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Im going to run over here because its over here. Had his hand up for a little while. If i could get you to stand up. This is a softball for dpw. I want to know where you get the funding that you give out as grant funding, lets say street smarts. Is it general fund money, is there a special fee thats tied to something that goes into a fund . Yeah, its general fund money. The department makes a decision on programs and we earmark money for various, like the police and the Arts Commission and we earmark money and send it to them. A lot of times youll find the board of supervisors members have sup...

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 building. So, were distancing ourselves from that so we dont have a problem. Before i became a consul ant i was with city of san jose antigraffiti for 10 year. We ended up with over 3,400 graffiti volunteers. Thats a big number. And the number of first of all, we did a good job training them and we made sure that if there were that they knew if there was anything out there, somebody watching them or a gang area, a gang tag, we didnt w...

Purview to deal with it. So, yeah, that is certainly a great tool to have. Every time i bring it up to my city, by the time we get the City Attorney involved, arts board involved, everybody else involved, they decide its too much work to do that and well just see what happens. One more. Lets hear from the San Francisco Arts Commission. Her statement frightens me. Im an arts person. This is San Francisco, were in a unique situation in that we really do our whole city lich on creativity. And we like to encourage it and also manage it at the same time. The street Smarts Program that i manage whic...

Guidelines which are all safety rules provided we dont allow them to use any chemical materials. Theyre only allowed to use paint. The volunteers must be 15 years of age. So, if they violate any of those criteria, then its the volunteer organization thats basically not complied with our requirements. So, they have no issue basically with us. In terms of liability just to ensure that we dont have any problems with Property Owners in terms of painting, we ensure that we get 2 million of liability insurance. That blanketly coffers all of our volunteer program. That is a range to cover my program....

They were actually reformed gangsters themselves. They had opened a nonprofit and they were doing paint overs. They were pretty astute at assessing the juveniles and assessing the areas they were in. What weve done since then, we lost our nonprofit, now everybody who does graffiti, we generally send out, not the paint, we send out to strip the toilets and public parks, pick up dog poop at the dog park. Pick up something that was disgusting and they dont get a chance to paint at all. We would see where they would paint over and they would forget the part with their gang and they would paint ove...