Description
This is new area recently curb were repaired and new plants were planted.
But no one is taking care to see they are watered .
The bushes and vines are all dying from lack of water.
The city has sprinkler system that cost money to install but it is not working. Tax payer will be on hook to replace these plants because of lack of care
6 Comments
Guinevere (Registered User)
It is such a waste that the city ships in plants multiple times a year to rotate in the city planters. I've watched them do it for years on Bloor Street and Danforth Avenue. First workers come to dig up the beds, then mass amounts of workers pull up in trucks, deposit the flats on to the sidewalks, and then plant in frenzy. Long lengths of sidewalk are taken up for the better part of the work day.
Even getting a mere 20 people to design, coordinate, order, drive, and plant the city planters at $10.25/hr within 10 days for 8 hours a day (or 80 hours of labour each person) would cost the city and taxpayers $16,400 just in labour.
The City of Toronto does this at least four times a year. Assuming that the skeleton workforce of 20 people charged with caring for the city's planters are paid minimum wage, taxpayers fork over at least $65,600 for them to replant needlessly. Then there is the cost of the trees, plants, equipment, and transportation, et cetera.
The city's plants should be maintained, not left to die or yanked out before their time.
wmcwonca (Registered User)
wmcwonca (Registered User)
wmcwonca (Registered User)
You just have to drive buy and see the bushes crying out for water Even in the rain the trees take all the water
wmcwonca (Registered User)
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