today we are at recology.hey are celebrate 20 years of one of the most incredibly unique artist residency programs. we are here to learn more from one of the resident artists. welcome to the show, deborah. tell us how this program began 20 years ago. >> the program began 20 years ago. our founder was an environmentalist and an activist and an artist in the 1970's. she started these street sweeping campaigns in the city. she started with kids. they had an exhibition at city hall. city officials heard about her efforts and they invited her to this facility. we thought it would coincide with our efforts to get folks to recycle it is a great educational tool. since then we have had 95 professional artists come through. >> how has the program changed over the years? how has the program -- what can the public has an artist engage with? >> for the most part we worked with metal and wood, what you would expect from a program like ours. over the years, we tried to include artists and all types of mediums. conceptual ar

. >> we are working with recology to expand the trash and repsycho-- recology to expand the trash and recycling. pick up after yourselves. >> reporter: and the city will soon be launching a public education program to urge people to be more respectful of the park. they will be out again this weekend earning people to clean up after themselve -- urging people to clean up after themselves. >> thank you. >>> removing tons of concrete accidentally poured into a creek. this happened yesterday morning. a contractor was filling in a pipe, not realizing a valve was left open and the concrete was pouring into the creek. the concrete pumping went on for two hours and it could have a devastating effect on wildlife. >> the people who live in this complex, it is bad. that creek is dead. period. >> crews are scooping up and cleaning up. the work is costing $25,000 a day. it could take months or years to return to normal. >>> the pilot who died in a plane crash last week, david wright was flying the aircraft when it crashed in sonoma county last friday afternoon. the plane went down east of petaluma

the last time we did an outside consult tapbtd for non-cca work was in 2011 or 2012 when the recology contract was coming up. it came up very quickly, we needed to get someone right away, if we didn't have the large reserve -- i didn't have any money set up for contract services. i would have to say, sorry, we kblt do that report right now, you have to wait for next year year until we have the money. so what i did, i kind of took some of the basic costs of how much really is it that we really need to ask the city and county for, came up with paying for half the clerk's salary, the administrative support, my salary and fringes for the portion i think i might be spending on non-cca-related work, other parts which so far are service fees from the california lafco association, they try to help us when the time comes, when we put out rfp's and such they will spread it out to their networks. for potential legal services, again, not the cca work, if you take the 116 and subtract the 55,000, which is what i think is about what we would need if we were to do a recology report again, that leave

the trash out of the park and into the proper recycling and compost streams we are partnering with recologyupport from supervisor scott wiener and the department of public works and piloting a pop up at delores park and open from noon to 8:00 p.m. on saturdays sundays and holidays for the initial period and accept the compost and recycling and there will be staff and volunteers on hand to help users separate containers into separate bins for recycling compost and trash and there will be a little environmental education to boot. this is an important step towards a greener and cleaner delores park as we open the first phase of the park this summer. bud day -- check out the -- bug day and check out the creepy crawlers and celebrate everything is science and games and more this saturday and admissions free and nominal cost for some of the activities and visit our website. i have attended bug day in the past and you will be amazed how many people will be at the randall this weekend. it's one of the very best family friendly events and not just hosted in the agency but throughout the city. in hon