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~#I VEHICLE UTILIZATION By: Ryan R. Schroeder At the last Finance Committee meeting, it was authorized to purchase a third replacement squad during 1993 with the intent to rotate the vehicle being replaced down to Administrative Services. The cost of this action was $21.493 to be taken from the $33,978 available from the replacement fund. Council will have noticed that this third replacement squad has been purchased and is on-site. Since that authorization, it has been suggested that we can get longer life out of the fleet if the current Investigator's car becomes part of the squad rotation with the remaining oldest squad being relegated to Investigator uses. The result is that we would effectively have four new patrol cars, one older Investigator unit and two, rather than one, squads available for Administrative Services use with relatively low mileage. The additional result is that there will not be a request for purchase of Police vehicles in 1994. There will also not be a request for purchase of an Administrative Services vehicle in 1994. It is expected that the Investigator vehicle, as well as the Administrative Service vehicles, which result, will have fairly long lives. The Investigator squad will average 9,500 annual miles. The average for the Staff fleet will be 7,500 annual miles. Hence, several years should pass before requested replacement. The above does have some additional equipment set-up but for purposes of the Police Department, the cost, including replacement fund allocation of the prior action and of this one, is about $23,500. In addition to this, Administrative Services will be installing a radio in one of the vehicles in that the resultant five-car fleet is one radio short. The cost of this radio installation, with replacement fund allocation is $540. The result of all of the above is an actual cash savings of $9,945 from what is available within the Equipment Replacement Fund. Replacement Fund Balance S-1 $14,300 ) S-2 14,288 701 0 703 12,182 705 10,848 706 10,948 Dollars Remain in Replacement Fund $33,978 Available Allocation from June 8, 1993 meeting $21.493 [Toward squad, replacement fund, set-up] Set up cost of Investigator squad Administrative Services Radio $2,000 [not to exceed] Balance Remaining $ 540 $9,945* *The balance will be returned to the Equipment Replacement Fund