Thank you for using SeeClickFix. I will forward your post with the Council and city staff.

Theo, all of those request you’re making exist it’s just a matter of Enforcement, both you and I know that. Now that the newly re-branded illegal dumping team response has been going on for a few months, I will follow up and see who has been cited, how many prosecutions & fines have been levied against violators. Wanted to give the program a chance for a few months, now we can see if there are any results. Not sure how quick I’ll get an answer from the city attorney or Officer Gomez but will research it and try to post here. If the issue doesn’t get archived too soon.

Dear Council and city staff:
Thank you for your response via your spokesperson Artsem.

Theo, Thanks Artsem, Council and staff are too busy doing dysfunctional work. Sorry if I'm wrong and wish I am, but Explain why with out lame excuses. When I see our laws enforced to the fullest I will beleive in the City Council.

I'm headed down to CSS tomorrow to talk about solutions to the "white bus", and I will ask for the stats on how many successful prosecutions iDeal Vallejo has had so far. That is if Officer Gomez will give me the information. Last time I asked it was a rather nebulous answer with no numbers, just potential cases in the pipeline. You are welcome to come down there with me and ask for yourself. Is that too lame of an excuse? Sorry but it's like trying to pull teeth...

Officer Gomez, what are the numbers here? Can you make an official statement here on this post?
Inquiring taxpayers would like to know......how is the program doing?
Have we seen a reduction of illegal dumping? Have we had a successful prosecution yet? I'll be asking you again tomorrow, please have some information, as I will be passing it along right here if you are not allowed to make a statement on SCF. Is there a post on the City Managers weekly report? Is there someplace else the information can be found?

I went to CSS this morning to talk about the white bus and iDeal Vallejo. So the registration on the bus is expiring or already expired. Christina and CSS have given about 9 citations to him at about $200 a pop. With all the fines unpaid he will most likely not be able to register it and then it can be towed and impounded. He has had more than 6 vehicles taken away by CSS over the years and his family gets another for him each time. With the codes the way they are it will be approximately March before CSS can tow & impound it. Christina is really doing everything within reason to remove the bus from our city.

ON DUMPING: I was also informed me that for the next six months every Tuesday a garbage truck will patrol the streets and when illegal dumping, shopping carts etc. are found the will immediately be thrown away. This is something new she is trying to curtail the piles of trash not reported here on SCF. They are also looking into the "shopping cart recovery" laws that requires stores to have a plan in place for stores to find and recover their carts. The current plan is not enforced and basically has no teeth.

SCF ANSWERS: And I also found out why we do not get "personalized" responses on issues. City staff are not allowed to make personalized comments and have been instructed to stick to the canned responses. She has gone out on a limb several times to add more information to some issues.

So I encourage anyone with more questions to go to CSS/Code Enforcement and speak with Christina or Officer Gomez, they are very receptive to questions, they just can't answer them here. But I can post what was discussed and anyone else can too. Always can find a "work-a-round" if we try.

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