City surplus inventory auctioned off Saturday netted approximately $30,000 from about 650 items, officials said.

“I think it did pretty well,” City of Vicksburg purchasing director Tim Smith said.

Smith said sales totaled $31,245, of which Mississippi Auction Services, a Vicksburg firm hired to conduct the auction, will received 10 percent at $3,124.50. The city will receive $28,120.50, which will go into its general fund.

Items sold at the City Park Pavilion included computers, bikes, police vehicles and parts, furniture, lawn mowers and tractors.

“Everything was sold except for the fuel truck because there was a minimum of $10,000 on it,” Smith said.

Because there is value to the fuel truck, Smith said, the city will advertise for a sealed bid.

A riding lawn tractor, which retails for around $10,000, fetched about $1,800 at the auction. The red truck Smith had said received many inquiries was sold at a bid of $925.

The lowest bid was $5 for a bike and computer parts.

Among about 150 bidders were first-time bidders Lisa Ashcraft and her son, Isaiah, who had bid $35 for a pile of police partitions and vector bars.

Isaiah Ashcraft said he will use the parts to repair old police and fire vehicles.

“We work with low-budget police departments that are in need of parts,” Ashcraft said.

This auction was the first for the city in two years.