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need to subtract the $10,663 cost of the Animal Control vehicle, giving a total state contract price of $94,792. Commissioner Eggert realized Mr. Ambler has been with the county only a short time, but she finds it a little hard, especially with the Animal Control vehicle which we knew we had to have at the very beginning of the budget year, to suddenly have all of these vehicles being bid at this time. She asked if it now is the new procedure to dump things all together or are we going to be doing this more individually according to the needs of the various departments. Manager Ambler stated that he would like to put a package together at the beginning of the next budget year for all the county's vehicles. Commissioner Eggert continued to express concern about clumping them all together rather than meeting the individual needs of the departments, especially since she did not believe there is any price advantage, possibly only a time advantage. Asst. Administrator Mattes commented that when he came to the county, and before Mr. Ambler got here, he saw that depart- ments were asking for these various vehicles and had been for quite some time. It appeared to him, and when Mr. Ambler came he agreed, that it might be to our advantage to bundle these bids together so we could attract a better price from a local vendor, and he still feels it is a good idea, except that it seems their timing was off. Chairman Scurlock believed state contract is always low. Mr. Mattes felt if we could do this early in the budget year, October and November, before the factory prices to the dealer start to increase, they can compete with state contract; but now they really can't. He would hope that next year as the needs come from the departments, Purchasing Manager Ambler could bundle these bids as he still believed that if we have an $100,000 package we can offer to local vendors, they can sharpen their pencils. 17 rifPR 11988 BOOK 71 ME 115