Bradley County committee sets minimum bids for tax‑sale parcels, authorizes public sealed‑bid process

Bradley County commissioners’ committee on property sales voted to set minimum bids for a group of county‑owned parcels acquired through delinquent tax sales and authorized staff to proceed with the statutorily required public sealed‑bid process.

County Attorney Miss Friberg told the committee the properties were acquired after owners failed to redeem delinquent tax sales and that a specific statutory process governs how the county must offer them for sale. “These are properties the county acquired through delinquent tax sales...there’s a statutory process that we have to go through to sell these properties,” she said. She added, “I don’t have any authority to change that or alter it.”

The committee set minimum bids in two categories. For the first group—five parcels that the county is offering for sale for the first time—the committee set the minimum at no less than the county’s tax outlay (the amount the county paid to acquire the deeds). Miss Friberg said first‑time offers must use at least the county’s acquisition amount as the minimum bid; previously advertised parcels may be offered at lower minimums at the committee’s discretion.

The committee also set or confirmed minimum bids on six parcels that had been advertised earlier but received no bids. Notable adjustments recorded in the meeting: Elrod Street had been advertised previously with a…