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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 was able to readily review online City of Quincy year-to-date spending data.

In turn, the Quarry is able to report that the data show that the City is so far running 9 million dimes over budget — or 40% over budget on a percentage basis — on snow and ice removal.efforts roughly but halfway through the winter snow storm season.

Granted, a top ten record snowfall storm hit the Metro Boston area just short of two weeks, snowfall to date is still less than but historical norms.

“No gold stars for you …”
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That and locally locals are more the most part giving the Koch Maladministration 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 not usable curb side parking.  Further, this partial plowing was particularly common on residential streets.

Sidewalk cleaning all fell short.

(“Where else can we plow it?”)
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Such partial snow clearing also poses potential problems given future snow storms as hard frozen plowed snow along the side of many local streets restricts space to plow subsequent snowfall.

While, admittedly, some melting has occurred in recent days, a 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 of fresh snow is likely manageable, long range forecast are indicating the potential of more snowfall after the President Holiday weekend.

On a bright note, do note that the City Council has schedule a hearing at its next meeting on February 23 to review the Koch Maladministration’s response to the mid-January snow event.

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