What are the County Policies regarding snow plowing?
While every highway authority provides snow removal in some form, they all provide a very different level of services depending on who the authority is. This variation in level of services is due to the availability of resources, or lack thereof. For example, the State has enough resources to run snow plows 24 hours a day, if necessary, by using temporary employees. On the other hand, the county has a far more limited number of maintenance employees, making a 24-hour per day snow removal operation impossible under the current limitations. Townships often have even fewer resources than the county, which limits their operations as well. In order to minimize overtime expenditures the county tries to perform snow-plowing operations during normal business hours (7 A.M. to 3:30 P.M.) However, there are times when that is not feasible without compromising the safety of the public. When work outside normal business hours is required, the county uses the following general guidelines: As a gener
