Property owners who refuse to clean up may face $250 fine

Posted on August 14, 2015

After toying with the notion of reducing garbage collection to once a week, the Perry City Council opted instead for a “wait and see” course of action Tuesday after learning that an additional work squad from the local prison would soon be back in the city’s service.

While reducing garbage collection from twice a week to once a week would result in a marginal monetary savings, the net gain would have been “having three extra people available four days a week” to handle clean-up projects throughout the city, City Manager Bob Brown said.

PHOTO: Trash is not routinely collected from vacant lots which do not have a city utility account tied to the property; trash is collected from sites which receive city services (above).

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