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ATTACHMENT A RESOLUTION NO. 4826 A RESOLUTION ADOPTING ICE AND SNOW REMOVAL POLICIES AND REPEALING RESOLUTION NO. 4278. RECITALS: A. Ice and snow storms can cause a severe economic impact on the community, depending on the intensity and duration of the storm. It is important to keep transportation systems as operational and safe as possible during ice/snow storms while minimizing the economical impact of those operations on the community. B. Sections 5.677 to 5.687 of the Eugene Code, 1971 authorize the declaration of a Snow Emergency, and prescribe the manner in which parking may be restricted on certain designated priority routes. C. Streets are placed on these priority routes after reviewing criteria such as, but not limited to: traffic volumes, Lane Transit District bus routes, emergency service locations (fire stations, Roosevelt Maintenance Facility, police station, hospitals), geographic constraints such as steep hills, historical hazardous traffic locations, and elevated structures such as bridges and overpasses. D. At the request of the City Manager the City's Public Works Department developed an Ice/Snow Plan to facilitate achievement of the City's general goal of keeping the streets as safe as possible during ice and snow storms with the least economic and environmental impacts on the community, which was adopted by Resolution No. 4278 on October 31, 1991. The City Manager requested the City's Public Works Department to review the adopted Ice/Snow Plan to determine whether any revisions were necessary at this time. As a result of that review, a new Ice/Snow Plan has been developed that includes provisions allowing the use of deicers/anti-icers on City maintained streets. E. It would be in the public interest that Resolution No. 4278 and the Ice and Snow Removal Policies adopted therein be repealed, and the policies relating to the manner in which the City responds to ice and snow emergencies as hereinafter set forth be adopted by the Council. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EUGENE, a Municipal Corporation of the State of Oregon, that the following constitutes the City's policies for ice and snow control: Section 1. These policies apply to the City of Eugene street system and to streets for which the City has special maintenance agreements with other jurisdictions for ice and snow control. These policies do not apply to the Eugene Airport because snow removal practices and procedures such as plowing, anti-icing, sanding, and deicing operations at the Airport are Resolution- 1