2019-02-14 (draft) Cost of Government Commission minutes

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Cost of Government Commission February 14, 2019 meeting minutes police vehicles. I mean it has taken them 10 years to save enough money to buy 10 vehicles and that is going to replace 9 vehicles that are out of service now. Buehler: I don’t know if we want to go into any more detail of grant funding. But based on my experience in the pacific islands America, Samoa, Guam, Japan, they all get big money from the feds to support the financing of their fleets and they don’t use personal vehicles in those places. (23:48): Again extremely conservative on the estimate excluding the grants that could be brought in. There is a tremendous amount of cash available there to the county if they want to pursue that. You know county employees there is plenty of grant writers. So there is no reason they could acquire some of that funding. Buehler: I suspect they have to commit to a complete diversion I don’t think they can do 10 here and 12 here. I think they have to say our 5 year plan is to have the whole fleet. Here is your money each year and that is that subsidize some of that but I don’t know, we can put more research into it included in our report McIntosh: You could just put a fine line that says there are federal grants available for this (24:34): They did it’s in there McIntosh: Well that’s okay, you sort of just have to put it out there. They are the ones going to do all of the detailed research to find out hey I can’t and can do this. (24:46): Is there a restriction on the county that it has to be a full purchase or is there leasing option or? Buehler: When I talked to the Chevy guy they prefer not to lease because the vehicles get such rough treatment when they take it back. rd (25:08): I am also talking about 3 party leases so you are actually making the purchase of the vehicle but you are making monthly payments so you don’t have to have the entire out light (25:20): Do you know if the County has a leasing arm where they purchase equipment and lease it to the County? (25:28): I don’t think we do, I know there has been talk about that for buses for mass trans but I don’t know if they have actually started doing that Buehler: I expect that a value is so low that the payments but at least it gives them time with cash flow to pay them off rather than having to come up with a big chunk of change (25:51): You could do a full conversion at a lower cost initially to get to that point 5