WEBVTT - 2-2-26 Sloan with Seth Walsh 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:05.640 It's a Scott's flowing shell on seven hundred w old WD. 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:08.200 You just shooting a little straight with you this morth 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:10.600 So we have all the snow on the ground. We 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:12.440 got like twelve inches of snow, not much of it 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:16.360 if all has melted yet tonight. Since lash tomorrow, we're 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:18.480 going to get to one to two to three maybe 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:21.960 more depending where you are, depends. We shall see temperatures 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:24.599 remain cold, so more snow on top of the snow. 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:27.520 Snow's not going anywhere, and city Cruise does a great 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:29.480 job clearing snow on the streets. There's still snow on 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:32.080 the sidewalks that kids need to walk or wait for buses, 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:34.680 and so a new ordnance would have force property on 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:36.800 us to clear the snow. So what we're saying is 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:44.840 that your neighbor, your neighbor, Betty Lorrain or Margaret, whatever 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:47.839 name is, she's got to get eighty years old and 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:49.880 the city's going to force her out there at gunpoint 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:56.160 to go shovel over twelve inches of snow. Absolutely heartless, heartless, 0:00:56.160 --> 0:01:00.720 it's unreal. Council Member Seth Walsh is proposing this, Seth, 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:02.720 are you going to tell me that you're going to 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:05.240 force somebody's gramma to go out and shovel sidewalks in 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:05.880 this weather. 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:12.600 No no, no, Scott, I appreciate you leave it off 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:13.680 with the drama there. 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:17.839 Let's take it up to what's actually going on here. 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:19.400 So the city. 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:23.600 Actually already has on its books ordinances around shoveling the sidewalks, 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:26.520 and one of the problems that we've discovered last year 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:29.039 with the snow emergency is that we don't actually have 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:34.080 any enforceable mechanisms to this. And so whether you're dealing 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:35.920 with your sidewalks by your house, whether you're in a 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:39.800 business district, whether you're downtown, if you run into sidewalks 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:42.800 that are covered in snow a week after the snowstorm, 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:45.160 there's no way for you to report it. There's nobody 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:47.200 whose job it is to maintain it and check in 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:48.880 on it, and there's nobody who's there to make sure 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:50.920 that we're actually doing this job. So what this motion 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:53.440 asks is what does the administration need, much like we 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:55.920 asked last year around the snowpop what does it need 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:57.520 to be able to take the next step and actually 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:00.120 make sure we're enforcing this appropriately and helping your the 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:05.040 city going this isn't about going after you know, residential neighbors. 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:06.680 This is about making sure that we all as a 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:08.440 community are coming together and actually being able to take 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:09.480 care of our sidewalks too. 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:12.720 Okay, so this this would apply then primarily to the 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:16.320 residential I'm sorry, the business district areas or places of business. 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:21.520 Yeah, so it's all it's all Cincinnati, but I anticipate 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:24.400 it's gonna be primarily the business district areas. You know, 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:27.480 we've seen a lot of complaints coming in. Downtown has 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.000 had a number of complaints about you can tell who 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:32.480 the properties owners are to clear the sidewalks so. 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:33.200 You can tell who have it. 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:35.359 We've also seen, you know, a lot of complaints around 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:38.079 the city of Cincinnati, like owning property that we haven't cleared, 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:41.080 and then questionable property where you're like, is it the city, 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:41.920 is it somebody else? 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:43.640 And who needs to be responsible for it? 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:46.280 One, for example, is the bridge going from Clifton to 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:48.680 north Side. What we need to be able to do 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:50.240 is have a system in place to be able to 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:52.320 get peace concerns and then make sure that we get 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:55.280 them cleared, whether that's through some city mechanism, whether that's 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:57.959 to hire in private contractors and whatever it is, that's 0:02:57.960 --> 0:02:59.880 a pretty big important Yeah. 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:03.480 I had our buddy on from ODOT last week and 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.160 he said that, you know, sometimes you see a road 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:07.920 plowed and then it'll not be plowed, and then it'll 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:10.640 be plowed again. Is like that has to do with jurisdiction, right, 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:13.160 Like odubts in chart generally have highways, but then you 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:16.760 have the county. Then you have local municipalities cities like Cincinnati, villages, 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:20.560 et cetera. And sometimes between all those enterprises, we're not 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:23.200 quite sure who is responsible for that stretch. And normally, 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:25.360 if it's an intro or typically we get interured to 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:26.639 a snow it is not a big deal. But when 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:28.880 you're talking feet, different story. 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:30.280 Yeah. 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:34.280 Absolutely, And what we currently do not have is a 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:36.640 mechanism SCOT if you want to call and tell us 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:38.920 that there's a sidewalk that need to get shoveled after 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:41.360 a week, there's no mechanisms for that. 