Report on Clean Seattle Initiative
Cleanup: Broadway
Date of Cleanup: October 14, 2006 On Saturday, October 14, 2006, Mayor Greg Nickels led
more than two hundred (200) volunteers as they cleaned Broadway from
Union to Roy streets. The Mayor, members of the Action Agenda team, the
Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce, Seattle Works, and a large contingent
of community volunteers removed graffiti, removed posters from utility
poles, washed down sidewalks, weeded, spread gravel, spread mulch, swept,
and picked up litter.
City Council member Sally Clark, Michael Killoren, Office of Arts and
Cultural Affairs Director, Amani Ellen Loutfy, interim Director, Capitol
Hill Chamber; Michael Wells, Co-Chair, Broadway Economic Vitality Action
Team and Chair of the Working Board, Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce;
Suzi Morris, Schnitzer Northwest, developer of Brix condominiums (event
host), and members of Broadway EV Action Team helped to make the clean
up event a big success.
The Department of Neighborhoods,
Seattle City Light, Seattle Parks and Recreation, Seattle Department
of Transportation, Seattle Police Department, the Department of Corrections
(clearing blackberry bushes), King County Juvenile work teams and Seattle
Public Utilities also assisted in the effort. SPU Division Director
Lisa Espinosa also participated.
The Office Arts and Cultural Affairs provided 4 hours
of music for the community members and volunteers to enjoy as they worked.
Many volunteers personally went up to the musicians at both ends of Broadway
thanking them for making the work go faster by providing them something
to listen to while they worked.
Cleanup Activities:
- 67 street lights repaired
- Picked up more than 50 lbs of litter
- Collected 8600 lbs. debris
- Private property graffiti cleanups by community -- 500 square feet painted
over
- Public property graffiti cleanups -- 100 graffiti tags removed
- Cleaned and pressure washed 30 bus shelters
- Planted 3 new Ash trees on Broadway
- Cleaning crews swept 6 lane miles of streets and patched one empty tree
pit with asphalt
- Urban Forestry set up a traffic control zone next to SCCC and kept
SCCC volunteers safe as they raked and trimmed the median
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