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
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
My name is larry and im chair of the San Francisco graffiti Advisory Board and Deputy Director of operations, department of public works. Welcome to zero graffiti international conference. applause this morning you will hear from several great speakers and i hope that you are all ready for a fantastic conference. Theres a lot to get from today. I want to be brief and move things along. Mayor ed lee could not be here this morning but he is very excited about this event and prepared a welcome via video. Now the honorable mayor of the city and county of San Francisco mayor ed lee. hello. Im mayor ed lee. It is my pleasure to welcome you to San Francisco and the first of its kind, zero graffiti international conference. San francisco is proud to be the Innovation Capital of the world because we believe that finding solutions to graffiti vandalism or to solve any other challenges is driven by how successful the we embrace and encourage innovation. We continuously seek out ways to leverage n
Supervisor of the unit to be supervisor of a multi agency dealing with it to being executive director for the entire state, california Graffiti Association of california. So i have a fair amount of background. I first became involved in graffiti back in 1991 when i was told in the gang unit that i was going to be a twoweek assignment to deal with these guys called taggers. I continued until i retired so it was a long two weeks. A lot of times cities dont understand how deep the issue goes. I have had my card handed out, this is my phone number. I have absolutely no problem with people calling me any time to discuss graffiti issues, graffiti cases, any of that stuff, i am always available. Thats why i put my card out there. So first off, before we get into the graffiti part we have to talk about the person whos going to be dealing with graffiti when he goes to court. Personnel and training are the two keys to success in any detail, were going to talk specifically about graffiti but in a
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 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