Half A Million Budget Amendment Approved For Road Salt

by Contributor | February 20, 2025 10:23 am

OSWEGO – The six^th item on Wednesday’s agenda was a budget amendment of $500,000 for road salt for this and next winter. The Department of Public Works commissioner, Craig Rebeor, spoke at tonight’s meeting. DPW stores between 7,000 and 8,000 tons of salt.

This is amid a reported salt shortage in New York due to the state’s move away from importing salt. “We are not running out of salt, but we are out of money,” said Rebeor. This half a million will assure we have enough to get through the rest of the season and restock for the beginning of next winter, to have a full dome going into ‘26.”

Police Chief Phillip Cady requested $22,065.48 for camera upgrades. The council approved 2 different grants for cameras for a total of $128,000 last year. “Once we got through all the pricing and where the cameras need to go, there is about this $22,000 difference,” said Cady.

Items passed tonight:

• Oswego County Autism task force will host the Out Run Autism 5K event on Saturday March 8^th, 2025.
• Oswego YMCA has authorization to put up signs for community events.
• The mayor renewed the agreement with Step One Creative for 1 year. It is for website maintenance.
• High Dam funds received $500 for an accidental purchase by the engineering staff. It is presumably being transferred from the budget that the purchase was supposed to come from.
• Authorize the mayor to sign Amendment #14 with GHD Consulting Services in the amount of $20,000. It is for required quarterly reports.
• Fire Chief Paul Canzone and the fire department received a donation from Brookfield Renewable US. The donation is in total of $5,000, and it will allow the fire department to purchase a second rapid deployment craft.

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