to do is pick up the phone and call and they -- either they come out with a truck or we can call recology and they come out and help us remove those hazards from our sidewalks. >> supervisor cohen: it sounds like you like the pit stop? >> absolutely. we are very excited about larry's proposed temper proof cans that are in design currently. >> thank you so much. >> thank you for the question. we work closely with dpw to coordinate services. treasure management is a huge deal. what is creating the problem is what is happening with the private collection of the cans that get out. they don't knowsly have to -- the private businesses don't pick them up until they reopen which could be a couple of days over the weekend. if they are not lost and it's not required to lock these cans they get rummaged through at the nighttime. there's digging for recyclables, digging for feed, sometimes regard receipts and it creates just a complete mess on these sidewalks. that's sucking up a lot of our resources. rehired the downtown streets team to start in the alleys because it was sucking our resources from d

italian american, both my parents immigrated from italy and i'm also a second generation employee for recology here with sunset scavenger. the first 17 years of my career with suns sunset scavenger was working the routes in san francisco. in the 90s i came into management and served in various xmcapacities d the last 7 years as the community government relations manager. my time gave me a lot of experience in labor, in working with labor and that is one of the most exciting things i think about serving on treasure island as a commissioner there is for me to see the building that's going on in the island, that will be going on and the opportunities there are for job training and job placement. i've been a short time commissioner and had have not had a lot of experience on the commission so far. some of the items we have dealt with in any short time there included approving the arts, $50 million arts and improving the marina. thank you. >> commissioner safai: thank you, commissioner. any questions for him? seeing none any members of the public wish to comment on this item, please forward of seei

is through march and we project this to be well above 90,000 tons between both public works and recology. the blue is public works where we are still picking up waste and material. we are working with our partner on this. that's part of the garage rate process. needles. there's been a lot of talk about the increased needles on the streets. there's been a lot of reports on the topic. this data shows that we are getting an increa increase in our over all need request. this data requests the number of requests we are seeing at public works for needles. you can see, again, in fiscal year '18 again through february we are already over 5,000 service orders and requests that we've gotten last year to put it in some context we were at 4,300. we are going to come close to nearly doubling what we saw in fiscal year '17. hot spot crews. in some ways how we decided to respond hot spot crews are a proactive crew of street cleaners that go out there and try to address and identify issues in advance and try to make things clean in a more proactive manner. the number is consistent with what we've shown