Council
Communication

Office of the City Manager

 
 

Date

January 7, 2008

 

Agenda Item No.       24

Roll Call No.              08-

Communication No.  08-005

Submitted by: Allen McKinley, Finance Director

 

 

AGENDA HEADING:

 

Setting Date of Hearing for Supplement C-1 to the City’s Master Lease-Purchase Agreement for the purchase of various vehicles and equipment for the Public Works Department.

 

 

SYNOPSIS:

 

Recommend approval to schedule a public hearing for January 28, 2008, to consider lease-purchasing six trucks with attachments for the Public Works Department.  Council will be asked to approve the acquisition of the vehicles at a subsequent council meeting(s).  This action initiates the financing process to align with the anticipated acquisition approvals.

 

 

FISCAL IMPACT:

 

Amount: Not to exceed $750,000 plus interest. 

 

Funding Source:  Fiscal Year 2007-08 Operating Budget, Finance Department – Debt Service Funds, Debt Service Administration, FIN900100, page 155.  

 

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

 

Each year the City replaces a variety of equipment and vehicles that have exceeded their useful lives.  In previous years, approximately 30 police units were replaced annually using a lease-purchase funding mechanism while various public works units were replaced out of the equipment replacement fund on a pay-as-you-go basis.  This year the police units will be purchased on a pay-as-you-go basis and six Public Works units are recommended for replacement via the lease-purchase arrangement.  The useful life of the Public Works equipment is over 10 years and the lease supplement term will be for a period of 7 years.  The change in vehicle types to be included in the lease-purchase program is intended to reduce the administrative burden associated with financing the larger number of Police vehicles.

 

Equipment items to be acquired under the lease-purchase arrangement are:

2 - Two-wheel drive – 1-Ton Utility Body Trucks

3 - Tandem Axle Dump Trucks with Snow and Ice Control Equipment

1 - Single Axle Truck with Vacuum Street Sweeper

More detailed information will be provided on each vehicle to be lease-purchased, including environmental considerations, prior to purchase.

 

Sixteen lease supplements totaling $8,589,019.33 were approved by the City Council under an earlier lease arrangement with Banc of America. The lease-purchase method provides flexible, affordable financing for City equipment.  Under the current lease arrangement five lease supplements have been approved and executed by the City Council totaling $2,969,630.76.

 

 

PREVIOUS COUNCIL ACTION(S):

 

Date:  October 25, 2004

 

Roll Call Number:         04-2279

 

Action:   Approved Master Lease-Purchase Agreement with Banc of America Leasing & Capital, LLC.

 

 

BOARD/COMMISSION ACTION(S): NONE

 

 

ANTICIPATED ACTIONS AND FUTURE COMMITMENTS:

 

Hearing and approval of Master Lease Supplement C-1

Award of bids for various Public Works equipment and vehicles