NORWAY — Federal funds will be used to help acquire a pickup truck for Norway Police Department.

During its regular meeting Wednesday, the city council had a public hearing on its application for a U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development grant for the purchase. Total cost of the vehicle with equipment is $75,600.

The grant would cover 55%, or $41,500 of the purchase price, leaving the city’s portion at $34,100. The cost of the vehicle was accounted for in the current budget, said City Manager Dan Stoltman.

He noted the city is choosing a pickup truck so that when it reaches the end of its life as a police squad, it can be repurposed for use by other departments.

In other business, the council revisited the issue of repairing garage doors at the cold storage building used by the electric department. The issue was tabled Aug. 21 and a number of the council members visited the site in the meantime.

Currently, only one garage door is operational on the gable end of the building. There are three doors on the street side that are not operational, causing trouble and delays getting equipment in and out of the building.

According to Electrical Foreman Scott Hegy, items quickly become buried and it takes extra man hours to shuffle and dig items out of the one operational door.

After discussion, a motion was made by council member Rico Meneghini to replace the doors at a price not to exceed $10,000. The motion passed, although Mayor Candy Brew — who questioned why all three doors had to be replaced — voted no.

Brew said a couple of employees had suggested that one big, working door could be feasible as an alternative.

Hegy said that option had been looked at. “The doors that are there are only 10 feet wide, so you cannot really pull anything in and maneuver to the side,” Hegy said. “It is just kind of a straight shot and the doors are not wide enough.”

Stoltman said it’s important to take care of the buildings the city owns.

“The thing for me as I was down there looking at the buildings, if the council is interested in this project, it is good to look at that building and other buildings in general that we are keeping those buildings up to date so that they do not fall into disrepair,” he said.

It was noted that replacing the doors was in the budget. In addition, Hegy said the building needs some concrete repairs but the city could save by doing the work in-house.

In another matter, the council passed a resolution in support of National School Bus Safety Week.

Meneghini, who is transportation director at Norway-Vulcan Schools, said people get confused by the lights on buses.

“If the lights are red, you stop and if they are yellow, slow down just like when you do when traveling,” Meneghini said. ” You know, we have not had any bad incidents with buses and students and people getting off and on. but we do quite frequently get phone calls, I should say quite frequently.”

Bus drivers sometimes report motorists passing them at a high rate of speed, not necessarily violating a flashing red light, but going by at a very high rate of speed and in a dangerous manner, he said.

“And each one of those, let’s say half a dozen instances, you know someone could pay an ultimate price. So please pay attention,” he said.

School Bus Safety Week occurs Oct. 16-20.