Submitted By
Tammie Grossman, Director, Development Customer Services
Reviewed By
LKS
Agenda Item Title
Title
An Ordinance Authorizing the Sale of Surplus Posts, Signs, and Scrap Owned by the Village of Oak Park
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Overview
Overview
The Development Customer Services Department Parking & Mobility Services Division has various items that can be sold as surplus because they are no longer useful to the Village. The items will be sold at auction, traded in, donated or sold and/or disposed of as scrap.
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Recommendation
Recommendation
Appprove the Ordinance.
Fiscal Impact
No fiscal impact to Village. The identified surplus items have limited revenue opportunities for selling and the cost of removing and transferring the goods would supersede the scraping value of the items. Village staff has identified a business that will absorb the cost of removing the surplus items in trade for the value of scraping the items.
Background
In accordance with Village policy and State law (65 ILCS 5/11-76-4), the Village may, by Ordinance, authorize the disposition of designated personal surplus property in order to dispose of items no longer usable to the Village. Because the identified surplus items have limited revenue opportunities for selling and the cost of removing and transferring the items would supersede their scraping value, Village staff has identified a business that will absorb the cost of removing said surplus items in trade for the value achieved by said company in scraping the items. The items brought forth in the recommended ordinance have little to no resale value due to their condition or they have reached their useful life. The items identified for surplus include the following: Old, unusable parking meter poles; Old, unusable parking meter casings; Old, unusable rusted and bent parking sign posts; Unusable, faded and bent parking signs; and old, unusable grid type parking signs.
In any instance where a pole is being removed from concrete, the...
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