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REPORT
OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT
Meeting:
GENERAL PURPOSE AND ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE
FEBRUARY 20, 2006
Date:
Report #: OPD-001-06 File #:
By-Law #:
Subject:
2005 WINTER REPORT
Recommendations:
It is respectfully recommended that the General Purpose and Administration
Committee recommend to Council the following:
1. THAT Report OPD-001-06 be received for information;
Submitted by:
Reviewed bO ~....:1A
Franklin Wu,
Chief Administrative Officer
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REPORT NO. OPD-001-06
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BACKGROUND AND COMMENT:
The Operations Department during the winter of 2005 dealt with fluctuating
weather patterns that saw changes from extreme cold, rain to snow to freezing
rain within relatively short periods of time.
Please note in the following table the total number of our responses for the 2005
winter season:
January February March April November December Total
Winter
Responses
18 10 12 3 4 13 60
This includes thirty-two full responses and eleven early morning call ins.
As of Dec 31 for the 2005 winter season the Operations Department incurred
5634.5 hours of total overtime including 1182.5 hours for Sunday maintenance.
BUDGET:
Further to our Report OPD-009-05, the 2005 winter maintenance budget from
January 1st to December 31st was $1,300,892.00 with an actual of
$1,568,352.56, after the year end inventory adjustment. It should be noted that
November and December maintenance was approximately $440,000.00 of the
above total.
ADDITIONAL WINTER MAINTENANCE:
With the paving of the walking trails at Valley 2000, Soper Creek and Lions Trail,
there have been requests by the public to fully maintain these during the winter.
It is estimated that an additional $200,000 would have to be added to the winter
maintenance budget to include this as part of our winter program.
Several factors including lighting and liability will also have to be considered. As
the Municipality will be issuing a tender for winter maintenance in the spring staff
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will include the option of maintaining these walkways for further consideration
during the 2007 Budget process.
BACKGROUND:
The Senior Citizens and Physically Disabled Sidewalk and Driveway Windrow
Snow Clearing Program was a popular program again this past season. Since its
introduction in 1993 the program has significantly expanded across the
Municipality. Although there were 79 participants that did not return to the
program this past season, there were 66 new participants and 561 residents who
returned to the program, totaling 627 participants for the 2005-2006 season.
41
16
12
1
5
1
o
2
1
o
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79
Did Not Return to Program from 04-05
Total Participants in 04-05 Program
Bowmanville
Courtice
Newcastle
Newtonville
Orono
Solina
Burketon
Enniskillen
Hampton
Maple Grove
Mitchell's Comers
343
121
48
8
16
4
1
2
10
2
6
561
79
637
34
23
4
o
4
o
o
o
1
o
o
66
377
144
52
8
20
4
1
2
11
2
6
627
Increase to the 05-06 Program from last Year
For residents to be eligible for this service, applicants must be 65 years of age or
older or be physically disabled, occupy a single family, dwelling which fronts onto
a Municipal street in the specified urban areas or the urbanized areas of the
specified hamlet's, and have no able bodied persons under the age of 65 years
residing on the property. Senior citizens must provide a copy of a birth certificate
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or Senior Citizens Number; physically disabled applicants must provide a doctor's
certificate.
The snow clearing service on municipal sidewalks starts when a snowfall ends
and only when there is more than 2 cm (approximately 1 inch) of snow on
sidewalks. The driveway windrow snow clearing service is not undertaken until
the snow plowing on all Municipal streets has been completed.
Below is a table of call-out statistics for this program from 2001 to 2005:
Call-Out Statistics
November December January February March April Total
2001-02 0 6 10 10 7 0 33
2002-03 2 11 23 14 11 4 65
2003-04 1 6 23 23 8 0 60
2004-05 2 13 20 7 9 2 53
*2005-06 5 10 5
*A total of 51 callouts for winter sidewalk maintenance were made in 2005
l.
Seniors Snow Clearing Contract:
Total budget for this program in 2005 was $90,000.00 with an actual of
$71,094.48.
SALT MANAGEMENT PLAN:
As part of our Salt Management Plan we have installed the newest version of
Dickey John Control Point material application spreaders in three of our trucks.
This will eliminate waste from over application, save money and better protect
the environment. An important part of our Salt Management Plan is record
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keeping of all material used by our plow equipment. The Dickey John Control
Point units download this information from the onboard computer for future
reference.
All winter maintenance staff attended a seminar by Dickey John Canada on the
operation and use of these units. The mechanics received additional specialized
training on repairing, calibration and diagnosis. All new trucks being built will be
tendered with this technology.
As mixing a consistent blend of material is also an important part of our salt
management plan, we initiated a new process starting in the fall 2005. A double
conveyor system was used to more accurately mix the salt and sand, plus an
injection of liquid calcium chloride was added to the mixture to aid in the deicing
process. The material contains 12% salt mix ratio with four gallons of liquid
calcium chloride per tonne.
CONCLUSION:
The Operations Department continues to closely monitor weather forecasts
through the various weather systems to observe conditions to respond
accordingly.
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