Council has authorized spending $73,400 on rotary mobile hydraulic lift equipment for the township’s new municipal maintenance facility.
On Jan. 10 council approved the purchase from from Canadian Automotive Service Equipment, which submitted the lowest of three price quotations.
CAO Brad McRoberts told council the lift equipment would be able to handle all the township’s equipment, including graders and tandem trucks, and would be safer than using a pit to get under vehicles to work on them.
“There’s no health and safety issues like with a pit,” he stated.
Mayor Neil Driscoll asked if the funds for the equipment should be coming out of the regular capital or operations budget, rather than the budget for the new maintenance facility, “showing our new building as being more expensive.”
McRoberts replied the cost of the system was budgeted in 2015 as part of the budget for the recently-completed facility.
“We’re sitting well below our budget amount, probably in the $100,000 range,” on the facility, McRoberts stated.
