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John Deere 544K wheel loader
Wheel loader for public works. It loads sand, gravel, and snow, fills the dump trucks, and pushes/stacks snow.
PW04Public Works Office
6,072.1 hrsas of 09-18-26
+20.6 hrs since June 2026
In service. The June photo showed an engine-oil warning on the display.
No payment for this machine appears anywhere in the digitized record: no claim, invoice, or acceptance after the 2017 authorization.
Paper trail
- 03-10-15PlanThe capital plan listed a front-end loader replacement for 2016 at $150,000source p.9
- 10-10-17DecisionCouncil authorized buying a new or used loader to replace the 1970 Cat 930source p.5
Repair lines are claims of $2,000 or more, hand-transcribed from the claims registers; smaller bills exist but are not itemized, so this is not a complete maintenance history. Amounts are labeled by transaction type: an estimate or authorization is not money spent.