college. we need your support. i definitely need your support about mandating ged because of the fact -- in the '60s, i have a car and i had some wheels. the youngsters still like to back wheels. they said, how do you know that they took the two front wheels but did not touch anything that was on his truck? i suggested to the college, if they would have a class -- and they started over here on evans street with these young men could take a car parts and put it back together, and they wouldn't know what a screwdriver is, but they know the tools to use.

they tell me all the time out, there is a way that we can help the young people instead of just going to jail, cleaning the walls, and get an education. >> that is the conclusion of public comment. we will move to comments from the commissioners, and i want to thank everybody for their comments. commissioner marshall: i want to say that this is very different from the last time we were here. i want to say that that is great. it is qc -- easy to be here at nights like this, so i want to mention a couple of people. it was a tough night.

he took a lot, but he stayed there through the whole thing. you did your best to deal with the issues that surfaced, and it was ugly night. i think your behavior that night was tremendous. i think the person of lot. think you for that. it is those nights back create these kind of things. i want to say it is easy being there at times like this. if you can be there ha, you get nights like this. commissioner kingsley: i have a question that has to do with the district chart?

thank you for your presentation, i appreciate it. a lot of information here. page 19 of your report, there were too that jumped out at me. one is the other assaults category that appears to have doubled, and that as over the previous two years. i am wondering if there is anything that goes with that that you would like to comment on? >> i would have to go look at those reports. i don't want to talk of the top

of my head. i don't know if it is a typographical or not. i would have to look to the report and see what the evidence is. with the other one? >> prostitution for the previous years, 36 and 40, and all the sudden in 2011, two. i was wondering whether the sex trade crimes are included in prostitution, or how all of that fits? >> the one or two misdemeanor charges our ability headed there -- are dielineated there. we have a small number of prostitution cases, but i will look at that.

commissioner kingsley: i thought it may be moved to a different part of the city. >> we don't have the prostitution numbers and the mission district. a also the downtown area, we have very little there. i will have an answer for you tomorrow during business hours. >> we had a hotel. it would be part of the environment that has changed. reports every day coming across my desk if there was one particular building, it was the

focal point that makes sense. it may be different categorization, but we will find out. >> we appreciate the enthusiasm that you bring to your job. can you address confiscation of firearms? very important in the community. when i was looking at the numbers for the last couple of years, it would appear that roughly 25%-30% of firearms confiscated are not related with an arrest. i am curious about that, how that comes about. maybe some examples of how you are able to confiscate the relatively large number of firearms.

>> most of the tip of theline and -- are because of tip line or anonymous means. information, for instance, someone has located a gun that they wanted to turn them or they knew that it was-did a certain location. the gang members, it will be in bushes or other locations. the way of their searched there is no firearm on them. oftentimes, we will be doing a walk through that will be

identified who they are. the main thing is that we get a firearm, and that is great. again, we are able to deal with you if you want to remain anonymous. if you want to remain confidential, there is a section where we can protect your information from being disclosed. we just want to get the guns. >> just out of curiosity, how many of the guns confiscated are illegal firearms? >> assault weapons? it is not a great deal of assault weapons. mostly ballot as handguns. generally those are obtained through lawfully obtained or a residence is burglarized and it is a stolen firearms.

a child had a handgun inside of his backpack during one of these school searches. and so we are able to attract these firearms. there are lawful purchases from the pawnshop in other states have transferred across state lines. those are tracked as well. >> anything further? >> i had questions. >> i have to pick up a family member so i'll be moving in two or three minutes. dr. marshall will take over. >> thank you for your presentation, you are very good at pacing the power point. it is clear that there is a team, a spirit to the work that

you do end there is a humble air there. a couple of questions in response to the public, and i have heard, the asian resident population, and bilingual officers, i wanted to ask you how it has been for you. in terms of outreach, dramatically increasing the asian population, what are the ideas you have to get them involved in the community? >> she has made a very good point, we need more cantonese and mandarin speaking officers at the station. the officer might be off duty.

