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Highway operations: town officials describe plow hiring, salt purchases and capital-reserve rules
Summary
Select Board members described how the highway department hires seasonal plow drivers, maintains salt supplies and uses year-end encumbrances or capital reserves for equipment such as loaders and trucks. Residents asked about equipment timing and whether funds can be shifted between buckets.
Select Board members and residents discussed highway staffing and equipment funding, including seasonal plow drivers, salt purchases, encumbrances and capital-reserve rules.
Officials said the highway department hires seasonal plow drivers for winter and had approved two or three seasonal hires this winter. “So we do we do hire plow drivers just for the winter… I think it was 2 or 3,” a Select Board member said when asked about driver hiring.
On salt and encumbrances,…
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