and build those connections so that there's that trust nations when i've been working like i said since for a little over ten years on these issues and there were there was a community group and coalition  and so when when there were tragedy when department of justice came into town there was already a very solid alliance and we were able to to work with the department with department of justice with police hi this is bark graft the director of the seattle office of emergency management and i'd like to encourage everyone in our community to sign up for alert seattle and it's very easy to do you just go to alert seattle dot gov sees me alert dot seattle dot gov and sign up your cell phone your home phone your e mail address and the city will text you or phone you or e mail you with information when there is utility outages or some type of public safety thing going on in the community for which you can take a public safety action thank you very much and share this with your family and your friends and your neighbors alert seattle dot gov is the city is alert and notification system and you can sign up for that system beginning august first we encourage you to do it it's very very easy and we will start sending alerts to your phone or your e mail depending on what you want to hear about it could be utility outages it could be some type of fire or police emergency but go to alert seattle dot gov after august first and sign up right away hello my name is michael garrett small's i am the central area coordinator for see how do you find this prevention initiative i want to thank him r t r for inviting me out to the panel discussion one of the things that i rose really able to glean from the panel discussion was that we had multicultural groups from really from the country of africa coming together to discuss kids i saw returns in the group i saw if you open a group i saw some somalis in the group we had a man from kenya and one of the things that we were discussing and getting understanding of is that we need to support our kids better we can no longer just send our kids to school we need to take our kids to school other cultures take their kids and we need to make sure we're taking our kids versus in the school one of the main things that i'm seeing with our young people is that they're getting to know the people in school more than they're getting to know parents at home as in parents we feed them and clothe them but our parents have to support the efforts of our young people make sure they get into the right college the right stay the right area make sure the taking the right classes in high school and not just allow school systems to sign our kids up i think this panel discussion is really going to galvanize all of our groups coming together and working together on a common goal which is to be which is to put our differences aside and bring all of our kids together on the same page to make sure that our kids get the best out of life possible and we as adults are going to make sure we do everything we can to be present in accountable and leading our kids to the next level thank you for your time our religious leadership because that's where we spend a lot of our time and when i think about it from the resource perspective and michael alluded to this a little bit about how being like an energizer bunny you know we work really hard and i've heard a few of these ideas and i know that there's more another piece of it is resource wise please let's fund people who are you know wanting to do this work let's not say one of my biggest heartbreaks was you know i can see millions to when are we going to step up you know for ourselves and for our community and there's nobody here not lacking in resources or just not putting them allocating the fact that i have a very struggle with this i struggle with what i'm about to say but there are times when you do have to decide is it worth my life to have this confrontation here is there a way that i can record this gather this information and then make the complaint later when i'm away from the gun and what we've seen lately in the tragedies we've seen lately is that sometimes you know some people don't have that choice you don't have that option and sometimes you questions where you just want to know more of what we do if you want to come out and do presentations on you know your rights please let us know we really want to be here as a resource to help thank to fair housing and seattle housing authority and the final one of the jobs and equal employment opportunities we hope to see there and we look forward to it thank you again graff i'm the director of the city of seattle's office of emergency management where the program within the city that meets together all different city departments police fire transportation and prepares for major emergencies and works with the community to get prepared this is a new system and we're very excited to roll it out in the community alert seattle is a way that we can share emergency information with the public so if there is some type of danger or something they want to be alerted to the city can can proactively share information about water main breaks or major traffic incidents if there is something dangerous like a hazardous material spill in the neighborhood firefighters could push information into the area that that is experiencing that and tell people what they can do to protect their safety yes so this is just only that people have x has to do people or people sign up online and it's very very easy we just go to alert dot seattle ok starting on august first and then enter in the information about how should we get ahold of you and your e mail address your phone number and then you also get to choose what would you like to be alerted about maybe you'd like to know about traffic accidents but not whether the water system is off or not maybe i'd like to know about fire department incidents but i don't want to know about traffic so you decide for yourself or you w be alerted about and then choose what methods you'd like to be alerted so maybe you'd like to choose your cell phone and i would like to use my e mail address it's all your own option your own option home great so it is very convenient for you are in for everyone so seattle public utilities will occasionally do maintenance on the water system and therefore they might need to turn the water off if you'll sign up for these alerts you can get notification about when that will happen seattle city light has the information on their website about when power is expected to be restored but if you sign up specifically you'll also be notified on the device of your choice your phone or your e mail about that that means back on again i should say also that not everyone has access to a computer to sign up online and so the great service throughout the city of seattle is we encourage people to go to any seattle public library or any of our neighborhood service centers and so there's computers available for anyone to be able to sign up something to those who have no access to online that's right in an emergency situation like an active fire in a neighborhood or there is an arsonist who's been setting fires around in a neighborhood the fire department is going to want to notify people through a variety of means and this is just one of them but the nice thing about this service is you're getting to choose are you getting that notification from your local fire department on the cell phone that you carry with you into will have information about alerts seattle at different fire stations and police precincts and neighborhood community centers and parks department community centers so you can find out about that their grief i think this is you know you have to be online and  do and that's just that we need to get as many people to sign up for this is possible because less than one in four people in seattle actually has a hard landline phone that connects them to their wall we're all using these smart cell phone devices  now and so we really need people to sign up or they wouldn't get messages from the fired upon in the transportation department the police department cetera so once you get yourself signed up and it's really really easy to do once you get yourself signed up encourage all your family