we had such a small budget, 70% of which was spent on this is a picture of the community plan. we are about to look for funding that to redo another plan because we have already done everything that was initiated five years ago. most of you are probably familiar with noe valley, a land of babies and dogs. i want to focus on cleaning only because all the work we have done today, the have to start with cleaning. if you create great public space, it starts with cleaning. without that, we could not have done any of the work that we have done today, including graffiti abatement. next to those news stands, there is a lot of graffiti on the sidewalk. we have been so good about graffiti removal, the graffiti artists are frustrated and are now doing it on parking meters

and utility poles. this is randy. he cleans the street 7 -- six days a week. he is part of a program. we had hired two cleaning companies to work with us. i started working with salvation army and other organizations to ask if we could use their workers. we found the jericho project, which takes first-time drug offenders, and puts them through a project and work for private companies. they have been great. the first love letter we got on cleaning after five years. do you get many love letters? it will be in the noe valley voiced this month. with all those dogs thi, you can imagine what kind of mess he

has. supervisor maxwell: and he is with? >> khadr project. first-time drug offenders. -- the and jericho project. -- the jericho project. the second thing we did was plant trees. we worked with friends of the urban forest. we planted 143 trees in the first year. made a huge difference in terms of the streetscape. the thing that people must remember us for, we were the first cbd in the city to do flower baskets. the city did not quite know how to permit us to do this, but it came through and is our most popular item. we worked with folks who run the city parking lot, and they were

great. on the left, you will see an image of a typical city parking lot, a brick wall with a bench in front of it. we invested $1,000 in design through urban ecology and we said we would like the space to look something like this. the folks in that department did a great job. that has now become our street furniture. this is the duratherm you were asking about, supervisor mar. i discovered this when i was doing work in philadelphia and i thought, what is this stuff? i wanted to do a test in san francisco. i got them to donate half of their product and i would grant the other part. this is the intersection of castro and 24th. the first party people had was high-visibility crosswalks.

especially at this intersection. you come off of castro hill and you come into a wide space and people tend to race through this intersection. i did work with dpw. i love all of them. i could not have done this without them. in fact, we had to redo the ramps. it actually came up in the record, do not touch this place until you call me. what do you want to do to my crosswalk? i became very possessive of it. there was money available to upgrade the ramps and the city is still working to reduce the yellow striping, but it all but put back. supervisor mar: the crosswalk almost feels like it is brick. >> it is correct. there are several ways to do

this. we could have done something in the middle. in portland, they did a cool design in the middle of the street. that prevented people from barreling through an intersection. in philadelphia and baltimore, they used duratherm and it worked well. the upkeep on duratherm -- it is embedded in asphalt. essentially, you have to route out four inches of asphalt, and then they embed the duratherm in the asphalt. this is similar to something they do in london. supervisor mar: i think they do this in hong kong, too. >> it has been well appreciated

in the neighborhoods. we put cameras underneath the intersection to make sure all the pipes are working correctly, but if i had to do it over again, i do not know if i would put them in such a large intersection because you are vulnerable when you tear it up, it gets expensive. it is very nice, an improvement, but any time you have to replace something under the street, it is costly. i would only do it in special places. open sidewalks. there was money available for rainwater. the mission gets flooded a lot, so we started opening up sidewalks. we also wanted to get to the news stands. we got those new news racks, and we purposely put them up against the building's. that frees up the sidewalk, so

that you can open it and put in plantings and make it look nicer. with merchants, this was the bench of the city original design, we took our planters, and we work with our merchants to create seating areas. first of all, it has to be clean, and then you can create little public spaces like this for people to hang out, and we have done it around coffeeshops. these are some of the photographs from the events we hold. once you put in the public space and make it beautiful, something that people want to hang around, the next thing is to activate that public space. this is where the public-private partnership comes through. this is sponsored by a bunch of

realtors. so this was a midsummer's celebration called summer solstice. the noe valley harvest festival, we do that in partnership with the noe valley farmer's market. this year, we have done a holiday celebration on 24th street. with the cbd did was enable us to create an infrastructure that was clean and beautiful and green. in doing so, it brought people together locally as well as organizations in the neighborhood together. so you have merchants working with the farmers' market, friends with noe valley, in ways that they did not six years ago. but because we have a beautiful space, we can do all of these things, and businesses also

contribute to these events, and it has become very successful. thank you for your time. supervisor mar: supervisor chu. supervisor chu: the benches with the planter boxes, they look great. the question on logistics. was that on the property owner's property, did it require encroachment? >> no, nick from dpw to care of it. it did not encroach on their property at all, but we asked. supervisor chu: in terms of annual cost, are you paying an encroachment feet? >> sure. are you kidding? nick is very good. who is the person i work with on trees? i am planning on her name. carla shorts.

