wharf. the last image is a little bit closer-up. supervisor mar: i know i ride my bicycle on jefferson street, but it is so crowded, i have to walk it. a shared street process would help tremendously. >> you live here, and when you are visiting, it is even more difficult. we feel that the idea that you can come to the wharf, find a way to enjoy the war, and not feel pressured to have to leave for maneuver around, that will help us out. supervisor maxwell: when do you plan -- i ride my bicycle down there. since i am coming on the way back, it is really -- you are wondering -- i asked a police officer, how do i -- do i just go down the street? yes, do the best you can.

ok. if you are renting bicycles, people would expect that if you're renting bicycles, we are prepared for that. how soon do you plan to deal with the bicycle issue? >> there are a couple of things. bicycle lanes in both directions have been added through the work of the city already. this program for the public realm, it is the environmental impact report now. then it would go to the board of supervisors for approval. we're working on funding for the program. actually changing jefferson street is a couple of years away. our hope would be as soon as possible. one exciting change that is already happening, and we are starting construction next year, is pier 43, in the heart of fisherman's wharf. it is a new program that will take out the parking lot heading out into the bay, and replace

that with a promise not. it is something that has already been for approval. that will be the first step that will really help the connection between pier 39 and the heart of fisherman's wharf. that will help. you will feel you want to ride your bike when you come down that part of it. that will be within the next year and a half. our program is two or three years off. we hope to make it as fast as possible. >> were you finished with your presentation? how are you all preparing ourselves for the cup? i will say "when" it comes. how are you preparing yourselves for that? it is going to be huge and make a big difference for awhile. >> absolutely. we are excited about it. our experience from fourth of

july through fleet week, we work closely with our partners, the police department and mayor's office. it is packed on fisherman's wharf. we have the experience to help us. we are working as a district to determine what will be the best way to embrace and make sure people feel as well, on the wharf. supervisor maxwell: have you been participating in that process? do you know if you are going to be participating at a different level? >> we will definitely be participating. we work with the board of san francisco. they have been working with our businesses on the plants and the actual bid. we will work closely with it. supervisor chu: thank you for your presentation. a quick question. i think probably many neighborhood commercial areas face the same issues with maintenance and graffiti

abatement. the total budget you have for the sidewalk beautification order is about 200,000. -- $200,000. how does that work with the graffiti abatement project? >> included in the budget is our police officer security. during the summer this year, we went to seven days a week. we have police officers from 10:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. that is a big portion of it. the dollar amount, we spent about $65,000 this year on the police portion of it. the balance of it is graffiti abatement and the street cleaning. the balance of the budget is a -- is related to the graffiti abatement. supervisor chu: do you know what graffiti abatement is? >> i think it is close to $15,000. many of our businesses actually do their room graffiti

abatement. if we were to look at the total, it would probably be higher. it is a daily issue for us. we have some areas that are attacked every single night. businesses report it. we have the company come out and it is gone within two or three days. supervisor chu: have you noticed, or has there been conversation with, the businesses, whether they have noticed they spend less money on the graffiti abatement because the cbd is taking over? is it easier? other districts are challenged with trying to figure out how to deal with it. they are dealing with it on their own. they have to respond within 30 days to the city. is it an easier thing now? >> it has definitely been easier. i serve on the citizens'

advisory board and work on a separate committee for -- focused on graffiti alone to understand more about it. the businesses have seen a difference. it has been able to save them money. they are not having to do it. some of the doors to see that come down in our district, those are the ones hit every day. they are smaller businesses. they have seen a reduction in their personal expense. some of the larger properties, it is part of the actual work they are doing. i would say it has definitely helped. in the city, especially, it is a continuing issue. supervisor mar: thank you. >> thank you for your time today. supervisor mar: is there anyone from the public who would like to speak? i have one card.

