Finance Committee - 08/14/2019 Page 8
From: Dan Kooken, Purchasing Manager
Re: Purchase of One (1) Caterpillar 938M Wheel Loader
MOTION BY ALDERWOMAN KELLY TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE AND AWARD THE CONTRACT TO
MILTON CAT IN THE AMOUNT OF $252,400. SOURCE OF FUNDING IS DEPARTMENT 161, STREETS;
CERF
ON THE QUESTION
Mayor Donchess
Since this is a bigger item maybe you should give us a little explanation on this, it is pretty self-explanatory.
Jonathan Ibarra, Superintendent of Streets
Yes it is self-explanatory, it is to replace a loader that we have right now, 2008 that has upwards of 8,000 hours
on it. It is showing some signs of wear and tear. We have some electrical issues going on and we also need
to get a scale system. So rather than buy a separate scale system, this loader will also have a scale system
so we can measure our loads, especially with loading salt. We will Know how much salt we are putting in the
truck so as not to overload and just how much salt we are going through every storm; we will be able to track it
better.
Alderman Caron
Thank you Mayor. So we have a lot of purchases for vehicles, how are we doing after this in terms of
replacement?
Mr. Ibarra
Truck we are pretty well caught up on, the equipment, it’s the small stuff, sidewalk tractors are coming up.
Alderman Caron
So we are really kind of catching up in doing this, OK thank you.
Alderman Klee
| am going to ask a question that Alderman Laws has asked in the past just because | want clarifications of it
and for those that are listening. The trucks that we kind of put to the boneyard sort to speak, | Know they don’t
just go to a junkyard and a boneyard, do we get any money for them?
Mr. Ibarra
We don’t trade them, we don’t get a lot of money when they get to that point, but we talk with Dan and we put it
on the public auction web site.
Alderman Klee
And then whatever we get from the auction.
Mr. Ibarra
It’s usually...
