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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />To: Honorable Mayor Adams and Council <br /> <br />From: Julie Feier, City Manager <br /> <br />Date: September 5, 2008 <br /> <br />Subject: Weekly Update <br /> <br /> <br />Fleet Bid <br /> <br />An Invitation to bid forUniversity City’s fleet management consulting service was posted <br />in the St. Louis Post Dispatch, St. Louis American, National League of Cities <br />publication, and on the City website. The following individuals received bid packets: <br /> <br />Tony Yankovich Paul Gold <br />Mercury Associates, Inc. Transportation Consultants, Inc. <br /> <br />Greg Fassler Morton Hyman <br />Municipal Fleet Consultants <br /> <br />The only bid received was from Mercury Associates, Inc. for $27,720. The full bid is <br />included with Council’s attachments. Please review and provide feedback or contact me <br />if you would like to be a part of the interview process. We are excited to welcome <br />Richard Pierce as our new Fleet Manager. He will begin on Monday, September 8, <br />2008. He comes to us with a background in fleet management administration and he <br />has previously held Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) certifications as an ASE <br />Master Medium/Heavy Truck Technician and an ASE Automotive Technician. <br /> <br />Use Tax <br />A use tax applies the sales tax rate on the use, storage or consumption of tangible <br />personal property shipped into Missouri from out of state. The State use tax rate is <br />imposed at a rate of 4.225%. In addition, cities and counties may impose local use tax. <br />The amount of use tax paid on the transaction will depend on the combined local use <br />tax rate in effect at the Missouri location to which the tangible personal property is <br />shipped. Either the out-of-state seller will collect and remit the use tax directly to <br />Missouri or the purchaser is responsible for remitting the tax to the department if the <br />out-of-state seller does not collect use tax on the transaction. Local use taxes are <br />distributed in the same manner as sales tax. Missouri cannot require out of state <br />companies that do not have nexus or “direct connection” with the state to collect and <br />remit use tax. <br /> <br /> <br />