Team Showcase: Team Showcase Champion
Region 6: Team Clean
City of Miami Beach
Miami Beach, FL
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| Region Six Team Clean City of Miami Beach Miami Beach |
Team Clean, City of Miami Beach
The City of Miami Beach is a dynamic, trend-setting arts and entertainment Mecca, recognized worldwide as a tourist destination. The City of Miami Beach continuously strives to provide our residents and visitors a better place to live, work, and play. Team Clean was assigned to make the City of Miami Beach cleaner, and “Public Area Cleanliness Index and Assessment program” was created as part of the City of Miami Beach’s 2005 strategic planning process as well as through input from our residents and businesses. Team Clean is representative of how the City works at its best—as an interdepartmental team represented by the City Manager’s Office, Public Works (Sanitation), Parking, Parks and Recreation, Neighborhood Services (Code Compliance), and Office of Budget and Performance Improvement.
The Public Area Cleanliness Index and Assessment program provides a method for the City of Miami Beach to improve the cleanliness of its public areas by objectively identifying underperforming locations, times of day, week, etc. The index is based on a scale from 1 – Extremely Clean to 6 – Extremely Dirty. Cleanliness assessments are conducted by employees from all departments citywide that are not involved in the cleanliness functions of the City and are based on four factors: litter/trash, organic material, fecal matter, and garbage cans/dumpsters. The public areas assessed are streets, sidewalks, alleys, parks, surface parking lots, waterways, and beaches. A statistically valid sample of each area is collected every quarter when assessments are conducted. At the end of each quarter, stakeholder departments review the data obtained for that quarter in order to identify potential root causes and possible solutions.
Root causes identified include lack of late night coverage, infrequent cleaning, garbage around dumpsters, and flyers from the entertainment industry. As a result, action plans have been developed and implemented, including additional resources to increase the night coverage, reorganization of cleaning crews, greater code enforcement in the alleys, and the creation of a handbill ordinance. Since the program’s inception, there has been a 17.1% overall improvement in the cleanliness scores of all the public areas, as well as an increased awareness of cleanliness as a priority for the city and especially for the stakeholder departments involved in this function.Counties in Region 6: Broward, Dade, Monroe, Palm Beach