City Braces for Historic Retirement Wave
By Beth Milligan | Sept. 14, 2026
Traverse City commissioners tonight (Monday) will discuss a strategy for addressing one of the most pressing operational issues facing the city: the potential for a full third of its employees to retire in the next 2-3 years. City Manager Benjamin Marentette says the retirement wave will impact almost every department, with the city looking to hire a consultant to identify ways to recruit, retain, and reorganize its workforce.
Employing approximately 200 full-time staff, the city will soon “begin seeing the most significant number of retirements that this organization may have ever seen, due to the age and years of service of our current workforce,” says Marentette. He notes the stream …
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