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Mounds View City Council Page Sixteen <br />~gular Meeting December 9, 1991 <br />She further noted that she came home Tuesday night and the snowplow had <br />come, but she did not think there had been two inches of snow. She <br />noted that the Twin Cities were reported as having 1.9 inches. She <br />understood from the Public Works Director that the City has different <br />reports other than the Twin City report and perhaps there was in fact <br />two inches of snow. The copy of the policy states that plowing is done <br />when there is two inches of .snow and still snowing. She thought the <br />most important thing is that it should be still snowing. She did not <br />know whether the purpose of plowing. was because there had been enough <br />new snow or they were trying to push back the snow banks. She was no <br />longer able to reach her mail box and felt that the postal carrier had <br />a great deal of trouble getting to the mail boxes the next day and <br />noted that it was clear the day before. <br />She stated that she was not able to get into her driveway and had to <br />leave her car in the street. She had called Mayor Linke at 10:00 p.m. <br />that evening. It was below zero at that time and there was no way she <br />felt she was going to clear her car out at that time of night. She <br />felt that by plowing so often this gives people a disincentive to <br />shovel out the mailboxes and clear out the fire hydrants. There has to <br />be a way to determine when the City is done plowing and she felt that, <br />time would be when they have gone full width. <br />Mayor Linke asked Councilmember Rickaby if she wanted to bring this up <br />at the next work session for Council discussion and change the policy <br />away from the two inches to something else. Councilmember Rickaby <br />stated that the policy should be-more clear. Rickaby stated that she <br />was not certain that there was two inches of snow for one thing. She <br />noted that if the purpose was to brush back snow for mail service, then <br />plowing didn't accomplish that purpose and needs some review of what is <br />being doe and what it is accomplishing. <br />Councilmember Rickaby called Mayor Linke at 10:00 p.m. that evening. <br />It was below zero that night and it warmed up the next day and snowed <br />and she shoveled then. By plowing so often, this gives people a <br />disincentive to shovel out the mailboxes and clear out fire hydrants <br />when we can say the City is done when they have gone full width. <br />Mike Ulrich, Public Works Foreman., responded to Councilmember <br />Rickaby in the following, way. Ulrich stated that Tuesday it started <br />snowing and was forecasted to stop by noon. The plows began <br />plowing so they could get the snow off the roads during regular hours <br />instead of overtime and wouldn't have to use chemicals. Mike Ulrich <br />commented that the plows have not stopped plowing since the October <br />31st snowstorm. Ulrich stated that the banks are 6 to 7 feet high and <br />when the plow begins to push back the bank which is 4 feet in front of <br />the mailbox snow falls in front of the mailboxes. The plows <br />automatically pull out for mailboxes and driveways and this loosens <br />. some of the snow on the bank and it also will fall or the snow is <br />discharged as the plow pulls out to swing around the mailbox. The <br />