Downtown BID seeks two-year deal from Auburn officials toward city maintenance

For 10 years, the Downtown Auburn Business Improvement District has provided a number of services to the city at theyearly tune of $40,000.

These services include garbage pulling, lawn-mowing of city parks and the installation and maintenance of flowers across downtown, said Connie Reilley, executive director of the Downtown BID.

The partnership has been conducted over two-year agreements and Reilley said the Downtown BID once again requires a two-year agreement authorized by the Auburn City Council so these services can continue.

However, the organization may only get a one-year deal this year.

The Auburn City Council will consider renewing the Downtown BID's contract for these aesthetic services on a one-year basis. The previous contract expired in December and the Downtown BID's funds will only last until June.

The renewed deal would call for $40,000 to be supplied to the Downtown BID from April 3, 2014 to June 30, 2015.

"That will do us for this year, but it would put us right back where we are now for 2015," she said.

Reilley said a two-year deal primarily benefits the Downtown BID's flower program. This year, the Downtown BID would have ordered flowers in February to be installed downtown in time for the Memorial Day Parade.

"If the funding stops in June of this year, I wouldn't have the money to water and maintain the flowers for the rest of the fiscal year," she said.

Reilley said such an agreement also provides the organization an additional year before negotiations need to occur again.

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Downtown BID seeks two-year deal from Auburn officials toward city maintenance