City Services

For decades Valley residents have been complaining about the lack of city services, such as street cleaning. Petitions are circulating in an effort to get enough signatures to study the merits of secession because supposedly residents are fed up with the lack of services.

Well guess what? Just recently new “No Parking for Street Cleaning” signs went up in a number of Valley neighborhoods. Many of us were delighted, after all these years, at the prospect of having clean streets and gutters once in awhile.

Amazingly, however, a bunch of residents who apparently don’t want to be bothered having to move their precious vehicles off the city streets for two hours each week, or who don’t like the little signs posted on “their” property, have started their own petitions to have the signs removed!

I, for one, will never listen to one more word of whining about a lack of city services again.

JOAN THOMPSON, Van Nuys