Looks like we're doing this again… I wonder if the town did a cost analysis to see how much it would increase taxes to just do it all for us.
@levisan legal is a fun name for a town! yeah, my friend out in a nearby town (burford) gets his sidewalk shoveled by the town/county, yet here in the city of brantford with higher taxes and all, it’s up to each person to do their own (unless you’re in the sad old downtown business improvement area).
@sabbatical The town was founded ~110 years ago by immigrants from France and named after the local Catholic bishop at the time, Émile-Joseph Legal. And the local Catholic church is St Emile for the same reason. Apparently there's more French-as-first-language people here than in Quebec as a whole.
I did some back-of-the-napkin math based on $15/hr and 20 minutes per property, assuming every property in town has a sidewalk, and it came out to being under $200/winter for the average property… and that's not taking into account the efficiencies that would come with using machinery (that the town already owns) instead of manual labour!
@sabbatical Aha now that I reread what I said, I should have worded that more clearly!
There are currently a higher *percentage* of residents of the town of Legal who speak French as their first language than the percentage of residents of Quebec.
But the town has less than 1500 occupants!