Commissioners To Look At County Employees Taking Vehicles Home

June 12, 2008

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Escambia County has 417 vehicles on the road, ranging from pickup trucks, SUVs vans and fire trucks. And the county is expected to review the necessity of each one.

The county commission will look at each vehicle in a committee workshop Thursday, looking for ways to shave dollars and cents. Commissioners will also look at the authorized use of 24/7 vehicles…vehicles that employees are authorized to take home with them each day.

There are currently 60 county owned vehicles that are authorized for 24/7 or take-home use. Of those, 39 are used by volunteer fire departments. The other 21 are used by county staffers that are allowed to take the vehicles home.

Those 21 non-fire department vehicles are expected to be the target of discussion as will the 350 other vehicles used by county departments. Some of those vehicles get low gas mileage, like a Chevrolet Extended Cab used by the Department of Solid Waste Management that averaged just 4.6 miles per gallon last year.

The 21 non-fire department vehicles driven home by county employees or designated for 24/7 use, according to information obtained by NorthEscambia.com, are below. Listed for each is the vehicle, the employee, the city of their home address, their position and their department.

  • 1995 Chevy 4×4, John Sanders, Pensacola, Lead Equipment Mechanic, Public Works
  • 2001 Ford Explorer, Stanley Gray, Milton, Administration, Solid Waste
  • 2003 Ford F550 Service Truck, Dennis Rigby, Walnut Hill, Fleet Maintenance Supervisor, Solid Waste
  • 2000 Ford F150, John Gilly, Pensacola, Field Supervisor, Solid Waste
  • 2001 Chevy Truck, Cleo Millender, Pensacola, Pensacola, Operations Supervisor, Solid Waste
  • 2005 Ford F150, Albert Hargis III, Pensacola, Building Code Inspector, Building Inspections
  • 2005 Ford F150, Harry Thomas Gibson, Navarre, Building Code Inspector, Building Inspections
  • 2002 Ford F150, Raymond Sunday, Pace, Building Code Inspector, Building Inspections
  • 2005 F150, R. Michael Willet, Gulf Breeze, Building Code Inspector, Building Inspections
  • 2006 Chevy Impala, Anna Rebecca Miller, Gulf Breeze, Unlicensed/Unpermitted Enforcement, Building Inspections
  • 2000 Ford Explorer XLT, Jeff Bohannon, Pace, Division Manager, Road Prison
  • 1999 Ford Explorer 4×4, Wayne McGlothren, Pensacola, Adminstrative Sgt., Road Prison
  • 2001 Ford F250 Super Duty, Pensacola, Firefighter Trainer, Fire Services
  • 2000 Crown Victoria, Ken Perkins, Gulf Breeze, Fire Chief, Fire Services
  • 2006 Ford Explorer, Stephen Renaldi, Pensacola, Fire Marshal, Fire Services
  • 2005 Ford F250 Super Duty, Jim Sanders, Pensacola, Battalion Chief, Fire Services
  • 1995 Ford Bronco, Steven Barnes, Pensacola, Fleet Maintenance Supervisor, Emergency Medical Services
  • 2006 Ford Expedition, Mike Weaver, Pensacola, Division Manager, Emergency Medical Services
  • 2000 Dodge Durango, Michael Hardin, Pensacola, Bureau Chief, Public Safety
  • 2001 Ford Crown Victoria, Frank Clements, Gulf Breeze, Emergency Operations Officer, Emergency Management
  • 2000 Chevy Blazer, John Dosh, Pensacola, Division Manager, Emergency Management

Some of the 39 fire department vehicles on the 24/7 take-home list are assigned to volunteer fire departments in North Escambia.

According to John Sims, Fire Services Manger, the take-home fire department vehicles are assigned to fire chiefs, deputy chiefs and assistant chiefs.

“These personnel take these vehicles home and are on call 24/7,” Sims said in a county memo. “They are expected to respond from their homes or wherever they happen to be when their pager alerts them. These vehicles are emergency vehicles with lights and sirens. They allow the individual to proceed directly to the scene of an emergency for scene evaluation and size up before the larger apparatus arrive.”

There are three such vehicles assigned to the Century Volunteer Fire Department, three to the McDavid Volunteer Fire Department, two to the Molino Volunteer Fire Department, and one to the Walnut Hill Volunteer Fire Department.

Pictured above: Vehicles similar to this white pickup are assigned to volunteer fire department chiefs and assistant chiefs to allow quick response to emergencies such as this fire Wednesday afternoon in Walnut Hill. NorthEscambia.com photo.

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Written by William Reynolds · Filed Under News