Mayor's Fall Cleanup is October 27!

Wednesday Sep 19th, 2012

Green banner with DPW logo and text "Department of Public Works Press Release"

Public Works Director Alfred H. Foxx
announced today that Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s 2012 Fall Cleanup
will take place Saturday, October 27, 2012 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The
Mayor will announce the winners of this year’s inaugural Clean Community Competition!
Seventy one communities are competing to win $24,000 in prizes. Four
first place communities will win $5,000. Second place communities will
win $1,000 (for a total of eight winners, two from each City quadrant).

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