Council discusses overgrowth on Walmart access road

The need for landscaping maintenance of vegetation overgrowth along the access road between Appomattox Walmart and The Shoppes of Appomattox was a topic of discussion at Monday’s meeting of the Appomattox Town Council.

Appomattox Town Manager R. Terry McGhee told the council that the subject also surfaced at a recent Appomattox County Board of Supervisors meeting.

McGhee explained that he has spoken to the local Walmart manager and was informed that the home Walmart office had been contacted but had not responded to the Appomattox store manager as of Monday. McGhee said the matter of landscaping is not in the hands of the manager but is more of a landscape contract situation.

“For anybody that’s not aware, the landscaper that’s on contract from Walmart’s perspective just decided that that’s outside the scope of what the original contract was, so that’s the whole thing. It’s not that the local store manager doesn’t want to cooperate; that’s really out of his hands,” McGhee said.

McGhee informed the council that a notice will be delivered to the central office of Walmart.

“We’re sending them an official letter giving them 10 days to clean it up or then we would take care of it ourselves and bill them,” he said.

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