Snow removal time changes

Times Reporter  

 

Parents in the community should be a little happier with the snow removal time changes. Councillor John Rempel spoke to council about changing the snow removal start time from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. 

With the start time at 8 a.m. many people with younger families have to pack up their kids, move the car, then go get the car around 8:30 a.m. to bring it back to take their kids to school or go to work. 

Rempel said between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. is usually the busiest time in the morning for many households. 

Some can’t park their car around the corner or on another street because if it’s a cold night, then they may need to plug in their car overnight. 

Rempel said the chances are the snowplows don’t show up before 9 a.m. anyway and the residents get stressed out for no reason. 

“I have no concern if we move it from 8 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. but if it gets much later than that the Peace Officers only have so much time to get out and get the vehicles moved or ticketed or whatever is going to happen. I think it would be better if we did change it from 8 a.m., 8 a.m. is difficult,” said Chief Administrative Officer for the Town Dwight Stanford. 

Director of Operations and Engineering Jesse Parker said enforcement could begin at 8:30 a.m. instead of the suggested 9 a.m. so that enforcement would have time to get cars off the streets, and then the start time doesn’t slide back to later. 

“We’re pretty tight now with just a six hour work window so we’re trying to get as much done in those six hours that we can,” said Parker.  

The signs will be changed as soon as possible with the new start time. It shortens the enforcement window a little, but Parker said he has talked to his staff about trying to identify problem areas with vehicles and starting away from there to give the Peace Officers a chance to address those problem areas.