we love her. supervisor chu: we are exploring in our own areas where, if you can put in a bench, it might be a place for people to gather. you have to convince people that it is worth putting in. there is an annual increase in fee, it becomes a hindrance for a lot of folks. >> it is $300 a year, which is not a lot of money, and not only do you have to install it, you have to maintain it. people graffiti on them, they carve in there, and they take plants. you need an infrastructure in place, which is why cbd is so great. >> with the street trees, you have that issue. some of the property owners were afraid of taken on the liability. cbd got a permit for the entire

length of the district, and that allows them to plant trees and pay for the insurance, take on the liability. cbd's can do things on a street-wide level when property owners or businesses are concerned on an individual level, so they can allow more of a selective approach to this project which takes the stress off of the individual. >> a public-private partnership is what a cbd is. no property owner has said that we could not do it. they have said no to treat because they did not understand how it worked. supervisor maxwell: once they find out how it works? >> yes. it was difficult to get the cbd through. it took a long time. 176 properties on six blocks.

it is a difficult selling proposition because it is not easy to understand what it is, why the city does not do this, why it is good for the property owner or merchant to do this. there are a number of target audiences to convince. but now they loved it. -- they love it. they have to see it. conceptually when you tell them that it is $900 in taxes, that is still an assessment. supervisor mar: what a great model of how a committee business district can bring out the best of a community. this makes me want to come out

to the entertainment -- hayrides, cable cars, a menorah lighting. it is a variety of great things. >> i am part time. i am not pay full-time executive director. i live in the neighborhood, i wanted to look great, but this is a volunteer organization, and merchants. they contributed money and sponsored it. supervisor mar: there are a ton of the events in this short period of time. thank you. any other questions? is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? walter paulson. >> government audit and oversight. is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. somewhere down the road our

roads are going to cross again somewhere down the road i know that part of yours will come to see that noe valley takes the lead supervisor mar: very nice. 9q5t<

to be packaged. we found over a third of the on the clubs had either not been sealed properly with tape or

were not signed off on by two officers, as is required. the envelops book like this. on the back, they have stance that say initial, verify officer, currency. we also found the property evidence tracking system itself is an older mainframe system with some limitations, the biggest of which is the system does not allow the police to update the dollar value field. if part of the evidence gets removed properly, they cannot update that. so as a result, if you look at their system and look at how much total money they have been evidence, you will not have the right number.

some system security measures are outdated. for instance, access of a tracking system. in some cases, it depends on the terminal you are using. and you do not have to identify who is using the terminal. that is a week is we identified. there are no job description to define each employee's roles and responsibilities in handling the monetary evidence authorization. we recommend the proper segregation of duties. last, the departments holding and purging procedures were not always followed, so the system showed envelops that exceeded the 15-month holding notice, and we found $5,200 that had been held longer than 15 months. according to police department

procedure, that money should be deposited into the general fund if it has not been released. supervisor chu: given your findings, what is the department's response to address them? >> i think it is a fluid response in which we took a reaction. as far as the daily book no evidence, that is contingent upon the direct supervision. we looked at different security measures, as signatures. we have the right of first refusal. we did not accept the booking of evidence until it was done correctly, so station personnel were held accountable. since that change, it has been fairly successful. as far as holds, we have put

together a team of three part- time personnel, one with expertise in evidence. they have been actively working and have gotten through many of the holds. there is one in the administrative component, two others going out and contacting the individuals as to what is secretary of the old. supervisor maxwell: are you talking about the last point of the evidence envelope, the $250,000? >> he mentioned a total amount of gold that had to be accounted for. there were a variety of factors that contributed to the gobi on the 18-month old period. we began to look at it at the 15-month mark. the problem is, you have transfers and somebody may think that the evidence is germane to

their case. it is not just as simple as cutting it off. so we have to look at the criteria of making a hold last that long. there are best practices that we look at where we need the congruence of the office and justices. maybe it was serialized money, maybe it had bloodstains on it. sometimes, money is simply money and we can release it and deposit into the general fund or another holding account. this team we have had, which has been working for two-thirds of the 900 hours, has been very successful. they have been depositing anywhere from $20,000 to a low of $10,000 a month. what we're looking at now is transitioning to a full-time person with investigatory experience in those roles, and it requires a lot of foot were to contact the individual departments and investigators to ask the status of the old.

that is something that we try to expedite. supervisor chu: with regard to the property evidence tracking system, some of the things that were mentioned have to do with the limitations of the old mainframe, the lack of effective security systems and controls. what are you doing there? >> that is a two fold issue. we are transitioning into a new computerized system. that is on hold. as far as access to these terminals, i believe lieutenant can explain that, but we did learn some information as to who had access to that. supervisor chu: what is the hold on new world? >> there are many some components to it. there is a writing system and an evidence system. we have not implemented that at

this point, so we are fairly far behind. we have a new chief information officer that is looking at that carefully and we are making a decision whether or not to proceed with them as a vendor supervisor chu: and you have hired a new cio? >> yes, we have. supervisor chu: is this related to justice? >> no. >> we have the recommendations, if you look at no. 10, it talks -- produces a list of the current locations -- supervisor mar: is there another copy of that? i do not think i have that document.