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Show POLICE GAR RENTAL PLAN TO BE STUDIED HIRED VEHICLES-COULD VEHICLES-COULD CUT COST, PROPOSAL SAYS at Commission's Meet Tuesday A proposal to abandon UM of ei) owned automobiles In ths police department de-partment and rent motorized equipment equip-ment for that department will It aired Tuesday at the regular city commission meeting. Mayor E. B. Erwin said Monday. The mayor indicated he would "lay all the facts" on the table in connection with the plan, which commissioners heard of for the first time last week while the mayor waa in Washington, D. C attending a conference of mayors. The Inference at that time was that the mayor and police officials had had the plan under Investigation Investiga-tion for several days and had received re-ceived offers to supply the needed Saving CI ted First Information to reach the commission, and thereby the public, stated that .43 cents per mile could be saved by renting the equipment Instead of the city buying It and operating It at Its own expense as has been the custom ever since the department started using motor vehicles. The department operates about SS automobiles. They run an average of approximately 19.000 miles a year and many of the vehicles are In bad stats of repair now. It was explained. ex-plained. Other ears have been run as high as 100.000 miles and aaed complete replacement, according to information received by soma com- ' mlssioners. Sources Not Aired Other than saying that offers to furnish ears on a rental basis have corns from "reputable, financially responsible" firms and Individuals, Mayor Erwin has declined to disclose dis-close sou roes of the offers. Hs indicated, in-dicated, however, that the matter will be openly discussed on Tuesday. Tues-day. The mayor's announcement fallowed fal-lowed an executive meeting of city commissioners at his office. The meeting, held as a committee of the whole session, also discussed briefly parking meters, said the mayor. Hs added that hs told commissioners com-missioners about his studies of the curb devices mads while la Washington. |