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Senate advances bill to privatize state surplus property sales, excludes SITLA assets
Summary
The Senate advanced a substitute for SB 68 to allow private vendors to sell state surplus property via online auctions, citing efficiency and a positive fiscal note; an amendment preserved School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA) assets from the change. The measure was placed on the third-reading calendar after a recorded vote.
Senator Weiler, sponsor of the substitute for Senate Bill 68, told the Senate the state—s surplus property program is inefficient and costly and proposed contracting with private vendors to sell surplus items in place through an online auction process. He said the current system stores goods in a Draper warehouse open only a few hours a week and incurs pickup and storage costs that could be avoided by allowing buyers to take items directly from the owning agency.
"If that's listed out at an auction-type website, and it doesn't sell, then the agency would have the opportunity to throw that away or to donate [it]," Weiler said, arguing the change would eliminate mileage and storage expenses that now reduce the value recovered for taxpayers. He…
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