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Treasurer presents annual tax-refund report and tax-title sale items; commissioners to consider small list of properties for March auction
Summary
The county treasurer presented annual items: a list of $2,106.62 in uncollected personal property taxes recommended for cancellation and a 2024 refunds report; staff also proposed placing three tax-title parcels on the March tax-title sale.
The Mason County treasurer presented two routine annual items to commissioners on Jan. 27: a proposed resolution to cancel $2,106.62 in uncollected personal property taxes and an acknowledgement of the 2024 property-tax refund report.
The treasurer said the cancellation list covers small uncollectible amounts on parcels where collection was not feasible. The treasurer noted the budgetary impact is the amount cited, allocated across current-expense and junior taxing-district funds, and said the action is annual practice that will be on the Feb. 3 meeting agenda for formal approval.
The treasurer also reported the 2024 refunds: a total number of 287 refunds and a total reported dollar figure referenced in the briefing. (The transcript provided a combined numeric statement that could not be parsed to a single clean figure in all segments; the treasurer said a full breakdown list of refunds would be provided.) The treasurer added that many refund entries reflected increased senior-exemption eligibility.
Separately, staff asked the commission to approve inclusion of three tax-title parcels in the county’s March tax-title auction. Eighteen total tax-title parcels exist on the department’s broader list, but only three were recommended for the sale; staff said several other parcels are tidelands or remnant parcels that have little market value. One parcel at 140 East Royce Road in Greatview carries a health-department lien and staff said that lien would take priority if the parcel were sold. Minimum-bid figures were presented; staff noted that if parcels do not sell at auction, state procedures allow a subsequent private negotiation period.
Commissioners asked questions about the parcels’ histories and liens and directed staff to include the three parcels on the March sale notice for formal process, noting the county’s short timeline for preparing the sale paperwork.
No formal votes were recorded in the briefing; staff said the cancellation resolution will be brought to the Feb. 3 meeting for action and the tax-title parcels would be placed on the March sale list if commissioners approved placement.
