May2016

C & L provides pavement maintenance services, including sweeping, parking garage scrubbing, power washing, line striping, milling and paving, and street sign installation.

Please provide a brief history of your company. C & L Sweeper Service was started by Charles & Lucille in 1971. C & L began to expand their services when they start- ed to see an increase in the needs from their customers. This diversification has been a gradual progression over the past 20 years. Over the last ten years however, they’ve really been focusing on this business model to obtain more work in the pavement maintenance area like sweeping, parking garage scrubbing, power washing, line striping, milling & paving, and street sign installation. What is your role in the organization? What is your background? How long have you been in the industry? Today I am a visionary, working with sales to develop the business and continually seeking new opportunities for the company to grow including acquisitions. The company has grown from providing mainly sweeping services, to becoming a fully operational pavement maintenance company. I am second generation in a family business with my son Gabriel starting a year ago to make it a third generation. I graduated from Arizona State University in 1981 with a marketing degree, and I have been involved in the industry for over 30 years. Is there a specific project or program that you would like to highlight? Please describe. We have many projects (too many to highlight), but we are currently sweeping the Garden State Parkway, crack filling and seal coating large retirement HOAs, and milling & paving large shopping centers along with driveways throughout New Jersey.

What might someone be surprised to learn about your company? Culture is the foundation of how we run the company at C & L. The culture is created by the core values that we have set up and every employee has to embrace these values that we’ve created. We use seven or eight core values in our hiring process. About a year ago, the C & L management team sat down in an open forum to discuss what was important to them. Everyone had an opportunity to discuss the values that they thought were the most important for everyone in the company to engender and that really drove the culture here. They took these 25-30 ideas down and agreed upon seven of the most important ideas to them. Those ideas have been put in their employee hand book and are discussed regularly at employee meetings. Have you or your company received any recent awards or certifications? We were just awarded the “Sweeper of the Year” for 2016 by the National Pavement Maintenance Magazine. C&L is the first company to pass the certified sweeper contractor in New Jersey and one of the first 10 in the USA. What trends do you see for the community association industry? CAI will be continuing to be a driving force in New Jersey in education, legislation and the ability to network with your peers. n

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