So let's go ahead and get started.

So good evening, everyone.

Today is May 21st.

It's 6 32 p.m.

This is the operations parks and rec committee meeting.

I'm Dan Sanford.

I'll be chairing the meeting tonight.

And in attendance on the committee side, we have myself, Representative Finkel, Representative Zachary, Representative Didalo, Vice Chair, Politia, and Representative Gardner.

I do not see anybody else either on the committee or outside the committee, unless I'm missing someone.

Oh, and Representative Beckham has now joined us.

So and on the city side, we have Dennis LaDolce who will be briefing us on I believe item number one.

So what we have right now is two items, an approval uh and a review item.

So what we'll do is the first item is OPR 3201, an approval for a request to modify agreement uh 2026.018 for a city waiver with Gabrielli uh truck sales of Milford for Mac OEM parts and service under section 23- uh 18.3b um 1A, and that was uh approved by the Board of Finance 500.

What I'll do is we'll go ahead and at this time I'll take up a motion to approve item one opr 32.011.

So moved.

And do I have a second?

Okay.

There is a motion and a second to approve uh item number one.

At this time I'll open it up to discussion and I'll turn it over to our guest, Mr.

LaDolce.

Am I saying that right, sir?

I think you're on mute, Dennis.

There you go.

Hello.

Oh, there he is.

Hey Dennis, I I I don't know if you could hear me or not.

I went ahead and opened up the floor.

So the floor is yours if you want to explain uh the approval that you're asking us to do for the for the agreement.

Yeah, um I'm uh uh can you guys hear me okay?

We can.

Okay, perfect.

Uh yeah, thank you so much to the committee and and having us uh speak and all you being here tonight.

So we are proposing to amend uh the contract with Gabrielli, who is the sole source provider to Mac truck parts.

Uh we are requesting to change the contract amount from I believe it was 99,999 to 185,000 as a way to cover uh all outstanding invoices from this fiscal year.

So moving into the next fiscal year, we're coming on a clean slate and uh will help us be proactive in our efforts of trying to be more fiscally I guess responsible um when it comes to uh Mac truck parts.

We're going to try to uh phase out using Mac trucks as a way to uh diversify the vendors that we use so we don't run into this problem again.

I appreciate it.

I think it's understood what you're asking for.

I'll open it up to the floor for any questions, and then I just have one or two myself that are fairly easy.

Is there anybody on the floor that has any questions for our guests?

I'll just make it really quick if that's okay, Dan.

Uh go ahead, Representative Dillow.

Um, what are you guys thinking about transitioning to for uh services?

You know, because I know Mac, you know, Mac engines at least are made to, you know, you could try and kill them.

You know, never kill them.

What are you guys looking to transition towards um for the fleet that you're moving in that direction?

I believe it would be uh international uh trucks.

Now, Jason, uh, the department, the new department manager is here.

I think he could speak better to that.

Cool.

Good evening, everybody.

Um, so the way that we're getting by this, since Mac has made quite a monopoly out of uh out of their services.

We have moved to we're we're kind of trying to phase out international as well.

Um I've been looking at some numbers in the past few years, and they are very high.

So we've moved to uh ordering freight liners, which the state's been making, uh, you know, making the same move.

We're also uh diversifying the the actual truck itself.

We're uh putting Cummins engines in.

We're using Allison transmissions, we're using Eaton rear ends, and we're using uh all very high name brand, very generic um drivetrain components.

Plus, we're going with a hile body, uh, which is the uh all season body, and that way uh we won't run into the problems we have been running into.

So with our our dump bodies, 75% of our fleet of 60 uh 60 large heavy-duty plow trucks have our um equipped with bodies and the company's gone out of business, and we have no way of sourcing parts.