Test

SouthWest corner of Hayes and Harrison, a brick commercial building has been spray painted. This is especially disturbing, as just a few years ago the owner of this brick building put new brick face on two sides, and now it's going to be about impossible to remove it. Could this be pressure washed off alderman Hamerlinck?
 

1301 E. 12th - LRN on side of building. 1019 W. 6th - wall tagged. 1116 W. 5th - Fence by the alley. 5th and Taylor - whole east side of a vacant commercial building. 4 1/2 street + Taylor - East side of a large commercial building. 1354 w. 4th - LOW RIDERS written on dumpster. 1316 w. 4th - LATIN KINGS written on dumpster. 1517 w. 4th - garage tagged. 1513 w.4th - gate to yard out by alley tagged.
 

The dumpster behind the 4th street save-a-lot. Grafitti on the electrical box behind the Friendly House at 3rd and Taylor. The dumpseter behind bethany homes at 3rd and marquette. 1233 W. 4th - a grafittied abandoned building. 430 Taylor - Rodher Transfer building is tagged. 801 w. 6th - rear of house.
 

Dead tree locations: 10th + Division. 1519 W. 4th. 1200 W. 15th. 1104 W. 15th. 819 Warren. 1405 Arlington. 922 E. 14th. 812 Brown. 519 W. 11th. 321 W. 12th. {please demand a report back from Keith Majors when these have been taken care of. You can't expect results from this department with him running things.}
 

Don't you people have lives? Here's an idea! Since you have so much time on your hands, why don't you volunteer to be provided paint and go an assist in painting over these locations. Now that's what I would call active participation in our community!
 

It appears that most of the grafitti is in John Lewis land. I thought they were improving neighborhoods. The areas in thier control are going down tubes. We need to eliminate this agency so our city will improve. JLCS attaracts crime and poverty to Davenport. It needs to be investigated and shut down.
 

I know that most of the residents in the central city would agree. We are tired of the homeless men roaming our alleys and hitting us up for money. Get rid of this agency so we can finally attract a respectable element to our neighborhoods south of locust.
 

Misc. 723 w 6th has a very low hanging tree limb in the alley. 1206 w. 14th needs to be mowed and a debris removal. A vacant lot at 5th and Myrtle needs a cleanup. 1429 w. 4th, the rear yard is full of garbage. 726 w. 6th needs mowing, trash removal, and the street has trash that has blown out of the yard and needs cleaned up. 317 Taylor has a yard full of garbage. 924 w 6th needs trash and construction debris cleaned up. Every property on the alley between 6th and 7th street, and Brown and Gaines street is a tennant environmental nightmare. Every landlord deserves a ticket.
 

Alderman Hamerlinck: If the garbage men are going to be the new inspectors that are replacing the NEO inspectors, shouldn't the city either put house numbers on the alley side of every property, or require the homeowner/landlord to have these numbers? The trash men are going to need to know the house number in order to send out the tickets.
 

Multiple gangs have marked the dumpster at 621 Vine. LRN on light pole at 614 Brown. 605 W. 17th Street has a garage by the alley that has F/U LRN painted on it. 911 Warren has a tagged garage. 903 Warren has a tagged garage by the alley. 1120 W. 14th the garage is tagged on the west side. 1209/1211 W. 15th the dumpster is tagged. The Retaining wall at 6th and Ripley has been hit again; it's the wall that faces 6th street. 1509 Bridge has a parking area by the alley that has been tagged on the cement. 1515 Bridge has a tagged garage. 1517 Bridge has a garage that is tagged, plus the garage door is missing, and the gangs are getting inside of the garage. 1111 Perry is an abandoned building that two sides are tagged. Baptist Church at 220 W. 14th, the dumpster is tagged.
1317 Harrison has two garages and a Fence that all three are tagged. 1224 Main has a tagged dumpster. The stop sign at 12th and Scott is tagged. 1707 w. 10th has a tagged dumpster. 1627 W. 10th, the garage has been tagged. 1618 w. 9th, the fence. 1621 W 10th, the retaining wall has been hit HARD multiple times. 1515 W. 9th , the garage has been tagged
. McCloud Exterminators at 703 W. 4th has weeds and trash behind their building that requires a cleanup.
 

