San Francisco voters favor separate department to clean up dirty streets

by Daniel Montes, Bay City News November 5, 2020November 5, 2020

With passage of Proposition B on Tuesday, San Francisco voters have said they want a new sanitation department to handle everything from cleaning sidewalks to maintaining city buildings and public restrooms. (Photo by Fred Sharples/Flickr)

Preliminary numbers Wednesday showed most San Francisco voters appear to have approved Proposition B, which would create a new Department of Sanitation and Streets — separate from the city’s Department of Public Works.

With all precincts reporting, 60.9% percent of voters approved the measure, which needed just a simple majority to pass.

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