[RP TownTalk] Report on snow event and progress toward removal

[Robert Reilly]

Riverdalians:

As a displaced northerner, I cannot believe the stink being displayed here
over snow removal. Those from Metro New York or Boston know big taxes are
$20,000 anually per average home. My parents neighbor pays just past
$29,000. They do not get garbage removal within that payment. Riverdale
could store a bulk of salt as stated, but it is slightly bad for the
environment to sit it out there all year waiting to be used that rare
occasion. It is generally stored in pole barns as the rain makes it one
giant grain of salt. It would be a better plan to have people do like the
northerners do, put their cars in the driveway pressed bumper to bumper.
Have the street clear on the snow day. That makes the plow drivers job just
a bit easier. Work as a community !! Get a shovel.!!! Maybe Riverdale needs
to raise taxes, but 4 new plows at $100k each  for that haley's comet snow
storm.!!!! Also buy a few dozen of shotgun's for the possible landing of
geese that might cause a public nuisance.

Did the complainers beat the plow in their job of shoveling the sidewalk and
driveway apron????

Robert

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Melissa Avery <m.avery at rocketmail.com>wrote:

> the fact is we have rather mild weather around here , but we also have snow
> accumulation.
>
> Any professional running a towns public works needs to be aware of the
> potential of the weather in the Washington area. If you are not originaly
> from the area and don't understan our weather, read about it, the weather
> patterns are well documented as far back as the civil war.
>
>
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> Thank goodness it is relitivly warm this week and most of the snow will
> melt quickly. When I was a kid we had two or three snow stormes like this.
> the worst one I rembember was at the end of  Feb. 1979. It was cold and it
> took a long time for the snow to melt.
>
>
>
> Running out of salt is appauling. All the other towns around us had a plan
> and stuck to it. We ran our snow removal like Andy of Maybarry, "ah shucks
> ma , everyone was so nice!" , so who cares if we can get out on the road or
> not.
>
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> the unincorperated part of Riverdale is managed by the county. The county
> was even worse than the town as far as the snow removal goes. But then they
> don't pay taxes to Riverdale Park.
>
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>
> Home owners in Riverdale Park pay some mighty high taxes.
>
> Town services should bare that in mind. Unlike the county they have an
> obligation to the citizens of the town who pay for these services.
>
>
>
> Public works needs to train their employees how to use the snow equipment
> so they don't break it and use up all the salt the first time the trucks go
> out.
>
> Maybe the town needs to rent a big snow plow.
>
> If the money for snow removal  is over budgeted, it can be re ssigned in
> the next years budget, or carried over to the next years budget.
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> Also, If the town truly want to improve the snow removal performance, give
> it an honest assesment, not these self congradulatory pats on the back for a
> mediorcre job per usual.
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>
>
> But my real question is
>
> Do the town officals want to make Riverdale Park a better place to live or
> are they just collecting a pay check at the tax payers expence for  pating
> each other on the back making up excuses for doing nothing really
> constructive?
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Robert G Reilly & Co.
4711 Riverdale rd
Riverdale, M.D. 20737
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