Landscape and Median Maintenance

The furnishing of all labor, material, equipment, supervision, transportation, and other services necessary to perform the landscape maintenance at designated area(s) as specified herein. A. Services to be performed includes, but is not limited to: mowing, edging, and trimming of lawns; removing trash, clippings, and debris from landscape, lawn areas, and hard surfaces (i.e. sidewalks, etc.). A. Litter Removal Remove trash and debris from the site being maintained and properly dispose of the trash and debris. Proper disposal of collected trash and debris is a requirement of the Contractor. During each scheduled service, cleaning of the entire maintenance area shall be performed including the following items: All paper, trash, twigs, branches, trimmings, and other debris within the site limits. Remove all broken glass that is present on walkways, curbs, or other hard surfaces. All sand, gravel, and soils shall be thoroughly cleaned, swept or blown off of all pavements adjacent to maintenance areas and disposed of properly off site. Cigarette butts, loose paper and other bits of small debris will be picked up after sweeping areas and disposed of properly. The Contractor shall not allow landscape debris and trash to accumulate in any area. All waste materials generated by the Contractor’s operations will be disposed of properly off-site. Under no circumstances will trash or debris be swept in or disposed of in catch basins, drainpipes, storm drains or open culverts of storm sewers. Extraordinary amounts of debris caused by hurricanes, tornadoes, vandalism, special events or roadside dumping will not be the responsibility of the Contractor and removal may be requested by the City as additional services. The Contractor should report such accumulations of debris, when encountered. Quotations for the extraordinary cleanup from the Contractor will be considered B. Turf Maintenance Lawn mower blades shall be clean, kept sharp, and well-adjusted to provide a clean cut. No more than one-third (1/3) of the total grass blade shall be removed per mowing. Cutting grass too closely (scalping) shall be avoided. Mowing patterns shall be changed regularly to avoid rutting. Use small mowers for difficult or tight areas where larger commercial mowing units cannot maneuver.

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Exterior Improvements, Operation and Maintenance of Exterior Improvements, Irrigation, Planting Irrigation, Planting, Planting Preparation, Soil Preparation, Landscape Grading.