Finance Committee Page 5
November 2, 2016
Alderman Cookson
| just wanted to reconcile my understanding. | believe that you said, Mr. Sojka, that some of the equipment
that is in the vehicles that are being traded in is being transferred to the new vehicles. Is M-H-Q responsible
for that transfer or is any of that transfer happening locally by you and by your resources here at the Nashua
Police Department.
Mr. Sojka
M-H-Q is actually doing all of it. We are supplying the trade vehicle to them and they remove all of the
equipment that needs to be taken out and transfer it into the new vehicle.
Alderman Clemons
Is there typically a price difference between the Massachusetts and New Hampshire State Contracts?
Mr. Kooken
| would say that the New Hampshire State Contracts are competitive but they don’t do the up-fit like what we
are doing with M-H-Q so there is an addition cost for us to get that done as a secondary step. | don’t really
think right now there is a cost benefit.
Alderman Siegel
| want to follow-up on the first question | had which is the replacement of an unmarked car with a Ford Police
Interceptor. | am looking at the memo from Karen Smith and that’s what first peaked my question. It’s dated
October 16" and it says that it’s a 2010 Dodge Charger unmarked vehicle with a 2017 Ford Police Interceptor
utility vehicle for the traffic unit. You had said that it’s being traded in for a Ford Taurus but that’s not what this
says.
Mr. Sojka
We are buying two cars; one is a Ford Taurus and the other one is a Ford utility.
Alderman Siegel
But what | see in front of me is that there is an unmarked vehicle, this is right from the memo so | am just
reading from it. It looked to me like you have a 2010 Dodge Charger that’s being traded in and it’s being
replaced with a 2017 Ford Police Interceptor utility vehicle for the traffic unit.
Mr. Sojka
Yes.
Alderman Siegel
It implies to me that you have got an unmarked and now it’s being traded in and so now we have a police
Interceptor which is pretty marked | guess.
Captain EZ Paulson, Captain, Police Services Bureau
It’s the badging that Ford uses as a Police Interceptor, it’s the model and set-up for police. It will not be a fully
marked police cruiser. It will have all of the safety features; enhanced braking system, suspension and all of
that but it will be unmarked.
