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Residents press council on East Side park neglect and a former city employee alleges wrongful termination
Summary
Multiple residents used the meeting's public-comment period to urge city attention to neglected East Side parks and services and to describe alleged mistreatment and termination of a long-serving city employee involved with the city's sweep program.
Several Allentown residents used the courtesy-of-the-floor public-comment period to raise concerns about East Side neighborhood maintenance, the absence of a city 311 reporting function, and one speaker’s recent termination from city employment after 19 years.
Paulette Pich, who said she has lived on Allentown’s East Side for 75 years and gave an address on East 2nd Street, criticized what she described as persistent neglect of a principal public park adjacent to Dieruff High School and other neighborhood recreational facilities. She…
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