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Committee approves routine canceling of 11‑year tax certificates and stale county checks
Summary
Following statutory guidance, the treasurer presented lists of tax certificates to be canceled under Wis. Stat. §75.20 and proposed writing off stale county checks; the committee approved both routine administrative actions.
Under statute, county treasurer Ashna presented required annual cancellations of tax certificates older than 11 years and proposed canceling stale county checks and moving outstanding items to unclaimed funds lists.
She explained that statute 75.20 requires the cancellation of certificates that remain unpaid for 11 years; the packet listed affected tax years and small aggregate amounts that would be written off. Committee members asked whether property ownership changed (treasurer: owners still own property; taxes simply are not collectible under the certificate). The committee voted to approve the cancellations as presented. They also approved twice-yearly stale-check cancellations to ease unclaimed-fund reporting and to keep records current.
These actions were presented as routine, statutory housekeeping rather than policy changes.
