Wednesday, april 23, 2014. My name is supervisor farrell im joined by supervisor mar and supervisor wiener and supervisor london breed and well be joined momentary by supervisor avalos. I want to thank the members of sfgovtv jonathan and john and clerk linda wong. Mr. Clerk any announcements. Roll call vote of the commission. There will be no separate discussion of these items. The agenda items today will be for next tuesday. Okay. Ill tell you what call item one item one is on an update inform the Police Department 20142015 and 20152016 and thanks chief suhr. I have my chief Financial Officer the deputy chief of admin and Deputy Carolyn welch. So first, i want to thank the Mayors Office for their assistance and the controllers staff moraine and our commissioners for advocating two years ago for the good stable budget this the the second piece that includes our hiring plan thaifl the board of supervisors approved. The overview very quickly budget hiring plan updates and building safety
Call it, what glue do i use. We have to be looking at strategies more on the prevention end. Are we using motion cameras, lighting, sprinkler systems, relandscaping, fencing. The more we do, the more successful were going to be. On the preventive end well have a quick question, hear from chuck and i know there is a gentleman over there that has had his hand up. Go ahead, chuck. We have an Award Winning Mural Program in the city of hayward, but we have one real strong block and thats dealing with at t and their control boxes. They will not allow us to touch them. Never mind the fact that volunteers have already put 20 coats on that box, okay. They do not want to put a single mural on any one of their boxes. Has anybody had success with them . Have you got any suggestionses . Because were tired of painting those boxes. They threatened to sue our city when they tried to get them involved in the Mural Program. I think the one suggestion i might have for you is you start documenting the num
Its city property. And as far as the type of paint we use, we dont use aerosol paint. We dont use solvents or thinners or anything like that. So, im not exposing the kids in my program to any dangerous chemicals or anything like that. But [speaker not understood]. But i am present and that is a big concern. And you have every right to be concerned about that, because you could cause a violent reaction. From the wrong person. Im not saying that every person who is involved in graffiti vandalism is violent or is going to take disrespect to it. They know its part of the game for the most part. But you could have a bad incident by painting over someones graffiti. Were going to continue going back and forth. One other point. Just two quick points with our program. You know, when we have a mural going up in a Certain Police district, we inform that Police District that its happening. Sometimes an artist can be painting a mural and they can site them for vandalizing. We want them to know its
Take the mic, walk it over. Tagging is tagging. If youre set for work release or work service, community service, [speaker not understood]. Now, our when were doing a lot of volunteers, we had to go with it because we had a nonprofit to clean up. When they did our clean up, they were actually reformed gangsters themselves. They had opened a nonprofit and they were doing paint overs. They were pretty astute at assessing the juveniles and assessing the areas they were in. What weve done since then, we lost our nonprofit, now everybody who does graffiti, we generally send out, not the paint, we send out to strip the toilets and public parks, pick up dog poop at the dog park. Pick up something that was disgusting and they dont get a chance to paint at all. We would see where they would paint over and they would forget the part with their gang and they would paint over. They would use a roller and put stuff behind. Weve done that. Weve only walked away from it only because we havent got wha
When they tried to get them involved in the mural program. I think the one suggestion i might have for you is you start documenting the number of times that youre actually painting out there box and you start generating a bill along with a letter and send it to them. I think thats probably your best strategy so you can show the amount of cost that youre actually spending abating something thats theirs. And from that point then you have to have your policy makers or engage them. I mean, because thats pretty much [inaudible]. Its not unique. Trust me, its not unique. [speaker not understood]. All right, you have another one for us, another anonymous question. So, this is in regards to enforcement. Do you take juvenile gang bangers to paint over gang graffiti . Any Law Enforcement . We do. Do you . [speaker not understood]. Take the mic, walk it over. Tagging is tagging. If youre set for work release or work service, community service, [speaker not understood]. Now, our when were doing a