Specifications include, but are not limited to: 1. Mow and maintain the lawns and areas around all buildings. This includes, at a minimum, basic cleanup of sticks, small limbs, and trash. 2. Maintain any shrubbery around the buildings and nearby areas including trimming, watering, maintenance of soil and proper plant position/posture, check planting beds, pull weeds, pick up trash and debris. 3. Weed-whack around all trees, fences, posts, and similar structures, and under fence rails. 4. Fall Clean Up: Final Fall Clean Up is scheduled each fall after trees have lost their leaves. Fall clean up must be completed by the end of November, using judgment and consultation with the Town. All leaves and lawn debris are to be picked up and disposed of offsite. 5. Spring Clean Up: Spring Clean Up is scheduled each spring, prior to the first mowing. All leaves, twigs and lawn debris must be picked up and disposed of offsite. Any gravel or blacktop displaced by winter plowing shall be raked up and disposed of offsite. Mulch shall be placed where appropriate. 6. For cemeteries, trim grass around all monuments, headstones, markers, foot markers, and flowerbeds without disturbing flowers, planters/plantings, shrubs, flag holders, ornaments, etc. 7. Special care must be taken in the cemeteries around older headstones/markers that may be tilting or are otherwise in a vulnerable position/state, and around grave decorations and memorial items. 8. In the week before Memorial Day, it is vital that all services be performed with extra care and attention to detail, primarily to the cemeteries. 9. Notify Superintendent of Public Works or the Town Administrator of any necessary repairs or maintenance deemed needed.
