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“Follow the money.” ALWAYS follow the money.
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Care of a dime dropped Quincy Quarry News’ way, the Quarry is now able to readily review online City of Quincy year-to-date spending data.
In turn, the Quarry is able to report that the City is so far running over 9 million dimes over budget — 40% over budget on a percentage basis — on snow and ice removal efforts halfway through the winter season.
Granted, a top ten record snowfall storm hit the Metro Boston area just short of two weeks,however, total snowfall to date this winter is running roughly but half of historical full winter totals.
“No gold stars for you …”
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More importantly, locals are for more the most part giving the Koch Maladministration but middling marks on its snow clearing efforts.
The top complaints?
While streets were cleared relatively quickly plowed, a number of streets were not plowed anywhere close to from curb-to-curb and so giving rise to constricted streets and often less than usable curb side parking.
Further, this partial plowing was particularly common on residential streets.
(“Where else can we plow it?”)
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Sidewalk cleaning was also viewed as falling short.
Seriously short.
Such partial snow clearing thus poses potential problems given future snow storms given that hard frozen plowed snow already along the side of many local streets restricts available space to plow subsequent snowfall.
While, admittedly, some melting has occurred in recent days, polar frigid weather has returned as well as two to four or so inches of snow is forecast to fall over the next thirty-six hours.
Granted, two to four inches or so of fresh snow is likely manageable, long range forecast are indicating the potential of more snowfall after the President Holiday weekend.
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On a bright note, do note that the City Council has scheduled a hearing at its next meeting on February 23 to review the Koch Maladministration’s response to the mid-January snow event.
Needless to say, Quincy Quarry New’s ever-growing legions can count on it to cover the inquisition and then reporting on it as only the Quarry is capable of doing
My kid cannot walk to school without going in the street at multiple spots. Some streets like Faxon Road are very busy. We are like 2 weeks after the storm. The city has not shoveled the walks at parks in the city and I am not aware of any tickets issued to people who haven’t shoveled their walks yet.
Driving my kids to school is not much better as the street in front of Atlantic is only plowed to the curb on the school side limiting the travel width in the street slowing down pickup and drop-off.
How does a single 24-hour storm put us that far over budget? Is it premium time being paid when it shouldn’t?
I could understand if they used up the budget after the first storm but to be that far over is crazy. The money for the statue would have paid for this. The pay raises could have paid for some better cleanup. Even if they worked for a week cleaning it up, we typically get 15-20 snow events a year but have had under 5 so far this winter.
Maybe DiBona can go out and shovel some sidewalks for a photo op since he wants to keep the raise instead of using the money for City Services.
Graz is so far out of his league. Can anyone tell me what his resume said that got him this job? Or did it just say: “Tim Cahill’s bagman”?