Pressure from on high: City Hall gets hosed.
Passersby headed for the Albany Farmers’ Market last weekend witnessed a thorough cleaning at City Hall. No symbolism was implied, intended or (as far as I’m concerned) justified.
It was routine maintenance that a crew from Hart’s Janitorial was performing on the building’s exterior. The brick facade facing the City Hall Plaza at Fourth and Broadalbin was pressure-washed, and all the exterior windors were cleaned as well.
“We clean the outside windows about once a year,” City Hall spokeswoman Marilyn Smith explained after checking with Rick Barnett, who oversees building maintenance. “But it had been about 10 years since the exterior was pressure-washed.”
Now the bricks look like they’re good for another 10 years at least, a reminder of how nice — and indeed crucial — it is for a town to have a clean City Hall in every sense of the term. (hh)
Mr Hering, shouldn’t you have inserted “building” after the capitalized City Hall in your last sentence for clarification!!?? Realize, the words “clean City Hall” may have a different meaning & intent to those in currently in power than it does to us critical “cohorts”. You can clean a building but “clean” politics at any level is another matter. JE
Jim, if you have evidence of anything other than clean politics, let me know. (hh)