In the Works - Community Newsletter In the Works April 2017 | Page 69

The Outreach and Enforcement
(OnE Team) ready to get to work
for the Mission Giant Sweep.
We’re on a Mission
Our Giant Sweep neighborhood
improvement campaign put the
spotlight on the Mission District,
where a multi-agency team spent
April building partnerships with
business and property owners and
working with them to correct code
violations, including grimy sidewalks
and tripping hazards. The Mission Giant Sweep campaign
focused on the heart of the
neighborhood’s commercial corridor
– Mission and Valencia streets
between 15th and 20th streets and
on 16th Street between Mission and
Guerrero Streets. Before the Mission,
the Giant Sweep campaign was in
Chinatown and the Excelsior.
The team also removed graffiti and
illegal postings from public furniture,
flushed the streets, steam-cleaned
public garbage cans, picked up illegal
dumping, such as cardboard boxes
and bags of household trash, checked
on the condition of street trees and
made sure that properties had proper
garbage service. Our Mission Giant Sweep
platoon consisted of staff from
the Department of Public Health,
Recology, the Public Works
Outreach and Enforcement (OnE)
Team and our bureaus of Street-use
and Mapping, Urban Forestry and
Street and Environmental Services,
which includes our street cleaners,
public and private graffiti units and
special projects. And to assure that
we were able to communicate with
everyone, we had bilingual staff on
hand speaking Spanish, Chinese and
Tagalog.
Our efforts were noticed by Mission
residents, who thanked the crews for
removing litter and graffiti.
Overall, the team reached out to 151
merchants and residents and sent 43
letters to property owners notifying
them of code violations.
The Giant Sweep team will return
to the same locations in May for the
first round of re-inspections.
April 2017 - San Francisco Public Works Newsletter