you could put book lets in common spaces, for example. you could reach social service agencies, for the institute on heath and ageing, jewish family agency, family services agency, they could all be portals, and you could train someone as well as have information in different languages available. something that's in new york city where i came from is to put adds on buses or in buses or street cars. the ads in the newspapers have for services all the time. an idea that came from bill haskell is to train librarians or have librarians portals for services -- or service information. that would require a little mormoning and training perhaps

one librarian at each branch with a big sign that says request me. machby people that are wanting services are not computer literate. the librarian could then assist them in searching for services. i do know there -- [ inaudible ] >> -- unless i bring it up what i'm doing and tell them. it's not self-evident, and so i do think for less expensive ways to start with, and good use of dignity funds for this purpose. >> i would say just to double down on the idea of user experience and outreach, certainly, and one final question, and we will move to public comment. >> and mine is not a question, mine is the outcome is very, as shereen says, affirming about the work that the department is

done, the services that are being offered, the appreciation in the community. so i thank the consultants for highlighting that. i also along the way in this process, you all had such great input and participation by daas staff, so i want to thank the daas staff for how they have made this accessible to us on the oac and hopefully to the community. my third point comes out of wearing an old hat as a dignity fund cochair, the coalition cochair. before we started this endeavor around the dignity fund and the old needs assessment, we identified that there were opportunities for $44 million in services that could be delivered and useful. 2017-18, we get 6 million, and 3 million gets added this year. so we also have the need to

reconciling the funds, the needs that are available, and the directions that we all want to take. thank you. >> i think at this point, we will move to public comment, and i will be -- [ inaudible ] >> okay. thank you. i will ask bridget to keep time because anyone who knows me knows i am not good at doing that. >> commissioner, did you want the standard three minutes or did you want to lower it to two minutes? >> i will defer to the director of the department. >> well no, i'm sorry. i just want to make one point, and that is the dignity fund directors that we have are more like $54 million, and so that's what we'll be looking at next year. i know that you were talking about the new money, because i just want to point out that. when i was talking about the decisions that we have to make, we really have to look at the total pot, and that's why i was talking about going back to our values, because it might mean

shifting some dollars to where they currently are to something new. thank you, shereen, good to know. bridget, this is an important topic, so we'll just go for the full three. do we have any public comment? >> oh, thank you, bridget. grand jur good morning commission members. my name is fiona hize. i'm one of the members of the dignity fund coalition, and we wanted to thank the rda skpm daas folks for such a comprehensive process on such a tight timeline, and a special shout out to all the community and service providers who help with -- who helped bring the

people together to put together this data. we have the opportunity now to really dive into this data, and the dignity fund coalition itself is very committed to being part of engaging in the process for next steps. we are actually meeting this afternoon to begin that conversation, and we hope to continue to be in conversation with the department and the oac regarding next steps and ultimately the service allocation for next year. thank you. >> thank you. i appreciate you recognizing the great work of the coalition, as well. >> hello, everybody. my name is rebecca amrich.

i want to thank the many people who made the dignity fund community needs assessment possible. report is an impressive document in many ways, blew rigblew -- but right now i want to recognize the constant discussion of adults with hiv in the report. it was mentioned twice in the report. prop i was presented as a measure that would support san francisco's older adults with hiv. the proposal tax explicitly calls out the growing population of adults with hiv in san francisco as one of its rationales pointing out that about 60% of people living with hiv are over 50. that's still true, and what's more it's not just the case

that older adults makeup a large share of people with hiv, but people with hiv represent a significant share of older adults. one in 15 men over the age of 50 is hiv positive, and many of these men are long-term survivors of hiv and living with a disability. my concern is that this needs this -- [ inaudible ] >> -- and i worry about how the decision makers can charged with allocating funds will be able to do with this report. as a searcher focused on the population of older adults with hiv, i completely understand the challenges of studying this pgs on, but as a researcher working with older adults with hiv, i know that it is not impossible, either. i did provide rda with a detailed report on daas funded qualitative study of older adults with hiv that my

organization conducted in 2016. [ inaudible ] i'm wondering what can be done to rectify or compensate for the lack of discussion of older adults with hiv in this report. how can we ensure this population is not overlooked because of the challenges of studying their needs? >> thank you. >> hello. i'm laurie sanchez, and i'm with community technology network, and we've been working with daas -- [ inaudible ] >> laurie sanchez with community technology network, and we've been working through daas for a number of years. i again, like others, really appreciate the work that rda has done in daas's interest in gathering information to inform making decisions. two things that sort of leaped out to me and in some ways were previously discussed is the

