As the temperatures begin to dip down, the Springfield Fire Department is warning residents to follow some basic tips to prevent a home fire this winter. Each year, nearly 500 people die in fires that involve heating equipment. In Springfield, home heating resulted in 31 house fires in 2015. That…
Author: City Staff
Springfield City Council approved a resolution for a 90-day pilot project studying potential action for addressing the City’s chronic nuisance properties. “The volume of service requests for dangerous and nuisance properties and the severity of the cases reported, have increased,” the City’s Building Development Services Director Chris Straw explained. Increased…
Springfield residents are encouraged to complete an online public input survey regarding trash and recycling collection within the city limits. This survey seeks to gather information on current collection services offered as well as residents’ preferences and concerns. Visit www.springfieldmo.gov/trashstudy to learn more and participate. Information from this survey will…
Dr. Mary Ann Jennings Missouri State University social work seniors will be hitting the pavement this fall for their semester class project. The students, paired with residents and other volunteers, will visit households in Doling to gather information about our neighborhood’s needs, wants and hopes. The second phase will consist…
In response to the May 2015 Community Listen meeting, nearly $60,000 in sidewalk projects for the Doling neighborhood will be begin this fall, according to city traffic Engineer Eric Claussen. Preliminary work on the Talmage Dip, located between Fort Ave. and Kansas Expressway, started in September. A sidewalk will be…