Hintze and his crew are responsible for walkways on campuses, including the main campus in Boise, which covers 27 city blocks. In some cases, the department rents a front-end loader/skid steer, and it owns several tractors equipped with plows, a rear-mounted de-icer salt spreader, and a riding mower equipped with a snow blade and a rotary broom. Using four plow trucks, four skid steers, two loaders and a dump truck, a contractor handles curb-to-curb snow removal, with oversight from the grounds department.
But crews use shovels to do the most important work — clearing stairs, ramps and other pedestrian areas where tractors and plows cannot operate.
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