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West Chester Township approves vehicles, equipment, contracts and an interim finance director
Summary
Trustees approved a slate of purchases and approvals on Feb. 10: legal services, firefighter turnout gear, six police vehicles and outfitting, salt trucks and outfitting, park repairs, office furniture, appointment of Michelle Grice as interim finance director, a state audit contract and the donation of a surplus K‑9 vehicle to Middletown police. The board also approved EV chargers and a roundabout agreement (see separate item).
At the Feb. 10 West Chester Township meeting trustees approved multiple procurement and personnel items during a single consent/agenda block and subsequent roll calls.
Purchases and contracts reviewed included $72,804.16 for legal services (FPT Gibbons LLP for services through 12/31/2025); 48 sets of firefighter turnout gear through a purchasing consortium; $352,742 to McCluskey Chevrolet to buy six police vehicles and roughly $135,085.48 to Tri State to outfit those vehicles; $215,000 plus $160,321 for two Freightliner salt trucks and related snow‑removal equipment; annual police department purchases totaling about $25,504.40; $27,632.86 to replace a playground slide at Beckett Park West; and smaller yearly purchases including a $20,286.84 mower replacement and community‑services office furniture. Trustees moved and approved items 6 through 17 by roll call after brief discussion.
Trustees also approved administrative and oversight items: they appointed Michelle Grice as interim finance director while staff completes a departmental analysis and authorized the administrator to make nonsubstantive contract edits with law‑director approval. The board authorized a contract with the Auditor of State to conduct the 2025 audit (the township noted routine audit scheduling recurs roughly every five to ten years).
The board approved a resolution declaring one police vehicle unfit for public use and authorizing donation to the Middletown Division of Police K‑9 unit to replace a vehicle lost in an accident. Colonel Revels and staff discussed which vehicle fixtures can be reused and which are incompatible between models; equipment such as heat sensors can be reused while cages and model‑specific items will be retired.
Several liquor‑permit notifications were handled on the consent agenda; the trustees recorded motions not to object to applications for Fuh Fam LLC and Pizza King and Wings LLC.
Items passed by roll call were recorded on the meeting record; the meeting moved on after trustees completed these votes and brief operational Q&A about salt‑truck seasonality (public‑works staff confirmed trucks operate as dump trucks during summer and convert to salt trucks around Nov. 1).
