City of Madison - File #: 15438

• File #: 15438
• Version: 1
• Name: Amend Gillig Contrat - 14 Hybrids
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 7/15/2009
• In control: BOARD OF ESTIMATES (ended 4/2017)
• On agenda: 9/1/2009
• Final action: 9/1/2009
• Enactment date: 9/3/2009
• Enactment #: RES-09-00730
• Title: Authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to amend the contract with Gillig Corporation for the manufacture and delivery of up to seventy-five (75) coaches and spare parts. Metro Transit is exercising our option under the contract to purchase fourteen (14) diesel-electric hybrid buses in the 2010 production order, at a cost not to exceed $7,959,000. The cost will be covered by stimulus funding.
• Sponsors: Jed Sanborn, Brian L. Solomon

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
9/1/2009	1	COMMON COUNCIL	Adopt	Pass
8/11/2009	1	TRANSIT AND PARKING COMMISSION (ended 06/2018)	RECOMMEND TO COUNCIL TO ADOPT - REPORT OF OFFICER	Pass
7/27/2009	1	BOARD OF ESTIMATES (ended 4/2017)	Return to Lead with the Recommendation for Approval	Pass
7/21/2009	1	TRANSIT AND PARKING COMMISSION (ended 06/2018)	Refer
7/21/2009	1	COMMON COUNCIL	Refer	Pass
7/15/2009	1	MADISON METRO TRANSIT SYSTEM	Referred for Introduction

Fiscal Note
The estimated cost of $7,959,000 for 14 diesel-electric hybrid buses will be fully covered by American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 federal funds (stimulus funding) and is included in the Metro Transit 2010 Capital Budget request.
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Authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to amend the contract with Gillig Corporation for the manufacture and delivery of up to seventy-five (75) coaches and spare parts. Metro Transit is exercising our option under the contract to purchase fourteen (14) diesel-electric hybrid buses in the 2010 production order, at a cost not to exceed $7,959,000. The cost will be covered by stimulus funding.
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PREAMBLE

The City of Madison executed a five-year contract with Gillig Corporation on March 28, 2008 for the purchase of seventy-five (75) 40-foot low floor transit buses, diesel with diesel-electric hybrid options. This is the third production order under the contract. The contract calls for the purchase of twelve diesel buses in the third year. Metro is using American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) funding to upgrade to diesel-electric hybrids with Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) styling, and increase the number of buses in this production order from twelve to fourteen. The BRT option provides a distinctive look to the hybrids that distinguishes them from other buses in the fleet. The contract with Gillig Corporation needs to be amended to reflect these changes.

There is sufficient funding and the original plan was to use $9,000,000 of stimulus funding for the purchase of hybrid buses. However, a recent law signed by the President allows for of 10% of stimulus funding to be used for operating costs rather than only capital costs. The City of Madison has chosen to use up to $950,000 of the stimulus funding for Metro Transit's 2010 Operating Budget.

Whereas, City has awarded contract to Gillig Corporation for the manufacture of seventy-five (75) buses, the first twenty-two to be manufactured fo...