Spring Cleanup Review

There was a comment on my entry about the Teen Center regarding Spring Clean Up I'd like to try and respond to. In the past couple years we have received some complaints that the May dates for spring cleanup conflicted with graduations and Memorial Day weekend. Many residents have people coming to their homes around that time or were going out of town for Memorial Day weekend and could not get their debris to the curb. With the cooperation of Artistic Waste, we decided to make the change in collection dates to April.

We used to conduct spring clean during the first week or two of April when collection was conducted by our own Public Works Department. In that case, we tried to get it completed as early in the year as possible so it would have a minimal impact on our normal operations. Now that we have Artistic Waste to perform the service, there is a new reason for earlier dates--accommodation of a busy time for our residents. The best way to know for sure is to check your media outlets around this time of year--we publish this information in the paper four weeks prior to cleanup, as well as on the websites for both the City and Artistic Waste. Notifications were also sent in to residents in water bills.

Hopefully that provides some insight into why we made the most recent date change. Driving around the City, it was clear many residents took advantage of the Spring cleanup operations. I hope the process went as smoothly in your neighborhood as it did in mine!