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Commissioners accept Hoy Trust bid for 0.85-acre foreclosed parcel, conditioned on easement agreement
Summary
After hearing competing bids and testimony from neighbors and an attorney representing the Charltons, the board opened two sealed bids for a 0.85-acre tax-foreclosed parcel on Quarry Road and voted to accept Geneva Hoy's $16,119 bid, contingent on the Hoy and Charlton parties recording an easement acceptable to both before transfer; the matter will return Jan. 9 for finalization.
The Yamhill County Board of Commissioners opened and considered sealed bids Dec. 19 for tax lot R3215AA00400, a roughly 0.85-acre county-owned foreclosed parcel off Quarry Road, and voted to accept the bid from the Geneva J. Hoy Trust conditioned on the adjoining owners reaching a mutually satisfactory easement agreement before transfer.
Theresa Moschowski, who said she was speaking for her 91-year-old mother, Joanne Hoy, asked the board to let the Hoy family purchase the triangular parcel that abuts their 20.22-acre vineyard property to secure farm access and protect the family's long-term interests. "If we own this, we will allow an ingress and egress requesting that our neighbors build and maintain the road with our guidelines," Moschowski told the board.
Attorney Mike Gunn, representing David and Roberta Charlton, told the board his clients rely on a long-existing private driveway to reach their property but lack a recorded easement from Quarry Road; without recorded legal access they cannot complete transactions. Gunn said the Charltons had bid because acquiring ownership of the county parcel or obtaining a recorded easement were the practicable paths to secure access.
County staff told the board public-works had no interest in retaining the parcel for right-of-way purposes. Legal staff advised the board it could record an easement while the county still owned the parcel or accept a bid conditioned on the recording of an easement prior to deed transfer.
The board opened two sealed bids in public: the Geneva J. Hoy Trust submitted what staff confirmed as $16,119 (with the required 10% deposit) and David R. Charlton submitted a $2,000 bid. After discussion the board moved to accept the Hoy Trust bid "subject to an easement that is agreed to by both the Hoy property owners and the Charlton property owners," with the matter set to return to the board Jan. 9 for reconsideration and final action if an easement agreement is achieved. A commissioner made the motion and the motion passed by voice vote.
The board's acceptance is conditional: staff emphasized the county will not transfer title until there is a recorded easement satisfactory to both neighboring parties. Commissioners discussed three procedural options earlier in the meeting (open now and accept subject to easement, open and seek best-and-final offers, or delay opening to let parties negotiate); they chose to open bids and proceed with conditional acceptance to settle ownership while preserving the neighbors' need to produce an agreeable easement.
