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Council authorizes police vehicle for patrol use and purchases a new squad truck
Summary
Chief Randy Blackburn received council approval to place his city vehicle into patrol service (outfitting $7,776.22) and to purchase a 2026 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 LT with outfitting for a total of $69,017.00; council approved both items July 20.
Chief of Police Randy Blackburn asked council to authorize placement of his city vehicle into patrol service and to approve purchase of a 2026 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 LT at state bid, including outfitting. The council approved the requests unanimously; minutes record outfitting costs for the converted city vehicle at $7,776.22 and the new vehicle purchase with outfitting totaling $69,017.00.
The meeting transcript records the motions: "to authorize his city vehicle to be placed into service as a patrol vehicle cost to outfit the vehicle of $7,776.22" and "to purchase a 2026 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 LT ... $63,017.00 and vehicle outfitting $6,000.00 with a grand total of $69,017.00." The minutes do not specify timing for placing the vehicle into service or which vendor will perform outfitting beyond the vendor name Canfield Equipment Service, Inc. for the outfitting estimate.
