Last chance to purchase city lots from last tax sale
Staff reporter
Lots throughout the county that failed to sell at the last tax sale will be advertised again to give individuals one more chance to purchase.
After the lots are sufficiently advertised, cities then will have an opportunity to receive the lots — for free — from the county.
Marion County Commission decided Monday to give lots that are located within cities to the local city governments to be used as the cities see fit.
Peabody City Administrator Jeff Benbrook contacted county clerk Carol Maggard and asked about lots in Peabody that the county currently owns. A mobile home is on the property.
"County workers could remove the old trailer," commissioner Dan Holub said.
Commission chairman Randy Dallke said the commission needed to be consistent and treat all of the properties the same.
Maggard said she would contact county attorney Susan Robson and follow her recommendations which probably would be to publish or advertise the properties that are for sale.
In other business:
— The cost to dispose rubber tires at the county's transfer station has increased.
Transfer station manager Rollin Schmidt told the commission that the charges needed to be increased to offset the county's charges.
The new charges are:
Car and light truck tires were $1 but cost the county $1.21. Cost to customers now will be $2 per tire.
Semi tires will remain at $5 per tire, and cost the county $4.03 per tire.
Farm tractor tires were $10 and cost the county $17.25 per tire. The price was raised to $17.25.
Loader and large tractor tires were $10, and cost the county $34.50 per tire. Cost to the customer was increased to $34.50.
— Cardie Oil Company of Tampa had the low fuel bid of $20,114 for approximately 5,000 gallons of diesel at an average of $2.41 per gallon, and 2,500 gallons of unleaded fuel at $2.62 per gallon.
Cooperative Grain and Supply of Hillsboro submitted a bid of $20,248 for the same amount of fuel.
— Schmidt reported that 1.7 tons of household hazardous waste were collected during mobile pickup efforts.
More than 70 people brought 1,700 pounds of latex paint, 852 pounds of used oil, 410 pounds of oil-based paint, 285 pounds of batteries, 187 pounds of poisons, 118 pounds of flammable solids, 53 pounds of aerosols, 50 pounds of corrosives, and 46 pounds of fuel blends to the collection sites in the cities in the county.
— A road crossing permit was approved on Mustang Road, south of U.S.-50 near Peabody, for the construction of a cell tower.
