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FINANCE COMMITTEE <br />CITY OF RAMSEY <br />ANOKA COUNTY <br />STATE OF MINNESOTA <br /> <br />The Ramsey Finance Committee conducted a regular meeting on Tuesday, May 25, 2004, at the <br />Ramsey Fire Station Number I, 15050 Armstrong Boulevard NW, Ramsey, Minnesota. <br /> <br />Members Present: <br /> <br />Chairperson David Elvig <br />Councilmember Sarah Strommen <br />Councilmember Gerald Zimmerman <br /> <br />Also Present: <br /> <br />Finance Officer Diana Lund <br />Director of Public Works/Fire Chief Dean Kapler <br /> <br />CALL TO ORDER <br /> <br />Chairperson Elvig called the regular meeting of the Finance Committee to order at 5:30 p.m. <br /> <br />CITIZEN INPUT <br /> <br />T]lcl'c was llOlle. <br /> <br />COMMITTEE BUSINESS <br /> <br />Case #Al: Drug Seized Vehicle <br /> <br />Police Chief Way reported that the City has seized a drug vehicle, which is a 1995 Lexus. Staff <br />is requesting direction from the Committee as to the possibility of using the vehicle for staff use. <br />Thc payoff on the vehicle is $600, and approximately $1,000 would likely need to be put into the <br />vehicle. The vehicle does have brand new brakes and there are about 75,000 miles on the <br />vehicle. For the cost of approximately $1,500, they may be able to get two to four years of use <br />out of the vchicle. The vehicle he is driving at the time has about 85,000 miles on it. To fix one <br />of the squad cars costs a lot of money, while a Lexus is not high end in repair costs. If the Lexus <br />is kept for staff use a different vehicle would be sold or filtered through for use by other <br />employees. The City has kept some other drug seized vehicles in the past. Another question to <br />consider is the perception of seeing a staff person driving a Lexus. He suggested it could be <br />announced in the Ran~sey Resident how the vehicle was acquired. <br /> <br />Councilmember Zimmerman noted this was done before when the City seized a vehicle, and the <br />vehicle is being used for City business. <br /> <br />Police Chief Way explained the other alternative would be to sell the vehicle and the profit <br />would go into the drug forfeiture fund. The blue book value of the vehicle is approximately <br />$3,000. The plus side would be if the vehicle were to be kept for staff use and they were able to <br /> <br />Finance Committee/May 25, 2004 <br /> Page 1 of 6 <br /> <br /> <br />