. >> jack calhoun. have you be mayor for four years.[laughter] my question to you what keeps your legs under you? >> to questions on the floor i would assume that interaction that happens. >> i will answer the 2nd question. seeing the progress of your work, someone transform from a gang member to a high school graduate that is what keeps my legs underneath. engaging the youth. i opened my door to far sometimes or get themselves in a situation they cannot get out of. i put myself in this predicament where i am the person they call. that keeps my legs under me. >> thank you. anyone else? [applause] >> for me what keeps me going is the support system. the relationships you build relationships you make and also the product of the work you are doing. quickly, the gentleman that works for the development corporation experiencing a lot of family issues. he came to my office every day to talk. good health. he said, i just want to thank you because i i feel like you're the only person that cares about me. that is just so powerful when you are ab

the godfather of violence prevention, jack calhoun. [applause] >> mario who flew down from san jose to provide help. georgiaine ya who work for salinas so thank you. georgeine ya ander necessary city stow from the california cities violence prevention network. they all supported us in our work. [applause] >> during our planning process one of the first things that we did was map over 52js maps of the issue of violence in our cities and poverty code violation, code enforce. and other other risk factors. i'm only going to share a few maps to paint a picture of what is happening in parts of long beach. as you can see in this heat map you can see our most violent employs bleats and we went back four years and tracked these police beats as violence moves from police beat to me police beat but historically stays in a central area of our city, as well as north long beach that borders compton. we looked at rates of poverty and direct you seek the same locations have the highest amounts of poverty as well as youth and adults prone base, and ab1

. >> jack calhoun and on the mayor question, next time you get that question say we're going the changend have you be mayor not for one day but for four years. thank you, you have been terrific. what keeps your legs under you? what keeps you going? >> so two questions we have on the floor, what keeps you going and what is -- i would assume what is that moment that meeting that interaction that happened to get you better engaged in this work. you can answer either question? >> what keeps my legs under me seeing the product of your work, seeing someone transformed from a gang member to a high school graduate to a college graduate. that's what keeps my legs under me. being able to engage the youth is what keeps me and motivates me. you know sometimes -- i open up my door too far sometimes and i get calls 3:00 4:00 in the morning because they need someone to talk to or they are in a situation they are unable to get out of. i have to be able to drive myself to know that i put myself in this predicament where i am the person they call. so that keeps my legs under me. >> thank you. anyone else