Shopping Cart Abandonment Team Kim Corbin Property Maintenance Department Jennifer Herman Assistant City Attorney Gene Prevatt Sanitation Bureau Chief Jonas Subar SCMPD Management Analyst ID: 670070
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2017 Proposed Shopping Cart Controls OrdinanceSlide2
Shopping Cart Abandonment TeamKim Corbin- Property Maintenance DepartmentJennifer Herman- Assistant City Attorney
Gene Prevatt- Sanitation Bureau ChiefJonas Subar- SCMPD Management AnalystMargaret
Williams- City Manager’s OfficeSCpl Tracy Walden, SCMPD2Slide3
Shopping carts that accumulate outside the property of the business providing the carts cause a nuisance condition to City residents and City departments when the carts end up in neighborhoods, canals and ditches and on City right-of-ways.
The Issue
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Georgia Law - code O.C.G.A. § 16-8-21“makes it a misdemeanor for any person to remove a shopping cart from the premises of the legal owner without permission and to abandon a shopping cart upon any public street, sidewalk, right of way, or parking lot other than a parking lot on the premises of the owner
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2013 Field Study - 1,056 Carts
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2016 - 2017- City received 545 calls to 311 to remove abandoned carts
Estimated annual cost for Sanitation Crew to recover carts $173, 943
Personnel
$
120,445.50 –
operator
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one senior
and o
ne sanitation worker
Vehicle $53,498
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operation/maintenance i.e. depreciation
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fuel
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etc
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Recommendation Proposed City Shopping Cart Ordinance
Sec
. 9 Chapter 2. Nuisances PurposeTo provide for the prompt retrieval of lost, stolen or abandoned shopping carts in order to eliminate blight and improve the image and appearance of the city. It
is the purpose of this ordinance to have the owners and operators of businesses providing shopping carts to use the means available to them to deter, prevent or mitigate the removal of shopping carts from their business premises. It is the further purpose of this ordinance to prevent the illegal removal of shopping carts from the business premises.
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All merchants with 10 are more carts must adhere to the following:Mandatory registration of all carts with a cart prevention and retrieval plan submitted annually to Revenue with
business license renewal. Plan must include:
Owner/store manager contact informationCart inventory Carts must be tagged with store log/identifier and owner information
Cart site containmentSpecific loss prevention measures such as wheel locks, dedicated staff to retrieve carts, etc.Specific retrieval planScheduled time/day of off premise cart pick
upMerchant Requirements
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GOAL9
Enact an ordinance that requires merchants to retrieve their abandoned shopping carts in a specified time period
Information campaign to remind citizens that it is a crime to remove carts from owners propertyWork with community partners to provide cart alternatives to seniors
… Preserve vibrant, livable, sustainable neighborhoods where Savannahians live with pride.
PLAN
Process
Code Enforcement notifies merchant about abandoned carts
Merchant has 72 hours to remove carts after contact
If City has to remove carts they will be disposed of and merchant charged Slide10
Enforcement & Penalties
The Shopping cart ordinance will be enforced by the City’s code enforcement department.
Failure
for any business to comply with the requirements of this ordinance shall result in a fine not to exceed $500.
The
business shall also be subject to costs incurred by the city in retrieving its shopping carts, as established yearly in the city's Revenue Ordinance
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RECOVERY FEES
Each cart $375
More than one cart : $375 plus $125 on each additional cart in same recovery effortSlide11
Questions? 11