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Resident asks Pampa to resolve trash-can dispute affecting her handicapped mother
Summary
At a city commission meeting, Heather Yuribe urged officials to address repeated filling and scavenging of trash cans near 441 Graham Street that she says has left her handicapped mother unable to access a trash receptacle; commissioners said they would look into the complaint.
At the opening of the Pampa City Commission meeting, resident Heather Yuribe addressed commissioners about a neighborhood trash-can dispute at 441 Graham Street.
Yuribe said that after she purchased a property there a trash can that belonged to her mother was moved and that other nearby cans have repeatedly been filled by a neighboring person or business she referred to in her remarks as "Carbuckles." Yuribe said her mother, who is handicapped, has had to haul trash from Graham Street to another intersection and that homeless people have been digging through the cans, creating a nuisance and limiting her mother's ability to dispose of waste.
"My mom's handicapped...she can't even put her trash out," Yuribe said, asking the commission to look into the matter. A commissioner responded that the city would "certainly look into this," and thanked Yuribe for bringing the concern to the meeting.
The record does not include further details about the neighbor identified in her remarks or any immediate directive to staff; the commission acknowledged the complaint and indicated it would investigate.
