The purchase or lease of four Durangos and one Ford F-150 truck for the Marshall County Sheriff’s Department will wait until March.
Sheriff Matt Hassel said money has been appropriated in his Commissary Fund for the action of purchasing or leasing the vehicles in his budget as approved by the Marshall County Council members last week.
The lease option would be $120,941.12. Sheriff said he’d pay that three-year lease up front so no costs would be incurred for two years. The truck lease is a four-year option. The county would be able to purchase the truck at the end of the lease.
Commissioner Stan Klotz noted that without trade-in if the county were to purchase the vehicles outright through Country Auto and Oliver Ford, it would only be about $4,000 more. Commissioner Mike Delp said the county will be able to purchase those vehicles for $4,546 at the end of the lease, but Klotz said the up-front cost is less.
Sheriff Hassel said he’d have the Enterprise representative in with him during the next meeting on March 4 to ask more questions about the leasing option before they make a decision.
