2008 Lawn & Landscaping Maintenance Contract

In early April, United Lawnscape was awarded a competitively-bid contract to perform the following services for 2008:

• Spring and Fall clean-up
• Mowing, trimming and edging turf areas
• Bed weeding and edging
• Ornamental shrub trimming
• Turf fertilization

At an April 21st meeting we had with the United account manager, it was pointed out that they made the first fertilizer application on April 17th, which was then followed by the Spring clean-up on the 18th and 19th. He admitted that the fertilization should have occured after the clean-up and that they would give us an additional fertilization.

At that meeting we also discussed the fact that they had already cut out and replaced most of the lawn sections that had been damaged over the winter under their snow removal contract. We pointed out that we still had not received our water meters back from the Township and therefore our sprinkler systems would not be operational for at least another two weeks. We also gave them a list of ten sprinkler heads that had been damaged by their plows. Under their snow contract, we are allowed to hold back a portion of their payment until all repairs are made to our satisfaction. The United account manager said that they would repair the sprinkler heads and then replace any lawn sections that failed to thrive.

We are in the process of getting cost estimates for a work order to apply new mulch to the beds throughout the site. This work is not part of United's 2008 contract and will be handled separately. When the work order is approved, I will let everyone know in a separate post here what the estimated start date is so that you can remove any planters, landscape lighting, etc. that might be in the way.