Surplus Procedure
Any equipment of furniture that is no longer useful to the District must be properly disposed. The following methods detail approved methods of disposal by the District.
Disposal of surplus items are required Board approval per Board Policy BP 6550 and Education Code § 81452.
Approved methods of disposal by the District are:
- Donation to another education institution or non-profit agency
- Bulk sales through a liquidator auction company
- E-bay sales through a Board approved 3rd-party facilitator
To mark items for surplus:
- Department notifies its Campus Physical Plant office of items that need to be surplus.
- Campus Physical Plant office consolidates the lists from all departments and ensures that these are removed from the inventory count maintained for equipment valued at $1,000 and above.
- The list of assets to be surplus is submitted to the Purchasing Department
- The lists from all locations are conslidated by Purchasing and forwarded to all locations to determine if they have a need for any item on the surpllus list. If so, arrangements are made by Purchasing to transfer these to the requesting location.
- Remaining items are offered for donation to various schools
- All remaining items to be surplus are submitted for Board approval.
- Action to dispose of any remaining items are taken.