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The building, we just explained, by putting the pigment further in in that substrate. And or even worse, actually really dee facing the surface. When its historical heritage buildings, theres no return unless you do a major restoration. And this is what i dont understand. The citation is fulfilled just because that pigment on the surface was taken, but the design is still there. A good example is van ness and ellis not too far from here. And there is a corner building, beautiful onestory brick building. And you see shadow over shadow over shadow. I think its to me, its almost like the vandals ...

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...

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...

involved in the mural program. >> i think the one suggestion i might have for you is you start documenting the number of times that you're actually painting out there box and you start generating a bill along with a letter and send it to them. i think that's probably your best strategy so you can show the amount of cost that you're actually spending abating something that's theirs. and from that point then you have to have your policy makers or engage them. i mean, because that's pretty much -- >> [inaudible]. it's not unique. trust me, it's not unique. >> [speaker not understood]. >...

i want to know where you get the funding that you give out as grant funding, let's say street smarts. is it general fund money, is there a special fee that's tied to something that goes into a fund? >> yeah, it's 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 you'll find the board of supervisors members have support for various programs also. we've gotten that after the budget was done in order to fund some of the programs. >> great. do y...