need to improve outreach so that people are informed of the many services that do exist within the city. it seems like a big gap in people receiving and participating in services is knowing that they exist, and that i would be very interested in figuring out how we bridge that gap because providing more services that people don't know about isn't going to solve the problem. the other thing that jumped out at me is the big gap that's represented in that study in the lgbtq and disabled people participating and knowing about services. and i am interested in how the funding can support part shership and bridging across populations that are known for serving these populations so they can figure out the outreach issue is and many other organizations that have services to offer and no exclusion policies. they have accessible services,

all kinds of things. how can we team to magnify how much is available to these populations as opposed to starting something new? thank you. >> thank you. >> good morning, members of the commission. i'm jacqueline zimmer jones, and i'm the director of next village san francisco, and we're located in the northeast section of the city, and we are providing a village model services to the residents of that area. i have some trepidation about commenting. i think it's a challenge to drill down to the level that -- granular level that would really reflect on what's going on in certain areas. for us, i just want to comment when you look at the comments throughout the report on village models, it looks as

though we are not reaching out to the ethnic population, and our village in fact has more ethnic members than anglo members. it looks like in the report that we're not reaching out to low income seniors, and in fact, the majority of our members are in fact low income, and we have been granting subsidized memberships to them for several years now and fund raising to help cover their memberships just so they can keep connected and stay connected and receive the services of our village. it also -- the report looks like we spend an average of $800 village member, but it's more than that. i have some concerns about abilities to spend dignity

funds. we are providing a tremendous service in supplementing services that the city can provide and senior centers, as well, but again, it's just a challenge and it's not a criticism. it's just ipd y want you to understand what our village looks like. thank you. >> thank you. >> good morning. mar marie jobling from the community fund coalition. i want to join everyone to thank the daas and rda. at the same time, the department was able to put out the door most all of the allocations for the first year's funding which was a priority for the coalition to be able to get that money out into the community where it could do good work. and the process through, i

think was traps parent, and there was a commitment to use multiple forms of outreach, and we learned a lot for what might be done to augment that, but i think it was a substantial effort, and we really need to thank the service provider work group and members of the advisory and over sight committee for making that process so open and engaging. these days we are working hard to reframe the concepts of ageing and disability. and yes, we have a better understanding of where the problems and gaps are, and we hope that the process will not stop now, but will really look beyond the deficits and the issues and really focus on the assets that we as a community have to bring to the process and in many ways, that includes looking at how seniors and people are disabilities can be part of the solution here. there have been a couple examples provided and i think we want to reinforce that that is really our only hope, to be able to reach and engage folks

and get them what they need in these days is to be able to engage seniors with people with disabilities and those who care about them in the process. so thanks for all the people that everybody did. it seems like an appropriate time to punk wait this procect round of applause for everybody who worked so hard to do this. >> good morning, ashley macumber. i'm the executive director of meals on wheels in san francisco, and was mentioned by my dear colleagues, sandy and ramona, we work very hard to

provide community outreach. i also want to thank the leadership of the daas commission and oac. we're here to kind of aid in your work and hope that as we move jarr move forward in planning as well as the dignity fund work, we're there to assist you in that. last, but certainly not least, shereen, the staff who work hard every day, but particularly on this needs assessment. my comments are going to be brief, they're not going to be new. on the service provider working group, if i had to give you just simple overall general comment, i think what i've heard from most of the members that i've talked to one of the report that's come out that frankly there are no surprises in this assessment. one might consider that to be a weakness, i consider that as a

strength. it says a lot about our network, about where the gaps are, and what we hopefully need to do to move forward. i think the second is that data always provides more questions than answers, and i think there's a real desire for the service provide working group to actually dig deeper and to participate in strengthening some of the data that has certainly been pointed out as missing in this, and i think that we'll work to do that. the remainder of the comments are more personal for me, and i would be remiss not to acknowledge, we're sitting on the 50th anniversary of the assasination of doctor martin luther king this morning, and this points out two important parts of his work which i want to underscore. it's in the report, and it's in your heart. i would ask all of you as

