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ARDEN HILLS SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION — AUGUST 25, 2025 16 pieces of equipment. At that point, we are spending retail. We don't have the state contract pricing. The 2019 model we looked at was $225,000 with no attachments. What is included in the budget is a brand new model with all the attachments we need for $275,000. So using equipment until it dies is putting us in a position where we have a huge gap. Mayor Grant was asking about the Redi-Haul Trailer. Public Works Director/City Engineer Swearingen said it's a similar thing. We trade in our trailers while they are still salable on an auction and they go for a good price. Mayor Grant said the City is only three miles north to south. How many miles can we put on a trailer? Public Works Director/City Engineer Swearingen the reasons are in the justifications. There isn't time to go through all eighty-five pieces of equipment tonight. We can go into it more in depth in March of next year. Mayor Grant said the most you have to do on a trailer is grease the bearings and maybe it needs a little welding once in a while. Councilmember Rousseau said we talked about adding equipment in the budget in the future. Which fund would we end up having discussions about the Park Master Plan and putting something aside to try to make the goals. Will that go into this years plan so it can slowly build up or will we look at it next year. Finance Director Yang said we can discuss it, this time around. It would be in the PIR Fund. Councilmember Holden said just because it's in the budget doesn't mean that we have to vote for it, when it comes forward. She said we had asked for some money to be budgeted for the 75t' Anniversary. Is that in here? City Administrator Jagoe said there hasn't been any money budgeted for that. The only allocation has been the use of the Twin City Gateway Visitor Bureau money. The update on those funds will be at the September work session. Mayor Grant asked if it is worth keeping Truck 431 as a backup. Would there be any residual on that? Or are parts so hard to get on a 2009 Sterling that we just don't want anything to do with it? Public Works Director/City Engineer Swearingen said Truck 431 has already been approved and ordered for replacement. Councilmember Holden said that wasn't the question. Public Works Director/City Engineer Swearingen said he doesn't know that level of detail. That is why he had Public Works Superintendent Frid at the last meeting. He doesn't have that information. Finance Director Yang said the next few slides will be discussion on scenarios, she referred Council to Attachment B, page 1-7 in the packet.