On behalf of the City of Santa Ana Public Works Agency and the men and women of the Water Resources Division, thank you for allowing us to serve you.
Clean City and the Quality of Life
After a pivotal 2021, Santa Ana’s Public Works Agency is now engaged in a historic initiative to enhance and sustain a high quality of life for our community.
While continuing to provide essential services and maintain our infrastructure and delivery systems, we have reignited Clean City Santa Ana. City Manager Kristine Ridge and I are both committed to its goal of beautifying streets, green spaces and public areas for generations to come.
Supported in part by funds from the American Rescue Plan, this can be a true partnership with residents and businesses to create a safer, healthier and more beautiful environment for our residents, workers and visitors.
To encourage this partnership, we launched our annual Santa Ana Neighborhood Block Transformation Contest (NBTC) last year to recognize and reward residents who make aesthetic improvements to parkways and properties.
Contracts and Capital Improvement Projects
We also initiated and renewed several important contracts that support Clean City Santa Ana. The most significant one is the 10-year solid waste contract with Republic Services, which extends beyond trash collection to include sidewalk and alley cleaning using a more environmentally friendly approach. Our renewed graffiti contract has increased the number of technicians available and has already reduced response time to a 24-hour turnaround.
The new Focus Media Group (FMG) contract for bus shelter maintenance will mean our shelters are now cleaned three to five days each week and will be repainted by year’s end.
We have contracted Outfront to study City-owned lots along Interstate 5 and the 55 and 22 Freeways for the best location to install a digital billboard. Once a site is identified, Outfront will construct the billboard and share 40 percent of all advertising revenue, which will go directly to maintaining public spaces citywide.
I am also excited to report that fleet, facilities and stores are now under the PWA umbrella, along with the maintenance and management of the Civic Center area, Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center, and Parks & Recreation’s 62 locations. I welcome and look forward to working with 30 new staff members from Parks & Recreation who now join us in maintaining the facilities, greenspace, irrigation systems, trees and future projects for these locations.
The 49 Capital Improvement Projects (CIPs) currently on our books at a value of $90 million, include replacing or upgrading water infrastructure, sewer and storm drains, as well as improvements to our parks, sidewalks, streets and parkways.
Clean City Santa Ana is designed as a collaborative initiative. We all deserve the highest quality of life. But we all have a role in achieving and maintaining it.
You will be learning more about this initiative and how you can get involved as we roll it out to the community. I look forward to working with you to make Clean City Santa Ana a lasting success.
Sincerely,
Nabil Saba P.E.
Executive Director
Public Works Agency