City officials say they want to overhaul how L.A. cleans up trash and filth surrounding homeless encampments, taking cues from a Services Not Sweeps coalition.
Zaldivar estimated that 80% of the tonnage they clean up comes from illegal dumping — much of it from scofflaw businesses — rather than homeless encampments.
Sanitation officials are also asking to allocate roughly $4 million to fund overtime for existing crews in the first few months of the fiscal year. Instead, Garcetti said, regionally assigned teams will drive regular routes each day, checking on trouble spots, and get to know people in each neighborhood. City officials said that although 311 complaints would still be a factor, cleanups would be proactively scheduled to ensure more predictable and consistent service.
It is unclear whether police officers will still be on the cleanup teams, a major concern for those activists; Garcetti spokesman Alex Comisar said Tuesday that they are “still working through the details of LAPD involvement.” Many activists were also concerned about the city enforcing rules that limit how much personal property can be kept on the street.
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