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Committee backs replacing aging garbage trucks and adding route‑management software
Summary
The committee approved forwarding a package that would replace two large collection vehicles and buy a knuckle‑boom truck (staff estimates: two trucks at about $425,000 each and a $200,000 knuckle boom), and authorized consideration of Routeware route‑management software (~$24,000/year).
The McMinnville Finance Committee approved sending to the full board a proposal that includes replacing aging sanitation vehicles and adding a route‑management tool.
Speaker 4, who described the sanitation fleet condition, said the 2009 front loader "has made its lifecycle" and argued repairs such as new transmissions (quoted as about $20,000) can be uneconomic compared with replacement. Staff identified replacement priorities as the 2009 front loader (priority 1), a 2014 side loader (priority 2) and an…
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