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The city administrator is authorized to determine whether any item of city-owned personal property is surplus to the present or future needs of the city. (1)
Such items so declared to be surplus shall be offered by him for sale on a competitive bid basis. Bids may be solicited by him or by the purchasing agent by written request, telephone, public notice posted on city property, by public auction, by advertisements in any newspaper or magazine or by any combination of such methods.
(2)
The city administrator, or his designee, is authorized to sell to the highest bidder any item of surplus city personal property for which an offer of two hundred fifty dollars or less is received as the highest bid for such item, and any conglomerate surplus material for which the highest offer received is five hundred dollars or less. No sale of any item of surplus city personal property for which an offer in excess of two hundred fifty dollars is received, and no sale of any conglomerate material for which there is received an offer in excess of five hundred dollars, shall be made unless approved by the city council.
(3)
When, after a reasonable effort has been made to obtain bids, no bids have been obtained for any item of city-owned personal property so declared to be surplus, the city administrator is authorized to dispose of such item for the highest scrap value that can be obtained therefor, and if a reasonable effort to do so produces no opportunity to sell the same for scrap, he may cause its destruction or any other disposition thereof.
(Ord. 202 § 13, 1974).