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County staff and commissioners debate xeriscaping trade-offs and maintenance costs
Summary
Commissioners and facilities staff discussed the county's xeriscaping program, trade-offs between turf and native plantings, and a $100,000 maintenance request tied to a larger half-million-dollar construction plan; staff said design spending has occurred but construction has not yet started.
Xeriscaping and landscape maintenance were a central topic at the Oct. 3 Davis County facilities meeting.
Lane Rhodes, the county's facilities representative, said the department has invested in design for a larger xeriscape program but that construction had not started. "We've spent, we've spent, like, $70,000 of it on design. Zero on construction," he said, and described the construction contract as being "like a half a million dollars." Rhodes said the goal is to choose…
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