Placement: Consent Agenda
Action Requested: Motion / Vote
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Approval to Participate in the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) Contract #4600004968 Ground Application Services for Invasive Plant Control & Vegetation Management.
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Submitted By: Nadia Tourjee, Procurement Contracting Officer I, Procurement Management Division (PMD).
Strategic Plan Link: The City's Goal of safe, clean, and beautiful.
Summary Brief (Agreements/Contracts only)
1. Prepared by: Nadia Tourjee, Procurement Contracting Officer I, (PMD).
2. Parties: City of Port St. Lucie and Aquatic Vegetation Control, Inc. (AVC)
3. Purpose: To maintain City properties, tracts, and eradicate invasive vegetation.
4. New/Renewal/Modified: New.
5. Duration: Upon execution through 06/02/2027 with two (2) additional one-year renewals.
6. Benefits to Port St. Lucie: Mitigate invasive exotic vegetation and completion of chosen projects to clear/lessen the invasive vegetation for growth of native species.
7. Cost to Port St. Lucie (Annual and Potential): Estimated Annual Cost: $150,000. Future expenditures will be appropriated in each year's budget.
Presentation Information: N/A.
Staff Recommendation: Move that the Council waive formal bidding pursuant to City Code of Ordinances, Section 35.08(a)(10)(b) (piggyback exception), and approve participation in the SFWMD Contract #4600004968, with AVC for Invasive Plant Control & Vegetation Management.
Alternate Recommendations:
1. Move that the Council amend the recommendation and approve participating in the SFWMD Contract #4600004968 with AVC.
2. Move that the Council not approve and provide staff with direction.
Background: Invasive exotics, such as Brazilian Pepper Trees, indiscriminately dominate the properties/tracts, whether owned by the City or within the City rights-of-way, throughout our community due to the clearing of native vegetation when the City originally was platted. Without taking corrective action to mitigate, the pr...
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