At a workshop meeting, district purchasing staff described a phased replacement plan for maintenance vehicles and recommended tag-on bid purchases for new trucks. Vince Wyndham, program director for purchasing, said the district has "some over 200,000 miles" on older vehicles and is replacing vehicles "as the budget allows." He said the district replaced six vehicles over the last two years and plans to buy two more this year.

Wyndham gave a rough fleet size: "we're somewhere around the 80 just in maintenance and then probably another 30 in other departments," and described the district's approach: if a vehicle can be reasonably fixed, it remains in service; otherwise the district rotates it out. Staff said warranty coverage on new vehicles and occasional warranty work will be part of procurement considerations.

Questions from board members touched on maintenance practices and local partnerships. Wyndham said career and technical education (CTE) programs occasionally assist with labor ("they will look at our vehicles and if we purchase the parts, they'll do the labor for free"), though the district cannot always rely on that work because of timing constraints. Board members asked about safety and mileage thresholds; staff replied that decisions balance repairability, safety (floorboard condition, tire condition) and budget.

What was requested and the next steps
The truck purchases were presented as consent items (tag-on bids and purchases). Staff described a multi-year plan to rotate older vehicles out as funding allows and to consider warranties and local repair capacity. No formal roll-call vote on the purchase appears in the excerpted transcript.

Ending
Staff said they will continue to bring fleet purchasing items as budget permits and that surplus protocols are used to retire and dispose of older vehicles.