jay edwards. anyone else, please come forward. >> morning. supervisors, on behalf of the board of san francisco, i am the senior property manager. this jurisdiction is my responsibility. i am part of fisherman's wharf community district board. the board enjoys a tremendous working relationship with the benefit district. the board members are highly

they managed two public bulletin boards. many of them looked terrible. they actually clean ait. they take on various projects in that plan. they have a decorative sidewalks. -- sidewalk. i am going to go over the financial reporting. supervisor mar: duratherm is a marking on the streets for safety reasons. is that what it is? >> deb can explain to you more

what it is made of. she is the first one in the city to install it. in noe valley, the corner of castro and 24 has a lot of pedestrian casualties from automobiles. there was a lot of dangerous -- it is a very busy intersection with cars and buses. there is a school. there are the catholic schools. there are children in that area. one of the priorities in the street scape improvement plan was pedestrian safety. they implemented a duratherm crosswalk, which is a much more visible crosswalk with a special pattern for safety reasons. it adds more character and detail to the street that you normally would not havede.

b -- not have. deb brought duratherm. it was the first project where we used this material in the city. the city studied it to see how it worked. since then, other districts have -- in the tenderloin, they have also implemented this. the budget amount for each category was within the 10 percentage points from the management plan. they also met the requirements to have 5% of their income come from other sources. they have done an amazing job raising money. noe valley association has a relatively small budget. it is a little over $200,000 per year. they fund-raiser a lot of funding to help provide the services they provide.

they raised 12% up to 15% of their budget in other sources, which is really amazing. the actual expenses were proportional to the revenues and also to the budget amounts in each category. they did spend more than they originally budgeted. they received actual grants for specific projects. in the beginning of the year, they budgeted a certain amount. they ended up fund-raising and getting more money, so they spent more in those categories, district improvements. in carry-over funds, every year, noe valley association has those carry-over funds. they have to use them in the first six months of the fiscal year. the assessments are not transferred to the a cbd until

january. from july 1 through december 31, they use carry-over funds. for 2009-2010, their budget, the revenues projected are 449,599. the expenses are $253,000. they will have a carryover. this is the disbursement. they have specific projects they will allocate the carry-over towards. it is dispersed in different parts of their services, sidewalk operation, district identity, administration, contingency, and so on, and so forth. supervisor chu: can i ask why the carry-over was so large? it is almost their entire annual

assessment. >> the $196,399, the revenue was -- ok. $253,200 was their budget. they have to cover six months of expenses. if you look at the bottom right -- i will go back. on the item right of the page, it shows how they will spend the money in those six months of operations. do you see that? supervisor chu: why don't we take a step back? there is as revenue is about $230,000. that includes $200,000 from a previous year. i understand there is a spending plan for where that money will go, but why was that carry-over so large? >> they have to carry over six

months of expenses to cover from july 1 through december 31. it is to cover expenses during that time. they do not receive assessment funds for six months. every year they have to carry over six months' worth. supervisor chu: so we will see a consistent cycle where there will be this carry-over from year to year. >> yes. supervisor chu: why is that different from the a fisherman's wharf one? >> they have carry-over every year as well. supervisor chu: they have the carry-over for the first six months as well? >> yes. >> [inaudible] it looks like we have a lot of money when we file our report because we get the second installment of taxes in june. supervisor chu: it is the timing of when the money comes in.

>> yes. >> ok. the annual budgets do need to include carry-over revenue in a detailed plan every year on how these funds should be spent or will be spent. these are our recommendations, to make sure the carry-over is very detailed, how is it going to be spent every year, and the contingency reserve -- in the management plan, there was a contingency reserve line item. we recommend them adding that into their budget every year just to cover unexpected costs. they do have a plan for carry- over funds. they do set aside funds for contingency, but they need to include those every year in their organizational budgets.

we told them that. i would like to allow deb to come up and talk about the services of the noe valley association. >> morning. thank you for being here. >> i am debra. we go from fisherman's wharf to little noe valley. it is amazing what cbd's can do for the community. i feel like i am here to do a little show and tell. supervisor mar: that is a great

logo. >> thank you. if you improve public space, you have to activate it. we worked on a project for 18 months. we are good to go? do i use this one? ok. as lisa said, the thenva was a step -- the nva was established five years ago. i want to be able to look at the slide. i cannot. great. it was established five years ago. we had a tough time of it. we had to go 25 feet by 25 feet by 25 feet, which is the no small feat. reluctant property owners

wondered why they should be paying for this. you had to explain to them that they were responsible for the maintenance of their sidewalks, which not all of them agreed to. let's go back to the other one. we will go to the next slide. the first thing that we did, once we got established, we had a community -- we hired urban ecology. we did a five-year plan. that was the only way we could get the grants and funding we wanted for projects. 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