leaders to continue to do this as you go through the process with the department, first, access and equity has to be right at the top of every question. we ask about aalignment, a programming to funding. number two, poverty. poverty. so let me, if i could, just finish real quickly. poverty, the fact that so many people are falling below the line, and we really have to address that and address the disparities by the neighborhood. the last thing i would say, just underscoring shereen's point, but at the end of the day, access are services there for people, so i ask you as you look at inknow vatetion, that we not forget we have to have the services there to support people. thank you. >> thank you, ashley. any other public comment? sure. >> thank you, commission fore

meeting and for doing the fine job that you had me doing. chester williams, i'm also with the community living campaign. i want to say three things. one is continue the work that you're doing. two, don't forget that our communities of color need quite a bit in san francisco. i think you've done quite a bit but there's still a lot more to be done. secondly, i want the commission to look toward adding on certain services that are not being done in those communities because there are a lot of things, and i'd just say the community living is kind of on tune to making those things happen. and third, very quickly is there needs to be more participation of the citizens of those communities within the process. we need to get more people from the communities involved in the communities. and if that happens, i think we're going to see a greater success. thank you for your time. >> thank you.

all right. i think at this time i will just move to any final comments or questions from the over sight committee members and the commission members as well. commissioner language? >> i have a couple questions and then a recommendation. when i say what i'm really trying to get at is first, when will we do follow up or get supplemental information? does anyone have a sense of that? >> so i think we need to -- a little bit of an internal conversation about that and where we might have more resources to look to do a deeper dive in some areas. i mentioned that we already -- certainly after a year of collecting the data, we'll probably have better information about lgbtq population. we could certainly -- like i said, do not have to wait four years on that piece. however i think we need to talk with our planning team and our staff and really look at what we're missing and where we

might dive a little deeper. we -- on some level, we have what we have in terms of the information for now. there's probably a few areas where we can do that, and i think much of what we need to learn we're going to be applying in the next cycle. >> okay. i think for me, what i would like to do, by at least the meeting before we vote on this, is to get a sense of what the time frame is for any kind of deep dive and what the priorities would be. and the recommendations that i'm hearing, the ones that i made are looking at greater service utilization, particularly in d-10 and 11. we need to do a deeper dive in young with disabilities, and i agree with the lgbt focus particularly around hiv/aids. that if we were to do a deeper dive or do a supplemental

report on those, it would be helpful to make some decisions, and i just need some deadline as to what that might be. >> okay. we can certainly address that in the meeting before the vote. one of the things we can do -- whatever we do has to involve data that we already have, because we don't have the resources to go skput and do something brand-new, but we might be able to go out skpo look at some places, some data that we currently have and see if it can be applied. we're about to go into the service allocation process. i think there are two pieces, you know. there's looking at what we currently have and what we might be able to do now to inform our service allocation process next year, and then there's kind of, like, what do we want to do in four years when we do this again? so i think those are the two pieces, and we can certainly talk about that before the vote. >> sure. and i agree. i guess my concern is to make

sure we don't wait four years to do the deep dive. >> right. >> that's important, and some of these things i recognize we won't have the information to inform this next cycle, but the next year, we should have the data to help inform, inform. >> great. thank you. >> thank you. >> commissioners, any final comments from members? all right. i'll just take a moment again to thank rda for the incredible work you did to put this together in such a short time frame, the coalition to continue keeping these important issues a priority for the city and for everybody. to the daas staff, again for working collaboratively with rda and what you do every single day, and for the working group and us as commissioners. jessica, one final comment?

>> probably just presented the comment and not an announcement. so sandy mory mentioned that there's some opportunities coming up to make sure that senior and disability issues get in front of candidates that are running for offices and making sure that ageing and ageism are front and center. i want to make sure that people know there are two major events coming up. the first thursday, april 12th. it's a candidates forum and reception, where people can talk with the candidates at 1187 franklin. i apologize. i realize i forgot to bring fliers. and then, the second is a major candidates forum at the herbst theater on thursday, april 26, from 10:30 to 12:00.

pick up a flier on the way out. >> that's very important, jessica. can i ask for a motion to adjourn? >> so moved. >> and a second? >> second. >> all in favor? >> thank you. meeting's adjourned. all right

