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The City of Portland will have spent a million dollars on this week's storms, by the time all the snow and ice melts around town. Rob Manning reports.

Transportation officials say they're spending an average of $150,000 a day on the storm. That means the storm has blown through the entire $100,000 a day maintenance budget over the last few days, and then some.

They're anticipating those costs to continue through next Tuesday.

Cheryl Kuck with the Bureau of Transportation says most of the money is going to drivers and road crews.

Cheryl Kuck: "It's a combination of overtime labor, required supervision of that labor, and materials and fuel. But more of it is overtime and supervision."

Transportation commissioner, Sam Adams, said earlier this week that the city plans to cut $5 million from transportation's budget in the current fiscal year.

The bureau has a one-million dollar contingency, but the simultaneous budget cuts and storm costs may force the city council to re-assess.