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Local business owner asks sanitary board to move trash pickup after alleged harassment
Summary
Joanna Artizone, owner of a First Street beauty studio, told the Board of Sanitary Commissioners she has protective orders against neighboring residents and asked to relocate her trash pickup to avoid daily harassment; the board said it would follow up with staff.
Joanna Artizone, who identified herself as the owner of a beauty studio on First Street, urged the Board of Sanitary Commissioners to allow her to move her trash pickup location after repeated harassment from nearby residents.
Artizone showed the board photographs and said she has active protective orders against people at addresses she labeled 1327, 1315 and 1313. She said the neighbors have threatened her life, she has already constructed a protective wall and she can no longer safely walk to the cans at their current pickup point.
Artizone told the board she contacted district employee Jason Donati on May 19 to request moving her cans to a nearby spot she circled on a map; she said Donati denied the request despite video evidence she submitted. “I just want to move my trash cans to this from here in front of these people’s houses to down here,” she said.
The board did not debate or rule on the request during public comment. Commissioner Overton apologized to Artizone for the harassment and said the board would look into the situation and speak with Donati. The chair noted the board does not generally respond during public comment but said the assertion would be taken under advisement.
The matter remains a request for staff action rather than a formal board decision; the transcript does not record any vote or directive to relocate the pickup, and it does not indicate whether the district found Donati’s denial was consistent with policy.
