{"id":10687,"date":"2021-06-16T15:24:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T22:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=10687"},"modified":"2021-06-16T15:27:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T22:27:51","slug":"clean-city-program-reports-first-quarter-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/clean-city-program-reports-first-quarter-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean City Program Reports First Quarter Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Abating\/cleaning nearly 1,100 incidents of graffiti, clearing nearly 30 tons of garbage and removing more than 300 grocery carts are some of the activities provided by the City of Yakima Clean City Program during the first three months of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Yakima City Council received a report on the program in its agenda packet for the June 15<sup>th<\/sup> meeting. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/yakima.novusagenda.com\/agendapublic\/CoverSheet.aspx?ItemID=8597&amp;MeetingID=880\">Coversheet (novusagenda.com)<\/a> for the report, which covers Clean City activities for the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The City of Yakima developed \u201cClean City\u201d as a program in 2019. Its main objectives are: &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Address visual blight (trash, graffiti, dangerous building, abandoned vehicles, etc.)<\/li><li>Address unscheduled collection of waste and litter from the City\u2019s public areas\/thoroughfares<\/li><li>Expedite the clean-up of such illegal dumps<\/li><li>Clean up homeless encampments<\/li><li>Support Yakima Police Department officers in unlawful camping enforcement<\/li><li>Provide coordination with neighborhoods for annual clean-up events<\/li><li>Create educational components<\/li><li>Engage with community partners and volunteers<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Clean City, under the direction of the City\u2019s Public Works Division, coordinates the efforts of several City departments and community partners. They include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>City of Yakima Public Works:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Public Works Administration<\/li><li>Refuse Division<\/li><li>Streets &amp; Traffic Division<\/li><li>Parks &amp; Recreation Division<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>City of Yakima Codes Division<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>City of Yakima Legal Department<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Yakima Police Department<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sunrise Outreach<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/public-works\/\">https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/public-works\/<\/a> for more about the City of Yakima Public Works Division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Clean-City-Program-Q1-2021-News-Release.pdf\">Clean-City-Program-Q1-2021-News-Release<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Clean-City-Program-Q1-2021-News-Release.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abating\/cleaning nearly 1,100 incidents of graffiti, clearing nearly 30 tons of garbage and removing more than 300 grocery carts are some of the activities provided by the City of Yakima Clean City Program during the first three months of 2021. The Yakima City Council received a report on the program in its agenda packet for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10687"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10692,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10687\/revisions\/10692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}