What about getting some of our probationers with community service time out to these locations to help with clean up or what ever.

Sounds to me like a perfect community project. If one of your neighbors has trouble keeping up with their yard due to physical limitations, wouldn't it be in the whole neighborhoods benefit to chip in and do the work that needs to be done? All it takes is some teamwork, time and energy. You will be rewarded if only for the good feeling one gets when they help someone out.

Go watch some of the hearings . . . especially during spring and summer. There will be many elderly - some dragging their oxygen behind them - being fined for not mowing their lawns. Code Compliance Officers are evaluated by the number of tickets written (sounds like a quota to me), and often the elderly and disabled - most on fixed incomes - are the targets of tickets to make the quota. I have a friend who was in an accident and suffered a serious head injury and has been in the hospital for several months. He has a car and a truck parked in his driveway, but the registrations and inspections have expired. He will not drive in the foreseeable future. Will the City, through Code Compliance, try to take his vehicles from him (they both are operable, just not currently being driven) while he is in the hospital? With the recent rains how many elderly will be ticketed for high grass in their yards?

I hope this "new program" includes help for the elderly who can not physically take care of clean ups.