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Brentwood staff ask council to consider leasing vehicles through enterprise fleet management
Summary
Interim Police Chief Bob Bautoff and town administration outlined a proposal to explore leasing town vehicles via an enterprise fleet-management program to reduce costs and improve maintenance; council requested a formal presentation from a vendor and historic cost comparisons.
Interim Police Chief Bob Bautoff described initial work on an enterprise fleet-management option that would shift vehicle replacement and maintenance to a leasing vendor and potentially reduce long-term costs.
“We're in the process of looking at enterprise fleet management, which is basically leasing automobiles,” Bautoff said, explaining the vendor would handle maintenance, schedule replacements and could cover part of emergency-equipment installation costs. Bautoff said the town currently often buys vehicles outright and then keeps them until resale value is negligible; he and town administration proposed inviting a vendor to present the program to the council.
Town Administrator Dorothy Washington and other council members said leasing could make sense across police and public-works vehicles and noted the vendor could perform maintenance on all town vehicles. Council members asked for cost-comparison data, expected vehicle turnover timelines (Bautoff suggested roughly five to six years for some vehicles), and whether recent camera-equipment grants would affect installation costs. Bautoff said some vendors would help re-use emergency equipment between vehicles and could subsidize up-front equipment costs.
Council instructed staff to schedule a presentation by an enterprise fleet representative and requested a historical analysis showing what leasing might have saved the town over time and how it would affect cash flow.
