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Mounds View Public Works Department <br /> 2017 Median Mowing and Landscape Maintenance <br />Request for Quotations <br /> <br />The City of Mounds View seeks quotations for a one (1) year landscaping contract pursuant to the <br />specifications described below. Please submit with each quotation provisions for City-held options to <br />extend the contract up to three (3) years. All quotations must be received no later than Friday, February <br />10th, 2017 at the following location: <br /> <br /> City of Mounds View <br /> C/O Don Peterson <br /> 2401 Mounds View Dr. <br /> Mounds View, MN 55112 <br /> don.peterson@ci.mounds-view.mn.us <br /> <br />Please direct all questions to: Don Peterson, 763-717-4053 or don.peterson@ci.mounds-view.mn.us <br />On site walk-through appointments are available upon request. <br /> <br />SPECIFICATIONS: <br /> <br />1. Mowing Mounds View Boulevard (County Road 10) <br />Mow center median along Mounds View Boulevard (County Road 10) from County Road H to <br />Pleasant View Drive, according to the attached map. Mowing will be done May 1st through <br />October 31st, based on weekly mowing early to mid-summer, and bi-weekly later in the year, <br />(July and August) OR as weather demands. A mowing height of 3.5 inches will be used, and <br />mowing will be done regardless of the timing of the previous mowing, so as to not allow the <br />majority of the vegetative material to reach a height over 5.5 inches. Mowing practices should <br />also include trash removal, weed whipping around all sign posts, and other obstacles, as well as <br />removal of grass clippings from any road surfaces if needed. Price is to include spring time trash <br />cleanup. <br /> <br />2. Weeding all landscape beds in along Mounds View Boulevard (County Road 10) <br />Streetscape Planters. <br />Hand weed all perennial and shrub beds along Mounds View Boulevard (County Road 10) <br />Streetscape Planter Areas once every 2 weeks, according to the attached map. Spot treatments <br />with herbicide are allowed with prior city staff notification and approval. Pre-emergent <br />herbicide will be applied by city staff in spring to selective locations (Weeding maintenance to <br />be completed May 1st through October 31st, cleanups and cut backs should be completed at the <br />appropriate time based on seasonality. The areas include planter beds located in front of the <br />following addresses along Mounds View Boulevard (County Road 10): <br /> <br />a. North Street Scape Planter – (NSSP) <br />i. NSSP – A (in back of 2466 Bronson Drive, Public Works Building) red gnome dogwood - qty. <br />35 <br />ii. NSSP – B (in back of 2466 Bronson Drive, Public Works Building) red gnome dogwood - qty. <br />35 <br />iii. NSSP – C, 2401 County Road 10, (City Hall) little blue stem, prairie blazing star, haense <br />herms switch grass, <br />iv. NSSP – D, 2375 County Road 10, (Mounds View Motors) red gnome dogwood – qty. 29 <br />v. NSSP – E, 2375 County Road 10, (Mounds View Motors) red gnome dogwood – qty. 22 <br />b. South Street Scape Planter – (SSSP)