QUESTION
What are the concerns about staff reductions impacting parks maintenance and cleanliness?
3:28:42
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44 sec
The council member explains that a proposed 400 person reduction in Parks Department staff raises concerns about the ability to adequately maintain parks and address issues like overflowing trash, uncleaned bathrooms, and overgrown trees.
- There is a proposed 400 person reduction in Parks Department staff
- Council members often hear complaints about trash overflowing in parks
- Bathrooms need more frequent cleaning
- Trees on streets and in parks need maintenance for overgrown branches
- The proposed staff reduction creates concerns about addressing current needs for parks maintenance and cleanliness
- It also raises doubts about achieving the Parks Department's larger vision related to maintenance and cleanliness
Shekar Krishnan
3:28:42
So I looking at the the numbers here, a 400 person reduction, But the main issue that we're always hearing about and I think all the council members can can attest to this would be the need to clean our parks the trash overflowing in our parks.
3:28:59
Bathrooms that need to be cleaned even much more often and overgrown trees, whether on the streets or in the parks, that need to be maintained.
3:29:07
And as hard as your workers are working to keep up with the need, you're telling me that the proposal right now, there's a 400 person reduction in headcount to address those current needs and to address the larger vision that you have for the Parks department which is also again maintenance and cleanliness.
Lincoln Restler
3:29:24
Is that
Shekar Krishnan
3:29:25
do I have that right?
Sue Donoghue
3:29:26
Yes.
3:29:26
Absolutely.