Libraries Missing $500,000 In Equipment
City Says Computers, Copiers, Furniture, Other Items Gone
POSTED: Wednesday, October 14, 2009
UPDATED: 6:53 pm EDT October 14,
2009
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- People check out lots of things at the library, but the city is trying to find out if someone checked out about $500,000 worth of equipment, including computers, copiers, furniture and other expensive items.A routine inventory for all the local libraries showed the shortage. People who use the library said they are stunned."Because it sounds like they are big ticket items, not just little things like books and CDs, DVDs, you would think there would be a better accounting of it," library goer Steve Peace said.Library staff said it was their accounting process that noticed the losses.In a police report, it lists where each item was supposed to be and what tax payers originally paid for it. It adds up to 40 computers missing along with 21 copiers host of other items.Staff originally listed the value of these at $489,000, but on Wednesday they said it was a mistake and might have been overstated. Many of the items are old, like the computers, and may not be worth anything.Still they are missing, and no one knows were they are. So they're checking again."We also need to go back and make sure those items are not somewhere in city government, that they are not in another department," library official Stacy Bucher said.
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