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The mayor also began personnel shake-ups. On Thursday, officials said the Sanitation Commissioner was replacing managers in the south Brooklyn district where many streets went unplowed long after the storm. The city is reducing the size of that district to make it more even with the north Brooklyn district, officials said. The move officially goes into effect Monday, and during the upcoming storm the existing managers will be shadowed by their replacements as part of the transition. The chief of the fire department's Emergency Medical Service Command was replaced this week amid investigations of hundreds of ambulances getting stranded in the snow and 911 calls becoming backlogged. Aides say more demotions or firings are not unlikely. A new poll found Bloomberg's approval rating took a hit after the chaotic cleanup. The Marist College survey of registered voters found that 37 percent said he is doing a good or excellent job, and 60 percent rate it as fair or poor. That's a major dip from October, when 50 percent rated Bloomberg as good or excellent, and 45 as fair or poor. When asked specifically about how he handled the snow cleanup, 71 percent disapproved and 21 percent approved. The poll questioned 439 registered voters on Wednesday. It has a plus or minus 5 percentage point margin of error.
Bloomberg has also directed the citywide director of emergency communications to examine why the communications and dispatching system failed. Even after the last flakes fell, one woman with a broken ankle waited 30 hours for an ambulance. Another woman waiting for help gave birth to an unconscious child who was declared dead at a hospital. Federal prosecutors and city investigators are also looking into claims that sanitation workers sabotaged the city's snow cleanup as a job action staged to protest a department shuffling of supervisors.
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