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:44.120 And that's you know, I'll stop sort. 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:45.520 Of saying it's a problem because I don't think it's 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:46.880 the problem on the scale of the snow pot as you 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:48.880 was last year, but it is the next step in 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:51.600 this how do we proposely handle snow as we're looking 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:53.960 at you know, I'm seeing three to five inches tomorrow. 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:55.000 Yeah, that's a big deal. 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:57.200 And you know, if you're if you're trying to walk 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:58.920 to a business and you're trying to walk to your car, 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:01.240 you're trying to get to you know, take your dog 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:03.840 for a walk, that's that is a big deal to 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:05.400 be kind of going through these various grades and it 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:07.600 becomes pretty unsafe for people. And so if we can't 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:09.440 even get the reporting on it, how do we how 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:11.480 do we take Diamex Stap actually solve this problem? 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:13.160 Okay, so where do you extend this that stass? 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:15.760 I mean you mentioned real estate owners is the target, 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:19.640 but are we talking about absentee landlords just commercial property only? 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:22.599 What about like something like an apartment complex. Can you 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:24.479 define who isn't who's doing their job? 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:27.679 I mean, I think you can define it as pretty 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:30.800 much a sidewalk. And this wouldn't yes anywhere that has 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:34.120 a sidewalk that is not being shoveled, you know, several 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.520 days to the week after the snowfall event. Whether that 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.200 is a private property owner, whether that's the City of Cincinnati, 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:43.080 whether that's oda. We need to be having these standards 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.360 to make sure gets taken care of. I think there's 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:47.280 a lot of people that are rightfully frustrated that city 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:50.160 society hasn't shoveled our own sidewalks. 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:51.960 And right now we haven't even we don't even allow 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:53.600 you to be able to tell us that that's the problems. 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:56.360 So let's get that salved like, let's hold everybody to 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:58.720 the same standard, because again, it's a safety issue. 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:00.320 You know, it's it's about people. 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:03.359 We're trying to have people walk more, have more pedestrian safety. 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.000 You got to have the sidewalks. You see people walking 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.120 in the streets because they can't access the sidewalks. That 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:10.360 becomes dangerous for everybody, from the people who are walking 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:13.120 to the motorists. It's just not a safe environment. 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:15.520 Okay, I mentioned kind of tongue in cheek Seth Wall 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:17.880 jokingly about senior sitting. You know, eighty year old Betty, 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:19.960 you're next door neighbor. She's not going out and shovel. 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:24.120 But if you can't physically shovel, and how do you 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:28.040 differentiate when that in a proper dinner, who's neglecting their responsibility? 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:29.920 How do you verify this well? 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:32.040 And that's part of what we're asking in the emotion 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:34.200 here is what does the city administration need to be 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:37.400 able to run an effective program? And much like if 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:41.000 your sidewalk gets destroyed by tree roots and is lifting up, 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:42.080 you know, a couple of inches and you have to 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:44.039 have it taken out, there are systems in place where 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:45.960 you can get it replaced by yourself or the city 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:48.480 brings in contractors seeing it taken care of, and then 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:50.560 there are ways to get creative about it to solve 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:52.880 it where you're not putting the burden on your eighty 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:55.080 five year old neighbor, but we are solving the problem 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:59.760 which off the sidewalks, make these passable straight you know, 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:00.839 save sidewalks. 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:02.960 Okay, Well, in the case of the eight year old neighbor, 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:05.359 so who paid? Does a taxpayer pay for that? Or 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:07.279 do you have to build? Do you build? The property owner? 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:10.240 Well, I think that's something that the adminstration needs to 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:11.640 come back to tell us, you know, what the costs 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:14.000 would be on that, you know, if if it's in 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:15.320 the obscene coss I'm. 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:16.640 Sure there's a way we can work that out. 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:19.760 And at the same time, you have contractors that are 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:21.880 out there being able to do this because we have 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:23.760 to take care of the safe property at the same time. 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:26.640 You know, we can figure that out as well. Right now, 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:29.440 we're at the information gathering stage. Last year we were 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:31.920 so worried about the roads high getting cloud. This year 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:33.840 we have had such a great success at the roads 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:36.360 getting cloud. The system worked. Now you have the next problem, 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:37.640 which do you want people to be able to walk 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:38.880 in the sidewalks aren't getting there? 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:41.479 How do we answer? How do we address that? Right? Right? 