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House Transportation hears district maintenance overview, winter operations data
Summary
The House Transportation Committee received an overview from the agency’s district maintenance director on staffing, winter operations, bridge and culvert work, temporary bridges and the rail-trail program, including several multi-year activity totals and cost drivers.
Ernie Patnaud, director of district maintenance, told the House Transportation Committee on Tuesday, Jan. 28 that his division runs nine districts with "a little over 500 employees" and outlined the work that makes up maintenance spending, including winter operations, bridge work, roadside cleanup and temporary bridge deployments.
The presentation included multi-year activity and resource figures that committee members said help put the agency budget in context. "Winter maintenance is the big one. It is about a fifth of our budget," Patnaud said, and his slides showed a five-year statewide salt-use average of 118,834 tons and a recent run of light winters that…
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