According to a union head, officials with Mayor Bronson's administration were told in June that job vacancies and retention issues threatened the city’s snow response, playing out now across Anchorage.
Traffic moves southbound along C Street as snow falls in Anchorage on Wednesday, Dec. 14.
“Our crisis right now in the department is that we’re at about a 20% shortfall in staffing,” Alward said. “We’ve seen guys in the middle of their careers leave this department, and that never happened in the past, ever.” In a low snow year, Alward said, that might have sufficed, but not with the winter wallops hitting in quick succession this December.
“Our ability to help is limited if we’re not informed of the issues facing the municipality.
“The administration was not hiding under a rock. I think everyone knows that nationwide there’s been a shortage of CDL drivers,” Rodvik said. “We’ve been aggressively trying to recruit and retain people and bring people on board.
The city says it is working with “over 30 contractor trucks” to clear streets downtown, and began hauling away snow from major arterial streets.
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