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Council approves budget amendment and conditional purchase of bucket truck from Alpena Power

5805853 · June 18, 2025
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Council authorized a $31,000 budget transfer to buy a 2014 Freightliner bucket truck from Alpena Power Company for $30,000, pending a satisfactory mechanical inspection; staff said acquiring the vehicle would avoid an estimated $10,000 mandatory recabling on the existing 1984 truck and defer the higher cost of a new unit.

The Alpena City Council on June 16 approved a budget amendment to transfer $31,000 from the equipment fund balance to capital vehicles and authorized the conditional purchase of a 2014 Freightliner bucket truck from Alpena Power Company for $30,000, pending a satisfactory inspection.

Fleet manager Doug Rusniewski reviewed the offered truck and told the council…

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