... AND MORE TRUCKS exceed $1.05 million.
Council will be asked to add approximately $7,000 onto an existing purchase order to replace a 1986 aerial ladder truck, which officials say was no longer cost effective to maintain.
The new payment to KME Fire Apparatus, which is constructing the new 100-foot aerial ladder truck, would then reach a total of $790,000.
Additional funding will allow the company to enhance the truck in order to make it consistent with existing equipment.
New trash disposal trucks might soon roam city streets if council awards an approximately $884,000 bid to Boerner Truck Center to provide four refuse trucks.
The purchase will be made possible through the Solid Waste Fund and the Vehicle Replacement Program.
Boerner Truck Center was one of two companies that submitted a bid based on competitive pricing and the type of the truck available.
Officials were seeking proper haz-waste management City Manager Lamont Ewell plans to submit a grant application to the California Integrated Waste Management Board if council approves a resolution tonight.
The grants are awarded to municipalities every year to enhance their programs to deal with the management of motor oil, oil filters and household hazardous waste. The city of Santa Monica has received 17 grants — called the Used Oil Recycling and Household Waste Grant — over the past 15 years, totaling approximately $883,000.
A City Council resolution, which is valid for three years, is required with every grant application.
In the past, the city has used the grants to run informational campaigns, to purchase oil collection containers for Santa Monica residents and to host a regional forum on Used Oil Recycling.
Previous grants have also allowed the city to operate a Household Hazardous Waste Collection Center where residents and small business owners bring used motor oil and filters for disposal.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on November 28, 2006. Read the original PDF.