Oxnard staff recommend $4.57 million in park maintenance contracts with Green Coast Landscapes

On May 6, 2025, Oxnard City staff recommended that the City Council approve four service agreements with Green Coast Landscapes to provide landscape maintenance for city general-fund parks, with an initial three-year term from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2028, and two consecutive one-year extension options that would extend each agreement through June 30, 2030. Brandon Lopez, the city’s parks manager, told the council the total not-to-exceed amount across the four agreements is $4,570,000 and that staff recommended the mayor be authorized to execute the contracts.

The recommendation matters because the contracts would cover routine mowing, litter and debris removal, shrub and ground-cover pruning, weed control, hardscape cleaning, minor tree care and other park landscaping services across four contract areas that divide the city’s parks. City staff said the agreements also consolidate on-call landscape services formerly provided under a separate contract into the new agreements and allow task-order work for additional services when needed.

Lopez said the four individual not-to-exceed amounts are $913,000; $822,000; $1,827,000; and $1,008,000, for a…