Prior to the City’s new exclusive franchise agreement with Athens beginning on July 1, 2023, Athens provided the City’s street sweeping services.  As you know, not all City streets are properly signed to notify residents of the day and time their street is scheduled to be swept. 

With the beginning of the new exclusive franchise agreement last year, it was the Mayor and Council’s direction that every street in the City be properly signed to provide for cleaner streets and community. Previously, residents would have to initiate a petition process for the City to consider installing street sweeping signs on their particular street. Now, residents will no longer have to submit a petition. To that end, Athens agreed to provide funds to the City to purchase the necessary amount of signs and posts so that every street will be signed.  

City Staff and Athens have been working together over the last few months on a strategy to provide an improved street sweeping program on every street. Preliminary street sweeping routes have been identified for every neighborhood and street in the City, and over the last two weeks (April 1-April 12), Athens conducted a test run of the new, preliminary street sweeping routes to identify inefficiencies and to make sure every street could be swept within the proposed date/time window.  The community was notified of this test run via the City’s social media platform.  During this test run, your normal street sweeping may have been affected.

The test run was completed, and as of Monday, April 15, your normal schedule for street sweeping has resumed.  Enforcement of no parking on street sweeping days is back in full effect.

Now, City Staff and Athens are working on pinpointing the total number of new signs and posts that will be needed for all of the streets Citywide.  As we move closer to the implementation of the improved street sweeping program later this year, plenty of information will be provided in advance to the residents through various means (i.e. bill inserts, social media, robocalls, etc.). 

To learn more about Athens services in the City of Pomona, visit: https://athensservices.com/pomona/