City looking to sell car fleet
Feb 16
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Thursday, Mar 17th 2011, 4:00 AM
New York is cooking adult skeleton to sell off a swift of cars and trucks, a Daily News has schooled – maybe even ambulances and glow trucks.
Documents uncover a city is seeking companies for ideas how to franchise a 13,500-vehicle swift instead of owning it.
“A businessman would squeeze and afterwards franchise behind city vehicles” underneath one offer from a Department of Citywide Administrative Services.
In another scenario, companies “would yield new, leased vehicles to a city and yield an choice for full maintenance.”
It’s misleading how a city’s 125 upkeep shops would be affected, though a kinship for city mechanics pronounced a work should stay in-house.
“Using private vendors to franchise and correct city vehicles creates about as most clarity as vouchsafing Bernie Madoff conduct a city’s grant funds,” pronounced kinship orator Andrew Moesel.
Deputy Mayor for Operations Stephen Goldsmith has pronounced a city’s outrageous swift is developed for cutting. He has set a $70 million assets aim in 5 years.
“We are exploring ways to save taxpayer dollars and urge efficiency, including leasing tools of a city’s fleet,” pronounced City Hall orator Jason Post. “No decisions have been done on what march to pursue.”
alisberg@nydailynews.com