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Villa Park manager warns of rat risk, urges cleanup after garbage citations
Summary
Village Manager Mike Rivas urged residents, tenants and business owners to remove trash to reduce rat activity, said citations are meant to prompt cleanup, and announced village cleanup work behind the Jewel on Ardmore.
Village of Villa Park Manager Mike Rivas urged residents, tenants and business owners to remove garbage to reduce rat activity and announced that the village will conduct cleanup work at a lot behind the Jewel on Ardmore.
"Today we're gonna be talking about rats, and we're gonna be talking about garbage," Rivas said in a brief manager's message. He told listeners that citations issued to business owners, tenants or homeowners are meant to prompt cleanup: "Please don't take it personally because we're just asking you to clean up your mess," he said.
Rivas said the village will also carry out cleanup efforts. "...we're also gonna be cleaning up our messes as well," he said, and identified the work area as the lot he called "Area 51," which he described as the space behind the Jewel on Ardmore. In the message he added that the village planned to "clean up RMS to help with, with vermin and pest control," using the acronym as he spoke; the term was not defined in the message.
Rivas emphasized compliance and moving quickly when citations are received: "So if you do receive a citation, please don't take it personally, take care of it and then move on." He closed the message by wishing listeners a good day.
The announcement frames citations as an enforcement tool to improve public-health conditions rather than as punitive measures. No formal deadlines, fines, or follow-up schedule were provided in the message; the village's specific cleanup timetable and the meaning of "RMS" were not specified.
