A communication transmitted from Louis A. DePasquale, City Manager, relative to Awaiting Report Item Number 19-91, regarding a report on cleaning and maintaining Greene-Rose Heritage Park, Clement Morgan Park, Anthony Paolillo Park and Sennott Park

City of Cambridge Department of Public Works Owen O'Riordan, Commissioner 147 Hampshire Street Cambridge, MA 02139 theworks@cambridgema.gov Voice: [phone removed] TDD: [phone removed] September 11, 2019 To: Louis DePasquale City Manager From: Owen O’Riordan Commissioner, DPW Re: Awaiting Report 19-91 dated July 30th, 2019 regarding Public Works paying additional attention to Cleaning and Maintaining Greene-Rose Heritage Park. In response to the above referenced awaiting report please be advised that Public Works staff inspects all of the parks mentioned in the order on a daily basis. Specific to Greene-Rose Heritage Park, this park is maintained by both in-house employees and contracted services. On a weekly basis in-house crews sweep hard surfaces, pickup litter, and mow all the grass areas. Every other week planting beds are pruned weeded and litter is removed utilizing one of our park contractors. Over the last several weeks Public Works has been supplementing litter sweeps at Green Rose Heritage Park. These operations include litter pick-ups on a daily basis and such will continue throughout the Autumn until the park is given a full fall cleanup. We will re-evaluate operations at this location over the winter and make adjustments to schedules next Spring where necessary. For the other parks mentioned (Clement Morgan, Anthony Paolillo, and Sennott), the majority of the maintenance at these parks is being done through contract services. Supervisors have had discussions with our contractors to insure they are diligently adhering to contract specifications. In-house crews have also been deployed to do additional sweeps and cleanups of each of these parks. These locations will also be monitored through the remainder of the fall season to assure that they are kept in a clean and safe condition, and we will also re-evaluate the need for any additional services in these locations for next spring.