Nursery Notes Nov-Dec 2011 - The Paginator

City of Charlotte Posts Bids and
Requirements Online
President’s Message – continued from page 5
this year’s Summer Green Road Show
Partner.
The NCNLA Board and Staff continue
to work hard on issues and concerns of
our membership. Recent meetings with
the City of Charlotte Landscape
Management team have helped us understand
the challenges that cities and
municipalities have when bidding out
landscape installation and maintenance
jobs. These meetings have opened the
door for better dialogue and have already
improved communication between cities,
landscape contractors, and plant suppliers.
We encourage our members to
always carefully read contracts when
bidding jobs and inform your suppliers
of all specifications of plant material.
When possible, have plants inspected
prior to installation. For more information
on a municipality’s standard contracts
and specifications, access their website. If
our association staff can be of assistance,
please call.
In closing, I would like to thank our
membership for your continued support
of the association. It has been a pleasure
to serve this year as President. The
NCNLA Staff and Board of Directors have
been great to work with. I would like to
encourage any of our members to get
involved and be a part of one of the many
subcommittees that our association has.
We need representation from across the
state to insure your voice is heard. I hope
everyone has a prosperous fall and look
forward to seeing you at the Green and
Growin’ Show in January.
Tod
Get Your 2012
NCNLA Membership Free!
Help NCNLA recruit five (5) new,
regular members* during 2011 and your company
will receive its
2012 NCNLA membership FREE!
The company that helps recruit the most new members will also
receive a GRAND PRIZE, valued at $400!
Direct new, potential members to the www.ncnla.com to become a
member today, or contact the NCNLA office - clewis@ncnla.com or
919-816-9119 - for
membership brochures with applications.
*Qualifying new members must be at least regular members ($150) - i.e.,
not student/Gov't/educator members - that have not been an NCNLA member
in the past. If the recruiting company has multiple branches, new members
and free
membership counts toward the recruting branch, not the entire company.
If you are interested in bidding on
and/or related to landscape installation
projects for the City of Charlotte - CIP
Group - they are now advertising on the
City Website http://charmeck.org/city/
charlotte/epm/Services/Bids/Pages/Activ
eBids-ByProject.aspx for this year’s
planting season work. If you are interested
or would just like a heads up of specified
plant material requests that might
come your way, please take time to
check the website daily.
It is very important to read each
advertisement carefully to ensure
that you get correct plans, bid dates
and bid drop locations.
To improve communications throughout
the process from CIP Group to the
contractor and then from the contractor
to the plant/product supplier, a digital
document called Exhibit Plant Schedule
& Detail Specifications.pdf will be pos
ted under each project on the website.
That document can be downloaded and
used to bid, buy or inform decisions
about our specified plant material and the
quality the City expects for its work. The
document can be emailed, printed or
faxed to others to ensure that you purchase
the correct plant/product material
for your job. The document provides
number of plants, name, required plant
specifications(i.e. Trunk clearances,
height, etc), portable drip irrigation
specs. and details showing proper root
crown depths.
Please use this as it will eliminate a lot
of confusion and allow us all to be successful.
If you have any comments, questions
or concerns, please feel free to contact
Kourtnie Vincent, CIP Landscape
Designer for the City of Charlotte -
704.432.5109.
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