It seems that the Cameron Street Bridge issue (which had been promised/slated to be brought up before Council in November 2006) has been dropped, perhaps mercifully relegated to file #13.

How about some money for snow removal. I've seen this city bad before but this weekend was pathetic.
Don't any of you Council members or the Mayor drive in our city...how can you let YRB get away with the terrible job they do. Or did we waste all the money on ""Study's"" so we don't have enough for proper equipment or resources to do the job.....Somebody tell me why no matter where I go in the winter for other cities or towns... Prince George city and area is always the worst of the lot....

YRB???

YRB is not responsible for clearing the residential streets. It seems neither is the city. This city cannot handle virtually continuous snowfall as we have been getting. It is only 5 to 10 cm each time with a day, at the most, clearing between, but it adds up. The city has done our street once this winter. The roads are like driving down ungraded gravel roads. The adfreezing to manhole covers in the middle of the streets is terrible; leaves unsuspected solid ice bumps hidden beneath the cover of the softer snow until you hit it with your car and knock out the shocks and your front teeth on the steering wheel.

This may be a city that has winters, but it is not a winter city by a long shot.

BTW, that would be one reason to have gotten a city manager from another city somewhere back east where they also have snow, except that they clear it much more quickly and effectively.

People around here, for some reason or other, think this is the way cities with snow are in the winter.

Far from it. I grew up in a city with more snow than we get here and the plows were out in ALL areas of the city within a few hours of snow starting. I recall having to shovel several times during a typical 6 to 8 inch snowfall.

Yeah, well this is no "la la" land.
Many roads, limited amount of equipment and lots of snow. What does that add up to?
Should the city buy many pieces of addditional equipment, more employees plus plus for a "just in case" scenario?
Whoa, sayeth the taxpayer-we cannot afford that.
Each piece of equipment can travel only so many miles in a 24 hour period. Now that is one tough piece of information to stomach.
So, for a number of years we have been blessed with low snowfalls-so roads were plowed in a reasonable amount of time. I was also blessed with a great contractor for years-and I did not even need to call him, he just showed up and did the job. How's that for service?
Well, this morning he was heading to plow for me, and a major hydraulic line on his equipment broke. Now comes the problem of finding a part, as equipment has been breaking down regularly on contractors who are working long hard hours. Not all parts seem to be readily available in this city. Find the part, get the machinery operable, and back to work, maybe already late into the evening, and the snow keeps falling.
We all think we should be given precedence-and our roads are the only important ones. WRONG!
Get rid of all frustrations-go shovel, and when you are done with yours, help a neighbor!
Spread some good will along with the snow!

Well said, "trusted" ! Boom, boom!

Owl would rather blame a city manager that just walked into his new office this morning. We should have hired somebody who has seen snow before, like the guy is from Mars or something.

Nobody, I repeat, nobody in town should be given any opportunity to advance their careers or move up the ladder.

We should be importing all these important people from "important people land" where they manufacture perfect people for important positions, and they can do any job perfectly and handle any situation perfectly, regardless of equipment or manpower shortages, equipment breakdowns, people off work sick, the high cost of fuel to run all these machines 36 hours a day, the shortage of budgeted revenue, and the taxpayers adamant unwillingness to pay one more red cent in taxes.

Go get a shovel !! I started my snowblower yesterday and cleared myself and two neighbors. If everybody took this approach, we would all be done with it !

Stop "der fingerplunken" and start shovelling.
Computer keyboards do not make good snowplows.

Also remember, "back east" = $$$$$$$$$$$$$

Prince George = "Got any spare change ?"

I have seen people plowing the streets in Russia and China ....

This is Canada ....

I think we should get rid of city hall and do all the work required to keep a modern city moving about its daily business by ourselves .....

...congratulations, Mayor ! You just elected yourself, now get going on all these problems.

I'm too busy to manage a city.

:-)

I, also, am too busy!
Seems the people most capable are already committed to other projects-including business.
Owl definitely is the most promising candidate, if he can just get his mind off potholes, and add snow covered manhole covers.
No offense-just had a couple minutes for smalltalk.

"If you want to get something done, give it to a busy person."

Olde Chinese proverb ....

I have to agree with that proverb.
Busy people seem to be capable of fitting in those extra chores with little stress.
Like I always said, "I don't get stress-I give it."
By the way, I don't think I know what it is!