about how we can encourage and prod our suburban communities to get involved in the construction business san jose permitted almost five 5,000 units last year and these cities are consistently pushing the envelope to try to get more housing and in downtown san jose there's there's 1600 units in construction and another thousand right after that and we'll keep doing it but we got to all do it together. >> very good. >> and san francisco as well i totally agree we're trying to be as creative and i think that creativity also can be affected in the public private partnerships and i would love the speed of developers matched with the passion that we have to help teachers and nurses and others get the

housing that they need and fire and police. we are figuring out more and more there's sectors of our society that haven't thought about this as a priority for example all of our churches we now have a great conversation with the inter-faith council and we know they have churches and big huge parking lots and more and more their parking lots are empty and they are starting to talk with us about how we can work with the city to use our parking lots to build that housing for what they term as an essential workforce and all we need is the public the the public private sector to join them and the other part is we're only 49 square miles and so we need partners that will build appropriate housing and i agree those suburban neighbors that are a huge

part of the workforce will also add units to that housing. >> okay. very good. so the housing problems and people travelling all over the bay area leads to major major transportation issues. and on the one hand i think we would all agree that you know bart is crowded every day so it's at capacity and people are traveling by boat, train and cars and you name it i've even seen a couple of helicopters flying [laughter] so how do we think about the transportation this year and how do we think about about about de congestion how do we deal with this as a regional issue? >> you know, i think there's an opportunity for partnership here among

the bay area cities to really lean in right now and sacramento cap and trade money is starting to be creative to really start to get our share for the really important capital expansion projects we have whether it's bart to san jose or the many improvements needed on the east bay as well. we have a lot to try to build if we're able to move our people around it can't happen through the automobile we can't build freeway lanes fast enough even if we had the money wouldn't be able to catch up with it all so requires an investment in transit and we're flying back and forth to dc and to sacramento to see how we can nudge them along and we're taxing ourselves consistently and ballot measures we're going to pay

for more transportation but i think we're not collectively as a bay area i can we could do more to get our share. >> you know, we had a great conversation with our public last year we voted in a 500 $500 million transportation bond and in san francisco halfway there completing the subway and that 500 $500 million is not going towards new buses and trolleys in the very near future made in sacramento by the by the way i think now it's upon us as mayors to treat the transportation issues as a region we already are forced to do that because many of the funding streams ask us what our regional priorities are and i must say i have to give in sometimes to self interest and other times say no. no. no. i've got to support bart to san

jose and support bart in the bay area beyond our own self interests and now i think we're having a great conversation or beginning to have one what does the future look like? all of our cities are growing at tremendous rates and what is our vision? this is one of those moments when mayors get to talk about vision vision and transportation is very appropriate we need to reorganize the the way we cross that bay bridge and we need a second transbay tube in addition bart to san jose and need caltrain to move quickly and i need to provide a vision of how that tunnels in to our transbay center and that will help federal and state moneys understand where we're going in years for which if we don't start planning now and

make isn't make smart investments and we need immediate relief and also a vision for people to believe that we're making the right investments. >> and yeah part of it is getting driven by talent a lot of the the workers are rediscoverying the joys of living in the city. i want my company to be closer to me so i can walk to work or ride my bike to work all 3 of us rode our bikes to work last week and it was really fun and i like what mayor lee said we have to sometimes put our own self interests aside and think more regionally about transportation and i really support the second

tube and i think we need the core system of bart at a higher capacity before building extensions but i think we're going to to do that with the bond issue and we've all got to shake our federal representatives awake and just say infrastructure is not a partisan issue you know concrete is not blue or red it's not a donkey or an elephant you know? [applause]. >> you know, we also have a bay area shared gift that we all gave each other we're all big supporters of the bike share program growing to 7000 bikes and every one of our cities i know a lot of people say i can't ride a bike we're talking multilevel approaches it's got to to be multimodal and bikes are a greater part of the conversation more and

more. >> and the self driving car i'm excited about that. >> do you think that we're doing enough radical thinking about what can be different last week i was at a special program and the ceo of uber made a radical statement about the vision of uber and he said his real vision is that know one would need to own a car where uber is and think about that. it's pretty radical thinking about driving. >> it's not that far off seems to me we've gotten used to the idea of software as a service and mobility as a service may well come and go as people look at the extraordinary cost of cars and insurance and particularly as economy cars are

increasingly getting out there and we've got an innovation zone we've created in san jose and we've got cisco out there and testing the smart signals and testing the smart cars and smart cars talking to smart signals and it's a lot smarter than i can understand but what we're learning is that if all of this actually somehow works, we could see significant reductions in congestion because we know out there on the freeway or roadway 95 percent of that road is not being utilized, right? so things change and people with them no longer owning cars and all of a sudden parking shrinks and we could see a different transportation system within the decade.

