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Litter pickup. We now have over a thousand adopt a block captains that are responsible for adopting blocks around the city of edmonton for picking up litter and they each have crews of 4 to 5 thousand people so so we have four to five thousand people picking up litter. We link nonprofit organizations with businesses and the businesses pay the 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 litt...

Radio those are the people that are out there. Awesome. If anybody has compliment for San Francisco let me know because we can put that in right now. [laughter] alex, you live here. Hold on. Let me get over to you quickly and then well have you the one thing that i really got from catherines presentation that really touched me was she was telling us to go forward 2030 in term of technologies and looking back to today. But this conference with all the vendors we had here had an amazing impact on me as learning of new technologies. I really feel in the 21st century of different types of technolo...

Efficient way . Every single county in the world does it that way. We bring different efficient measures throughput more efficiently. A good example, in canada a few years ago, they had issues in terms of budget. They came to us and said could we do things differently . In just one, region were able to cut the budget from 264 million. If you take the same scenario in the u. S. , 1. 5 billion is going to the screeners and 1. 5 billion to the oversight. This is totally ridiculous. Tsa needs to get their act together and i think this event this will push the pressure on the u. S. Government to lo...

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 crime. The one success from our program was the council at that time looked at the idea that we cant hold citizens responsible if were not responsible ourselves, so they created our Management Program at that time. That includes bylaw enforcement as well as civic clean up and support...

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 operational departments in the city. And interdepartment coordination is key. We have an operations department, Operations Committee thats made up of representatives from all the operations areas in the city and through that we coordinate all of our clean up 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 throu...