Government Services & International Trade (GSIT)

Cities facing issues surrounding trash collection.

Residents are tired of garbage days being skipped as trash has lined their streets. Waste management plan for community is rolled out.

Problems with trash pickup service where residents go a week, or a week and a half without trash pickup. No one returns calls when one inquires. No refunds.

Failure to properly regulate nursing homes, considered an overhaul of its inspection program that advocates say will further erode the agency’s oversight.

Under the draft plan, inspectors visit the state's 1,100 nursing homes a few times each month to advise, educate and offer technical assistance to improve their standard of care.

Nursing homes have been cited 83 times for putting their older adult residents at risk of immediate danger. More than half of the serious violations involved staff shortages or insufficient training. 

More than 14,000 licensed childcare facilities across the US are behind on receiving their state-mandated inspections.

Some states, haven't inspected many of its facilities since before the pandemic.

It is calculated that roughly 43% of inspections tend to find compliance issues.

School district complaints over building conditions that at times border on dangerous: Teachers rallied for hazardous conditions to be immediately remedied, including mold, leaky ceilings, rodents and faulty HVAC systems.

Of the roughly 18,000 “high-risk” food facilities that should have been inspected three times last year, fewer than 2% were. Roughly three in 10 — 5,365 —weren’t inspected at all. High vacancy rates and mismanagement have put an untenable strain on the health inspection, leading to rushed, subpar inspections.