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MEMO TO: Clerk -Administrator and City Council <br />I �J <br />FROM: Director of Public Works/Community Developmen <br />DATE: October 10, 1984 <br />SUBJECT: SCRAP/SURPLUS WATER METERS <br />The City owns approximately 200 scrap/surplus Corad brand <br />residential water meters. The water meters were removed from <br />houses during the meter maintenance program. They are using <br />valuable storage space and I feel the time is right to sell them. <br />Water Products Company has offered the City $1.50 per meter or <br />approximately $300.00 for all the meters. <br />Davies Water Equipment Company has indicated to me that they do <br />not want the water meters at any price. <br />Schwartzman & Sons of Anoka, scrap metal dealers, have offered <br />$0.40 per pound for clean cast brass. Their total offer is <br />calculated as follows: <br />$0.40 per pound x 3.5 founds per meter x 200 meters = $280.00 <br />The problem with this offer is that in order to deliver clean <br />` cast brass to Schwartzman & Sons, the City must remove the <br />non -brass parts from each meter. The cost for this procedure is <br />calculated as follows: <br />15 minutes per meter x 200 meters + by 60 minutes per <br />hour x $10.76 per hour = $538.00 <br />Therefore, I recommend that the City declare approximately 200 <br />Corad meters surplus and sell them to Water Products Company for <br />$1.50 per meter or approximately $300.00. <br />SWT/bc <br />