Founder and CEO of ScrubCan Inc. Corey Jackson with the first work truck he used for his business. 2018 file photo by Donald A. Promnitz

The Fresno City Council approved a $605,000 annual contract expansion Thursday with local janitorial company ScrubCan to take over custodial services at city-owned parking facilities.

The increase brings ScrubCan’s total annual contract with the city to about $3 million through the 2028 contract term, up from the $2.4 million per year approved in April 2025 for custodial services at other city facilities.

Custodial services at parking facilities will transition from ACE Parking Management. The rate for custodial services under the new contract is 7.83% less than what ACE Parking Management previously billed, according to a city staff report.

ScrubCan President Bobby Ward said Thursday the contract expansion fits within the core services the Fresno-based company has provided for the city, but increases the scale and intensity of work.

“The services will be more aggressive,” Ward said, pointing to nightly cleanings of parking facility stairwells as an example.

The company will hire five to seven new employees as part of the expansion.

ScrubCan will service a dozen parking facilities including the Congo Alley Garage, The Spiral Parking Garage, the Merced Street parking facility, the underground garage near Courthouse Park and multiple surface lots throughout downtown.

The company, founded by Corey Jackson in 2014, also has a contract with the city to provide litter control along certain stretches of freeways in Fresno.

“For us to be aligned with the City of Fresno and in a position to do this work — it means a ton to us as a company and it makes us real proud that we can provide these services for the city and that they’d be willing to keep coming back to us,” Ward said.