help tampa keep city clean
jasonLate last month I noticed that somebody had dumped a mattress by the side of the road near my house south of Gandy. This was not a free bit of furniture like you see sometimes; free stuff left at the curb for anybody to take away. This mattress had seen a rough life from the looks of it; having been cut up and I suspect burned at one point. Also it had been dumped in about 3 feet of scummy water in the ditch next to the road which did it no good at all.
After a few days, I remembered that it was still there and figured nobody had called the city about it. I have had some experience with reporting things via the TampaGov website so I hopped online and sent them a message about it. I expected a form email response but what I got was a little surprising.
Within four hours I got a phone call from city employee Amanda. She told me that the mattress was too big and too far into the ditch for the first people they sent out to pick up, so they were sending out another department that could move the mattress to a location where it could be recovered. It took another couple days for them to remove it because of the Memorial Day weekend, but I was still impressed with the speed and thoroughness of the follow up.
They emailed me with a link to follow the course of my complaint as it went from department to department as well.
If you see accumulated junk, or code violations, or streetlights that need repair or in fact just about anything that you feel the city and your tax dollars, should fix or clean or stop, then head on over to the City of Tampa’s Customer Service Center and let them know about it.
Say hello to Amanda for me too.
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June 14th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
wow jason. just what we need. more cop citizens.
June 14th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
I have to say, the City of Tampa Cusotmer Service is really on top of things..I just emailed them about a few things(bike paths along Westshore south of Gandy, Neighborhood Maps, Trails information), and they were on top of everything quickly with a response, and even information in the mail.
June 15th, 2007 at 1:02 am
sure and they are. For some. And for some selective services.
The Nazi tour of homes was quite well staffed.
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They are on top of me most of the time.
Once I emailed them about some permits and they even kindly cc’d my reply to four different police officers. LOL !!!! Imagine. Free speech as long as it gets rolled by the authorit-eyes. And DO NOT sit on the benches, either.
Nothing like good old-fashioned intimidation.
Living in Tampa FL has never EVER been worse.
I used to have a very high opinion of Tampa and when I traveled I could not wait to return home. To the Tampa Trib, to the city, to the lil ass backwards wannabe skyline that said ‘tampa’.
This administration, the various depts. therein, the city and county employees (NOT ALL OF THEM but the decent ones know that and cheer me on) had to work DOUBLE OVER TIME to convince myself what complete morons and crooks and wipes they really are.
I’m so much less than impressed. And I don’t give a damn if it’s like that everywhere in the country. First of all, I don’t believe it is and second of all — that doesn’t make it OKAY.
Jason, if the Nazi tour of homes was ever done in South Tampa they’d have gotten to the mattresses eventually. LOL. Hey, that is a new phenom for Tampa too ! It came along with the new people, I mentioned it one of the first posts in my blog. Disgusting. Rank. People boosted out of their homes by whatever means necessary and all their belongings thrown after them. NOT evictions. THEFTS. Okay, thank you for this opportunity. Back to your regularly scheduled programs.