“Anytime, we are on call,” said Gabriel Lima, an employee of the property services company UGL Limited the University employs.

Standing on the steps of Boylston Hall in the snow on Thursday, Limas, said that clearing snow on the University’s campus requires special care.

“We can’t use another device like a  loader device simply because these are historic buildings, and they don’t want to scratch them or anything,” Limas said, pointing down to his plastic shovel. The University does employ heavy machinery on other, more durable, parts of campus, though.

Although the Harvard and the city are separately responsible for managing vast amounts of property, there is some cooperation, Conner and Nardone say, as the two entities work round-the-clock to collectively clear an overlapping network of streets, parking lots, and paths.

“Campus Services also coordinates closely with the City of Cambridge to ensure abutting walkways, roads, and bus stops are clear and passable,” Conner wrote.

Although Harvard does not plow any Cambridge public roads or sidewalks, the University does offer to help store excess snow, according to Nardone.

“Harvard has definitely offered up spots, I know you have a lot of construction that’s going to happen over in Brighton, and there’s locations over there where they’ve certainly offered for us to put snow,” Nardone said.

Connor also declined to say how much the University spends annually on snow removal.

—Staff writer Ivan B. K. Levingston can be reached at Ivan.Levingston@thecrimson.com. Follow him on Twitter @IvanLevingston.