Three of the Williamsville Fire Department's trucks would be replaced under a proposal the Village Board will consider Monday night. Two 2003 pumper trucks and the department's rescue truck would be replaced at an estimated maximum cost of $1.35 million. The village would use $175,000 from its capital fire truck reserve and borrow $1,175,000 to purchase the new trucks.
That cost is expected to be offset by $200,000 from trading in the older vehicles.
Mayor Brian Kulpa said the Fire Department is actually downsizing its fleet because the new rescue truck, which carries tools such as the jaws of life and other cutters, will be a smaller F-650 pickup chassis.