FPUD approves backhoe purchase

The Fallbrook Public Utility District has a new Case 580N backhoe loader.

The backhoe loader arrived Oct. 13 and will replace a Terex 760 backhoe manufactured in 2003 which will be sold at auction next month. On May 27, the FPUD board voted 3-1, with Milt Davies opposed and Archie McPhee abstaining, to approve the purchase of a new backhoe loader.

“The board wanted to be sure that this equipment was essential and couldn’t be somehow shared under the previous Fallbrook-Rainbow cooperative agreement,” said FPUD general manager Brian Brady.

FPUD had originally considered purchase of the new backh...