Manhattan board approves $58,905, four-year landscaping contract

The Manhattan Village Board approved a four-year grounds landscaping maintenance contract worth $58,905 during its meeting. Unidentified Speaker 1 introduced the resolution specifying a contract term of 2026 through 2029 and identified Latinos Landscaping as the contractor.

The contract "is for an outside company to come take care of the harder areas to maintain of the landscaping and the weeds and cleaning up all that stuff," Unidentified Speaker 1 said.

Unidentified Speaker 5 raised a question about price differences in the most recent bids, asking, "Is there a reason, like, why the particularly last 2 bids have such a huge discrepancy? Was there any additional services or no?" The transcript does not record a detailed response to that question.

A motion to approve the contract was made and seconded (the mover and seconder were not named in the transcript). Roll-call votes recorded affirmative responses from Young, Dilling, Neighbors, Boone, Doyle and Bahina; Unidentified Speaker 1 declared the motion carried.

The resolution authorizes the village to contract for routine grounds maintenance services through 2029. The contract amount and vendor name were recorded in the meeting; the transcript does not specify start-of-service dates, invoicing or funding source beyond the stated total.

Next steps: the board approved the resolution and no further action was recorded during the meeting regarding implementation or additional procurement steps.