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they are doing sewer or water repair, see what tomorrow brings

they are repairing Aberdeens

I thought I heard on the radio they were clearing out ice on the walkways and streets?

Eyebiter said " So I come home today to the city putting up no parking signs as of 8:00AM tomorrow this only happens when they are doing snow clearing.....problem is the road is bare!!!!! If they can't find a use for our tax $$ they could just give them back instead of wasting them clearing snow that isn't there. I hope someone at city hall feels a bit guilty about spending/ WASTING TAX DOLLARS like this. Edited by admin, 2016-02-01 21:43:14. Reason: title"

Where?  
 

I kid you not there's a discussion here on Ebrandon about this issue every year and that's a fact.  
 
What you(op) can do is contact the city and ask them what is going on, I think there's even a number to contact them on the sign. Ebrandon once again is not a solution to your problem and never will be.

There lots of reason the signs could of been put up other that snow clearing such as sewer and water repair, tree trimming, test hole drilling, building or house demolition, surveying, etc. Another thing is maybe they were put up in error. A few years ago the city did the same thing on my street and then came the next morning and took them down the next morning because the street was bare and there was no need to grade it. But there was other streets in the area that had quite a bit of snow on them and were graded.  

The_Young_Man said "I kid you not there's a discussion here on Ebrandon about this issue every year and that's a fact.     What you(op) can do is contact the city and ask them what is going on, I think there's even a number to contact them on the sign. Ebrandon once again is not a solution to your problem and never will be. "

Maybe you don't pay taxes, or you work for the city??? but most of us do, and when I see our taxes being wasted I want more people to know about it than just the group that is wasting them.  

Without more info this isn't a discussion. Someone mentioned at least one area of the city where signs have gone up completely unrelated to snow clearing. Can respect if you don't want to tell people where you live, but if you aren't sharing at least a general location you're asking people to base a whole discussion on your personal assumption that this is snow related and that there must be no rational reason for whatever it is that the city is undertaking.  
 
Edited by Adam, 2016-02-02 09:37:18

Adam said "Without more info this isn't a discussion. Someone mentioned at least one area of the city where signs have gone up completely unrelated to snow clearing. Can respect if you don't want to tell people where you live, but if you aren't sharing at least a general location you're asking people to base a whole discussion on your personal assumption that this is snow related and that there must be no rational reason for whatever it is that the city is undertaking.     Edited by Adam, 2016-02-02 09:37:18"

400 block of Russell

Signs were also up on Aberdeen yesterday and they are there today fixing a break in water main.

Eyebiter said " So I come home today to the city putting up no parking signs as of 8:00AM tomorrow this only happens when they are doing snow clearing.....problem is the road is bare!!!!! If they can't find a use for our tax $$ they could just give them back instead of wasting them clearing snow that isn't there. I hope someone at city hall feels a bit guilty about spending/ WASTING TAX DOLLARS like this. Edited by admin, 2016-02-01 21:43:14. Reason: title"

The city was clearing ice from the roads on the hills in the East End and North Hill as far as I know.  
 
The grader operators did a good job but the front end loader operator made a mess of our driveway. Slow down a bit to do a better job!  
 
We're just happy that we're actually getting something we need out of our tax dollars. The city has a snow clearing budget to use up so they will waste it whichever way they see fit.  
 
We hope they are quick to clear these same hills when we get 6 inches of snow.  
 
My experience calling the city or city councillors with such issues just falls on deaf ears. They say they are damned if they do and damned if they don't. Really, all taxpayers want is our money spent effectively and for the city to have some common sense when spending it.  
 
Spring is coming!

OP,  
 
If you take a look at the City of Brandon website, there is a link on the main page called Snow Clearing Map (I'll include a link at the bottom). It clearly states they are currently in the process of clearing Zone A. This is no where near the 400 Block of Russell Street. Now if you also keep an eye on the City of Brandon's Public Road Closures, you'd be able to see if your road will be closed for some other reason (OTHER than Snow Clearing). Now the other thing to check is the City of Brandon Notices (again, on their webpage). You'll see there (as of January 29) that the City is undertaking snow clearing due to ice in areas mentioned on the notice. And lastly, the City provided contact information for enquires, contact Public Works at publicworks@brandon.ca or their 24hr Line at 204-729-2285, or the City's Twitter account (@CityBrandon) or check out #bdnmb to see if someone has already had the same concern.  
 
As a side note, it doesn't matter if someone does or doesn't work for the City. Methods are available to find out what's going on in your area, you just need to look.  
 
 
Snow Clearing Map  
http://gis.brandon.ca/snowclearing/  
 
Public Road Closures  
http://roadclosures.brandon.ca/

Eyebiter said "    The_Young_Man said "I kid you not there's a discussion here on Ebrandon about this issue every year and that's a fact.     What you(op) can do is contact the city and ask them what is going on, I think there's even a number to contact them on the sign. Ebrandon once again is not a solution to your problem and never will be. " Maybe you don't pay taxes, or you work for the city??? but most of us do, and when I see our taxes being wasted I want more people to know about it than just the group that is wasting them.   "

Yes I live in Brandon and pay property taxes and all other taxes I`m required to pay. And no I don't work for the city and never have and likely never will.  
 
