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Complaining about junk piling up inside and out even dead animals out here. Even though the city recently got the owner to mow the front yard, some around here say thats not enough. From the front of the house on channing road you can see the junk. Bruce betencourt lives next door he says the house has been abandoned for six years. From that time the neighbors have cataloged the mess. The neighbor planted these hedges so he doesnt look at it every day. The homes are quite valuable and were stuck...

Underway and were expecting the order of 9 to 15 west portal, which we got an update they had a meeting about that today, they have submitted a private engineers report that documents the building is repairable and thus may not need demolition but we will give an update on that. As we did during the earlier ocean avenue tragedy, dbi is working closely with the Property Owners, businesses and the mayors offices and other city departments to expedite recovery from the west portal fire and i know a...

Either way its going to be dangerous. There is a lot of violence in the taggers. They get into fist fights. Ive arrested tagers with knives and brass knuckles. Ive heard stories of guns being taken off tagers. It is a violent culture or has aspects of violent culture in it. You need to educate people on that. When youre going when youre painting over someones graffiti, that could be seen as the ultimate disrespect. And you could be exposing yourself to a lot of danger. Thats one of the reasons w...

Is diminishing, when you can show them how different it can be, that suddenly makes Good Business sense to them and theyll dedicate the resources to you. So, thats whats worked for me. applause anybody else up there . Everybody okay with that answer . I think were pretty grateful here in San Francisco that we have a mayor that was actually the director of the department of public works. So, we know hes totally on top of it and involved. Do you have another question . This isnt geared towards any...

The whole time, you know . And still to this day i see like three of those kids from those kids that are not what can i say they are not that bad any more. They are not that bad. I see them, they are cool, they are not making no bad choices. They remember me. Oh, im making right choices, im making right choices. It makes you feel good that you reached out and you got hold of somebody, somebody that was probably on the wrong path on to the right path, you know what i mean . Was the play based on ...

Homesy who is the originator of this. Thank you, daniel. applause also i want to acknowledge his right hand christina palone, the new director, mon, Mayors Office Neighborhood Services over there in that corner. applause and for those of you that dont know, i represent district 10, thats the southeast neighborhoods. Thats bayview, thats potrero hill, visitacion valley, its a little hollywood, its dogpatch. It used to be the portola, half of it. My heart is still with you, but im glad like the sp...

Now . Hey, come back here right now. Come back here right now. Thats it, heat, you aint my folk. I am your folk. You aint my folk. I am your best friend. I can take that but im not going to your funeral, man. I aint going to no more funerals. Come back. Lets look at what happens to inaudible and tibo yo whats up, man . Not much, man. What you been up to since last we talked . I just been thinking a lot about what you said. I didnt mean to come off so hard. Thats just it, you were right. Do the r...

[speaker not understood]. Do we have anybody up there . We have one pioneer over here thats willing to take on that one. By the way, is that oakland, that accent . [laughter] i guess from my perspective, it never hurts to ask. We have a huge variety of sponsors. For example rona who is like a lowes or home depot who is supplying or providing paint. They are a sponsor of my program. So, they provide me a 45 discount on paint as well as they give me a 25 discount coupon that we give to everybody. ...

I dont want them babysitting me. But i never go in alone again. I carry some protection. I get a threevehicle escort. Our Police Department is all behind this. I use magnetic signs on my vehicle now and i always wear a safety vest. Never go alone. We set up five different conditions to do that so we never have a repeat. Its not worth it. Hes from hayward. Hes in hayward and im going to come over to gideon unless anybody else there has a response to this. Gideon if youd like to stand up. Id like ...

Go to college to try to improve his artistic skills. Thats the kind of direction we want it to go. Question over here . What schools will you be visiting this year . We do a tour. We do two semesters so we do anywhere from 16 to 18 bookings in our School District and we do, like, Elementary Schools. So we go in and during assemblies on friday and we take, you know, its kind of a its good theater but its guerilla theater. We do this condensed message in 30 minutes. Its about a 22 minute play, gen...