March 6, 2001

At 1:10 PM a Streets and Sans van was westbound on Grand Avenue.  It was stopped at the intersection of Grand and Fullerton, near the railroad tracks.  We were traveling eastbound on Fullerton and then turned around to follow the van,  just to see where it was heading.

Interesting enough, the driver of this vehicle, marked S13500 with state plate M 07666, stopped in the 3100 block of N. Harlem.  He then when into J & M Cleaners and came out  a couple of minutes later.  He proceeded to the 3500 block of North Octavia where he parked and went into a house.

What's wrong with this?

A Streets and Sans van from the 29^th ward should not really be traveling into Banks' ward because Banks' ward has an outpost on Diversey.  So the question arises as to what this person was doing, "on company time" with a "company van" at a cleaners?  And then to take the "company van" to his house?  How do we know it's his house?  He had the keys to the front door!

This is merely another example of the abuse of taxpayers money being spent for personal agendas of Streets and Sans workers.