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CITY OF BEDFORD - FY 19-20 EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT SUMMARY
ITEM: AED Replacement at City Facilities DEPARTMENT:Fire DIVISION: Emergency Operations
Core Service Council Goal/Priority Emerging Safety Need Regulation or Mandate
Resident/Customer Expectation National Standard/Best Practice
REPLACEMENT NEED: REPLACEMENT COST: $ 13,800
The City owns and operates 21 Automatic External Defibrillators (AEDs)
FUNDING SOURCE: General Fund
located in various facilities and City vehicles. These units are aging, with
several in need of replacement. Some units are no longer serviceable UNIT #:
and will be rendered unusable soon. The replacement plan includes
AGE (YEARS): 14
replacing six units per year over a four-year period. The annual
expenditure will be $13,800. 2-YR MAINTENANCE COST: $ 250
DISPOSITION: Auction or Trade
ITEM: Rescue Tools DEPARTMENT:Fire DIVISION: Emergency Operations
Core Service Council Goal/Priority Emerging Safety Need Regulation or Mandate
Resident/Customer Expectation National Standard/Best Practice
REPLACEMENT NEED: REPLACEMENT COST: $ 40,000
Rescue Tools (sometimes called "Jaws of Life") are used to pry, push, pull
FUNDING SOURCE: General Fund
or cut metal for rescuing trapped victims. These tools are most
commonly used for extrications after a vehicle crash. However, rescue UNIT #:
tools are occasionally used for other purposes, such as building collapse
AGE (YEARS): 11
rescue.
2-YR MAINTENANCE COST: $ 1,000
DISPOSITION: Auction or Trade
ITEM: Compressor for SCBA DEPARTMENT:Fire DIVISION: Emergency Operations
Core Service Council Goal/Priority Emerging Safety Need Regulation or Mandate
Resident/Customer Expectation National Standard/Best Practice
REPLACEMENT NEED: REPLACEMENT COST: $ 50,000
The Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) air compressor is a high FUNDING SOURCE: General Fund
capacity, fixed compressor unit that provides breathing air to firefighters
by filling the individual SCBA cylinders worn into structure fires. The UNIT #:
expected life span of this unit is 20 years. The current compressor is over
30 years old. AGE (YEARS): 32
2-YR MAINTENANCE COST: $ 2,000
DISPOSITION: Auction or Trade
ITEM: Glance Preempt & Priority FMU DEPARTMENT:Public Works DIVISION: Streets
Core Service Council Goal/Priority Emerging Safety Need Regulation or Mandate
Resident/Customer Expectation National Standard/Best Practice
REPLACEMENT NEED: REPLACEMENT COST: $ 229,800
This request is for new field monitoring units (FMU) for the traffic signal
FUNDING SOURCE: SIEDC
boxes. The FMUs will replace the current system that utilizes the radio
system for traffic synchronization that was installed in 2011. The system UNIT #:
functioned without incident for approximately six years, but the radio AGE (YEARS):
system equipment installed on the water towers and at the Service
Center is now outdated and is no longer functioning as designed. This 2-YR MAINTENANCE COST: $
equipment will allow traffic signals to connect using cellular signal.
391 DISPOSITION: N/A
