{"id":40,"date":"2011-03-08T12:02:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T17:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2011-03-10T12:03:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T17:03:24","slug":"ross-auction-bill-passes-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Ross auction bill passes House"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_41\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-41\" href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?attachment_id=41\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41 \" style=\"border: 2px solid blue; margin: 4px;\" title=\"ChrisRossWebHS\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ChrisRossWebHS-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-41\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Rep. Chris Ross (R-158)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>HARRISBURG \u2014 The state House of Representatives this week unanimously  passed two bills sponsored by Rep. Chris Ross (R-Chester) that will  allow first-class townships and boroughs to sell surplus property via  electronic auctions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy legislation gives certain municipalities another means of  disposing of property that is no longer needed and is still useful,\u201d  said Ross.\u00a0 \u201cThese bills also enable municipalities to recoup some of  their financial investment in these items and to use the proceeds to  satisfy other municipal needs.\u201d<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>House Bill 372 applies to first-class townships and House Bill 373  pertains to boroughs.\u00a0 The bills establish rules for the advertising of  online auctions and the manner in which auctions are conducted.<\/p>\n<p>The current method of disposing of surplus property, which consists  of advertising in local newspapers and soliciting sealed bids, often  results in no bids. By using the web, municipalities can efficiently get  to a wider bidding audience, insuring a better result for the  taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation now goes to the Senate for consideration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG \u2014 The state House of Representatives this week unanimously passed two bills sponsored by Rep. Chris Ross (R-Chester) that will allow first-class townships and boroughs to sell surplus property via electronic auctions. \u201cMy legislation gives certain municipalities another means of disposing of property that is no longer needed and is still useful,\u201d said Ross.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17,18],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ross","tag-state-legislature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}