The Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful Alliance and PennDOT are sponsoring a one-day Pennsylvania Roadside Aesthetics Workshop on June 28 at the Holiday Inn Hotel and Convention Center, New Cumberland.

The focus of the workshop will be the new “Sponsor-A-Landscape” program similar to PennDOT’s successful Sponsor-A-Highway program currently in place in Philadelphia and Harrisburg.

The KPB Alliance has proposed a concept of engaging corporations to sponsor the installation and/or maintenance of aesthetically and environmentally appropriate landscaping at key gateways into the Commonwealth. In exchange for their participation in this endeavor, these corporate sponsors receive signage with their corporate name and logo.

KPB would work closely with appropriate PennDOT personnel to further the following program concepts: site selection, design criteria, contractor qualifications, installation and maintenance operations and safety, available funding options for plant and material purchase and installation, sponsor recognition options.

In one program segment, representatives of PennDOT will discuss current PennDOT projects directly related to roadside aesthetics. In other segments, discussion will center on the Sponsor-A-Landscape concept as well as other roadside aesthetics ideas and issues.

For more information, contact Dick Ebeling, Manager, Highway Beautification Programs, Bureau of Maintenance and Operations, at 717-705-1552 or send email to: rebeling@state.pa.us .

5/25/2007