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A . v <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 01-d_ <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: December 15, 1998 <br />SUBJECT: Disposal of Surplus Computers <br />DEPARTMENT: PURCHASING AND Public Hearing: Yes: No- <br />.-X-CENTRAL SERVICES BudgetAmendmentRegd ?Yes_X No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Resolution PAM JONES, ext. 2650 <br />Telephone Number - <br />Hillsborough <br />732 -8181 <br />Chapel Hill <br />967 -9251 <br />Mebane <br />227 -2031 <br />Durham <br />688 -7331 <br />PURPOSE: To consider authorizing County staff to take the following action: <br />• Dispose of up to 20 computers that have been replaced in County <br />departments and are now surplus; <br />• Effect budget and accounting action to ensure no monetary impact is <br />experienced by the Literacy Council as a result of this action. <br />BACKGROUND: Commissioner Moses Carey recently requested that County staff <br />pursue means by which the County could transfer surplus computers to support the <br />literacy efforts of the NAACP. NAACP carries out their literacy initiative through <br />computer based instruction in various area churches. <br />In order to support the overall literacy effort in a coordinated, cooperative manner, the <br />Board is suggesting that the computers be transferred to the Orange County Literacy <br />Council. The Literacy Council, in cooperation with NAACP will place the computers in <br />critical areas where literacy goals can best be achieved. Both the Literacy Council and <br />the leadership of NAACP have discussed and agreed upon this alternative. <br />Disposal of public assets must be accomplished in one of five ways: <br />• Private negotiation and sale <br />• Sale by sealed bids <br />• Private sale with upset bids <br />• Auction <br />• Exchanges <br />