Canandaigua City Planning and Finance Committees March 9, 2026

a. Excavators The Capital Budget includes $540,000 for the replacement of two excavators: a tracked Kubota and a wheeled Wacker Neuson. The $540,000 is split across the three (3) main funds (General, Water and Sewer) as these construction vehicles are used for many different operations. The plan is to trade in the Kubota and Wacker Neuson and purchase essentially the same but newer models of each. With the trade in value of our existing excavators, we have residual funds to then purchase a third, smaller Kubota tracked excavator. Staff often conducts park maintenance in tight areas and sidewalk rehab or sewer/water digs in constrained spaces where our larger excavators are unwieldy. There is flexibility in this year’s budgeted amounts and we can try the smaller Kubota to see if it is useful for our needs. With the trade-in value, and current pricing, by buying all three (3) excavators, there will still be $140,000 left to return to capital reserve balances (approximately $46,000 to each General/Water & Sewer Fund). b. Virtual Server The Capital Plan includes replacing virtual servers at a cost of $15,000. The cost for the virtual server replacement has been quoted at $25,000. The City Manager recommends transferring the $10,000 intended for the excavator purchase savings and use it to replace the virtual servers. c. NYSERDA Grant Change As a 5-Star Clean Energy Community (no higher distinction), the City was awarded a no match $250,000 grant to be utilized for clean energy projects, such as EV vehicles. The plan was to install a DC Fast Charger at the Police Station and purchase three new EV vehicles utilizing the grant funding as part of our normal replacement of police vehicles. Unfortunately, the cost of the DC Fast Charger wassignificantly higher than originally estimated. A separate $0 (zero) match grant has been applied for to install a DC Fast Charger (the City has a one hundred percent success rate with this specific grant). This leaves $36,000 in remaining Clean Energy Community grant funding available. The Fire Inspection vehicle is the oldest in the city fleet and its replacement was pushed to later years in the capital plan. The City Manager proposes purchasing a Ford Mustang Mach-E (EV vehicle) for code enforcement and transferring our existing Ford Lighting code enforcement vehicle to the Fire Department. An additional $9,300 is necessary to complete the purchase with $5,000 for emergency lights and vehicle wrapping. The City Manager recommends appropriating $15,000 (utilizing savings from the excavator above) and applying the Clean Energy Grant funds ($36,000) for this purpose.

Councilmember Mills requested that a discussion about the next steps of the public safety studies be added to the agenda.