The Junction City Commission will consider a purchase contract for a new pumper apparatus for the Junction City Fire Department Thursday night.

The new pumper apparatus would be the second of three new apparatus’s for the department.

In November of 2013 the commission approved the purchase of a new aerial apparatus.

“This is the second of three steps,” Kevin Royse, Fire Chief, explained. “The third step will be ordering another engine in late summer with an expected delivery date of the first quarter of 2015 which will completely replace the entire fire side fleet.”

The aerial apparatus approved in November was paid for through a F.E.M.A. grant and money from the departments equipment reserve fund. The two new pumper apparatus’s would be paid for through lease purchase contracts with a local bank and money through the departments reserve fund.

Royse told JCpost.com that replacing the fleet would give the department the newest top of the line equipment in the region.

The City Commission will consider the purchase contract during their meeting Thursday night at 7 p.m. at the municipal building.