Monday, April 11, 2011

Another Citizen Email Posting Request

When does the city plan on sweeping the streets? I'm watching kids on the streets trying not to fall on their bikes and roller blades because they are skidding all over the place.  Unless that's the plan, wait until a child loses traction and slides into a car and then our tax dollars can be spent on another lawsuit.   Also, with the rain lately the runoff of winter salt will not be good for the ponds-which cost us residents approximately $400,000.00 to dredge the ponds two years ago!!  What's the hold up?

Update on street sweeping....
Hugo will be performing this for us this year. They will use their vacuum (as opposed to Lino's sweeper). Since we did not use sand on the roads last winter (we only used salt), a vacuum should do a better job.
It should be done in the near future (next week or so).
Ben Fehrenbacher 

Thanks Ben!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It is nice that a response was given to this citizen. However, why is Ben Fehrenbacher responding and not the Mayor?

Mike Schweitzer said...

I have seen the sweeper in action and it does a great job at picking up the top dressing from the roads that the snowplows scrape off. Will a vacuum do this job as well as a sweeper? In my mind a vacuum will only pick up the lighter debris and leave all the sand and little pebbles but maybe I am wrong?