Wednesday, October 8, 2008 8:44 PM CDT
Oddities, office supplies up for grabs at surplus auction
By ROB STROUD, Staff Writer
rstroud@jg-tc.com
CHARLESTON — Saturday’s city surplus equipment auction will include the standard selection of office supplies and tools plus some unusual items, including a street sign-making machine and oak bridge planks.
The auction is at 10 a.m. Saturday at the city maintenance building under the Adkins Drive water tower, off north Illinois Route 130. Johns’ Auction Service of Charleston will handle the auction, and lunch will be available for purchase.
Facility Maintenance and Parks Superintendent Curt Devore said the city holds an auction whenever it accumulates enough surplus equipment. Proceeds go to the city’s general fund.
Devore said the city sold three vehicles online this year but still has two pickups, a 1993 Ford four-wheel drive and 1998 Chevrolet, remaining for Saturday’s auction.
The auction list includes more than 60 individual or groups of sale items. Examples include six metal school chairs with desks, four 6,000-pound compressed air bottles, seven computer monitors, three printers, and six metal office chairs with cushions.
“We are going to have four or five wagons loaded up with items,” Devore said.
Johns’ Auction Service will likely start with the small items and conclude with the bigger ones, Devore said. He estimated the auction will last more than two hours.
Devore said a Graco street sign-making machine was recently added to the auction list. He said the city purchased the machine, which bakes graphics onto metal signs, more than a decade ago. He said this machine was soon replaced by modern equipment that uses computer graphics.
“When we bought the machine, it was pretty much obsolete,” Devore said. Consequently, he said the machine has little wear and tear on it.
Other auction items will include a Minolta copier, a walk-behind tiller, a small riding lawn mower, tires and rims, asphalt roof shingles, more than 200 pounds of steel exercise weights with bars, and a stack of oak planks.
Devore said the oak planks are surplus from repairs that were made to the wooden bridge on Reynolds Drive over the railroad south of the Coles County Fairgrounds.
“They would make a really nice mantle above a fireplace, or if you have other uses for heavy oak planking,” Devore said.
Bicycles will not be on the auction list this year. Devore said the city opted to donate its accumulation of unclaimed bicycles that have been found in Charleston to someone who refurbishes bikes and donates them to children in need.
For a copy of the surplus equipment auction list, contact City Hall at 345-5650.
Contact Rob Stroud at rstroud@jg-tc.com or 348-5734.
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