to our knowledge and legislative analyst, it costs the city close to $20 million annually to abate graffiti on our buses and property and all throughout the city. and the city could use this money to use for other things. as former director and supervisor now, i see the huge cost of graffiti incur. and i hear from property owners that paint over offensive graffiti and to return the next day. i have seen people wait for the muni buses. many trying to remove graffiti, and needs solutions. i didn't want to use those who view crime as a harsher punishment. but yet to research best practices in jurisdictions all over the country, new york and chicago and san diego, and to create a nuance plan to reduce graffiti and provide better outcomes for offenders. most of our proposal is administrative, not just legislative. but i want to explain all elements. we will pursue repeat offenders. we estimate that over 90% of graffiti in san francisco are tagged that are by serial offenders. pursuing a criminal case for one act of graffiti, one tag, is an effective use of resources. but the criminal courts have

force for we have to remember we are not painters we abate graffiti. we are abaters not painters. 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. all right. (clapping.) >> so good evening, everyone. and welcome to the

systems are running on time or whether or not 311 is working or whether or not, you know, we're abating graffiti. the fact we have this where the average, you know, person in san francisco could go to the controller's website, use this particular barometer and information and prepare these incredible charts, i'd like to maybe see more outreach to work with the public to figure out a way in which we can educate the public on how to use it. so, that would be my only feedback. thank you. supervisor chiu. >> just a quick question. i think we could delve into any of these topics. but do you have the average muni bus speeds? is there a quick way for us to know why my line, what those numbers look like? >> i know they have that information. it wasn't looked into that level of detail for the benchmarking report, but they do have it. >> okay. >> on i think a daily basis. so, we can work with the muni staff group to get you those reports. >> that would be great, just to get a sense of what those numbers look like because i know obviously different lines vary dramatically. okay, thank you. >> okay. thank y

graffiti and landscape issues will have to be corrected within 72 hours. the legislation also requires that they post a bond with the city so other is not abated the city can do it and bill the applicant against the bond and reimburse the city for the bond if the graffiti is not removed in a timely manner the public works will issue fines of one thousands a day and repeated violations can lead to the city requiring a box to be removed entirely and the underground at this point it is underground the boxes is not considered feasible in media locations it requires an annual public hearing by the department of public works where the city departments and utilities and experts and members of the public can discuss the technology where underground becomes feasible. if at that point if underground becomes feasible the utilities will have to place their boxed underground and colleagues, i look forward to a robust fill discussions and hope to have your support. i want to note we have minor amendments i've distributed most are technical cleaning up amendments one is a location when utilities seek locations on private property the applicant you must offer mandatory co

systems are running on time or whether or not 311 is working or whether or not, you know, we're abating graffiti. the fact we have this where the average, you know, person in san francisco could go to the controller's website, use this particular barometer and information and prepare these incredible charts, i'd like to maybe see more outreach to work with the public to figure out a way in which we can c

looking at the same original pictures that they were the graffiti they were post for if that graffiti is abated then we close out the service request. >> thank you. any other questions colleagues? okay. at this point this hearing is heard and filed with that we have the underlying reports. as it has been amended madam clerk do we need a formal >> to receive the report. >> it's been proposed by city staff can i have a motion motion that i supervisor mar and sentinelled by supervisor yee can we take that without objection? without objection that's the underlying resolution colleagues, same house, same call? . without objection that will be the case as well. >> thank you. thank you >> why don't we take items 28 and 29 these items will be continued. >> pursuant to a motion approved the board of supervisors will convene a meeting for item 28 the person's centered in the proposed resolution that's the subject matter of item 29 for the board of supervisors acting to the successor agency to the former agency approving lets affordable housing obligations that would effective the transfer of block 34 and

for the past six years i've been sending crews out doing graffiti abatement, doing cleaning up the areas, picking up [speaker not understood]. i see this as a logical way of -- i've been on the committee since the inception, strong supporter of it and i hope you can move forward with it. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. chris shulman, chairman of the steering committee. i'll be very brief. i think cheryl thomas and [speaker not understood] covered everything very thoroughly. i just want to lend my support to the cbd and thank you for your consideration. >>> good morning, supervisors. my name is lauren martin. i also believe everything ha been covered, but i am a small business owner located on polk between pine and california. and i believe the cbd will allow business to flourish a little more fully. i am present in maiello indication from 9:30 in the morning till 2:30 in the morning. so, i have a coffee business during the day and then i have a bar in the evening. so, i am eyes and ears on the street for most of the day. and this is what i feel wou

we were able to abate over a million square feet of graffiti. we were able to do several miles of sewer work. we built almost 2000 [speaker not understood] in-house and we were also able to inspect over 2.7 million square feet of sidewalk that in some cases we were actually able to rebuild, over 25,000 tons of debris that was picked up from our sidewalks, and mechanically swept over 146,000 miles of streets. our premiere program in educating residents and going out and building partnership with many of our city agencies, but also with the communities and the businesses is a program that we call the giant sweep. the giant sweep was launched last year. it is in its second year now. but last year we were able to log over 50,000 hours of volunteers who came out to help clean our streets, remove graffiti, plant shrubs, clean our medians. we were able to work with many of the schools in san francisco by doing outreach to them, but also offering opportunities for them to en

graffiti they did research on how many nos it's like 21 hundred per month to property owners that's a high number for something that's supported to 0 decrease diversity. so if there's a diversity abatement fund to help me but maxillowe get nos after nos and no criminal punishment for the graffitiers my truck was congregated and i was called the next day by the da and said at the 2 o'clock to show the damage so i quickly took any truck and make sure it was over $400 and it was still charged as an misdemeanor and the charges were dropped >> next speaker >> i'm here today because i got the notice of the thoughts assessment and i applied for a hardship. we pretty much have to paint over graffiti and on our side of the building it's private property for parking we can only get in the to six so it takes us longer we need more time because we need someone about going in and out on the weekend i'm not is this how do we follow-up if we're getting charged or not with the assessment is there any follow-up >> there's no follow-up. >> i a want to find out what the charge was at the end of this hearing i'm going to ask every member of the public who spoke to meet with the public staff hold on for two