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So, you really act as a good communicator and facilitator in the program from a Law Enforcement background. And the grant we get through public works really allows us to run effectively. Great, thank you. [speaker not understood]. Let me come on over here. Whats your question . Okay. [speaker not understood]. Ive gotten three years of knowledge [speaker not understood]. My question is this. How am i going to get the police department, how am i going to get city council theyre partially on board, but some of our people in public works are here today. How can i convey to them that im not a nut e...

Me these are the priority neighborhoods through this year where i have to find out whats going on in those neighborhoods in terms of what we can be doing to address the programming needs of those communities. 7 neighborhoods accounted for 59 percent of the graffiti, this is visually showing you how most of the graffiti continues for us to be concentrated in 7 specific neighborhoods. Im going to have to turn the light off again. So this map is a sample of one of the maps that was created. So the original dots reflect where the graffiti was and the intensity of the graffiti that occurred in 2011...

That particular location. The blue dots indicate how much graffiti or what the graffiti was at each location in terms of the incidents for 2012. So you can see from here, its not i was hoping for a better visual, but in here in the hot spot neighborhood, this is one example where the hot spot neighborhood isnt as significant as the random area. The random area is showing more graffiti vandalism than the hot spot neighborhood, but the intensity is pretty clear. If were going to tackle a neighborhood we need to be looking here, we need to be looking in here. So its been very beneficial in terms ...

Historic building, if were talking about the white house or the national monument, you know, well always get usually find people who are super well qualified. And then if its you know, if it were my house and it was built in the 1920s, i might get more ghosting. Its just a matter of not me. I would do a good job. [laughter] but i think theres a whole spectrum there. And sometimes its just a matter of understanding what the resources are and awareness of the resources so you can find the people that can help maybe reduce the ghosting in the first place because, honestly, once you get ghosting, ...

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 want them dealing with that. They he should call it into our staff and well take care of it for them. We had absolutely zero in 10 years issues with liability, none, not one. Not only thats correct but we put every volunteer on our citys Workers Compensation program, every single one. So, if there was a problem they were covered under the citys workers comp program. And we had zero claims. And then we also inherited an antilitter program. We had o...