At Tuesday’s Blue Earth City Council meeting, the Council received an update from City Attorney David Frundt on the property at 1006 E. 5th Street.
At their meeting on August 19th, the Council directed Frundt to contact the family of the deceased former owner to see if they would be interested in transferring ownership of the property to the city due to the delinquent property tax bill in the amount of approximately $7,500.
Frundt was able to get in contact with one of the daughters of the deceased and reported she would be interested in that agreement, but two other members of the family would have to be contacted and agree to the terms.
Frundt shared with the council that the daughter had filed a probate case, which complicates the matter and that the family had discussed donating the property to Habitat for Humanity.
Frundt gave the council three options to proceed, move forward with trying to acquire the property through paying the delinquent taxes, just have it given to Habitat for Humanity or do nothing and get the property if and when it goes through tax forfeiture, which may take two year to complete.
The council voted to proceed with the first option, to work on acquiring the property in exchange for taking care of the delinquent tax.
