The city will notify the public on how to submit names in the coming weeks.
5:00 am, Mar. 2, 2021
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Piles of snow in the middle of the street waiting to be plowed in November 2019. Kelly Humphrey / Brainerd Dispatch
If naming Minnesota Department of Transportation snowplows wasn’t enough fun, Brainerd residents will get the chance to do the same in their city.
Brainerd City Council members agreed Monday, March 1, to let the public name eight pieces of snow removal equipment: four plow trucks, the loader and plower, the loader and snowblower, a road grader and a broom tractor.
Mike O’Day, chair of the council’s safety and public works committee, said Mayor Dave Badeaux brought the idea to him after seeing how successful MnDOT’s recent name-a-snowplow campaign was.