– News about Quincy from Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

Verticutter sliced and then overseeded
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Quincy’s Snow Team Six seeds rather than sods.

In yet another sign that the Koch Maladministration surely follows Quincy Quarry so as to more quickly know of problems even if it might not then actually address them in a timely manner – if at all – comes all put certain proof that the maladministration does monitor the Quarry.

To whit, as reported by Quincy Quarry News previously, Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch’s six-figure private gala earlier this month was held mostly on turf under massive temporary pavilions built in Kim Jong Koch Plaza in front of City Hall ended up trashing much of that turf. 

Accordingly, the Quarry then announced that it would be monitoring the trashed turf for yet another only to be expected sodding of local taxpayers by yet again laying down new sod.

What verticutters do
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For a change, however, Kim Jong Koch Plaza’s Snow Team Six did not opt to yet again sod local taxpayers.  At least not with new sod anyway.

Instead, Snow Team Six opted to smooth, verticut, and then overseed the damaged areas.

Not that this option provided all that much, if any, cost-savings for long sodded local taxpayers given that Snow Team Six probably spent thousands to many thousands of dollars to buy itself a verticutter as the team clearly appears to love collecting power tools for its exclusive use even if many other municipal parks around Quincy could benefit from their use.

Money to burn, burn rate – whatever
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Granted, at some point – however surely in the distant future – opting to verticut and then reseed rather than just keep sodding away might eventually perhaps prove to be cost-effective. 

At the same time, so much for using a suspected to be new city-owned verticutter at other public green spaces in Quincy so as to up its utilization rate in support of renovating damaged turf elsewhere and thus hasten perhaps actually reaching the verticutter’s cost/benefit breakeven point.

Bee-infested clover at a playground …
A Quincy Quarry News exclusive file photo

For example, use it to help address how the so-called turf at the somewhat recently redone Kincaid Field in West Quincy that is already riddled with clover.

That and how the overall grounds-keeping of this park leaves much to be desired even before considering how the care of Kim Jong Koch Plaza long ago crossed into well past obsessive.

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