our libraries. congratulations to the community and to all of us. this is a wonderful day.

>> wonderful. our supervisor co-hen is here. but now this one is really the capstone to all the wonderful libraries. supervisor malia cohen. >> good morning. hello, young scholars. where are my little young people? hello. oh, my god! the bay view library is probably the crown joule jewel. this is one of the most blessed occasions that we get to experience together as a community. this building harvest our arrest archives of

our culture and that bay view and the entire city of san francisco. if that's not a reason to celebrate, i don't know what better reason there is. what better grand opening is there than the bay view library opening. here we are collectively coming together to share our thoughts, our experiences, our traditions right here on the corner. a pivotal corner that's been the corner of all the action along the 3rd street merchant corridor. today is exciting because it's a hallmark of not only of what's to do come but what has to pass, our culture, our san francisco culture. this

is a place where it's been welcoming people for decades. this is a time where you start to see change along the third street corridor and not be fearful of the change but understand it's embraces. this change is not about moving people out, but about moving people out through education, access and information. i want to acknowledge all of our city partners today, thank you for being here today, thank you mayor lee, and i see gina, i just want to say a couple words to you. you all look beautiful. i love you. all right. have a good day. we are going to utilize this resource. it is not going to be dormant. we are going to have this be the center of excellence in learning. all right. amen. >> supervisors it's going to be one of the more vibrant places.

you so right. thank you so much. another person that's been a supporter with the mission and library, it's none other than our assembly person. tom arg no.. >> thanks for the proposals promotion. i can be my first lady. good tidings. i remember the library in 1988 people were worried that people in the neighborhood wouldn't be respectful of the library. we have proven that it takes a village and supported those bonds unanimously particularly

building around the library. of course in san francisco it takes the village people. that's a little different. i remember teaching at the bay view school and how challenged the parents were to provide an education for these kids and now neglected this area was and we have turned this around because of our spirituality and work ethics and pride. so god love us all. this is a beautiful beautiful building and anytime you want any help, anytime night or day, please feel free to call supervisor malia. no, you can call me. thanks. >> thank you, tom. >> so we are getting excited about coming inside, aren't we? we are almost there. once you are inside take a look at the beautiful art inside. the san francisco art commissions local

artist and we are so proud that the local artist is from the bay view. his name is ron sanders. his artwork is truly inspiring. they are what they call photo grams. there is two of them, one is spirit of nature dancing together and the other one is symbiotic relationship. one of them is inside the beautiful courtyard and the other one is inside the library. enjoy that. i do want to thank the executive director from the san francisco art commission, tom is here. judy is here also from the arts commission. let's give them a round of applause. they do great work out here. i have already told you about the wonderful beautiful admiration.

mohammed. >> thank you. thank you louis. first of all i'm just proud of the partnership that the department of public works has with the library, the entire staff, the commission. today we are breaking ground on library no. 23. a big hand for this program, please. [ applause ] >> i'm also very fortunate to have a very great staff, elena chen, our city architect, edgar lopez, all put hands together to make this happen. but most importantly former director who is now head of mta, who started this project. wave your hand? [ applause ] . when ed was director, certain goals were set to accomplish this project. local business,

the goal was set at 30 percent. can anybody guess how many percent local businesses got part of this library? 68 percent. [ applause ] >> subcontracting goals, more than 50 percent of the subcontractors came from this neighborhood. and most important, all the hours that were put to build this library, 25 percent of the work force from 94124. i would like to thank our contractors. freddie carter and mike. where is freddie? freddie, come up here. please, a big hand for freddie. [ applause ] >> every time i would stop by early in the morning, 6:30 sometimes in the evening, 8:00

freddie was in that office making sure the work would get done. he held hands to many of the workers from our community and made this project possible. it is a very good example that people like freddie, when they go the extra mile teach our own residents and people who live here how to do things. we can do it. [ applause ] we can do it. and i hope this sets the pace for future projects in san francisco. all the neighborhoods from the various residents we can go and we can build more libraries, more stations, more fire houses, more community facilities. thank you very much. >> now we also wanted an energy

