All right, good afternoon, everybody.

It's four o'clock.

I'm gonna call today's Finance Administration Council Committee meeting to order.

Um please record your attendance by pushing the appropriate button.

We do have a quorum today.

Um next up is approval of minutes from the committee meeting on Tuesday, January 13th, 2026.

Move to approve unless there's noted change.

Second.

Motion second to approve any comments on the minutes as presented.

If not, please record your vote on whether or not to approve the minutes.

All right, we'll move into new business.

Um, this first item, the title is um is different.

Um so it should have read a resolution to accept the bid authorizing the purchase of three buses for the transit department jet, or as the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas through its Jonesboro Economical Transit Operations has an ongoing need to maintain and improve safe, reliable, and ADA compliant transportation services for the public, and whereas staff performed extensive research to locate vehicles to replace current vehicles that need to replace in our current fleet, and whereas the city has identified the need to purchase three low floor buses to support transit and mobility services, and whereas a quote has been received from ARBOC specialty vehicles LLC for three RBOC type K low floor cutaway vehicles, and whereas a quoted vehicle is still is available for purchase through the state of Oklahoma contract number SW0797C FY 2026, which qualifies as a cooperative slash state bid procurement method permitted under under applicable purchasing laws and policies for 211,000 dollars 211,074 each or 633,222 total, and whereas the whereas sufficient sufficient funds have been identified and are available for this purchase in the appropriate budget or grant accounts now, therefore be resolved by City Council of City of Jones for Arkansas.

That's number one, the City of Jones World hereby approves the purchase of three RBOC type K low floor cutaway vehicles from RBOC specialty vehicles LLC, utilizing the reciprocal bid for the state of Oklahoma contract number SW0797C FY 2026 in accordance with the submitted quote dated January 21st, 2026.

Number two, Mayor Harold Copenhaver and City Clerk April Leggett are hereby authorized by the city council for the city of Jones for execute all documents necessary to effectuate the purchase this purchase.

Moving forward to full council.

Second.

Motion second forward full council.

Any questions or comments regarding this item?

Uh if to uh to prove that with that accepted, we need to go back and uh change that up.

Okay.

Title.

Can you tell me what the title needs to be?

Yeah, it should just the title should read a resolution to accept the bid authorizing the purchase of three buses for the transit department.

So take out the waiving.

Okay.

I make a motion that we uh exchange that with with the uh uh update of the what that term needs to be in that motion.

Second.

Second.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

All right.

Anything else, Dr.

Coleman?

That's it.

Um Mr.

McLean.

Uh yeah, I do have a couple questions.

Um are we replacing current vehicles or is this in addition to what we currently have?

It's actually a little bit of both.

So we do still have some of our older fleet vehicles that we have in service.

Um I don't know the specifics right off the top of my head, but I believe it's two of them will be replacing two of the ones that we have.

Uh, but then also there will be one that will be in addition to what that's helping us do is to get to our surplus amount.

So the FTA does require for the number of routes that you have, the number of vehicles that you have in service that you have 20% in a reserve, so that way if one of them were to be offline, you would be able to have that backup vehicle and not lose service during that time.

Is this are the so these are the ADA vans?

They're not vans, they are actually buses.

This is a slight departure from the buses that you've seen previously.

This uh RBOC uh company that makes their low floor.

Um they are actually a front load, uh similar to what you'd see in a traditional transit bus at one of the other cities.

There's only one entranceway.

That same entranceway is both for the walking public and for any of those that are ADA.

Um, your uh securement locations are right there by the driver.

Um, what this is gonna allow is it's gonna allow the drivers to not have to get out of the vehicle into traffic, walk around the vehicle, operate the lift, and be able to load those customers whenever we have them.

They can actually step from their seat directly into where the customers are, assist those customers as they are loading, and then be able to secure them right there by where the driver's seat area is uh and still have all of the same amount of room that a standard cutaway bus that we utilize does.

So it's just a a better format for what we're been using.

So you said how much will we get for a trade-in?

Does it because I know we're gonna spend 633, but do we have a number on that?

The standard process with the FDA is it's not like a trade-in like what some of the other departments do where they'll trade in an old vehicle.

Um, once a vehicle has met its useful life, which is so many years and or so many miles, which the ones that we're looking at replacing are all way over their exceeded life.