Warsaw Finalizes Financing Of City's New Fire Truck
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
Bids to finance the Pierce aerial fire truck for the Warsaw Fire Department and three dump trucks for the street department were opened Friday by the Warsaw Board of Works.
Purchase of the $756,832 vehicle from Midwest Fire and Safety Equipment Co. was approved in August.
Public Finance was awarded the fire truck financing with five-year interest rates of 3.14 percent, seven-year interest rates at 3.99 percent and 10-year rates at 4.14 percent to finance $283,000. Other companies submitting rate fees were Mutual Federal Savings Bank, Cal First, Republic First National and Lake City Bank.
The bid award to finance the dump trucks was tabled.
Human resources manager Jennifer Whitaker presented a schedule to hire a new police officer to replace police officers Larry Engle, who has indicated he will retire from the department this month or in May, and Doug Brumfield, who plans to retire in November.
Whitaker said advertising for applicants will begin, with a cutoff date of May 31. An individual will be selected in August and sent to the academy and should begin as a patrol officer in October.
The board also:
• Approved a contract for $25,000 for the facade improvement matching grant program with the Warsaw Community Development Corp. WCDC Executive Director Carmen Lock said five businesses have applied for the available 2005 funds. The WCDC oversees application and improvement plans for the grant program.
• Approved a contract with Churchill Landscape for work around the Oakwood Cemetery office building, as requested by sexton David Shaw. Costs for a retaining wall were given as $3,200. The work is expected to be completed by May 30.
• Approved travel requests for Greg Oberlin, Steve Adang, Jaime delaFuente, Bryan Sherwin, Scott Whitaker, Brad Kellar and Mike Cox of the police department; Jennifer Whitaker of human resources; and Matt Warren, Shirley Fetrow and Dan Fifer of the fire department.
• Approved a roster of part-time summer maintenance employees: Austin Arnett, Becky Bailey, Jerry Buchtel, Morgan Holderman, Trenton Martin, Brooks Reed, Michael Thallemer, Hanna LeMasters, Jordan O'Neill and David Walenga.
• Hired as lifeguards for the parks department are: Terry Aukeman, Claire Beckett, Chelsea Boyd, Melissa Dick, Meghan Faas, Jenna Gross, Rebecca Noggle and Thaddeus Wallin.
Mark Johnson also joins the parks department as a laborer; Ira Werker as Pike Lake Campground manager and Pamela Harrell for Mantis Skate Park.
Board of works members are: Mayor Ernie Wiggins, Jerry Patterson and Charlie Smith. Smith was absent. [[In-content Ad]]
Bids to finance the Pierce aerial fire truck for the Warsaw Fire Department and three dump trucks for the street department were opened Friday by the Warsaw Board of Works.
Purchase of the $756,832 vehicle from Midwest Fire and Safety Equipment Co. was approved in August.
Public Finance was awarded the fire truck financing with five-year interest rates of 3.14 percent, seven-year interest rates at 3.99 percent and 10-year rates at 4.14 percent to finance $283,000. Other companies submitting rate fees were Mutual Federal Savings Bank, Cal First, Republic First National and Lake City Bank.
The bid award to finance the dump trucks was tabled.
Human resources manager Jennifer Whitaker presented a schedule to hire a new police officer to replace police officers Larry Engle, who has indicated he will retire from the department this month or in May, and Doug Brumfield, who plans to retire in November.
Whitaker said advertising for applicants will begin, with a cutoff date of May 31. An individual will be selected in August and sent to the academy and should begin as a patrol officer in October.
The board also:
• Approved a contract for $25,000 for the facade improvement matching grant program with the Warsaw Community Development Corp. WCDC Executive Director Carmen Lock said five businesses have applied for the available 2005 funds. The WCDC oversees application and improvement plans for the grant program.
• Approved a contract with Churchill Landscape for work around the Oakwood Cemetery office building, as requested by sexton David Shaw. Costs for a retaining wall were given as $3,200. The work is expected to be completed by May 30.
• Approved travel requests for Greg Oberlin, Steve Adang, Jaime delaFuente, Bryan Sherwin, Scott Whitaker, Brad Kellar and Mike Cox of the police department; Jennifer Whitaker of human resources; and Matt Warren, Shirley Fetrow and Dan Fifer of the fire department.
• Approved a roster of part-time summer maintenance employees: Austin Arnett, Becky Bailey, Jerry Buchtel, Morgan Holderman, Trenton Martin, Brooks Reed, Michael Thallemer, Hanna LeMasters, Jordan O'Neill and David Walenga.
• Hired as lifeguards for the parks department are: Terry Aukeman, Claire Beckett, Chelsea Boyd, Melissa Dick, Meghan Faas, Jenna Gross, Rebecca Noggle and Thaddeus Wallin.
Mark Johnson also joins the parks department as a laborer; Ira Werker as Pike Lake Campground manager and Pamela Harrell for Mantis Skate Park.
Board of works members are: Mayor Ernie Wiggins, Jerry Patterson and Charlie Smith. Smith was absent. [[In-content Ad]]