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Committee notes repeated dump-box replacements and costly grader repairs
Summary
Members reported repeated expensive replacements of steel dump boxes (about $40,000–$50,000 each) and flagged the 2009 grader's need for several thousand dollars in repairs after over $65,000 in earlier repairs five years ago.
Randy Akins and other committee members described a history of high costs tied to dump-box replacements and heavy-equipment repairs. Akins said the town has replaced steel dump boxes multiple times on the same trucks and that the chain holders supplying salt are deteriorating, raising recurring maintenance costs.
"Randy Akins said new dump boxes had been put on 424 and 426 for the 2nd time (steel boxes) since we have had them and each time cost about 40 — 50 thousand dollars," the minutes record. The committee also discussed the grader, a 2009 model, which "would need several thousand dollars for repairs to bring it to a safe operating level" and that the town had already spent over $65,000 on repairs about five years earlier. Members emphasized the need to weigh replacement versus repeated high-cost repairs when budgeting for heavy equipment.
