The City of Clinton plans to kick off its spring landscaping efforts in March after hiring a contractor and getting advice from a consultant on what kind of seasonal plants to use. The Board of Aldermen at its meeting on January 20 voted to advertise a Request for Proposals (RFP) for landscaping and grounds maintenance services in the city.
Jared Acy with WAS Design is a landscape architect who helped fine-tune the language in the RFP so that the City could better compare the bids it receives and have more control over what the finished product looks like.
“We’ll help design the actual layouts and specify plants and potentially work with the contractor if there’s any [plant] availability issues or anything like that,” Acy says…