FARMINGTON — If convicted on charges that he has allowed weeds to grow outside the U.S. Post Office on 20th Street, Postmaster Steve Begay could face a maximum $500 fine and 90 days in jail.
On Wednesday, Farmington Mayor Tommy Roberts stood on the sidewalk outside the post office in front of scattered day-old cut weeds and held his hand out just below his waist.
“These weeds were this high yesterday,” he said. “And then they don’t even pick up the clippings.”
Walking down the building’s sidewalk, past a grocery bag stuck in a bush, he concluded, “It’s a mess out here.”
On Tuesday, the Farmington Police Department issued Begay a petty misdemeanor criminal citation, which will require him to appear in municipal court. According to the city’s legal department, the $500 fine and 90 days in jail are the maximum penalties for a conviction.
Begay did ask, “Is (Roberts) willing to send some city workers to help me over here?”
As Roberts walked down the sidewalk along 20th Street, he pointed at the yellow cheat grass poking through the post office’s gravel bank, bushes collecting trash and the caved-in glass of nearly every light box on the grounds
Farmington Mayor says post office grounds are ‘a mess’ – Farmington Daily Times.
That’s it? The Fixx Save By Zero.
Their F-it attitude toward both State and Federal officials an the American people says it all.
Would someone please tell the mayor and all of his local officials (Fire Department, Fire Marshall, Code enforcement, and police) that a Post office and its grounds ( whether owned or leased by the USPS) is FEDERAL PROPERTY and that “Local Yocals” have absolutely ZERO jurisdiction on Federal property. Have a nice day!
make the PM watch hours of Postal Vision,that’s real punishment
“cause they hire lazy man it maintenance people”
You mean the excessed people from the mail side? And the iou a favor people sent from management, wink, wink.
How about hiring Veteran’s only for building services?
garden angel when your done picking weeds, go get all the hampers outside, bring them in and set them up, then please pick up all the tubs place them in the APC and push them out on the dock.
There’s some express on my desk I need you to deliver asap and two mail boxes fixed.
We have a building inspection tomorrow, hold on gotta answer this call (rare)….$hit another carrier vehicle down, need you take another vehicle out right now!
Hey garden angel? I got a new title for you? if you can work on computer’s? golden garden angle.
Here’s $100 stop off at the bank on your way back. Need change for the window clerk’s.
I’m going to lunch see you in an hour.
Send the ticket to PO lawyers and they will tell the mayor where to stick it.
Was at 70718 office today and the grass was extremely high. Why?
give him a PDI, then give him the ticket, then make him cut the weeds, then make him clean up the clippings, then give him 50 lashes, then tell him to pivot.
The woodlands p.o. 77380 has a garden angel that does it for free on her own time cause we have lazy people plus management doesn’t care or postmaster
Lol good but that’s not the only P.O. that keeps land like that like spring, tx 77388 and there’s more cause they hire lazy man it maintenance people
The Mayor needs to read the Supremacy Clause of his Constitution. He is attempting to control a United States enterprise.
As a died in the wool Southerner (Atlanta), I concede that this dispute was resolved conclusively in 1865. If the Mayor sends Deputy Fife over to padlock the Post Office, we will send the U.S Marines to dispatch the good deputy.
I thought we had a monopoly on the yahoos down here. I guess not.
These are the consequence of management consent failure to properly staff each an every building. An make sure their buildings are clean & safe.
Even the Anaheim P&DF is starting to look like $hit, but we all know were the buck stops with, don’t we.
It’s gonna get worst as the USPS nose dives, an management fails to do the job they are suppose to do.
Cut staffing & hours you will have consequences.