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If youre doing something that the original tagger, the vandal, lets say, did, and now youre using volunteers to paint it out, what has anybody considered the possibility if you dont have police accompaniment to the rehabilitation of that wall, that its very possible that the person that tagged it is not going to want to see it painted out and might behave in an adversarial situation, perhaps danger . Inclusive of the fact that on the other side of the coin is lets say youve got volunteers, youve got kids that work in on the wall. And a possibility of this Hazardous Material affecting them in s...

[speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood]. Basically the task force, theyll put together and try to convince the citizens something is happening, then it will go away. Its no longer a political issue. What turned the corner for us, we had a mayor go out during one of our zero tolerance on blight mayor. She went out on a clean up day. The people from the Better Business bureau went with they are and started dragging her through the streets and started showing her the [speaker not understood], showing her the graffiti all over and what an impact its having on them. Yeah, one person goes...

[speaker not understood]. Hold on a second. Let me come over here so you can restate the first part of your question again if i could get you to stand up and well talk to the San Francisco Police Department here. First part of my question was perhaps more urgent. We represent this table, and over here oakland california. And youre aware of the violent nature in that city. Of course, yeah. What im concerned with is you have do gooders and theyre painting out something that the nortenas have painted and want to stay up there and they dont really observe nighttime hours versus daytime hours. So, ...

Before. [ applause ] fp and we are sending a strong message that San Francisco families are welcome and we want you to stay. This park is open. I introduce jennifer nelson, we introduced her before. applause a lot of you have talked to her already. She will be working with the speakers on stage. And id like to introduce jim merkasio with the San Francisco graffiti advisory board. He will be the phil donahue. I hand you the microphone. Ill hold onto it. I believe the way were planning to do this, we have some written questions that we will be reading off and the panel will be answering them. Il...

If youre doing something that the original tagger, the vandal, lets say, did, and now youre using volunteers to paint it out, what has anybody considered the possibility if you dont have police accompaniment to the rehabilitation of that wall, that its very possible that the person that tagged it is not going to want to see it painted out and might behave in an adversarial situation, perhaps danger . Inclusive of the fact that on the other side of the coin is lets say youve got volunteers, youve got kids that work in on the wall. And a possibility of this Hazardous Material affecting them in s...