by Dennis Dalman
John Ellis, a Sartell resident, has a beef to pick with the city over snow-removal policies by private companies.
The middle-of-the night sounds of snow removal and the bright lights ruin his peace and sleep, he said. Every time it snows – even just an inch – he endures the noise and commotion of companies plowing off neighbors’ snow, he told the council.
Those companies, he said, are allowed to do plowing any time of the night.
He asked the council to please update its noise ordinance to forbid those companies from removing snow any time of the night they want to do it.
“Put tax-paying citizens living in Sartell first,” he told council members.
