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City to pursue new GPS survey equipment; committee forwards purchase to council
Summary
City engineer recommended replacing an older Trimble GPS system with Topcon equipment supplied by RDO Equipment Company; staff proposed splitting cost among departments and forwarded the purchase recommendation for council approval. The transcript records two close but different dollar amounts for the purchase.
Scott Lang told the committee the existing GPS system is dated, lacks needed vertical accuracy and is cumbersome to process. Lang said staff found a local supplier for Topcon equipment and proposed buying a base station and data collector to be shared by public works roads, water and sewer, and engineering, with costs split three ways.
Lang said the recommended supplier is RDO Equipment Company and the proposal amount was presented as $26,285 in the staff recommendation; the motion as recorded in the meeting later lists $26,002.85. The committee moved, seconded and approved forwarding the investment proposal to a future city council meeting with a recommendation of approval; the discrepancy in the two amounts is noted in staff records and should be clarified before council action.
