Potty predicament
I just got a message from David Ross, one of the guys working on a project to get more public restrooms for downtown’s homeless population. He said that the city’s placed a notice of violation on the two portable toilets that were anonymously donated and placed near the Neil Good Day Center on 17th Street. The notice says that the toilets must be removed within 48 hours or they’ll be impounded.
The toilets—along with two others at 15th and Island—are cleaned daily by United Site Services and Ross stocks them with toilet paper. I wrote about the toilets last week; they were installed with the understanding that if Ross and his cohorts paid for a two-month pilot project, and that project was successful, the city would pick up funding ($1,500 per year, per toilet). The toilets have been there for almost six months and have taken in more than 17.5 tons of human waste. Ross’ group is still paying for them. The city currently pays for 24-hour restrooms at the Civic Center and near the Gaslamp trolley station—at a cost of roughly $180,500 a year.
It’s a grest way to put money in political pockets! Rake off I mean!
Do you realy think it sosts $180,500 a year to make a couple of rest rooms available as stated in this article?
I guess the politicians don’t have any cronies in the “potty” business they could get a kickback from!