The Local was happy to report that city workers finally came last week to clean up the “trash mountain” illegal dumping site behind Valley Greene Apartments. They brought a backhoe on March 17 to remove what the first city cleanup hadn’t been able to – because the trash had tumbled down a steep hill.
What remains to be resolved, however, is the matter of who’s going to pay the bill.
Under city policy, when the Community Life Improvement Program (CLIP) is forced to come and clean a mess like this one, the agency sends a bill to the property …
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The Local was happy to report that city workers finally came last week to clean up the “trash mountain” illegal dumping site behind Valley Greene Apartments. They brought a backhoe on March 17 to remove what the first city cleanup hadn’t been able to – because the trash had tumbled down a steep hill.
What remains to be resolved, however, is the matter of who’s going to pay the bill.
Under city policy, when the Community Life Improvement Program (CLIP) is forced to come and clean a mess like this one, the agency sends a bill to the property owner.
We can’t say yet what that bill will be, or whether the city has sent one. City officials have yet to calculate the full cost of cleanup – though we do know that the first one cost $3,900.
We’ll let you know when we do how big the bill turns out to be – and whether Alden Park has paid it.
