officers a lot more than i grew up with but pits less than the population in terms of language access do you think wu you have enough officers for languages >> i know we have 6 officers that speak cantonese and then there's 27 that speak mandarin at central we have one officer that speaks mandarin actually she's a p.s. a. one officer speaks chinese and mandarin. the services are utilized constantly. would you like more?

>> we can always use more. it's like that commercial >> i want to ask i about the elderly population. because the elders are leaders in the community. i think i've been back here for community meetings and before we've talked about the housing project that's just down the street, i believe on pacific and before officers would have hours there is that continuing and how it is going >> we're talking about a manager the officers are showing up and a no one was coming but a lot of times you can see seniors just they use senior station like union park and i think they feel i it's a save environment.

they're just sitting there on the benches but if there's a problem we talked to the manager and heel walk although them to central station if there's a problem >> it's too bad the office hours weren't being used so there's a way that the elderly can still report crime. >> i know that they were concerned about graffiti and robbery and some days they didn't hear about what happened with those crimes because they weren't reported. >> our officers are walking through there on a regular basis so maybe that's alleviated some of the problems. >> i want to ask you about the quality of life issues.

i park on brad broadway so i see the concerns. one of the people talking about president help and not wanting help in terms of the c i p programs do you know how many officers you have and how many people will take vague of that and maybe talk about the panhandling. and we have 48 officers who are trained under the old system but whenever that training is available we sign up for it >> do you see - i'm glad you know the numbers off the top of your head. do you see them being used

>> we've seen a big spike in people with mental health problems. i read every single report that comes into central station and i come in in the weekend hours to go through any box. everyday my officers are putting psych codes a 50, 51 code. i had one officer who got a broken hand and another officer had his thump schaffer and another officer a broken leg in 3 places. i used to walk a beat and i really would like to have two beat officers walking it's too

dangerous now. it's dangerous and it seemed like so many mentally ill people they have been dropped off from other cities and it's a disservice to the city and i'm really concerned about hearing about the officers and i am wondering if the c it program to make sure that the officer gets the training and address the c it program. people are mentally ill and to get the officer some protection. i want to ask about the liquor licenses.

you don't get enough say about whether or not a storeowner should get the licenses >> especially on the broadway corridor. we've made a lot of improvements there. we've got a lot of help from our city district attorney. she's helped me bringing the retail shops and the restaurants owners together and they don't want any more night clubs. even the strip clubs or tooird of it. those night claubz clubs are bringing in the downstrokes from out of town. you know, we'd like like to see more restaurants and jazz clubs and different types of venues i was surprised that the strip

clubs don't want to see those venues. i think we have 4 hundred and 33 sale liquor licenses in a 3 scare bloke area >> i saw a dive array of people in support of you and happy to have i as a captain. so i appreciate your work >> captain tom, i want to thank you and everyone here for the great prevention. i w i was partly interested in the folks in particular. i have a concern about quality of life programs and the increased number of establishments of liquor licenses as well.

i'm interested and glad to hear what you had to say as well as mr. green bigger. perhaps the ada can tell me what's the alu? >> the liaison to the - >> the liaison to the state? >> the ad c. >> so the sf pd staff. okay. that's important. we're trying to figure out if it's their guys or ours >> i had a feeling i had know. i should know what the alu is

>> how embarrassing and i thought it was it was really a smart move to call and reach anti to others and see what they're doing for sleuths by are there other types of those kind of scams going on? there's a few scams not fwom among the elderly. i've seen a lot of scams on the internet. the other day there was a lady who wanted a carpet cleaner and they came in and took all the oriental rugs. there's people calling restaurants and saying our pg&e

bill is going to be turned off so they'll send in green dot cards that are prepaid credit cards. people hiding behind the automated teller machine machines. wherever you're finished with a transaction people will walk away and you'll getty money taken out of your account. it's the asian blessing scamper that's subsided. the china media has done a lot of outreach. we sent some information out to

