PARIS — The Highway Department has surplus items that will be sold to save space and make some money for the town, selectmen decided this week.

At Monday’s meeting of the board, acting Town Manager Elizabeth Knox said Highway Manager Daniel Nowell identified items his department doesn’t need, including a utility trailer someone offered to buy.

“I think it would be fair if we put it up to bid so that everybody would have an opportunity to look at it,” Knox said. Town policy says expensive equipment must be sold by bid.

On Nowell’s list and OK’d for sale were an 8-foot utility trailer, several tires and wheels, an 8-foot plow with no frame, a large safe from the old Highway Department building on Paris Hill and six 15-inch used culverts of different lengths.

The items will be sold as-is. The town will soon advertise the items for sale on its website and in the newspaper.

Held from the sale were a 1989 Rawson conveyor used to move gravel and a 1995 Ford F-800 truck. Nowell said repairing them could cost more than $10,000, and local workmen who’d looked at the conveyor refused to work on it.

“It’s about half the cost of a new one to fix it,” Nowell said.

As for the truck, Nowell said it failed inspection and the last time he checked, a part for it would cost the town more than $1,000.

Selectmen urged Nowell to get an estimate to repair it and at least one more opinion on the conveyor before selling them.

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