PEABODY – It may be 95 degrees outside, but one topic of conversation during Tuesday night’s Municipal Safety Committee meeting was cool as ice-snow even.School Committee member Ed Charest and Superintendent Milton Burnett stepped into Wiggin Auditorium seeking approval of their seven-month-old request for the Council to create an ordinance requiring residents living in school zones to shovel their sidewalks within a reasonable amount of time after a snowstorm. Charest first raised his concerns during a Jan. 22 School Committee meeting.He noted that other nearby communities, such as Lynn, Saugus and even Boston, already implement such ordinances with much success.”These are our kids and we need to make every effort to keep them safe,” he told the School Committee this past winter after citing recent instances of pedestrians hit by cars and plows because sidewalks were not cleared.Charest’s request was met with much applause by members of the Municipal Safety Committee Tuesday, although they questioned how exactly the city could and would go about enforcing it.”I’m not looking for fines, I’m looking to get kids to school,” said Charest.Councilor Rico Mello suggested that many residents are doing their part on keeping the sidewalks clear, but that more often than not, commercial plows are the culprits of high snow piles that block passageways.”I support an ordinance that goes after commercial plows,” he said, showing slight resistance to the School Committee’s request.Councilor Ted Bettencourt, Jr., who has small children of his own, told the Committee that he would support the safety-related ordinance.”Things will have to be ironed out,” he said. “This deserves continuous study and a plan put in place.”He went on to say that it’s important for the community to make sure those areas are safe for children attempting to get to and from school.Mello made the motion to keep the issue in Committee over the summer months. The request will be discussed again in September. The Council hopes to act on it in time for this winter’s earliest snowfall.