Just over a quarter of a million dollars was invested into the City by City Commissioners Tuesday evening at their weekly meeting.

The City approved the purchase of two sanitation trucks for the Department of Public Works.

Ray Ibarra, Department of Public Works Director said that the new trucks are essential in order for sanitation crews to work their routes. “During the past seven months, two of the sanitation trucks have been out of service from time to time anywhere from one to three months; the issue is that when two of these trucks go down at the same time it’s impossible for sanitation crews to pick  up their five weekly routes – in order to work properly, we would need five trucks in the fleet in case one of those two go down.”

One of the trucks is a 2007 Rear Load Sanitation truck in the amount of $60,000 and the other a 2017 Side Loading Sanitation truck with the freightliner chassis in the amount of $207,522.