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Residents praise snow removal and urge faster rollout of stormwater monitoring system
Summary
Two residents used the public comment period: Dave (David) Sandel described his company’s stormwater monitoring system and asked the city to speed implementation after receiving a sole-source award, while Gerald Tears praised recent snow removal near the high school.
During the citizen participation portion of the Feb. 9 meeting, two residents addressed the council.
David Sandel (owner of I Neighborhoods) said he and a co-founder built a low-cost flash-flood detector that they deployed on the River to Bear; he said he was notified the prior week that the stormwater commission had awarded I Neighborhoods a sole-source contract to finish the monitoring system. Sandel described developing a detector in April 2022 at roughly $2,000, receiving an early alert during the July 2022 flood and later demonstrating the system to the stormwater commission. He said his system provides camera feeds and analytics that could be made accessible to residents through Code Red links and urged the city to accelerate funding and equipment transfers so the system’s public-facing features can be released this spring. Sandel said the monitoring committee will decide which features are shared publicly.
Gerald Tears (7345 Chamberlain) offered a brief public compliment to the city for rapid snow removal near the high school, saying it was the best he has seen in 40 years living in University City.
The mayor reminded speakers that the public forum for the city manager search would take place the next evening and that Q&A is not typically held during the public comment period.
