Toilet our staff is cleaning the blocks were a whole component and i hear the presence of that person in having additional people out there has really been a addressed bonus of the Promissory Note Program thank you for bringing this to the board of supervisors its been long overdue and look forward to moving this along in the community we have structural changes weve been cleaning for 10 years and now time to take 9 next steps and look at the structural issues and providing things that are needed we have services in the tenderloin it is something about Human Dignity so thank you, again. Thank you, ms. Grant and thank you supervisor mar i have a number of speakers that i want to call up for Public Comment so im going to call up the first 10 speaker cards calling names . Good morning members find board and supervisors my name is jordan louis a Small Business owner in the selma area fulsome street foundry i was alerted to this program 55 supervisor kims office and it sounds very exciting
Collection from the staff on site you actually dumping the needles we have well over 2 thousand needs the average use is one hundred and 70 since the beginning of the pilot it escalates every month and from dpw prospective. Can i say one thing for 7 hours per day sits one hundred and 67 uses per toilet thats really heavy use it sounds like. It is heavy use we have the folks the rule is 5 minutes you get a courtesy knock thats also enough and each unit has two toilets theres not like a line forming or anything like that people can come up and use it we yeah, over 15 thousand uses thats a lot of off the street works on both fronts as far as dpws initial concern with the streaming requests as you can see the before this intervention before our various you ways we were averaging 27 citizen requests from the tenderloin on every business day now were down to 15 thats an overall average in october we averaged 11 so as you can see here on the chapter on the right this is meant you know good st
Benefits of the program we found to be more than just oh, okay. We found to be more than just the judge a safe place to use the toilet its great for extended on the other hand, expended Public Safety and the sidewalks are more sanitary and our requests are down and provided a place for syringe disposal and doggy bags the amount of requests if the neighborhood were tremendous you know disease and feces on the sidewalk theres been an outbreak of diseases and intervention is effective why . Because we were looking at the data at the department of public works and the most previous we saw escalating place where its accounting for 55 percent of the citys requests as we started to see it rising up we tried to hold overnight staff and bring in early daytime staff so see if we started out with a clean sidewalks that would reduce the need for service but we had more need so we started to do analysis of the street outreach to the community and talking abouty visiting old plan and talking to the
We started out with a clean sidewalks that would reduce the need for service but we had more need so we started to do analysis of the street outreach to the community and talking abouty visiting old plan and talking to the benefit district and the clean city people at st. Anthonys have been thinking about this issue for a longshoreman we found ultimately the portable toilets one that had a little bit of water you can wash our hands and look like an airport bathroom but thats not the factor it was on site choices those are based on the analysis of what we are getting calls from and nosing feces and urine on the street people can see them tuesday through fridays and alice street and golden gate at jones and hide street and turk this is as you can see the backside of the unit here as you can see theres also you know composing and rerecycling i cant emphasis in view of what it means to have Strong Community partners and sanitation storage is a tremendous partner they move the units in and