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:43.880 And I'll pivot for just a second off this outBut 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:47.120 you mentioned the success that the crews had. I've saw 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:49.320 nothing but glowering reviews for the snow removal, but also 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:53.039 that plow tracking app as well. It was down for 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.240 a while. Weren't quite sure with the mechanics. There's always 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:58.039 growing pains. I think we talked about this before Seth Walsh. 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:00.159 But but you know, from what I could tell and 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:02.440 looking at it during the snow event and probably on's 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:03.520 happening tomorrow. 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:04.280 Everything looks really good. 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:05.840 I mean, you guys really turned the corner on the 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.640 snow removal thing, largely because of your efforts. 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:11.320 Yeah, I mean this is something that I think a 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:13.840 lot of people deserve credit and kudos for you know, 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:17.080 last year we failed as leaders in terms of making 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:19.080 sure that we were set up for the team to 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:20.680 be able to go out and succeed at it. We 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:22.440 had six hundred streets, we just didn't know that. 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:25.280 We didn't. Wow, that's not acceptable, and we said that, 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:26.360 and we sent the. 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:28.920 Last year working to make sure that we have the 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:31.200 six hundred streets identified, that we had the systems in 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:33.720 place and succeed that we knew days in advance we 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:35.120 could prepare for and take care of it so that 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:37.680 when we sent our workers out there, we worked twelve 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:41.040 hour shifts. You know, they are they're doing the Lord's 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:43.160 work in this and they needed to make sure they're supported, 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:45.080 and we made sure they're actually supported this time. You 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:47.520 see how remarkable the team is once they actually have 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:50.520 their appropriate support from the snowplowd tracker working to being 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:52.600 able to see what streets were being taken care of, 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:54.280 to see that we had two days in advance we 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:57.200 were salting and preparing for the storms, and then you know, 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.440 literally getting these streets covered and taking care of. Within 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:01.640 like thirty six hours, we had ninety five percent of 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:02.400 the streets passable. 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:03.560 I mean It was really incredible. 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:06.160 But it took us being honest with ourselves, which I 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:08.240 think is one of the hardest things in government, to 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:10.120 admit that, hey, we came up short. 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:12.400 We have to do better, right, right, and often there 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:14.120 are enough people taking the hit for that, going hey, 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:16.200 it's on my watch, it's going to happen. He's council 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:19.560 Member Seth Walsh proposing a new ordin Cincinnati that's going 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:22.720 to enforce with a little bit more teeth that you 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:27.400 have to remove the snow from your sidewalks. That doesn't 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:29.240 apply to a driveway though, right if you want to 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:31.520 not shovel your own driveway, it's up to you, although 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:35.439 I guess the sidewalk usually does cross a driveway. And 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:38.480 you know I'm backing up on this thing too, is 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:41.480 how long before how long do you give someone to 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:44.199 shovel the snow? Is it within twenty four hours? Forty 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:47.760 eight a week? How long to shovel the snow that fell? 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:48.320 Yeah? 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:51.000 So on the first point, now, this doesn't impact driveways. 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:54.120 You know, the driveways your private property. The sidewalks are 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:54.959 of the public property. 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:55.200 Here. 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:59.160 The second part of this is, in my opinion, you know, 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:01.720 if we're trying to get everyone's streets cleared within forty 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:04.160 eight hours. After that forty eight hour mark is that 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:06.960 we should expect the sidewalks are getting appropriately cleared as well. 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:09.240 You know, we had some issues last last week where 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:11.800 people cleared their sidewalks and then the snowplowd came through 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:14.120 a bunch of snowgup dumped back on the sidewalk. 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:15.640 That doesn't very feel very fair. 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:17.800 That feels a little punitive for those who are trying 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.800 to do the right thing. It's a situation where once 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:23.680 a snow emergency has stopped, we've gotten the streets taken 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:23.960 care of. 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:25.959 Now we have to make sure the sidewalks become passable. 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:27.760 You know, it's a priority order to this. 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:30.240 So we're not saying, hey, the snowstorm is coming down, right, 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:31.880 I'll be out there and make sure there's not a 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:34.200 ounce of snow out there. We're saying, you know, we're 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:36.559 all a team, you know, especially now you look we're 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:37.720 a week out on the storm. 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:40.160 We need to make sure that the sidewalks are passable. 