Cape Breton Regional Municipality is projecting a $1.2-million surplus by March 31, but Mayor Cecil Clarke is not in a hurry to spend the potential windfall. 

He said there's lots of winter left before the end of the fiscal year and anything can happen.

For example, Clarke said, last February, CBRM was hit with 150 centimetres of snow in one weekend.

"That's the operative word: 'potential' surplus position," he told reporters after a committee of the whole meeting Tuesday.

"And what was noted was w…