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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...

[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. ...

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 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...

Where it can cause a fire or aftershock that it doesnt rollover. You definitely want to have this in a noncombustible surface. Now, here we have our stove. After a significant earthquake we expect that we may have gas disrupted and so without gas in your home, how are you going to cook . Well, i wouldnt recommend cooking inside of the house. You have to go outside and use a portable stove or something else. So it wouldnt be safe to use your fireplace to cook . Not at first. You should check it b...

Detract from the issue . Thoughts . Okay, yes. Thats a great question. Thank you. My experience is its really hard to paint while youre dancing. [laughter] but on top of that, my experience with volunteerism and with large groups of painting comes from working with actually supervising small groups of offenders and volunteers doing the work hands on, but also working from the city side where we bring the paint and supplies to groups that might be from a Business Community or faith group and help...

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. So, if anybody has a question, feel free to raise your hand. Allow me to have time to get over there to get to you. Should we start off with a red question or a question from the a...

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,...

[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...