My whole point is don't jump to conclusion so fast that the city is wasting tax dollars, as you have heard there are a lot of other reasons no parking signs go up other than snow clearing. Also as I said before you can always contact the city and voice your concern and ask why the sign are going up. The city will give you answer.  
 
While Ebrandon does help to get your complaint out and everyone sees it, it in most case and exceptionally in cases involving the city will not help the situation and why complain if nothing is going to get done about it.  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Edited by The_Young_Man, 2016-02-02 12:25:05

So took a drive down this block for fun.  
Had the impression from this post that the block is baby's-bottom smooth which isn't the case. Definitely pavement for part of the block, another part of it is like a lot of side roads after the conditions of the last couple weeks.... essentially one lane down the middle and then an icy-snowy mogul course for the rest of the width of the road. I live in a completely different area but having run into situations on similar streets recently where oncoming cars have to try to find a way to pull off to the side to allow other traffic through I have no problem with some of the already allocated snow budget going towards this sort of thing.  
 
A little exercise to *rough* the tax impact of what's been brought up.  
I pulled up the 2016 budget documents on the city site at http://brandon.ca/budget/2016-budget  
Cant seem to find a date on them to know just how current they are but they should give enough of an idea for the purpose of roughing numbers.  
If we go on the assumption that this is out of snow removal, in those documents the entire snow removal budget for a full calendar year is showing as $635,000. That's 1.46% in comparison to the amount that's collected by property tax city-wide. I plugged in the address of what looks to be one of the bigger homes on that block into the property tax calculator on the city site and it said to be about $1600. 1.46% of that is a contribution of a little over $23 from that home's property tax bill towards a full year of city-wide snow clearing. I have no way to know how much of that full year $23 would go toward clearing one block of one street from one weather event but I'm going to guess you'd have to find a way to cut a nickel into pieces to measure it. Then you'd have to get into how many of your neighbours and people that use the street to get to the hospital don't mind their piece of a nickel going toward getting your street closer to babys-bottom status which is why I don't envy being in the position of folks having to make these decisions!  
 
At the same time I'm personally not a fan when someone in blanket fashion says to not share a concern with other members in a post. Its entirely possible that the same person raises the same thing directly with the powers that be via councillor or city department but still wish to have a discussion with others.  
Some may like it, others not.... but raising a concern in this kind of environment is a reasonable part of a democracy and people should feel free to have those conversations. If the odd concern comes across as a nitpick/sensationalistic rant then it might hurt the odd person's credibility in the eyes of some, but thats a choice they'll make when they give an honest assessment of whatever issue they're throwing out there for discussion and then folks have a chance to debate it on as many facts as possible.  
 
 
Edited by Adam, 2016-02-02 16:15:07

Adam said "So took a drive down this block for fun.   Had the impression from this post that the block is baby's-bottom smooth which isn't the case. Definitely pavement for part of the block, another part of it is like a lot of side roads after the conditions of the last couple weeks.... essentially one lane down the middle and then an icy-snowy mogul course for the rest of the width of the road. I live in a completely different area but having run into situations on similar streets recently where oncoming cars have to try to find a way to pull off to the side to allow other traffic through I have no problem with some of the already allocated snow budget going towards this sort of thing.     A little exercise to *rough* the tax impact of what's been brought up.   I pulled up the 2016 budget documents on the city site at http://brandon.ca/budget/2016-budget   Cant seem to find a date on them to know just how current they are but they should give enough of an idea for the purpose of roughing numbers.   If we go on the assumption that this is out of snow removal, in those documents the entire snow removal budget for a full calendar year is showing as $635,000. That's 1.46% in comparison to the amount that's collected by property tax city-wide. I plugged in the address of what looks to be one of the bigger homes on that block into the property tax calculator on the city site and it said to be about $1600. 1.46% of that is a contribution of a little over $23 from that home's property tax bill towards a full year of city-wide snow clearing. I have no way to know how much of that full year $23 would go toward clearing one block of one street from one weather event but I'm going to guess you'd have to find a way to cut a nickel into pieces to measure it. Then you'd have to get into how many of your neighbours and people that use the street to get to the hospital don't mind their piece of a nickel going toward getting your street closer to babys-bottom status which is why I don't envy being in the position of folks having to make these decisions!     At the same time I'm personally not a fan when someone in blanket fashion says to not share a concern with other members in a post. Its entirely possible that the same person raises the same thing directly with the powers that be via councillor or city department but still wish to have a discussion with others.   Some may like it, others not.... but raising a concern in this kind of environment is a reasonable part of a democracy and people should feel free to have those conversations. If the odd concern comes across as a nitpick/sensationalistic rant then it might hurt the odd person's credibility in the eyes of some, but thats a choice they'll make when they give an honest assessment of whatever issue they're throwing out there for discussion and then folks have a chance to debate it on as many facts as possible.       Edited by Adam, 2016-02-02 16:15:07"

You can not use operational budget for a facility to base your calculations upon for a plethora of reasons. Second the cost will be higher than estimated, I do agree that it would take copious amounts of work to deduce that figure. Third we can not get in the habit of saying well it's fractions of a nickel for the indicidual who cares... Then we have millions on millions of wasted tax payer dollars as its only a fraction of a nickle for 635000 and then it would be maybe a nickel for a million dollars spent....  
 
Be careful and we should challenge unnecessary expenditure and I agree with the OP this was a nice to have but completely unneeded.