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WARREN The city will spend up to $1,442,917 for the purchase of six new vehicles, including four fully automatic side-loading garbage collection trucks, one front-loader refuse collection vehicle and one cable-hoist lift rolloff truck.
The purchase of the six vehicles will cost the city less than when it purchased five vehicles in 2015 for $1,462,227, according to Leann O’Brien, director of the Environmental Service Division.
The lease of the current vehicles ended in November.
O’Brien said the department has had an increase in the use of the rolloff truck in recent years.
The cost of the vehicle purchase already has been factored into the department’s budget, O’Brien noted.