(a) Within sixty days of the effective date of this section, the following Village employees and officials shall complete and deliver to the Village Administrator an inventory of all Village property in their department as follows:
Fire Department | Fire Chief |
Police Department | Police Chief |
Service Department | Service Superintendent |
Water/Sewer Department | Water & Sewer Superintendent |
Administration & All Departments not listed above | Village Administrator |
(1) These inventories shall include all motor vehicles, tools, equipment, computers, radios, and any other equipment or machinery with a purchase price of one hundred dollars ($1 00.00) or more and each item shall be identified by a brief description including serial numbers where available. Those items with no serial number shall be assigned a Village department number.
(2) The Village Administrator shall compile the inventories received and provide to the Mayor and Council and make available upon request a total Village inventory compiled from the documents submitted under this Section.
(b) During the month of March beginning in 2012 and each year thereafter, the officials and employees listed in subsection (a) hereof shall revise their department inventory and deliver a copy of the revised inventory to the Village Administrator by no later than March 31 who shall
then compile a revised Village-wide inventory. This list shall be provided to the Mayor and each member of Council.
(c) No item listed on the inventory or left off of the inventory but belonging to the Village shall be disposed of except as follows:
(1) Personal property not needed by the Village for municipal purposes as determined by the Village Administrator and having an estimated value of less than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) may be disposed of by the department head by private sale.
(2) Personal property not needed by the Village for municipal purposes and having a value of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) or more shall be sold:
A. Upon authorization by Ordinance to the highest and best bidder after advertising once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the Village;
B. By trading vehicles, equipment or machinery to the seller of vehicles, equipment or machinery as part of the purchase price of new vehicles, equipment or machinery of the same type if authorized by Resolution of Council;
C. Pursuant to the procedure provided in the annual Resolution adopted by Council authorizing sale by internet auction.
(3) Any municipal property which is obsolete or unfit for the use for which it was acquired and has no value may be discarded or salvaged at the discretion of the department head upon whose inventory it appears.
(d) The procedures set forth in subsection (c) hereof do not apply to property in the possession of the Police Department which is unclaimed or forfeited. This property shall be disposed of in accordance with Ohio RC. Chapter 2981.
(e) No real property or interest in real property shall be sold or encumbered except as directed by an ordinance of Council.
(Ord. 3000. Passed 2-27-12.)