LOS ANGELES - The board that oversees Los Angeles International Airport approved a tenfold increase in pest control spending last month, adopting an approach that puts pest management professionals on LAX premises around the clock, spcr.org reports.
The seven-year, $5.2 million contract calls for Orkin Services of California to make a comprehensive attack on all sorts of insects, rodents and animals on airport property. Orkin employees would be on airport premises at all times, and even work at training tenants and others who work at the airport in pest control tactics.
The airlines and concessionaires that rent space in terminal buildings will pay part of the cost, and the rest will come from the airport’s general revenue generated by passenger ticket fees.
Previously, pest control was handled on an on-call basis and cost the airport about $70,000 per year. The new contract works out to about $750,000 each year. That's more in the league of what other large airports are spending.
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Source: spcr.org
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