WARREN — The Trumbull County Sheriff’s Office has been approved to purchase four new 2025 Interceptor cruisers that will cost $263,214.20.

The individual cruiser cost is $44,000 per vehicle, plus an additional $21,828.55 for the police package equipment that is placed in all patrol vehicles.

Mark Manning, Trumbull County Sheriff’s Office chief financial officer, during Tuesday’s commissioner workshop initially requested five new vehicles that would have cost the county more than $329,042.

Manning stated the department needs to replace vehicles because it has a number of vehicles that have between 200,000 and 250,000 miles on them.

“Replacing these vehicles is for the safety of our officers,” he said. “If something happens to one of our vehicles now, we have nothing to replace them.”

Manning noted the sheriff ideally would like to establish an annual purchasing program in which several new vehicles are purchased to replace older high-mileage vehicles.

Commissioner Denny Malloy said the county spent nearly $1 million for new sheriff vehicles several years ago.

“It was 14 cruisers and one unmarked vehicle,” said Shara Taylor, the county’s payroll clerk.

Malloy objected to Tuesday’s request, saying the county board previously agreed to set aside $250,000 for five new cruisers for the sheriff’s office.

“In this proposal, there is another $30,000 for terminals,” he said. “We were supposed to take terminals from the old vehicles.”

Manning emphasized any equipment that can be transferred from the older vehicles will be taken, which should reduce the purchase price.

“We don’t know exactly what the savings will be,” he said.

Malloy questioned if the county could trade some of the sheriff’s older vehicles to reduce the costs for the new vehicles.

Taylor suggested the department needs to keep a few of the older vehicles in case one or more of the other vehicles in the sheriff’s office are temporarily put out of commission due to accidents or repair work.

Malloy, as a compromise, suggested reducing the number of vehicles in the request from five to four vehicles, so the amount that will be spent will only be slightly higher than what was originally planned to be provided.

It was determined that some of the money to pay for the cruisers will come from the $2 million provided to the county by former clerk of courts Karen Infante Allen before she retired and left office earlier this year.

Malloy said that about $1 million was already set aside from the former clerk’s donation to provide funds for the sheriff’s office in case it is needed at the end of the year.

Some of this money also is being used for other projects, such as the county’s desire to hire a consultant to do grant writing.

“We have to plan this through,” Malloy said.