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Council approves police chief employment agreement and DEA task-force vehicle purchase funded by task-force funds
Summary
Council approved an employment agreement naming David Roth as chief of police and authorized purchase of a DEA task-force vehicle (up to $60,000) using federal task-force seizure funds restricted to police use.
Lebanon City Council voted May 12 to approve an employment agreement with David Roth as the chief of police and separately authorized the police department to purchase a replacement DEA task-force vehicle for up to $60,000 using task-force funds that, by federal law, are restricted to law-enforcement uses.
The police chief described Lebanons participation in a DEA task force and said the department benefits from equipment and multiagency cooperation; he asked permission to purchase a new vehicle for the position that rotates every 3'6 years. The chief said the requested vehicle purchase would not use general-fund dollars but federal task-force seizure funds allocated to the department.
Council approved both the employment agreement and the vehicle purchase by roll-call votes. Council members clarified that federal rules limit use of task-force funds to police-related purposes and thanked the department for leveraging task-force partnerships.
Why it matters: The employment agreement fills a key public-safety leadership position and the vehicle purchase maintains the departments capacity to participate in multiagency investigations; both actions affect departmental operations but do not draw on general-fund dollars for the vehicle.
What happens next: The city will finalize the employment contract and procurement for the vehicle through the police departments purchasing process, using the designated task-force funds.
