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illa e DATE : V L ' December 22, 1986 T O - City Councilmembers FROM Don Hickerson, Chief of Police I T EM : PURCHASE OF 1987 POLICE VEHICLE STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Approval to purchase a 1987 Chevrolet Caprice on the Hennepin County Bid. RATIONALE: 1 . The vehicle is a "police package" made to withstand the rigorous. duty necessary to a police vehicle. 2. While the Caprice gets approximately 4 miles per gallon less gas mileage than the Celebrities, it gets 1-2 miles per gallon more than the Ford Crown Victorias we now have. 3: The Caprice has considerably more interior room than the Celebrities. Some officers have complained about the lack of interior room in the Cele brities and there is very little back-seat legroom for prisoners and/or the general public, at accident scenes, etc. 4. The Caprice costs $446 less than a similarly equipped Celebrity standard passenger vehicle. 5. There is no police test data available on the Civilian model Celebrity Eurosport, therefore it is unknown whether the performance, brakes, etc. are satisfactory for police patrol use. CITY COUNCIL ACTION: By motion move to purchase a 1987 Chevrolet Caprice on the Hennepin County Bid for $11 ,483. BACKGROUND: No mid-size polcie vehicle bids were received in the Hennepin County bid process. The lowest full-size police vehicle bid received was the Thane Hawkins Polar Chevrolet bid on a 1987 Chevrolet Caprice, with a base police package price of $11 ,398. This vehicle, with the desired options, will cost us $11,483 (equipped as our present squads) . Chevrolet has discontinued building Celebrity police vehicles, therefore if we desire to purchase a Celebrity for police use, we must purchase a standard passenger vehicle. The closest standard vehicle, to the discontinued police package Celebrity, is the Eurosport model . The Eurosport model Celebrity, with similar equipment as the Caprice, would cost $12,061. The 1987 budget is $12,000. cjk