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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 need to work as partners with the community to create solutions to graffiti vandalism and litter enforcem...

Fines for doing graffiti tagging. We dont have any such ordinance in our city. Graffiti is managed on the enforcement side as a crime under the criminal code of canada. So just quickly i wont go through all of our programs, i did an hour and a half so i could talk forever on our programs. But basically we have our programs for our city are divided into 4 areas. Civic operations, we have two graffiti removal vans that clean graffiti on our Civic Property alone. We do enhanced clean up, we have a contractor that does some additional clean up on City Property as well as the clean up thats done by...

On City Infrastructure and we have all of our complaints come in through 311, which is the recording for the city of edmonton for all any complaint, recreation sign up, anything comes through 311. But we do manage our calls through that service. We have 4 seasonal bylaw officers that are dedicated to graffiti enforcement. This is yeah . How many people live in edmonton . Theres about a Million People in edmonton theres about a million. We have 4 seasonal officers that work only on graffiti. Cost sharing of information of our programs is critical. Our bylaw complaints, all the information thats...

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 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...