Rahm Sells Our Old Stuff Online

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In a metropolitan homogeneous of offered your aged things on eBay, a city of Chicago done $3.6 million by auctioning over-abundance apparatus online, scarcely twice a volume it collected in 2010. Chicago’s used junk enclosed fax appurtenance toner, throw metal, aged lorry tools and travel sweepers. As a observant goes, one city’s rabble is another city’s treasure.

“It is a shortcoming to a taxpayers of Chicago to leave no mill unturned or aged fax appurtenance unsold when it comes to bringing in new income to a City,” Mayor Rahm Emanuel pronounced in a statement. “For any dollar we move in by a online auction system, it’s one reduction dollar we have to find from someplace else that allows us to safety vicious City services that Chicagoans count on. we praise a Department of Procurement Services for a assertive office of apparatus that can be sole online. It is an instance of a form efficient, skill that we will continue to essay for each day.”

Emanuel says we can do even improved subsequent year. Already this month, we’ve done $90,000 online by offered 450 tons of throw metal, several pieces of complicated apparatus and a set of decommissioned Micro-Turbine energy generators, and a mayor thinks we can acquire $4.6 million.

Right now, many of a apparatus on sale during a city’s Public Surplus site are aged automobiles, including a 1998 Ford Windstar Minivan. You can also buy 204 limestone slabs, a reproduce machine, dual atmosphere compressors and 13 strobe lights.

That, of course, is some-more than adequate income to keep a libraries open on Mondays. But that’s not where a income is going, since it’s not a city’s error a libraries are closed. It’s a union’s fault. Maybe if we tighten a libraries altogether, we can make even some-more income online, by offered all a aged books on Amazon.

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