Organizations are actually having it for the wage applied to that work. That they are not under cutting other department whens it comes to those, and i mean, that it is. And it is not so hungry for the jobs, like we were three or four years ago. So now, we get to be a little more selective about who is doing that work. So hopefully we will be able to have it. Definitely. So one more thing that i would just throw out there is that the department of public works was or is responsible for some trees or some Property Owners and i know that the department is tried to relinguish a lot of these trees and i dont think that we the puc is not responsible for the trees it is just that if they are going to place a tree it will be nice for us to tell us where the best location so that it will impact our, you know, our water. Programs. And so, but i do understand where your concern lies. Our concern . Yes. It is just a conversation, because. Yeah. And thank you. The conversations with the tree peopl
Twitter, and reminded also, in a really good interactive thing where the people now remind us about things and they see the water running or the like and so it has been helped us create that relationship and finally, the coverage and that has always been an important thing for us. Has a very Strong Communications aspect about that, and we have been very fortunate with the media and we have continued that here and since of today, we are out, with assistant general manager mary cruise at the south east plant talking about the plans there and so look for that on Channel Seven and if you dont, we will send you a link and you will miss it and i am sure that you can find it later on. And finally the learn about me, campaign. And again, what i think we did here is really to cut through the clutter, and the people took notice on something that is really out of sight and out of mind and it helped us to educate the public and that is our whole purpose, and it did not take very long for people to
Access to the base i think is what you said. The concern that i have sometimes, and it is not all that, when you are talking about a nonprofit and it has the people that work for it that do the tree stuff. And there is the wages and there is benches and there is healthcare. I used it and now i understand it. So i just wanted to maybe highlight the fact that their role in the last several years has been planting trees, and so, they are going to continue to plant the trees, but we are trying to work with them to coordinate where to plant the trees. In a way that will be more meaningful, for our program. And so, that is the type of partnership that we are talking about. And so, i mean there may be issues, about should they be doing it or not . But since they are doing it, we are just trying to coordinate where they should do it. We should have the thoughtful and deliberate conversations to this partnership and to what extent the oblt is to that the folks that work for these organizations
That relationship and finally, the coverage and that has always been an important thing for us. Has a very Strong Communications aspect about that, and we have been very fortunate with the media and we have continued that here and since of today, we are out, with assistant general manager mary cruise at the south east plant talking about the plans there and so look for that on Channel Seven and if you dont, we will send you a link and you will miss it and i am sure that you can find it later on. And finally the learn about me, campaign. And again, what i think we did here is really to cut through the clutter, and the people took notice on something that is really out of sight and out of mind and it helped us to educate the public and that is our whole purpose, and it did not take very long for people to start taking pictures of themselves, in front of these ads, that led to contests, where we gave out our tshirts, and increased our following as you can see. Over a quarter or 23 percent
Say wow, if everyone in my neighbors or my friends could do this, everyone will be behind what we are trying to do in improving the sewer system. And innovative again, whether it is our urban planning, water shed gain, which you know, i know that some of you have been present there or you have helped to kick these off, this is a really interesting, opportunity for the people to really sit down, with our staff, and to look at what it would take with green or gray infrastructure to solve the problem with the budget or the time frame and people find this enlightning and in the end it felt like three and a half hours is really worth their time and we are actually going to show case this game and we have been asked to at the rough Tech National meeting in october in new orleans and the staff will be going there and showing other people how this has worked and i think that one of the most successful of all of our last years out reach, was, at the South East Community facility when we held th