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Effectiveness and modernization of street sweeping equipment
1:28:25
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Council Member Banks questions the effectiveness of current street cleaning measures, suggesting that trash is often just moved around rather than removed. He inquires about investments in modernized or alternative street sweeping equipment.
- Commissioner Lojan mentions exploration of new equipment, including a three-arm mechanical broom.
- The discussion touches on issues with older equipment and the importance of using water for effective sweeping.
- Lojan states that while they find the current fleet effective, they are always exploring new ways to improve.
Chris Banks
1:28:25
If you may allow me.
1:28:27
Thank you.
1:28:28
When it comes to the street cleaners, some agree that the current street cleaning measures aren't effective as they believe that trash is usually moved from one side of the block to the other.
1:28:44
Has there been any investment or exploration into modern modernized or alternative street sweeping equipment?
Javier Lojan
1:28:53
You mean as far as the current equipment we have of
Chris Banks
1:28:55
The street sweepers that you currently have, are saying that they're not cleaning the streets.
1:29:01
And I know folks say, they may be relegated just because cars are not being removed.
1:29:07
Right.
1:29:07
But when they are, you know, when the cars are removed from the streets and the sweepers do come down, I've seen it many a times, the trucks or the sweepers, they're not adequate.
1:29:20
They're they're just throwing trash down to the corner or they're being moved to the other side of the street.
1:29:27
Are you exploring any other is the exploration into into modernized or alternative street sweeping equipment that can effectively keep the streets clean.
Javier Lojan
1:29:39
I understand.
1:29:40
So we have explored other types of equipment.
1:29:44
One of the street sweepers that we've looked into is a three arm mechanical broom, which has a it's two segments on the side and has one on the front.
1:29:54
But to your point about it going down the block and not sweeping, I think part of the issue that we had, which I think we're getting through is some of the older equipment that wasn't relinquished and cycled out.
1:30:09
Sometimes we see those problems.
1:30:12
And we always tell our operators, you know, we have to use they have to use water.
1:30:15
Sometimes when it's a little too cold, they can't use water and that loses the effectiveness on the sweeping.
1:30:21
But you know, I think right now the fleet of sweepers that we have we find to be effective, but we're always exploring new ways.
Chris Banks
1:30:28
Okay, thank you.