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Columbia city council to consider paying for snow removal

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Rachel Lippman
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St. Louis Public Radio

The Columbia City Council is set to take a final vote Monday to appropriate funds to cover expenditures from the planned snow removal budget, according to the Columbia Tribune.

The city spent an additional $133,000 over its appropriated budget.

The money paid city workers as well as for equipment and materials. Last winter was the second most expensive out of the last five.

Columbia had 17.8 inches of snow between December 2013 and March.This was the second lowest accumulation out of the past five winters, but the city also had to clear the streets of ice throughout the season.

Abigail Keel is a senior student at the Missouri School of Journalism. She is originally from St. Louis, Missouri and grew up hating the drone of public radio in her parent's car. In high school, she had a job picking up trash in a park where she listened to podcasts for entertainment and made a permanent switch to public-radio lover. She's volunteered and interned for Third Coast International Audio Festival in Chicago, IL, and worked on the KBIA shows Faith and Values, Intersection and CoMO Explained.
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