TOWN STAFF REPORT RECOMMENDATIONS
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Discuss, consider and act to approve Resolution 25-15 authorizing the Town Manager to expend funds for Town-wide landscaping and tree trimming services by Smith Lawn and Tree in the amount not to exceed $600,000.00 (Cheryl Taylor, P.E., Director of Public Works)
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STAFF: Cheryl Taylor, P.E., Director of Public Works
BACKGROUND:
This authorization will allow the Town Manager to pay for Town-wide landscaping services by Smith Lawn for the remainder of the fiscal year and falls within the total budgeted for landscaping services in the FY25 budget.
DISCUSSION:
Smith Lawn and Tree has been providing landscaping services to the Town of Westlake since 2020 by performing routine ground maintenance and tree trimming services at Town-owned facilities as well as within public parks and along the public rights of way and trail system.
The most current contract with Smith Lawn was approved by the Town Council on May 1st 2020 and is now expired. The Town of Westlake does not have a Parks Department to perform routine landscaping. Previous staff had directed Smith Lawn quarterly on landscaping projects throughout the fiscal year. Since 2022, Smith Lawn has only been directed to perform routine grounds maintenance and periodic special projects, so no annual landscaping projects have been completed since that time. The neglect along Davis Blvd. within the medians and along the northbound parkways have become an eyesore for the community. Approval of this item will allow for the expenditure of funds with Smith Lawn and Tree for Town-wide routine landscaping, tree trimming services, and special projects to clean up visible locations throughout the town in an amount not to exceed $600,000 which exceeds the Town Manager's signatory approval and requires Town Council approval.
The total request this evening is as follows:
Total Amount Previously Expended thru 3/31/25 $219,000
Remaining FY25 routine maintenance - ...
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