By: Lydia Crawley
The Parsons Advocate
Between record snowfall and vehicle enforcement, the Town of Davis has been focused on streets lately. Town of Davis Mayor Al Tomson updated the Town Council January 22nd during their regular meeting on the latest efforts the Town was engaged in.
Over the past two weeks prior, snow removal had been at the forefront of efforts following the heavy snowfalls in January. “If you look at the jobs for the past two weeks, you’ll notice snow removal every day,” Tomson said. “And they have been removing snow every day. They’ve been very busy doing that.”
Tomson said that crews had been out several mornings at 3 a.m. work on the streets around Davis. “They’ve had three mornings where they have come in at 3 a.m. to clean up William,” Tomson said.
The crews’ focus, according to Tomson, was to clear intersection and plow out residents. “What they are doing is going around with the endloader, the skidsteer and the dumptrucks to try and improve the intersections,” Tomson said. “And also to plow people out as much as they can.”
City crews efforts, however, are hindered by vehicles around the town, Tomson said. “One of the big obstacles is cars,” Tomson said. “They continue to be a problem in some of the streets.”
Tomson said he planned to go around the town and have protruding vehicles towed to allow crews more room to work on the streets. “I am going to go around tomorrow with Jay Kennard and we are going to see if there are any vehicles that are protruding to the street and I’ll get those towed,” Tomson said. “So they have more room to work and plow.”
Tomson also said he plans to begin tagging nuisance vehicles around town once the snow melts. Once a vehicle is tagged, it will have two weeks to move before being towed. “The vehicles that are on the side of the road, that are not impeding the road, we will put signs on those and give people a certain amount of time, probably two weeks, to move them and then we’ll have them towed if they don’t get moved,” Tomson said. “But we will probably do that when the snow melts.”
The Town’s efforts are focused on those vehicles that are not currently registered, Tomson said, with some vehicles lapsing in registration for more than seven years. “Its cars that are not legally registered,” Tomson said. “We have some that the tags are from 2018.”
The enforcement effort was delayed due to the time it took to coordinate with other entities, Tomson said. Tomson said his office coordinated with the Department of Highways, the Tucker County Sheriff’s Office and the West Virginia Highway Patrol on the best way to proceed on the issue of the nuisance vehicles and parking. “It took a little while to coordinate with DOH and the Sheriff and the State Police,” Tomson said. “That’s all been done now. We’re ready, just need a break in the weather.”
