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

force for we have to remember we are not painters we abate graffiti. we are abaters not painters. that out of the way and keep moving. >> how many of these do you do a day? how many poles we do a day? >> yeah. >> depends on the location. may be 20. >> do you like working with the team? >> yes because i'm a people person. i like being outside and interacting with the public and i like the response we get especially from the good job we do in the community. >> goodbye. >> welcome to "culturewire." for the past year, the arts commission has been participating in the city's effort to revitalize the central market street corridor. in addition to the thursday arts market and are in store front, the art commission recently launched the artery project. for the next year, the artery project will bring energy and excitement to market street, recalling the st.'s heyday as san francisco's vibrant and bustling theater district. >> un.n plaza during business hours seize hundreds of passing office workers and students, but the activity winds down at 5:00 every day. theater productions bring some

force for we have to remember we are not painters we abate graffiti. we are abaters not painters. get that out of the way and keep moving. >> how many of these do you do a day? how many poles we do a day? >> yeah. >> depends on the location. may be 20. >> do you like working with the team? >> yes because i'm a people person. i like being outside and interacting with the public and i like the response we get especially from the good job we do in the community. >> goodbye.

[inaudible] the graffiti we abate everything is coming up to the areas now. >> i'm willing to take it i think -- >> you are telling me you are ready for this? >> i think so. >> okay. >> there you go. >> all right. >> all right. >> ready to do it. let's go. >> want to get the gray signses this over here and the garbage can and normally we don't do private property since it's on the corridor route you can come with me we will use black. >> we had a lot of changes in the graffiti unit. we do private property if someone moved we remove it and send it to the attorney's office and they take appropriate action. >> damage their property there. it's important to write the color in case they want to say what part of our house you abated the graffiti on. >> using your safety glasses the gloves. >> you got it. >> you know some places we gashi, people appreciate that. you know, a lot of timeses they say, thank you. >> the time where it's visible. a lot of people put it on the ground. >> i like he

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 frie

san jose's graffiti abatement unit is in jeopardy. >> everything is on the table. we have a difficult budget year again. >> reporter: that means there may be no one left to do this. next year's budget deficit might force the five teams who paint the town every day to look the other way. >> things that are near and dear to my heart, like the graffiti removal program, are things that we have to consider, because we have to balance graffiti removal against responding to emergency calls. >> reporter: the mayor will ask voters what they think in a telephone survey scheduled for the next couple of weeks. should they keep the graffiti unit or eliminate it to keep more cops on the street. >> are you ready to sign up, anti-graffiti squad? >> reporter: easy gomez isn't laughing. downtown businesses and business owners might not either if the city pulls the rollers from his team. it costs the city just over $1.5 million to run the graffiti abatement team, but it's facing a looming $90 million budget deficit. we're live in downtown san jose, i'm damian trujillo. >>> let's take

graffiti abatement and street and walk. many projects come in and they are both categories not to worry about that. the point is that there are a lot of things we don't fund. in our workshop somebody wanted to know if we were talking about a bathroom in a park. we don't do that. it's an object that should come out of an agency's budget. it's not something you that you can involve the community. community will not build a bathroom or maintain a bathroom for 5 yeeshs. they might but that was not the application submitted. >> let's talk about briefly the match because that has to be that requirement has to be met before we talk about the

graffiti abatement and street and walk. many projects come in and they are both categories not to worry about that. the point is that there are a lot of things we don't fund. in our workshop somebody wanted to know if we were talking about a bathroom in a park. we don't do that. it's an object that should come out of an agency's budget. it's not something you that you can involve the community. community will not build a bathroom or maintain a bathroom for 5 yeeshs. they might but that was not the application submitted. >> let's talk about briefly the match because that has to be that requirement has to be met before we talk about the scoring. the point of the match the reason the program was retooled and called the community challenge grant is the idea is to encourage neighborhoods to value themselves and their own work. the grant is unique in the city and in many other cities in that we have placed a dollar value on your volunteer time of 14 dollars an hour. you are allowed to include your volunteer time as the match. as

should they decrease graffiti abating, reduce responses to noninjury accidents? some say no to the public safety options. fewer of the library snounchs i'm okay with fewer library hours. i think with the internet it also helps with the kids. >> reporter: some burglary victims are also okay with fewer library hour it is it will help bring a sense of security back to younger avenue. another, should the city do away with the police helicopters save $1 million a year? another question, should the city weaken its s.w.a.t. team? in the past, city leaders used the results of this survey to bolster their rationale for making cuts. live at san jose city hall, damian trujillo, nbc bay area news. >> we will hear more about this one. thank you, damian. >>> marin supervisors are expected to hit the ground running tomorrow with a vote to stop the installation of smart meters until their potential health risks can be studied further. the moratorium declares that because of potential risks to the health, welfare and safety of county residents, the board wants to stop installatio