North Versailles commissioners OK purchasing new police vehicles, a street sweeper

North Versailles Township is purchasing several new municipal vehicles.

Commissioners approved the purchase of three new police vehicles and a new street sweeper at a meeting this week.

The total purchase amount for the police vehicles — a Dodge Charger, Ford Explorer and Chevrolet Caprice — is $120,866. The department will retire three aging cars when the new vehicles arrive.

The township is ordering a new Pelican street sweeper to replace an existing machine. The cost of the new sweeper is $183,410, to be financed on a five-year lease-to-own program.

Commission president George Thompson said the township has the option of trading in its existing sweeper for $5,000 through a finance plan but will try to sell the machine on its own first. Thompson said the sweeper potentially could fetch as much as $9,000 from a Marcellus shale drilling outfit.

Eric Slagle is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-664-9161, ext. 1966, or eslagle@tribweb.com.