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Budget equipment. November 24, 2010 At the last Council meeting, staff was directed to do some research on cost and timelines to replace the Massey Ferguson tractor. After doing some research, Pau1 has suggested a different plan that would cost less and provide greater benefit. One of the uses of the tractor was dragging the fields at LaMotte Park. That task will go away next year. The other major task at LaMotte Park is maintaining skating rinks. The tractor has a mower attachment which goes away when the tractor is retired, but this is easily resolved as the majority of our mowing is already contracted out. A second issue that plays into the discussion is that the Fire Department built a garage several years ' ago at the city garage site at 20�' Avenue by the water tower. The city will eventually sell the property, but we would like to be able to retain the building. Fire and Public works have developed a plan to move the building to the west edge of LaMotte Park. The Fire Department would continue to use half of the building, but Public Works would use the other half for park maintenance storage. The stormwater irrigation system just authorized, requires a new electrical service. It was proposed to put this in the warming house, but it could be installed in the relocated maintenance building, saving the cost of another electric service there. If we have storage at the pazk, we could use a sldd loader to maintain the skating rinks, as we have a blower and broom attachment for the e�sting skid loader. It would be very time consuming and inefficient to move the skid loader every day from the Public Works Building to LaMotte Park, but this problem goes away if we have a building there. ', We know that the Massey Ferguson tractor could fail at any time, which will necessitate replacing it with something, likely a skid loader since that would be cheaper than the tractor. So the plan goes like this: We move the Fire Deparkment garage to LaMotte Park......Cost about... $20,000 The City retains the Bobcat skid loader that was to be traded in (allowance) $14,700 If the Little League wishes to have storage for a mower for the infield maintenance, the council could give tiiem use of the small utility garage on the back of the warming house. To make this all work, we need to authorize the plan soon. The new skid loader will be delivered to the dealer next week so the decision not to trade the old unit must happen before we pick up the unit. And we should move the building before the contractor on the Stormwater Irrigation pumping system is ready to place the electrical panel. Staff believes this suggestion gives the most cost-effective outcome. We would fund this in 2010 which will erode fund balance by the amounts indicated, but it could a11ow the 2011 budget to be amended downward to a zero levy increase. Dallas Larson, Administrator