sings and receptacles i want to appreciate the work of the department of public works director mohammed nuru who has been really committed to this program and shepard it through the last couple of years there's a number of challenges we saw with public toilets and particularly in the downtown area and insuring the monitoring of its use as a bathroom the innovative program that has been implemented in the last 6 months as a pilot with 3, toilets in the tenderloin has been the subject of the hearing and the outcomes we want to hear from the department of public works the locations were selected based on the highest concentration of fooegz e feces in the right-of-way what makes this successful that the tenderloin pit stops are staffed so to make sure the bathrooms are kept safe and clean and secure we already know based on the pilot the average use of the locations average average double the eye when the program started the feedback our office has received from residents and tourist and workers there is a real need for clean and safe public restrooms this has provided people with a dig if i did

appreciate the members of the public that come out to speak today and waited, of course to dpw mohammed nuru and rachel gordon and sam dodge for working closely with our office and coming up with the concepts of how to make a potential toilet program to work when it was an issue that been going on since i was in office i appreciated dpw staff members sitting down in terms of how to provide this important need and provide a dedicated space for people to use the bathroom awhile hearing the concerns about other toilets that might not have worked with the community and ended up not being used for toilets in the neighborhood because of safety concerns 0 so the concept of their cleaned everyday and monitored and rolled 2340u9 everyday it came from the brainstorming of the staff at the staff of the department of public works we're excited to see the outcomes and wanted to call the hearing being a pilot program what we intended this to be our office is introducing a supplemental that comes and later hearing with the budget committee and our office is interested in expanding this program in the tende