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Lancaster expands community cleanup into ‘Team Up Lancaster’ program with youth employment element

5709209 · September 2, 2025
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Council authorized expansion of the city’s cleanup effort into a broader Team Up Lancaster program to address trash, graffiti, illegal dumping and related quality‑of‑life issues in targeted areas and to fund grants and labor; staff said some positions would pay about $17 per hour.

The Lancaster City Council authorized staff to expand the city’s tidy‑up/adopt‑a‑highway efforts into a broader Team Up Lancaster program designed to address trash, illegal dumping, graffiti, code violations and other neighborhood quality‑of‑life issues.

City staff described the program as an evolution of the prior tidy‑up efforts and said it would use a grant‑style approach to pair volunteer or community organizations with small grants and city support for areas identified as needing concentrated remediation. Staff said the…

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