Jamestown Mayor Kim Ecklund joins our Terry Frank this week to discuss a few issues... first of all being the recent cold weather snap in the area, and it's impact on local snowplowing crews. Ecklund says, so far, so good. The Public Works crews have been able to keep up... but, not all secondary roads are getting attention due to how busy they area, and just keeping up with the snowfall. The very recent warm-up has been a relief. Ecklund says they've been trying to limit their use of road salt as much as possible because of a 40% increase in costs. She says the problem is that they've been mixing some with water to create brine, and that can't always be used on side streets when it gets near zero... or colder. We also discuss the efforts to keep the Recovery Options Made Easy facility open on Washington Street as the city's main "Code Blue" shelter when temperatures drop below freezing. Thirdly... we also discuss the proposed state budget by Gov. Kathy Hochul. Ecklund says state aid is not being cut... but, adds there are no increases, even though the city's cost for materials, and other services, continue to increase.
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