Citywide landscaping and irrigation contract
Summary
The current IGM landscaping contract expires in December. The proposed new contract with Main Guide Landscape Services costs about $258,000 for the current scope — roughly $75,000 less — but an optional expanded scope adds about $187,600, letting the city hand over median and swale work it currently does with five in-house staff.
At a glance
- Total mentions
- 3
- Last 30 days
- 2
Discussed at 2 meetings in the last 60 days; most recently Nov 10, 2026.
Impact analysis
Base contract saves about $75,000 a year; taking the expanded scope costs about $187,600 more but avoids roughly $500,000 in new staffing costs.
Taxpayers get cleaner medians and swales at far less than the cost of hiring five new employees.
No city staff lose jobs, but the five grounds employees shift to other duties.
Mentions & discussions (3)
City Commission - Nov 10, 2026
The city would hire Mainguy Landscape Services for three years, with two optional one-year extensions, to handle landscaping and irrigation citywide at up to about $446,000 a year.
Agenda Review Workshop - Nov 9, 2026
The current IGM landscaping contract expires in December. The proposed new contract with Main Guide Landscape Services costs about $258,000 for the current scope — roughly $75,000 less — but an optional expanded scope adds about $187,600, letting the city hand over median and swale work it currently does with five in-house staff.
City Commission - Jun 9, 2026
The $116,736.80 median landscaping project was tabled to a time uncertain, delaying improvements along Kimberly Boulevard. Residents who praised similar work elsewhere will have to wait.
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