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51 . Regular Council Meeting .. 2/21/94 Page Seventeen side walks clean and got our roads edged off. He finds that particular type of equipment might service us better than a skid-steer machine, which he is afraid of. They are very jerky and similar to a tank. The Bombardier he wants to buy has the same set-up on it. His main thought is that they need a little bit more time to think about just exactly what we are going to buy. The manufacturers are coming out with CD blowers now that are going to fit on the front of trucks. We have no place to put the M snow. Since our code says the snow must stay on the ground on which it fell, so we CO might as well blow it onto the front yard of the residents. That might be what he is Q looking for. He thought right now, to get us by for the balance of this year and next z year, this piece of equipment for $2,900 along with what we have should see us through. ? At that time, you may be spending a lot more money than $16-18-20,000 for a skid-steer machine. Mr. Fixler said he looks at this from a different prospective. This is a very unusual winter that we have experienced. You can almost equate it to a 100-year storm. He : does not want to get into a situate where they are blowing the snow onto the residents property and doing damage to their homes. Was the piece of the equipment you had discussed back in the fall more versatile that the piece of equipment you are using now; the price was acceptable. He has a hard time spending $2,900 or $4,000 for the old piece of equipment. He questioned the year. Mr. Amendola said he has the actual picture of the machine that was published in the paper; it is a 1977 not a 1967. Mr. Fixler said they have just spent over $3,000 repairing their current snow Bombardier. Mr. Fixler said he is sure Mr. Amendola will feel right now that that piece of equipment is in good condition, but he would hate to get in a position where they are going to spend another $3,000 or $4,000 repairing this one, and all of a sudden you put the ttivo together and we could have purchased a$16,000 piece of equipment that you were referring to last fall that seemed it would be very adequate for a typical winter (perhaps not the one we just had), but the point is we spent all this money on these snow Bombardiers and we will continue to spend money on them. He would, frankly, just rather buy the piece of equipment for $16,000 less the trade-in, and go from there. He has a problem spending this money. Mrs. Cinco said this was discussed in Finance and it came out that possibly with this purchase of $2,900 a couple of points: we didn't buy this piece equipment in the fall; that is over and done with. It wasn't purchased. We are dealing with the equipment we now have available to us or what we have in our Service Department. He knows Mr. Busa brought up the point that by spending this $2,900 this could keep us going for this