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Council updates non–public-safety vehicle-use code to clarify reporting and reduce take-home cars
Summary
The council approved amendments to the city’s vehicle-use code affecting non–public-safety staff, clarifying reporting requirements for accidents, defining assigned/call-out/pool vehicles and indicating an expected 80–90% reduction in take-home vehicles for affected staff, officials said.
The Tuscaloosa City Council on Oct. 12 approved amendments to sections of the city vehicle-use code that apply to non–public-safety personnel, city staff said.
Mr. Moore (Speaker 3), presenting the item, described the changes as “more as a modernizing of the policy, updating some verbiage related to call out vehicles, signed vehicles, pool vehicles, where there's an insurance requirement, some minor updates just to clean up code before we do our full vehicle use policy.” He said the amendments clarify accident reporting timelines and better define assigned, group and pool vehicles.
Moore said the changes do not apply to public-safety units (referred to in the discussion as TFR and TPD). He said call-out vehicles must be requested in writing by a department head and that staff completed a six-month review matching fleet records and maintenance systems to clean up records and enable audits of vehicle activities.
The presenter indicated the proportion of employees with take-home vehicles is expected to fall dramatically: “I would expect that you would see that percentage reduced anywhere from 80 to 90% potentially,” Moore said. Councilmember (Speaker 1) moved the item, a second was recorded, and the council voted in favor.
The amendments will apply to assigned vehicles, assigned group vehicles, call-out vehicles and pool vehicles for non–public-safety staff; the council did not adopt new enforcement fines or specify budgetary changes during the discussion. Staff said follow-up work includes implementing the clarified approval process for call-out vehicles and continuing audits of fleet records.
