Council action is requested to issue a purchase order for $69,108.01 to Deere & Company for a John Deere 5100E Tractor and a John Deere 540M Loader for the Water Department.

Council approval to issue a purchase order.

This Tractor is needed to Maintain the Grounds at the Courtney Bend Water Plant for Mowing and other material moving needs. This Tractor will be replacing a Tractor has been rented from Year to Year so this will be a new purchase to eliminate the need to rent a tractor each year and having down time when waiting for the rental tractor to arrive after the leasing company has already picked up the leased tractor.

The purchase order, if approved, will be issued against the Sourcewell Ag Tractors 110719-JDC (PG 1P CG 70) cooperative procurement contract. The cooperative purchasing provisions of paragraph 5 of the Independence City Code allows for the purchase of items competitively bid by other governmental entities.

Approval of this item authorizes change orders up to a total of ten (10) percent of the original authorized amount, so long as appropriations are available.

The fiscal impact to the City is $69,108.01. Funding for the loader is included in the fiscal year 2022-23 proposed budget, page 212, project number E (423108 & 423109 -W - - ), account number E (4830-5404).