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Chinook's Chief of Police Mark Weber is going to clean up the town, or at least get people to tidy their own yards.
At Thursday night's Chinook City Council meeting, Weber talked about two efforts he plans on making in the next month: To more strictly enforce the city's laws about junk on property and to craft a more enforceable lawn care ordinance for the council to look at next month.
"Something has got to be done, " Weber said. "We tried to be nice, but it's just not working. "
He said that the 10 properties in town he recognizes as the largest offenders are holding 50 junk cars between them. And while some junk was towed out at the police department's request in the past year, Weber said some of these properties have brought back in more than they got rid of.
"I will drop by every day and write a citation, because this is getting ridiculous, " Weber said.
While the city has the laws to take care of the junk properties with the right enforcement, Weber said that the city needs a new lawn mowing and maintenance ordinance that would be "more reasonable and workable. "
"Some of these places get away with mowing twice a year, " Weber said. "And these are the same properties we see year after year. "
While the actions have yet to be taken, Weber was just warning the council of the complaint calls they would be getting from the uncooperative property owners.
He said he already gets sarcastic phone calls from one of them every time a cat walks onto his property, complaining of the nuisance and wanting something done about it.
"You're going to be getting calls, " Weber said.
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