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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...

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,...

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...

Person, like someone youre looking into so they dont get suspicion us . Oh, yeah. [speaker not understood] was saying, dont [speaker not understood]. Youre exactly right. Once you start friending about 10 people because, again, dont do more than like 10 a day. Try to get friends. Let their friends request you and you say, accept, accept, accept. Accept everybody on there. Because thats how it shows you have credibility. And then the other thing is you do have to put some pictures up. So, you kno...

Have this piece of graffiti on our property and i dont feel its a nuisance and im not going to remove it . And we havent had any problems actually whatsoever with our graffiti by law being challenged. How the by law works is that our by law officers, any graffiti that comes up is at their discretion. So, whether they determine what is on the property is a nuisance and it allows us to keep our Mural Programs running. It allows us to look at individual situations. Early on we had one situation whe...

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. We get a lot of positive feedback from the community, a lot of other officers are happy to get the overtime. And as an officer, youre really able to facilitate the program well because you are able to put on a lot of different hats, communicate with probation, you communicate with Traffic Court judges, with Community Referral center, and with...