The bill’s come in for all that snow that sanitation workers hauled off this winter and it’s a doozy — $107 million.
“This past snow season seemed to never end,” Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia told a City Council budget hearing.
The agency had set aside $84 million to handle what turned out to be 40 inches of snow, so it had to add $23 million more.
Next year, it’s increasing the snow budget to $98 million.
That’s still far below the record of $130.7 million set during storm-ridden 2014, when nearly 60 inches of snow blanketed the city.
The snow funding level is set by a provision in the City Charter that averages the amounts spent on snow removal over the previous five years.
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