Manteca Property Services — the firm the city contracts with to help clear homeless encampments and junk tossed on streets throughout the community — collected more than 141 tons of debris in 2025.

Elected officials, city management, and a number of business owners — especially in and near the central district — credit the decision to hire the firm more than two years ago with helping reduce garbage and unsightly messes around Manteca.

The council last month approved a 10-month contract thru the end of this year for $157,000 for the clean-up services.

The deal has a pair of two-year optional two-year extensions subject to satisfactory performance and budget availability.

During 2025 the firm that was available every day collected:

*310,939 pounds of trash.

*126 mattresses.

*returned 3,000 shopping carts to their respective stores, averaging 16 a day.

That was in addition to general cleanup that city parks and public works crews do when it comes to trash on streets.

Manteca Property Services works in tandem with the Manteca Police resource officers assigned to homeless issues.

When they come across illegal encampments they want removed, they call Manteca Property Services and typically get a response within 10 to 15 minutes.

It should be noted not all of the trash or carts are the result of being discarded by the homeless.

People routinely and illegally dump mattresses and used furniture as well as garbage bags full of trash on city right of ways.

Most shopping carts are illegally  taken from store locations by city residents who discard them near their homes when they no longer need them.

Seven different firms submitted proposals to handle the city clean-up contract.

To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantexabulletin.com