Alpharetta budgets for high fuel costs

Alpharetta's last unleaded gas purchase cost the city $2.79 a gallon, and that was just a few weeks ago. So it really hasn't felt the pinch of higher gas prices. The city's Finance Department reports it has not made budget adjustments related to fuel costs.

We participate in that cooperative fueling center with Fulton County, the Board of Education and Roswell," said James Drinkard, assistant city administrator. "We're paying at a bulk rate for fuel. We're not paying the same rates that the average citizen is paying at the pump," he said.

The last bulk purchase was made March 24, at which time the city also paid $3.51 per gallon for diesel fuel. Alpharetta's Engineering/Public Works Department also has been working to improve route efficiencies as work crews respond to various job sites in the city.

"And that's been an ongoing project that they've been working on about a year now," Drinkard said. The efficiencies of time also net fuel savings, since the vehicles spend less time en route to work sites. He said the Public Safety and Public Works departments operate the largest numbers of vehicles in the city's fleet. Neither department needed to make any operational or budgetary changes resulting from rising fuel costs.

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