City council will vote on Thursday to approve the sale of the city fire department’s antique fire engine.

Richard Murray of Butler Township bid $5,105 for the 1929 American LaFrance engine. He was the only bidder.

The scrap value of the truck was between $3,500 and $4,500, according to Fire Chief Nick Ban. The minimum bid of the engine was set at $4,500 in April.

The engine was donated to the city a couple of years ago after it was discovered in a to-be-demolished garage under the Wayne Street Viaduct.

The city has been seeking to sell it for about the past year to help pay for new equipment for the fire department.

About $4,000 of the sale will go toward buying hand tools, rescue tools and equipment to complete the requirements needed for the voluntary Pennsylvania Rescue Certification for the department, Ban said. The remaining $1,000 will help pay for four new chairs for the department’s day room, replacing broken furniture.

The truck has been stored at the city fire department on North Washington Street.

While the fire department is losing its antique engine, it will be getting a new fire vehicle for Chief Ban through the city redevelopment authority’s reallocation of a 2010 Community Development Block Grant from the state Department of Community and Economic Development.

The city will vote on Thursday to reallocate $50,000 from the facilities line item of the program to the fire department.

About $26,000 of that money will be used to buy a new Ford Interceptor all-wheel drive rescue vehicle that Ban will use. The vehicle will feature the latest technology to allow for quick response times and will hold various medical and safety equipment.

Ban’s current vehicle will be modified into a new K9 unit vehicle for the city police department.

The fire department also will receive new equipment, including new radios, through the CDBG program.

The redevelopment authority had yet to use the $50,000 on a facilities project and the state said it had to be spent or the authority would lose the money. The fire department was one of the narrow purposes the authority was authorized to spend the money on.