Saturday tree maintenance

A constituent recently asked me why Ryde Council staff were undertaking maintenance to street trees, seemingly non-urgent work, on a Saturday morning. The response that I have received from management is that parks and gardens staff have been almost fully occupied over the summer period with mowing, trying to keep up with the exceptional growth during the wet summer. Other minor works resulting from ratepayer requests such as rectifying street tree vandalism are being undertaken on Saturdays to ensure a satisfactory response time.

In short, we can't interrupt the heavy mowing schedule or our sportsfields and playgounds would suffer, so to respond to resident requests in a reasonable time we have to attend to other tasks on Saturdays.