Each year, town budgets accommodate the costs of new vehicles for the town's fire, police, public works and various other departments. Weaverville and Woodfin are no different. When it comes time to decommission one of these vehicles, does the town get any return for it? Not much, according to Weaverville Town Manager Mike Morgan.
Morgan, Weaverville Public Works Director Larry Sprinkle and Weaverville Police Chief Greg Stephens responded to several questions on this matter during a public hearing on the town budget Monday night (June 9). Councilmen Walt Currie and Doug Jackson asked the department heads if they had investigated ways to get top dollar on the return of their vehicles. Sprinkle said his department had tried several avenues, including govdeals.com and Ebay, all with little success. Stephens mentioned that since the return is so low, he ensures he gets maximum use out of the vehicles by rotating older models to employees who may not use the vehicles for high-speed pursuits. Morgan said the town had sold several vehicles to a scrap metal dealer in Virginia.
"The market is just not there for selling old vehicles," Sprinkle told the council.
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