TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
David N. Carmany, City Manager
FROM:
Richard Gill, Parks & Recreation Director
Bruce Moe, Finance Director
Eve Kelso, Recreation Services Manager
Gwen Eng, General Services Manager
SUBJECT:Title
Purchase of One Replacement Dial-A-Ride Paratransit Vehicle from Hoglund Bus Company in the Amount of $69,240; Transfer of $75,000 from Unreserved Measure R Fund Balance to Proposition A Fund; Appropriate $75,000 from Proposition A Fund.
APPROVE; TRANSFER; APPROPRIATE
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Recommended Action
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council:
a) Waive formal bidding per Municipal Code Section 2.36.150 (cooperative purchasing);
b) Authorize the City Manager to purchase one replacement Dial-A-Ride paratransit vehicle in the amount of $69,240 from Hoglund Bus Company;
c) Approve a transfer of $75,000 from Unreserved Measure R Fund balance to the Proposition A Fund;
d) Appropriate $75,000 from Proposition A in order to purchase and equip the vehicle.
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FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
Funds totaling $65,000 were budgeted in the fiscal year (FY) 2012-2013 Fleet Management Fund to purchase and equip this vehicle. However, this allocation more appropriately should come from the Proposition A Fund which is the source of funding for Dial-A-Ride operations. As a result, staff is recommending that the City Council appropriate the necessary funds ($75,000) from Proposition A. However, existing service level coupled with flat revenues have caused the Proposition A Fund to be in a deficit position with no fund balance upon which to draw for this needed purchase. In fact, the FY 2012-2013 budget already includes a fund transfer of $70,092 from the Measure R Fund to support Proposition A activities including Dial-A-Ride operations.
Measure R funding is the result of a countywide transportation sales tax measure approved by the voters in 2008. It can be ...
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