{"id":21765,"date":"2025-06-19T22:43:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T04:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-county-auctioning-off-some-property\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:09:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:09:19","slug":"montezuma-county-auctioning-off-some-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-county-auctioning-off-some-property\/","title":{"rendered":"Montezuma County auctioning off some property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d5d4d8e0-de32-4c0a-abe3-923a284c92d6&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"A stripped Montezuma County Sheriff\u2019s Office vehicle will be up for auction. (Journal file photo)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A stripped Montezuma County Sheriff\u2019s Office vehicle will be up for auction. (Journal file photo)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the Montezuma Board of County Commissioners unanimously voted on an agreement with the internet auction company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purplewave.com\/about\" id=\"link-80fb24204419fbfc3dcd98b230b94724\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Purple Wave Auction<\/a> to give items owned by the county a second life. The agreement authorizes the county to sell its own \u201csurplus vehicles and equipment,\u201d said County Commissioner Gerald Koppenhafer.<\/p>\n<p>Users of the website can bid on items for sale that are being auctioned by the county.<\/p>\n<p>Currently available for auction, the county has a dump truck, a boom truck and a few stripped Sheriff\u2019s Office vehicles and \u201cmore to come through the year,\u201d said County Commissioner Jim Candelaria.<\/p>\n<p>Candelaria said that the company takes care of just about everything, so the county simply has to sign over the titles to the surplus property.<\/p>\n<p>Purple Wave Auctions is a Kansas-based company with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purplewave.com\/about\/territory\" id=\"link-1f11bbaf4a07844423f1b00462818410\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a nationwide presence<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>approves new agreement with online auction company<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2275,28,109,29,2274],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-21765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-automotive-equipment","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county-commissioner","tag-newsletter","tag-sales"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77448,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21765\/revisions\/77448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21765"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=21765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}