Portage parks could get two new maintenance workers with help from redevelopment commission

Portage parks could get two new maintenance workers with help from redevelopment commission

The Portage Redevelopment Commission is planning to help the Park Department hire two new full-time maintenance workers. The new workers’ responsibilities would include helping maintain properties owned by the RDC but managed by the parks staff. Details are still being worked out, but Mayor Austin Bonta said at the March 20 RDC meeting that his “dirty math” figures it would cost less than $160,000 per year, depending on the cost of the employees…