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Commission adopts 2025 certified tax rates; one parcel struck to county from tax sale
Summary
Clerk/Auditor Ryan Sullivan presented certified rates (general operations 0.000361, library 0.000125, assessing/collecting 0.000223) and reported a May tax sale that left one unsold parcel (Parcel H‑3‑2‑3‑432), which the commission struck to Washington County and will record a tax deed.
Ryan Sullivan, Washington County Clerk/Auditor, presented the county’s 2025 certified tax rates and the results of the May 29 tax sale. Sullivan said the county’s proposed general operations rate equals the certified rate at 0.000361, with budgeted revenue of $14,534,967. He listed the library fund rate at 0.000125 (budgeted revenue $5,032,883) and the assessing and collecting fund at 0.000223 (budgeted revenue $9,059,082). Sullivan noted the county is not seeking additional funds through truth‑in‑taxation and attributed revenue growth to new construction and valuation increases.
On the tax sale, Sullivan said outreach reduced the list from 33 properties to 13 posted and only one remaining at sale — a small roadway sliver in Hurricane City identified as Parcel H‑3‑2‑3‑432. He publicly declared the unsold parcel struck to Washington County and said staff will record a tax deed; the county plans to prepare a quitclaim deed to transfer the parcel to Hurricane City to restore it to roadway ownership.
Commissioners moved to adopt the certified tax rates and accepted the auditor’s recommendation regarding the struck parcel; both motions carried by voice vote.
