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Select Board gets updates on vehicle purchases; electric trash truck production advances and grant extension sought
Summary
Board confirmed six-wheeler purchase, heard that the replacement garbage truck is in Vermont for reassembly and likely to arrive within two weeks, and received an update that the electric trash truck production progressed and staff filed for a one-year grant extension as a contingency.
Public works staff updated the Select Board on multiple fleet items. The previously authorized six-wheeler purchase was cleared for signature after staff confirmed there are no tariff issues that would change the quoted price. On a separate replacement garbage truck (the vehicle that was totaled), staff said the vehicle is in Vermont undergoing reassembly and "we should have it within 2 weeks." The town's legal counsel reviewed purchase agreements and advised adding explicit tariff-liability language to future contracts to limit ambiguous vendor responsibility.
On the electric trash truck funded partially by a grant, public works reported production progress at Battle Motors: technicians were "waking the truck up" this week as components are powered and the team waited on LCD display screens before shipping the chassis to Arizona for body installation. Staff said they had asked the grant manager at the Department of Environmental Services about a one-year extension to the grant deadline (which is December 31) and had begun the extension process to avoid losing funding if assembly delays continue.
