County cancels erroneous tax forfeiture and adds CFO as bank signatory

County auditor/treasurer staff told the board they discovered a 1978 deed that had not been properly transferred, leaving a vacant parcel erroneously assessed and in forfeiture. Staff recommended canceling the certificate of forfeiture and removing taxes that should never have been charged. The board approved the resolution to cancel the forfeiture after questions about how the parcel came to be taxed in recent years.

The auditor/treasurer also presented a routine update to the county’s banking authorization, adding Steven Rick, the new chief financial officer, as an authorized signatory. Commissioner Casa entered that resolution; it passed with an abstention recorded for Arcadian Bank.