Pest Control Management Program

FPHA recognizes the importance of pest control in providing a safe and healthy living environment for its residents.  Although, households are responsible for maintaining the rental unit in a safe condition that is free from insects, rodents, and bedbugs. The FPHA has implemented a pest control management program that is a joint venture between itself, resident households, and the pest control company. The Fort Payne Housing Authority has contracted with a licensed professional pest control company to perform regularly scheduled pest control services within all rental units, community centers, management offices, and public common areas.

These services are performed on the second Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of each month unless it falls on a holiday.

Preventive measures that address the conditions that introduce pests, sustain their existence, and promote infestations shall be taken first. Special attention is given to routine inspections; resident education; and pest exclusion practices, such as housekeeping and food storage.  

Households can assist with pest control by merely maintaining the rental unit in an orderly and clean manner and by properly disposing of garbage in sealed plastic garbage bags (not paper bags or boxes). As always, households are reminded NOT TO BRING IN second-hand furniture and mattresses/box springs that have been discarded as trash. 

Maintenance personnel and the Pest Control Contractor will perform monthly housekeeping inspections to review each household's unit cleanliness and unit condition while performing regular monthly pest management. If there are problems with a rental unit cleanliness or condition, those households are put on a re-spray list and are scheduled for increased pest extermination treatments on the fourth Tuesday of the month. If no improvement is observed, a household is subject to watch a housekeeping video. After watching the housekeeping video, if a household deliberately fails to cooperate with any pest control instructions provided by FPHA and/or its pest control service shall result in tenancy termination. Resident cooperation with the extermination plan is essential.

RESIDENT FAILURE TO COMPLY: Resident failure to adequately prepare for pest control treatments or to allow access to their dwelling unit for scheduled pest control services is not only a threat to the health and safety of the resident community but is also a violation of Part D of Section VIII "Tenant Obligations" of their public housing lease agreement and is grounds for termination.