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 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 for Property Owners. The program expanded again in 2009 to include a cigarette litter Reduction Program. We have a huge problem in our city with cigarette litter. We found that through our litter audits that we have done, we have a higher rate of cig
When we go to do a hire, our bylaw officers are working with revitalization, ill be sharing this information with them to say these are the key neighborhoods you need to be in touch with as well as the different constables and beat officers to say, look, this is a problem and this is whats trending in your neighborhood. So its been very beneficial to us in terms of how we deploy our resources. Five neighborhoods accounted for 46 percent of the graffiti vandalism observed in 2012. Even though i showed you in that last slide that downtown is decreasing, it still is one of our most significant neighborhoods as far as graffiti. Queen mary park. Those 5 neighborhoods within the exception of one, have remained fairly consistent from the beginning of the program. Although the percentage of how much graffiti they have has gone down. What were finding, too, is that while the reduction in the graffiti over all was very minimal this year, we saw huge swings in the amount of graffiti vandalism by
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 enforcement. Just a technical point, if any of you want to ask questions, they are recording the session so they would like you to speak into the microphone and if you have any questions along the way, please feel free to ask. When did capital city clean up start . It was launched in 2005 as a Pilot Program focused on litter reduction in the downtown of edmonton. Basically businesses were asked to adopt a
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 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 co
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 gathered in our bylaw system is, includes information that would be of value to police. So not only do we keep information on which properties are hit, all the tagger information in the city is also tracked through our bylaw system and whenever police are going to make any arrests they have access to our bylaw system. That information is, because its collected by bylaw, its prepared and enforcabl