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Recommendation to adopt attached resolution authorizing City Manager to execute a contract with Seagrave Fire Apparatus, LLC, for the purchase of ten fire pumper trucks on the same terms and conditions as are afforded to the Mount Joy Fire Department, in an amount not to exceed $3,619,090. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
City Council approval is being requested to enter into a contract for the purchase of 10 fire pumper trucks over two fiscal years.
As part of the City's multi-year vehicle replacement plan, the Public Works Department, Fleet Services Bureau, is requesting to purchase seven replacement fire pumper trucks in Fiscal Year 2005 (FY 05) and three in FY 06. The new trucks will replace 10 fire pumper trucks, ranging in age from 17 to 20 years old.
The recommended useful life of front line units by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), the Fire Services Review and the Fleet Services Study is 16 years. Purchase of five of the requested pumpers had been deferred in FY 03 and FY 04 awaiting the outcome of the Fire Services and Fleet Services studies. Both studies are now complete and recommend that the City adhere to a long-term replacement schedule to reduce maintenance costs and apparatus downtime.
Apparatus life is described as front line, spare, and recruit (academy training). The pumpers assigned to the stations are considered front line. Spares, or reserves, are older units that are maintained in order to temporarily replace front line units in the shop for service, repair, and preventative maintenance or while committed to strike team deployments or special events such as the Grand Prix. Frequently, there are no spare units available as they are all either in for repair or backfilling for front line units.
Upon replacement, all front line units will have enclosed cabs. NFPA has determined that the open cab is unsafe for firefighters. There have been numerous fatalities across the country aggravated by the open cab design. N...
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