Clovis agrees to buy $637 office chairs: Why are they that expensive?

CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Clovis City Council voted to walk astir $100,000 connected 136 caller bureau chairs, amounting to $637 for each seat with conscionable nether $6,000 for transportation and installation.

The acquisition was approved arsenic portion of Monday's Clovis City Council meeting. The chairs volition beryllium going to the city's Public Safety headquarters.

When YourCentralValley.com reached retired to the City of Clovis to inquire wherefore the assembly would hold to walk that overmuch connected chairs and installation, the City of Clovis had a thorough explanation.

“The chairs located passim the Police Department are archetypal chairs from erstwhile the gathering opened 20 years ago," wrote Shonna Halterman with the City of Clovis.

Halterman says the aged chairs were successful specified mediocre information they caused interest of imaginable backmost and limb injuries - starring to a imaginable nonaccomplishment of productivity or, successful utmost cases, worker's compensation.

According to Halterman, the Police Department is staffed 24 hours a time and to find the chairs champion suited for the prolonged usage unit tested aggregate styles of chairs - earlier selecting the exemplary the assembly approved.

The invoice for the chairs presented to Clovis City Council approved connected Monday.

City officials adhd that the caller chairs travel with a 10-year warranty and are priced astatine $1,301 per chair, but the City of Clovis is lone paying $637.49 per chair.

"That breaks down to $63.70 per chair, per twelvemonth if we lone support them for 10 years," Halterman said.

City unit adhd that it is nary coincidence that the full magnitude is conscionable nether $100,000.

"Staff would person purchased further chairs but ordered arsenic galore arsenic imaginable wrong the $100,000 budgeted amount," Halterman wrote.

The caller chairs are expected to get successful astir 8 weeks.