{"id":31138,"date":"2025-12-03T12:33:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T17:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=31138"},"modified":"2025-12-03T12:33:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T17:33:44","slug":"mayor-praises-snow-removal-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/03\/mayor-praises-snow-removal-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor praises snow-removal efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a longtime City of Decatur employee \u2013 assistant operations manager since 2017 \u2013 Matt Schultz has seen his share of late nights\/early mornings moving snow from city streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This time, though, was different: he was in charge of the cleanup effort as Decatur&#8217;s new operations manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And last weekend&#8217;s effort passed with flying colors, as far as Mayor Dan Rickord is concerned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"478\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Snow-plow-at-work.jpg?resize=478%2C327&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Snow-plow-at-work.jpg?w=478&amp;ssl=1 478w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Snow-plow-at-work.jpg?resize=300%2C205&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI want to give a special thank-you to our city employees,\u201d the mayor said in winding up Tuesday night&#8217;s brief city council meeting. \u201cThe streets were pretty clear out there (in a short time), so thanks to our workers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rickord added that the snow-removal crews don&#8217;t necessarily get started as the first flakes begin coming down. \u201cThey wait until there is some accumulation so they&#8217;re not going out three or four times,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schultz said snow-removal operations began around 3 a.m. Sunday, with eight trucks involved in the effort which continued until around noon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt went pretty well \u2013 we had only one blown tire,\u201d Schultz said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com As a longtime City of Decatur employee \u2013 assistant operations manager since 2017 \u2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,15,21],"class_list":["post-31138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-decatur","tag-featured","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Snow-plow-at-work.jpg?fit=478%2C327&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31140,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31138\/revisions\/31140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}