Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

Finance committee approves county vehicle purchase

By RICHARD JENKINS

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HURLEY — Iron County employees likely won’t have to use their own vehicles when traveling out of the area for work, after the Iron County Board of Supervisors’ finance committee recommended purchasing two county vehicles Thursday.

The two Jeep Cherokee Latitudes are expected to cost roughly $22,098 a piece, according information presented at the meeting. Based on information presented at previous committee meetings, the purchase is expected to be less than the county spends paying for mileage each year and the county would have the vehicles for a...