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August 10, 2019
On July 17th 2019 an alleyway dumpster and couch fire was recorded taking place by newsindhs on the side street behind the old Burkemedia productions location and now the Jackson Hewitt Tax Preparers building at 11600 Palm Drive at the corner of 3rd Street in downtown Desert Hot Springs.
Was anything done about the charred and burned debris left after the fire? Not a chance.
Today is now August 10th 2019 and the charred remains of furniture and tires material are still lying on the ground 3 weeks and 3 days later exactly where the fire happened.
In so many other cities in California this mess would have been cleaned up as soon as it cooled because there are people running other cities in the Golden State that actually care about their cities. But in Desert Hot Springs California our leadership has set the pace in our city and the pace is slow. Slow to care, slow to respond, and slow to appreciate our shining city on a hill in the Coachella Valley.
You see when a city like Desert Hot Springs has leaders who don’t care about the city and it’s people the people mimic that lack of concern for their town and they don’t care about the city and it’s people either. Each city’s elected representatives set the pace for the residents and if the city wants the residents to not feel pride about the city all they have to do is show a lack of concern about the city and that same lack of sentiment spreads throughout the community. #thisisdhs
Why do people put up with this? Why do they allow their city of DHS and their county and state for that matter to be neglected by departments within the government that are tasked and funded to clean up these types of health and safety hazards after they occur?
Please call your local city hall in Desert Hot Springs the next business day and tell them to get this job done as they are paid to work for you. They are public servants who are elected and salaried by your tax dollars to do the jobs you want done.
Don’t let them abuse our city any further, there’s more of us than there are of them so let them know who is boss and vote them out in November 2020.
Go see it for yourself, this blackened couch frame is still laying there on the edge of the alley at the time this article was written. It doesn’t take 4 weeks to investigate a single couch fire in a small town, it’s either incompetence or intentional. Either way they are not doing their job adequately and we demand better.
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It is not that city leaders do not care. It is a matter of city staff not firing on all cylinders in this situation. It should be automatic that Fire notifies public works and it gets cleaned up right away.
Well it sounds like you need to use this as further justification that another department needs to be created in Desert Hot Springs to be paid for by taxpayers. Let’s call it ‘The Inter-Unit Communication Guarantee Department. It can be staffed with about 10 people and they can sit there by the phone all day and wait for Cal-Fire for example to call them to report a fire was put out so that the new department can then contact the Public Works department to notify them that there was a fire and there is debris to be cleaned up.
Because it makes no sense in our ever expanding, big money wasting, government era to make sure Cal-Fire reliably calls public works directly. No we must default to wanting to grow the local government off of these small misfires.
I’m being facetious as you can tell. Or am I?
No but seriously there are people who live right on the other side of the alleyway pictured where that burned up stuff is sitting and they have given up hope on the city. They see that stuff there everyday and know that the city doesn’t care about that trash being there. This is not the first time these neighborhood’s residents have had to walk by garbage that sits right there in the alleys right out in the open and you know that.
You also know the residents are not going to call it in, they don’t want to talk to the city and you know that also. This leaves the city with plausible deniability when it comes to knowing about junk laying around town. All you guys had to do was create an app for the garbage locations and when no one from these low income areas wants to put in their personal info and let you guys know it’s there you can say the residents didn’t let you know about it. I know how you can get out of cleaning up new messes that happen every day. It’s nothing new you guys are doing, but it is still shameful nonetheless.
If the public works was instructed to just pick up burned debris it sees on the road and haul it away it would get done but surely theres some sort of legal protocol to follow that just so happens to keep the city from cleaning up garbage laying around town. How convenient.
Anyway, that consistent disregard by the city for junk laying around town is exactly why residents have a complete and total disregard for the garbage laying around their alleys. They know it will sit there and sit there and sit there. So I’m right, the city does set the throttle on how much people care about and appreciate the city and right now the throttle is set by the city at ‘don’t care’ in my opinion.