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Sheriff’s office to move abandoned-vehicle handling to public auction, begin storing at SAR July 1
Summary
To reduce storage costs and improve recoveries, the sheriff’s office told commissioners it will start using public vehicle auctions, raise the amount charged to tow operators for abandoned vehicles, and move storage to SAR beginning July 1.
The Albany County sheriff’s office told commissioners it will change how abandoned motor vehicles are handled starting July 1 to reduce county costs and discourage informal resale arrangements.
The sheriff’s office representative said the county will move to public auctions for abandoned vehicles and shift storage to the county’s SAR facility, which the office said will lower per-vehicle storage costs. "We're going to flip that around, and we'll start storing them at SAR, which cuts, like, almost $700 off of the storage cost,"…
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