Young, Susan A wrote: >Starting immediately, if on your garbage day the solid waste field crew >finds unconfined litter, garbage, or debris within twenty (20) feet of the >alley, the City will clean it up. However, you will be billed the cost of >this cleanup service. The minimum charge for the first cleanup will be >$50.00, but could be more; additional cleanups are billed at increasing >rates. > My complaint is not about how Susan Young's department does their job. My complaint is that this policy was instituted by the city council without following the citizen participation requirements and receiving input from ALL of Central Neighborhood, not just those few members of the Heritage Home Owners Club. In effect, the city council allowed these few people to decide city policy for my neighborhood. Having been a good--and tidy--neighbor low these 30 years, I am royally honked off as are my tidy neighbors who are receiving letters of warning and paying fines for others. Are the drug dealers, prostitutes, and their customers going to be fined for throwing their trash in my yard? I don't think so. Are the cars on Lake Street and Oakland Ave. who fling Domino's pizza boxes and Colonel Chicken boxes? No again. How around the johns who drape my hedge with used condoms. Nope. My trash can area was in apple pie order at 10:00 p.m. tonight when I went out to check one final time before the trucks come through tomorrow. So, if I get one of Susan's letters later this week, my blood pressure will rise and I'll be on the horn to Susan, even though it's not her fault either. The litter bugs, of course, will have no consequences.
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