TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
Talyn Mirzakhanian, City Manager
FROM:
Masa Alkire, AICP, Community Development Director
Britny Coker-Moen, Environmental Programs Administrator
SUBJECT:Title
Site Design for Re-Landscaping the Existing City Hall Sustainable Landscape Demonstration Garden (Budgeted) (Community Development Department Director Alkire)
RECEIVE AND FILE
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RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council receive and file this report.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
The Community Development Department’s Environmental Sustainability Division has sufficient funds within its operating budget (approximately $2,000) to complete a re-landscaping project for the existing City Hall Sustainable Landscape Demonstration Garden. On an ongoing basis, there are sufficient funds within the Environmental Sustainability Division’s operating budget to cover the approximate $500 annual cost of the continued maintenance of this garden. Annual costs include advertising and supplies for volunteer events as well as replacement plants as needed.
BACKGROUND:
In 2013, the City’s Environmental Task Force designed and installed sustainable landscaping in the planter between the Civic Center parking lot and the east-facing side of City Hall. The goal of the project was to educate the community on how to implement a sustainable garden with a diverse climate-appropriate plant palette, conserve water, and reduce dry-weather and stormwater runoff.
The original plant palette consisted of a diverse collection of drought-tolerant and climate-appropriate plants. The originally planted demonstration garden plant material has since been removed or has died off. The area has been replanted with the decorative plant palette that is found throughout the Civic Center Plaza and is no longer representative of a sustainable landscape demonstration garden. Furthermore, the existing signage that was...
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