Not surprisingly, homelessness and crime rates are prevalent in Democratic cities across the country, including San Francisco, The criminal was caught openly in the video theft From the pharmacy at noon, other customers and even security personnel can clearly see it in some cases.
In some cases, violent crimes reported to the police found Committed by a homeless person.
The city has become so bad that a Recent polls It shows that nearly 40% of San Francisco residents plan to relocate in the near future out of frustration.
With all this in mind, you would think that the city will solve these two problems by proposing creative ways to make good use of its resources. Most concerned To its residents.
Unfortunately, this is not the case.According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the city Ready Spend 300,000 US dollars to buy exquisite prototype trash cans (15 of which are up to 20,000 US dollars each), because people are not cold about the existing green trash cans:
San Francisco has long wanted to replace its green trash cans that are commonly seen on the sidewalks of the city. On Wednesday, a supervisory committee was informed that the cost of each new prototype was between $12,000 and $20,000.
“A can of 20,000 dollars is ridiculous,” Supervisor Matt Haney said.
Despite the high price, Hani agreed on Wednesday to work with other committee members to submit a proposal to design a prototype of 15 trash cans for the pilot project to the entire board of directors for a vote next Tuesday. Hani said he agreed “reluctantly” because he did not want to further delay the replacement of the old trash can because the Ministry of Public Works had been working on the new prototype for three years.
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The city will pay for the prototype from the reserved budget funds, but any new mass production tanks will be paid at the garbage rate.
According to others, these cans are designed to encourage recycling, prevent people from digging them and leaving their mess on the sidewalk, and include sensors that are said to alert the city when they are almost full. Local report.
This is canned food, city and The “Industrial Designer of the Creative Integration Institute (ICI)” proposed that it looks like:
San Francisco is considering adding new trash cans to solve the garbage problem. Each trash can will cost up to $20,000 https://t.co/Pir0Cpygh7
— ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) July 22, 2021
Once the “winner” of the trash can prototype is determined (in January 2022 or sometime after), the city will spend between US$2,000 and US$4,000 per can for mass production:
Very excited, the BOS budget committee unanimously recommended that funds be released to cover the cost of SF’s next-generation trash can! These will help keep our city clean! https://t.co/4PSJMD7lBx There are more than 3,000 cans on the street, and the new design will cost US$2,000-4,000 each.
-SF Public Works (@sfpublicworks) July 22, 2021
According to the Chronicle, the mass-produced green cans sell for approximately US$1,800.
To be fair, the city will expenditure The homelessness crisis will spend $1.1 billion in the next two years, but the scene on the trash can is really bad. Frankly speaking, if San Francisco’s priorities were really organized, it could have been avoided. Because when people are starving and sleeping on the street, it is not a good idea to invest a large amount of “reserve” funds into the equivalent of a vanity trash can.
Related to this is how it does it Three years Come up with a trash can design? idea?
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