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The Department of Sanitation has spent almost twice as much as it had budgeted for snow removal operation this year.
Department Of Sanitation Blows Snow Removal Budget
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The Department of Sanitation has spent almost twice as much as it had budgeted for snow removal operation this year.
The agency has paid out more than $75.5 million to clear away the 57 inches of snow the city has received so far.
The department’s budget for snow removal was set at just under $39 million – based on a average of what was spent over the past five years.
Sanitation has paid out $32.8 million in employee overtime, and $20 million to buy the 333,000 tons of rock salt it’s used. The city also paid almost $11 million to rent snow moving equipment, nearly $4.5 million on truck parts, and another million on day laborers who shovel sidewalks.
pathetic
How is that even possible???Did u see the streets of CH?Its STILL difficult to get a parking cuz the place wasn’t cleaned up properly since the blizzard!
Snow job
What overtime? they never worked at all!!!!! Only today I saw a plow driving by the alternate parking side of the street with a plow raised about two feet over the ground and it didn’t touch one pile of snow
Outsource or FDNY
Either they should outsource or go under the FDNY.
NOT TRUE!!!
THEY DID NOT CLEAR AWAY ANY SNOW!!! GOOD FOR THEM. TEACHES THEM A GOOD HARD LESSON!!! THERE WAS NO EMPLOYEE SHOVELING SIDEWALKS, AND THERE WAS NO OVERTIME BECAUSE THE EMPLOYEES OF THE SANITATION DEPARTMENT DID NOTHING THIS WINTER!!!!
lloyd a cohen
Once again Mayor Blomberg and his administration demostrated that he does not know how to run this city. (And he wants to be President)> There was no game plan, they ignored advance warnings. Even preplaned operation modes for emergencies were ignored. Of course, he was in Bermuda and that left that there was no on hands supervision. There was no direction and there was no priotorizing what had to be done first and when.
But this is nothing new. Even when there is much less snow etc, the city does a horrid job.
Confused Snow Shoveller
Pulled out my trusted calculator. Give 75,000 guys a $100 shovel each and $900 cash… the streets would have been cleaned in no time!
Does no one in city hall know basic math?