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Wednesday, November 24, 1999
Fayetteville hires firm to maintain medians

By DAVE HAMRICK
Staff Writer

Money was placed in this year's Fayetteville city budget to hire a full-time person to maintain the city's newly beautified medians, but City Council Monday decided to contract with a landscape maintenance firm instead.

Low bidder to provide weeding, pruning, fertilizing and other routine services along Ga. Highway 54, Ivy Green Lawn Services, will do the work for $14,774 a year, or $1,231.17 a month. That's a considerable savings over hiring a full-time person, said Main Street director Sherri Anderson.

The company's bid proposal includes pulling all weeds over six inches tall or wide once a month, four applications of preemergent weed killer during the year, plus periodic fertilizer, insect and disease control.

As part of its Main Street downtown revitalization program, the city planted the medians in crepe myrtle, barberry and a variety of other shrubs and flowering plants early this past summer. The $130,000 project also includes new welcome signs at the city limits.

Plans are to repeat the process in the medians along Ga. Highway 85 north of downtown this winter. Once the new plants are established, the city will have to offer a new maintenance contract for bid, to cover both areas.


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