NBC Bay Area–

Mayor Mark Farrell, just three months into his tenure, is unveiling a $12.8 million plan to clean up the streets and sidewalks of San Francisco.

“Last year, I stepped on a needle on my way back to city hall,” he told the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit in an exclusive interview. “I went back and made sure it didn’t pierce through my shoe and it didn’t…I’m sick and tired – as I believe residents of San Francisco are.”

Farrell wants to boost San Francisco’s street cleaning crew by nearly 20 percent to reduce the amount of trash, feces, and needles littering the city.  The additional 44 workers, four for each of the city’s 11 Supervisorial districts, would be assigned to the highest need areas based on the advice and feedback Supervisors provide to the Public Works department.

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