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N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – A House Appropriations Subcommittee has come up with a compromise that will hope to ease concerns of closures for eight North Dakota cities that will lose their maintenance shop.

Residents  of those eight communities have expressed concerns of plowed roads during inclement weather and where help would come from. The compromise would allow the Department of Transportation to lease those shops to a city, county or township for just the cost of the insurance on the building.

Edgeley Representative Mike Brandenburg says he’s talked to the affected cities and counties about this idea. Rural North Dakota Advocate Roy Musland doesn’t like the idea.

Musland also pointed out that the loss of jobs is also a downfall of closing state shops.

Representative Brandenburg says it would be up to local governments to decide whether to hire a snowplow driver.

Audio courtesy of Dave Thompson with Prairie Public Radio and Tom & Friends with KFGO Radio.