Another exemplary shoveling effort by Republic Parking folks on surface parking lot, starting in the 4 am darkness on Christmas Eve morning–lot neatly and nearly completely cleared of new (and older) fallen snow.
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Another exemplary shoveling effort by Republic Parking folks on surface parking lot, starting in the 4 am darkness on Christmas Eve morning–lot neatly and nearly completely cleared of new (and older) fallen snow.
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Civil engineering graffiti all along the east sidewalk of Division, between William and Liberty, indicates that the sidewalk is coming up soon. Signs at the north and south ends say the sidewalk is closed, but dozens of pedestrians use it anyway.
The Detroit Free Press looks at a dispute between state legislators and the boards that manage Detroit’s two public pension funds. Lawmakers have introduced bills to bring the pension funds under the control of a Lansing-based nonprofit trust, the Municipal Employees’ Retirement System. The article quotes Bob Stevenson, an Ann Arbor-based pension attorney, who says the Bing administration should restructure the existing boards: “Undoubtedly, the Detroit pension systems have been poorly run, but I don’t think the answer in my view would be to transition to MERS. I would find some means to keep these pension plans autonomous.” [Source]
The Eat Close to Home blog puts out a call for volunteers for Avalon Housing’s Edible Avalon project: “Edible Avalon is a great group that’s not only helping to build gardens in the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti area, they are teaching people how to garden and supporting them through their first gardening efforts. They are looking for volunteers to help mentor new gardeners at their garden sites 1-3 hours per week.” [Source]
In a recent report on an AAPS board meeting, we paraphrased remarks of participants, and we employed the informal nomenclature of the speakers for “Ann Arbor Open School @ Mack.” Those variants were departures from the accepted standard shortening to “Ann Arbor Open.” We acknowledge the name of the school here, and have cleaned up references to it in the original piece.
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Yesterday (or maybe the day before … in any event, snow was falling hard) I was going past that same location and saw the Republic Parking IT guy, Stephen Smith wrangling a snowblower.
Hooray. We have a carefully tended parking lot, and sidewalks full of ice, and big puddles of slush at the street corners.
Yay for cars.
It’s about the time of year to print out the sidewalk clearing reminders from http://wbwc.org/snow/
The URL for sidewalk clearing reminders (given by Matt above and thanks very much for publishing it) seems to pertain to residential districts. Is there anything geared specifically to DOWNTOWN? The access to sidewalks at intersections is vital for pedestrians but, if the truth be told, those areas are often neglected.
I wrote a paragraph for businesses to add to mine:
Businesses: All snow and ice which has accumulated on the adjacent public sidewalk prior to 6am must be removed by noon. Immediately after the accumulation of ice on such a sidewalk it must be treated with sand, salt or other substance to prevent it from being slippery.