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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...

Occurred in 2011. So the larger the dot, the more intensity the graffiti was at 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 lo...

Over there to get to you. Should we start off with a red question or a question from the audience . I can read one. Okay. Okay. And some of these questions on the list is the mic on . Okay. Some of the questions are directed toward a specific speaker, others arent. So, if its directed toward a specific speaker, ill ask you. If not, just whoever can answer it, start answering it. This is a general question. So, its not geared toward any particular speaker. So if anyone feels like chiming in, that would be great. How do you go about securing funding for the various graffiti programs . Do you use...

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....

Text only. Given all those options, thats what were finding. So the other avenue thats important for us in terms of how i run my program is when im trying to promote a Mural Program or im trying to promote Community Support programs, its really important for me to basically say that you cant cut the community portion of my program because 71 percent of the observed graffiti is on private property. Only 10 percent of our graffiti in those neighborhoods was observed, was on city infrastructure. Other government considered 19 percent and of that 97 percent was on canada post boxes like they are t...