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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