Are city residents allowed to rake or blow their leaves into the street?

"Absolutely not," says Richie Reis of Central Services. "It's illegal, and they can be ticketed." During heavy rains, sewers can get clogged with the leaves and cause street flooding.

What is the policy on city employees living outside the city limits? If there is a limit, why are some getting by with living outside of the limit?

Police and fire department employees can live pretty much anywhere in Adams County, except for a few places in the far northern and eastern parts of the county. Union employees who work for Central Services can live in Riverside, Ellington or Melrose townships. All other nonunion city employees must reside within city limits, though there is a proposal still in committee to allow them to live in most of the county. Department heads, assistant department heads and elected officials would not be allowed to live outside the city limits. Doug Olson, the city's director of human services, says there have been no major issues raised about city employees not living in city limits.

Are the sonic booms we have experienced in the Quincy area a product of airplanes being rebuilt at Quincy Regional Airport? Isn't there an FAA regulation controlling sonic booms over a populated area?

The sonic booms are not the result of planes being built or rebuilt at Quincy Regional Airport, Director Marty Stegeman says. The latest loud boom came a week ago today. "I was outside, and it was really loud," Stegeman said. "It came from the far southeast, but I didn't see a plume of smoke or anything." Stegeman said the boom might have come from a military plane from Springfield, Peoria or St. Louis. Those planes have waivers for making sonic booms, so there is no FAA regulation.

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