Vigo County to hold live tax-certificate sale April 1; SRI named sale agent
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Summary
The Vigo County commissioners adopted Resolution 2025-1 to conduct a live tax-certificate sale on April 1 and approved using SRI as the sale agent. Commissioners said a live sale will favor local bidders who lost out to out-of-area buyers during recent online sales.
The Vigo County Board of Commissioners voted to authorize a live county tax-certificate sale on April 1 and approved SRI to serve as the county’s tax-sale service agent.
County staff introduced Resolution 2025-1 at the commissioners’ meeting and said the change to an in-person sale is intended to benefit local property owners and small local buyers after recent online auctions drew buyers from across the country. “We’re proposing to have it live,” said John Villa (county staff), who presented the item and described two documents for the board’s approval: a commissioner’s addendum to the county’s tax-sale agreement with SRI and the resolution establishing the certificate sale.
Why it matters: certificates of sale are offered for properties with severely delinquent property taxes. Officials said online-only sales in recent years tended to attract out-of-area buyers, and returning to a live sale should allow local ``mom-and-pop'' buyers and others based in Terre Haute and Vigo County a better opportunity to participate.
Details of the action: Villa told commissioners the sale is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. April 1 and that the board would meet at 9 a.m. that day. He said the current list contains properties with roughly $3,771,000 in delinquent taxes on the rolls (some properties may be redeemed before the sale). The board voted to adopt the resolution and separately moved to retain SRI as the commissioner’s sale agent; both motions carried.
Votes at a glance - Approval of minutes for Jan. 28, 2025: approved (voice vote; affirmative votes recorded). - Payroll docket (Jan. 17–Jan. 30, 2025) in the amount of $1,417,946.66: approved. - Claims docket (Jan. 17–Jan. 30, 2025) in the amount of $4,283,170.35: approved. - Resolution 2025-1, establishing intent to conduct a commissioner’s certificate of tax sale (sale date April 1): approved. - Use of SRI services as county tax-sale agent (commissioner’s sale commission agent): approved.
All recorded motions carried by voice vote during the meeting; two commissioners were present for votes and the board recorded unanimous "aye" responses on these items. The meeting record did not attribute individual roll-call votes to named commissioners for each tally.
What’s next: county staff will publish the exhibit of properties to be offered with the resolution and proceed with sale preparations and the SRI engagement.
