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Finance committee moves five-year lease-to-own for fire pumper (26-23) to council with emergency
Summary
The finance committee voted 7–0 to send ordinance 26-23 to council with emergency, authorizing the mayor to enter a five-year lease-to-own agreement with Freedom Financial to acquire a pumper truck for the Amherst Fire Department to avoid depleting department reserves.
The mayor described ordinance 26-23 as a financing change to acquire a pumper fire truck under a five-year lease-to-own agreement with Freedom Financial. He said the truck was already built, that buying it outright now would deplete the fire department account, and that the lease option preserves several hundred thousand dollars in the fund for emergencies.
Council asked procedural questions about who sourced the financing and whether the traded or retired truck would be disposed of; the mayor said the truck company suggested Freedom Financial and noted such arrangements are state-approved. The committee voted 7–0 to send 26-23 to council with emergency.
