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[speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood]. Basically the task force, theyll put together and try to convince the citizens something is happening, then it will go away. Its no longer a political issue. What turned the corner for us, we had a mayor go out during one of our zero tolerance on blight mayor. She went out on a clean up day. The people from the Better Business bureau went with they are and started dragging her through the streets and started showing her the [speaker not underst...

Before. [ applause ] fp and we are sending a strong message that San Francisco families are welcome and we want you to stay. This park is open. I introduce jennifer nelson, we introduced her before. applause a lot of you have talked to her already. She will be working with the speakers on stage. And id like to introduce jim merkasio with the San Francisco graffiti advisory board. He will be the phil donahue. I hand you the microphone. Ill hold onto it. I believe the way were planning to do this,...

For anyone who didnt attend my session, i do a juvenile program where i take kids who have been convicted of graffiti crimes to do Community Service on saturdays. The way i do this is get a public grant from department of public works where we take kids out to graffiti hot spots, we paint over graffiti and they get a reduced fine and credit for probation officers. This is done through a public grant. Its a very effective program. We have been able to turn a lot of kids around, restore justice. W...

I introduce jennifer nelson, we introduced her before. applause a lot of you have talked to her already. She will be working with the speakers on stage. And id like to introduce jim merkasio with the San Francisco graffiti advisory board. He will be the phil donahue. I hand you the microphone. Ill hold onto it. I believe the way were planning to do this, we have some written questions that we will be reading off and the panel will be answering them. Ill also be taking questions from the audience...

Economic advisors. This morning, they are looking forward to the reopening and opening that that in the months to come does provide an economic bounce back, but admitting it might be a slow one. That staggering jobs report on friday, the white house was expecting it to be particularly brutal, and now theyre even conceding that mays job report will probably be even tougher, but take a listen to how treasury secretary Stephen Mnuchin talked about the tradeoff on the sunday shows this morning. Here...

Requires money and it requires attention from the officials, not just from covering graffiti . Is there an answer . Can you give me some sort of whats a good direction . [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood]. Basically the task force, theyll put together and try to convince the citizens something is happening, then it will go away. Its no longer a political issue. What turned the corner for us, we had a mayor go out during one of our zero tolerance on blight mayor. She went out on a...

Presentation, we dont have those in the city of vancouver. We dont allow that. So, all murals have to go through a permit system. So, any building that wants to put something up, they have to get like a permit from the city. And if the city finds something that they dont like and it doesnt have a permit, theyll take it down and charge them on their taxes. So, thats i think a very key component to any ordinance that would be enacted in the city that you want to control the image making. This is n...

Neighbors where one had painted a sunflower on her garage and the other neighbor didnt like it. And the officer clearly made the distinction it was put on with permission. So, permission is considered in the decisionmaking process, but its not an overall factor. So, if the by law officer had determined that that was a nuisance, the Property Owner would have been forced to remove it, but in this situation made a determination that it wasnt a nuisance, that it was put on, it wasnt detracting from ...

Unless its on someones property and they dont want it there. Judge kids with silver paint expressing their ego needs doesnt belong on our property. Graffiti is when you dont have permission to write anything on their property. Eighth street is part of your regular rout . Yes. Everyday. Eighth street. Divisidero street. Irving street. Every block they going through they paint 3 or 4 streets in the block the poles the utility boxes, mailbox. Thank you. Okay. Put the drop cloth. Come on around. The...

So, you really act as a good communicator and facilitator in the program from a Law Enforcement background. And the grant we get through public works really allows us to run effectively. Great, thank you. [speaker not understood]. Let me come on over here. Whats your question . Okay. [speaker not understood]. Ive gotten three years of knowledge [speaker not understood]. My question is this. How am i going to get the police department, how am i going to get city council theyre partially on board,...