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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION COUNCIL MEETING MAR ? 8 1994 cmroFORONO DATE: March 25, 1994 ITEM NO.: ^ Department Approval: Name John Geihardson Title Public Works Director Administrator Reviewed:Agenda Section: City Administrator’s Report Item Description: Contracnial Maintenance - City Parks For the past several years the City of Orono has employed temporary helpers to perform maintenance at the City Parks, beaches, fishing piers and government buildings and grounds. The type of people hired for this type of work is usually high school and or college students that have time available during the summer. The ideal situation would be to employ people that are willing to remm for a few years thereby reducmg the amount of training time each year. This has not happened over tlie pas* few years and we are employing different people each year. Last year was difficult because after placing an ad I did not receive any qualified applicants aiid had to call other municipalities to hire p>eople that they did not hire. I have talki:d with other municipalities about this and have found that they are now or are going to contract out the maintenance of their parks. One community that is very close did contract out the maintenance and was very pleased with the results and are going to do the same for 1994. For the above reasons I have received proposals from five firms as follows: Grounds Crews Warden Lawn Services Lav/n Detailers Steve Hammerschmidt Lasting Impressions $13,829.72 14.175.00 14,803.50 17.892.00 30,027.68 In the Parks budget we have budgeted $10,770. for temporary help for Park maintenance. There are monies budgeted in government buildings for maintenance of the grounds but it is not separated out from tlie total monies budgeted for all maintenance. A guesstimate is $2,000. for lawn maintenance.