Cleaning the Neighborhood
From Edgewater 2020
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Category Administration
(How are we defining this category/section? What is included and what is NOT included?)
Chair: Allen Stryczek <astryczek@sbcglobal.net>
CONSULTED PARTICIPANTS
- Rae Ann Cecrle, SSA #26 President, and Business Owners
- Bill Curtin, Loyola University, Director of Environmental Services
- Jay Delaney, Edgewater Chamber of Commerce President Executive Director
- Marshall Eames, Loyola University, Enironmental Plan Implementation
- Pat Heneghan, 40th Ward Streets and Sanitation Supervisor
- Ellen Shepherd, Andersonville Chamber of Commerce Executive Director, and SSA #22
- Conrad Suerth, 48th Ward Streets and Sanitation Supervisor
Current Cleaning Contacts List as of May, 2009
Cleaning the Neighborhood will continue the historic mission of the Edgewater Community Council / Edgewater Beautiful Committee to encourage practical community beautification efforts through sound practices.
This topic will involve all of those activities necessary to keep Edgewater clean, and recruiting the necessary community participation and resources to accomplish it, and will:
a) Work with Streets and Sanitation to sponsor and actively recruit for their Clean & Green Spring and Fall events.
b) Work with the various block clubs to support and encourage their local cleanup efforts
c) Work with the Chambers of Commerce, the Development Corporations, and the Special Services Areas (SSAs) in their efforts to clean the commercial districts.
d) Work with neighborhood Institutions (Loyola University, Senn High School, etc.) in their efforts to help clean the area immediately around them.
Metric: Periodic surveys will be conducted to assess the appearance and condition of the Edgewater Community.
Definition
(How are we defining this category/section? What is included and what is NOT included?)
Metrics
(What are the key measures that are relevant to this category? What ‘needles’ are we trying to ‘move’?)
Assumptions
(What, if any, criteria are fixed/unchangeable or independent from this analysis?)
Current State
(Where do we currently stand in this category/section, in terms of the key defining metrics?) “CLEANING” SECTION FOR THE EDGEWATER ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN
Scope: Cleaning the Neighborhood will continue the historic mission of the Edgewater Community Council / Edgewater Beautiful Committee to encourage practical community beautification efforts through sound practices. This topic will involve all of those activities necessary to keep Edgewater clean, including the recruitment of the necessary community participation and resources to accomplish it. We work with Streets and Sanitation to sponsor and actively recruit for their Clean & Green Spring and Fall events. We also work with the various block clubs to support and encourage their local cleanup efforts. We encourage the Chambers of Commerce, the Development Corporations, and the Special Services Areas (SSAs) in their efforts to clean the commercial districts.
“CLEANING” SECTION FOR THE EDGEWATER ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN
Initial working draft of Monday, December 8, 2008
Where we are now (A partial list of items to consider): 1. 40th and 48th Ward Streets and Sanitation pick up refuse (in black cars) for the 1 to 4 unit buildings on a weekly basis. 2. Streets and San picks up blue cart recyclables on a bi-weekly basis. 3. Streets and San picks up yard waste recyclables on a weekly or bi-weekly basis depending on the time of year. (Needs clarification.) 4. 40th Ward Streets and San cleans each street once every …. Weeks. (Are some major commercial streets cleaned more frequently?) 5. 48th Ward Streets and San cleans each street once every ….. Weeks. (Are some major commercial streets cleaned more frequently?) 6. How many garbage cans (and solar trash compactors) are there on the commercial streets? 7. How many garbage cans (and recycling bins) are there in the parks? 8. What does the city do for cleanup efforts in the parks? 9. The city’s department of Streets and Sanitation sponsor two “Clean and Green” days each year – once in the Spring and once in the Fall.
10. Private waste haulers schedules for residentatial and commercial refuse and recyclables pick-ups vary based on the specific agreement they have reached with the buildings that they serve.
11. SSA #26 (Broadway) – does cleanups .. days per week. 12. SSA # ?? (Clark Street / Andersonville?) – does cleanups … days per week. 13. The “Devon Green Team” cleans up Devon from Broadway to Clark once a week during the summer months on a volunteer basis. 14. What are individual businesses (Dominick’s, Walgreens, etc.) contracting for their individual cleanup efforts? 15. Concern: litter from fast food establishments. 16. Concern: litter from street festivals 17. Concern: plastic shopping bags – are unsightly when caught in the trees.
18. What does Loyola do for cleanups? 19. What do grammar and high schools do for cleanups? 20. Concern: litter from students
21. What cleanup efforts are made by the various block clubs? 22. Individual heroic efforts are not coordinated in any specific way.
23. 311 can be called to report abandoned autos, graffiti, etc. 48th Ward has prepared a brochure for citizen education and encouragement. 24. Litter reduction education? 25. Weeds in the alleys and on the sidewalks collect dirt and debris.
Available Data Review
(What baseline data do we have – or exists elsewhere that we can easily obtain – that can help us create a baseline assessment of where we currently stand?) Fast Food Cleaning Plans - April-May 2009
Additional Data Needs
(What additional data is needed and how will we be able to address them, e.g., through the Loyola student projects?)
Future State
(What is our Vision for this category/section? What are our specific goals in terms of key metrics defined above? What implications & benefits will there be at an individual, business, and governmental level?) Partial List of Edgewater Parking Lots as of April-May 2009
Ideal
(What are the key measures that are relevant to this category? What ‘needles’ are we trying to ‘move’?)
Minimum / First Steps
(What, if any, criteria are fixed/unchangeable or independent from this analysis?)
Gaps
(Given available data & analysis, how far apart are key the elements (metrics) of our Current & Future States?)
Resources
(What kind of resources – time, money, people, agreements/support/relationships – are needed to address each of the gaps described above?)
Priorities
(Given the potential impact & benefit and the related costs (resources) required, in what order should we attempt to address/resolve the gaps?)
Implementation Plan
(What are the first/next steps required to address the priority gap areas, secure the required resources, etc.? How will the implementation of priorities in this area be balanced against those of others?)
