Milwaukee leaders debate snow removal refunds amid complaints [Video]

Milwaukee city leaders are engaged in a heated debate over the possibility of issuing refunds to residents for snow removal services. This discussion follows a wave of complaints received by city offices from residents after a significant snowfall event in December. “I’m sick and tired of taking the heat from my constituents that say my alderman sucks my street isn’t plowed,” Alderman Lamont Westmoreland said during a Milwaukee Common Council committee meeting Wednesday morning.The meeting involved back-and-forth discussions with leaders and employees from the Department of Public Works. “As you can imagine as many phone calls as you get there’s 15 others that all also forward,” said Danielle Rodriguez of DPW. The call for refunds is led by Alderperson Peter Burgelis and three other alderpersons. “Residents are OK paying a reasonable fee for a reasonable service. But what happened in this last snowstorm on the 20th of December was not, …