Wawa Municipal staff will look into ways to improve snow clearing for next season.
In Wawa Municipal Council's Committee of the Whole meeting Tuesday night, Councillor Cathy Cannon noted she'd been hearing complaints about the season-ending "scraping" of roads leaving large amounts of difficult to move snow, ice, and debris at the end of driveways, asking whether there was a policy on whether the Municipality would assist with removing that, to which she was told there's no policy but operating practice is that the Municipality does not help with that, leaving it up to the property owner, and while Cannon referenced times where municipal staff had provided assistance, she was told there is no record of those times, but it could have happened when staff had some extra time, which has not been the case this season.
Cannon pushed for a look into whether it was feasible - citing concerns for seniors especially - with Mayor Melanie Pilon questioning whether that was something that should be investigated - concerned it would be competing with local businesses - before suggesting the scope of the review be expanded to generally cover how snow clearing could be improved, including that measure - citing other complaints about snow removal this year and in the past - with agreement the report should be delivered well ahead of the snowier weather at the end of the year.