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Is decreasing, it still is one of our most significant neighborhoods as far as graffiti. Queen mary park. Those 5 neighborhoods within the exception of one, have remained fairly consistent from the beginning of the program. Although the percentage of how much graffiti they have has gone down. What were finding, too, is that while the reduction in the graffiti over all was very minimal this year, we saw huge swings in the amount of graffiti vandalism by neighborhood. So the gardineau neighborhood in 2011 had a 77 percent decrease, we saw a 200 percent increase in the neighborhood. That is telli...

Clean inviting xhueplts and neighborhoods. Our motto is a clean and safe edmonton is a shared responsibility and we work on the premise that we cant do it alone, that we need to work as partners with the community to create solutions to graffiti vandalism and litter enforcement. Just a technical point, if any of you want to ask questions, they are recording the session so they would like you to speak into the microphone and if you have any questions along the way, please feel free to ask. When did capital city clean up start . It was launched in 2005 as a Pilot Program focused on litter reduct...

That last slide that downtown is decreasing, it still is one of our most significant neighborhoods as far as graffiti. Queen mary park. Those 5 neighborhoods within the exception of one, have remained fairly consistent from the beginning of the program. Although the percentage of how much graffiti they have has gone down. What were finding, too, is that while the reduction in the graffiti over all was very minimal this year, we saw huge swings in the amount of graffiti vandalism by neighborhood. So the gardineau neighborhood in 2011 had a 77 percent decrease, we saw a 200 percent increase in t...

In our graffiti index, just as i mentioned before so we are examining the observations providing a numerical observation of the number of hectares in each area. In our hot spot we are fieplding there is more graffiti in the hot spots compared to the random areas. So that tells us we can rely on the calls coming in i dont think i have any other maps so i can turn that up so were not sitting in the dark. Basically what were finding then is it is making a difference looking at the hot spots compared to the random sampling. So within a given year we should be able to look at trends coming in from ...

Litter pickup. We now have over a thousand adopt a block captains that are responsible for adopting blocks around the city of edmonton for picking up litter and they each have crews of 4 to 5 thousand people so so we have four to five thousand people picking up litter. We link nonprofit organizations with businesses and the businesses pay the nonprofit organizations 650 per summer to have the nonprofits pick up litter in the blocks surrounding their business. The advantage to that is, again, community responsibility. Theyre not just picking up litter at the businesses, they are picking up litt...