BOW Approves Street Department Vehicle Purchase

July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.

By Jennifer [email protected]

Warsaw Board of Public Works and Safety Friday approved Warsaw Street Department purchasing a dump truck.
The one-ton cab and chassis with a dump truck and plows will be purchased from Rice Ford for $26,276 and from W.A. Jones for $14,343 for a total of $40,619.
The vehicle will replace a 1997 Chevrolet one-ton dump truck with 73,671 miles that has rusted floor board, the cab is coming apart and the frame is rusted and the bed is rotted.
Also during the meeting the board approved Warsaw Parks Department accepting a $3,658 grant from Indiana Arts Commission to be used to support the Central Park Concert Series.
The council approved a $3,276.82 contract between the Warsaw Wastewater Utility department and Sands Office Equipment for a copier to be purchased for the department.
Also approved was an agreement between the city and Warsaw Housing Authority. The agreement allows WHA to collect and monitor certain funds payable through promissory notes and secured mortgages resulting from the Warsaw Owner Occupied Programs.
The board approved the city administering $7,000 that will be used as a matching money for a Community Block grant.
Housing Opportunities of Warsaw will apply for a grant in 2014 to assist with housing development along the Market Street corridor.
The board approved hiring Jacob Johnson as a parks department laborer at $13.93 an hour; Tanner Hobbs at $13.25 an hour as a cemetery groundskeeper; Damian Pass as a Warsaw Wastewater Treatment Utility maintenance employee at $16 an hour and Zackery Swope as a refuse collector for the street department at $14.38 an hour.
City Attorney Mike Valentine thanked all those who responded to the scene of his grandson Austin Valentine’s skateboarding accident.
Austin came home from the hospital Friday, Valentine said.

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Warsaw Board of Public Works and Safety Friday approved Warsaw Street Department purchasing a dump truck.
The one-ton cab and chassis with a dump truck and plows will be purchased from Rice Ford for $26,276 and from W.A. Jones for $14,343 for a total of $40,619.
The vehicle will replace a 1997 Chevrolet one-ton dump truck with 73,671 miles that has rusted floor board, the cab is coming apart and the frame is rusted and the bed is rotted.
Also during the meeting the board approved Warsaw Parks Department accepting a $3,658 grant from Indiana Arts Commission to be used to support the Central Park Concert Series.
The council approved a $3,276.82 contract between the Warsaw Wastewater Utility department and Sands Office Equipment for a copier to be purchased for the department.
Also approved was an agreement between the city and Warsaw Housing Authority. The agreement allows WHA to collect and monitor certain funds payable through promissory notes and secured mortgages resulting from the Warsaw Owner Occupied Programs.
The board approved the city administering $7,000 that will be used as a matching money for a Community Block grant.
Housing Opportunities of Warsaw will apply for a grant in 2014 to assist with housing development along the Market Street corridor.
The board approved hiring Jacob Johnson as a parks department laborer at $13.93 an hour; Tanner Hobbs at $13.25 an hour as a cemetery groundskeeper; Damian Pass as a Warsaw Wastewater Treatment Utility maintenance employee at $16 an hour and Zackery Swope as a refuse collector for the street department at $14.38 an hour.
City Attorney Mike Valentine thanked all those who responded to the scene of his grandson Austin Valentine’s skateboarding accident.
Austin came home from the hospital Friday, Valentine said.

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