There are two alley's in rough shape, between 6th and 7th, and Vine and Brown, and 6th and 7th, between Gaines and Western. There is bags of trash and an old refrigerator and other junk in the yard at 711 w. 11th Street. At 5th and Gaines, the city planted a tree last year that died right away, and it is still dead, and never replaced.
 

Hamerlink has opened a real can of worms for all the old retired people with nothing to do. How about giving some of your free time to do some volunteer work for the city? I have volunteered my time for over 15 years to plant and maintain over 8,000 trees in this city (probably some of the dead trees your complaining about).
And by the way, Keith Majors (our city arborist) does a great job!!
 

1618 W. 7th has grafitti on the fence. 510 Gaines needs an environmental cleanup. 1231 W. 7th has been hit on three sides of the house, but not visable from the 7th street side. 723 Taylor has a huge pile of brush by the alley. 811 Taylor has a garage door falling off and house looks abandoned. 1501 W. 8th has a tagged dumpster. 1503 W. 8th the garage is tagged. 1602 W 7th has trash overflowing out of the yard into the alley. 1618 W. 7th needs an environmental cleanup. 1441 and 1443 West 10th both have garages that have been hit by multiple gangs. 1442 W. 10th has a fence by the alley hit by the same multiple gangs. 922 Taylor has trash overflowing from their yard into the neighbors.
 

We gotta mess folks and no one to clean it up. We could make millions on enforcing our codes for a change.
 

If 10:14 has been planting trees that have been dying for the last 15 years, maybe she should stay home and do something easier like knitting toaster cozies. Leave tree planting to professionals.
 

The dead trees at the new library have not been replaced yet. Several others look sick, but are partially leafed out. How long do the library patrons need to look at them before the company that origionally installed them makes good on the guarantee and replaces them? It would also be interesting to know about the guarantee. If the ones that are to be replaced yet this summer don't survive, will they be replaced or will the taxpayers spend thousands a second time on these landscape tree plantings?
 

I have reported each of these. Thanks for the discussion.
 

WHY, do we need a City Arborist?

What's this another Brother-in-law job? (50'000+/year)

By the way what's this guy do in the winter?

Couldn't this be a part time job save the city $25'000+

Oh wait a minute lets lay off;
Police officers
Firefighters
Housing Inspectors
Oh I just remembered,Those good for nothing Enviromental Inspectors. We don't have any mid-night dumps,old cars and trash everywhere do we?
 

There is a vacant lot on Kimberly, west of N/W blvd, between Valley Bank and the Car wash that the weeds are over 3 feet tall. 617 S. Clark has a tree in the front yard that is half dead. 1814 Rockingham appears abandoned, and the weeds and grass need to be mowed. The closed McDonalds on Rockingham needs a cleanup and a weed mowing. Also, just to the east of Mcdonalds, there is 2 lots with tires and 2 abandoned semi trailors in them that look aweful.
 

On the south side of Kimberly, west of Thornwood and east of Hillandale, there is a vacant lot that is over grown with brush, and it's grown so out of control that you can't see the 'wrong way, do not enter' sign from Thornwood, and also there are 2 fire hydrants burried under the brush so the fire dept could never find them during a fire emergency. This lot also needs an environmental cleanup, as people are dumping yard waste, including several trees that have been cut down and dumped, and also there's an abandonded SUV hiding in the weeds.
 

Send these post to Frink and Howard

Hammerlinck is the 2nd Ward Alderman.
 

The parking manager has suggested reducing the fee for parking in the ramps on Bix Weekend to $2. Events like this is the exact reason that these ramps were built. The parking fund is already struggling to pay for them, and money has been transfered from the general fund to offset losses. It is not a good idea to reduce the fee on a weekend that many will be downtown and willing to pay for this amenity.