Agenda Item Wording:
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Authorize Purchase of Passenger Transit Vans - Authorize the City Manager to utilize the California Association for Coordinated Transportation Morongo Basin Transit Authority cooperative contract for Class P passenger transit vans to enter into a contract in the amount of $685,389 with Model 1 Commercial Vehicles, for the purchase of four (4) Braun-Lonestar Class P passenger transit vans for the Visalia Transit Dial-A-Ride service.
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Deadline for Action: 9/2/2025
Submitting Department: Administration - Transit Division
Contact Name and Phone Number:
Caleb Bowman, Transit Management Analyst, Caleb.Bowman@visalia.city, (559)713-4594
Angelina Baker, Transit Manager, Angelina.Baker@visalia.gov, (559)713-4591
John Lollis, Assistant City Manager, John.Lollis@visalia.city, (559)713-4323
Department Recommendation:
Staff is recommending that the City Council authorize the City Manager to utilize the California Association for Coordinated Transportation (CalACT)/Morongo Basin Transit Authority (Basin Transit) cooperative contract for Class P passenger transit vans to enter into a contract in the amount of $685,389 with Model 1 Commercial Vehicles, Inc., formerly Creative Bus Sales, Inc., for the purchase of four (4) Braun-Lonestar Class P passenger transit vans for the Visalia Transit Dial-A-Ride service.
Background Discussion:
Visalia Transit currently operates ten (10) cutaway buses; eight (8) buses of are required to support peak demand on the Dial-A-Ride (DAR) service that serves the City of Visalia, unincorporated community of Goshen, City of Farmersville, and City of Exeter. Currently, the DAR fleet has an average age of eleven (11) years and average lifetime miles of 173,000, with half of the buses being over fourteen (14) years old with over 200,000 miles, which is past their useful life. The useful life is determined by age and mileage requirements set by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA). FTA has determined that li...
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