July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Commissioners sale set for nine parcels (02/13/07)
Jay County Commissioners
By By MARY ANN LEWIS-
For the first time in a long time the county will be holding a commissioners' sale.
Jay County Commissioners Monday agreed to hire SRI Inc., Indianapolis, to conduct the sale which will see the attempted sale of nine parcels of property which currently have unpaid property taxes due.
Jay County auditor Freda Corwin said for years the county has filed property tax papers which include an abandoned home in Redkey, an unclaimed alley in Portland, and a two-foot piece of ground next to the LaJoya Mexican grocery store in downtown Portland.
Unclaimed properties are parcels that owners are two or more years behind in tax payments and have not indicated the taxes would be paid.
Once the pieces of property are sold or deeded to another entity, the county can once again gain property taxes from the new owner, she said.
SRI representatives Jeff Kemper and Glen Luedtke told commissioners Milo Miller Jr. and Gary Theurer their firm would conduct the sale for $100 per parcel.
No date has been set for the sale that will reduce the amount of paperwork given to each parcel annually, Corwin said.
Additionally Monday commissioners made courthouse superintendent Roger McBride purchasing agent for a new paper shredder.
McBride said the new equipment can be purchased from CBC Shredmaster for $2,090 and will shred unneeded documents into confetti.
The courthouse currently has a shredder that reduces those documents to string-like pieces of paper and that equipment will also continue to be used, McBride said, until it is no longer operational.
He said he asked for the new equipment to budgeted for this year and the money is available.
Shredded paper from the courthouse is recycled, he explained.[[In-content Ad]]
Jay County Commissioners Monday agreed to hire SRI Inc., Indianapolis, to conduct the sale which will see the attempted sale of nine parcels of property which currently have unpaid property taxes due.
Jay County auditor Freda Corwin said for years the county has filed property tax papers which include an abandoned home in Redkey, an unclaimed alley in Portland, and a two-foot piece of ground next to the LaJoya Mexican grocery store in downtown Portland.
Unclaimed properties are parcels that owners are two or more years behind in tax payments and have not indicated the taxes would be paid.
Once the pieces of property are sold or deeded to another entity, the county can once again gain property taxes from the new owner, she said.
SRI representatives Jeff Kemper and Glen Luedtke told commissioners Milo Miller Jr. and Gary Theurer their firm would conduct the sale for $100 per parcel.
No date has been set for the sale that will reduce the amount of paperwork given to each parcel annually, Corwin said.
Additionally Monday commissioners made courthouse superintendent Roger McBride purchasing agent for a new paper shredder.
McBride said the new equipment can be purchased from CBC Shredmaster for $2,090 and will shred unneeded documents into confetti.
The courthouse currently has a shredder that reduces those documents to string-like pieces of paper and that equipment will also continue to be used, McBride said, until it is no longer operational.
He said he asked for the new equipment to budgeted for this year and the money is available.
Shredded paper from the courthouse is recycled, he explained.[[In-content Ad]]
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