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Tax dollars cleaning the yard?


For years there has been a house on my street that houses what appears to be possibly foster children. Not really sure, we just see a lot of kids running around. This house has always had, what I would consider "junk", in the back yard, in the garage, front yard, side of the house, pretty much surrounding the house. Last week I was sitting in my living room when my mother and I noticed several, about 4-5, adams county vehicles at the house. After a few minutes about 5 men, adams county workers started piling this junk from the back yard of this house into a bucket of a front end loader and dumping into big trucks. After about 30 minutes of this going on they left, leaving the back yard of this house junk free. I am just curious how I get our county workers, which my tax dollars are paying their salaries, to come and clean my yard? I think it is a ridiculous waste of time. I am sure these workers have more important things to do with their work day. I do not understand why the county had to clean this families yard? Can anyone answer these questions for me?

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It seems to me you are asking the wrong people. Did you talk to the workers? Have you called Adams County to find out what was happening? Those would seem to be the proper steps. I highly doubt it was as simple as this person having their yard cleaned at taxpayer expense. Perhaps the yard was so bad human services got involved due to a child welfare issue? Could the house be in foreclosure? Could the complaints about the condition of the yard been so bad that Adams County came out, cleaned it up - in which case they will be billing the resident? Again, if you are concerned, I would contact Adams County directly. I have found all of our local area government officials highly responsive and I would bet you could get an answer relatively easily.
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