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Committee roundup: finance items advanced including EV lease, ambulance purchase and telecom upgrades; opioid scholarship withdrawn
Summary
Committee meetings forwarded several resolutions to the council — an EV lease funded by a NOPEC grant, an ambulance purchase from the ambulance billing fund and telecom upgrades for the public access channel — and recorded withdrawal of a proposed opioid-settlement scholarship for later revision.
Multiple Green City Council committees on Aug. 27 recommended several finance and public-safety items be forwarded to the regular council meeting.
Finance Committee recommended forwarding Resolution 2024-R47 to lease Equinox electric vehicles from Sarah Chevrolet, reporting an updated cost of $46,427.84 per vehicle and noting the NOPEC Energized Community Grant will fully fund the lease. Committee members discussed leasing (preferred for fast-moving EV technology) and confirmed the option to purchase at a later date would return to council.
The committee also recommended moving Resolution 2024-R49, a purchase of a Braun Chief XL medic (ambulance) unit, to the council. Staff said the appropriation would be $340,000 from the ambulance billing fund (fund balance cited as $1,471,887) and that the manufacturer build time is roughly 36 months; staff warned the chassis price could be set closer to delivery and might increase.
Finance Committee supported Resolution 2024-R50 to buy and install telecommunications equipment for the City of Green public access channel; the Green Telecommunications Board recommended up to $60,000, and staff said the Green Community Telecommunications Fund has a balance of approximately $337,000.
Public Safety Committee approved withdrawal of Resolution 2024-R51 (a proposed drug-task-force scholarship fund at the Akron Community Foundation financed from opioid settlement dollars) so administration can make substantive revisions and resubmit.
Transportation Committee recommended advancing the Joseph A. Jefferies Co., Inc. contract for 2024 miscellaneous concrete repairs (Resolution 2024-R46), noting the bid ($163,820.30) was below the engineer’s estimate and that the work was budgeted in the 2024 operating budget. Committee members also discussed mill-and-pave sequencing and raised resident aesthetic concerns about temporary apron surfaces on Main Street; staff said the work seen is base course and a final surface course remains to be placed.
Most committees recorded unanimous concurrence to forward items to council; the matters will be scheduled for action at the regular council meeting.
