Good evening, everyone.

Let the record indicate that it is 5 03 p.m.

and the finance committee is called to order.

I am going to ask my colleagues on the committee if there's any objections to holding the minutes that we have in front of us.

I, for one, would like to have more time to do my due diligence to go through all these.

So I would um make a motion to hold the minutes until the meet next meeting in August.

Second.

We have a motion, we have a second.

Any does the entity reach individual?

So this would be inclusive of all of the minutes that we have.

Um we have a motion, we have a second.

Any further discussion?

Hearing none, all in favor.

Aye.

Thank you.

Um Mr.

Chairman.

Sir yes, if there's uh one clarification on the finance agenda too.

If that if there is no objection uh to cleaning up a date reference at the bottom of the page, uh that there's a reference to January 5th, 2026.

It should be July 6th of 2026.

There's no which one is that this was on the other agenda on the okay it should be June.

Uh so if there's no objection from the committee, um you can approve by unanimous consent the correction of that uh date reference.

Okay, uh so the we the um the the request is on PCR 75-26.

It says refer to separate docket consent calendar bids for January 5th, 2026.

It should actually be June 5th, 2026.

Uh any objections to the correction?

None.

Hearing none, we will move on.

Okay, let's do this.

Okay.

Okay, first item bid number one, 2027 zero seven four, found on page one, purchase various police vehicles.

Major hot.

Uh good evening, councilman Robert Hart for the uh police department.

The police department is requesting to use a fifty-six sit 10 MPA to purchase various Ford and Chevrolet police vehicles.

These vehicles will be purchased from three vendors, McGovern MHQ of Marlborough Mass, Colonial Motor Group of Plymouth Mass, and ITS of Warren, Rhode Island.

All pricing is under the Greater Boston Police Consortium Master Price Agreement and Cooperative Bid.

These vehicles will be assigned to various portions of the fleet, including supervisors, admin patrol, traffic and investigations.

The total pricing for 16 vehicles is 1 million 72, 838 dollars and fifty-two cents and this includes upfitting and equipment installation.

If approved, they'll be funded through the city lease purchase funds, budget code four nine nine zero four four nine.

And this is part of the fiscal year twenty-seven police capital budget, which includes one point one million dollars for vehicles.

Thank you, Major, and thank you for addressing the questions that I had asked regarding this bid.

Um so one of the questions I asked you was how many vehicles have been bought since 2022.

And in 2022, we had a total excuse me.

If you could take your conversations out outside, please.

Thank you.

In 2022, the city purchased 14, 2023 it was 16, 2024 was 15, 2025, 18, 2026, 18, and proposed for 2027 is 17 for a total of 98 vehicles in five years.

Is that correct?

Yes, sir.

Okay.

On these vehicles that you're proposing to purchase, what else is going to be required in terms of cost or expenses?

And Major, I'm asking this because it seems as though, particularly in the past year, the city council is being presented with things to approve and dollars appropriated.

And then a short time later, we have more additions and other extras and more change orders.

And matter of fact, we have some of that this evening.

So one of the things that I'm going to be asking going forward is what other items in this case, these vehicles are going to be required, such as lettering, tinting windows, or anything else for that matter.

So these vehicles come from the from the upfitter fully equipped, ready to go.

The only thing we have to install is we will reuse different radios that we have.

We'll install our tablets in there, our mounting brackets.

If we did need another mounting bracket or a tablet, we already have bids in place for that for all those items.

So these come ready to go.

Pretty much turnkey.