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TO: Mayor Richard C. Irvin
FROM: Joseph Hopp, Superintendent of Maintenance Services
DATE: June 29, 2018
SUBJECT:
A request to approve the purchase of two Bobcat Toolcats from Atlas Bobcat as a sole source in the amount of $125,212.00.
PURPOSE:
To assure that RT 59 Transit Center and Central Services have dependable and efficient equipment for their respective maintenance duties.
BACKGROUND:
Currently Aurora has four Bobcat Toolcats that are assigned to three different divisions under the Maintenance Services umbrella. These Toolcats are the most versatile four wheeled utility machines that do not require special training to operate as a utility vehicle. During the winter months these are the number one machine used to remove snow either with the brush assembly, snow thrower, or plow attachment and these machines spread de-icers with the salt hopper that is mounted into the dump body. In the spring these machines are used for transporting mulch, dirt or supplies in the dump body for spring planting activities. During the summer and fall the Toolcats are fitted with watering tanks for the watering of hanging baskets, sidewalk pots and any other garden. In addition, to these maintenance duties, these machines can be used as fork lifts, bucket loaders and numerous other functions depending on the type of attachments. Street Maintenance borrows these as well to drop mosquito pellets into street storm drains.
The versatility of these machines also makes it a great fit for Central Services duties at the Police Headquarters. If approved, for Central Services, there will be savings at many levels. There will be an immediate savings of $13,000 since no front mounted snow removal attachments will be needed because there are spare attachments for the four Toolcats used in Maintenance Services' Divisions (see "toolcat front attachments"). Other savings will be the reductions in contractor snow removal services for sidewalk, walkways and ramps for the Po...
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