efficient library. you have a green living roof and also have solar panels and i think all due to the partnership we've had with the department environment of san francisco. this is actually going to be the highest rated lead which stands for leadership and energy environmental design. it's the lead goal at the top level. let's hear it for our friends from the department of environment. particularly mike palmer they are all here to be with us. another group that was dedicated to make sure the entire project was complete on time is the commission. they gave us time. lee is the commissioner. >> thank you, lee, i know there are several other commissioners

in the audience, we have theresa ono. let's give them a big round of [ applause applause. they deserve our acknowledgment. now we have people who have helped with the fund raising and the building capacity for the library. friends of the library, scott. >> thank you, louis. it's a great pleasure to be with friends. this was a community effort where we had donations from $3 to a $100,000. there is a whole bunch of you, c'mon up.

because these were the folks raising the money here in your community for this beautiful branch. [ applause ] also we have diane gray who is going to make a special presentation. >> hello, it is a glorious day and someone said the sun is shining on bay view. the sun always shines on bay view. my name is diane gray and i'm one of the newer board members of the san francisco friends of the public library. i'm

wearing a hat today. that organization i'm here with two of our other members, lydia vincent and ferjie newman. we get some funding through the san francisco foundation and we had commissioned actually a project that you will see in the library, in the courtyard of a tile project. it's a lovely project. we have some monies left over and we said we want that to be gifted further to the library moving forward for programs and anything else that the facility needs. so we decided as a group that $12,000 is going to be donated to the bay view library. [ applause ]

>> thank you, diane. i also want to make a special thank you for funding the opening today and for their support for today's opening. louis? >> you know, i know it's tight here, crowded. what does that say? it says there is true ownership in our neighborhood for this library. fantastic. i want to take a moment to acknowledge some other partners. we've already mentioned the fellows who were terrific in help with planning and design process but also the ymca and gino, the executive directors out there, they helped us keep the library services going throughout the construction project. gino, where are you? thank you so much for your help. we are

almost done. i want to acknowledge two individuals that have volunteered their time for over 20 years in the neighborhood. it's called the council of neighborhood libraries. your representative were there from the very beginning because they that had vision of having a new library. i want to particularly acknowledge miriam and larry is back here. thank you so much for your wonderful support. thank you miriam. let's give them a big round of applause, folks. here they are. terrific. also in the neighborhood we had some returnis, folks that were branch managers and librarians.

fanny young, terrific. thank you for all of your work. we are ready just for our big celebration. as with transaction we have a ribbon cutting and we have the lion dancer bless the building. we are going to have them bless the ceremony since it's the lunar new year. we are going to call the mayor to the front and malia. could i ask the mayor and malia to do the count down from 10 to 1 do a count down. >> the ribbon is coming. >> you are going to help us count from 10. we need help. >> all right, everybody. we are going to start at 10 and we are going down. ready? 10, 9, 8,

7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. all right. >> all right. let's hear it for the line dancer from the community center. when a resident of san francisco is looking for health care, you look in your neighborhood first. what is closest to you? if you come to a neighborhood health center or a clinic, you then have access it a system of care in the community health

network. we are a system of care that was probably based on the family practice model, but it was really clear that there are special populations with special needs. the cole street clinic is a youth clinic in the heart of the haight ashbury and they target youth. tom woodell takes care of many of the central city residents and they have great expertise in providing services for many of the homeless. potrero hill and southeast health centers are health centers in those particular communities that are family health centers, so they provide health care to patients across the age span. . >> many of our clients are working poor. they pay their taxes. they may run into a rough patch now and then and what we're able to provide is a bridge towards getting them back on

their feet. the center averages about 14,000 visits a year in the health clinic alone. one of the areas that we specialize in is family medicine, but the additional focus of that is is to provide care to women and children. women find out they're pregnant, we talk to them about the importance of getting good prenatal care which takes many visits. we initially will see them for their full physical to determine their base line health, and then enroll them in prenatal care which occurs over the next 9 months. group prenatal care is designed to give women the opportunity to bond during their pregnancy with other women that have similar due dates. our doctors here are family doctors. they are able to help these women deliver their babies at the hospital, at general hospital. we also have the wic program, which is a program that provides food vouchers for our