the banks and we pass it out to the merchant in chinatown but it's a lot like someone said which someone is elderly they're ill lit and they don't watch tv but they carry the reusually bag. those are hot items. >> thank you very much. you're welcome >> captain tom it's clear you have our heart here but i wouldn't be able to end the night but by saying how proud you make me the respect you get here from the district attorney's office. it's clear our leadership is

well served here. i'm very grateful >> thank you. thank you. >> everybody thank you very much for coming tonight. we've heard great stoerdz and great work by the police officers. and people who are served the city for 50 years >> and ms. rodriguez thank you. call the last item and a line item 5 adjournment >> ladies and gentlemen, we're going to adjourn tonight in honor of two men and one t is detective chief retired backing and the other a member of the community. so with a moment of silence we're going to adjourn.

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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

>> welcome to culture wire. we will look at the latest and greatest public art project. recently, the airport unveiled the new state of the art terminal. let's take a look. the new terminal service and american airlines and virgin america was designed by a world- renowned architecture's firm. originally built in 1954, the building underwent massive renovation to become the first registered terminal and one of the must modern and sustainable terminals and the united states.

the public art program continues its 30-year legacy of integrating art into the airport environment with the addition of five new commissions that are as bold and dynamic as the new building. >> this project was completed in record time, and we were able to integrate the artist's early enough in the process that they could work with the architect said that the work that is completed is the work that really helps complement and instill the space as opposed to being tucked away in a corner. >> be experience begins with the glass facades that was designed with over 120 laminated glass panels. it captures the experience of being under or over clouds when flying in a plane. depending on the distance or point of view, it can appear

clear for more abstract and atmospheric. the subtle colors change gradually depending on the light and the time of day. >> i wanted to create an art work that looks over time as well as working on in the first glance. the first time you come here, you may not see a. but you may be able to see one side over the other. it features a couple of suspended sculptures. each was created out of a series of flat plains run parallel to each other and constructed of steel tubing. >> it is made up of these strata. as the light starts to shift, there is a real sense that there is a dynamism. >> it gives the illusion that

this cultures might be fragments of a larger, mysterious mass. >> the environmental artwork livens it with color, light, and the movement. three large woven soldiers are suspended. these are activated by custom air flow program. >> i channeled air flow into each of these forms that makes it move ever so slightly. and it is beating like a heart. if-0 when as of the forces of nature moving around us every second. >> shadow patterns reflect the shapes of the hanging sculptures. the new terminal also features a children's play areas.

both of the market the exploratory n.y. -- exploratorium. the offer travelers of all ages a playful oasis. using high quality plywood, they created henches shaped like a bird wings that double as musical instruments. serving as a backdrop is a mural featuring images of local birds and san francisco's famous skyline. >> in the line between that is so natural, you can see birds and be in complete wilderness. i really like that about this. you could maybe get a little snapshot of what they are expecting.

>> it is an interactive, keck sculpture that is interacted with by the visitor. >> they are a lot about and they fall down the belt. it moves the belt up, and if you turn that faster, the butterflies fall in the move of words. >> the art reflect the commission's commitment to acquiring the best work from the bay area and beyond. in addition to the five new commissions, 20 artworks that were already in the airport collection were reinstalled. some of which were historically cited in the terminal. it includes major sculptures by the international artists. as a collection, these art works tell the story of the vibrant arts scene in the early 1960's through the mid-1980s's.

the illustrate san francisco's cultural center and a place of innovation that is recognized and the love throughout the world. one of the highlights is a series of three left tapestries. they are on view after being in storage for 20 years. these tapestries representing various gardens. from his years of living in san francisco. hydrangeas, chrysanthemums, and whilst dahlias in rich, deep shades as they make their way to the baggage area. they can access behind-the- scenes information and interviews with the artist through an audio to work. it features archival audio as well as interviews with living

artists. he can be accessed on site by dialing the telephone numbers located near the artwork or by visiting the commission's web site. the public art speaks volumes of san francisco as a world-class city with world-class art and culture. for more information, visit board of education for tuesday, thank you, please join me in the pledge of allegiance.