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I like to say that we are in a highly constrained environment here in washington, d. C. I think we can all agree to that. Is there more that you can do . If there were more funding, is there more that you could do or are you at a point where you recognize the reality that funding is in short supply and the chances of maybe getting more is not so great at this point . What is your sense of that . One thing is to do more with less. For instance, in the area of designing educational curriculums, we have our own inhouse studio. We create the content that we use. We dont have to use thirdparty vend...

Making the program successful, one is proper enforcement so you need some people who are familiar with the program to help make sure that the program is running smoothly at each of sites. Second is improving Traffic Control and third is Public Safety awareness campaign, the s sac makes sure these three points are going smoothly. When schools are first joining this program, there are several steps the school must take. The first step is meeting with the School Principal and the team to discuss further steps with this program. The second step is surveying the school site area for the program. Or...

Estimating that annual rate for ten months of operation of a school year is about 14 thousand dollars per school, thats an estimate of what weve spent. You notice that the l. A. Street Smarts Program we did pay for them to come up here from l. A. And to set it up at lakeshore and to do that. Normans proposal was to have one built ourselves. Were going to build one up here, it costs 12 thousand dollars to move it up here and to drive it into the city i wanted to say that also has been an expense, but other than that, those are the money behind some of the expenditures and i just wanted to end o...

Of about 35 and it doesnt have to be that many, the kids love it is we have a group in the morning and we have a group after school and its a Different Group of kids every day who are out there but going back in time just very briefly two years ago when i first arrived at come do r sloap, the streets were narrow and its not that theres high traffic, in the morning and of course at the end of the day, there is high traffic, and its a one way street, i was witnessing grownups have a lot of people getting along in streets. We had different people having different ideas about what oneway meant one...

Graffiti is a crime and it requires money and it requires attention from the officials, not just from covering graffiti . Is there an answer . Can you give me some sort of whats a good direction . [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 ...