24 Hour Porta Potty CLEANING TEAM sought.

The city has moved in the right direction with last year's installation of a 24hour porta potty, but the cleaning schedule is far to few to offer those using it any basic level of dignity. While the city's two parking garage bathrooms get cleaned every 2 hours, this porta potty is cleaned only 3 days per week. If you think that it is a disgusting mess most of the time, you're correct.

All of the city's parking garage and park bathrooms are clean by the Department of Parks and Recreation and they have daily schedules for cleanings. Since the porta potty is owned by a private company, the city workers refuse to touch it. The porta potty company has only a cleaning schedule of 3 days per week maximum, leaving this unit dirty most of the time.
As the city begins to talk about increasing the hours of operation of the other city run bathrooms, this group of local residents believe that this porta potty needs to be cleaned more often. It is used mostly by people experiencing homelessness, attendees of Warrior basket ball games and those leaving bars after hours when all other facilities downtown are closed.
Since this is a 24 hour porta potty, it really should be cleaned at least daily.

We're building a team of at least 4 people to clean the porta potty on days when the service company doesn't. So far we have two people who've volunteered, including city council person Micah Posner and local homeless program administrator Brent Adams.

To join the team or to offer a donation for cleaning supplies, please contact Downtown Bathroom Task Force at 831-234-9848 or email compassionman [at] hotmail.com