and also larry, how many painters or staff is in your graffiti abatement program? >> great questions. >> well, i'm the graffiti guy, graffiti abatement guy. [laughter] (applause) >> as far as the guys i use on my paint overs, i have a group of 3 to 4 guys and i pick them -- they're hand picked by me. i tend to pick guys who are patient, good with kids, guys who are school resource officers. that's a big plus. you know, you've got to like kids, maybe have experience in teaching, coaching, working with kids. like i said in my presentation, you don't want the guy with the rack shock and smoke mirror glasses who looks like he's working on a chain gang. you want someone who can maybe not talk to them in their own vernacular, but who can see eye to eye with them, talk to them about kid things and most of all be patient. and who can document trouble and kind of see things on the horizon that might be issues coming up and who are familiar with the san francisco landscape. you know, i don't let just any cop come and do the overtime. very, very picky about who i get. and i ge

what are the technical requirements to abate graffiti from heritage properties? >> i actually am not an expert in terms of the types of chemicals. so, i really captain answer that question. basically like i said before, we have our contractor on staff who is fully qualified, who is responsible for getting a letter approval through heritage for his chemical. they have to do a test with them to ensure that the products are safe for use on all heritage buildings. and so that's how we've been able to handle our heritage buildings. >> i think most of my experience here in the states is it has more to do with the qualifications -- if it's designated listed historic property, then it tends to shift over to the qualifications have to be somebody that has a certain degree and conservation or that kind of thing. so, it's probably similar. it's some qualification type program. >> alrighty, thank you. i have a

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. >> special. >> good morning today is wednesday may 15, 2013 this is the regular meeting of the building inspection commission. the first item is roll call (calling names) we have a quorum >> thank you all for coming here this morning. the commission has congratulations for the senior clerk who is retiring after 29 years. and acting director paid tribute to her and good luck shirley with argue retirement and your you invaluable service to the d b i p the commission thanks the building inspector neil who was thanked publicly in a letter to the san francisco chronicle on may of the building inspectors nothing but hel

often time graffiti remains up without being an abated and that creates more graffiti. think that's the case with some of these properties. when somebody is granted hardship, the department will help them get control back of their property, help them -- an abate regularly and they should look into other options for keeping their property clean. we recommend looking into different lightings and motion sensors, possibly putting up cameras looking into anti-graffiti codeings. we are working with property owners but we really recommend very quick abatement. >> thank you. >> thank you, any other questions to dpw? okay, colleagues for item 26 i understand there is an amended report. madam clerk do we need to adopt that or simply acknowledge that? >> mr. president, we don't need a motion to adopt this report but you can without objection accept this report? >> okay, colleagues if also no objection i would like to accept the amended report and with that unless there is any additional discuss let's take a roll call vote on the resolution. >> supervisor cohen, aye, ferrel aye -- s

i only find out about it if i drive by or i get a notice from the graffiti abatement department. i do not live in the city of san francisco. 1264 folsom is a notorious corridor where blight is covered. as soon as they cover it, it happens again. as you imagine there are many citations issued. if you would catch the perpetrators. it would eventually stop. punishing the victims, only em bold ens the perpetrator and creates a new canvas for them to payton. paint on. the only way they get caught is if it's a concerned neighbor the police happen to accidentally stumble across them when they are in the process of vandalizing somebody's property. i'm proposed two solutions to help curb this black and white. i hope the mayor's and others will propose several ideas. stake out known graffiti corridors with your graffiti abatement department or what you might call it and when these things occurred -- >> thank you very much. we give everyone equal time. you will have time to discuss with w w staff. next speaker. >> my name is michael man and my address is 428 grove street. i don't have an is

abating the tagging. >> you just have to educate them. try to make them aware of what's gang graffiti and what's tagger graffiti. either way it's going to be dangerous. there is a lot of violence in the taggers. they get into fist fights. i've arrested tagers with knives and brass knuckles. i've heard stories of guns being taken off tagers. it is a violent culture or has aspects of violent culture in it. you need to educate people on that. when you're going -- when you're painting over someone's graffiti, that could be seen as the ultimate disrespect. and you could be exposing yourself to a lot of danger. that's one of the reasons why we have officers going out with juveniles. now, the good thing about doing paint overs is it's not a signature. that's a blanket of paint covering graffiti. so, thor just going to know that i directed them to do that. and they can, they can address me if they have any problems with the fact that i told somebody to paint over them. you know, i'm not putting a tag there. it's city property. and as far as the type of paint we use, we don't use aerosol paint

