Has anybody else in the Pebble creek/Fitch area noticed the city medians and common areas look like absolute trash? 3 foot overgrown, doesn't look like it's been touched all year.
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The city will sure send code enforcement after someone with an overgrown yard. Maybe they should be after whoever maintains Fitch?
Is it CoCS or TXDOT that is responsible?
The city will sure send code enforcement after someone with an overgrown yard. Maybe they should be after whoever maintains Fitch?
Is it CoCS or TXDOT that is responsible?
I think it must be a measure of the Mayor's revenge on the voters in Pebble Creek.
It does, however, look really bad. From the Bypass to the intersection of Rock Prairie, Fitch needs a good working-over.
It does, however, look really bad. From the Bypass to the intersection of Rock Prairie, Fitch needs a good working-over.
It seems like the majority of medians with landscape beds are in awful shape. I don't know why they insist on putting them in.
Last summer, CoCS landscaping contract was awarded to out of town operation (Incircle Management). They didn't keep up very well this spring/early summer and seem to have given up on the contract in June. Two weeks ago, CoCS awarded the new contract to Green Teams, a local operation that had the contract in the past I believe.
New contract starts July 1st, so things should improve next week, and we're prob not getting any more rain until October...
New contract starts July 1st, so things should improve next week, and we're prob not getting any more rain until October...
Geez. While I'm sure they were low bid, using an out-of-town landscape contractor just doesn't seem like a good idea.
Green Teams is very capable and led by some great people.
Green Teams is very capable and led by some great people.
Yeah. That was stupid. Does Wallace Phillips own green teams?
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I guess the current vendor isn't going to put out the effort.
MyNameIsJeff said:
It seems like the majority of medians with landscape beds are in awful shape. I don't know why they insist on putting them in.
Yepp. And it's like this every year. Huge suck of tax money into maintaining the medians, that we didn't even need to start with.
I really hope we didnt just pay the previous company and then let them walk off.
I found this from what the poster above. was it a "DEI" contract?
MsDoubleD81 said:
I found this from what the poster above. was it a "DEI" contract?
Federal and state owned entities being forced to have a certain portion of their contractors be from minority ran businesses has been a thing since long before DEI was a buzzword.
and we're prob not getting any more rain until October...
That would not be optimal but after last year, if you would guarantee that rain, I will take it.
That would not be optimal but after last year, if you would guarantee that rain, I will take it.
So, I was told by a reputable source that the current contractor is being replaced July 1 with the same local contractor we had before. I had lots of discussions as my subdivision fronts Fitch.
I'd assume it was the lowest bidder and the city just got what they paid for.
Did they ever come here to mow?
I don't understand why they don't just put Yucca, Texas Sage, and Mexican Feather with bull rock in those things and be done with it.
They have not mowed.
seems like this has happened before
I bet it's mowed 7/1
I bet it's mowed 7/1
So what everyone is saying is that Incircle Management just couldn't cut it as a mowing company?
It was. City Council was leary of low bidder, especially since they didn't live here. And they weren't in attendance at the Council meeting.
Buford T. Justice said:
They have not mowed.
If I did not mow my lawn, then the CoCS Karens would be at my house with a warning or a ticket. Hypocrisy your name is CoCS government.
FYI the parks are overgrown as well.
Is that the only spot that this company mows?
Buford T. Justice said:
Is that the only spot that this company mows?
No, it's all over town
Same in Bryan. Keep telling hubs this looks ridiculous! They would fine us out the wazoo if I owned WJB!
tbone94 said:
Has anybody else in the Pebble creek/Fitch area noticed the city medians and common areas look like absolute trash? 3 foot overgrown, doesn't look like it's been touched all yeaTh
There're foot tall weeds growing out of the cracks in the curbs in the middle of George Bush drive next to campus. You would think the city would have an employee walk the medium once a month with a pump up sprayer with Roundup.
It's not just medians, etc. It's all City owned property. Drive by PD and look at how overgrown everything is. Luckily, it will be remedied soon with the new contract.
I thought that I was just being critical when I've been driving around town and looking at the landscaping. For once, it wasn't just my critical OCD.
Average Joe said:MsDoubleD81 said:
I found this from what the poster above. was it a "DEI" contract?
Federal and state owned entities being forced to have a certain portion of their contractors be from minority ran businesses has been a thing since long before DEI was a buzzword.
Quote:
Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) program was a Texas state initiative signed into law in 1999 designed to promote equal procurement opportunities for small, minority-owned, women-owned, and service-disabled veteran-owned businesses.
It is no longer enforced in Texas.
https://www.dfps.texas.gov/Doing_Business/HUB/default.asp