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- 28:11… because we have no money left. That number might be about 80. Sorry, that additional number to get us to the second half of the winter snow removal might be running was a fair estimate
- 24:18think it might be a good idea is to see if Rob can put up a snow fence or something as a as a barrier. Um, you know, just so we're not reliving this in six months, right? Um, but, um, I can talk to Rob about that. I know that's really really I I second that. I think that's really important to put a physical barrier there. U, signs are not going to help you a lot. A physical …
- 1:10:42Uh 11 Warren uh installed a bunch of AEDs thermostat covers door latch. Uh we put a new outdoor storage shed in for a um for lawn equipment and a snow blower.
- 2026-09-15County Health and Human Services CommitteeHealth & Human Services || September 15, 20261 passage1:13:18Talking about fix snow this year.
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- 2026-02-09Common CouncilCommon Council Code and Infrastructure Committee 2/9/2617 passages longer discussion24:29Um, back to the, you know, this happens to be, you know, the snow when you shovel it, you think you're shoveling a lot of snow, but just, this is one of the places we deposit snow, and it where there's three of them throughout the city. And you can just kind of get an idea that the picture with the backho that reaches about 13 feet high. So, you know, there's a lot of snow …
- 1:42:54december uh you see snow removal in the middle of the night and that's when we do it because there's no cars a traffic around we can drive down the streets and we're not in anybody's way we're not bothering anybody we just move along uh you know 24 shows this snowblower loading into the back of the trucks um so you know what we do is you can see the snow on the on the curbs …
- 1:09:48… when pocketbook uh DPW and fire were discussing the allocation of the space because a portion of that lot is in fact used by the city for snow snow removal. So with regard to any snow removal that needs to occur, there is in fact a location beyond the space that's currently allocated for parking that is uh specifically you know there for putting snow in the event of a major …
- 2:48:56Yes. uh some phone calls uh for snow that's not true of snow like the issue still stands with snow clearing and then I'm thinking of snow storage like those it's not to scale okay I can't tell by looking at the 23 with parking like the sorry the 32 parking lot spots if you're going to have snow storage space and and you're and like so what so are you accounting for that are …
- 2026-02-18County Government CommitteeCounty Govt || Public Works || February 18, 20268 passages longer discussion1:24:29So, we added some snow guard to the new 911 entrance so it doesn't come down on the equipment. Well, regular routine maintenance, you know, a lot of snow removal, too. So,
- 2:12elderly people um I think there would be a lot of push back on making the snow emergency charg too high because it can be a real hardship sometimes for people to move their car okay right so I don't know I mean like some streets it's like you just can't find anywhere to park when when there's a snow emergency particularly if particularly if you park on a street uh that has …
- 1:20:35like it's maybe State Street but that's that's why we have alternating Subway we don't have to have snow emergencies every time we get a couple inches of snow uh down to Promenade Hill Park the next picture so some have seen these signs here um you know it's a good news bad news thing the good news is uh we have four hundred thousand dollars worth of quarried blue stone that …
- 18:40… it looked like it wasn't because that's the kind of storm we had which was unfortunate so i know a lot of work had to go into the ice and snow removal for this storm um but it is dpw's responsibility is that right they plow yeah and we share you know if we're around we'll help shovel and put down salt but you know we don't have a plow so they plow and they got to it today i …
- 39:33yeah, we have more signs coming. It's just a matter of working with DPW to put them up because they've been slammed with the snow emergency snow removal.
- 28:58… because of code and then the staffing issues so how are you preparing uh for just in case uh transportation is needed if it does snow rain whatever the situation may be um what are you relying on now for transportation well right now we're not concerned about it since that hasn't happened yet and people are able to get to our programs or walk to their programs in the weather …
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- 28:11… because we have no money left. That number might be about 80. Sorry, that additional number to get us to the second half of the winter snow removal might be running was a fair estimate
- 24:18think it might be a good idea is to see if Rob can put up a snow fence or something as a as a barrier. Um, you know, just so we're not reliving this in six months, right? Um, but, um, I can talk to Rob about that. I know that's really really I I second that. I think that's really important to put a physical barrier there. U, signs are not going to help you a lot. A physical …
- 1:10:42Uh 11 Warren uh installed a bunch of AEDs thermostat covers door latch. Uh we put a new outdoor storage shed in for a um for lawn equipment and a snow blower.
