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 overtime. And as an officer, youre really able to facilitate the program well because you are able to put on a lot of different hats, communicate with probation, you communicate with Traffic Court judges, with Community Referral center, and with station personnel. So, you really act as a good communicator and facilitator in the program from a Law Enforcement background. And the grant we get through public works really allows us to run effectively. Great, thank you. [speaker not understood]. Let me come on over here. Whats your question . Okay. [speaker not understood]. Ive gotten three years of knowledge [speaker not understood]. My question is this. How am i going to get the police department, how am i going to get city council theyre
Purview to deal with it. So, yeah, that is certainly a great tool to have. Every time i bring it up to my city, by the time we get the City Attorney involved, arts board involved, everybody else involved, they decide its too much work to do that and well just see what happens. One more. Lets hear from the San Francisco Arts Commission. Her statement frightens me. Im an arts person. This is San Francisco, were in a unique situation in that we really do our whole city lich on creativity. And we like to encourage it and also manage it at the same time. The street Smarts Program that i manage which is funded by dpw is a Public Private partnership. All public mural art or any sort of public art has to be funneled through our commission and we have to give permission to do that. But when youre dealing with a private Property Owner its slightly different because they basically have they have ownership of their property and ownership of what goes on that property. But at the same time, if they
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. Some of the questions are directed toward a specific speaker, others arent. So, if its directed toward a specific speaker, ill ask you. If not, just whoever can answer it, start answering it. This is a general question. So, its not geared toward any particular speaker. So if anyone feels like chiming in, that would be great. How do you go about securing funding for the various graffiti programs . Do you use grants, tax assessments, et cetera . Anybody . I think i can take that. Okay, ready. 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 g
so about 80 firefighters, and the rest are tree trimmers and secretaries and public works maintenance people, mechanics, graffiti department, a lot of just general employees plus the firefighters. and for two years that i ve been a little bit more on the city council, we have been working with a very, very good relationship with our employee groups. they have begun to pay a portion of their retirement and their benefits. and so to just have this wholesale transformation of our workforce is causing great instability in our city right now. and especially when you talk about buyer and safety with police officers. many, many residents are very concerned that the quality of life they have enjoyed for many years i ve been a resident nearly 40 years is at stake