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:43.840 Okay, Seth Walsh on that, And I've brought up the 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:45.920 older neighbors that may not be able to even plow 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:47.920 their own driveway. That may pay for the drive to 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:49.400 be plowed, to be a little extra, a little bit 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:52.320 more money on them to get the sidewalks done as 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:55.240 part of that. Businesses may be a little bit different 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:57.160 in that regard to but you know, all it would 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:59.720 take is someone to go, hey, they're going after this. 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:03.840 You know this elderly widow or widow. We're they don't 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:05.719 have the money, they're fixed income, they can't go out 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:08.320 there and shovel their own thing. And now you're going 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:09.800 to crack down. And that feels like it's like an 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:13.120 IT team thing waiting to happen. But the same thing is, okay, 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:15.880 my next door neighbor. Let's say, you know, it's an 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:18.240 individual who works two or three jobs, doesn't have time 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:22.000 to shovel their own driveway, let alone the snowplow or 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:23.840 hiring someone to do that because they're trying to keep 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.400 their head above water. In that regard, would the enforcement 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:28.920 be punitive as you mentioned, because you look at them 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:30.640 and go, oh, okay, it's an older person. They can't 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:32.480 afford it, they cannot do themselves. But you've got a 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:34.959 younger next door neighbor. Shouldn't they be out there doing 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:36.880 it well. If you're working all the time, it's awfully 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:38.439 tough to do that. How do you respond. 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:42.480 We have a number of ordnances that are on the 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:46.400 books currently that you may feel like are targeting are 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:49.840 more vulnerable citizens, and the way that we handle it 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.079 as a city is that we provide funds and resources 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:53.800 to make sure that they're being taken care of as well. 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:55.880 None of these are designed in a way. 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:58.280 In which we are trying to punish, you know, our 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:00.959 elderly citizens or those who will work see multiple jobs. 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:03.720 We're just trying to make sure the sidewalks to become passable. 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:06.040 And again, you know this isn't an ordinance. There already 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:09.600 ordinances on the books that you know have this enforcement mechanism. 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:11.000 There's no way to report it right now. 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:13.320 And I think where the majority of these issues are happening, frankly, 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:14.600 our city of society properties. 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:16.000 Yea, And I think we have to do better as 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:18.560 a city. That's something in a mantra keep saying out there. 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:20.760 But if you don't even allow you to op change 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:22.080 to tell us that these are problems and we can't 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:23.000 solve the problems. 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:25.880 Yeah, do you feel like set there should be and 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:28.640 again this is just the very primitive form of stage 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.600 is there's nothing even close to becoming legislation at this point. 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:33.440 It's like, hey, how do we get the and it's 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:34.880 a safety is how do we get the snow off 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.560 the sidewalks because the reality is you've got kids trying 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:39.120 to go to school or walk to the bus stop, 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:41.440 or people waiting for metro, whatever it might be, and 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:43.280 now they've got to stand in the road and that's 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:45.680 just horribly unsafe that that's the whole point of this. 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:47.720 Yeah, exactly. 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:50.120 You know, I've seen way too many people in the 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.320 last weeks who couldn't pass through the sidewalks, so they're 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:54.320 just walking down the middle of the street. And it's 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:57.600 arguably safer for them because they because of the slippage 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:58.359 and the ice. 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:00.880 That has accumulated. It's not safer because you have these 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:02.920 vehicles that are coming along. It's not safer for them, 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:05.400 it's not safer for the vehicles. And so again, as 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:07.440 a community, we have to step up and do better. 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:08.800 And so how do we do that. 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:10.760 Again, we're not trying to be punitive here, We're just 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:12.680 trying to figure out ways and we can solve problems 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:15.160 that have arisen, and frankly, of all the problems that 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:16.640 we had last year, for this to be the next 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:18.480 issue to tackle, I think it's a good side of 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:19.280 where the city's setting. 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.880 Yeah, you got the roads tackled. Now it's the sidewalks 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:26.559 which is challenging in different ways. I suppose seth and 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:28.640 we'll see what comes of this whole thing. I would 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:31.920 also think too, that this is such an unusually heavy 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:34.720 snowfall winter for us. We normally don't get this much 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:36.319 so in a short period of time, you know, and 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:38.640 maybe a storm or we get four inches or something 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:40.520 like that, and we treat it like it's a big deal. 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:43.160 You know, a foot of snow and plus what we're 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:46.720 getting tomorrow on sidewalks, yeah, that's impassable. You know, an 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:48.760 inch or two you probably can walk over that. And 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:52.040 so is this kind of preparing for the quote unquote 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:55.640 hundred year flood as opposed to what we normally say. 