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Overall impact of budget cuts on forestry division staffing
1:06:38
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Council Member Krishnan inquires about the overall impact of budget cuts on forestry division staffing. Parks Department officials explain that while expansion plans were affected, they managed to retain most existing staff.
- Budget cuts prevented the expansion of programming and trail maintenance
- No new hires were made for the planned expansion
- The department was able to absorb almost all of the 27 existing staff members through grant-funded programs for the current fiscal year
Shekar Krishnan
1:06:38
Okay.
1:06:38
Kind of keep them all straight.
1:06:40
Got it.
1:06:40
Okay.
1:06:40
But the bottom line is how did all of these things impact the staffing in the forestry division overall?
1:06:46
How did you all adapt to this?
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1:06:48
There was a
Susan Donoghue
1:06:49
It meant that we did not The staffing was intended to expand programming, expand trail maintenance programming.
1:06:57
It just meant that we weren't able to do that expansion, hire or expand that programming.
Jennifer Greenfeld
1:07:01
Sure.
1:07:02
In addition, at the time that the financial plan came out for those sort of one shot, we had about 27 people on staff, and we were able to absorb almost all of them in our grant funded programs through this fiscal year.
Shekar Krishnan
1:07:17
Got it.