ANTRIM COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS               Friday, August 18, 2006

            Jack White, Chairman called the Special Meeting to order at 2:00 p.m.

Present:  Robert McLeod, Eugene Dawson, Larry Bargy, Jack White, David Howelman.

              Michael Crawford, Laura Stanek, Bernard Blackmore, Joseph Allen;

Absent:  None.

            Pledge of Allegiance.

            Gail Ondrias of Echo Township requested the County obtain her property which is in tax foreclosure and re-sell it to her at cost of taxes plus expenses.

            The County Treasurer informed that she had withdrawn that piece of property from the tax foreclosure auction due to a recent Supreme Court ruling stating that notice that have been returned undelivered have to delivered personally.  She also informed that the inhabited property in Mancelona Township had also been withdrawn from the tax foreclosure auction.

            It was moved by McLeod, seconded by Dawson the Chairman be authorized to sign the purchase agreement with the Murray’s concerning the transfer of the Echo Township property referred to at the August 10, 2006 regular meeting.  Motion carried by a yea and nay vote as follows: Yes – McLeod, Dawson, Bargy, White, Howelman, Crawford, Stanek, Blackmore, Allen;  No – None;  Absent – None.

            The matter of establishing a policy for County acquisition of property due to tax foreclosure and subsequent disposal of property was referred to the Administration/County Services Committee.

            The meeting adjourned at 2:35 p.m.