Fire Truck Financing Reimbursement

At a glance

• What: reimbursement resolutions for fire trucks paid for before lease-purchase financing closed.
• Where it stands: Both resolutions approved October 20; financing over up to five years, debt payments budgeted in the capital reserve fund in FY27.
• Next: Closing of the lease-purchase financing.

Details

• First truck: ordered under a July 2023 resolution, 1,048,040 dollars.
• Second truck: ordered under a September 2023 resolution, 1,894,468 dollars.
• Staff cited long delivery lead times as the reason financing came after payment.
• Related: Fleet and Equipment Purchasing.

Sources

• Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CZT_jtJAk0 (City of Beaumont YouTube channel; auto-generated captions)
• Council records: https://portal.beaumonttexas.gov/WebLink/Browse.aspx?id=5&dbid=0&repo=BeaumontCity (scanned images, not readable)

Log

2026-10-20 - City Council

• Items 1 and 2 approved (motions carried) with no discussion.