Theresa Stehly attended the City Council meeting last night to talk about snowgates. Obviously snowgates only are effective in 0-12″ of snow (which is most of our snowfalls) and would not have worked very well in the past storm ON ARTERIAL STREETS, but they would have been handy on the emergency snow routes. As you can see from the video, it doesn’t slow down plows either. Of course anti-snowgate Vernon Brown couldn’t resist to get in a game of he said she said with Stehly. Whether they work or not is not the argument here, what I can’t figure out is Brown’s resistance to experimenting with them, at least on emergency snow routes. He doesn’t have a problem with spending millions to build rhino barns at the zoo (something that has ZERO benefit to the public – ZERO!) but pisses and moans about spending a couple of grand on an experiment? This kind of prioritizing by Vernon tells you what kind of mayor he will make.