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If youre doing something that the original tagger, the vandal, lets say, did, and now youre using volunteers to paint it out, what has anybody considered the possibility if you dont have police accompaniment to the rehabilitation of that wall, that its very possible that the person that tagged it is not going to want to see it painted out and might behave in an adversarial situation, perhaps danger . Inclusive of the fact that on the other side of the coin is lets say youve got volunteers, youve got kids that work in on the wall. And a possibility of this Hazardous Material affecting them in s...

In terms of safety i think martin can speak more to the issue of, you know, going into areas where there could be problems. Edmonton overall is pretty safe community. We havent really had any experience with people sort of being there present when were painting over it. So, i cant really speak to that in terms of issues. But the liability issue is pretty well covered. I have a guide thats available on my website that outlines all of our forms and criteria that they go through and the Property Owners are also required to sign off a form giving the volunteer Agency Permission to paint their buil...

Liabilities. If youre doing something that the original tagger, the vandal, lets say, did, and now youre using volunteers to paint it out, what has anybody considered the possibility if you dont have police accompaniment to the rehabilitation of that wall, that its very possible that the person that tagged it is not going to want to see it painted out and might behave in an adversarial situation, perhaps danger . Inclusive of the fact that on the other side of the coin is lets say youve got volunteers, youve got kids that work in on the wall. And a possibility of this Hazardous Material affect...

Going to attract graffiti. Its very likely going to have a negative effect on the artwork itself. So, we are building parameters around that and trying to work with the subculture, trying to work with those artists, but also understand graffiti is graffiti. Our by law in vancouver states that even if you give an artist permission to put up graffiti on your wall, it has to go. They dont permit graffiti on your walls. Whether thats in a mural or whether thats just a tag on your wall. So, even if it is done with permission, with consent, if somebody complains or if one of our by law officers come...

My name is larry and im chair of the San Francisco graffiti Advisory Board and Deputy Director of operations, department of public works. Welcome to zero graffiti international conference. applause this morning you will hear from several great speakers and i hope that you are all ready for a fantastic conference. Theres a lot to get from today. I want to be brief and move things along. Mayor ed lee could not be here this morning but he is very excited about this event and prepared a welcome via video. Now the honorable mayor of the city and county of San Francisco mayor ed lee. hello. Im mayor...