San Jose City Council
November 15, 2022

BeautifySJ Neighborhood Blight Reduction
Annual Report
October 13, 2022
Neighborhood Services and Education Committee
Andrea Flores Shelton, Deputy Director
Olympia Williams, BeautifySJ Division Manager
Department of Parks, Recreation, & Neighborhood Services BeautifySJ Consolidation
Community Services Division
BeautifySJ Program
Neighborhood Blight
Reduction
Graffiti Removal
Program
Anti-Litter
Program
RAPID
Illegal Dumping
Program
Encampment
Management
Encampment
Trash Program
Cash for Trash
Program
Abatement
Program
2 BeautifySJ
GRANTS
Cycle 4 - 2022
• $352,000 awarded
• 84 neighborhood groups
• 429 activities
• Bonus points for groups in equity
priority communities
Cycle 5 – 2023
• Application now open
• $189,000 available
• Deadline – November 3, 2022
3 Accomplishments 2021-2022
• Responded to 27,000 graffiti incidents
• 11% increase in reported incidents from
previous year
• 4,000 volunteers donated 15,789 hours of
service
• 2,239 students engaged via BSJ education
program
4 Accomplishments
2021-2022
• 9.2 million pounds of trash were
collected across entire BSJ programs
• RAPID Team collected 4,550,000
pounds of trash and debris
• Dumpster Day Program increased
services by 300% since 19/20
• Strike Team proactively addressed
1,350 illegal dumping incidents
5 Key Partnerships • Caltrans
• Union Pacific Railroad
• Creek Partners
• Southbay Clean Creeks
Program
• Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful
• Trash Punx
• Jobs Training Program
• San Jose Conservation Corps
• Goodwill Industries of Silicon
Valley
6 Three Es Approach to addressing blight
Cities/Counties that use this
Approach:
• Alameda County
• Contra Costa County
• San Mateo County
• City of Los Angeles
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7 Education
• 1% of the BeautifySJ budget is directed
towards education
• $200,000K in ARP Funds for 22/23
• Two staff are assigned to engage with
youth
• Weakest part of the blight reduction
strategy
George Shirakawa
Elementary School
Hoffman/Via Monte
Spring Fling Event
National Night Out City of San José
ROCK Program
8 Eradication
• 99% of the budget is dedicated to
eradication
• Mastered the processes of picking up
trash and painting over graffiti
• An eradication only model will not
achieve the program outcome of a
cleaner city
9 Enforcement
• City has limited enforcement resources in Code and SJPD • Program has five cameras to record illegal dumpers
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• Code Enforcement issues citations for illegal dumping. Since October 2016,
• 579 Warning Notices have been sent to violators
• 195 citations have been issued
• 41% of all citations issued have received partial payment or have been paid in full
10 Better Blocks
with BeautifySJ
• Pilot the Three Es approach
in a neighborhood impacted
by blight
• Use collected data to develop
a multi-year strategy
• Inform long-term outcome
measures
• Assessing current data to
select a neighborhood
impacted blight for the pilot
project
11 Thank You!
• Mayor Sam Liccardo
• City Council
• City Attorney’s Office
• CMO – Budget Office
• PRNS - Parks Division
• DOT – Heavy Equipment
Team
• DOT - Vehicle Abatement
Program
• ESD - Watershed Protection
Team
• PBCE – Code Enforcement
• PW – Fleet Team
• San Jose Police Department
• Neighborhood
Associations
• Caltrans
• Guadalupe River Park
Conservancy-San Jose
Walls
• Keep Coyote Creek
Beautiful
• SJ Conservation Corps
• Southbay Clean Creeks
Coalition
• The Trash Punx
• Union Pacific Railroad
• Valley Water District
• BSJ Team!
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