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Agenda Item: 7 |
Prepared By: Jim Kornas |
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Business: Old Business |
Department: Executive Office |
Subject:
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South Heathwood Avenue Center Median Enhancement Update (S. Connelly)
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BACKGROUND: At the Committee’s July 3, 2024 meeting, Chair Shelli Connelly reported to the Committee on her progress in soliciting and receiving an initial design concept from Landert Landscape Design for the 5' wide x 200' long landscape median on South Heathwood Avenue, immediately south of its intersection with Winterberry Drive.
While retaining the existing palm trees planted in that median, the Landert design concept proposed the planting of approximately seventy (70) three-gallon plants which would include a mixture of Fakahatchee Grass, Muhly Grass, Petra Croton, and Necklace Pod plantings which are drought tolerant and efficient relative to their water usage.
(Note: A concept rendering of the proposed plant selection is attached to this file)
Chair Connelly will update the Committee on the status and likely cost to complete this project. The Committee will determine if sufficient funds exist in the Committee’s 2024 Fiscal Year Budget to commission this effort.
FUNDING SOURCE / FISCAL IMPACT: Beautification Advisory Committee’s 2024 Fiscal Year Budget; amount TBD.
RECOMMENDATION: 1) receive Chair Connelly’s report; 2) determine the expected cost and timetable for completing this project, and; 3) vote on allocating Committee funds toward completing this project.
POTENTIAL MOTION: I move that the Committee approve the completion of the South Heathwood Avenue Center Median Enhancement Project at a cost not to exceed (insert dollar amount here).