Selectmen Approve Funds to Purchase Four Trucks

The Board of Selectmen voted Wednesday to purchase four trucks for the Parks and Recreation Department and costing a total of $192,602.

The purchase must still be approved by the Board of Finance, which will also decide how to pay for it.

All the trucks are Fords equipped to carry snow plows, and will be purchased through the state bid.

Highway Department Crew Chief Don Foyer and Public Works Director Steve Savarese presented the request for an F250 and an F350 for Parks and Rec, and an F350 and an F450 for the Highway Department.

The F350 for the Highway Department will be almost $20,000 more costly than the other one because it will be built to carry a sander.

Foyer said the departments were only going to ask for three new trucks this year, until a 30-year-old Highway Department truck broke down.

First Selectman James Zeoli said that truck isn’t worth repairing.

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The selectmen also authorized spending $8,600 for engineering services for a project to replace two boilers and do asbestos abatement at . This also must be approved by the Board of Finance.

Zeoli said the funds would come out of $50,000 set aside in the budget, but would eventually be reimbursed to the town budget when the bond sale is done for the project.

The project is expected to cost between $250,000 and $300,000. A public hearing for the bond sale will probably be conducted this fall.