The city should not have to pay PW to pick up trash. Is this something that they could ask the many neighborhood associations to address at their meetings? It will take the entire village to keep trash off of our streets but it is important. People feel free to throw trash when they already see it everywhere.

I do pick up trash on a daily basis in my area along Suburban, and I even went down the whole street with a trash can picking up trash. Working eight hours per day and then going up home and having to pick up trash, it gets old fast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also, I might bimonthly and not biweekly.

Littering is a huge issue that needs a multi pronged approach...
Residents and Businesses should clear their street frontage and properties on a daily basis. If not a friendly request from inspector should encourage them to do so.
Public Works needs to monitor the areas where residents and businesses do not reside on a regular schedule. Do we have a street sweeper? Is there such a thing as litter vacuum? How about some no littering signs and trash cans?
I like the idea for a "call to action" for neighborhood groups as well as other clubs to participate. Ferguson Eco team could consider forming an outreach program to school age children and youth groups in an attempt to train up guardians of our planet.
Police need to write tickets when they see a violation or at least require the violators to pick it up on the spot. Maybe even have people work off fines for other violations with a litter pick up work detail.
City council should mention the problem at meetings and ask for citizen to be stewards. Communicate the problem in Ferguson Times and possibly use traffic media trailer to promote better behavior of persons passing through our streets

I have had the same thought about some signs or maybe a program to Keep Ferguson Beautiful, or something along those same lines. We definitely need to do something, I rarely see the same amount of trash on neighborhood streets in other areas of the county, however I live on Hartnett and we get a lot of traffic. I picked up a diaper at the corner of Barat and Derinda this morning.

I usually found a diaper once per month I have to throw away along side Suburban!!!😢

I think Gladys is on to something big. There are so many great ideas in her reply, lets find someone or some organization to head up the effort to clean up the litter on our streets. Gladys? Eco Team? Dara? If someone will head it up we can get an article in the Times, and get the traffic media trailer and sign at Plaza at 501 to post a "stop the litter" campaign for a start. Thanks again Gladys.

The city has a street sweeper. I have reported Tiffin a couple times, and it has come out. I dont think it runs regularly, because we spend money on other things....like consent decrees...

The city has a street sweeper. I have reported Tiffin a couple times, and it has come out. I dont think it runs regularly, because we spend money on other things....like consent decrees...

Heres a novel thought....scofflaws from city court can do community service...picking up trash. But wait, that might be too harsh...

As it happens, I started an organization back in like 2008, and we had about 10 people who came out every Sunday morning and cleaned up litter within a several block radius of Airport & Florissant Road, with an occasional jaunt elsewhere. It went on for several years. At that time, there were no trash cans, bus stops were horrible problems, and the city refused to put trash cans out. We also had a struggle to find a place to dispose of the trash, as we didn't want to bring it to our own homes, and the city wouldn't let us use their dumpster. We ultimately quit out of discouragement.

Since then, I have observed individuals picking up trash while walking, but there is no organized effort, while the problem has grown a great deal. I wish our successors in this effort all the best.

Thank you for reporting your concern to the City of Ferguson. We have reviewed the information you provided our staff and will be investigating this issue further. City staff will provide regular updates here as we work towards resolving this issue. You will be notified via email about our progress. Thank you again for helping us be aware of how we can help improve our community!

Code Enforcement - Admin Asst. assigned this issue to Public Works Municipal Service Manager

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you for reporting this issue to us. We are pleased to report back to you that this issue is now resolved.

I am happy to read that the issue is RESOLVED.
However, I had hoped that City Administration would recognize the bigger issue of excessive litter all over town and lead the charge for change.
I realize staff are few and probably overwhelmed. Which brings to mind something Mayor Knowles once mentioned and resonated with me. This is not verbatim...citizens are an exponential factor and resource that should be better utilized to achieve progressive change..
With that being said, I would ask City Administration to schedule and promote a planning meeting of stakeholders such as, residents, business owners, public works, police, clubs, schools etc. so a long term resolution can be implemented and carried out. I don't know if this is how boards are formed but I think of it more like a task force.
I stress City Admin involvement because it will provide easy access to resources, streamline efforts and carry any successes forward for the future of Ferguson.
You can count on me. I am sure there are many others that are waiting for this opportunity to serve.

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There are already monthly Neighborhood Watch Meetings. Could a task force be set up as part of each meeting? We could talk trash, and we could talk code violations. I'd love to see the inspectors attend several Neighborhood watch meetings a year to give us updates. So far Gladys and I would attend these meetings. and I'm sure many others would like to have a regular meeting scheduled for answers to the code violations that are repeatedly reported when there is no action taken on our complaints. A notice to the many neighborhood associations and an article in the Times would certainly bring a lot of interest. How does the city manager feel about this suggestion?

Gladys, when I did this 9 years ago, the city made it very clear that litter was not their problem. They wouldn't even let us put a few bags of trash in a city dumpster, much less actually provide any real support. So we did it on our own, and it worked out just fine. I suggest you start an organization yourself - all that takes is a few friends and a time to get together. If you send information to the Ferguson Times, they'll publish it, though honestly I didn't get any more people from that - it was all my own personal friends, and their friends.

If you are collecting litter on state highways, MoDOT will give you the bright yellow trash bags for free. Unfortunately, since Ferguson took over Florissant Road, there are basically no state highways in Ferguson anymore. You can ask the city to provide bags, and it may be that they are willing to do so now, but they weren't back when we did it.

WOW...not their problem. That is so sad to hear that explanation from the City nine years ago!!!!!

Nick, I appreciate your insight.
However, I am hoping that City Admin is more vested in this issue than it was 9 years ago.
Also, that Admin can recognize this as a perfect cause, to activate the concept of the exponential factor, to engage citizens to tackle a problem that affects our entire City.
While I agree that it will be a volunteer effort, I feel it is important that Admin act as the anchor/gatekeeper so that new efforts, ideas and planning etc., carries on and becomes part of our city's ongoing mission. I am skeptical that it will be successful & long lasting if the city is not vested in the effort.

Would it be possible for police Chief Moss and our city manager De'Carlon Seewood to put their heads together to see if this is something the city can implement? Even if they scheduled a "clean up our streets" day 3 or 4 times a year it would help with the litter problem. We now have Neighborhood Associations to get the word out to a lot of folks. Of course the people who litter do not belong to an association in our city, nor do they read the Times probably. But we have to start somewhere.

Thank you for reporting this issue to us. City staff are having a volunteer inservice day to pick up trash and tidy up from Dade Park to Plaza @ 501. We will make sure to get Suburban trash as well. Come join us on Friday morning Sept 7th.

Would love to help but I am a working women!