BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo Common Councilmembers had the chance to discuss the city's 2022 Blizzard Report on Tuesday, one week after it was released.
"We want to hear more details, get more information, really kind of focus in on how did we respond for the residents because I want a portion of this to really be how do we talk, how do we hear from the residents? Because that's the piece I think we're missing," said University District Common Councilmember Rasheed N.C. Wyatt.
Rasheed Wyatt says the city has to hear from neighbors who live here and that the information used to create a better response next time can't all come from the city.
Just last week, the full common council referred the 2022 Blizzard Report to the Community Development Committee which met Tuesday afternoon.
At that meeting, they received and filed the report, and Councilmember Wyatt said he wants to make sure the blizzard report is also talked about with our neighbors.
"I don't want them to be second or on the sideline, I want them to be a part of this conversation and what they saw because I think sometimes we limit what they say or what they, their impact in our decision making, and I don't want it to be limited here, so again, I'm looking forward to this group coming in and not just taking the information from this report, but taking information from other people to come up with something comprehensive so that we can make a solid recommendation," said Rasheed N.C. Wyatt.
The group that Councilmember Wyatt is referring to is the group from NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. It's studying the blizzard and the response.
"I got calls from residents, they didn't see a plow in days, and we did get some details behind that because our plows were useless after a foot or so, and so again, those are details that we need to hear from the community so that we can at least let them understand what we're up against because many just felt that we failed them," said Rasheed N.C. Wyatt.
They also talked about warming shelters on Tuesday saying they want them to have generators so they don't lose power. They also want warming shelters to be more accessible for people in every neighborhood.
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