Sand Mountain Reporter

The Albertville City Council decided to solicit bids to lease 10 police cars after a pre-council meeting that Councilman Randy Amos described as a “very congenial and cooperative meeting.”

Members of the council showed up an hour before its Monday night council meeting to work through the agenda and discuss how many police cars the city should lease.

Councilman Randy Amos proposed the idea of leasing 10 police cars now, followed by five more cars in the spring of 2010 and another five cars toward the beginning of the 2010-2011 fiscal year.

“That would actually give us 23 vehicles over a one-year period,” Amos said.

Amos also wanted to get back to a schedule of replacing five police cars every year.

“I love the idea,” Mayor Lindsey Lyons said.

The council also decided to lease three other vehicles for the Vice/Narcotics unit Monday night.

The additional 10 cars the city plans on leasing would depend on the economy six months down the road.

The council seemed to be in agreement that the body needed to make sure the money would be there before they committed to leasing more vehicles.

Amos also wanted to make sure there was some money left in reserve to pay for the cars in case the economy did take another dip, and he wanted the city to pass a budget before spending any more money.

He said that it was hard to continue to spend money without having a budget passed.

“Mayor, I thought about how I have a real stake in what is going on out there. I’m talking about flesh and blood out there,” Amos said during the pre-council meeting.

“And, I would love to provide every one of them with armor plated Humvees so they could really be protected out there on the street,” he said.

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