From my email box;
So I guess Sioux Falls doesn’t have any potholes to fill, so they are selling the machine that fixes them.Seriously – this is a machine that was new in 2006… are we really only getting four years of use out of our equipment these days? That doesn’t exactly seem efficient. I have underwear older than that.
It also appears to be in good working order since the auctioneer has an assurance on it. The city plays these games all the time, they can’t have anything that is too old – who cares, not their money, spend, spend, spend. Pat Costello joked once during a council meeting that whenever he would drive by a work site with private contractors and public works vehicles at it, he noticed the private contractor work trucks were like 15 years old and the public works drove brand new vehicles. It amazes me that we would cut tree removal budgets, yet not even blink twice about selling a vehicle at a third of what is was probably worth brand new.