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good morning. welcome to the government audit and oversight committee. this is april 4th. i am the chair joined by supervisor aaron peskin as well as london breed. i want to acknowledge our clerk and the staff at sftv. they make the meetings available online and ensure they are available to the public. do you have any announcements? >> clerk: make sure to silence your cell phones and electronic devices. items today will be on the april 10th boar board of board s agenda. >> item one is approving the award of 7095 for natasha khoruzenko leading to detexas of under payment of property tax

from an unreported change in ownership. >> we did get a request to continue this so the deputy assessor can attend to offer remarks. rescheduled this prior to knowing whether the office could attend or not. i will enter tain immoment. i will open for public comment on item one. seeing no public comment it is now closed. >> i make a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair. >> we have a motion to continue to the call of the chair. we can do that without objection. mr. clerk can you call items two, three, for. >> two through four are resolutions approving and receiving reports for the benefit district and the greater union scare business im -- union

square district improvement committee. >> i see chris is here to present on all three items. i just want to thank you. many of the community benefits district are in my district. it is a pleasure to work with you. i appreciate the energy and time you put into making churr it runs well and works well with the city. i acknowledge andrea the executive director is here today along with karen flood, executive director of the union district and the community benefit district and neil who has left and joined us. if there are no opening comments i will move to the presentation. >> thank you.

good morning. as you heard we are here to hear three annual reports for the upper market cb d and the business improvement district. there are two codes that govern the community benefit district program in san francisco. 1994 act and the article 15 of the business and tax regulation code. during review for 2016-2017. they ensured they are meeting management plans. we conducted the annual reports of the financial reviews and provided a summary memo. the castro upper market c bd was formed in 2005 with a initial budget of 4 $13,000 to expire on june 30, 2020. the executive director and service areas are public rights-of-way, sidewalk operations, district identity

and street improvements and administration and corporates operations. thethey review the benchmark chk the variance for each service category within 10 percentage points. castros 5% came from sources other than revenue. if the variance was within 10% from the actuals. benchmark four if the cb d indicates the funds from the current fiscal year and projects in the upcoming fiscal year. for benchmark one, castro cb d met this and has met this historically as well. benchmark two they raised 40% of their budget nonassessment revenue and has historically met

this benchmark. benchmark 3 they were within the variance points allotted. they have historically met this as well. they did indicate the carry forward in management and did identify how it would be spent to meet benchmark four. the finding is that they met all benchmarks and requirements, the c bd with on ewd continues with successful programs like castro cares. it is set to sunset on june 30, 2020. they will begin planning for renewral. they will provide technical assistance. in conclusion they marketed and produced live in the castro and increased to partner with municipal agencies for implementation of castro cares and maintain an active board of

directors and shush committees. if there are no questions andrea will present the achievements. >> good morning. thank you for the opportunity to let you know all about the wonderful work that we are do anything the castro. as chris says, castro cb d will be renewing in 2020. i am here to talk to you this. is the map where we are unusually shaped community benefit district, long and sprawling. all the way down to octavia street including market on castro including childre includ.

we include a couple side streets. as chris indicated we have a robust committee with seven committees. they are composed of board members and some members of the community that are not on the board. executive committee, finance committee, street scape, services to oversee the cleaning, land use. retail and castro cares leadership team. we partner with the major organizations in the upper market, community based organizations, religious organizations and we have great partnerships with public works, pd and also sfmta. collaborating with other issues. we are working on the upper market safety improving meant to

work to improve pet safety and bike safety. our major grants are with oewd. castro cares where we provide additional homeless related services and also security-related services through patrol special police. our retail strategy project and improvement program where chris alluded to we run a program called live in the castro. generally the add hock management team keeping the plaza a great place to it is and relax and enjoy the outdoors for free. the cleaning budgeted is largest by far proportion of the services we provide. we have -- we daily sweep in 16-17 we picked up

109,625 pounds of trash. 1430 instances of human feces from the sidewalks. we have a pit stop in front of the station which is wonderful. daily graffiti last year we abated 15,763 instances of graffiti. we steam clean hitting each parcel at least quarterly and dispatch number for spot cleaning requests and other kinds of cleaning requests. examples what we find every morning in the district and our team cleans up. this is harvey milk plaza where the retaping walls are. dumped to theters is -- dump

toters are going over to dump the compost bins or the recycle bins all over the street, and we come by to clean it up at 5:00 a.m. safety issues, besides castro cares, our core safety budget we also contract with san francisco patrol special police. there is a collaborative effort through other businesses who also contribute to patrol special place and combination of dollars they are out in the street from 4:00 to 1:00 on weekdayses and thursday through saturday they are in the neighborhood until 3:00 a.m., after the bars closed. our major instances reported by the special police are obstructing the sidewalk, 25 violations shoplifting,

