Nearly 200 Denver government employees are set to lose their jobs starting Monday as the city makes sweeping layoffs to close a major budget deficit.

The city announced 171 workers would be laid off. In addition, 665 open positions will be eliminated and nearly 100 other jobs will be transferred to other funding sources. The layoffs and job closures represent 7.6 percent of the workforce budgeted in the general fund.

City workers have been bracing for layoffs since Mayor Mike Johnston first announced the city’s $250 million budget deficit in May. The city will notify the affected employees by the end of Tuesday, and no further reductions are anticipated this year.

The scale of the layoffs is smaller than some anticipated. Union leaders speculated that up to 4,000 workers could be laid o

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