But the decision to purchase an MXV 4-man International pumper for $361,658, Dodge 12-foot rescue truck for $141,475 and a 3000 IG tanker for $283,577 didn’t sit well with Ald. Ted Hessels.
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Hessels, a volunteer firefighter for more than two decades, agreed the township could use the new pumper truck, but not new rescue and tanker trucks.
“I’m not for it. The rescue truck is not the truck we need … I’m not totally against the tanker, but we didn’t get any other quotes,” he said.
Hessels, in his third term on council, said there wasn’t a lot of time to read the report on the purchase. During the meeting, he said Ald. Betty Konc asked for the report to be deferred to council’s Dec. 5 meeting, but that motion was defeated.