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Pover Item# 5.8. PIEPIORANDUH TO: Mayor and City Council FROM: Phil Hals, Street/Park Superintendent DATE: October 9, 2003 SUBJECT: 2003-2004 Snow Plowing Policy As in past years, the City Council is asked to review and adopt the snow plowing policy. There are two minor changes from last year's policy and one change that doesn't show up in the policy at all. The first change is that most cul-de-sacs will be circled on the first day of plowing and plowed completely on the second day. This change will help reduce overtime costs, since we can concentrate on street plowing the first day and complete plowing of the cul-de-sacs and general cleanup the second day. The second issue is the timing of the snow hauling from the downtown. Again, as a budget saving measure, I would suggest that the downtown snow be hauled on the third day following a storm after other cleanup and cul-de-sac plowing is completed. The third issue is sidewalk plowing. The sidewalk system has expanded to the point that we should be adding a second sidewalk plow. However, since this is not currently an option, we will prioritize the sidewalk route into Ist day, 2nd day, and 3rd day routes. Of course light snowfalls will take less time, and heavy snowfalls could take four or even five days to plow completely. I am hopeful that with these changes we maintain an average 10 hours/day completion time on an "average" snowfall and keep overtime costs under control.