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Finance Committee approves cancellation of three mobile-home tax-sale certificates
Summary
The Finance Committee approved a resolution authorizing the county board chair to cancel three mobile-home tax-sale certificates after the trustee sought to surrender them; the parcels were not redeemed during the statutory redemption period and the trustee had sought title action.
County Treasurer Becky McNeil told the Finance Committee on Aug. 6 that a trustee handling three mobile-home tax-sale certificates requested approval to surrender those certificates after the owners did not redeem the taxes during the statutory redemption period.
"The trustee is requesting approval to surrender the tax sale certificates," McNeil said, adding that the trustee's program aims to recover delinquent taxes while working with property owners on payment arrangements rather than simply taking title.
Member Fagan moved to place the resolution on the floor; Member Farley seconded and the committee voted to approve the resolution and forward it to the County Board for the chair's signature.
Why it matters: cancellation of certificates ends the trustee's tax-sale claim process for these parcels and allows the trustee and other taxing bodies to pursue alternative remedies; the county treasurer said the program's goal is to recover delinquent taxes for the benefit of taxing districts.
What remains open: the record does not identify the parcels by address or provide the owners' names in the committee discussion, and no title-transfer or subsequent action was announced at the meeting.
