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Resolution Approving a Contract in the Amount of $230,413.75 with Invasive Plant Control, Inc for Vegetative Maintenance Services
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Department: Water Resources
Council District: 1
Public Hearing: N/A
Advertising Date/By: N/A
Contact 1 and Phone: Steven D. Drew, 373-7893
Contact 2 and Phone: David Phlegar, 373-7207
Contact 3 and Phone: Wade Walcutt, 373-2964
PURPOSE:
The City of Greensboro Water Resources and Parks & Recreation Departments wish to enter into three-year contract with Invasive Plant Control, Inc. to provide vegetative maintenance services to support the City in the management and maintenance of vegetated stream buffers along select publicly owned stream corridors within the corporate limits of the City of Greensboro.
BACKGROUND:
Between 1999 and 2003, the City of Greensboro planted approximately 17,000 native riparian trees and established vegetated stream buffers ranging from 10 feet to 50 feet in width along approximately 11 linear miles of streams within City owned parks. Along with the natural regeneration, various invasive and exotic species have introduced themselves. From 2004 to 2014, a contracted maintenance effort controlled the invasive/exotic species to improve the biological diversity and general aesthetics of the stream corridors.
Now, in 2015, a continuation of that holistic management strategy is still considered necessary to ensure that the stream buffers are both ecologically successful as well as accepted by the community. Some buffers still require maintenance of the woody invasive or exotic species, but the corridors are largely being inundated with invasive vines which out compete the desirable vegetation.
In March of 2015 a Request for Proposal (RFP) was issued in order to identify companies that could perform vegetated maintenance services tied to this ongoing project. On April 17, 2015 six proposals were received and all six respondents proposed to self-perform the requested ma...
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