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18 trees and parks workers laid off
Eighteen trees and parks workers are among the 38 civilian employees to be issued layoff notices today, Deputy Public Works Director Gordon MacKay said this afternoon, as the administration plans to cancel tree trimming and outsource much of the city’s park maintenance.
Public Works was the department hardest hit by the civilian layoffs (At the Police Department, 55 officers were to be laid off). MacKay said he met with staff at the corporation yard this morning and has been meeting individually since with those to be laid off.
Public Works has 181 employees in operations and maintenance and about 40 more in engineering. The layoffs all were in operations and maintenance and all were parks and tree workers, MacKay said. Throughout the department, 36 employees applied for the retirement incentive, he said.
“Nobody enjoys this sort of thing,” he said. “It’s not fun, for sure.”