Clean inviting xhueplts and neighborhoods. Our motto is a clean and safe edmonton is a shared responsibility and we work on the premise that we cant do it alone, that we need to work as partners with the community to create solutions to graffiti vandalism and litter enforcement. Just a technical point, if any of you want to ask questions, they are recording the session so they would like you to speak into the microphone and if you have any questions along the way, please feel free to ask. When did capital city clean up start . It was launched in 2005 as a Pilot Program focused on litter reduction in the downtown of edmonton. Basically businesses were asked to adopt a block in their area and were responsible for litter clean up in that area and the program had such a huge success that they expanded the program in 2006 to include a residential component for litter pickup. We now have over a thousand adopt a block captains that are responsible for adopting blocks around the city of edmont
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
Radio those are the people that are out there. Awesome. If anybody has compliment for San Francisco let me know because we can put that in right now. [laughter] alex, you live here. Hold on. Let me get over to you quickly and then well have you the one thing that i really got from catherines presentation that really touched me was she was telling us to go forward 2030 in term of technologies and looking back to today. But this conference with all the vendors we had here had an amazing impact on me as learning of new technologies. I really feel in the 21st century of different types of technologies. Im not going to make any pitches here. But bottom line is we are learning and this conference to me, and i know for many of us here, it was a great learning experience. Thank you. Awesome, thank you. applause thank you. All right. If we dont have any more questions, im going to give it over to drew to do his little sales pitch up there. Or any announcements that need to be made. [speaker not
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