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Mayor and council hear department plans for staff reductions and reorganization ahead of budget
Summary
Three city department leaders told Denver—ity Council that budget cuts and reorganizations will shift staffing, program priorities and service delivery. Departments said they prioritized preserving front-line services while moving positions to alternative funding and eliminating some vacancies.
Denver—onsolidated City and County leaders heard presentations from three agency directors about personnel reductions, funding shifts and organizational changes during a weekly joint meeting of the mayor and City Council.
The presentations, from the Denver Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver Parks and Recreation and the city—conomic development office, outlined how each department is limiting layoffs, reallocating vacant positions and reshaping programs to reduce budget impacts while trying to preserve core services ahead of the city budget finalization.
Department of Public Health and Environment director Karen McGowan told council members the department looked first to cuts in contract services and supplies, elimination of vacant positions and shifting staff to grant or other alternate funding sources before resorting to layoffs. "We moved 20 positions to alternate funding sources. We eliminated 15 vacant positions ... and we, eventually had to lay off 16 positions," McGowan said, describing the department s having roughly 312 positions in total. She said the department aimed to avoid eliminating entire programs and…
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