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AGENDA TITLE: Adopt Resolution Authorizing City Manager to Waive Bid Process and Purchase One Ford
F-550 Bucket Truck from Altec Industries, Inc. of Dixon ($225,000)
MEETING DATE: April 20, 2022
PREPARED BY: Electric Utility Director
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Adopt a resolution authorizing the City Manager to waive the bid process
and purchase one Ford F-550 bucket truck from Altec Industries, Inc. of
Dixon in an amount not to exceed $225,000.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Lodi Electric Utility (LEU) currently utilizes a 2012 Ford F-550
bucket truck (Vehicle No. 09-077) to perform maintenance and
troubleshooting activities associated with the electric distribution
system including emergency response calls. This vehicle is used on a regular basis and has exceeded the life
expectancy for this type of equipment. Repair costs to date total $32,780. This vehicle is critical to ensuring
safe, reliable electric service for LEU customers.
Per Lodi Municipal Code Section 3.20.045, State and Local Agency Contracts, the bidding process may be
waived when it is advantageous for the City, with appropriate approval by the City Manager and City Council,
to use contracts that have been awarded by other California public agencies, provided that its award was in
compliance with their formally adopted bidding or negotiation procedures.
Therefore, staff recommends authorizing the City Manager to waive the bid process and purchase one Ford
F-550 bucket truck from Altec Industries, Inc. of Dixon in an amount not to exceed $225,000, using the
competitively bid Sourcewell Contract No. 012418 -ALT.
FISCAL IMPACT: Not to exceed $225,000. This purchase does not impact the General Fund.
FUNDING AVAILABLE: Fiscal Year 2021/22 Account No. 50199000.77040.
Andrew Keys
Andrew Keys
Deputy City Manager/Internal Services Director
1 1119 PDT)
Melissa Price for Jeff Berkheimer
Electric Utility Director
APPROVED: Steve Schwabauer
Stephen Schwabauer, City Manager
RESOLUTION NO. 2022-86
A RESOLUTION OF THE LODI CITY COUNCIL AUTHORIZING THE
CITY MANAGER TO WAIVE THE BID PROCESS AND PURCHASE ONE FORD
F-550 BUCKET TRUCK FROM ALTEC INDUSTRIES, INC., OF DIXON,
UTILIZING SOURCEWELL CONTRACT NO. 012418 -ALT
WHEREAS, Lodi Electric Utility (LEU) currently utilizes a 2012 Ford F-550
bucket truck (Vehicle No. 09-077) to perform maintenance and troubleshooting activities
associated with the electric distribution system, including emergency response calls; and
WHEREAS, this vehicle is used on a regular basis and has exceeded the life expectancy
for this type of equipment, with repair costs to date totaling $32,780; and
WHEREAS, this vehicle is critical to ensuring safe, reliable electric service for LEU
customers; and
WHEREAS, per Lodi Municipal Code Section 3.20.045, State and Local Agency
Contracts, the bidding process may be waived when it is advantageous for the City, with
appropriate approval by the City Manager and City Council, to use contracts that have been
awarded by other California public agencies, provided that its award was in compliance with their
formally adopted bidding or negotiation procedures.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Lodi City Council does hereby authorize
the City Manager to waive the bid process and purchase one Ford F-550 bucket truck from
Altec Industries, Inc., of Dixon, California, in an amount not to exceed $225,000, utilizing the
competitively -bid Sourcewell Contract No. 012418 -ALT.
Dated: April 20, 2022
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I hereby certify that Resolution No. 2022-86 was passed and adopted by the City Council
of the City of Lodi in a regular meeting held on April 20, 2022 by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS — Hothi, Khan, Kuehne, Nakanishi, and
Mayor Chandler
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS — None
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS — None
ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS — None
OLIVIA NASHED
City Clerk
2022-86