loitering near atm and illegal vendors. without the special police these would go unnoted. sfpd is rarely in the castro. upper market in the evening. there is a daytime foot beat which we really appreciate in the evening, though, a car passes by once in a while. here is an instance of john who passed away. he was the beat owner. cody klemments is before the police commission to become the new beat owner. we have raised a significant amount of funds through grants and donations. our assessment dollar budget last year was $499,000. you can see this is a really significant increase in our ability to meet the needs and in

the district our assessment dollars don't go near far enough to meet the need in the district. some of the dollars through the jane warner improvement grant and castro cares grant fund additional cleaning in the streets. and additional security so that is a real concern with us. live in castro mid-may through october every weekend free entertainment in the plaza. a volunteer program welcoming 5,000 visitors a year to the castro. plaza management is a big issue. we have land use and retail strategy where the focus is spreading the word castro is open for business. we have a grant for shop local. these are pictures what happens live in the castro.

some are performances and community events this. is an example of the ambassadors helping visitors giving directions and maps. challenges besides the budget challenges i was referring to. challenges we do not have enough foot patrols evenings and daytime. consistent foot patrol is critical. dumping ecology t tots is huge. there needs to be a system whereaboutses can afford to give the keys and the totes can be locked up behind the stores and commercial vacancies is a huge growing issue in the city. another issue is mentally ill substance abusers on the street.

another example. i went the wrong way. >> can i ask a question? we had this issue in the market as well, we worked to chunk the pickup time to evening instead of early morning. the residents were putting out the bins before they went to sleep. then during the night folks would come and go through the burns creating a ton of trash by the time they would come by at 5, 6, 7:00 a the bins were on the streets. we worked to start the pickups at night, which has made an incredible difference. has the cb considered paying for the locks with the fees on behalf of the business owners? >> i remember along time ago talking to rob hankey. that is an interesting issue to

work at night and pick up the trash at night. i am not sure if they can. i will follow up. that is a really good suggestion. as far as paying merchants to keep their -- to pay for the locks. that is really not within our budget. we are struggling with the new upcoming budget to meet the needs of the steam cleaning fields in the district where they are going over the max of 73% and we don't have the funding to even steam clean 16 hours each week. we are funding 8 hours each week. each parcel once each quarter. it is not enough. we are struggling to meet the basic needs. that would be -- i would bring that up to the board to talk about that. thank you for the suggestion.

opportunities that we see is again castro cares. we are working in this fiscal year with the aids foundation to develop a case management program so more focused on focused case management rather than general outreach. revitalizing retail strategy and working closely with brokers and highlating that delays are the biggest issue. represents are too hi, -- rents are too high. iit takes a year to get through the planning department. small businesses can't affords that. collaborating with mta on the dangerous intersections as i mentioned earlier. public art. this year we finally got the public art project opened and

installed. we had a great opening. that was in the fall. we are working on increasing foot traffic on market, thinking about are there ways to bring public art to market street to increase foot traffic? improve we are working with mta on bicycle safety and vehicle safety, ideas to increase foot traffic if pedestrians feel safer. there is all way opportunities for increasing homeless services and law enforcement. jane warner plaza is getting better all the time. we have a grant with oewd for a shop local campaign and also working with new merchants that once they get approval that they can -- once they sign the lease that they put coming soon like in the mall but coming soon, you know, whatever the store or

business is so they can promote the windows with branding rather than paper and nobody understanding there is a signed lease. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. i will bring up mr. corgiss. i'm sorry. >> i want to ask a question about we funded larkin street youth services to assist in the cleanup in the area. i noticed they have been out in the area just a few days ago, several of their workers cleaning up the streets in the castro. how do you coordinate efforts? does that take into consideration the work that you all are paying for to help keep it clean? >> the two years ago when that plan was implemented or last

year when it was first implemented with the current manager at larkin street. we gave them a map and talked where we clean and where you clean. we have directed them to be cleaning just outside of our boundaries because those places get really dirty and get the, you know, wind blows trash and so we are not allowed to clean outside of our boundaries. we felt that would be the best use of their time. >> i noticed they were cleaning along castro and market. they have been in the area. it doesn't hurt. >> it doesn't hurt. >> i see them regularly because sometimes i am in the area. i see them and maybe i don't notice the people that work for the cb d because they are not

wearing vests. >> thyrolar or logo. >> i see if it is near the safe way or market street near church as well as castro and market. i notice the young people of larkin street out there on a regular basis cleaning up. i just was really excited about that and happy that program is actually effectively working, but i was wondering how you coordinate efforts. >> we haven't talked to them in a long time. i will reach out to them again. >> i also wanted to just ask a question about the dumpsters and what is happening besides the fact you are cleaning it up. are there any other solutions or suggestions that you have to address this particular issue? i will tell you, and i know this is in the solution.