developing community gardens and abating graffiti and maintaining streets. i should menace the program we hired thirty local people to jobs and to train and to mitigate community tensions by uncomfortable public safety in district 10. the mayor interim program we're going to pick up jobs. and then i mentioned the mid community agreement to hire the phone calls from the community and providing interimship. i don't have the figures yet >> last it our language assess. as you know the g a immigrant affairs compliant and provides technical resources for all departments and improves the access with folks with limited language proficiency. we monitor bilingual at 60 public events including the town hall and commission meetings. they've translated hundreds of documents and assisted folks in disastrous situation. we have provided assistance and that is for the interpretation. and the he - that concludes my presentation >> do you have any comments on the discussion i understand the discussion with the budget analyst are ongoing. >> yes we're going to work with the bud

we think this will create jobs for the homeless and by developing community gardens and abating graffiti and maintaining streets. i should menace the program we hired thirty local people to jobs and to train and to mitigate community tensions by uncomfortable public safety in district 10. the mayor interim program we're going to pick up jobs. and then i mentioned the mid community agreement to hire the phone calls from the community and providing interimship. i don't have the figures yet >>

abatement. we have an annual volunteer event where graffiti is removed city-wide. in an effort to encourage youth to participate we are considering a flash mob where all volunteers will abate graffiti at the same time on the same day along major thoroughfares. is this a good idea or does it detract from the issue? thoughts? okay, yes. >> that's a great question. >> thank you. my experience is it's really hard to paint while you're dancing. [laughter] >> but on top of that, my experience with volunteerism and with large groups of painting comes from working with -- actually supervising small groups of offenders and volunteers doing the work hands on, but also working from the city side where we bring the paint and supplies to groups that might be from a business community or faith group and helping them to get set up, making sure they're going to get consent and setting them free in their community. there is a real cost factor associated with having 50 or 100 or 150 rollers, brushes, paint kits, trays, rags, running around your community. whether it's a flash mob or

it also splits the budget such as illegal dumping and graffiti abatement.f a naked acrobat attacking people at the 16th and mission bart station, questiong about security at but bart police say security is their top priority. s-f-p-d were the first on scene.seven minutes after the call went out.bart police arrived by train 8 minutes after the call went out. witnesses could only wait and hope that the naked man.yeiner perez would not attack them. often times bart police are at a station but not always.as in this case last month. deputy chief benson fairow says there are plans to change this ever since this video surfaced. there have been new questions about security at bart stations. and specifically at the 16th and mission bart station. bart police tell kron 4's j.r. stone that securityeir p p is with benson fairow, a deputy chief with bart. i scene.seven minutes after police arrived by train 8 minutes after the call went out. justified. witnesses could only wait and hope that the naked man.yeiner perez would not attack them. often times bart police are at

chp support and splits the budget allocation on other concerns including illegal dumping and graffiti abatement. >>> an outdoor deck at a miami area sports bar collapsed tonight. it spent dozens of people into the shallow waters of the bay. divers have been searching the waters to make sure no one is still trapped. 24 people have been taken to hospitals, at least two in serious condition. >>> ever since this video surfaced of a naked man going on a rampage at 16th and mission bart station, there have been new questions about security at bart for passengers and employees. jr stone tells us what they have to say. >> come here, get in the group! [ crying ] >> they need to come quicker. [ crying ] >> reporter: the cries for officers were heard loud and clear in this cellphone video shot last month showing a naked acrobat attacking people. >> reporter: san francisco police were are first on the scene, seven minutes after the call. bart police arrived by train, eight minutes after the call. >> that response time was about as quick as it could have been. >> reporter: witnesses could only wait and hope

that incident number is tracked to our graffiti abatement team. from them i give incident number, 451 4321. okay, we cleaned it up on this date and it was 45 21 for a damage estimate or $54. whatever it took for them to clean that off and how they cleaned it off, that's how we get our damage estimate to make a bigger case. >> [speaker not understood]? >> for the abatement? as that's a whole 'nother ball game and a whole 'nother day. but i can get it for you. they do an audit every year, neighborhood services department. last year we cleaned up $6.4 million in graffiti. so, it's pretty bad. i give you the person to get in charge -- with the abatement side, william hogan. i'll give you his number and stuff. he can tell you how they do an audit. they do a yearly -- every two years they do an audit and that's how they get their pricing on how many square feet that they have to do. and it just moves up and up and up. when i first started it was like 17 bucks. now it's like 54 bucks. so, inflation, man. so, yeah. this is a great thing. even if you don't

cbd under the category of cleaning and maintenance services, such as sidewalk sweeping and graffiti abatement, renewable trash and debris, power-washing and spot cleaning. under "public safety," the community guide service would increase as mentioned, addressing pedestrian safety, social service outreach, merchant outreach, and visitor information. also allocating for an officer program to support public safety initiatives in the district and also dispatch services would continue to provide service requests line for the community. the budget as mentioned would allocate -- would also allot for economic development program support in the areas of business attraction and business retention. as well as management services, and the management of the district, day-to-day operations, advocacy and fundraising for the district. the budget also calls for support under marketing and promotion and identity of the district through district