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Public works staff recommends buying rather than leasing light-duty vehicles; board backs purchasing in 2026 budget
Summary
Staff presented a one-off fleet-lease analysis and recommended purchasing replacements; the Board of Public Works voted to recommend including one vehicle each for engineering and wastewater in the 2026 budget rather than entering a lease with Enterprise.
Village of Jackson public works staff presented a fleet-financing analysis at the Board of Public Works meeting on Sept. 30 and recommended purchasing replacement vehicles rather than entering a multi-year lease.
"I don't believe a lease option is the right direction for us to go," Jack, public works staff, said while summarizing the lease quotes and internal trade-in strategy. Jack told the board staff identified an approach that would produce approximately $4,000 of equity per unit at the end of a three-year lease term but concluded…
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