(The Center Square) – As Spokane grapples with more trash and junk vehicles on its streets, Mayor Lisa Brown proposed an ordinance on Friday aligning city code with state law around illegal dumping.
The Brown administration announced the proposal alongside a new dashboard detailing cleanup efforts. The city broke down its metrics between two graphs: one tracks the amount of garbage picked up, while the other tracks the number of sites cleaned up.
According to the dashboard, Code Enforcement staff and two Spokane Police Department officers picked up over 1.6 million pounds of trash throughout 2023 and nearly 1.2 million from January through September 2024. more
…if you threw out the Democrats, the trash would no longer be an issue…
They need tp elect more democrats, raise taxes and hire more bureaucrats to generate more rules that no one acknowledges or enforces.
@SNS:
If you threw out the Dems, it would smell really, really bad for a while but with a little composting you’d then end up with some nice, rich topsoil.
Uncle Al
Sunday, 27 October 2024, 10:35 at 10:35 am
“If you threw out the Dems, it would smell really, really bad for a while but with a little composting you’d then end up with some nice, rich topsoil.”
…IDK, seems to me it would be shot through with Fentanyl, mRNA, artificial hormones, bitterness and bile, and be so INCREDIBLY salty that neither root nor stem could ever grow…
Uncle Al:
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2.79 million pounds.
What’s that, half a dozen homeless camps?
Just maybe the dump fees are a little bit too high?
But then again the freesheet crowd just does not care.
They’re wanting to impose fines. Now how do they collect them from the street dwellers? Of course the ILLEGALS will get a free pass.
Since Spokane has become blue, I wonder if they will do anything to the revered homeless people who are probably responsible for the increase.
@SNS — Mother Nature is resourceful. Except for heavy metals, the rest of that toxic stuff is virtually certain to break down into plant food. As for the NaCl, that simply needs diluting a bit.
Anybody in Spokane who pays for trash pickup ought to kill that contract and just toss their trash into the nearest bum camp. (But be sure so shred envelopes and any stuff with name/address.)
That amount does not include what citizens deal with. The neighbor woke up to a load of construction debris in front of his house. Neighbors rallied, took a couple hours to clean up the mess. They realized that if another lowlife saw that mess, the next lowlife would consider the first mess a challenge. Happened in a neighborhood where new buyers are struggling to restore an old part of the city. Spokane is littered with Harris/Walz signs. Coincidence?
In the western part of the state, aure there may be fines, but…the city code enforcement office won’t address trash, even furniture, dumped on the sidewalk as “public right of way.”
Moved to Idaho.
Problem solved.