Lewis and Clark County officials kicked the tires on a new street sweeper Tuesday — and they liked the sticker price.
The bid price for the new Elgin sweeper came in at $209,000, but the county only footed an eighth of the cost. The Montana Air and Congestion Initiative, a program funded through the state Department of Transportation, gave the county a $182,000 grant toward the purchase, leaving taxpayers with a bill of $27,000.
The county will use the new sweeper in the spring months to cut down on dust problems created by a winter’s worth of sanding the roads.
“We were lucky to get it,” Assistant Public Works Director Kyle Thomas said. “Those machines, as you see, are $200,000. And not many places anywhere have a new broom like that.”
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