>> and i think our job is to figure out how our policies can keep up with innovation and sometimes government can really be a drag on disruptive technologies and try to protect the old ways and that's one of our challenges is to loosen up a a lit and accept more risks. >> there's no question about technology as one of those radical things and i was thinking last year we did 26 26 million between our members and the physicians meaning they didn't have to drive across town to see the doctor and took care of those needs via technology and the satisfaction rating was something like 9.3 so it's a winner to your point and one final piece on the transportation -- you have a captive audience here we employ a lot of people in the greater bay area and

the region. what advice do you want to give this audience about what we can do to help to address the transportation issue in the region? >> i would love for companies to take it upon themselves to assess and then use your own technology to try and figure out how to reduce the carbon footprint of your employees you know there's got to be a car pooling app or something that could allow you very simply within your own walls to reduce that congestion and reduce the emissions. >> i would implore employers in making location decisions to think carefully about the future and transportation. >> gosh i should have said that move your business to oakland [laughter]. >> they got room we have room be happy to help you you out [laughter] you know i mean we know that companies are investing hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars in

spaceships where there's no transit and there's going to be no fixed rail transit in those locations and demanding of governments look there's urban options and i think as yogi barra said the future ain't what it used to be and employers are increasingly looking for the urban option and they need to recognize that and those are people who do not think like the cfo's who might be in their fifties about where they want to be and how to get there. >> i think the immediate thing to consider is every employer ought to have public transit passes for this employees just so there's an immediate embracement of our public transportation system and encourage that and that that should be part of pay packages not extra

incentives just the way the way we ought to conduct ourselves and the other part we're going to put all of you and the voter in this region a pretty large bart investment package and we need you to pay attention to that you already saw how old the system is and every week you are going to hear about another failure this and that and as libby said what we have today we need to be sure it works and as we build confidence we can talk and be planning and we need you to help us go to dc and get the serious money for the additional tubes and ferries and all the other modes of transportation and this entire bay area is on fire and this is a time to think about this topic in a positive way because the

workforce will go away if we don't do it. >> and i think you know, we should take a breath and note that this is a good problem to have. there's metropolitan regions throughout the country that would love to be in our position and certainly have every right to complain about traffic but we've got a good problem because of the extraordinary job growth in our region. >> so the last section i want to get into a couple of critical questions i want to ask in this arena and let me start by saying we have all arrived here today and feeling good about the economy and things are happening and membership growth and all the businesses in this room are growing and we have a host of problems but in some cases they are good problems to have so i don't want to focus on that in my last part

because we're all in this room for the sake of where i want to lead this discussion we're the halves the ritz carlton. >> we couldn't afford to stay here though [laughter]. . >> me either. so let's talk about the other side of the equation the suffering neighborhoods, the areas in which they are not enjoying the benefit of a a great economy. first of all in my first question for each of you, describe what that looks like in your city, give us a picture of how you view it, what does that impoverished neighborhood look like in your mind so first first describe that and then i want to move to the public safety and related issues to that.

>> well, i'm sorry i just came from a funeral of a a 16-year old in old in east oakland today so that's a little bit about what it looks like and statistic ly i think about the 60 percent of my kindergarten's arrive to kindergarten not ready to learn. they haven't had the language development, they have been exposed to too much trauma and grappling with mental and physical health challenges and they may live in both economically and housing instability and then by the time they get to third grade, which as you know, literacy is critical for success in school and frankly in life, the the disparities, the racial disparity 77 percent of my white kids read at grade level by third grade and so right there in the

third grade we already have a tremendous problem. and by the time they get to high school, they haven't seen that connection between their education and a potential career path we're only graduating two-thirds of our students from high school and i'm not even going to talk about how many of those end up going to college and how important that is particularly in today's knowledge economy and changing that story line is so critical and i focus on educational outcomes but knowing that educational success is so linked to health, to economic stability, so that is a little bit both a little picture and big picture of what it looks like in oakland. >> you know, obviously we all 3 of us know those

parts of our city well we're probably called upon down there for too many wrong reasons and isolation and hopelessness and a lot of kids standing around day and night in front of either their house or someone else's home with nothing to do and then you ask them what are you going to do and they say i'm hanging out. our hope sf program is an attempt to trans form those neighborhoods with those very kids and their families not to spite them it's not a brick and mortar program it's investing in those folks first with a heavy dose of critical services so that they know that there is some outcome that we would like to enjoy with them and then engage them in how to rebuild their communities with their involvement and that is hope sf used to be hope 6 in 6 in the federal

program that went away we created our own program and i'm a true i'm a true believer in it and we have public private partnerships and labor organizations with our city and using the government's rad program to be a great foundation for it and now at the point where there is a good plan so solid that private investors are coming and saying we can actually make an investment there because they are not just going to rebuild public housing no we're not we're going to rebuild communities in mixed income levels and schools are included in that and job training programs and employers and so that's the way we're rebuilding the entire southeast sector of our city from hunters points and sunny dale and west side courts and others and

