Agreement for Sale and Purchase of Surplus Real Property – Leonard Contractors Inc. –7107 Hatpin Loop, Wesley Chapel – Revenue - $28,000.00

1:04:58Good morning, Commissioners. Andrew Baxter, Facilities Management Director. I'd like to talk about C16 and 17 together just to give the update on the process that we do related to surplus and disposition properties. These specific properties are what are called tax achievement properties. So there's a multi-year process that happens before the county even acquires these through. an asheetment process, meaning that tax taxes were not paid, it goes through the tax collector's

1:05:28office, it goes through the clerk's office, and then the county becomes a reluct owner of these properties after no one makes claim to those tax bills and they asheet to the county. At that time, we then determine whether they are valuable to the county following our surplus and disposition process. In these cases, these properties were determined to have no significant benefit to the county, and it was better to return them to the tax rolls. So that follows

1:05:59a process where we follow our disposition process. And in this instance, on December of 2019, the parcels were offered for public sale with a minimum bid of $60,000. There were no bids received. Again, we offered them up for a minimum bid of $40,000. Again, there were no bids received. And then we offered them for a minimum bid of $25,000, and that's when two bids were received. And then you can see how that progressed

1:06:29and that these were acquired by this highest bidder. So that is the process related to uh surplus sales like this. Uh I had my team I heard uh a comment from the the citizen who who brought these up that they were reserved for um forestry lands. We checked the the uh the lands are uh we did a zoning or excuse me, we did a title search in 2020 that did not find any environmental

1:06:59restrictions on the properties and the properties are currently zoned as residential.

1:07:04Yeah, they're surrounded by houses when I was Madam

1:07:07Chairman Mariano again, just reiterating if if if you look at the backup material that goes along with the agenda item, it's always going to be in there, which can be found as public records, it can be found online prior to the meeting that's attached to it. Am I not correct? Yes, sir.

1:07:22It certainly is.

1:07:23And one question, when you when you put these up for sale, how is the public notified?

1:07:28So that they are put up on our purchasing website. It's done through through every way that we do purchasing processes within the county. and did just put up on that same same process. Okay.

1:07:40All right, thank you very much.

1:07:41Thank you, ma'am.