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Meeting Date 11/4/86
ITEM TITLE: Resolution ~a'g-0 ~ Authorizing cooperative purchase of a fire
pumper from the City of Los Angeles and appropriating funds
therefor
SUBMITTED BY: Director of Public Wo ks/City Engineer
Director of Financeo"~~
REVIEWED BY: City Manager (4/5ths Vote: Yes X No )
At its meeting of February 2, 1985, the City Council approved the
establishrnent of an Equipment Replacement Fund including a replacement
schedule. The replacement schedule for fire pumpers is 20 years as a
front-line apparatus and 5 years as a reserve apparatus.
RECOMMENDATION: That the City Council:
1. Authorize the purchase of a fire pumper via a cooperative purchase
arrangement with the City of Los Angeles.
2. Appropriate $145,573 from the unappropriated General Fund Reserve to be
transferred to the Equipment Replacement Fund.
BOARDS/COMMISSIONS RECOMMENDATION: Not applicable.
DISCUSSION:
Fire Engine 4 is a 1960 fire pumper. It is scheduled to be replaced in
FY 1987-8t3. However, an opportunity has currently arisen to cooperatively
purchase a fire pumper with the City of Los Angeles. This opportunity is
timely for a number of reasons.
It takes 200 calendar days from the date the fire pumper is ordered
to assemble and deliver to the City.
The fire purnper the City would cooperatively purchase from the City
of Los Angeles is the same model and manufacturer as the pumper the
City purchased for $136,780 in 1985. This would assist the City in
standardizing fire apparatus. This is an important fleet management
objective from a standpoint of reducing the different types of parts
required to be stocked and the training required by Equipment
Mechanics.
. The Fire Department has indicated it is more than satisfied with the
fire pumper it purchased in 1985.
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The price quoted to the City of Los Angeles is valid only until
December 31, 1986. The cost of purchasing fire apparatus is
increasing approximately 4~ annually. If the City waits to purchase
a fire pur~iper until FY 1987-88, the cost of the pumper would escalate
by approximately $4,000 above the current price assuming the pumper
was ordered in July 1987.
Seagrave Fire Apparatus, Inc. has extended a written offer to the City to
purchase a fire pumper via a cooperative purchase arrangement with the City of
Los Angeles. The City of Los Angeles awarded bid to Seagrave Fire Apparatus,
Inc. for seven fire pumpers in January 1986. The specifications for the fire
pumper equal or exceed this City's specifications in all of its major
components.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The cost to the City for a fire pumper purchased on a cooperative arrangement
with the City of Los Angeles would be $145,573 (including sales tax).
Sufficient funds are available in the unappropriated General Fund reserve for
transfer to the Equipment Replacement Fund for purchase of the fire pumper.
The fire pumper is part of the Equipment Replacement Fund and an annual
vehicle replacement charge (based on replacement cost and economic life) will
be billed to the Fire Department for future replacement of the pumper from the
Equipment Replacement Fund.
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