In the Works - Community Newsletter April 2020 Newsletter | Page 28

Street cleaners Jackie Wilson and Edward Redd
clean up broken glass on Market Street.
Too bad not all graffiti vandals are sheltering in place! Our veteran painter, Jose
Marquez, who normally works on San Francisco Public Library projects, is on the
streets now as an essential worker, ridding San Francisco of tags.
Meanwhile, our day-to-day field work at
Public Works continues. But not in the
same way.
The Operations crews who are used to
working in close proximity to one another
now must maintain at least six feet of
distance. That mandate changed how
we fill potholes and clean streets. Our
painters, who have less work on building
projects during shelter in place, started
using their skills to paint out graffiti tags
blighting the City.
A different kind of
wipeout at Ocean
Beach: Danny
Johnson, a painter
with us for 28 years,
wipes out graffiti
on the seawall.