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County staff to seek authority to sign recurring Purple Wave auction agreements for surplus property
Summary
County staff described a Purple Wave auction agreement that would outsource surplus vehicle and equipment auctions; staff recommended delegated signing authority to avoid repeated Board appearances when routine items are posted.
County staff asked the Board of County Commissioners to delegate authority to a county manager (or designated staff) to sign recurring agreements with Purple Wave, an online auction service, to sell surplus county vehicles and equipment.
Staff said Purple Wave would manage the auction process end‑to‑end, reducing staff time compared with the county’s current public‑surplus process. The office listed assets planned for recent sale, including three patrol trucks, a boom truck and a dump truck, and said similar rotations of assets will recur.
Staff’s recommendation was to allow a designated county official to execute individual listing agreements under the master arrangement rather than returning each small transaction to the Board. A commissioner said there was no objection to streamlining day‑to‑day operations and planned to approve the request at the next Board meeting.
Ending: The Board agreed to place the authorization on the next meeting agenda for formal approval.
