CITY TO AUCTION ASSORTED GOODS

Available to the highest bidder: Former police cars with high mileage, snow plows, golf carts, more than 100 bicycles, an electric guitar and assorted rings, watches, earrings, bracelets and necklaces.

The city will sell these and other items, ranging from aging city equipment to unclaimed property, at an auction Saturday at the 4-H shelter at Arena Park. The items will be open to public viewing at 8 a.m.. The auction begins at 10 a.m.

The city hopes to net about $7,500 for the city's general fund.

Many items, from bicycles to Fanny Packs, are unclaimed property at the police department.

Most of it is "lost and found stuff" or stolen property that hasn't been claimed, Sgt. Carl Kinnison said.

Among the sale items are nine cars, including four used by police detectives. The other five are former police cars handed down to other city departments.

Debbie Hillis of the public works department said the cars have between 150,000 and 200,000 miles on them.

Police cars generally travel 3,000 to 5,000 miles a month so it doesn't take long for the mileage to add up, Hillis said.

An assortment of public works trucks are being auctioned, along with five golf carts and miscellaneous traffic light equipment.

"It is more costly to try to keep them up than to try to replace them," she said.

The city typically holds an annual auction in the spring; however, there was no auction last year.

Hillis, who serves as project assistant with public works, works at the auction.

"We have always had real good crowds," she said. "In the past five or six years, we have always sold everything."

Hillis said from 150 to 200 people turned out for the last auction.