Jersey City audited its 1,276-vehicle municipal fleet for the first time, cutting 70 cars and more than 40 percent of its take-home vehicles, a strategy that experts say would help cash-strapped cities like Albany and New York.
The count turned up 88 employees driving city cars home and roughly $400,000 spent on 10 scooters that sat unused in a city lot, according to the city. Mayor James Solomon is responding by auctioning off 40 vehicles and stripping 30 nonfunctional ones for parts. Take-home cars fell from 88 to 52, with 49 of the remaining vehicles assigned to public safety.
Solomon said municipal fleet management tends to be on autopilot…