Atlanta proposes $2.65 million to add parks to landscaping contract

Atlanta proposes adding its Department of Parks and Recreation to an existing right-of-way landscaping contract with Mariani Enterprise, LLC, doing business as Ed Castro Landscape. An ordinance on the Community Development/Human Services Committee’s Sept. 29 draft agenda would authorize up to $2.65 million for landscaping maintenance and improvements at various parks and recreation sites; the document does not identify individual sites.

The same proposed amendment would add up to $400,000 for Department of Transportation projects. The city says a new procurement could delay maintenance at parks, recreation facilities and ballfields. The measure would waive the usual source-selection provisions for this amendment; its agenda placement does not establish an executed contract change.