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Mayor moves to lease laptops for Stamping Ground police cruisers after department presents purchase and lease options
Summary
Assistant Police Chief John Giles presented purchase and lease options for police-cruiser laptops; Mayor Keith Murphy moved (seconded by Commissioner Jennifer Jones) to lease at a monthly rate recorded in the motion as $379.22. The transcript does not record a vote outcome.
Assistant Police Chief John Giles told the Stamping Ground commission on Nov. 5 that the police department had purchased three new docks and mounts for patrol cruisers and was evaluating two options to put laptops in the vehicles.
Giles said a lease plan would refresh computers every four years at a cost he reported as $379.23 per month; the department’s purchase estimate was $12,805.83. Mayor Keith Murphy moved to lease the laptops, and Commissioner Jennifer Jones seconded; the motion text records the monthly amount as $379.22. The transcript does not include a recorded vote on that motion.
The proposal raises recurring monthly costs for the city if the lease is adopted, and a purchase would involve a larger one-time expenditure. No motion to amend or additional budget detail was provided in the record. The commission did not state on the transcript whether the city’s budget line for equipment would be adjusted to cover a lease versus purchase.
No direct quotes were recorded beyond the reported figures and the motion. The decision’s next procedural step was not presented in the transcript.
