SANITATION
Sanitation is rightfully a top concern of constituents, and Julie has made it a top priority since taking office and has delivered significant victories:
- Providing funding for litter basket pickups to the highest level they have ever been in Manhattan Community Board 8, with pickups up to 4x a day
- Creating a new composting site at Asphalt Green to meet the high community demand for composting
- Installing midblock trash cans on East 86th Street, after the community had attempted to do so for 10 years in order to curb trash accumulation in this highly trafficked commercial corridor
- Creating and funding a rat mitigation program to exterminate rat burrows
- Allocating funds to purchase new top-of-the-line rodent-resistant baskets
- Sponsoring a contest to create new signs reminding dog owners to curb and clean up after their dogs on the street.
- Collaborating with the Department of Sanitation to bring over 20 state-of-the-art “Smart” composting bins to the 5th Council District
Julie will continue her advocacy for the containerization of waste, the expansion of composting, and high rates of litter basket service for our District.