Travis County Commissioners Court
December 21, 2004
Item 39
39. Consider and take appropriate action on request for approve sections
of donation of 25-foot upon toon boat to the Travis County sheriff's office
lake patrol from just for fun water craft rental, that is eye them number
39. I guess I’m trying to understand what impact this would have on Travis
County. What commitments will we have in the future? Consequences as a result
of accepting this donation, if we do?
>> what we're doing is switching out two units, about four
years ago the court accepted a military surplus boat that we received via
harris county. It had been used vietnam era boat, in the military for a number
of year, harris county picked it up and used it for drug interdiction in the
houston ship channel, we used it for four years, we're in the situation that
given its age and mechanical complexities, it's a british-built boat, parts
are becoming very hard to fine, it's becoming expensive to keep maintained.
We use that as an auxiliary boat to use for dive operation, not as a routine
patrol boat by any means. It's not real suited for that. We would like to
petition the governor's office to retire that boat, get it back to the state
of Texas and if in fact found another party is willing to accept it and along
with the financial obligations of keeping it up, we were approached by just
for fun to replace that boat with what we feel is a much cheaper, very low
maintenance boat. We already have an engine that the county owns in place
t money budgeted for fuel is already -- already there for the boat, if we're
doing the switchout, in fact we would hope to see pretty sizeable savings
by going to a much more fuel efficient and environmentally friendly boat than
the current 1972 diesel technology that we're currently running.
>> the sheriff office is not the only one [inaudible] vote.
>> no, sir. No, sir, in fact we've reduced our fleet and
are trying to streamline. The court has been gracious enough to give us the
funding for upgraded and better boats that better serve our purpose and that
has enabled us to reduce our fleet through contracts such as honda motor craft
who is gracious you have -- enough to rent the craft for $1 a year.
>> with such an accurate an generous explanation I move approval.
>> that other one wasn't a swift boat, was it?
>> no, it was not.
>> thank you.
>> discussion?
>> all in favor. That passes by unanimous vote.
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