[10:03] Six o'clock, I'll go ahead and call them, meet and order. Seeing that everybody's here, we do have a quorum, which takes us out of B. Mr.

[10:14] Hamilton, would you help us on the invocation?

[11:26] All right. I don't see the pledges. If y'all are joining me now.

[12:03] All right, thank you.

[12:08] It takes us to item two on the agenda, the consent agenda, which consists of meeting

[12:14] minutes of the August 18th, the regular City Council meeting, the regular City Council

[12:20] some meat in August 18th.

[12:24] Tell them why that's on their twice. And the end of

[12:28] month financial report for August 2026. And if there's no objections and I'll

[12:37] move to approve the consent agenda.

[12:41] No objections? No questions. All right.

[12:48] Item

[12:48] 3. Public comment. Any?

[12:52] No, public comment.

[12:57] Item 4, Council, Council, New Business. Consider a mutual aid agreement

[13:02] with the Dallas County Sheriff's Office for a complex emergency response and investigation

[13:08] planning and Jeff Erin's going to talk on this.

[13:13] Mr. Mayor, Mr. County Council members, this is basically a mutual aid agreement with the

[13:18] Dallas County Sheriff's Office is set up due to the recent Evolved and Strong Act that was passed and this basically sets out parameters for the

[13:27] local agencies and the Sheriff's Department, Dallas County, to all work together have tabletop exercises

[13:34] Different trainings throughout the year as required by the new state rules and laws just to make sure that everyone works together and can respond to the difference

[13:43] Minus qualities and the school districts as needed for any type of incident that may take place

[13:49] do we have other agreements with other agencies like the school the Ellis County

[13:54] Sheriff's we do have we have an older agreement with the ISD police department

[14:00] here in Ferris and we are looking to update that one as well well we have now

[14:04] does meet the requirements but we're gonna add some stuff to it so we have a new

[14:07] one in place actually spells out the training where that's required now we do

[14:12] have an e-duct agreement that Ellis County is technically a part of but it

[14:18] It doesn't have any actual spelling out any of the news kind of stuff with the Abolgy Strong Act puts forward.

[14:24] Do you know the ISD and or do you know if anybody else is joining with Dallas County in this immediate area?

[14:34] Last I heard that they had sent it out to pretty much all the agencies in Dallas County just to make certain that they had met the requirements as far as I know.

[14:43] So I don't know if any other agencies that have officially joined it.

[14:47] I just know it was sent out to all the agencies in the Delves County.

[14:54] Yeah, I jumped ahead of myself.

[14:55] Anyway, go ahead.

[15:08] Mr. Mayor, is always getting on the meet, jumping ahead of you. I think a motion approved mutual aid agreement with DS, with Dallas County Sheriff's Office and authorized the Director of Public Safety to execute the same.

[15:24] Now you can ask questions.

[15:26] Yes.

[15:27] Anymore.

[15:28] More.

[15:29] Okay.

[15:30] So we've got a motion in a second.

[15:35] Are we electronically up?

[16:24] It hasn't come up.

[16:26] Oh.

[16:28] No.

[16:30] There it goes.

[16:33] Oh.

[16:34] Look, I get to do it.

[16:41] All right.

[16:43] So we have a motion that carries five to zero.

[16:52] It takes us two out of B.

[16:53] We consider approval of a vehicle leasing agreement with DNM commercial leasing for the

[17:01] fairest department of public safety and authorize a city manager or his destiny to execute

[17:06] all necessary documents related there too.

[17:11] So this agreement is we started looking at different ways to maximize the amount of money

[17:17] we have to purchase new vehicles or in this case now lease vehicles for the amount of money

[17:22] that we currently have approved in our 2627 budget,

[17:26] we could lease vehicles that are already going to come,

[17:30] completely outfitted with emergency lights,

[17:31] the sirens, cages, everything of that nature.

[17:34] We would just have to do the graphics and the camera system

[17:37] and radio for the most part to get them up and ready.

[17:40] So this DNM leasing will have those vehicles available to us

[17:44] and use the same upfitter that we have been using previously,

[17:48] at a much lower cost.

[17:49] Now it does turn out that we will not own the vehicle

[17:51] that in the day, we'll have to turn it back in, but it will create a cycle that we can

[17:56] continuously move older vehicles out and new vehicles in without having to spend the

[18:01] entire amount of money in purchasing and outfitting a new vehicle at one time.

[18:05] So we have a rotation plan that we're working on coming out to basically be two vehicles

[18:10] every year, two would come in, two would go out, and that way we can keep the rotation moving

[18:14] so there is no vehicles that are going to have over 100,000 miles or five, six years old,

[18:20] They would rotate at least every four years. We would be those ones that had came in would be totally gone at that point

[18:26] So Dean in leasing has just asked that we have approval from the council just to move forward with it and also have a

[18:34] Desney that would be able to sign all the leasing papers

[18:37] So

[18:41] what's the what's the savings on doing?