part of what we have done in our neighborhood because we were having this problem as well. we really tried t to have a conversation with the individuals going through the bins to ask them to at least put the stuff back in the bin. again, i am not saying that is the solution maybe there is a conversation to be had. the second thing is definitely the locks and then also the ability for the econgee folks to have a key to access the bins would help. i am not sure if the cost for business verses residential is more expensive. wouldn't you think it might be less expensive to have to clean up the mess than to pay for the lock to assist with that particular issue? >> well, we have found the locks not to be effective because people live on the street actually break the locks.

>> or to access and get into the location where the bins are. >> it is an interesting question. i will discuss it with my board. >> there is a fee that they charge. they are provided with a key and they have the ability to remove the bins that is another solution besides locks directly on the actual bins. maybe that could be looked at as a possible solution. i know it is frustratining aroud town. the suggestion on changing the time could be helpful to residents and merchantses in the area as well. >> thank you. >> the community benefit district. in order to save time we did not include the slides regarding the prevailing code and what oawd

reviews. the community benefit district is in approximately $3 million budget. it was renewed in 2015. it is to expire december 31, 2030. executive director is cathy. it is franking and mar-- branding and marketing. the staff reviewed the same benchmarks for all cb ds. the main difference is benchmark two where they had to raise 5.08% other than the assessment revenue. benchmark one they met this requirement. they have historically met this as well. benchmark two. the cb d raised 9.84% nonassessment revenue. they have historically met this

benchmark. in beverage mark three they did keep the intending within the prescribed variance and met that benchmark. in four they did include carry forward in the annual report and did indicate how it was to be spent and met that. inen conclusion they have met the requirement also through the code and management agreement with the city. they marketed and produced neighborhood events such as the activation, increased opportunities with stakeholders and agencies and increased hours for the san francisco pd bike patrol program. if there are no questions cathy is here to present on the program achievements.

>> good morning. thanks forgiving us the opportunity to talk about our work. i have a few slides. chris talked about how we renewed in 2015. we were formed in 2008. renewed in 2015 through 2030. we have a board of 28, a staff of three. soon to be four. hopefully within the next month. most slides are photos to give you an idea what the neighborhood is about. this is the iconic image that is taken from the gardens. boungarys from market street to perry street on the south under the freeway. second to fifth. we have 21 popoparcels -- 2100 parcels in the neighborhood. the core services you can see we have the clean team, community guides and we work in partnership with sfpd with a

bike patrol officer works for us. what we did in the last fiscal year. we responded to over 61,000 requests for through through phone calls through app through e-mail or through text. you can see what we did as far as the trash picked up, graffiti. 10,000 graffiti few abatement items. it is very, very important that we do. >> why don't i ask you questions. i am curious how the big belly trash cans. >> that is the last slide. >> i have a specific question. i am a huge fan. sorry this is inmy district. i love your work. you are the envy of other cvds in my district.

thank you. i have a few specific questions. how is the pilot going? is it making a difference? >> it is making a huge difference. we have seen areas around where we put the big belly trash cans are cleaner. we don't have the staining around. i know that karen has big bellies in union scare as well and probably the same experience. i have been surprised. the intersection of fourth and mission by the city college is a problem area to keep clean. we put the big belly there on purpose. that area is distinctly better that is a contributing factor to that. i want to have a conversation with you after this. we are be beginning to explore the possibility of adding more, and we are asking our teams to give recommendations on other partparts of the neighborhood we they would be well used.

we chose high visible neighborhoods with pedestrian traffic. now, i want to look at problem areas for possibility of expansion. that is definitely on the radar. >> do you think the benefits out weigh the costs? i talked a lot with the director about big belly trash cans. i have been asking him and he is reluctant because of the cost. do you think the benefits out weigh the cost? >> we haven't done that analysis to that degree. now that they are in and we see them function the cost is less painful. let's put it that way. our teams are able to focus on other issues that are out on the street. that has freed them up to do other important work. the cost is real, however. we are looking at it. we are looking at the budget to say how can we do more of these? one of