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Court approves vehicle grants allocation, awards police-vehicle contracts and backs $12 million state funding request for regional medical facility
Summary
Commissioners allocated federal community-vehicle grant vehicles across cities and county entities, awarded RFPs for pursuit vehicles, approved multiple consent items including an excavation permit, and passed a resolution supporting a $12 million state funding request for a new Guadalupe Regional facility.
At its Feb. 2025 meeting, the Guadalupe County Commissioners Court approved a package of grant allocations, contract awards, and resolutions affecting emergency services, medical facilities and development permits.
Vehicle grants and procurement
The court accepted a congressionally‑directed community grant for law-enforcement vehicles and allocated the initial distribution and priorities among local jurisdictions and county constables. After discussion about vehicle preferences and how many vehicles the grant would fund, the court decided to procure seven Chevrolet Tahoes and five Dodge Durangos (equipped for law-enforcement use) and to split awards between two vendors identified in RFP 25‑04. The court directed procurement staff to finalize purchases so jurisdictions receive the vehicle type they requested, subject to grant funding limits.
Buying decisions followed staff analysis of per‑unit turnkey costs: quoted outfitted prices were about $64,369 per Durango and about $90,909 per Tahoe, and the total grant award…
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