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AGENDA ITEK: SURPLUS EQUIPMENT - AGENDA SECTION:
UNDERBODY PLOW CONSENT
PREPARED BY: STEPHAN JILK, CITY ADMINISTRATOR AGENDA N1TEM # 6L
ATTACMUMS : MEMO AP VED Y :
The Public Works Department has a underbody plow which was specifically
built for the City., Its usefulness is no longer apparent and to continue
to utilize it would require additional modifications to a truck.
We recommend I its disposal and we have a pending offer from. another city for
it.
RECOMMENDED ACTION
Motion to declare the 1987 underbody snowplow surplus equipment and
authorize its sale.
COUNCIL ACTION:
TO: Ron Wasmund, Public Works Director
FROM: Mike Widstrom, Public Works Supervisor
DATE: March 11, 1992
RE: Underbody Snowplow
In 1987, the City purchased an underbody snowplow that was going
to be used for scraping ice and snow off of City streets. This
plow was specially built for our Ford Tandem which required
modifications for it to fit. This plow, after it was installed,
was used only one season because it was determined that it took
to many passes to clean off the streets, and therefore too time
consuming to be effective.
Now that the City has traded the Tandem that this plow was built
for, we do not want to go to the expense of making modifications
to the plow frame of the new truck (Ford 9000).
City staff is recommending that this piece of equipment be
considered surplus equipment and sold. At one point we were
going to let the plow go with the truck, but staff thought that
maybe we could trade the plow for something better. However,
after checking with dealers, no one would give the City anything
for it.
Staff did find out though, through one of these dealers, that
Carver County Highway Department needs to replace a broken
moldboard on one of their trucks and has offered us a $1,000 for
it. Staff feels we should not pass on this offer because the
only other option for this piece of equipment is scrap.