[18:46] We've got to get a motion in a second

[18:54] You're going to, then you've got, you know, I'm sitting here holding this in, man.

[18:56] I'm looking at it.

[18:57] Of course, indeed.

[18:58] Yeah.

[18:59] You don't want to use that.

[18:59] I can't have no questions.

[19:01] Yeah.

[19:02] After the second.

[19:03] And then we can change it if I don't like it.

[19:04] Yeah.

[19:04] Well, you ain't voted yet.

[19:07] Okay.

[19:07] I'm going in.

[19:09] All right.

[19:10] I'll make a motion to approve of the vehicle leasing the agreement with DNM, the Mirko

[19:14] leasing, and authorize the city manager, or it is that we need to execute all necessary

[19:22] documents related to their treatment.

[19:26] I'll second.

[19:28] No.

[19:29] You got a question?

[19:30] Yeah, I do have a question.

[19:31] I'll just ask if you do it.

[19:33] Is it going to be cost effective for us to do that?

[19:37] So right now if we purchase a vehicle outright,

[19:39] it's going to be roughly about $48,000 to $50,000

[19:42] for just a vehicle by itself.

[19:44] You're updating it going to be anywhere between 18 and 20,000.

[19:47] So really when you look at everything,

[19:49] you're spending probably $70,000, $71,000, $73,000

[19:52] just depending on add-ons.

[19:53] just to buy an outright, outfit the new police vehicle.

[19:58] The plan that we're currently working on to release these two vehicles,

[20:02] it would basically be, I think we're looking at, was it $28,000 or $38,000 a year for just those two vehicles.

[20:17] And they do to help keep on with some having to, and you just get another one.

[20:20] We have to do the basic upkicks, all changes, tires, and things along those lines.

[20:24] but the warranties and all the other maintenance and everything will still be covered.

[20:28] We carry the insurance.

[20:29] We would.

[20:30] We would start to carry.

[20:31] So we had a transmission problem.

[20:32] We had to fix that.

[20:33] That would still be covered under warranties.

[20:35] Oh, that's under the warranties.

[20:37] Unless it was, I assume unless it was something that was done intentionally, but you know, most

[20:41] stuff should be covered by the warranties.

[20:46] No, no, no, I'm just asking for it.

[20:48] What I'm just saying, you'll be able to see the numbers, I'm about saving money, so you

[20:53] know.

[20:53] Yeah.

[20:54] Well, that's what this is about.

[20:56] There you go.

[20:57] Well, is this a common practice?

[21:00] Yeah, most of the agencies in the area,

[21:02] we actually spoke with Ells County and Midlothian

[21:06] and all of them are using leasing

[21:08] and they have the same type of rotations

[21:10] where they're keeping them for three or four years

[21:12] and either sending them back.

[21:13] Or you can outright buy the vehicle

[21:15] if you want to from the leasing company at a price.

[21:19] And what Ells County did when I spoke with them

[21:21] is they were keeping them usually for three years.

[21:22] and the ones that were still in very good shape,

[21:24] they would then turn those into CID,

[21:26] they would buy them outright

[21:27] and turn them into the CID guards for the detectives.

[21:31] So it allows us to get vehicles quicker

[21:34] and at a better cost than just purchasing one outright

[21:38] and then in three or four years it's worn out.

[21:41] And now we don't get any return on it

[21:42] at the end of the day.

[21:43] Because a good idea, I think it's a good plan.

[21:46] There's been a couple of years since I've been out of it.

[21:48] What are these police package?

[21:50] Yes.

[21:51] Okay.

[21:51] I

[21:57] got a question there and it might not even.

[22:01] What do we do with the ones we have now?

[22:05] So I'm up there every day, you know what?

[22:08] I see a little man, how's that like that?

[22:10] So we have previously put those out for auction

[22:12] is what we've done with the years past.

[22:15] We just sold the escape that was owned by the city.

[22:20] Before that, we have that Tahoe that's actually

[22:23] parked at the DPS office now.

[22:25] So that Tahoe is completely, it does not work at all.

[22:29] The engine is shot, the transmission is shot.

[22:34] By the stuff inside of the vehicle is probably the only thing of any money worth any,

[22:39] so we kept that because we're going to use it for some training, but normally we would

[22:43] auction them off, and I think most times we're only getting a $1,500 or something that was

[22:49] like the cost that we were getting back so on the city website and there's a dead

[22:58] line that people have to come so does it any more questions okay we got a

[23:10] motion in a second well

[23:24] that passed pretty quick five oh thank you it was a

[23:27] great idea you

[23:32] know a second all

[23:46] right out of C was we not good on that or we're

[23:50] good to go or

[23:54] okay so

[23:59] we're going to cut out of the seat, out of five executive

[24:04] session I don't believe we have any and look at this out of six is closing but no

[24:12] objections I'll go ahead and adjourn this meeting at what time 614

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