The Devil Is In The Details

The Official Unofficial Minutes of the WL BOA
January 18

The Public Works report was given by George, followed by the Police report (Gary is on medical leave, so the report was given by Mike O'Neal).  Sitting in the audience, all 5 of us, it was difficult to understand details of a $5,000 deductible (or more) the City may have to pay for an accident. Nothing more.  As noted previously, Alderman Clark had mentioned the accident on Forest, so intuition said the deductible discussion referred to that accident.  It was only during Public Comments that more details came to light because of a question from the public ( ok, it was me).  Between George and Mike more information was given, although not completely.  Apparently the part-time officer who was supposed to cover the midnight shift could not appear.  The condition of the City streets worsened due to the wet and freezing conditions.  It is not clear why road treatments were not being applied to the streets, possibly because there was no patrol at the time to report conditions.  A car slid off the road on Forest and ended up on private property.  Although the timeline was not made clear during the discussion the street crew was called in and Chief Gary responded to the accident call.  The City salt/sander, slid on Forest similar to the car and ended up on the property, striking a van and garage door, which in turned damaged the vehicle in the garage.  (the exact timeline was difficult to determine based on the dialog between Gary and Mike, and the absence of Gary, who was at the scene at the time).

Was it an unfortunate succession of bad luck events?  Can't tell you, but I suspect there are more details to come.