WINONA, Minn. – At the City Council’s behest, Mayor Scott Sherman and City Manager Chad Ubl are scouting for citizens to review the municipal ordinance that requires alternate-side winter parking. Sherman and Ubl expect to empanel a committee sometime after March 15, when the rule expires for the season. The rule, in effect 38 years, has been vexatious. Overnight on Friday, for example, police issued 38 tickets at an annoying $25 per violation. Despite citizen grumbling, nobody has come up with any other way to clear streets for plowing. This time George Borzyskowski, a 26-year Council member, asked that the issue be revisited: “Is there a way that we can re-engineer this? Is there something we could do? And maybe there’s not. If we can just look at it with those people that are involved and some concerned citizens as well to see if there’s something we can do?” The Council agreed that a committee be formed to look again at the issue.
