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City Council Meetrng August 10, 2004 Page 3 would be reduced accordingly. Chief Grooms said they have been reducing the nonessential use of apparatus and that has reduced the mileage and gas usage. He said they are currently using a little less than $1000.00 on fuel and he felt that line item could be reduced to $12,000.00, but reminded them this was dependent on the price of gas. Chief Grooms said if the City loses the garage, that will increase the amount he spends on maintenance and repairs. He said they helped send Shawn Bishop to school so he could work on their vehicles and that was a tremendous service for the Fire Department. Councilman Wilson asked if any local mechanics could work on the Fire trucks. Chief Grooms indicated there were some local providers that could do some of the mechanic work, but not all of what they need. In Minor Apparatus, Chief Grooms said he reduced computers from $3000.00 to $1500.00. Chief Grooms said when the Council decided against funding the SCBA replacement earlier this year, it put constraints on the department to make allocations for replacements of the SCBA equipment until they could do a full scale change over. He said they were going to apply for a FEMA grant to help with the change over. He said there will be a date when they will have to change to the new equipment completely. Chief Grooms said he would like to leave the Sigtronic Intercom for the E-3s in the budget, if possible. He explained these were headsets that gave the firemen better communication capabilities on the way to a fire. Councilman Wilson suggested taking the $3500.00 for those headsets out of the SCBA line item or the fire hose line item. Chief Grooms said it would be better out of the fire hose account. It was the consensus to delete the Sigtronic Intercom line item.