There is hereby established an equipment depository within the bureau of vocational rehabilitation to purchase adaptive equipment to enable disabled persons to become gainfully employed by the state and any subdivision thereof. The bureau shall determine the equipment to be purchased, subject to the approval of governor and council. The purchases shall be limited to equipment which provides reasonable, and not extraordinary, accommodations to the needs of the disabled, such as telephone adapters, adjustable desks, and other like equipment. The bureau shall have authority to reissue equipment returned to the depository and to dispose of any equipment that is no longer useful.