Weekend snowstorms are wreaking havoc on the overtime budget at the Ansonia Department of Public Works.
Mayor James Della Volpe told the Valley Independent Sentinel last week that the city’s Board of Apportionment and Taxation will be receiving a request form the DPW for additional overtime funds.
Thanks to a number of weekend storms, the department’s overtime budget is pretty much gone, Della Volpe said.
“We’ve gone through our overtime budget already,” the mayor said. So far this winter the city has spent about $35,000 on overtime for DPW workers, Della Volpe estimated.
The DPW is expected to request another $30,000 to carry it through the winter.
“(Weekend storms) have been the pattern — and it’s an expensive pattern,” Della Volpe said. “I think we’ve had 21 inches of snow so far.”
However, the city is still in good shape in terms of sand and salt — the materials dumped on city roads, the mayor said.
