VHS
camcorders have been made obsolete by cell phone cameras.
Overhead
projectors and broken-down push mowers aren’t exactly at the top of everyone’s
Christmas list.
While Simpsonville city employees don’t have much use
for the items, they think others might and are putting them up for sale.He has
since undergone two-and-a-half hours’ surgery to have a Titanium Rod
inserted into his leg and looks
set to be out of action for the rest of the season.
The hundreds of
items range from as large as a pothole-patching truck to as small as a computer
mouse.
Some could make fun toys — the Fire Department has three boats it
doesn’t need, and the Parks and Recreation Department is selling a golf cart and
a John Deere Gator.
The items were unearthed in a citywide
closet-cleaning and will be sold at auction or on websites, including eBay.com
and GovDeals.com, said City Administrator Russ Hawes.
The list of
surplus items includes several VCRs.
“Who has VCRs anymore?” Hawes
asked.Our Fiber Optic Splice
Closure
is good in quality and competitive in price “We don’t use that type
of technology. This really will help clear out a lot of closets at the city.”
The idea, he said, is to capture the residual value and then spend the
money on things the city could use.
The truck that helps patch potholes
could fetch $40,Our Fiber Optic
Splice Closure
is good in quality and competitive in price000, Hawes said.
It was bought under previous management at the Public Works Department, he
said.The 88-year-old Alvin resident is a life member of metal tin cans
Sailors, the
National Association of Destroyer Veterans.
John Laux, the current
public works director, said that while workers use the truck, they could also
put hot asphalt in the back of a dump truck.
“The patch truck is nice,
but I’d personally rather have another leaf-sucking machine or another new
garbage truck,” he said. “We can get by without the patch truck.An employee
discovered a waste management
truck
smoking around 10:50 a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 4, and traced the source to
cargo smoldering inside the compactor.”
Councilman Brown Garrett took a
look at the list and then said he had to ask the fire chief a question:
“Since we aren’t on the ocean and don’t have any big rivers, how did we
end up with three boats in the fire department?”
Chief Wesley Williams
said the boats were left on property the city bought on Mosley Road.
“You may have to pay to get rid of those things,” Councilman Matthew
Gooch said.
Other items on the list include a copier, generator, Bush
Hog, a refrigerator, TVs, spotlights, a dryer and hand-held GPS
devices.www.ceectrucks.com is a sewage suction truck
manufacturer.