It started as the dream of one – and now many – activists, and now it’s a top Jerusalem priority.
As Mayor Moshe Lion rounds up his first year in office and plans his second, we see that making Jerusalem clean covers 3 of his top 5 priorities. More importantly, it also means that a significant amount of municipal resources – hundreds of millions of shekels, will be invested toward this goal. According to this article, published in Jerusalem’s Kol Ha’ir local newspaper, top priorities include:
- Increasing garbage collection on Saturday nights, both to be in-line with heightened usage on Saturdays, and to have 100 fewer garbage trucks on the roads on Sunday mornings, causing traffic congestion.
- Addition of 600 more sanitation workers
- Addition of 1,000 underground garbage receptacles, which are cleaner, take up less space, and hold more than the traditional above-ground kind.
Kol Ha’Ir article on the mayor’s 2019 – 2020 work plan
Kol Hakavod – congratulations to all the neighborhood activists throughout Jerusalem who helped this come about! Kol Hakavod to Municipal officials, professionals and city council members, who are our full partners in helping make Jerusalem a clean city.
Many thanks to the Rayne Foundation and the Jerusalem Foundation for their support for this program.
