City of Oakland California

The Keep Oakland Clean & Beautiful "KOCB" division of Oakland's Public Works Agency is dedicated to maintaining and enhancing the City’s natural aesthetic qualities. In pursuit of this goal, KOCB is responsible for regularly scheduled street sweeping, the reduction of litter City-wide, keeping our hardscaped (concrete or asphalt) medians and City-owned lots free of overgrown vegetation, pick-up of illegally dumped materials discarded on our streets, and the removal of graffiti on public property. The division also plays a support role in keeping our City parks at their best.

The various sections of KOCB provide these services:

• Continuous effort toward reduction of Illegal Dumping
• Regularly scheduled Street Sweeping (see information about Street Sweeping during holidays)
• Management of the City’s hardscaped medians and City-owned lots through ongoing Vegetation Management
• Uninterrupted Graffiti Abatement on public property

If you are interested in knowing more about - or taking part in - a wide variety of volunteer participation in community beautification and cleanup activities through Adopt a Spot programs and annual events, including Earth Day, please click on our new pages for volunteer opportunities.