Over the course of the last week it has become evident that the City needs to change its emergency management system so we can more effectively deal with snow and public safety emergencies. In speaking with my fellow council members, we agreed that action needs to be taken to correct many of the inefficiencies that have been endemic to the City’s clean up efforts since Friday.

Today, I was named to lead a task force convened by Council President Darlene Harris to look into the City’s performance during the current snow emergency. The task force will be tasked with investigating, reporting key findings, and making recommendations on how the City can better administer its emergency operation systems in the future, with a specific eye toward snow emergencies.

The task force will initially convene later this week to begin its review. Until then, City Council will focus on helping the Mayor’s Emergency Operation Center with constituent calls. Once the snow emergency is over, the task force will begin a full review.

We want to make sure we can dig out of this storm before we start getting too academic because we are in an emergency and we need to be focused on that right now. But once the snow stops falling, a full review will begin.

Additionally, as today’s snow storm moves into the region, there are several things to keep in mind to protect your safety. Click over to my website to read more about how you can better protect yourself in the coming days.

Please continue to submit your 311 requests online through my office, we have passed on all of your comments and concerns, often times directly to the relevant department and bureau heads, and we working as hard as can to make sure your streets are plowed sooner rather than later.