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last a short period of time. I think that we need to develop a plan on what we are going to do for the rust <br />issues on these squads in the near future. I also think that this plan could affect the cost benefit that we have <br />been seeing from holding on to these vehicles for a greater length of time. The most severe rust is on our <br />three oldest SUV’s which were moved from the police department over to the fire department (617, 618, 619). <br />These vehicles all have far under 100,000 miles (82k, 79k, 65k). These fire vehicles do not see near the miles <br />that the majority of our city vehicles see. They are accumulating between 2,000-4,000 miles per year. I don’t <br />see any possible way that we will be able to hold on to these vehicles up to 100,000 miles without spending <br />excessive amounts of money on rust related issues due to their age and salt (regardless of their mileage). I <br />think it is wise to come up with a plan on how we are to deal with these fire SUV’s that see very little mileage <br />annually and will not get to 100,000 miles anytime in the near future. <br /> <br />On a similar note, I think that we need to develop a replacement plan for our two city hall “staff” vehicles <br />(#375, #378). They are currently driving old Ford Crown Victoria’s leftover from the old police fleet. These <br />vehicles are very rarely driven and also see very little mileage annually. Both staff cars are being driven <br />roughly 1,000 miles per year. It seems wasteful to replace staff cars with brand new cars considering the <br />limited miles that they are driven. I would like to see the staff cars replaced with either used police SUV’s or <br />used public works trucks. We should come up with a plan for replacement of these staff cars because their <br />replacement will likely affect the replacement of either police or public works vehicles in the near future. <br /> <br />87