(KLZA)-- During this weeks City Council meeting in Falls City, Administrator Anthony Nussbaum updated the Council on a pair of grants the city had applied for, both of which were unsuccessful.

The first application was for a Rural Community Recovery grant in an amount of one million dollars that was to be used for a park area at 1506 Stone Street. It was a one-time grant which will not be accessible again.

The other application was for a Natural Gas Infrastructure Safety grant in an amount of $9.5 million. The city can resubmit the grant for up to two more years.

The Council approved a new Snow and Ice Control Plan recommended by the Board of Public Works and Public Works Director Trevor Campbell.

The new plan outlines priorities for the order snow removal from streets will be done. Streets designated Priority Level I will include Emergency Routes, Parking lots and sidewalks at the Fire and Ambulance buildings, City Hall and downtown public parking lots.

Priority II Level includes collector street routes, paved alley's dead end streets and the parking lots for Prichard Auditorium, City parks and public parking sidewalks on 15th and 16th and Chase Streets and Steele Cemetery.

A new plan for removing snow in the downtown business area will be implemented. Snow will be piled up in one or two parking stalls at the end of each block and then removed after business hours in an effort to avoid conflicts with traffic in the area.

Business owners are not to push snow from sidewalks into the street after the street has been cleaned and snow hauled offsite. However, property owners are encouraged to push snow from their sidewalk into the snow piles created by city staff located in the corners of the blocks.