The Niš municipality of Medijana, the only opposition municipality in Serbia, is organizing a public auction on Thursday (December 12th) where it will try to sell scrap cars, air conditioners, a double wardrobe, shelves, a chest of drawers and an office desk and chairs.
Municipal councilor Miloš Bošković told "Vreme" that he does not consider this a populist move to sell cars and office items that belonged to the previous government in Mediana, but maximum transparency in work.
In September, when Medijana celebrated its 100th anniversary, the president of that municipality, Mladen Đurić, told "Vreme" that the only thing they hadn't managed to do until then was this auction, which, as he said, was holding them back in September. bad system”.
"There are five scrapped vehicles in the courtyard of the Medijana municipality building. We received approval from the new leadership of the City Administration for Property and Sustainable Development to put those vehicles up for auction," said Đurić at the time and added that he did not expect the whole process to last more than a week or two.
Nevertheless, almost three months later, Mediana manages to remove that problem from the agenda.
There is also a "Zastava"
The most expensive item at the public auction is the "Mercedes Benz" car from 2002, whose estimated value is almost 94 thousand dinars. Among the other cars, the auction will include a "Fiat Ducato PANORAMA" vehicle that was a gift from the Serbian Post to this municipality, a van and one "Zastava" passenger vehicle and one "Opel Astra" passenger vehicle.
In addition to scrap cars, they will also try to sell 20 air conditioners, 26 pieces of office chairs, two double wardrobes, an office shelf extension, a chest of drawers and an office desk. The total estimated value is almost 500.000 dinars. The starting price at the auction is 60 percent of the estimated value.
In order to be as transparent as possible when it comes to the sale of furniture and used cars, since Mediana does not deny that they want to save as much as possible, Bošković says that they want to avoid closed "enveloped offers", even though, as he says, they are also in line with the law.
Bošković got the idea for such a public and transparent auction as a councilor for communal activities when he watched a public auction on the public service where the mobile phone operator "Mobtel" was being sold.
"It was etched in my memory. I was only 21 years old then. It was interesting to me that people are competing live and the television broadcasts it. It was transparent and visible, so we also wanted to implement it," said Miloš Bošković for "Vreme".
