City might exceed snow-removal budget
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With the city of Brandon braced for five to 10 centimetres of snow on Wednesday night, city officials said they might exceed their snow-clearing budget for this year given that they are still in the process of clearing city roads after last week’s snow squall.
“With this latest snowfall, and what we’re expecting on Wednesday, we will be over budget for this year as a result of the increased amount of snow that we’re seeing,” explained Terry Parlow, Brandon’s fire chief and acting city manager.
He added that the city might manage to stay within the 2024 budget. But given the current weather forecast, it would be difficult to say for sure as efforts to clean the roads, streets and back lanes from last week’s snow dump are still ongoing.
“It’s important to make sure that traffic keeps moving and people are able to travel throughout the city,” said Parlow, who also emphasized that the main streets and bus routes will be targeted for cleanup first.
“Our priorities are the main arteries, bus routes and such, and then we go down to the residential streets, and it does just take some time.”
“We are working through the processes currently after the last storm, and obviously we’re expecting more tonight and through the night, so hopefully it won’t be very much, but we just do the best we can with the equipment and the staff. We are working extremely hard 24-7 to make sure that we maintain the arteries throughout the city, and then we work on the residential streets,” Parlow added.
He also encouraged the public to stay vigilant and to be gracious towards Brandon’s snow removal personnel, considering the volume of snow that has fallen over the Wheat City during the last couple of weeks.
“It takes some time to get to all the streets. It just doesn’t happen very quickly at times. And I understand that there are a lot of streets that haven’t been done, but we are trying our best to get to them,” Parlow said.
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