we have them come to the bayview, the ones that are certified to use them. he has been my major resource for years. we live like most of the officers, over 90% are here because they requested to come here. we need to do more distant stations. you may be familiar with him, he was the outreach officer to a

whole number of -- he was promoted to lieutenant in the recently transferred. we hope to get more, right now we are getting it from others -- the other stations. we have been traditionally been doing a lot of outreach. we hope to do more. i think the meeting will be a very important one because both allen and the three said to -- ellen and teresa sukeduke have been critical of our efforts and to take the criticism to heart.

we're also working with other organizations on third street, it has been there about four months. eddi zheng, he's a community leader. this is one area we need to do better. >> i share your sentiment, is a growing challenge that needs to be practically addressed. i am glad to hear there are all these supporters in the community working with you. >> i will say that when there are exigent matters, 911 calls, we have support three dispatchers and other means to make sure that people receive the emergency response and we get the information in their

native language. in terms of the crime prevention piece in the of reach, i will double efforts on that. >> i wanted to s mend u aboutel pl -- to ask you about mendel plaza. the themes that is a hot spot for some kind of activity we may not want. or their ideas the you could share with us? >> we could speak for hours about it, it has been on the front burner. these suggestions are the same from the folks that we get at the opera house, those in various institutions along oakdale, george carver, all the

same. they want the violence to stop, they want visible police presence. we're doing some plainclothes work. rodney fitzpatrick is out there every day and working in that area. supervisor cohen is working on this. malia an d [unintelligible] there are a whole number of suggestions. we have removed the benches, increasing lighting, working with dpw, public utilities, mta. everyone is working on making it safer. dbi, supervisor cohen is

whispering in my ear. code abatement, issues with liquor stores. there is a multi-city department effort. we have the arts commission that i met with for an hour, suggesting what they are doing at the opera house and the plaza. the opera house has a vibrant operation int he pla - -i- in the plaza. we want more events in the summertime, that is going to happen. it is right at the focal point for everybody. safety, security, making infrastructure changes. the folks that live and work there, they want change.

they want cops there, so i have resources galore. knock on wood, we haven't had shootings or gun issues in the plaza for the last 90-120 days. i think that is directly attributable to the enforcement and visibility. i hope answers your question. >> i think the interagency approach makes sense, and you. >> i might ask you something that is near and dear to my heart. the community ambassador program, how do you feel about that? >> wheat keep mixing and matching.

we keep mixing and matching, the office of immigrant affairs. we have a lot of city bureaucrats here helping us out. not only do we work closely with the ambassadors, and i think they are a very important component, b.a. degree a m safeuni jiechi thepla -- bringing a degree of safety to the muni platforms, they are there. there is a young attorney that is also a police sergeant, and he has a training session for all the ambassadors throughout the city. the bayview station community

room, he gave them over an hour- long session of out communicate with the police and how to deal with miscreance, the types of things they have to deal with. they're out there with a yellow jacket bought or something. that training, i believe the director was pleased with the training. we will continue to train the ambassadors throughout the city. the foot beat officers say the ambassadors are part of a team that i believe has brought down some of the robbers. robberies are about the same in the san bruno corridor. the answer to your question, it is working out very well. >> that is what we hoped.

>> anything else? commissioner marshall: being in the boys' club, it has really changed. it is not perfect, but there were years when it was just insane. i am glad to see the things are improving. there is a good chief in place, a good captain in place, and let's keep it moving. no one wants to return to the way it was. >> you have toiled in these venues for decades and you converse with the issues. it has something to do with the

police, a lot to do with the police that as more of the community -- in the community leaders are incredible, as you know. there are all types of folks that are involved in these issues each and every day. people live in the neighborhoods, they visit the corridor, and there are peaks and valleys and stops and starts, but you are right. it is moving in the right direction. we have to keep remembering that the community is one that is important. >> chief, want to say something? >> the next item that no one is looking forward to is adjournment, but he did use phalanx in context tonight.

he is one of the officers retiring at the end of june. he has toiled in the san francisco police department for four decades. i think we can honor him by adjourning at, i don't want to steal your thunder -- >> line item 4. adjournemtn. ment. >> in honor of the captain. >> hear, hear. [applause] >> the meeting is adjourned, ladies and jump in. --and gentlemen.

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 m