Comptroller: Mount Vernon to hold tax-lien sale in June, offers amnesty and payment-plan options

Mount Vernon Comptroller Moore told the City Council on a night the body discussed multiple agenda items that the city must move forward with a tax-lien sale “no later than the June,” and said staff are developing an online auction process to handle the volume of delinquent liens.

The comptroller said the city has published lists of delinquent taxes and exclusions, is preparing to file material with the county clerk, and plans to offer both installment payment plans and a short amnesty period that would waive interest and penalties as the law permits to encourage repayment before liens are sold. “Because of the enormity of the number of them, we have been working in my office to develop an online process,” Moore said. “It says that the comptroller or the deputy, must be the auctioneer and auction off of them as a public auction.”

Why this matters: The process determines whether individual property owners can cure arrears…