Snow clearing budget plows through 2.4 million in overages

The city of Greater Sudbury has ploughed straight through the snow clearing budget, once again. A report headed to the city’s operations committee says the winter control budget for 2018 came in at $19.94 million, almost $2.4 million more than forecast.
The biggest culprits were the salt/sanding/ploughing budget, which was $8.9 million, about $1.85 million more than forecast, and the winter ditch clearing/spring cleanup budget, which was more than $500,000 higher than the $1.9 million forecast.