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DISPOSITION OF SCHOOL
PROPERTY |
Date Approved: 11/17/2004 |
Policy Number: 8775 |
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Rescinds Policy Number: DO-R, DO |
Issued: 6/10/1985 |
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When the Board finds that
any building, site, or other real property owned or held by the Board is no
longer suitable or necessary for public school purposes, the Board will offer
the Board of County Commissioners the first option to obtain the property at a
fair market price. If the Board of County Commissioners does not choose to
obtain the property, the Board may dispose of the property as provided by
law. Sales or exchanges of real property
must be made by the Board of Education.
II. Disposition of Personal Property
Personal property may be
disposed of by the school system in accordance with state law and regulation.
The Superintendent shall develop procedures to provide for disposition of
personal property in compliance with state law.
Each year in conjunction with the annual inventory of fixed assets, if not
on a more frequent basis, each school’s principal and each department head
shall determine what personal property, if any, is no longer needed by that
school or that department for public school purposes. Surplus property thus
identified shall be reported to the Central Office Purchasing Division. Under
no circumstances shall any employee of Orange County Schools dispose of any
personal property without first contacting the Purchasing Division for
instructions on how to dispose of the item.
The Superintendent is authorized to
dispose of any item or groups of items having a value of less than five hundred
dollars ($500) by declaring the items to be surplus, setting their fair market
value, and disposing of these items either by public auction or private sale or
by exchange. The Superintendent may, but need not, advertise a public notice of
such items to be sold.
Under no circumstances shall
any surplus property be sold to an employee or member of an employee’s
household at a private sale. Nothing shall prohibit an employee or member of an
employee’s family from purchasing surplus property at a public action. The Superintendent is also authorized to
declare any surplus property as “junk property” if it meets all the
following requirements:
A.
The property is unusable;
B.
Repairing the property would
not make good business sense; and
C.
The property cannot be sold.
The Superintendent shall
make a semi-annual written report of all “junked” property at the same time the
other required reports on property disposition are made to the Board of
Education.
III. Granting Easements
In addition
to the above, the Board is authorized and empowered by law, in its sound
discretion, to grant easements to any public utility, municipality or
quasi-municipal corporations to furnish utility services, with or without
compensation except the benefits accruing by virtue of the location of said
public utility, and to dedicate portions of any lands owned by the Board as
rights-of-way for public streets, roads, or sidewalks, with or without
compensation except the benefits accruing by virtue of the location or
improvement of such public streets, roads or sidewalks.
Legal
Reference: G.S. 115C-518; G.S. 160A, Art. 12
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