Storm Clean Up Update from Staff

Sorry, this one is a little late . . . was taking a day or two off for my birthday . . .

I just wanted to give you a little information about the cleanup from the storm of July 20th for you to be able to share with residents who call you.

As of Friday, July 21st, we are still assisting Forestry, led by Marla Eddy, in their efforts to remove dangerous and hazardous limbs that are still hanging from trees. All of July 20th was spent making sure streets were opened from where trees or limbs had fallen and closed the street. Crews worked last night until dark and will work tonight until dark.

The Street Division plan as of today is to continue with our normal scheduled once per month brush collection cycle. We will be collecting in Friday's collection district next week, the week of July 24th. We will have additional crews collecting brush in other parts of the City to assist in the storm cleanup. We pobably will work overtime next week due to the storm cleanup. The week after next is a non brush schedule week which means that we will work all week during the week of July 31st in storm cleanup.

We ask that all residents be patient as this storm unlike most storms was widespread and effected the entire city as opposed to just a few neighborhoods. It will take awhile to get everything collected.