i am rachel gordon with dpw and this is something that mayor lee with the san francisco giants launched, so people keep the city clean. we have actually had a lot of success in the past few months in what we're doing. we're really trying to engage school-aged children from the elementary schools to high school to start thinking about how to keep san francisco clean and beautiful. so we do everything from school curriculum to doing hands-on activities with the kids and go out there and picking up garbage in a safe manner. we had a poster contest with more than 300 submissions from 22 schools and work with the department of environment, with the san francisco municipal transportation agency, with recreation and park department, with the public utilities commission. really all hands-on by city departments, really to just get people to start thinking about taking care of the city, not having it where we have kind of a valet garage pickup by dpw and this is a way that people and corporations can get involved. we have four main giant sweep days in the city all tied to the san francisco giant'

i want to thank rachel gordon and the whole public works for using the giant sweep theme. today we have over 10,000 kids who signed that pledge. that pledge means they will personally take responsibility for their actions. so think about it. they will involve their families and talk to people. this campaign, larry said it's one of the best campaigns they have seen because they love all the players that associate themselves with the giant sweep. of course today we have somebody that i felt, when we connect up and this is where muhammad and ed riis skin is doing to connect everything. we love our arts and we are engaging some of our street artist to be part of it. sweeping i believe is here today. he's one of our sales people for this pitch but he's going to be with us and i think you will find at some of the bus stops that we encourage some of the street artist to perform in they are going to find a medium without a word of negativity and they will point out why are you doing that? they will have an attitude for our assets and bus stops and all the other places. i want to t