Martinsville Council Buys $11,000 Snowplow for New Truck

Martinsville City Council | September 23, 2026

Article Summary: The Martinsville City Council on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, voted 6-0 to buy a snowplow for the city’s new truck at $11,000 including installation and wiring, and agreed to keep the old plow to see whether it can be repaired for use as a backup.

Snowplow Purchase Key Points:

• The purchase is for the city’s new truck at $11,000, a figure the agenda and the minutes both state includes installation and wiring.
• Moved by Alderman Travis Hill, seconded by Alderman Chris Perry; approved 6-0.
• The old plow will be kept “to see if it can be repaired at an appropriate amount to use as a backup plow,” according to the minutes.
• No vendor, no funding source and no description of the new truck appears in either document.

MARTINSVILLE — The Martinsville City Council on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, approved an $11,000 snowplow for the city’s new truck, with installation and wiring included in the price, ahead of the winter season.

Hill moved the purchase and Perry seconded it. Alderman Chris Davidson, Perry, Alderman Harley Craig, Alderman Wendy Isbell, Hill and Alderman Ashley Wilhoit all voted yes on the record vote, and the motion carried.

The minutes add one condition to the purchase that does not appear on the agenda: “The old one will be kept to see if it can be repaired at an appropriate amount to use as a backup plow.” The record does not say what repair cost the council would consider appropriate, who will evaluate the old plow, or when that evaluation will come back to the council.

The item was eighth of 10 on the agenda, described there as “Consideration and Action To purchase a new snowplow for the new truck. Myer plow at $11,000 Installed and wired.” Both the agenda and the minutes render the manufacturer as “Myer.”

The record is silent on several points that normally accompany an equipment purchase of this size. No vendor or dealer is named. No fund is identified as the source of the $11,000, and the minutes contain no reference to the city’s budget for the purchase. The “new truck” the plow is being fitted to is not described anywhere in either document — no make, model, year or acquisition date — and neither document indicates when the city bought it or at what cost.

The snowplow was the last numbered action item before the council moved into closed session at 7:42 p.m.

It was also the only equipment or capital purchase on the Sept. 23 agenda. Public works activity otherwise surfaced only in Mayor Robert Lovell’s comments, where he reported that gas line work would begin “up North” on Oct. 14 and that the splash pad was being painted, with poles in the ground for half of the pickleball court ahead of fencing.