Piper board authorizes Enterprise Fleet Management contract, approves two vehicle purchases

The Piper Unified School District Board voted Dec. 8 to enter a contract with Enterprise Fleet Management and to approve the initial purchase of two vehicles for facilities and maintenance.

District presenter Kim said staff had researched fleet-management options over the previous year to make vehicle acquisition and lifecycle tracking more predictable as the district grows. "We began researching our options to help keep our district fleet of vehicles to meet our needs as a growing district but also to look at ways we could be fiscally responsible," Kim said during the presentation.

The board approved two separate motions: one to enter the contract with Enterprise Fleet Management and a second to purchase a 2026 compact pickup and a three-quarter-ton pickup with plow. The board recorded the motion to enter the contract as passing unanimously. The vehicle purchase motion specified a cost not to exceed $35,000 for the compact pickup and $75,000 for the three-quarter-ton pickup with plow, with all costs to be paid from the capital outlay fund on a five-year monthly payment schedule. In the meeting discussion staff said payments would not begin until a vehicle was in hand and that Enterprise could source in-stock vehicles for faster delivery when needed.

Board members asked how additional vehicle purchases would be handled; staff said future purchases would be discussed by the capital outlay committee and then come before the full board for approval. Staff also said Enterprise would help the district track mileage and maintenance history and assist with vehicle disposition when replacement is warranted.

Both motions were approved by voice votes recorded in the transcript as unanimous.

The district will return planned disposals and future fleet additions to the board for approval as part of capital-outlay oversight.