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File #: RES 19-43    Name:
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
In control: President and Board of Trustees
On agenda: 2/4/2019 Final action: 2/4/2019
Title: A Resolution Approving the Renewal of the Independent Contractor Agreement with City Escape Garden & Design LLC for the 2019 Regular Landscape Maintenance Program in an Amount not to Exceed $145,000.00 and Authorizing Its Execution
Attachments: 1. Resolution-Regular Landscaping-City Escape, 2. Renewal Form-Regular Landscaping-City Escape, 3. Attachments-Regular Landscaping-City Escape
Submitted By
John P. Wielebnicki, Public Works Director

Reviewed By
LKS

Agenda Item Title
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A Resolution Approving the Renewal of the Independent Contractor Agreement with City Escape Garden & Design LLC for the 2019 Regular Landscape Maintenance Program in an Amount not to Exceed $145,000.00 and Authorizing Its Execution

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Overview
Overview
In January of 2017 Village staff requested bids for three separate landscaping contracts under a "Comprehensive Landscaping Bid". City Escape Garden & Design LLC, of Chicago, IL was identified as the lowest responsive bidder for one of the contracts, the Villages Regular Landscape Maintenance Program. The Village entered into an Independent Contractor Agreement with City Escape in 2017 and renewed in 2018 and it is proposed to exercise the second of the two possible renewals.

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Staff Recommendation
Approve the Resolution.

Fiscal Impact
For this work, the FY2019 budget provides a total of $120,000.00 for Regular Landscape Maintenance ($100,000.00), Private Property Landscape Violation Repairs ($15,000.00), and Fence Repair ($5,000.00) in the General Fund, General Contractuals account no. 1001-43800-742-530660.

In addition, the FY2019 budget provides a total of $50,000.00 for various landscape improvements and plant materials replacement in the Capital Improvement Fund, Landscape Improvement account no. 3095-43780-101-570963. The Capital Improvement funds will be distributed between two landscape contracts, Regular Landscaping in the amount of $25,000.00 (referred to in this agenda item) and Business District Landscape Maintenance (referred to in another agenda item).

The proposed not to exceed amount of this contract is $120,000.00 from the General fund and $25,000.00 from the Capital Improvement fund for a total of $145,000.00.

Background
The Village maintains the landscaping on approximately 180 sites across the Village. These sites include: Village owned properties, medians, cul-de-sacs, dive...

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