City of Festus - Public Works

Called street department before business hours to report a traffic light not working properly and my call was actually answered! I believe his name was Matt. Although it was not his responsibility, it was MODOT’s, he said he would report the issue to them. Wow. Public service right here!

Drivers are not safe. I had passed a utility truck, F150 I believe and apparently he did not like it. He proceeded to tailgate my vehicle while I have kids in the vehicle. Me being me an slightly upset at his behavior I waved him off when he was getting ready to turn and he proceeded to follow me down the road more rather than turning. When he did I went to his origin facility No.5 and snapped a photo of the truck he drove but wasn't clear enough for a plate. Person was stocky looking with white baseball cap and I believe black hoodie. He went inside before I could say something. Incident happened today at around 845 am.

Always issues with the city
It looks nice down here but the taxes are extremely high
They would stake "my" yard and say they would fine me if it wasn't cut, but it was THE CITY'S PROPERTY
Their own employees don't even know when main roads are closed
The city destroyed my sidewalk and took part of my yard for their new sidewalks. They sent me paper work for me to sell my yard and I NEVER SOLD THEM MY PROPERTY TO DESTROY. Now my sidewalk is messed up and the new part they added slopes so everything is going to get washed down to my house not toward the road or sewer.
With the road being closed our homes aren't getting trash pick up but apparently the trash people are walking our cans to the truck to dump them? That must be what they are telling you but they definitely didn't do that on main street.

So we now have 4 seperate bills for utilities, unheard of in other cities/towns. So one gets overlooked, once. They can turn your water off with no warning/notification, but then you HAVE to have someone home for it to be turned back on, what the backward kind of hell is this!?

I’ve been receiving brown/red water on and off for the past five years. Apparently due to the well not being up to date, city water officials say it’s normal and that the residents are fine, they still expect us to pay for the unclean unsafe water. We new mains on Edgewood we need our water billed cover if u received brown water