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Consider a memorandum/resolution awarding Bid No. 22-17, Mowing Equipment Lease, to Austin Turf & Tractor authorizing a sixty (60) month lease agreement with Wells Fargo Financial Leasing, Inc. for seven (7) mowers in the amount of $345,430.20 to maintain Stonetree Golf Club.
Summary
DATE: June 7, 2022
TO: Kent Cagle, City Manager
FROM: Joe Brown, Executive Director of Recreation Services
SUBJECT: Stonetree Mower Lease
BACKGROUND AND FINDINGS:
Stonetree Golf Club (SGC) Agronomy provides daily maintenance for the entire golf course grounds. Specialized equipment is needed and utilized to maintain 100 acres of turf grass. Mowing routines associated with turf grass subject this equipment to excessive usage. Mowers are utilized in more than 5,000 hours per year. Due to the high amount of usage placed on these specialized pieces of equipment and the specific precision of industry standards for playable course conditions, they are subject to maintenance issues at a greater frequency than typical mowing equipment.
Recreation Services had an existing lease with Professional Turf Products L.P., financed by TCF Capital Solutions, which started in August 2017 and expired in July 2021. This lease consisted of (2) greens mowers and (2) fairway mowers.
The recommended lease was brought to council in January, but direction was given to competitively bid this lease.
The City of Killeen began the process of soliciting bids for seven (7) pieces of mowing equipment to ensure that mowers could be obtained at the best value. The seven pieces of equipment include three (3) greens Triplex mowers, two (2) of which are electric hybrid, two (2) Fairway units, one (1) Countour rough mower, and one (1) Zeroturn mower.
Bid # 22-17 was advertised on March 20, 2022 and March 27, 2022 and followed the Texas Local Government Code and the City's Financial Management Policy.
Recreation Services received responses on April 19, 2022 from:
* Austin Turf & Tractor
* Profes...
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