A public hearing at the Feb. 3 City Council meeting featured Public Works employees in their orange jackets and a discussion on whether more of their work could be “outsourced.”
About 30 Public Works employees sat on the east side of the Chamber as a department administrator explained that outsourcing some services could in fact raise costs and reduce reliability.
Skyler Lipski, director of operations and maintenance for the Public Works department, noted that approximately 30 percent of the department’s services are already outsourced.