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Some city councillors are cool to the idea of increasing Calgary’s snow-clearing budget, even as costs of doing so and complaint numbers grow.

Since the beginning of January to Feb. 12, the city received 14,388 complaints or service requests regarding snow and ice removal on streets and sidewalks.

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But some city councillors say any notion of hiking the current road snow-clearing budget of $35 million should take a back seat to finding greater efficiencies, and recognizing recent improvements.

“Spending more doesn’t equate to better results, the question is how can we do better with what we have?” said Ward 5 Coun. George Chahal.

“In the next budget, we have some extremely tough choices to make, we need to find efficiencies.”

Chahal said he’s satisfied with the clearing of higher priority roads so far this winter but work on other feeder arteries could be improved, particularly those around high-use areas such as LRT stations.