It’s out with the old and in with the new at Dover city offices. The city is auctioning off some well-used items and trading in some old police handguns while welcoming a few new vehicles and preparing to move City Hall.
The items being auctioned off at govdeals.com include old police cruisers, the mayor’s old car and riding mowers, all the way down to folding chairs and drinking glasses. Mayor Shane Gunnoe says those items are obsolete or being replaced.
Separately, the police department is trading in 32 guns, most of them standard police Glocks, toward the 40-thousand dollar purchase of new weapons with red dot sights on them.
Meanwhile, several departments have received new vehicles, including the Electric Field Department. Their 340-thousand-dollar bucket truck ordered in 2022 just arrived.
Gunnoe expects to have design plans done soon for the new city hall. It will be a block over in the former First Federal building at the corner of 4th and Wooster. It’s been a long time, 118 years, since the city changed addresses.
Late last year Dover took out 3 million dollars in bonds to pay for the building purchase and renovations.
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