I got that coming for me.

All right.

Should be enough.

I think we're good.

Three.

Six and seven.

Welcome to business session.

Our first item is approval of minutes for business session of September 30, 2021.

Is there a motion?

So moved.

It's been moved and seconded.

All in favor of approving minutes from business session of September 30.

Indicate by saying I.

Aye.

Aye.

All opposed.

The motion passes.

The next item.

This used to just be in the Transportation Infrastructure Committee, but we decided to make it go big.

And it is our snow plan presentation.

As temperatures are getting a little cooler, it's something that we always get excited to discuss.

So I believe Director Shaw or others, once they're available, or are here for the discussion.

Or Mr.

Decker.

We'll also note today Councilman Allenton has a new legislative aide, this young man on the game boy, who's really into the game boy.

He doesn't even know I'm talking about him.

Alright.

Go ahead, gentlemen.

Good afternoon, uh mayor and council.

Uh Michael Shaw, Director of Public Works, and also have with me.

Oh, Deputy Director Forrest Ecker.

Um, so what we came here to talk a little bit about is snow.

Um, we know that um the old ad is not preparing for preparing to fail.

And so we're we're here to talk today about being prepared for um the snow season that's uh only unfortunately a little bit away.

So um we want to talk a little bit about our snow plan, what a snow process is, what we've done, what we learned from last year, and then what we're gonna be doing going forward.

So that's kind of what the overview is.

So next slide.

Um so our snow prep the overview is this we have two basically two things that we plow is the arterial streets and the residential streets.

Um not gonna read everything there, but you should have the presentation in front of you.

But on the arterial programs is where we use our big dump trucks, they have 10 foot plows, and we have um uh salt with all of those.

We currently we run those 24 hours a day, keep the major streets and collectors clear, and we have 37 plow routes, and we do about 2700 lane miles when we do that.

On the residential program, we have smaller trucks, the pickup trucks, it's about seven and a half foot.

The plows are about seven and a half foot wide, a little smaller plows to get in a residential neighborhood.

We have sixty-six of those routes.

We do about thirty-three hundred miles of that.

And we do the daytime and night time, and we'll talk a little bit about when we uh we'll switch between day and night.

Um go ahead.

So the next is we have essentially five stages of our plow operation.

So stage one is when we have a forecast where the weather or the precipitation or humidity gets uh at or around freezing or below freezing, and uh it creates creates what we call bridge frost or you know, some type of icy conditions over bridges and overpasses.

So we actually send people out to go and salt those locations in order to ensure that people can travel through those without you know sliding and having accidents.

They generally go out around 3 30 in the morning.

It's a small crew of about seven, seven or so, four four to five people per district that goes out and does this across the city.

Stage two is when you may have a dusting.

When we get a um, we'll get a call for dusting when it says, Oh, we got a little dusting coming on here.

We still respond to that.

We do the same thing as far as stage one is concerned, but we also bring out a few more uh plow trucks, and we really go out and make sure that the main roads are taken care of.

Generally speaking, having a dusting, there's not really cold days behind it.

It means it warms back up, and so our roads will uh heat back up and be okay.

Stage three, that's when we forecast for a little smaller snow, uh, two inches or less where the temperature either that the you know the preceding days after that is gonna be 40 degrees or higher.

Uh the reason for that is that the actual sun on the pavement actually melts the snow and the ice and that kind of stuff, so we allow Mother Nature to do its thing, but we go out and we still pre-treat areas uh six hours prior to the forecasted snow, and then we go out and we actually plow those two inches off the street.