The mayor’s initiative to get squeegee workers off Baltimore streets begins Tuesday morning with a comprehensive plan that provides job training and wraparound support services.

Officials billed the plan as a work in progress, but members of the Mayor’s Squeegee Collaborative said they anticipate immediate results.

| PDF: Read the squeegee plan

“Our approach brings together not just enforcement, it brings together the services and much-needed support that we know is needed to move the needle on some of these issues in our community,” said Faith Leach, Baltimore’s deputy mayor of equity, health and human services.

The comprehensive initiative is intended to help to provide employment opportunities and offer support services to tackle the root causes of the need to clean windshields for cash.

Squeegeeing will no longer be allowed at six of the city’s busy intersections, which include:

– Wabash Avenue and Northern Parkway

– Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Interstate 395

– Conway and Light streets

– Conway Street at Interstate 395

– President and Jones Falls Expressway

– Mount Royal Avenue and North Avenue/ Jones Falls Expressway

– Sinclair Lane and Moravia Road

Drivers should expect to immediately notice the absence of squeegee workers. Those who ignore the new policy will get a warning. Repeat offenders will get a warning and a visit by an outreach worker to connect the individual to support services. If squeegee workers are on the corner a third time, police will issue a citation.

“It has the balance of service and enforcement. We know it is going to work,” said Shelonda Stokes, president of the Downtown Partnership of Baltimore. “What we are doing here is creating pathways to help get squeegee workers where they are today to a better place to enjoy some of the comforts like everybody else.”