- 2026-09-15County Health and Human Services CommitteeHealth & Human Services || September 15, 20261 passage1:13:18Talking about fix snow this year.
- 13:33Um and they're still there. So Rob said if we can get the property I mean if we get the vehicles off he has no problem putting the snow fence up. Put a barrier there. Uh the police department will if we need to facilitate if we have tow truck come in which uh could be there uh to remove the the property.
- 2026-08-26County Finance CommitteeTobacco Securitization || Finance || August 26, 2026 HD 720p2 passages16:33Opposed? Carried. Public works. Resolution number 50, authorization to award the bid for snow and sand items.
- 2026-08-19County Government CommitteeCounty Govt || Public Works || August 19, 20265 passages longer discussion40:46Uh first resolution request is to award the bid for snow sand items numbers one and two
- 4:30… on dirt bikes. They like to ride up the embankment. Um there was a man who every day went cross-country skiing around when there was snow. It's still in the mind of the public. It's still mowed by the DPW on a like weekly or monthly basis. So it's still effectively a piece of parkland that the city is in contract to sell having not performed the final act of going through the …
- 24:32Um if you [clears throat] I I'm a lifelong resident of Hudson born here in 1965 and at that time we had a a ton of housing downtown in Hudson that was plowed under by HUD um during that remediation in the 70s. So when I hear talk about people saying this is a large project and this will um grow our population at that time we had 12 to 13,000 people in this city or more and and …
- 2026-08-11HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 8/11/2026 Board of Education Meeting1 passage37:54Trying to keep the water from coming in the front of the building. They were actually using the snow plows to constantly just keep pushing the water away from the building and around so it would travel down to the river and not come into the building. So because of those efforts it really stopped more damage from happening to the building. So again just a significant thanks to …
- 1:09:48… when pocketbook uh DPW and fire were discussing the allocation of the space because a portion of that lot is in fact used by the city for snow snow removal. So with regard to any snow removal that needs to occur, there is in fact a location beyond the space that's currently allocated for parking that is uh specifically you know there for putting snow in the event of a major …
- 12:43See if you can do a snow fence or something. See if you have something that can help us out,
- 28:09And they did a brownfield project in the 70s and turned it into what they called at the time a diamond project to put those people that HUD had displaced when they plowed downtown down what they believed to be new, you know, beautiful housing. It wasn't 10 years later before that building was having problems, right? And the problems just came, you know, continued to persist …
- 40:39down before it starts snowing. It'd be
- 2026-07-15County Government CommitteeCounty Govt || Public Works || July 15, 20264 passages longer discussion49:14He wasn't plowing snow or anything, so he had time to do his homework.
- 50:54There was a truck that we had a truck. So, when it snows, they put the plow on it so they can plow. But then they had like um add-on piece where like saying you wanted you were getting new furniture. They would take their old furniture to the duck and then charge you with they're being char Well, we're being charged at the dump.
- 2026-07-14County Health and Human Services CommitteeHealth & Human Services || Public Safety || July 14, 20262 passages35:04Yeah. The lay of snow that never left.
- 37:43You don't you want to sweep there regularly? Don't you want to get snow off both sides of the street regularly?
- 38:58Yeah. um from Snow and the official like TPW projects and there's all that it's like a 50 year timeline really.
- 47:34… our potholes. Additionally, we had $434,247 in rollover funds from the previous season. Um some of that is the encumbered money for u the plow trucks
- 2026-06-10County Board of SupervisorsWellness Hub Presentation || Full Board Meeting || June 10, 20261 passage38:14… in Hillsdale, but we stood there and we handed off that lens sock and then we got in our cars and went home. We didn't trace through the snow to Boston, but it's really amazing. So, we're we're really thrilled to be uh able to celebrate America's birthday.
