Medical Lake surpluses dozens of scrap items

Dozens of items in the maintenance shop were approved as surplus by the Medical Lake City Council at its Tuesday, May 7 meeting.

The shop has become something of a storage location for broken items that don’t work, as well as other items like abandoned bicycles. The City Council took a glance at the items set to become surplus, but didn’t find any to note separately from the others.

“These items are items we cannot use any longer,” City Administrator Doug Ross said. “At first glance, it looks like we’re getting rid of things we can use, but we haven’t used these for years, nor do we plan on us...