From
A. Bryce Davis, Purchasing Manager
Title
Ordinance amending the City of Grand Prairie Code of Ordinances, Chapter 11, Finance, Records and Property, Section 11-16: Disposition of pistols and illegal weapons by police department,” Section 11-17: “Sale of Unclaimed and Surplus Property,” Section 11-17.1: Unclaimed and abandoned property-Definitions,” and Section 11-17.2: “Same- Sale of” of the Grand Prairie Code of Ordinances addressing updates to disposition of property by the Police Department, and sale of unclaimed and surplus property
Presenter
A. Bryce Davis, Purchasing Manager
Recommended Action
Approve
Analysis
Currently the City is in the practice of publicly auctioning all of its excess, obsolete, unclaimed, and surplus property in accordance with Chapter 11, Section 16, 17, 17.1 and 17.2 of the Grand Prairie Code of Ordinances; this process is cumbersome for staff to manage often failing to achieve market value for the items being auctioned, as well as is ill-suited to properly dispose of certain articles of property such as Police pistols and long barreled firearms, functioning IT automation equipment, and end-of-service City vehicles--all of which may have significant value or other strategic reasons for which public auction may not be advisable or truly representative of the best value to the City.
The proposed revisions to section 16 include: referencing the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure; changing all references of "pistols" to the more generalized "prohibited weapons" or "firearms"; and updating language for Police retiree's to purchase one firearm previously issued to that individual upon retirement.
The proposed revisions to section 17 of this ordinance allows at the discretion of the Chief Financial Officer or her designee additional methods of sale to maximize the value to the City and is congruent with best practices across the DFW metroplex. The additional methods of sale include but are not limited to: competitive sealed...
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