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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS 1 ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: December 7, 1999 Action Agenda .Item No. g -,~,, SUBJECT: Disposal of Surplus Computers DEPARTMENT: PUBLIC HEARING:. (Y/N) No Purchasing and Central Services ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Resolution Moses Carey Pam Jones, ext. 2652 Albert Kittrell ext. 2300 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-8181. Chapel Hill 968-4501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane. 336-227-2031 PURPOSE: To consider authorizing County staff to take the following action: (a) dispose of up to 20 computers that have been replaced in County departments and are now surplus; and (b) effect budget and accounting action to ensure no monetary impact is experienced by the Literacy Council as a result of this action. BACKGROUND: On December 15,.1998 the Board declared 20 computers that were replaced by new computers as surplus and authorized staff to transfer the computers to the Orange County Literacy Council to support their overall literacy effort. The Literacy Council in cooperation with NAACP placed the surplus computers in area churches to assist youths with. tutorial programs and literacy. The partnership between the Literacy Council and the NAACP has been successful and both organizations would like to expand the tutorial and literacy efforts to more youths. in .the year 2000 by adding 20 more surplus computers. Disposal of public assets must be accomplished in one. of five ways: • Private negotiation and sale • .Sale by sealed bids • Private sale with upset bids • Auction • Exchanges The Board in 1996 authorized the Director of Purchasing and Central Services to dispose of assets whose value is less than. $500 for a single item or group of items. Surplus computers fall within those parameters.