The Richmond County School System will host a warehouse sale on Saturday offering surplus items from schools throughout the county. The sale will include items such as furniture and appliances from offices and classrooms.
“There’s stuff that’s been replaced over time,” said Benton Starks, senior director of facilities services with the school district. “Discontinued programs, those kind of things.”
The sale will also include electronics hardware, such Promethean boards and overhead projectors, many of which had been tucked away in teachers’ closets for years.
The district used to regularly host warehouse sales, about every three months; though now excess goods are usually sold via the marketplace site www.govdeals.com. An overabundance of stock led to launching Saturday’s sale, said Starks.
“We’ve got two schools we’re going to repurpose, we’ve got a remodeling project coming up for this facility that where we house all of this,” said Stark. “So it’s just a perfect storm that we need to move some stuff out.”
The district will be holding the sale at 1752 Lumpkin Road on Saturday, April 15, from 7 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Items in the warehouse will be available for sale on a first come, first serve basis, and sold for cash only. All sales are final, and buyers are required to remove their purchases the same day, as the warehouse won’t be holding items for later pick up.
Skyler Q. Andrews is a staff reporter for The Augusta Press. Reach him at skyler@theaugustapress.com.
