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Council Minutes of 1-17-78 _~_ .__ rece~,pt of resume of Mr. Maloney. Mayor realiaas .this is Couucl.~'s „~pgai~at;meut; however, would like to go on record as recommending Mr. Mahoney. Service Director Corrigan reported: 1) Over last two weeks the Service Department has cogad with the avow situation. Service Director Corrigan relied oa the expertise of the members of the Service Depattss~t and was edified by their per- formance under very adverse cor~ditione which were escalated by certain equipment deficiencies. These equipmse~t deficiencies wall be presented to the propex Committee of Council for ev~tluatiQn seat consideration. Additionally, after evaluating the equipment that has been on order delivery has not beep accepted because the vendor has t-ot tset then specifications. Are in picocess of contacting the. contractor and indicating the areas of deficiencies and hopefully something can be worked out; 2) Departmental wise, are in process of upgrading through a tjaniag program instituted by Service Director Corrigan, the various work classifications in the Service Department so that in ~ emergency situation we have qualified operators for various types end ranges of equipment which we have. This training prograffi will not happen ove~raight but the. concept is being worked on. The supervision within the Ssrviae Departwsat has been very cooperative in this area; also the bargaining agent for the organised employees has beeen very cooperative in doing anything to implement the proper training of e~loyeee of the Service Department; 3) are also develop~.rg. with the Chief Mechanic a program of plaened maintenance that involves proper logistics of knoa~tg s~cactly the coalition of the vehicle, what repairs hays been made on it in the past and what repairs will be made on it in the future based on replacing parts that have deteriorated, etc. As an example, the Departt took delivery on two sa.t spreaders early this Fall that would have brought up the effective nuueber of salt spreaders on the road but we dust, lost one because literally the cab andr4of blew off of it as it was rotted out; attid this goes to the proper storage area of aquip~snt. Most of the equipment is out in the elemeaets Z4 haute a day a~i long range budget in the area of pray service facilities is of prime rn; 4) Service Director 'ha+a met with various salaried and supervisory etrgtloyees in divisions of Treatment klamt, Service wag!! and. Bus Liae and wage recommendations wi11 be made to the appropriate Committees of Council prior to Next Co~cil meeting. President Limpert discussed with Service Director Carrigan the sidewalk cleaner, known as the bombadier, on Lorain . and gaestio~ted if there are plans for extending that into some of the mein a~traats such as Colin and Claque where sidewalks get heavy traffic Service Director Corrigan discussed same at length explaining priorities in storm cc~ditions, manpo~rer limitations, etc. Mrs. Petrigac comoreaded Service Director and Service Department in keeging Lorain Rd. and main drives clear but the streets in her Ward that she had travelled many were in very poor condition sad asked what she can tell her ce~e-tituants how the condition will be alleviated. Service Director Corrigan dacrassed sale, explaining there are going to continue to be str~aets in poor condition based upon certain equigmaut lismtations and ma~posrer ~,im2.tations: budget-w~.se we cannot afford to salt flue side streets -have to rely on plo~ng primarily excerpt in areas where slick cot+~tiops exist and cited eagles: discussed partiou~,ar problems existing on side streets, cul+-de-sacs, etc. Mr. Logan asked Service Director if a study has been done regarding use of cinders as