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Saskatoon delays return to work plan
Global News
The City of Saskatoon has delayed the return of staff to in-person work to April 1.
The City of Saskatoon has pushed back its return to the workplace plan until April at least.
This is due to the ongoing impact of the Omicron COVID-19 variant, Adam Tittemore told the city’s governance and priorities committee on Monday.
The city was initially looking at having staff return to the workplace on Feb. 1.
“We have deferred the return to the workplace for staff until April 1,” said Tittemore, the city clerk. “And as such, we’re bringing forward a recommendation to council to reconsider the resumption of in-person meetings starting in February.”
Three options were proposed by Tittemore for the resumption of in-person meetings: align it with the returned to the workplace plan, resume meetings in March with proper resources in place, or defer to the committee on a monthly basis.
The committee members opted for council and committee meetings to resume in-person on April 1.
“A lot of other groups … not associated with city council and the city look to us to as to what we’re doing,” said Ward. 9 Coun. Bev Dubois. “So I just think I would prefer to just have that date set instead of dealing with it month to month.”
An update on the city’s measures to mitigate the rise of COVID-19 was also presented to the committee.