The Department of Sanitation has spent almost twice as much as it had budgeted for snow removal operation this year.
The agency has paid out more than $75.5 million to clear away the 57 inches of snow the city has received so far.
The department’s budget for snow removal was set at just under $39 million – based on a average of what was spent over the past five years.
Sanitation has paid out $32.8 million in employee overtime, and $20 million to buy the 333,000 tons of rock salt it’s used. The city also paid almost $11 million to rent snow moving equipment, nearly $4.5 million on truck parts, and another million on day laborers who shovel sidewalks.
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(Source: NY1)
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Can’t really blame the city for the record snowfall, but the budget wouldn’t have been blown nearly as badly if the city hadn’t had to pay so much overtime fixing its mistakes.