{"id":513875,"date":"2026-03-04T14:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/513875\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T14:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:30:19","slug":"capital-city-spends-over-7m-on-private-snowclearing-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/513875\/","title":{"rendered":"Capital City Spends Over $7M on Private Snowclearing in February"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\t\t\t\t\"Capital<\/p>\n

(Via Greg Noseworthy on Facebook)<\/p>\n

The City of St. John\u2019s spent more than $7 million on private snowclearing contracts in February, the snowiest month on record in the metro area.<\/p>\n

The cost is on par with similar contracts issued in the wake of Snowmageddon six years ago.<\/p>\n

The city does have a reserve or contingency fund for snowclearing needs over and above normal operations.<\/p>\n

And Mayor Danny Breen says while that fund is not exhausted, it\u2019s getting there.<\/p>\n

The city let contracts last week totaling $3.5 million, but they had to be extended, pushing the cost past the $7-million mark for the month.<\/p>\n

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Deputy Manager of Public Works Lynnann Winsor and Mayor Danny Breen (VOCM News)<\/p>\n

\u201cLooking at different areas, the first three contracts were in Southlands, Kenmount Terrace and Airport Heights for a total of $3.5 million,\u201d said Breen. \u201cSince then we\u2019ve also issued other contracts at various locations around the city and that\u2019s been roughly around another $3.5 million-$4 million.\u201d<\/p>\n

Breen said it\u2019s not so much the amount of snow that causes problems, but getting hit by back-to-back storms.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, he said the city didn\u2019t need to dump snow in the harbour afterall, after seeking and eventually getting approval from the feds.<\/p>\n

Breen noted contractors are required to already have their own sites for dumping snow, which provided other options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Via Greg Noseworthy on Facebook) The City of St. John\u2019s spent more than $7 million on private…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-513875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}