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BY PHIL ROCKROHR
Times Correspondent | Sunday, July 16, 2006 | (No comments posted.)
LANSING | Trustees are expected Tuesday to waive bids and buy a John Deere payloader for $116,750 next week.
Between a state grant of $90,000 and a trade-in of at least $20,000, the village hopes to cover all but a few dollars of the purchase.
Public Works Superintendent Tim Watkins said he steered prospective buyers of Lansing's old payloader to the John Deere dealer from whom the village will buy the new one.
Under a trade-in agreement, Lansing will receive a percentage of the used equipment's resale price through the dealer, Watkins said.
"The target price is $27,000," he said. "It all depends on other people actually coming up with the money and buying it. If it sells for that price, it will be a beautiful thing."
If no one buys Lansing's used payloader from the dealer immediately, the village will get at least $20,000 that will be applied towards the new machine, Watkins said.
The current payloader is 14 years old and needs to be replaced, he said. The payloader is used for many jobs, including removing snow, Watkins said.
Watkins prefers John Deere because Lansing's other payloader, acquired about two years ago, is a "sister machine," he said.
Lansing needs to waive bids on the item because John Deere will only sell it to the village through its South Holland dealer, Trustee Bob Ryan said.
"I was going to question the need to waive the bids," Ryan said. "We're forced to go through South Holland, so we can't get any competitive bids. Otherwise, John Deere won't sell to us."
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