The sad parts:

* That team is still necessary for future changes and maintenance, including security and transitions.

* The public sector has many institutions* where such a team should have tenure (and other work to fill the non-public works projects time).

Offhand, These institutions include the temples of information worship (libraries), information provisioning (higher education of all sorts; elementary and lower are for converting feral humans to educated people), and any civil engineers (civilian or military at any level).