Parks board approves maintenance agreement with Downtown Westfield CDC

The Westfield Parks and Recreation Board on Aug. 6 approved an agreement authorizing the city to provide landscape and maintenance services to the Downtown Westfield Community Development Corporation, or DWCDC, with fees billed quarterly to the parks department.

The agreement lets the city perform mowing and other landscape work on properties owned by the DWCDC and sets the method of billing and fee collection, Parks Director Chris (last name not provided) told the board. He said the parks department will bill the DWCDC quarterly and that the funds will be deposited into the department’s program non-reverting fund to support programming.

Board members raised no questions beyond confirming how payments would be handled. After a motion to accept the agreement, the board voted unanimously. Terry (role: board clerk) called the roll: Mike Antrim voted yes, Curtis Baumgartner voted yes and Julie Grimmer, board president, voted yes; the motion carried.

The agreement was presented to the board as executed through the mayor’s office and is intended to formalize services the parks department already provides for downtown properties. No additional appropriation was identified during the discussion; funds received will be used for programming and departmental operations per the parks director’s explanation.

The board took no further direction at the meeting on additional work scopes or service-level guarantees beyond what the written agreement provides.