1. Declare the current fire engine/water tender truck surplus property and authorize its sale to the City of Ham Lake, MN for $410,000.

2. Declare the current fire brush truck 2 surplus property, authorize its sale, and authorize the use of Brindlee Mountain to advertise and sell it.

3. Approve the purchase of a new water tender truck from Custom Fire through Sourcewell for $618,168.54.

The fire department currently operates a very large combination fire engine/water tanker truck which is a 2009 Rosenbauer custom chassis truck with an estimated replacement cost of $1.1 million dollars. The truck was purchased for $545,374 in 2009. The City of Ham Lake has agreed to purchase the water tanker truck for $410,000. The department also operates two brush fire trucks, one of which was only used 5 times in 2023, has just over 800 miles on it, and a replacement cost of $150,000.

The fire department is proposing declaring the fire engine/water tanker truck and one brush truck surplus property, authorizing their sale, and replacing both trucks with one smaller, streamlined water tanker on a smaller commercial chassis for the purchase amount of $618,168.54.

The purchase of the new water tanker truck would be completed through Minnesota based Sourcewell purchasing consortium. The new truck would be constructed by Custom Fire Apparatus of Osceola Wisconsin and delivered to Shakopee in approximately 365 days after the order has been placed.

The new truck would be purchased with anticipated proceeds from the sale of the two existing fire trucks and the planned 2025 fire capital improvement budget of $125,000.