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MEMO TO: The Mounds View City Council FROM: Bruce K. Anderso , r Parks, Recreation es DATE: September 29, 1982 RE: Dump Truck Proposals This is just a short note to follow up on my staff memo dated September 13, 1982 regarding staff's progress regarding the purchase of a new or used dump truck. As you are aware, staff's initial objective was to purchase a new one ton dump truck with the $8,500.00 in revenue sharing budgeted for a 3/4 ton park vehicle plus the $1,500.00 budgeted for the boom sprayer for the workmaster plus the Public Works Department has indicated that they would allocate an additional $4,500.00 - $5,000.00 that they had budgeted for the purchase of a small vehicle in the Building Inspection division. Since that time, staff has met with City Mechanic Schmidlin and Superintendent Kardell to discuss potential specifications for the purchase of a new one ton dump truck and we have secured two informal bids to determine whether or not a new truck would be feasible. As can be seen by t111 dLL 11c'd proposals, thc^ fea'a16117t, , of purchasing a new truck, as per our specifications, within the $15,000.00 allotment could easily be accomplished. In addition to pursuing the purchase of a new one ton dump truck, staff has followed up on a number of leads for used vehicles as per our past memo dated September 13, 1982. The three used vehicles that we looked at were at Rosedale Chevrolet, Granger's on Highway 65 and through a private party Mr. Robert Westland. All three vehicles were larger than staff has requested, as they have two ton chassis with full sized dump boxes except for the vehicle owned by Mr. Westland. The vehicle located on Central Avenue by Granger's is a 1976 Ford F-600 which apparently had recently been overhauled although they have no records indicat- ing such. The vehicle currently has 92,600 miles and would be in need of new tires all around with an asking price of $5,900.00. This vehicle would be a two ton dump truck similar to our existing vehicle with a full size dump box. The dump truck at Rosedale Chevrolet is a 1968 C-60 Chevrolet with over 100,000 miles and has a current asking price of $3,000 - $4,000. Both vehicles, as can be noted by the mileage, have been used extensively and would be almost identical vehicles to the city's existing two ton dump truck. Mr. Westland is selling a 1978 Chevrolet two ton dump truck with a four -speed manual transmission and two speed rear axle which has a contractor's dump box with sides that flip down which would be more ideal for the type of vehicle the city is looking for. The contractor's box is 12 feet in length and the vehicle has approximately 42,000 miles. Mr. Westland is asking $10,000.00 for his particular vehicle. Again, although this dump truck has the type of con- tractor box staff would be specing, the two ton chassis is twice as large as would be needed. It should be noted here that the major reason staff has requested a one ton dump truck with a contractor's box is for what we would define as the in between chores or tasks that a Public Works Department has, i.e. dumping trash on a weekly basis, picking up sand and ag lime in the one - two ton range, moving playground equipment, transporting people and generally used as an all around city vehicle. We would envision that the vehicle would be used on a daily basis