The Brunswick Town Council convened on Monday, December 22, 2025, just before 7:00 PM for a Capital Improvement Program (CIP) Workshop. All councilors were present except Councillor Watson. The meeting was properly noticed. The workshop featured presentations from the Fire Department, School Department, and Parks and Recreation Department on their priority capital projects for the coming years. No formal votes were taken; the session was informational and deliberative.
Yeah, why don't you um can you close the door, Steve? I've been happy with closing your um welcome to the town of Brunswick Town Council Capital Improvement Improvement Program Workshop. It is Monday, December 22nd, and it is not 6 30, but a little before 7. Um, all councils are present except for Councillor Watson and up to graph. We do have a quorum. Has this meeting been properly noticed, Ms. Manager? Yes, it has. Good. Okay. Um it doesn't look like we have a lot of people in the public, but if we do have anybody on Zoom or some anybody shows up, I would like to do the public comment where a department presents, and then if there's uh questions from us, and then if there's any public comment, it'll be for that department. Then we'll repeat that through the three departments. Does that work for everybody to do it that way? Makes more sense than just having it at the beginning of the of the meeting. So um any adjustments to the agenda. Okay. Um, yes, um, counselor Williams. I'll just note that the right date is on the top. Yes, the right date is online like that, and whoever gave me the wrong date, I will talk to them later. Um I will um turn this over to Chief Brilliant and the fire department, please. Good evening, and thank you. Uh wait for the slides to get up here and checking the mics. Uh good evening, I'm counselors. I'm here tonight to just appraise you of a project of replacing one of our fire engines. Um you can go to the next slide. So let me set the stage for you just a little bit. Back in uh 2009, the town purchased two fire engines, uh twins, uh 435,000 dollars each. Both of those trucks, um high use, high mileage, as you can see, um 91,000 in change for each of those trucks. The hours are also fairly close. Um I'd point out that we can't always go by miles. A lot of times you hear people say, Oh, but only has so many miles. The engine hours are kind of important, and this is actually on the low end, but at idle, if that truck just sat there for 7,000 hours just idling, that's averaging between 30 and 33 miles per hour. So engine three would have 210,000 miles on it at an idle for 7,000 hours. Those trucks don't sit at an idle normally. Um more often than not, they're at a higher idle. There, if they're pumping out a fire for six, seven, eight hours. That's not at idle. That is a higher um rate. So those miles per hour uh would be much higher for total miles. So that just shows a lot of wear and tear on the engines themselves. Um those trucks are out there being used daily and have been since 2009. A quick comparison is engine two was purchased purchased in 2018 for $630,000. So obviously there's an increase in nine years, but currently that truck as of this morning had 72,592 miles on it, and almost six thousand hours. And I can tell you that the numbers already gone up today because they've been out most of the day running calls. So both trucks are aging, and that's it. I'm talking about engines one and three, because they are twins. Um we're starting to have increased maintenance issues. Uh obviously, some of that's age and use issues. That's just wear and tear. That's not much you can do about it.