In the Works - Community Newsletter In the Works November 2019 | Page 17

The operation has crews on the job every
day during the winter holiday season,
boosting regularly scheduled cleaning
and maintenance services.
“We know that when the
holidays roll around, it’s our
City’s time to shine and the
Holiday Eco Blitz will help us
do just that,” said Public Works
Director Mohammed Nuru.
The operation has crews on
the job every day during the
winter holiday season, boosting
regularly scheduled cleaning
and maintenance services.
The work includes sweeping
and steam cleaning sidewalks,
clearing leaves and litter from
catch basins, and removing
illegal postings from poles. The
program also includes pruning
street trees and weeding basins,
cleaning public trashcans and
street furniture, sprucing up
around bus stops, painting over
graffiti, power washing roadways,
filling potholes and educating
merchants and property owners
about their responsibility to keep
sidewalks clean.
Our Holiday Eco Blitz
crews are on the job
every day during the
winter holiday season.
Public Works is leading the
effort, with the support of
many City partners, including
the San Francisco Municipal
Transportation Agency, San
Francisco Public Utilities
Commission, the City
Administrator’s Office, San
Francisco Recreation and Park
Department, San Francisco
Police Department, the Port of
San Francisco, and the Office
of Economic and Workforce
Development. Nonprofits also
are collaborating, among them
Yerba Buena Community Benefit
District (CBD), South Beach/
Rincon Hill/Mission Bay CBD,
East Cut CBD, Fisherman’s
Wharf CBD, and the Union
Square Business Improvement
District.
Between holiday shopping,
special events and the general
increase in visitors we see during
the holiday season, we want to
make sure everyone has a safe
and pleasant experience when
they’re enjoying San Francisco.
The Holiday Eco Blitz is part of
the Love Our City campaign,
which Mayor London Breed
launched in September 2018
with a citywide volunteer
cleanup with nearly 1,000
participants.
The campaign aims to create a
collective resolve where everyone
who lives and works in San
Francisco pitches in to care for
the City’s diverse neighborhoods.