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A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO A LEASE-PURCHASE AGREEMENT WITH EXCELLANCE, INC. FOR A REMOUNT AMBULANCE VEHICLE FOR USE BY THE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
Executive Summary: Since 2004 EMS has been replacing its ambulances every 6 years, one every two years. This allows the EMS Department to control their repair costs, as the drive train warranties are 5 years or 100,000 miles, and at the same time keep the fleet reliable. EMS has chosen to once again remount the ambulance rather than replace the vehicle. This action results in a savings of over $92,000.
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Legislative History
Res. No. 13-134 Entered into a lease agreement with Excellance, Inc. to remount an ambulance.
Res. No. 15-147 Entered into a lease agreement with Excellance, Inc. to remount an ambulance.
Purpose & Explanation
Due to maintenance and reliability issues that EMS was experiencing with its ambulances, beginning in 2005 we reduced the life cycle from nine years to six years. This has significantly improved our operations by reducing down time and major repairs.
Council has tentatively approved, via the five-year plan, the lease/purchase of a replacement ambulance in 2018.
Excellance, Inc., the original manufacturer of this ambulance, has presented the option of remounting our old ambulance box onto a new chassis. The cost to perform this remount is $126,538.96. This will be the second remount for this ambulance box. With every remount, the box is structurally warrantied for 25 more years. We also receive a new 10-year electrical component and wiring warranty.
As we did with the last ambulance remount, we have added a power-cot with loading system to the contract, allowing us to spread the $45,758.39 cost of the cot system out over the 5-year life of the internal note, rather than spending capital funds upon delivery of the remounted squad.
The total contract cost for the remounted ambulance and power-cot system is $172,297.3...
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