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:58.239 You know, last year, I got a lot of criticism 0:12:58.240 --> 0:12:59.920 when I was when I was saying that we need 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.520 better on the snowplows because everyone said it was a 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:06.000 once in a twenty year storm, and barely twelve months later, 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:07.760 that once in a twenty year storm hit again. 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:08.599 Right. 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:11.120 You know, the reality is we do live in a 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:13.720 city where snowhall events happen, and we don't know when 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:16.240 the next big snowstorm is. We didn't think two weeks together, 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:17.920 we're going to have two big storms within. 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:18.440 A two week period. 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:22.320 And yet that's what we're staring down the gun on. So, yes, 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:23.960 this is an important issue to make sure that we 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:25.160 continue to just improve on. 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:27.240 And I hope that we don't have to experience it 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:28.240 for the next hundred years. 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:31.840 But if I've learned anything about my predictions, if you will, 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:33.640 we'll try to have it again in the next three weeks. 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:35.559 And so let's just be ready and let's start having 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:36.840 these conversations and figure. 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:38.559 Out again as a community, how do. 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:39.839 We do better and how do we work with each 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:42.520 other make sure we're supporting the administration for what they 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:44.599 need and the resources they need to be successful. 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:47.559 Well, the good news is much like diarrhea, it doesn't 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:48.559 hang on too much longer. 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:48.760 Here on. 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:50.839 I got a few weeks of this nonsense, Seth Walsh, 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:52.840 and then we'll be we'll be headed to spring. I 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:55.680 think with Red's baseball, Aunu Suarez now we're in a 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:58.240 red uniform, so we got hope down at a great 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:01.160 American ballpark for our red legs. But of course with 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:04.320 warmer temperature and all these cold and freezing and the snows, 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:08.480 the the you know, the warming and freezing cycle, we 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:09.680 got to worry about potholes. 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:11.080 Now, are we here? 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:13.480 I think this is going to focus from clearing sidewalks 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:16.640 to pothole damage in a few short weeks, and are 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:20.600 we prepared to deal with the probably immeasurable amount of 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:23.480 potholes Last year it was a high pothole season. This 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:25.960 year I would suspect the same. Are we better in 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:28.760 twenty twenty six than we were in twenty twenty five 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:29.080 on us? 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:33.400 You know, potholes didn't get as much attention last year 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:35.880 in the media as the snowstorm did, but it did 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:37.960 get a lot of attention on the inside of city Hall. 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:40.160 House Member Nolan obviously did. 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:42.440 A you know, quick blitz to try to come up with 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:45.240 some solutions for the pothole how we can do better 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:47.880 at podoles, and then House I believe today is actually 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:50.280 going to be approving funding to buy new equipment from 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:53.440 Pothole Feelings, So hopefully you're going to see improvement or 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:56.680 remarkable improvement. Again, it's under the same new director who's 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:58.440 solved our Sonowpo situation. 0:14:58.480 --> 0:14:59.040 Mark Riley. 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.760 So I feel optimistic, but let's have that conversation of 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:03.760 four weeks when we get to see it in action, right. 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:05.560 Right, and hopefully we are better than we have been 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:07.000 in the past when it comes to poddles. Right now, 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:11.360 it's snow on sidewalks. What's the timeline for this proposal? 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:15.880 So we were filing it today, which means we will 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:19.320 officially vote on it next week and hopefully we'll see 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:20.520 resolves quickly from there. 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:22.480 Yeah, all right, No, we think this is a priority 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:22.880 for the city. 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:24.240 Yeah, I get what is you're trying to do because 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:26.160 you can't have people, especially kids, walking in the street 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:29.120 because the sidewalks aren't cleared for sure. So anyway, hey, Seth, 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:30.800 appreciate you jump and I always love having you on 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:32.440 the program. And thanks again, buddy, have a good. 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:33.960 Day, Thanks Scott. 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:35.760 All right, anytime there you go, Seth Walsh on The 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:39.360 Scott's Loan Show. There may be some questions how are 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:42.360 you enforced this namely, but I get the concept because 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:44.720 you know, when sicy and cold out people walk in 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:47.640 the street because at least the road is cleared, and 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:49.600 in the past you couldn't walk anywhere because the roads 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:50.120 weren't cleared. 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:51.720 So I guess we're making progress. 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:54.000 Julie Hatters, here is next. It's mental health money on 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:57.320 the Scott Sloan Show on seven hundred WLW. Why do 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:01.520 people hang on to relationships much longer than the life 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:05.240