Buda readies for new police cruisers

Buda city leaders earlier this month approved the purchase of three new Buda Police Department vehicles that were approved within the city’s fiscal year 2017 budget.

The three new vehicles will cost roughly $22,700 per vehicle, which was approved by the Buda city council as part of the budget process in 2016.

“A lot of the time the cost of the equipment that goes into the police vehicle costs the same as the vehicle, but that is not the case for these vehicles since we can reuse equipment from the older vehicles,” Buda Police Chief Bo Kidd said, “We are only going to have to completely outfit one police car, which costs approximately $20,000.”