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Fire Engine Purchase - $3.4m
Toledo Fire & Rescue Department
CFO Ted Sheares (x3515)
Revised
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Authorizing the expenditure of an amount not to exceed $2,200,000 from the Capital Improvement Fund for fire engines and related equipment and services; authorizing the Mayor to accept bids and award contracts necessary to complete said purchases; and declaring an emergency.
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SUMMARY & BACKGROUND:
Ordinances 176-23 and 177-23 authorized the purchase of fire vehicles and equipment. Funds from these ordinances will be combined with funding authorized herein for the purchase of up to (4) Fire Engines and related equipment to maintain the department's 15-year apparatus replacement schedule.
The apparatus replacement schedule preserves a complement of service-ready emergency response vehicles according to NFPA 1912 governing safety standards (herein attached as Addendum A), which recommends repurposing or retiring frontline apparatuses with more than (15) service years. By design, said safety standard protects the community from undue peril attributed to response delays caused by malfunctions common to older vehicles.
Accordingly, the new Engines will repurpose or retire models with (21) or greater service years, including the following: (1) 1997, (1) 1999, and (2) 2002s.
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NOW, THEREFORE, Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Toledo:
SECTION 1. That the Mayor is authorized to prepare plans and specifications, to accept bids or utilize cooperative or collaborative procurement programs and enter into contracts for the purchase of fire engines and related equipment and services for the Toledo Fire and Rescue Department, upon such terms and conditions as the Mayor may deem requisite and proper and shall be subject to approval by the Department of Law and the Director of Fire.
SECTION 2. That the amount not to exceed $2,200,000 is authorized for expenditure from Capital Improvement Fund Account Codes 5040-53000-8C...
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