Information

Type: Legal Notice

Department: PW - Public Works

Directors' Update: Feb. 3, 2021

Business Meeting: Feb. 8, 2021

Summary:

Tax parcel 007043 000 000 is a 0.10 acre parcel, located off North 4th Street, Toledo. The property was offered for sale at auction by the Treasurer due to tax delinquencies in 1936. The property did not sell at the tax sale and was subsequently deeded by the Treasurer to Lewis County.  Since the property is impractical to build on due to shape, size and lack of access. RCW 36.35.150 allows for the property to be disposed of by private negotiations providing that the final sale price is no less than the principal amount of unpaid taxes. However, due to the length of time the County has owned the property, unpaid tax history is unknown. 

The County has received an offer in the amount of $2,750.00 for the property, which is the amount of cost incurred by the Treasurer and the Public Works Department to dispose of the property. This resolution would accept the offer subject to conditions of LCC 3.30.400 which requires that the public be given two weeks notice by advertisement and an opportunity to compete for purchase by offer of more favorable price on the terms negotiated.

Publications: The Chronicle - February 9, 2021

Cover Letter To:

Additional Copies To: Martin Roy, Kim Amrine, Arny Davis, Michelle Stewart, Kelly Albert, Laura Rider, Rose Williams, Tina Hemphill

Resolution

WHEREAS, the following described tax title property was conveyed to Lewis County by the County Treasurer in 1936 following an unsuccessful attempt to sell the property at public auction:

Parcel No. 007043000000, approximately 0.10 acre described as:

All of Block 18, Kellogg's Second Addition to the Town of Toledo, as recorded in volume 2 of Plats, page 24, records of Lewis County, Washington.

Together with that portion of Hemlock Street vacated by City of Toledo Ordinance No. 176, recorded under Auditor's File No. 410034 which attaches by operation of law; and

WHEREAS, the County has received an offer to purchase the property for $2,750.00, which is the amount of cost incurred by the Treasurer and the Public Works Department to dispose of the property. Since the property is impractical to build on due to shape, size and lack of access, RCW 36.35.150 allows for the property to be disposed of by private negotiations, providing that the final sale price is no less than the principal amount of unpaid taxes. However, due to the length of time the County has owned the property, unpaid tax history is unknown.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the aforesaid offer in the amount of $2,750.00 for property located off North 4th Street in Toledo, Wash., is accepted, subject to the conditions of LCC 3.30.400. Also, that notice of the Board of County Commissioners' intent to sell the property be given to the public as required by LCC 3.30.400. The Public Works Department is hereby directed to proceed with legal notification of the property for sale to the general public for the highest and best offer, and it be stipulated that Lewis County reserves the right to reject any and all offers if no offer is received that is determined to be the higher and better offer.

Purchaser shall have five days from the date of award to pay for the property in cash or by cashier's check. Upon payment to the County Treasurer in the Courthouse, Chehalis, Washington, a Treasurer's Deed will be issued for the property. The Treasurer’s Office will record the deed in the Official Volumes of the Lewis County Auditor. After recording, the original deed will be sent to the purchaser. 

Proceeds of the sale shall be distributed as follows: Treasurer ($250.00) and Public Works Department ($2,500.00). 

The County reserves the right to reject any and all offers.

DONE IN OPEN SESSION this 8th day of February, 2021.