Key city DPW budget lines in red

Three significant Dunkirk Department of Public Works budget lines are running in the red, according to department head Randy Woodbury. DPW’s director began his most recent Common Council Finance Committee report with a shard of sunshine. The department is going to be able to use Consolidated Highway Improvement Program (CHIPS) funding to pay for a badly needed bucket loader truck. Woodbury followed that news by blotting out the sky with more of Dunkirk’s financial storm clouds. “We are in the red on three lines,” he stated. The first line involves fixing broken infrastructure. “We don’t…