Speaking of snow, the city isn't good about plowing here

[Nikia]

Does anyone else have that problem? Out of anonymity, I don't give where I live, but it is a small municipality that calls itself a city. When it snows, they seem to plow a few main streets. They don't plow most streets for a while, including our own. It has been snowing for 7 hours, and there has not been a snow plow on our street all day. The last snows were mildler and they didn't plow at all.
My coworker, who has lived in a couple small places around here, says that this is typical for small Wisconsin towns. They don't see the point of plowing until it stops snowing and it is really bad.
What does the tax money go to and isn't it the people's jobs to plow the streets?
I have lived in both a bigger city and a smaller village in Ohio and they were plowing every street within an hour of it snowing. If it was still snowing, they kept on plowing.
Anyway, is my experience typical of Wisconsin or do I live in a really backward place?

[shoelace414]

1. the city of Milwaukee is not like that

smaller towns have less "extra money" to use on snow removal. so to keep your taxes low they only plow when it stops snowing.

[ewagner]

4. That's one reason

another is crew availability.

You keep a skeleton crew on to keep the major access routes open during the storm and keep the rest of the crews off duty to get rest. When the storm is over, or nearly over, they do a full call-out and a major snow removal effort.

[MadAsHell]

2. I think you may be seeing some of ...

the results of the feud between those "Nasty Big Spending" local units of government and the "brave taxpayer defending" members of the Republican't lead legistature. All the locals have newly imposed revenue caps and they are smarting from it. So they are saving money in ways that will get noticed.

[CatholicEdHead]

3. North Dakota is like that statewide

Roads, even main drags are plowed maybe a day after the snow. Then they put down only a little sand here and there, no salt mixture. By then everything is frozen solid. Yet when you cross over into MN, the roads are pretty clear pretty fast.