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For the purpose of clarification, the minimum cost for the removal of
surplus is not $300. The charge for surplus pickup is based on actual hours
to do the job Based on labor wages, you can expect to pay $75-$90 for
pickup of a small amount of surplus and upwards to $300 for a full truck.
Because of state law, it is important to follow the district surplussing
process so that all equipment is accounted for. As Mark pointed out, it is
a good idea to allow your surplus to accumulate before submitting the
Inventory Control Form for surplus pickup. (Just a side note...before Work
Management began charging for surplus pickup it was common for schools to
have small amounts of surplus picked up by the laborers. This, of course,
was costly to the district and very time consuming to the laborers when a
crew of union paid laborers had to run to a school to pick up just two
worthless computers!)
In addition, SSD has been identified as a "fully regulated generator" of
equipment deemed as electronic waste and must comply with the Department of
Ecology's regulations for the disposal of this waste. Given the district's
labor union contracts, state inventory requirements, and DOE requirements of
hazardous waste disposal, all surplus must be picked up by district laborers
via the Work Management Department.
If you have any other questions or concerns regarding surplus and district
inventory requirements, please feel free to contact me.
Lloyd Wallace
Seattle School District
Fixed Assets Accounting
206-252-0568
Mail Stop: 33-343
Cubicle #3520
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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
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Arbor Heights Elementary
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