The State Transportation Commission is discussing cutting a portion of the D-O-T’s snow removal budget. D-O-T Winter Operations director Craig Bargfrede says they haven’t been as busy as past years. “The last two years and what not, have shown us…we just didn’t have as much winter,” Bargfrede says. The storm last week dropped large amounts of snow across the state, but Bargfrede says it hasn’t been consistently busy all winter. D-O-T staff told the Transportation Commission at their meeting early this month they are looking at a one million dollar cut in the winter budget for materials like salt and sand.
