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Josephine County discusses fleet O&M rates, depreciation and replacement reserve at budget workshop
Summary
At a February budget workshop, Director Brandis presented options to change minimum billed mileage and extend vehicle depreciation schedules. Commissioners requested per-vehicle mileage and cost data and trailed-year comparisons to inform departmental budgets and the county's roughly $1.2 million vehicle replacement reserve.
Josephine County commissioners met in the Commissioners' Conference Room on a Tuesday in February for a budget workshop focused on the county fleet’s operating-and-maintenance (O&M) charges, depreciation schedule and replacement reserve. Director Brandis presented several billing iterations and depreciation scenarios and commissioners asked staff for detailed mileage and cost comparisons to support department budget calculations.
Brandis outlined two proposed minimum billed-mileage thresholds—3,600 and 4,200 miles per year—and a proposal to lengthen depreciation schedules for passenger vehicles and light trucks (one option in the packet applied a longer schedule using a 21,000-mile assumption). Brandis said those changes would modestly lower the total depreciation revenue captured while leaving the core O&M revenue that pays for shop operations largely intact. He noted an example fleet-year comparison showing total fleet revenue moving from roughly $1.929 million to about $1.886 million under one option.
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