11-02-2020 Council Work Session Packet

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Page | 14 for the rust issues on these squads in the near future. I also think that this plan could affect the cost benefit that we have been seeing from holding on to these vehicles for a greater length of time. The most severe rust is on our three oldest SUV’s which were moved from the police department over to the fire department (617, 618, 619). These vehicles all have far under 100,000 miles (86k, 83k, 68k). These fire vehicles do not see near the miles that the majority of our city vehicles see. They are accumulating between 2,000-4,000 miles per year. I don’t see any possible way that we will be able to hold on to these vehicles up to 100,000 mi les without spending excessive amounts of money on rust related issues due to their age and salt (regardless of their mileage). I 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 annually and will not get to 100,000 miles anytime in the near future. On a similar note, I think that we need to develop a replacement plan for our two city hall “staff” vehicles (#375, #378). They are currently driving old Ford Crown Victoria’s leftover from the old police fleet. These vehicles are very rarely driven and also see very little mileage annually. Both staff cars are being driven roughly 1,000 miles per year. It seems wasteful to replace staff cars with brand new cars considering the limited miles that they are driven. I would like to see the staff cars replaced with either used police SUV’s or used public works trucks. We should come up with a plan for replacement of these staff cars because their replacement will likely affect the replacement of either police or public works vehicles in the near future.