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Hi all,
A note on surplus equipment. The district charges a school $300 per pick up.
It doesn't matter if it's just one cpu, or if it's thirty desks, ten boxes
of books, ten monitors, and 20 cpu's. It costs $300. Anything bar coded,
anything belonging to a school (included donated computer equipment) must be
disposed of this way. Union contracts play a part in this. Naturally, if
you're surplussing computer equipment, your inventory has to be updated, and
paperwork must be filled out, as anything bar-coded will be scanned by the
district's pick-up. Then, we all know about those lovely computer
inventories that must be kept up to date. There are lots of hoops to jump
through. Not doing so causes tons of headaches for people - including
building secretaries, or whoever is responsible for the school inventory.
Additionally, you can put in a request for a pick up, and you may wait one
day, or you may wait two months. There is no date assigned to pick up for
building surplus. We've been building up a huge pile of cpu's and monitors,
waiting before we put in a request for a pick up - to get our money's worth.
But we still have to go through the pile and strip out usable hardware that
we may need some day. This is a huge, very time consuming job, and it's
taking us a while.
There is no way there is a "spot" somewhere by district HQ where you can
just drop stuff off on your own. - Mark
Mark Ahlness
mlahlness@seattleschools.org
Arbor Heights Elementary
www.arborheights.com
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