Vancouver city council has approved spending up to $4 million for the park board to hire eight private tree maintenance and consulting companies to tackle what staff say is a backlog of work that includes tree removal and stump grinding.
Council approved the budget Wednesday for the companies to complete the work over the next three years, despite concerns raised by Local 1004 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, which represents outside workers.
“We are disappointed with the park board’s regular use of contract workers for jobs that city and parks workers could easily do, and we have articulated this to the city,” said Rob Limongelli, Local 1004’s
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