DENVER — There's no denying how much Scott Gilmore loves a Denver park.

"This park is spectacular. It looks great," Scott Gilmore said while sitting in Civic Center Park on Monday afternoon. "The parks team that is in this city today is one of the best parks teams in the nation, hands down."

However, his career with the City of Denver was abruptly cut on Monday.

"Thirteen years and it came down to a few-minute phone call that I'm not needed anymore," Scott Gilmore said solemnly.

Scott Gilmore, who spent more than a decade working as the deputy executive director of Denver Parks & Recreation, learned on Monday that he was one of more than a hundred city employees being laid off .

"For the thousands and thousands of employees of the city, they have been on pins and needles," Scott Gil

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