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Public works reports 19 new pieces of equipment arriving; committee presses security, staffing and inmate-labor options
Summary
The Jackson City Public Works Committee was told 19 pieces of equipment — including three skid steers expected within a month — are on order. Members pressed for deployment plans, security and monthly inventory for the new fleet, and explored using MOU-authorized inmate labor and contract structuring to boost minority participation.
The Public Works Committee was told the city has ordered 19 pieces of equipment and expects several key items to arrive within about a month, including three skid steers that Anderson said should be operating in the field by late April or early May. "We ordered, but we have 19 pieces of equipment," Anderson told the committee during the March 24 meeting, and he repeated that the skid steers were on a roughly one-month timeline.
The update covered associated purchases and logistics: three utility trailers, three dump trailers, three dump trucks, three zero-turn mowers (some already on site), three ATVs with spray tanks, and seven pickup trucks expected in two to three weeks. Anderson said most equipment is coming from a vendor called Divinny and that many items are attachments rather than separate vehicles.
Why it matters: committee members said the new equipment is needed for blight abatement, grass cutting and storm-drain work but warned that a large,…
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