By Alexander Edwards | Denver Gazette
Denver Councilmember Sarah Parady requested a second delay on voting for a trio of contracts worth $25.5 million that would pay for upgrades and replacements to Denver Parks and Recreation landscaping, gardening and golf course maintenance equipment.
The first-term councilmember previously called the three contracts out last week asking the council to consider alternatives to gas powered landscaping tools. She repeated this request Monday and shared information about how gas powered equipment impacts health and air quality more so than something like a car.
Denver, and indeed the metro area as a whole, have experienced many days of air quality alerts. Though driven primarily by fires burning in California, Oregon and locally, Denver regularly sees “ozone action days,” and air quality alerts due to high concentrations of ground level ozone. On Memorial Day Weekend, The Denver Gazette’s media partner 9News reported Denver had the 6th worst air quality nationwide.
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