College Park City Council members need to keep their scissors away from uniforms as they look for ways to make cuts to the city budget tomorrow, officials said.
Some city departments have requested thousands of dollars in uniforms for their employees – coming to as much as $536 per person – but that spending is necessary, the department heads said.
“Would you want to get a parking ticket from a guy in a T-shirt?” Public Services Director Bob Ryan said. “Parking officers and code officers wear distinguishable clothing so people know they’re for real.”
And what if the distinguishable clothing for someone to write parking tickets costs $500 a year?
“That kind of is what it is to keep them in clean uniforms that keep them respectful of our public,” Ryan said.