spots in between we're doing this in our larger agenda of prosperity sharing and dealing with incoming equality and i've got to make sure we put enough, smart resources in the great equalize ers of the day things like having free meals for young people and having the best public education system we could possibly produce by getting companies like yours investing in all of the of the aspects of creating good schools the employment will be there because we have good employers but i've got to make sure the entire approach is one that isn't just brick and mortar it's actually got to be people first. >> there's a neighborhood south of downtown san jose called san jose and about a half dozen years ago we

had some social gists and less 1 percent of the kids even attended college over 20 years let alone graduated going back to the education piece libby was touching on and that's apparent that's the height of despair where the option isn't even on the radar of a a child and so we've been working with a lot of partners we need partners in san jose because we're not swimming in cash like ed is [laughter]. >> we're really not swimming in cash like they are [laughter]. >> you got to win three world series [laughter]. >> oh, we won't go there [laughter]. >> so we've got a fantastic couple of charter schools moving in

and helping to drive achievement and the best thing that ever happened to us is that the charter school moved in and we're working harder and we're working with the small businesses to help them become more successful and we're starting to see change but we we know it takes a lot of work and it takes a lot of partners. >> first i want to applaud all all 3 of you that you clearly understand holistically and that's very important so the last question on this part is think about what we've talked about, the great parts of the city, the challenging parts of the city, interjecting to that thought process what we've been dealing with in each of our cities around the country with policing and challenges and all of that

and based on all that has been happening, how have you been thinking differently about policing in your cities and for this region? >> i'm happy to kick that off. you know, i find it interesting that this issue of police legitimacy is actually tied to crime reduction that when you have a society where people actually think the laws and the judicial system are fair, they tend to about to abide by the laws and isn't that what we want? don't we want people to just voluntarily not break the law and not harm each other and not steal property so this issue of how your community perceives the fairness of your policing practices actually does have an impact on crime and we've seen in oakland our clearance rate and solve rate of serious violent crimes more than

double over the last year and i credit that in large part to the improved relationship with the community and we're getting more intelligent and cooperation from the community as we have made some huge reforms to our police department over these last 2 years and then you know gets back to the social determinants of health which i also think are the social determinants of safety and those are the educational outcomes and you can't just think about it on the enforcement end you have to think about the holistic picture. >> i'm always agreeing with libby but i'm going to agree with her again. yeah i was a criminal prosecutor for about 8 years and it's so critical to the task of everybody in the criminal justice system that you have witnesses that are willing to cooperate and come forward and testify and none of that happens

if they don't trust the cops and that goes to the issue exploding throughout the country and how we engage with our immigrant community and that they might might be deported if they come forward and those issues are really intertwined and you guys have deployed cameras on officers for over a year libby and that's clearly going to be the norm throughout the country and trying to bolster some some of the investigative power and it's not that we don't trust the police we know they are doing a great job and the best they can but everybody has to believe that we're that we're all pushing in the same direction. >> great. mayor lee? >> we continue to define what community policing is and when mr. hoff and the

chief and i took some kids out to watch a movie on martin luther king day, , we had a conversation with the very youth who had some strong feelings about the police relations of course after experiencing all the issues going around the country they said look we need safety in my public housing just as pacific heights needs safety and the question is can we trust our officers and one part is the culture and the other part is do they talk like us and look like us and can they distinguish me from bad dudes and do they know us well enough? and we said they probably don't and they need to spend more time but we can certainly -- in fact in 10 years since we had a

complete cadet program that recruited youth from the very diverse communities that had issues with trust so we began that again again with with public private dollars to the tune of one and a half million dollars and got a task of 40 directly recruited from the very high schools of kids who might want to be police officers and explore that. >> and i just want to since this is about regionism i want to thank mayor lee who shared that concept with me and i just put it into my budget people are thrilled and we call it the pipeline project actually reserving seats in our cadet program for our local high schools making a 3-year commitment to these youths until they are old enough to apply to be officers and secondly i want to thank you for helping us speed up our

police recruitment for oakland training officers so that is partnership. [applause]. >> that's great. >> now ed maybe you guys could lend us a few more cops too maybe a few more baseball players? >> we're out of time so i'm going to ask you to finish this sentence and we'll run out of here those of us going to the game. mayor lee are you going to give me police escort across the -- [laughter]. >> okay but we'd have to charge you. >> you can you can take bart. >> i'll take bart. >> here's the final question -- be rna rd? i wish you had asked me blank. [laughter]. >> i wish you had asked me what more can kaiser do to

support oakland's revital ization? [laughter] [applause]. >> we're all in. >> i wish you had asked me how many kids can we hire for your teen jobs program this summer? because pg and e are hiring ten kids. >> okay. we'll answer that one. i didn't mean for this to be personal. >> [laughter] [applause] okay but it's fair game. i wished you had ask me -- oh to be continued because i don't want to hear your answer. [laughter] i want to hear your answer. >> i wished you had asked me about the role of

philant h.r. opy. >> very good. regarding kaiser we have the privilege of caring for over 200 thousand in san francisco almost 200 thousand in oakland, 197 and 220 thousand in san jose and i want you to know it is an honor for me to know that you are the mayor of those three cities. let's give them a hand. [applause]. >>