By Sara Anderson
Posted: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 at 4:56 PM
QUINCY, IL -- Many of the cars have more than 100-thousand miles on them and Quincy's Police Chief says it's time for a change.
Chief Rob Copely says this year's city council budget includes enough money for the department to purchase new cars.
He says once all the cars are replaced, the department has a plan in mind to make sure they stay up to date.
"Once we get our fleet into good shape then we would rotate new cars in every budget year a few at a time. That way we can keep our fleet rotated because right now with all our old cars and the shape that they're in it is costing us a lot of money."
The new cars will have a different look.
The department decided to return to the traditional black and white cars.
It plans to reveal the new cars and their new look within the next couple of weeks.
4 comments:
How much more money can we dump into the revenue enhancing department. Is it just me or does it seem like Copley is constantly in the news trying to spend more of our tax money?
Copley should move to China, he'd fit in well there with the oppressive regime there.
Nice police state he has set up now, gotta look the part, guess you need a 60,000 dollar hummer to catch people going 29 in a school zone, fine them 350 so they can't eat that month!
Wal Mart, Home Depot and all the big box retailers want to thank the fine city council and the police chief for this.
Keep it up, in fact, raise it to $50 a ticket. Especially around our competitors.
Maybe if the Historic District Merchants could come to some kind of agreement on what kind of parking enforcement they want, the City could respond to it. Right now the opinions range from "none" to "every 15 seconds." It's hard to deliver something to the customer when the customer doesn't know what the hell it wants.
Look at the history of uptown parking. Every time the "organized" uptown merchants say they want something, the City does it. Then they complain.
My guess is the City Council would be overjoyed to give the merchants there whatever they want, if the merchants could only decide.
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