Departments & Units

The Office is saddled with the following responsibilities;

• Support of board activities.
• Collating and coordinating all periodic activity reports of the Agency (monthly,
  quarterly, annually and as requested) Represent the Agency at scheduled
  meetings.
• To proffer legal advice and handle all legal matters for the Agency.
• Co-ordinate, manage abatement review panel and issuance of Court summons after the
  expiration of such abatement notices.
• Issue reports and recommendations of all decisions carried out by the panel to the GM.
• Ensure effective compliance with the Agency law by the citizens.
• Preparation and vetting of Contract agreements and Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).
• Perform other duties as specifically assigned by the General Manager.

The Office is saddled with the following responsibilities;

• Shall actively engage strategic Agencies of Government in line with the mandate of the Agency.
• Shall be in charge of Public Private Partnerships as it relates to the Agency.
• Shall ensure and facilitate international engagement and support for the Agency.
• Apply for grant funding for execution of agency projects.

Billboard management

• Thorough appraisal of mails, proposals, company profiles based on the request such as adoption of beautifies sites for the purpose of deploying advertisement hoardings.
• Assessment and evaluation of requests to use open spaces for advertisement hoardings.
• Ensure 100% revenue achievement.

Policy

• Creation of policies to further LASG greening policy.
• Set policies to ensure there are green spaces all over Lagos.
• Set standards for beautification using countries like Dubai and Singapore as a model.

Planning

• Creation of plans and designs for beautification by the agency.
• Development of comprehensive short and medium term beautification plans.
• Production of Architectural designs and drawings.
• Schematic design of proposed project. Standard design for all beautified projects.

Capital Project

• Overseeing project activities on establishing of landscaped and beautified sites.
• Oversee execution of projects.
• Preparation of BoQs as needed.
• Assessment and evaluation of sites to be landscaped and beautified open space property setback or perimeter fence at no cost to the Government.

Nursery

• Establishment and maintenance of a research green house and plant nurseries for the introduction, familiarization and adaptation of new ornamental varieties and trees.
• Establishment and maintenance of a standard and functional library on plants, trees, landscaped designs, parks, tools, equipment, health and safety etc.
• Establishment and maintenance of a standard plant studio for visual identification of plants, tools and equipment for training.
• Collaboration with Research Institutes and other relevant bodies for new innovations in Horticulture and Forestry etc.
• Identification of sites for conservation.
• Develop technical information for the Public.
• Management of the Plant Nurseries to a World class nursery to deliver comprehensive inventory of flowers and plants.
• Sale of plants.

Tree Planting And Management

• Handling of requests on felling, pruning and transplanting of trees.
• Transplanting of trees using the Big John Transplanting spade.
• Attending to public complaints on tree issues.
• Monitoring and supervision of pruning and felling of trees within the state.
• Enumeration and tagging of trees within the State inclusive of those in private tenements.
• Promoting afforestation in the State.
• Tree planting planning, oversee execution
• Tree pruning planning, oversee execution
• Monitoring and enumeration of trees
• Ceremonial tree planting

Regional Managers

• Oversee and maintain agency managed sites.
• Oversee horticulture activities in region and carry out intervention according to SOPs.
• Manage gangs.
• Manage tree planters and pruners.
• Prepare site watering schedule for water management unit.

Water Management

• Management of borehole and water reticulation systems in Parks and Gardens statewide.
• Watering of parks and gardens managed by the Agency.

Admin/HR

• Facilitate the activities of all Departments and Units for efficient and effective service delivery.
• Assisting in the formulation, execution and review of policies towards achieving the mandate of the Agency.
• Responsible for capacity building (Local & International) training and development of all staff.
• Management and Supervision of the Registry and Agency’s records.
• Maintenance of the Agency’s fleet of operational vehicles, including insurance matters..
• Responsible for Personnel matters, staff discipline and career progression in line with Public Service Rules.
• Inter-departmental deployment of staff for effective service delivery.
• Implementation of staff welfare package policies of government.
• Responsible for the recruitment and enumeration of project staff and operatives.

Budget and Planning Unit

The Planning Unit is saddled with the following under-listed responsibilities/Functions:

• Support to the newly created Economic Intelligence Unit in the Ministry of Economic Planning and Budget.
• Management of Medium Term Sector Strategy (MTSS) and Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) processes in MDAs.
• Preparation of Annual Budget on the same format for all MDAs as well as Implementation, Monitoring and Control.
• Monitoring and Evaluation Programmes and Projects leading to Performance.
• Rendition of Monthly appraisal of Budget (Revenue, Recurrent and Capital Expenditure) returns from MDAs.
• Monitoring of the Implementation of the Ten Point Agenda (TPA), Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Vision 20:20 and such other High policy/planning documents as may be in general use and those peculiar to each MDAs.
• Provision of Technical support to Development Partners Programmes as it relates to specific MDAs (UN, UNDAF, DFID-SPARC, ILO etc.) being implemented through MEPB.
• Liaising with MEP&B on financial requests of the Agency.
• Liaising with State Tenders Board (STB).Liaising with relevant.
• Agencies regarding planning/Budget matters.
• Tracking of Budget Performance periodically.
• Collection, Collation and Analysis s of Statistical Data relating to the activities of the Agency and forwarding such data to the Lagos State Bureau of Statistics at MEPB periodically.

Accounts

• Maintain and ensure compliance with Financial Regulation, treasury circular and other relevant rules and policies.
• Maintain and keep relevant book of account of the Agency.Advice Management on all Accounting and Financial matters as it affect the Agency.
• Liaising with the state Treasury office and Ministry of Economic Planning and Budget on behalf of the Agency.
• Collection of remittance from the State Treasury Office and pay same into the agency Account for further disbursement.
• Supervise assign responsibilities, post and maintain discipline of account staff in the agency.
• Preparation of monthly and Quarterly Financial Report and other financial statement as may be required by the State Treasury Office.
• Performing any other assignment assigned to me by the Accounting Office and the State Treasury Office.