Dear Editor,
Maintenance – our friend Webster defines it thus: to preserve or keep in a particular state or condition; the preservation and upkeep of buildings, roads and machinery.
There are those in city and county, public and private places who do not seem to understand that definition.
In private places we cannot demand maintenance until the place becomes a public nuisance and usually by then it can only be torn down. Those places usually belong to greedy slumlords who do not maintain their rentals.
In public places, government places funded with our tax dollars, we should expect better maintenance than what we see and hear read more
