The council is also considering purchasing a snow plough and grit spreader to help contractors' clear footways and will supply salt to parishes who request it, they said.
But if you decide to, you are assuming a greater risk of encountering the swine flu along with an obligation not to act as an unwitting spreader of diseases that can kill.
"Working out how many people are likely to be infected by each super-spreader of Hepatitis C, as well as how soon they will be infected, has been a puzzle for over 20 years, " he said.