Volunteers recently cleaned up 2200 tires at Cliff Drive. Photo courtesy Brett Shoffner.
When people come to your neighborhood and haul away old tires, trash or brush, do not be alarmed.
The city council finance committee on Wednesday advanced a $300,000 contract with the Full Employment Council for neighborhood cleanup and beautification.
The full council considers it today.
The program will be citywide for eight weeks and employ 60 to 70 people, officials said.
It will start in the area of the new East Patrol police station, said city manager Troy Schulte, and clean up overgrown or trashed problem areas.
The money for it comes from a recent charter change that pushed one of next year’s budgeted city elections back to summer and into the next fiscal year.
So election money becomes beautification and job creation money.
Some of the work will also include painting fire hydrants that have long needed it, officials said.
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