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City TO: FROI~I: DATE: SUBJECT: MEMORANDUM Mayor & City Council Phil Hals, Street/Park Superintendent November 8, 200 I Snow Plowing Policy Updates Item ~ 4.1. As in past years, we like to present the city snow plowing policy to the City Council for their review, comments and approval. The basic policy is the same as last year with the only changes coming with addition of one new operator and the way that changes other routes. The short explanation is that the new operator will assume the priority routes in the eastern area that were plowed last year by Terry Bye, as well as some residential streets in the eastern area and new developments in other areas. Terry will concentrate on trail plowing and ice rink plowing. We will have a colored map at the Council meeting that indicates each of the eight truck plowing routes plus a map for the two loader routes, the trail route, the sidewalk route and the contracted cul-de-sac route to make this understandable. As stated in our policy, our goal is to have all streets plowed within I 0 hours after a typical storm, but because we have only one sidewalk plow and have added so many sidewalks, we will not be able to have all of the sidewalks plowed until the second day. Looking forward to the 2002-03 snow season, there are five developments pending in the eastern area alone, which will amount to an additional truck plowing route and one half of a sidewalk route. There are several options available. One option is to hire two additional operators and not retire truck number 216 as planned and add another sidewalk route. Two, is to borrow operators from other departments. Three, is to try to contract the plowing and four might be to reduce our level of service city wide to 12 hours instead of I 0 hours. I bring this up now just for your information, so that we all have time to give it some thought before next year's budget. Recommendation: City Council formally adopt the 2001-2002 Snow Plowing Policy.