The husband of a Denver city council member is among the 171 city workers being laid off this week. Scott Gilmore, who is married to Councilmember Stacie Gilmore, had been an executive with the parks department for more than a decade.

“Thirteen years of service to the City and County of Denver. That means that when he started serving, our youngest daughter was 7 years old,” Councilmember Stacie Gilmore said at Monday’s regular council meeting.

The council member was visibly emotional, pausing at times to compose herself.

Scott Gilmore served most of his city career as a deputy executive director, a job that frequently put him front and center for media interviews and conversations with neighbors. But he recently became deputy executive director of mountain parks and special projects, a

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