families after they have their children, up to age 5 they are able to receive food vouchers to get milk and cereal for their children. >> it's for the city, not only our clinic, but the city. we have all our children in san francisco should have insurance now because if they are low income enough, they get medical. if they actually have a little more assets, a little more income, they can get happy family. we do have family who come outside of our neighborhood to come on our clinic. one thing i learn from our clients, no matter how old they are, no matter how little english they know, they know how to get to chinatown, meaning they know how to get to our clinic. 85 percent of our staff is bilingual because we are

serving many monolingual chinese patients. they can be child care providers so our clients can go out and work. >> we found more and more women of child bearing age come down with cancer and they have kids and the kids were having a horrible time and parents were having a horrible time. how do parents tell their kids they may not be here? what we do is provide a place and the material and support and then they figure out their own truth, what it means to them. i see the behavior change in front of my eyes. maybe they have never been able to go out of boundaries, their lives have been so rigid to sort of expressing that makes tremendous changes. because we did what we did, it is now sort of a nationwide model. >> i think you would be surprised if you come to these clinics. many of them i think would be your neighbors if you knew that.

often times we just don't discuss that. we treat husband and wife and they bring in their kids or we treat the grandparents and then the next generation. there are people who come in who need treatment for their heart disease or for their diabetes or their high blood pressure or their cholesterol or their hepatitis b. we actually provide group medical visits and group education classes and meeting people who have similar chronic illnesses as you do really helps you understand that you are not alone in dealing with this. and it validates the experiences that you have and so you learn from each other. >> i think it's very important to try to be in tune with the needs of the community and a lot of our patients have -- a lot of our patients are actually immigrants who have a lot of competing priorities,

family issues, child care issues, maybe not being able to find work or finding work and not being insured and health care sometimes isn't the top priority for them. we need to understand that so that we can help them take care of themselves physically and emotionally to deal with all these other things. they also have to be working through with people living longer and living with more chronic conditions i think we're going to see more patients coming through. >> starting next year, every day 10,000 people will hit the age of 60 until 2020. . >> the needs of the patients that we see at kerr senior center often have to do with the consequences of long standing substance abuse and mental illness, linked to their chronic diseases. heart failure, hypertension,

diabetes, cancer, stroke, those kinds of chronic illnesses. when you get them in your 30's and 40's and you have them into your aging process, you are not going to have a comfortable old age. you are also seeing in terms of epidemics, an increase in alzheimer's and it is going to increase as the population increases. there are quite a few seniors who have mental health problems but they are also, the majority of seniors, who are hard-working, who had minimum wage jobs their whole lives, who paid social security. think about living on $889 a month in the city of san francisco needing to buy medication, one meal a day, hopefully, and health care. if we could provide health care early on we might prevent

(inaudible) and people would be less likely to end up in the emergency room with a drastic outcome. we could actually provide prevention and health care to people who had no other way of getting health care, those without insurance, it might be more cost effective >> everyone. thank you. my name is carl i'm the president of the silicon leadership groufrp we're happy you joined us for a town hall with mayor ed lee with the obama administration on the action on immigration

founded here just a few blocks away. that what matters is we have a mare that understands the issues a nearest and dear it to us and that's immigration reform. since it's inception we've gotten over 20 visas alone and

the feeling is we have a shortage on green talent when we need to go through the steps we need to go through and for the tech community we're focused on opening up our technical school to the global community. we're in a talent war along with a state war on services gov. and anything we can help to create change here means so much to us. we have the mayor who can creative impact so we stand behind mayor ed lee and we're thrilled he's here. i'm so excited to here what he is has to say.

thank you (clapping) >> julia and kevin a thank you for being subpoena great community leaders were we're going to have a robust town meeting this is being live for my radio program. we like to let people know in advance. i'm going to ask a few questions then we're going to open it up to you for the awe loltd time we have. so with that we're going to start. welcome to our ceos for our live town hall with the live host along with san francisco's mayor ed lee