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City revives and combines Adopt‑A‑Street and Adopt‑A‑Stream into new Adopt a Spot program; volunteers to arrange own trash disposal
Summary
The environmental programs division will relaunch and combine two volunteer cleanup efforts into a single Adopt a Spot program with two‑year adoptions and four cleanups per year. City will furnish two signs for each adoption but participants must now dispose of collected trash themselves, staff said.
The City of Staunton will restart and consolidate two volunteer cleanup programs into a single Adopt a Spot program that lets groups adopt streets, streams, parking lots or other approved public spaces, environmental staff told City Council May 22.
The change matters because it is intended to revive disused volunteer cleanup programs, simplify administration and provide more reportable activity for the city’s MS4 stormwater reporting while clarifying volunteer responsibilities for trash disposal.
Willa Hughes, environmental programs administrator, said the…
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