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Northumberland County commissioners adopt three ordinances on demolition and blight, approve contracts and multiple resolutions
Summary
The Board of Commissioners unanimously adopted three ordinances establishing a demolition/rehabilitation fund, increasing recording fees to fund a blight demolition program, and creating a blighted property reinvestment board; the board also ratified multiple contracts, awarded repair contracts and adopted several resolutions including maintaining
The Northumberland County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously at its public meeting to adopt three ordinances and to ratify multiple contracts and resolutions affecting county programs and funding.
The commissioners adopted ordinance O-02-25, establishing a county demolition and rehabilitation fund and imposing a fee collected by the Tax Claim Bureau and sheriff under Act 48 (as cited in the ordinance text). They also adopted ordinance O-03-25, which increases recorder-of-deeds recording fees by $15 to fund the county blight demolition fund, and ordinance O-04-25, creating the Northumberland County Blighted Property Reinvestment Board and authorizing procedures for acquisition and disposition of certain real property. All three ordinances were moved and carried with the meeting record showing the chair calling for "aye" votes and the motions carrying.
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