Clint Harris, with the City of Spokane Street Department, said the department has new specialized snow tires on its graders and expects them to be more effective and easier to maintain than the snow chains crews used previously.

"These new special snow tires, we're excited about," Harris said. He told the meeting the department already operates similar tires on its front-end loaders and "have found great performance on them, and we're looking for these tires to perform equally as well."

Harris described snow chains as "real heavy and bulky" and said they "take a lot of, effort to maintain them during the snow plowing." He said the new tires should be "more effective and efficient for our drivers to plow snow with."

The presentation did not include performance data, cost, installation timeline, or rollout schedule; those details were not specified in the remarks.