Finance Committee - 8/16/2017 Page 8
Chairman Cookson
Any you maintain that very well. Marie Avenue because you just brought that up, Marie Avenue was just
mowed recently. It’s not waiting for this particular engagement.
Superintendent Caggiano
Only the edge we keep clean. It is going to get that particular engagement. Down Marie Ave., into Lincoln,
trim that whole fence, go all the way down by the river, pop out, flip over the guard rail on the parking lot on
Coliseum Ave. and clean all that up by the river. Otherwise, we get trash and sometimes people might be
making residences there.
Chairman Cookson
So let me take you outside of Lincoln Park now and let’s go up to Upstone and the Broad Street Elementary
School. That one was just called in recently and | know that the School Department was there and they did a
wonderful job on the grounds but they left all the weeds around the guardrail. Your crew came out — I’m
assuming it was your crew. Correct me if I’m wrong.
Superintendent Caggiano
Actually we couldn't do it, and | believe Assistant Director Patrician had the Street Department go and pull up a
few people and do that job.
Chairman Cookson
So they did it. They did a fine job. Why isn’t there more continuity between what the school does and
maintenance of their grounds and why wouldn’t they go ahead with their equipment and finish off the rest of
that property?
Superintendent Caggiano
| can’t answer what the schools does or doesn’t do.
Chairman Cookson
| Know. | mean I’ve been on the Board for almost 10 years now and | remember where we used to have Public
Works be responsible for this path of mowing and school would be coming down the other side.
Superintendent Caggiano
It’s not like that very much. If you look right now, we’re all working together. We have people from the Street
Department, people from my department, people from the School Department are over at Charlotte Ave. right
now doing renovations over there. We work together. We share equipment. There’s no...
Chairman Cookson
So you said you don’t have the equipment to do this. What kind of equipment is it?
Superintendent Caggiano
They call it a “frail mower on an arm” that goes on a very large tractor that reaches over. It’s probably an
$80,000 to $100,000 piece of equipment that gives you about 15 to 16 feet of reach off the tractor.
