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Consultants outline lien collection, tax-warrant and trust-property program to return problem lots to tax rolls
Summary
Legal services and Texas Communities Group told Mount Pleasant council that an organized municipal-lien inventory plus tax-warrant actions under Texas Tax Code §33.91 and a marketing program for trust properties could speed cleanup, recover some municipal costs and return vacant lots to the tax rolls.
Danny Barrett, director of Texas Communities Group, and Lynn Barrett, Mount Pleasant’s development services director, presented a municipal-lien and tax-warrant program during the council’s Nov. 4 meeting to pursue unpaid city liens, use tax-warrant foreclosure on abandoned lots and market trust properties held by the city and overlapping taxing entities.
The presenters said the approach begins with building a shared, searchable database of recorded municipal liens to identify repeat problem properties and generate immediate payoff figures for staff. "We build that database so we can have access to it and that we, on the Purdue side, can see which properties are kind of being consistent issues," Danny Barrett said.
Why it matters: Council staff and consultants said the…
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