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Supervisors review tax-foreclosure properties, auction timing and a cleanup fund for problematic parcels

2138285 · January 9, 2025
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Summary

County finance staff briefed supervisors on sales-tax revenue and cash balances, options to schedule tax-foreclosure auctions, and a county fund for cleanup of properties the county may acquire through foreclosure.

Washington County finance staff updated the Board of Supervisors on year-end sales tax and cash balances and reviewed options for scheduling tax-foreclosure auctions and using a property-cleanup fund to manage liabilities on parcels the county forecloses on.

A county finance staff member told the board sales tax receipts likely will land near $30,000,000 for 2024 but that cash balances are lower than at the same point last year; staff said the county’s lowest cash position this year reached about $15.7 million. The presenter explained accounting treatments that defer property-tax receivables and described how scheduled…

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