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Regular City Council Meeting <br />September 9 , 2003 <br />Page 8 <br />Councilman Bell expressed his feelings that the City is not the place to come and <br />get their funding. It should be through the United Way and public funding. <br />Chief Louis stated that he understood what they were saying and the United Way <br />is also limited to the amount of funding as they were down last year. They are <br />also hurting. He stated that he was just trying to let the Council know that in law <br />enforcement, they have a lot of interrelated activities with many of these <br />organizations, even though they are charitable. They are assisting the Police <br />Department to a degree. <br />Chief Louis reported that they have a 9-year-old Ford Crown Victoria with <br />166,893 miles on it and it has been used by narcotics. They have nine year old <br />1994 Crown Victoria with 136,875 miles and the transmission is out. They have <br />a 11-year-old 1992 Chevrolet Caprice with milage of 169,000. It is an old CID <br />vehicle and it was used as patrol prior to that. He said they have 1996 Ford <br />Crown Victoria with 114,889 miles on it. He said they also have an old Chevrolet <br />Caprice that was used for a while. It was pulled out of service, then placed back <br />into service. They actually have five vehicles that will go on the auction block <br />this year. Chief Louis said they were able to trade down one of their CID vehicles <br />to another person. City Manager Malone said these vehicles are offered to other <br />departments that may have something that is even worse and these may not be the <br />ones that go to auction. Chief Louis said the last vehicle is a 1996 Ford Crown <br />Victoria with milage of 135,085. <br />Councilman Bell asked if these vehicles could be donated, and if they can't, how <br />can the city donate money. <br />City Attorney Schenk advised that one of the constitutional amendments was to <br />allow the donation of used fire fighting equipment to volunteer fire departments. <br />That is because they are constitutionally prohibited to donate public funds. He <br />thought the rationale previously on some of these charitable direct gifts was, as <br />Chief Louis indicated, they could find a public purpose for what they were doing <br />for the Police Department. He felt that it was a more difficult to show a direct <br />