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Selectboard debates truck trade-in, CCR offer and timing for a formal bid
Summary
The board reviewed options for an out-of-service highway truck: a Charlebois trade-in ($24,000), an unsolicited $25,000 offer from CCR, and the possibility of a public bid. Members voiced concern about perceived favoritism and bookkeeping/timing constraints; no formal vote on the sale was recorded.
Selectboard members spent substantial time weighing how to handle the town’s out-of-service highway truck. The new truck’s original price was noted as $280,750; the town already paid $177,950 for the cab and chassis. Charlebois offered a $24,000 trade-in allowance; CCR offered $25,000. Road Foreman Sean Cushing warned that the road crew is short a truck and that delaying or driving the old vehicle reduces trade-in value, while a formal bid process would require tighter operational controls.
Members emphasized avoiding any appearance of favoritism. Pat Haller suggested that if the board wished to seek more than Charlebois’ trade-in value it should go to public bid; Julia Andrews said the board should decline CCR’s unsolicited $25,000 to preserve municipal reputation and forego the $1,000 difference rather than risk perceptions of favoritism. The transcript records discussion of options and constraints but does not record a final, formal board vote on the truck sale during this meeting.
