On Monday afternoon, Mayor Brandon Scott and the Department of Public Works announced a new pilot program focused on keeping Baltimore City neighborhoods clean and combatting illegal dumping.
“The program entails paying three residents of the Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello neighborhood $15 an hour to remove trash from streets and alleys.”
The three Northeast Baltimore residents will also get workforce development and be ready for full-time employment with the Department of Public Works after they’re done, Scott said in a press release.
The pilot is happening thanks to a $70,000 joint grant from the state’s Department of Housing and Community Development and the Weinberg Foundation.
How about the people collecting welfare or public assistance be required to clean up the neighbor
hood in exchange for the benefits.
Amen, 9:40! However, that kind of thinking will get you labeled a racist – How dare we expect those receiving welfare benefits to have to do SOMETHING to keep them!
That’s nice. I have to pay to have my area maintained. Wish the county would pay me to clean my property. I guess we must be the richest land in the world, until China forecloses on out untitled ass.
I’m sure this very effectively competes with what drug dealers and looters earn per hour
I am sure there is a lot of youth needing community service. Let them do it.
So there is money available?
(Snicker snicker)