Patrick Conners had one phrase he used over and over again to describe the day he opened the lone bid he received for the winter’s supply of road salt.
“Sticker shock,” he said. “I think all communities underneath our purchasing alliance had to take an internal look to see if they had the budget for it.”
Conners is the leader of SHACOG, the regional coordinator between governments that does the heavy lifting to find the 114,000 tons of salt municipalities in the Pittsburgh area expect to spread on the roads this winter…