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Dressed in bright purple uniforms, the CID Clean Team operates seven days a week. They remove graffiti, handbills, trash, debris and other foreign objects from the sidewalks, curbs, gutters, plazas and streets of downtown and other public areas throughout the District. The nine full-time “Clean Team” members provide broom and pan cleaning, sidewalk pressure washing and also operate two street/sidewalk sweeper machines.   In partnership with the St. Louis Cardinals and St. Patrick Center, the Clean Team is expanded to fifteen members from April through September. This expanded group, known as the “Green Team” recycles trash outside Busch Stadium during home games and supplements cleaning throughout the rest of the District during the peak spring/summer season.

Litter Patrol Hotline

The CID's 24 hour litter hotline assures prompt service and a clean downtown. The Hotline provides a means by which a downtown user can report litter problems in the downtown area twenty-four hours a day.

An individual simply calls the main number of the Downtown Partnership, 436-6500, and at the recording enters *400 (star, four, zero, zero). This prompts the Litter Patrol Hotline recording and the individual can leave a detailed message about the problem and its location.

The Litter Patrol Crew removes trash and other foreign objects from the curbs, gutters and plazas within the district seven days each week. The team checks the messages twice a day, seven days a week.

Graffiti Removal

The graffiti team removes graffiti, paper signs, handbills and other physical defacement visible from the sidewalk by painting, using chemical solvents and pressure washing.

Crewmembers patrol the downtown area from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., six days per week. All tags or defacements are normally removed within 24 hours. To report graffiti, simply call the Litter Patrol Hotline (see the above number).

Sidewalk Repair Program

Property owners within the boundaries of the Community Improvement District are eligible for financial assistance with public sidewalk repair adjacent to their properties.

The Sidewalk Repair Program provides each approved applicant up to 50% reimbursement of the total cost of repairing the sidewalk (with a maximum of $5,000 per property).

Any property owner or authorized agent of a Community Improvement District property can submit an application for this service. All approved participants will be reimbursed within 45 days of the completed application submital.

Each participant in the Sidewalk Repair Program must submit a completed application, on an original application form, obtained from the Downtown Saint Louis Partnership. Each application must be accompanied with the following items:

• Three (3) bids from three (3) different companies for the desired sidewalk repair(s) for each property
• A copy of all necessary permits, to perform desired repairs, from the City of St. Louis
• A copy of the invoice for the selected bid to perform desired sidewalk repairs
• Evidence that the desired sidewalk repairs have been done using materials consistent in color, content, and composition to other adjoining sidewalk areas. Assistance in determining this evidence can be obtained by contacting the Landscape Supervisor at 436-6500 x233.

A sidewalk repair application is available by clicking here.