Chapleau Town Council's approved more expensive contracts relating to roads in the winter.
In their recent meeting, Council approved a more than $27,600 contract for hauling and mixing of winter sand and a more than $19,500 contract for road salt - but Mayor Michael Levesque notes the cost is much higher than past years.
Levesque also noted "accelerating" costs posing issues for planned paving of Monk Street, with plans for a "double sheet" there, given the "wear and tear" from heavy truck traffic.
Council also discussed a tender for storm and sanitary sewers, but Levesque says only a single bid was received and it was incomplete, so another call for tenders will be issued, in hopes the project could still be done by the fall.