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Road Salt
This year Eau Claire County ended up $260,000 under budget on road de-icing. Don’t worry though, they’ll spend the money on extra road construction this summer.
They’re under budget because Wisconsin’s warm and dry November and December (relatively speaking) means they used less salt. Has anyone blamed Global Warming for government budgets getting cut? We should get on that.
