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Williams Township board approves purchase of new pickup truck; budget transfer planned
Summary
The board approved buying a heavy-duty pickup for public works and agreed to prepare a budget line-item transfer. The purchase was supported as a safety need; the transcript includes inconsistent price figures, which the article notes.
Chair (S1) moved and the board approved the purchase of a replacement public-works pickup truck, citing safety needs for night work and equipment operations. The board voted unanimously to proceed.
The township's public-works representative (S2) presented a dealer quote for a 4x4 heavy-duty 2500 pickup priced in the transcript at $52,675.03 and said roughly $45,000 remained in this year's equipment budget with another $10,000 available by reallocating public-works lines. S2 also described an optional light package for the truck that would cost about $4,000–$5,000 and said a portable light could be used temporarily.
The motion to buy the truck was recorded in the meeting transcript as stating a slightly different figure ($52,006.75), a discrepancy that appears in the audio/transcript. The board instructed staff to prepare a resolution transferring line items in the budget to cover the purchase; the resolution will be presented at the next meeting for formal adoption.
Board members emphasized safety visibility for night work when discussing timing of the purchase and options to defer the optional light package until the next budget cycle. No further public comment was recorded.
The board's action authorizes staff to finalize procurement and to bring a budget transfer resolution to the next meeting for formal accounting of the funds.
