Spanish Fort Approves Seasonal Mosquito Control Program Through October 2026
Resolution 1589, adopted April 20, authorized a $24,350 contract with Vector Disease Control International for weekly surveillance, larviciding, and adulticiding across the city through the end of the mosquito season.
The Spanish Fort City Council voted April 20, 2026, to authorize a $24,350 contract for mosquito control services for the 2026 season, adopting Resolution 1589-2026.
April 20, 2026 Spanish Fort City Council agenda, page 1.
Under the contract, Mississippi Mosquito Control, LLC, doing business as Vector Disease Control International (VDCI), provides integrated mosquito management services from April 1 through Oct. 31, 2026. The scope includes weekly inspections of larval breeding sites — ditches, tire piles, containers and standing water — biological and chemical larvicide applications, adult-mosquito surveillance using light traps and resting stations, and ultra-low-volume adulticiding by vehicle-mounted applicators.
The contract also includes a toll-free mosquito hotline for residents and a backyard inspection program. VDCI submits monthly invoices, with the $24,350 total payable in seven equal installments. The contract may be renewed for up to four additional one-year terms by mutual agreement.
Seasonal mosquito programs are routine for Gulf Coast governments, where the warm, wet climate and standing water make for a long mosquito season and a recurring public-health concern. Beyond the nuisance, the surveillance-and-spraying approach VDCI describes — monitoring trapped mosquitoes and treating both larvae and adults — is the standard method coastal communities use to hold down populations that can carry illnesses such as West Nile virus and Eastern equine encephalitis.
Resolution 1589 was first presented at the April 6 council meeting; VDCI had already begun collecting surveillance data before the April 20 vote, per remarks in the April 6 meeting minutes included in the April 20 meeting packet.