Melrose's $500K Snow Budget Has Been Spent
The Melrose Department of Public Works's snow budget of $500,000 has already been spent this winter, according to Director John Scenna.
The Melrose Department of Public Works's snow budget of $500,000 has already been spent this winter, according to Director John Scenna. When the blizzard dumped a few feet of snow on the city in February, it was a costly storm to tackle, and the DPW is running a snow budget deficit of about $100,000 to $120,000 as a result, according to Scenna. "We've just gone into deficit on our $500,000 snow budget," Scenna said. "The blizzard definitely put us over the $500,000 mark for the year. We probably had $170,000 to $180,000 in expenditures going into the blizzard. The blizzard cost us around $315,000. While the DPW has had to spend more than its budget $500,000 this winter, the department had a surplus last year, according to Scenna. The …
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Myron Dittmer
10:11 am on Sunday, February 24, 2013
You can certainly fault the Mayor on some things but budgeting and predicting snowfall for a winter season is not one of them. Mother nature is unpredictable and predicting snowfall is not an exact science so why hold budgeting for such events to such scrutiny? It doesn't pass the smell test of your issue ...sounds like you have some other issues that bother you about the Mayor. Perhaps those are… more ›