Quincy Politicians secretly hoping for even more snow?

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– News about Quincy MA from Quincy Quarry News
Quincy politicians are widely suspected of secretly hoping for even more snow.
As implausible as this may sound, such could well be the case as this winter’s snowstorms have yet to be officially named as eligible for federal disaster relief funding.
Key reasons for the feds’ rare display of not readily spending money at the drop of a snowflake include that the storms have not been viewed as an all time 100 year weather event, much less (yet, ed.) merely but topped the current full winter snowfall total record-holder.

After all, Snow Happens in New England every winter.  That and so far most of the relatively modest damage inflicted to date will likely be covered by private insurance.
Additionally, the feds are not likely to care to prop up the MBTA when it is clear that most of its shortcomings this winter in Eastern Massachusetts are at least as much a matter of poor operational maintenance practices at the MBTA as they are (truly, ed) weather-related.
Further problematic for local pols desperate for a pork bailout, with former U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy long gone as well as both still alive House Speaker John Boehner (Republican, Ohio) and especially US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Republican, Kentucky) are not likely to find – much less actively seek – any support among their respective caucuses to bail out moderate Republican and thus apostate RINO Governor Charlie Baker.

At least not until Charlie might first opt to pound into the ground at least a few of the Massachusetts Democrats who have disastrously run the state into the ground in addition to the only obvious blood sacrifice to date.
Further problematic for seeing any federal pork is that, amazingly, storm-caused losses of utility services have been relatively minimal such that even National Grid and N-Star have been able to quickly restore service.

As such, if the feds decide to take a pass on passing out pork or instead simply overlook the snow mess in Greater Boston as Washington politicians continue to quarrel over other matters, many local officials will then have to scrounge to cover the costs of local snow removal and removal damage.
Given that essentially all local officials have reported blowing through their budgets by at least twofold or more, the scrounging could prove difficult.
In particular, going away in both overspending and poor performance as usual is the Koch Maladministration and which is even by its lowly standards expected to face especially grave problems as it yet again mucks up things in Quincy.
Per the maladministration’s most recent and surely begrudgingly extracted snow removal spending figure, spending by the City of Presidents as of roughly Presidents Day had already run four times its Fiscal Year 2015 budget appropriation as well as snow removal spending is still hemorrhaging, if not also metastasizing.

Even more troubling, this breathtakingly stupendous figure is widely expected to grow to at least five times the budgeted figure by the end February.
Further problematic, not only is there still considerable shoveling inside of City Hall expected to follow as well as weeks more of potential additional snowfall outside of it, the five times budget projection is before any consideration of the cost of the significant damage claims anticipated to be filed against the City over the plow-poor snow clearing practices of City-operated and contracted plow operators.

In turn, if significant federal aid is not forthcoming, Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch will have to impose upwards of a $250 – or greater – snow removal surcharge upon the average single family homeowner’s tax bill in 2016 and/or impose significant cuts in other local services during what little is left of the 2015 Fiscal Year as well as all but assuredly also in FY 2016.
As any cuts would surely not be upon his, his family members’, or various patronage hack hires’ or certain unions’ arguably inflated salaries, the school budget would thus appear to be his primary target to again offset Koch’s out of control spending after this latest of his many Q-ups.
Expect Quincy Quarry to continue to follow this latest as well as still ongoing incident of shoveling in the Q.
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