Finance Committee - 12/02/2020 Page 18
Mr. Ibarra
So this is a ballfield groomer, it’s a little tractor that is used at Park & Rec, they do maintain 39 baseball and
softball fields throughout the City. Basically it’s just an older tractor so they are looking to replace it. It has got
almost 4,000 hours on it. | believe they intend to keep this one and run it until it's not feasible to put any more
funding into it. So they will be able to maintain the ball fields.
Mayor Donchess
Questions or comments? Madam Clerk could you please call the roll?
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman Klee, Alderwoman Lu, Alderman Harriott-Gathright,
Alderwoman Kelly, Alderman Laws, Alderman O’Brien, Mayor Donchess 7
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED
From: Kelly Parkinson, Purchasing Manager
Re: Eager Beaver Chipper in the amount of $81,277.25 funded from account 81500 Vehicles/rust/FY21
CERF
MOTION BY ALDERMAN HARRIOT-GATHRIGHT TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE, AND APPROVE THE
PURCHASE OF ONE (1) 2020 MORBARK EAGER BEAVER 15 INCH CHIPPER FROM BEAUREGARD
EQUIPMENT OF CONCORD, NH, IN THE AMOUNT OF $81,277.25. FUNDING WILL BE THROUGH
DEPARTMENT 177 PARKS & RECREATION; FUND: TRUST; ACTIVITY: CERF, BY ROLL CALL.
ON THE QUESTION
Mayor Donchess
Discussion — well Mr. Ibarra?
Mr. Ibarra
Thank you, Mr. Mayor. So this is the Park & Rec chipper, it’s a 2006 so it’s quite old, it’s a dated chipper. It
also was a deferred purchase from Fiscal ’20 to Fiscal ’21. This is the backbone of their operation when it
comes to downed trees; we have a natural disaster or storm come through. It’s got almost 5,000 hours on this
particular piece of equipment. And this also will be kept as a backline unit so if we really get hammered by
Mother Nature we will be able to address the best we can, until it becomes economically not viable.
Mayor Donchess
Questions? Alderwoman Klee.
Alderman Klee
Thank you and Mr. Mayor, thank you very much. | appreciate, | noticed with all three of these you’ve let us
know what will be happening with the old equipment, as to whether it will just kind of be, as you put it, back
lined. And | appreciate that, it kind of helps us understand and | also appreciate the fact that we are doing
these backlining so that if we do have these emergencies or events that we don’t get backlogged, we can keep
moving forward, just having to get the staff in there to be able to do it. So thank you very much for thinking
ahead.
