City crews tasked with maintaining Toronto’s public parks spent fewer hours at job sites each week than they reported in official logs, and drove to plazas and other nonwork-related locations while on the clock. Meanwhile, the municipality doesn’t have a reliable way of determining whether the work the crews are supposed to be doing is performed to standard.
Those were among the findings of a new report from Toronto’s auditor general about the upkeep of city green spaces, which recommended the city step up oversight of its parks division.
