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Committee authorizes staff to seek a replacement landscape tractor up to $25,000
Summary
The Building and Grounds Committee authorized staff to search for a landscape tractor replacement with a not-to-exceed budget of $25,000, allowing trade-in/salvage value to offset cost.
The Building and Grounds Committee authorized staff to seek a replacement landscape tractor with a not-to-exceed budget of $25,000 to replace two aging units, one of which is inoperable.
Andy Allen, a staff member, said the landscape crew uses two older tractors: a smaller inoperable unit and a larger unit experiencing mechanical issues. He recommended searching for a single machine that could perform multiple tasks and leveraging trade-in or salvage values of the old units to offset the purchase. The committee approved the not-to-exceed search and instructed staff to pursue options and return with purchase details and trade-in valuations.
Staff framed the request as a pragmatic operational purchase to maintain maintenance capacity; no formal contract award was made during the committee meeting. The item follows a prior authorization that allowed staff to buy vehicles at auction with similar not-to-exceed parameters.
