Vaughan calls special council meeting on ice storm cleanup costs

Vaughan Citizen
January 13, 2014
By Adam Martin-Robbins

The city has called a special council meeting to provide an update on the damage from last month's massive ice storm.

The meeting takes place tomorrow at 11 a.m. in the council chamber at city hall, 2141 Major Mackenzie Dr., the same day as the provincial government’s deadline for municipalities to request disaster relief money.

“If the province does declare this a state of emergency and they’re prepared to do something, or even if they don’t declare it, but they’re prepared to do something, we’d like to be included,” Regional Councillor Deb Schulte told yorkregion.com.

The city has yet to reveal how much the damage caused by the storm is expected to cost, but that will likely happen tomorrow.

It is estimated 58 per cent of Vaughan’s streets were impacted by the storm that hammered Southern Ontario, knocking down trees and leaving thousands of people without power and heat for several days.

Among the worst hit areas in Vaughan were Thornhill neighbourhoods west of Bathurst Street; the Dufferin Street and Rutherford Road area, as well as along Keele Street between Rutherford and Teston roads in Maple and the area west of Weston Road, between Langstaff and Rutherford roads in East Woodbridge

Work crews are still completing the initial clean up, which is expected to last until the end of February.

A final clean up is slated for the spring, after the snow has melted.