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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />INFOR~;fATlON <br /> <br />As you can see, the outside projects become quite limited with <br />the winter weather, and speaking of winter weather, December <br />and January have given us a wide variety of storms to deal <br />with. Probably the most expensive storm was the freezing rain <br />that fell on January 20, but by running our sand spreader <br />trucks six hours of overtime on January 20 and starting three <br />trucks at 4:00 a.m. on the 21st, we were able to keep a <br />potentially large problem to a minor inconvenience. The down <br />side of this storm is that our yearly supply of salt/sand was <br />seriously depleted. Other agencies, such as MnDOT, Anoka <br />County, Hennepin County, and countless cities are all in such <br />short supply of salt that MnDOT organized a supplemental bid to <br />procure additional salt for this winter. The cost will <br />certainly be higher than our first bid but I felt that we had <br />no choice but to try to secure an additional 75 ton of salt at <br />this time. I will inform the Council of the costs when I have <br />that information. <br /> <br />One of my goals for this department is to keep the employees <br />involved in productive work and necessary maintenance tasks <br />when the weather doesn't allow outside projects. We build 25 <br />picnic tables for the parks each year, along with equipment <br />modifications, rebuilding, repair and preventative maintenance <br />so the winter season accomplishments are more than just plowing <br />snow. <br />