The owners of 87 properties with delinquent taxes have until 10 a.m. March 31 to resolve their outstanding debt and avoid a tax sale.
If the debt is not paid by that time, the properties will be auctioned.
A list of those properties can be found on page A2 of Tuesday’s Register print edition.
The auction is a way for the county to attempt to recoup at least a portion of the $182,950 total amount owed.
The amounts for individual property owners range from a high of $14,589.85 owned for more than three lots in Humboldt. The smallest debt is $425.13 for a lot in the Davis Addition in Iola.
Property owners should have received multiple notices about the sale, and today’s publication is one of the final attempts to notify owners. It will be published on Tuesdays for three weeks.
The list of delinquent properties began with about 300 properties, but most owners, since notified of the past-due taxes, have settled the accounts, amounting to about $600,000.
The last time the county had a delinquent property tax sale was in 2018. Such sales typically occur about every year or two, but the pandemic delayed the process.
Anyone who has received a notice and has questions or wants to pay the past-due taxes should call Johnson’s office at 620-365-3778 or the county treasurer’s office at 620-365-1409.
