WPCNR MR. & MRS. & MS. WHITE PLAINS VOICE. MARCH 30, 2006: Reacting to the paucity of bids on the Railside Avenue lots a reader proposes that the best price has not been reached due to lack of advance publicity:

Councilmembers,

If you were selling your house would you do so by  putting a legal notice in the newspaper?

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 If you wanted the best price wouldn´t you insure that you notified the largest pool of prospective bidders?  Ads in the Real estate section, signs on the lots, mailings to interested parties, flyers.  Some of the Railside lots only had two bidders.  Doesn´t that seem ridiculously low for a city that is the Jewel of Westchester?

The sale may have been technically legal, but I say that the City has failed its fiscal responsibility.  The council has an obligation to not just follow section 105 of the Charter, but to insure that the residents of this city obtain the maximum value for the sale of their  assets.

Don Hughes
White Plains, NY