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Pineville Mayor Rich Dupree stands before the recently opened Pineville Animal Control office, one of numerous new construction projects completed or<br />
underway in the Central Louisiana city.<br />
eral LaMATS programs that help maximize<br />
the city’s available revenues and<br />
resources, while saving on precious<br />
staff time.<br />
Pineville’s Kees Park underwent a $300,000 renovation last year.<br />
For example, Pineville was already enrolled<br />
in the LaMATS Insurance Premium<br />
Tax collection program, thanks to former<br />
Mayor Fields, a longtime member of<br />
the LaMATS Board and familiar with its<br />
benefits. To date, LaMATS has collected<br />
about $4M on behalf of the city, equaling<br />
roughly $300K per year in revenues.<br />
What does that do for Pineville?<br />
“When you really break it down,” said<br />
Dupree, “it means five or six roads get<br />
overlaid and repaired, along with probably<br />
a couple of fire hydrants that go with<br />
that. It’s just that much more we’re able<br />
to do.”<br />
Another LaMATS program, offered in<br />
partnership with Enterprise Fleet Management,<br />
has supplied Pineville with<br />
dozens of new, leased vehicles, saving<br />
the city considerably on annual repair<br />
and maintenance costs.<br />
“We had been studying [this] for quite a<br />
while,” explained Dupree, who pulled the<br />
trigger on adopting the Enterprise service<br />
after years of running the numbers<br />
as Chief of Staff. “We now have in our<br />
possession 25 to 35 Public Works vehicles,<br />
replacing vehicles that had twelve<br />
to fifteen years of wear and tear on them.”<br />
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