Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is asking the City Council to approve millions of dollars in supplemental funding after this year’s “historic” winter weather left the city with a more than $47.1 million budget gap.
In a letter sent to the Council on Monday, Wu wrote that Boston was in far from unique: almost 80% of cities and towns in Massachusetts had exceeded the amounts they budgeted for snowplowing and other related costs this year.
In five of the six previous years, Boston spent less than budgeted on snow removal, Wu wrote. Those surpluses went into city reserves, which helped offset costs from this year’s record-breaking snowfall, but were not enough, prompting this week’s request for funds from Boston’s free cash accounts…