DUNCAN – The City of Duncan is buying for the electric department a bucket truck with aerial service, which carries a price tag of $346,174.
The Duncan City Council voted 4-0 Sept. 24 to approve the purchase from the Alabama-based company Altec on the city’s contract with Sourcewell, a group purchasing cooperative that cities use. Mayor Robert Armstrong was absent.
The bucket truck will replace an existing vehicle in the city’s fleet, according to a Sept. 24 memo from City Manager Chris Deal. The truck’s aerial device will have an insulated boom with a working height of 100 feet and a four-corner stability system.
“The bucket truck is an AH100 demonstrator from Altec’s fleet on a 2018 model year Freightliner cab and chassis with 11,900 miles, 867 engine hours,” Deal wrote. “There is $350,000 in the 2024 budget for this unit.”
He said a new bucket truck of the same design would cost $609,330 on the Sourcewell contract, and delivery would be in about one year. The truck that city officials recommended will be delivered in about a month after Altec receives the order.
In other business: Acting as the Duncan Public Utilities Authority, the council awarded two items in a tree-trimming bid to the Duncan-based company Tamez Tree Service. The company will remove trees in Duncan Power’s electrical transmission and distribution system for $97,000.
The city sent an invitation to bid to six approved bidders in August, but Tamez was the only company to submit a bid, Deal said in a Sept. 24 memo. The company submitted bids for tree trimming for two items in the bid package.
City officials will seek new bids for the remaining four items, Deal said in the memo. He added that officials had earmarked $275,000 for tree trimming in the budget for fiscal year 2024.