Greenwood’s city council unanimously approved using nearly $426,000 in federal relief funds to help pay for fire trucks and security cameras, dailyjournal.net reported.
City council members voted 9-0 Monday night to use $314,814 of $425,943 in federal funds from the American Rescue Plan Act to pay for a vendor surcharge on a fire engine and a ladder truck, the report said.
City officials ordered a ladder truck and an engine for the Greenwood Fire Department in 2021. The equipment was initially set to be delivered within 12 months of purchasing, however, city officials were contacted earlier this year by the seller, who indicated it was “no longer economically feasible” for them to build the trucks at the price the city contracted them to build at in 2021, a city official said last month.
If the city wanted them to be built anytime soon, then they would have to pay a surcharge. The surcharge was driven by supply chain complications, the city official said.
The remaining $111,129 in funds would be used to purchase new security cameras for the Greenwood Fieldhouse parking garage, and replace cameras at the Indy South Greenwood Airport and the Greenwood Police Department Training Center, according to the report.