Fiscal Note
Up to 80% of the total project cost is funded by USDOT/FTA. The local share is/will be budgeted in the 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011, and 2012 capital budgets. Future year expenditures will require Council approval. The 2008 Metro Transit Adopted Capital Budget provides a total of $6,443,800 ($1,288,760 of which is General Obligation debt) for the purchase of 22 buses, or a shortfall of $477,200 ($95,440 of GO debt) as compared to the bid of $6,921,000. Approval of this resolution will amend the Metro Transit 2008 Capital budget by transferring $477,200 of budget authority ($95,440 of General Obligation debt borrowing) authority from other Metro Transit projects ($350,000 from Project 3: “Bus Wash/Vacuum System" and $127,200 from Project 4: “Transit System Upgrades”) to Project 1: "Transit Coaches." No additional appropriation is required, nor is any impact upon cost controls anticipated.
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SUBSTITUTE - Authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to enter into a five-year contract with the Gillig Corporation for the manufacture and delivery of up to seventy-five (75) coaches and spare parts. The estimated cost of the first order of buses is $6,921,000, and amending the 2008 Metro Transit Capital budget to transfer $477,200 from Transit System Upgrades and the Bus Vacuum System to support the purchase of the Transit coaches.
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PREAMBLE
The transit utility developed a Request for Proposal for the purchase of seventy five (75) 40-foot low floor transit buses, diesel with diesel-electric hybrid options. The transit utility normally replaces fifteen (15) buses annually. In this contract, Metro plans to replace twenty-two buses in the first year, eleven in the second year, twelve in the third year, and fifteen in each of the last two years. The replacement cycle is accelerated in the first year to enable us to retire the last of 1992 high floor Orion coaches that require #1 diesel fuel. All buses purchased after 1992 meet the EPA certifications...
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