[Chat] Dixon's Deep Clean program a bust

[OldHouseHistory]

I will follow up; the placard had no telephone number, of course, and the mayor's number in the tele book doesn't work!  I called the general city number, and the operator told me no body would answer the Mayor's new number.....and she was right.  

So, I'll reach her on Monday, I guess, when the alley should be a complete and dangerous mess. 

Paul  

Paul K. Williams
Kelsey & Associates, Inc.
2629 Guilford Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21218
BaltimoreMarylandHistory.com

1929 13th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
(202) 213-9796
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In a message dated 06/24/07 11:32:08 Eastern Daylight Time, qbdmar at cavtel.net writes:
I hope you will follow up with Mayor Dixon personally to 
report... 
Mariann 

> About a week ago, we on the 2600 block of Guilford Ave and 
> others nearby got a bright yellow notice on our door 
> announcing an upcoming "Deep Clean" of our block.  I don't 
> know her definition of a "deep clean," but not much 
> happened; in fact our alley is far worse off then when 
> they started!     
> 
> The notice encouraged us to clean out our back yards and 
> place bags and bulk trash in our regular trash pick-up 
> spot no later than noon on Saturday, June 23.  I eagerly 
> assembled a pile of bulk trash hauled up from our basement 
> during a few hours late Friday night.  Then, I waited for 
> the "Deep Clean" on Saturday.  In the meantime, as 
> anticipated, garbage pickers sorted through the bulk items 
> , hauling away metal, etc., and generally spreading out 
> our neat little pile, as they did to other piles in the 
> alley.   
> 
> So, at 1:30 on Saturday, the first and only tuck "with 
> city crews and volunteers" arrived in our alley.  They 
> picked up our neighbors pile, told me their truck was 
> "full up" and they would be back.  They all took a 10 
> minute smoke break, and drove off, never coming back, of 
> course.  So, the remaining piles are now strewn all over 
> the alley by kids having fun breaking glass, etc.  The 
> alley is impassable, and worse off than before this "deep 
> clean" that amounted to nothing more than a single trash 
> truck.   
> 
> I guess I had defined a "deep clean" as one beginning with 
> the bulk trash being taken away, and continuing with crews 
> arriving with street sweepers, brooms, power washers, etc 
> for the block.  If the mayor thinks a "deep clean" is a 
> single trash truck onsite for 10 minutes, then her own 
> house must be a mess.  I wonder what her alley and street 
> looks like today?               
> 
> Paul K. Williams 
> Kelsey & Associates, Inc. 
> 2629 Guilford Avenue 
> Baltimore, MD 21218 
> BaltimoreMarylandHistory.com 
> 
> 1929 13th Street, NW 
> Washington, DC 20009 
> (202) 213-9796 
> WashingtonHistory.com 
> 
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