- 2:50… moving at a good pace, but obviously if if there's no way that we can rebuild the road and then we get a blizzard, um, a cold patch, our plows are just going to rip through.
- 1:04:25… and uh to Shan, fire chief to if they need the extra and we're not using it to kind of alleviate and they'll utilize more if there's no snow or no event at the firehouse for extra to try to alleviate even more parking for bigger events that they have. I think it's clearly in their best interest to pave it to entice people to go over there because some of the clientele cars …
- 1:11:28I think I think this would be easier to plow now because it's not like you have to right now you have to walk up a hill if it's icy. That's that's it.
- 1:08:29… a lighter note, um from highway. So last week uh highway had gone up to New Lebanon School District. They had uh the winner as far as the snow plow naming contest. And the name was the Big Le Plowski. So uh digital lit- literacy period number three, generally speaking seventh graders. So they had an opportunity to take them a photo uh with the truck. They get to drive it? Uh …
- 2026-05-19County Health and Human Services CommitteeHealth & Human Services || Public Safety || May 19, 20261 passage28:27… could indicate or make diagnosis easier. Um but yeah it's not unexpected. You think that the brutal winter we had and the cold and the snow would have taken care of them but actually the amount of snow created like an insular level to them. So it actually helped preserve them. So you can't win really. Yeah. I asked for selfish reasons. I pulled two out of me in two days. So,
- 11:44… in the discussions and the number of spaces and the area that was being leased to them was going to create problems for DPW with regard to snow removal and for um the firehouse when they were having events etc. So um with the new administration uh we revisited this whole lease and um DBW and the fire department uh worked with Baka book to identify uh the number of spaces that …
- 1:16:02… garage along the alley. It's a vacant property. It is, in my estimation, more than a vacant property. It's abandoned. They never sweep the snow off the shovel of snow off the sidewalk. I am constantly calling code enforcement to remind them that the grass has not been cut. Uh the house is a disgrace.
- 3:13… there were some problems with how that was done in terms of the procedure and so that did not go through in December. Um we then had the snow situation that that we all remember in February March. So they now have a site plan and that contract isn't is going through the the appropriate channels and should be before the council. Um I hope by next month that they will formally …
- 2:48Not snowing hopefully. Um
- 4:30… and a second. All in favor? Opposed? Carried. Resolution number 26, authorization to purchase two 2026 Western Star dump trucks with plow equipment for Onondaga Onondaga County purchasing contract.
- 27:05… 2027 budget and there will be an increase in the sewer fund that will I mean that will be included and then yes we made a change to the snow removal budget mostly covered it. There's 330 controllers left in the budget and anything that happens through the rest rest of the year December will need it to kind of
- 3:19but 2026, we've already went over on snow removal and now on the electricity. So, that's that's like over.
- 12:05But, I did show a nice little picture. This is the some of the remaining snow behind one of our snow dumps. And you can see that as the plows go over in the snowstorm and push the snow, when we do snow removal, a lot of this grit gets picked up in that snow, and the snow melts, and so as that pile melts, it will get more black and more black cuz the grit doesn't melt. And and …
- 59:48Thank you. until until the paint gets done. Is there any way to do those, you know, parking signs that are, you know, that they usually do for snow removal and things like that on that corner?
- 1:05:11Well, um, yeah, at this point in time, the property owner is responsible for keeping the sidewalk clear of ice and snow. The city is responsible for the maintenance of the sidewalks.
- 2026-03-18County Government CommitteeCounty Gov't || Public Works || March 18, 20263 passages longer discussion39:19I thought that's where you were going. I don't know. I don't know. We did we did a monolithic surfacing because uh we were concerned that there'd be a little bit of push back from a maintenance perspective because when you're plowing sometimes even though it set on like a solid basis of
- 24:32It's from the snow.
- 2026-03-17County Public Safety CommitteePublic Safety || Health & Human Services || March 17, 20262 passages9:09I thought they would all froze this winter, but the this the snow the amount of snow we had it creates like an insulation like you know what all this deal
- 7:46And uh Nathan is our CAC leazison but I don't think you've had anything to report yet. And they didn't have a meeting this month because of snow.