We have a feeling many city residents agree with the city development director’s standing request to hire six to eight more code enforcement officers.

Frankly, we can’t disagree with Crystal Surdyk’s request either.

But we know just as well as Surdyk does that more code enforcement officers aren’t walking in the Development Department’s doors anytime soon, just as the additional police officers that are continually part of every Jamestown police chief’s budget request for the past three decades aren’t on the way anytime soon either. It would help, we note, if the city was able to fill the positions that are included in the budget. That’s been an ongoing struggle for the past few years.

City residents know one way to clean up Jamestown’s neighborhoods is to have more........

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