To date, the City has spent approximately $300,000 with Siddons-Martin for normal routine equipment, maintenance, repairs, and vehicle purchase for Fire and EMS vehicles and apparatus.
Within the 2018 / 2019 fiscal budget year, Schertz Fire Department was approved to purchase one (1) Platform Apparatus, in the amount of $1,2000,000 approved in Resolution 19-R-103. This Platform is in the construction process and expected to arrive in August 2020. Resolution 19-R-103 was approved by Council on August 27, 2019 which anticipated a trade in amount on the retiring Platform. Because this apparatus was struck on an incident, the City will have to pay Siddons-Martin up to $85,000, which is the amount of the trade-in value and the value of some of the replacement equipment cost we were unable to move from the old apparatus to the new apparatus. This amount will be recovered by the insurance claim from the incident, but it will count against our authorized spending limit.
In addition to the trade in value, we will need to provide a rental payment to Siddons-Martin for the rental firetruck the City is using because of the incident, in the loss of use of our previous apparatus. Although the insurance claim is reimbursing the expense, the rental payment could be up to $60,000 and applied to our spending limitation with Siddons Martin.
On December 3, 2019, Council approved Resolution 19-R-156 with a not to exceed amount of $315,000.00 for EMS to purchase (1) ambulance and associated equipment with Siddons Martin.
For the remainder of the Fiscal Year, Fleet, EMS and the Fire Department anticipates up to $65,000 in additional equipment, maintenance, and repairs needed for our Public Safety vehicles.
In summation, staff is proposing a not to exceed amount with Siddons-Martin in the amount of $525,000 ($315,000 + $85,000 + $60,000 + 65,000).
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