Ronnie O’Kelley with a temporary solution

After hearing about rats that have caused major problems to the machinery of Seneca’s Department of Public Works, Mayor Pro-tem Ronnie O’Kelley has an idea to better protect the city’s dwindling fleet of garbage trucks.  After hearing the account given by Scott Moulder last night, O’Kelley suggested the city store its sanitation vehicles at the city-county industrial park property on Shiloh Road.  Moulder believes rats have come out of the woods adjoining the public works complex on S. 1st Street and have invaded the sanitation trucks at the smell of food waste.  Eventually, according to Moulder, Seneca envisions a replacement public works department complex on the grounds of the industrial property, but progress on that has been delayed during the past year of pandemic and tornado damage in the city.