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We are running a womens Volleyball Program here at richmond rec center. Its progressing really nice. The ladies here really enjoy the exercise and the play and its a lot of fun want this program is not for the faint at heart. Its really intense. The ladies come out. They are really going after it. They just love to play and compete. Anyone can sign up. Were looking for more players. The women come from all over the city. We enjoy the program and we are getting people out to have fun in this beautiful city. Rec and parks womens Volleyball Program is available at richmond rec center. Please visi...

Telling us how we should be managing or programs or which neighborhoods we should be looking at. This is a graphic analysis of the neighborhoods. I dont have a pointer, ill get my head out of the way. Downtown was one of our key problem areas that we started out with but were seeing a steady decline in the downtown core. So basically we have been focusing a lot of our programming in the downtown area. We had a huge decrease in the gardineau neighborhood in the second year but something has happened in that neighborhood to pop it back up. So its allowing us to look neighborhood by neighborhood ...

The berth of the first publicly owned Transit System in the city, the San Francisco municipal railway. Hi, my name is sharon, im the graffiti project manager for the city of edmonton, canada. For some of you werent in my presentation earlier today ill go through what the city of edmonton is doing in terms of programming but then go through auditing and what we do. Capital city clean up brings cities together to create safe, 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 ne...

Put in the notification system. So we have those tags documented against him so they are going to levy more charges against him. So its been clearly helpful in terms of our enforcement efforts but it is clearly seen if you can get out those top 10taggers its going to make a huge difference. They accounted for 40 percent of the activity seen this year in the audit. Most graffiti we found is small, 88 percent of the observed graffiti was smalled or extra small. So basically were not looking at big tags. The argument that we keep getting that they are beautiful pieces of art just isnt holding bec...

That is, again, community responsibility. Theyre not just picking up litter at the businesses, they are picking up litter in the surrounding blocks. We have a School Litter Reduction Program that was started that year as well so we focus on educating schools on litter pickup in the city. In 2008 the program was expanded to include graffiti and 2008 was when our by law was amended requiringing Property Owners it remove graffiti from their property or face a 250 crime. The one success from our program was the council at that time looked at the idea that we cant hold citizens responsible if were ...