All participants are invited to an outdoor celebration rally in the Manchester Center parking lot, on the corner of Blackstone and Shields, from 11:30 a.m. The event is open to participants of all ages and will take place between 8:00 a.m. Locations can include parks, streets, school campuses, waterways, or even empty lots and must be registered in advance. Volunteers are encouraged to choose a location that is important to them. “The Mayor’s Citywide Community CleanUP Day brings together non-profits, service clubs, schools, churches and businesses, who along with individual city residents, ensure the momentum to improve Fresno’s curb appeal continues.”īeautify Fresno will provide supplies for all registered cleanup areas, including paper pickers, trash bags, and gloves, and will arrange pick up for all trash collected at their registered site. I want to not only keep this going, but to grow it,” said Mayor Dyer. “My Beautify Fresno initiative is already showing results, not just in the amount of trash hauled away and in the city’s improved appearance, but most importantly with the number of residents who are showing up weekly to volunteer their time. The event will clean up the neighborhoods around Butler and Chestnut Avenues. Southeast Fresno – co-hosted by Every Neighborhood Partnership The event will clean up the Blackstone Corridor between Shields and Ashlan Avenues.Ĥ. Central Fresno – co-hosted by Fresno Metro Ministry, the Better Blackstone Association, and the Fresno Community Health Improvement Partnership The event will clean up the Ashlan Corridor between Highway 99 and Polk Avenue.ģ. West Fresno – co-hosted by Refinery West Church The event will clean up the area around City Hall and Community Regional MedicalĬenter bordered by N Street to U Street and Tulare to Divisadero/Stanislaus StreetĢ. Downtown Fresno – co-hosted by the Downtown Fresno Partnership Participants are encouraged to choose their own area within the city limits to clean or select from our list of four cleanup hub sites.ġ. They say they'll also be purchasing additional cameras to place in problem areas where illegal dumping is occurring.Mayor Jerry Dyer today announced that registrations are now open for the Mayor’s Citywide Community CleanUP Day, a special event that invites individuals as well as non-profits, service clubs, schools, churches, businesses and individuals to serve the community on Saturday, August 14, by picking up litter from yards, parks, streets, alleys, riverfronts and other public areas. The city says the best way to report illegal dumping is on their FresGO mobile app. Rudd agrees, and says they'll reassess the operation cleanup program, and may even have to completely revamp it for next year. "I don't know, the city need to do something about this problem because it's a big, big problem." "There's tires, (dead) animals, it smells bad," said Perez. He and his wife stopped going on walks because of what they had to look at and smell. Back towards Blythe, Narciso Perez says he had to explain to the children of his daycare what they're looking at. One homeowner on Brawley Avenue has even started taking pictures of and confronting illegal dumpers that have left this mess near his house. ![]() "They come and clean up somebody's home, and rather than going out to the landfill and dumping the material, they will just dump it in an alleyway, or unfortunately in this case, just add it to the debris that's part of Operation Clean Up." ![]() "Some even are for hire, they're not licensed," said Rudd. But this year, people are abusing it, to the detriment of neighborhoods, dumping anything and everything, even if they're not from around the neighborhood. Rudd says in its more than ten years of existence, the Operation Clean Up program, which once a year, allows residents to dump items their garbage service won't take, has been successful. ![]() "It looked bad, it looked like a city dump out there, that's what it looked like," Smith said. Until it was cleaned up on Tuesday, he says the entrance to his neighborhood on Blythe Avenue looked like a jungle, littered with all kinds of trash. Most of his neighbors have similar small piles of trash on the street in front of their homes. (KFSN) - The city of Fresno says their Operation Clean Up program isn't working the way it was designed to, as major streets and thoroughfares are becoming clogged with debris.Ĭity Manager Bruce Rudd says they'll have to go back to the drawing board to come up with a more effective program that doesn't negatively affect whole neighborhoods.įor the very first time, West Central Fresno resident James Smith is dumping trash, which the city will come and collect any day now-as part of the program.
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