The American Green Zone Alliance (AGZA) partnered with the beautiful city of Glendale, CA, to conduct direct resource engagement with the hard-working men and women of the landscape maintenance industry. The city of Glendale and AGZA recognize these small business-owned companies’ tremendous contribution to the Glendale community. Beautifying the city, improving community morale, and keeping property values high are a result of their work.
The engagement focused on:
- Extending written and verbal information in Spanish and English on the current gas leaf blower ban/ordinance provided by the city
- Information on current programs that bring down the cost of commercial battery electric blowers
- Give commercial battery electric blower tutorials and demos, answer questions on run-times, cost benefits, and operations workflow differences between gas and electric blowers
- Further assist gardeners in procuring battery electric blowers through the various existing programs
With a new gas leaf blower ban now in effect, the city wants to make sure they provide education and funding resources to help ease the transition into battery electric leaf blower technology in place of the traditional gas blowers used. AGZA conducts the activity with our fully bilingual, experienced staff who are gardeners themselves. This allows for a pleasant and productive interaction that produces tangible positive outcomes.
AGZA wants to give a special thank you to STIHL USA for providing several $1,500, same as cash vouchers for the gardeners who took the time to go through AGZA battery electric basics Service Pro education.
AGZA was able to follow up and provide more formalized training and electric leaf blower tutorials that focus on the safe and efficient operation of the blowers and battery charging.
Click above to view a YouTube short on AGZA’s outreach efforts.
If you are interested in AGZA designing and executing a program for your city, contact us at info@agza.net.
Principal CEO at Gardenland Power Equipment & Co-Founder and CEO of Towa Industries Inc.
Roger Phelps joined STIHL Inc. in 2001 and is currently the Corporate Communications Manager. In that position he is responsible for creating and telling the STIHL story through integrated event marketing, strategic partnerships, sponsorships, and digital and social media with the goal of increasing the visibility of and affinity for the STIHL brand and over 10,000 STIHL dealers. He attended the U.S. Naval Academy and served 10 years in the U.S. Navy attaining the rank of Lieutenant Commander. He has serves on the National Association of Landscape Professionals Foundation Board of Directors, the National Association of State Park Directors Leadership School Board of Regents, and the Professional Grounds Management Society Board of Directors.
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