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Residents at Franklin meeting press council on school leadership, maintenance and utility arrangements
Summary
At Citizens Time on Aug. 25, Franklin residents urged the City Council to address school leadership failures, complaint-driven maintenance problems such as overgrown grass and storm-drain pollution, and questioned the city's power-leasing arrangement with Dominion.
Dozens of residents used the public-comment period at the Franklin City Council meeting on Aug. 25 to press elected officials on school leadership, neighborhood upkeep and the city's utility arrangements.
At the outset of Citizens Time, resident Tanya Peeles told the council she had noticed storm drains marked with a dolphin symbol indicating water flows to the Black River and asked the city to install metal-mesh “trash stoppers” to keep debris from entering the river. “With the new kayaking and things we got down at the park, you don't want all that trash in…
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