The city of Knox brought in over $500 by selling scrap metal that had been laying around. Mayor Rick Chambers explained that sheets of corrugated metal had been purchased when the city was installing new sidewalks downtown because the engineers were under the impression that there were tunnels beneath the sidewalks, but after the sidewalks were dug up, they quickly realized that was not the case.
“So it has laid out back and has started to rust and weeds had grown over it and it was just not being used and so we are just looking to scrap that metal and get salvage price out of it,” said Chambers. We will not be using them in any other project and rather get some money for them than have them there collecting dust.
The city council voted to sell the scrap metal at a price of $160 per ton, and with a pile of three and a half tons, the sale will bring in $560 to the city.
