The University of Missouri will be shaggier and dirtier and faculty will be responsible for taking their own trash to dumpsters under the plan for cutting 50 jobs in campus operations detailed in an email memo sent Friday by Vice Chancellor Gary Ward.

Landscaping operations will be cut back so sidewalk edges are trimmed no more than twice a year and only in the most visible locations, Ward wrote. After Saturday football games, the debris left by tailgaters will not be picked up until Monday, he wrote.

Custodial staff no longer will clean or remove trash or recyclables from offices, Ward wrote.

�This frees up custodians to assist with recycling, which, previously, has been a volunteer effort,� Ward wrote.

The plan to save $5.47 million in the MU Operations division that employs 842 people exempts the MU Police Department and MU Environmental Health and Safety. Ward warned it likely means slower response time for maintenance issues, less overtime and slower snow removal.

In the email, Ward warned that �we will be unable to sustain the level of service for which you have become accustomed. I do not anticipate that changes beginning July 1, 2016, will inhibit the academic mission at Mizzou, nor is it my intention for that to ever happen.�

Ward�s email is his response to a March 9 directive for a 5 percent cut to general fund budgets from interim Chancellor Hank Foley. The directive imposed a hiring freeze and warned there would be no salary increases.

The Columbia campus is trying to cover $22 million of an expected $32.5 million shortfall because of declining enrollment and new commitments such as the new Division of Inclusion, Diversity and Equity, spokesman Christian Basi said. The cuts do not take into account possible state budget reductions or increases.

Of the 50 positions in operations to be cut, 21.75 currently are vacant and will not be filled, and many others are in auxiliary departments such as campus catering or facilities, Basi said. Many are held by students, he said.

An additional 10.5 full-time equivalent positions will be eliminated June 30, and five employees already have received notice they will be laid off, Basi said.

The College of Arts and Science will have to cut $4.2 million but expects to do so without layoffs, Dean Michael O�Brien wrote in an email Tuesday. The cuts will require the college to eliminate vacant positions, reduce staff travel and reduce equipment purchases, he wrote.

�I have not sent out any e-mails because the chairs and directors are working directly with their faculty and staff to manage the reductions; it is not a top-down approach,� O�Brien wrote.

Ward wrote that his email is not intended to be a comprehensive list of the actions he is taking to balance his division�s budget. It does, he wrote, include �those that might be most noticeable aesthetically to faculty, students and visitors to campus; and those that realize the most cost savings for the department.�

The issue of trash removal and office cleaning should not be an issue in arts and science, O�Brien wrote.

�I think people see our financial picture as very, very serious and will do what it takes to make things work,� he wrote.