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After two split votes and more than an hour of discussion, the Board of Public Works decided to forward a proposed lease for a street sweeper to the Beatrice City Council.
While street supervisor Ron Baete told the board that he would accept any decision made, he believed the city had a need for the new sweeper.
“I believe in keeping the city clean,” he said. “And we can’t keep it clean with one sweeper.
City engineer Rex Behrends agreed with Baete, pointing out that cutting the city down to one sweeper could lead to problems in the city’s storm water sewer system by adding more solids such as grass clippings, leaves, and gravel to an already aging system.
Baete said one sweeper would only allow street cleaning about once a month. Under the current schedule, the streets are cleaned twice a month.
BPW General Manager Neal Niedfeldt told the board the idea of putting off equipment purchases concerned him.
“If we keep letting our equipment slide, we will wake up one day and find a whole bunch of equipment ready to be replaced.”
Earlier this month the board opened two bids for a street sweeper.
The purchase bid for a street sweeper from Nebraska Environmental Equipment was $229,150.
The bid for leasing the vehicle was $50,237 a year for three years, and $96,000 for the fourth year, at which time the city would own the vehicle.
The total cost of the lease program would be $246,711. The purchase price in a bid for a Johnson street sweeper from Rose Equipment was $184,460.
The lease/buy program through Rose was $48,729 per year for four years, for a total of $194,916.
The board split on a motion by Ron Fleecs to lease the Johnson street sweeper.
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