Accumulated trash is a threat to the safety of Lewiston residents. I wonder if city officials would consider reinstating a city-wide cleanup effort during early spring?
What would it take for the city to take one week out of the year to make neighbors feel better about themselves and rid the neighborhoods of trash accumulated in the course of a year?
Doing away with spring clean-up a few years ago was a bad idea. Now, you have older people, in their apartments all their lives, neighbors who don’t have pickup trucks, and landlords who just can’t cut it when it comes to getting trash to the landfill.
Landlords pay a fair city tax in the same manner single homeowners do. Why should landlords be responsible for trash removal for several properties when the city doesn’t support it for a single-family dwelling? Landlords pay their share of property tax. A springtime trash pick-up for all should be the city’s responsibility.
I hear the same classic response from the city — funds are not available for roadside pickup. Lewiston Public Works employees go to work every day. Taxpayers are paying them. Are they too busy to take on a clean-up week?
Money for city officials’paychecks still comes from the taxpayers. City officials really should do something. They need to consider what can be done to help neighbors feel better about living in this community, or else I think we may all be in trouble.
Michael St. Amour, Lewiston
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