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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I taught for DCPS we had to bring our own paper stash to the copier to copy handouts, readings and homework.  That 900,000 would have been very helpful.[/quote]

Every parent at our EoTP school has been asked to donate a ream of printer paper.  so DCPS really doesn't even supply the basics.[/quote]

Another example of how the DC government "reams" DC school parents and taxpayers.[/quote]

I see what you did there.[/quote]

Ha ha :)

That money could be spent on the rat problem. Our rats rival NY and the budget is about a million dollars (believe they are adding one more million after recent Post investigation) and 9 employees in deppartment. That seems paltry and neglectful in a city this size, but Mayor and Counil seem to find so much money for pet prjects. Forget public health and ocmfort.
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Like politicians you are never going to get rid of rats. They are plentiful and super smart. Invest in an animal proof trash can and otherwise make sure that they don’t have a good source near your house or business and move on. [/quote]

What a can't do attitude. There is plenty that can be done to minimize rat infestations and allow children to play in their own back yards at dusk--which they can't do in many quadrants of the city. I'm guessing you are associated with Bowser or the Council.[/quote]

Clean up your trash. Don’t feed the birds or any other animal. Rats settle in where there is a good source. [/quote]

You can clean up your trash. If it isn't picked up as often as posaibke, if the garbage can is chewed through, if they are popping out of sewers, if there are food scraps from restaurants it is a problem. This is a city wide problem that requires city wide solutions, beyond the person feeling bothered cleaning up their trash. [/quote]

You need the Toter trash cans (sorry but they are $90 or so each) to get the kind that they can’t eat through. And then you need to somehow keep the kid shut - heavy brick of maybe a strap. People who live in rural areas manage to keep the raccoons out - by literally locking their trash cans - surely DC can keep the ears out. Perhaps Mayor Bowser can stop traveling to El Salvador and spring for Toter trash cans and can locks for all city residents.

https://www.toter.com/consumers/product/retail-carts

For serious varmint proofing people build these trash can boxes down by the curb and lock them:

http://www.bearicuda.com/critter-can/animal_resistant_proof_cans.php

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That's the point. There are many things that can be done from better trash cans to more frequent trash pickups to enforcing how restaurants (one of the main culprit in DC) dispose of their trash, to better types of extermination and control. All this costs money of course, but Muriel seems to prefer to spend it on other causes.[/quote]

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