Littering Problem Sparks Clean City Commission To Ask For Help
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Montgomery residents and business owners are fed up with litter in the city. That’s why city leaders are pushing for more enforcement to make sure you’re not adding to the pile of trash throughout they city’s streets. Beer bottles, paper bags, and left over bags of chips. It’s all trash found along Ann Street in Montgomery — a sight WOW Wings Manager, Kayla Belser, says she’s sick of seeing. “See we have some trash right here in the parking lot here,” Said Belser as she picked up a cup outside WOW Wings. “And see, stuff like this just makes the business look bad.” The city wants to change that. Just recently 28 bags of trashed were picked up on Ann Street. But that’s nothing compared to how much was picked up on Day Street, Mobile Road and Bragg Street — 500 bags of litter were picked up just last week. Everything from tires to mattresses. “It’s annoying to kind of see it,” Said Smith Powell, who lives near Day Street. “We all could do our part by not [throwing] things out.” There’s also Rosa Parks Avenue and Oak Street, where 300 bags of litter were picked up earlier this month. Volunteers also picked up trash on Taylor Road, as well as many other streets including Wares Ferry Road, Fairview Avenue and Terminal Road. Susan Carmichael with the Clean City Commission says the city can only do so much and now its reached out the Montgomery Police Department for help. “Talking to the new chief and asked him for some help with enforcement. I hate to think that everything that we do has to be enforced but if the people start. You start hitting their pocket book, it gets their attention,” Said Carmichael. For each time you litter in the Montgomery city limits, it’s going to cost you $100. Each time you go to court for littering that’s an extra $155 dollars. It’ll also cost the city a lot to clean up in the last two months. The Clean City Commission says more than $37,000 has gone to cleaning up those 17 streets we to you about earlier.
