I sat through quite a few meetings and took a lot of notes, but this is what it all boils down to. If you don’t like their ideas, you can show up tomorrow (Wednesday) at 4:00 in Room LL110 in the Municipal (Post Office) Building (215 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd) to let them know. They send the notice of this meeting out late yesterday.
Agenda and other materials here.
Increased uses of liquids as pre-wetting agents and anti-icing agents
– Estimated cost: ??
Pavement temperature measurements and forecasts
– Estimated cost: ~$26,000 for this project for purchase of the sensors, installation, software setup charges and maintenance charges.
Plow blade technology improvements
– Estimated cost: New blades would be a capital cost. [What, is that not a cost that matters?]
Increase salt routes from 30 to 34 routes
– Estimated cost: ~$840,000.
Plow at 2” instead of 3”
– Estimated costs: ~$800,000.
Residential responsibility for bus stop/bus pad clearing
– Estimated cost: Minimal to the city, however some residents may have to pay to have this work performed for them.
Snow Plow Contractor RFP
– Estimated cost: Tighter requirements may result in slightly higher costs.
Additional Streets Division Staff
– 1. Restore funding and schedule for monthly brush collection.
– – 2 Street Machine Operator II’s ~$125,000
– – Year round staffing of Self Help Drop Off Sites. Add 2 Street Machine Operator I’s and staff the Self Help Drop Off sites 12 months per year. Estimated cost: ~$104,000.
– – Leaf Collection. 2 additional complete crews of personnel and equipment to keep current levels of collection the same in the future. Estimated cost: ~$712,000.
– – Increased Street Sweeping. Adding one additional sweeper each side of town and the corresponding additional operators. Estimated cost: ~$525,000. OR hire the operators and scheduled them at night to sweep. While this would save on the cost of the sweeper, we will have to overcome the issue of noise during the overnight hours. Estimated cost: ~$215,000.
– – Additional Stump Removal Crew. A third stump grubbing crew ~$400,000.
– – Winter Weekend Staff at Self Help Drop Off Sites. Additional overtime costs of either $2,425 or $4,849 depending on one or two weekends per month.
Twenty additional Streets Division staff would cost approximately $1,000,000 per year, with associated capital equipment costs associated with how those jobs are distributed.
Increase Overall Winter General Information
– Estimated Costs: ??
Inform Neighbors How to Help Each Other During Snow Events
– Estimated Costs: ??
E-Communications
– Estimated Costs: ??
Mass Media Recommendations
– Estimated cost: $8000 for the character generator, plus $800 staff time with additional cost for overtime.
Report a Problem addition
– Estimated Costs: ??
Continue to work with the UW, Edgewood and MATC to increase notice to students
– Estimated Costs: ??
Narrow Street Alert
– Estimated Costs: ??
