AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) – With new landscaping, part of all the street work in Augusta, the mayor said now is the time to create a standalone maintenance department to handle this growing job.“Having a concerted accountable effort to maintain the beautification of not only our right-of-ways, our major gateways, but our downtown corridors is essential,” said Mayor Garnett Johnson.The Administrator is laying out options for creating a new vegetation department and keeping things as is with enhancements. And suggesting this new wrinkle, the creation of strike teams, to target problem areas. “The goal would be to divide the city into zones with regular assigned crews in each with the strike team being abler to float to address pressing needs without disrupting scheduled work,” said City Administrator. The administrator said the strike teams could tackle the areas that generating the most complaints.“So, what we would do is actually identify the locations where we are having the most problems, the hot spots is what we are calling them, as we try to assign respective staff that would be able to address those areas,” said the administrator.The city has a lot of hot spots during growing season so would a strike team to take them on make sense.“I like the idea of a strike force but however I do like it under one centralized department,” said Mayor Johnson.
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