02-26-2015, 11:42 AM
I still get people (mostly adults, actually) knocking on my door offering to shovel the walks and driveway for 40$ or something. I've never taken them up on the offer.
There are seasonal city workers that work in the summer (tending gardens, mowing grass, driving the leaf sucking trucks, etc.) some of them could become full-time or 3/4 employees. I really wonder how much there is to save by contracting it out, essentially a company would take some money for profit and pay the employees considerably less than city workers get paid, but the city already owns and maintains sidewalk plows and would presumably continue to run a maintenance department for vehicles.
There are seasonal city workers that work in the summer (tending gardens, mowing grass, driving the leaf sucking trucks, etc.) some of them could become full-time or 3/4 employees. I really wonder how much there is to save by contracting it out, essentially a company would take some money for profit and pay the employees considerably less than city workers get paid, but the city already owns and maintains sidewalk plows and would presumably continue to run a maintenance department for vehicles.