NILES Auction will rid district, school of unneeded supplies, materials

Everything left in the school is up for sale, the superintendent said.
By SHERRI L. SHAULIS
VINDICATOR TRUMBULL STAFF
NILES -- If you can pay for it and get it out of there, it's yours.
Items left behind when staff and administrators made the move from Edison Junior High School to Niles Middle School will be auctioned off beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday.
Participants can look over items for auction and register from 8 to 10 a.m. at the former school on West Church Street.
"Anything that's there is up for grabs," said Superintendent Patrick N. Guliano.
Guliano said items like desks, chairs, kitchen ovens, sinks, tubs, pots and pans, and more will be sold.
Items will be listed in lots, he said, and if they fail to get a bid that way, they will be sold individually.
"It's all the things that we can't use anywhere else in the district," he explained.
Last month, staff at Edison Junior High School made the move to the new building on Brown Street off state Route 46.
The new middle school opens Aug. 27, when sixth-grade pupils report for the first day of school. Seventh-graders start Aug. 28, and eighth-graders begin Aug. 29.
Bidding process
State law says school districts can only directly sell any property to another government or public entity, but Guliano said no one from any city, township or county agency expressed interest in any of the items.
The district also reserves the right to accept or reject any bid, or to set a minimum amount for any items.
The auction is scheduled to last two hours, but Guliano said it could go longer.
"It all depends on the bidding process and the number of people who show up," he said.
He noted anyone who buys an item at the auction is responsible for removing it.
The junior high building, which originally opened in 1914 as the city's high school, housed seventh and eighth grades. It was the high school until the 1950s, when it became one of two junior high schools. In the 1980s, it became the only junior high.
The building will be demolished later this year.
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