Desks, tables, a pair of pianos, bicycles and much more will be auctioned off by the city in early May.
During Tuesday’s city council meeting, the city declared a number of items as surplus property, to be sold off in a public auction on May 8. The auction is held annually after employees review their departments’ inventory to see if there are items the city no longer needs. The declaration will be submitted again to the council for final passage on April 20.
Items included on the city hall list are 11 desks, 12 tables, 20 office chairs, 61 stack chairs, miscellaneous computer equipment, seven printers, miscellaneous cabinets, two sofas, four arm chairs, an upright piano, a baby grand piano, a gas stove, a set of lockers, building materials, light fixtures, telephones, partitions, five fans, plant stands, baseboard heaters, doors, folding chairs, a stainless steel dishwasher, Christmas decorations and used metal siding.
“The pianos were items that were stored at the auditorium prior to the renovation and are no longer needed,” said Dave McCracken, police chief and acting city manager. “The desks, chairs and stuff we’ve accumulated at city hall are kind of in poor condition.”
In municipal court, the city hopes to sell off nine computer towers, five desk printers, two message machines, a coffee maker, three telephones, two dehumidifiers, five desks, a television, 64 stack chairs, 12 office chairs, 30 folding chairs and a podium.
Up for public auction in the police department are 21 boys and girls bicycles, an unused stereo power amplifier, a small drafting table, two boxes of teddy bears, two dry erase boards, a two-drawer fire resistant filing cabinet, a steel live trap, two box fans, two animal cages, five large plastic barrels, three animal crates, 12 cat litter pans, three cat litter scoops, 100 steel bowls and a carbon monoxide detector.
“Every year, we seem to accumulate bicycles,” McCracken said. “A lot of them are just found. People will call and say they found a bicycle in the ditch. A lot of them get claimed, but we have a lot unclaimed, too.”
The police department also has a number of items that will be disposed of by sealed bids, including two modems, a base data link control, three portable police radios, four radio consoles, 13 data radio units, and a lightbar.
A number of weapons will also be disposed of by sealed bid, including seven shotguns, 11 pistols and 14 rifles.
“Some of these were found weapons, some belonged to someone who was not qualified to own a firearm, such as a convicted felon,” said McCracken. “All of them have been advertised.”
The police department has collected the weapons for two or three years, McCracken said, and the bidding will be open to registered gun dealers only.
“Some of the weapons are up to three years old,” he said. “We sell them when we have a large enough group to attract the firearms dealers to come down and look at them.”
The auditorium has a refrigerator and a metal desk for disposal.
The fire department will sell off a 1984 Dodge ¾ ton truck cab and chassis, and a pair of generators.
