Everyone wants to be on the Snow Removal Priority List!

Just wondering what criteria other associations use for determining who can be placed on a snow removal priority list. Here's our criteria: first responders (police, fire, EMT), practicing physicians, Dialysis/Chemotherapy patients, and persons with visiting nurses or home health aides. We are a relatively new community and are running into some problems with this. I've got residents who want to be on the list but don't fall into any of those categories. They are mainly people with various limitations, i.e., someone has a herniated disc (but it doesn't affect her ability to work), someone with an aritificial leg (also doesn't affect his abiilty to work), and others who have various disabilities (bad knee, bad back, etc.). This is an age restricted community and adding all these people to the list will make it a long list, indeed, and would render the idea of "priority" useless. Please post your criteria -- I'm curious to know how other associations handle this problem.

Marlene,
Don't know much that would help establish some sort of priority listing and this would be specific for the individual HOA.

Regards you list as posted, I am wondering when the HOA's were tasked with providing priority services to get some people to work. Certainly the Fire department, EMS, police. emergency crews for public services and nearly anyone else except maybe essential employees of the HOA (which would require special consideration) are not the responsibility of the HOA. That responsibility would fall onto the employees of these folks and they do this all the time in emergencies. They need emergency people, they may well send transportation out to pick up these people. Snow emergencies are no different than say, the need for more workers, etc, at a mine cave in or a storm that knocks down power lines.

i like the idea, and most of the reasoning on your list. My two cents:
remove or narrow the "practicing physician"... why would a podiatrist need such treatment to get to work, or a dermatologist? what's so critical about their schedule, that we would plow their road before anyone else. An ER surgeon? sure. You can argue for pediatric docs too. But why a plastic surgeon, as opposed to anyone else? How about dentists? How about Hazmat responders/technicians, or nurses or phlebotomists or lab technicians?

Emergency personnel, I understand in snow days. folks with life threatening health issues, good thing to care for them. but i think the 'practicing physician' is way too broad, or could be, eventually.