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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. Ill also be taking questions from the audience. So, if anybody has a question, feel free to raise your hand. Allow me to have time to get 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. ...

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...

[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...

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...

For anyone who didnt attend my session, i do a juvenile program where i take kids who have been convicted of graffiti crimes to do Community Service on saturdays. The way i do this is get a public grant from department of public works where we take kids out to graffiti hot spots, we paint over graffiti and they get a reduced fine and credit for probation officers. This is done through a public grant. Its a very effective program. We have been able to turn a lot of kids around, restore justice. We get a lot of positive feedback from the community, a lot of other officers are happy to get the ov...