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Community Development Services, Department of Transportation, recommending the Board:
1) Approve and authorize the Chair to sign a budget transfer adjusting the budget for Fiscal Year 2017/18, in the amount of $61,000, to allow for the purchase of an equipment trailer for the Department of Transportation and for the retention of a street sweeper used in the South Lake Tahoe Basin; and
2) Approve the addition of an equipment trailer to the Department of Transportation fixed asset list (4/5 vote required to approve the budget transfer).
FUNDING: Transportation budget - no net increase.
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DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDATION
Community Development Services, Department of Transportation (Transportation), recommending the Board approve and authorize the Chair to sign a budget transfer adjusting the budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2017/18, in the amount of $61,000, to allow for the purchase of an equipment trailer for the Transportation Shop and to allow for the retention of a street sweeper used by Transportation in the South Lake Tahoe Basin.
DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
Community Development Services Budget Transfers
Community Development Services (CDS) Department of Transportation
Budgeted appropriations for Shop Operations need to be increased as follows: Increase Fixed Assets: Equipment by $11,000, offset by a decrease in Fuel Purchases in the amount of $11,000. Transportation requests to purchase an additional medium-size Equipment Trailer for two reasons. First, to provide the ability to haul an existing Skid Steer Loader with its two (2) operational attachments of a Bucket and a Cold Planer Pavement Grinder on a single trailer; and secondly, is needed due to the increased use of rental equipment that are not provided with trailers for movement in the County for multiple project locations which over-extends the use of our current inventory of trailers.
Budgeted appropriations for Transportation General Department need to be increased as follows: Increase Specia...
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