Is going up or down, it has to do with how effective you can make your programming. The graffiti Audit Program we have come up with, we looked everywhere to see if there was anybody doing any type of Statistical Analysis on graffiti vandalism in cities and we werent able to find any so the model you will see is we worked with Mark Mckinney and management and worked as a team to see how we could view how graffiti affects the city. These audits are designed to be repeatable from year to year. We have done 3 audits to date and we have been able to effectively determine how we are doing. So whats the methodology . I dont know if you can see that map very well. That map is a map of the city of edmonton. All of the purple areas and the dark purple areas outline where the complaints were coming in, into the city over the past year. I actually should have put the 2010 map, i dont know what i was thinking, but anyway, this gives you a sense of where the graffiti complaints are. So the first cat
In our graffiti index, just as i mentioned before so we are examining the observations providing a numerical observation of the number of hectares in each area. In our hot spot we are fieplding there is more graffiti in the hot spots compared to the random areas. So that tells us we can rely on the calls coming in i dont think i have any other maps so i can turn that up so were not sitting in the dark. Basically what were finding then is it is making a difference looking at the hot spots compared to the random sampling. So within a given year we should be able to look at trends coming in from our 311 system as well as officerinitiated xlaipblts to see if there are hot spots again right on the spot instead of retroactively we should be able to trust where the calls are coming in. Now we have impeer cal proof that we can start looking at the calls as they are coming in. In the random sample area the graffiti index averaged 8. 2 compared to 8. 39. Again, they are fairly consist kupb stepb
Litter pickup. We now have over a thousand adopt a block captains that are responsible for adopting blocks around the city of edmonton for picking up litter and they each have crews of 4 to 5 thousand people so so we have four to five thousand people picking up litter. We link nonprofit organizations with businesses and the businesses pay the nonprofit organizations 650 per summer to have the nonprofits pick up litter in the blocks surrounding their business. The advantage to that is, again, community responsibility. Theyre not just picking up litter at the businesses, they are picking up litter in the surrounding blocks. We have a School Litter Reduction Program that was started that year as well so we focus on educating schools on litter pickup in the city. In 2008 the program was expanded to include graffiti and 2008 was when our by law was amended requiringing Property Owners it remove graffiti from their property or face a 250 crime. The one success from our program was the counci
We have a School Litter Reduction Program that was started that year as well so we focus on educating schools on litter pickup in the city. In 2008 the program was expanded to include graffiti and 2008 was when our by law was amended requiringing Property Owners it remove graffiti from their property or face a 250 crime. The one success from our program was the council at that time looked at the idea that we cant hold citizens responsible if were not responsible ourselves, so they created our Management Program at that time. That includes bylaw enforcement as well as civic clean up and support for Property Owners. The program expanded again in 2009 to include a cigarette litter Reduction Program. We have a huge problem in our city with cigarette litter. We found that through our litter audits that we have done, we have a higher rate of cigarette litter in our cities compared to other cities in canada. Expanded again in 2010 to include needle disposal and i said in the other session, th
Property alone. We do enhanced clean up, we have a contractor that does some additional clean up on City Property as well as the clean up thats done by operational departments in the city. And interdepartment coordination is key. We have an operations department, Operations Committee thats made up of representatives from all the operations areas in the city and through that we coordinate all of our clean up on City Infrastructure and we have all of our complaints come in through 311, which is the recording for the city of edmonton for all any complaint, recreation sign up, anything comes through 311. But we do manage our calls through that service. We have 4 seasonal bylaw officers that are dedicated to graffiti enforcement. This is yeah . How many people live in edmonton . Theres about a Million People in edmonton theres about a million. We have 4 seasonal officers that work only on graffiti. Cost sharing of information of our programs is critical. Our bylaw complaints, all the inform