There is supposed to be proof if they’re lower,” he said.ĭunkel said he read the files, and “all it is is a little Word document, not signed. They’re supposed to occur at the minimum bid, not lower than that.

“The gentleman gets a ton of contracts through the county,” he said of one buyer.ĭunkel said the improper awards “cost the taxpayers about $7,500 from the difference from the minimum bid. McNulty said he’s bought three tax sale properties in Lake Wynonah.Īt last week’s meeting, Dunkel said the properties were being improperly sold and that favoritism factored in.

McNulty described some of the properties as “s-,” and said some of the ones he’s brought require expensive work to be able to be built upon. He said some of the parcels have been dormant for 11 years nobody bid on them. The previous speaker was Jim McNulty of Wayne Township, who buys tax sale properties. He and Hetherington also argued about the content an email Hetherington sent Dunkel in response to one Dunkel sent him about the tax sales’ preparation and documentation.

“There’s your selective enforcement,” he yelled.Īt that Hetherington called on the sheriff to escort Dunkel from the meeting for being disruptive. Hetherington took issue with the expletive, drawing protests from Dunkel, who referred to a previous speaker’s use of a similar expletive. “So your little claim that (my statements) were unfounded were b-t,” Dunkel said. On Thursday, Dunkel said the issues he brought up last week had been corrected, proving that his statements that some sale properties lacked necessary paperwork and school district approvals, and that a third-party check to the county for one of the properties was in a folder, were accurate. Dunkel, who unsuccessfully campaigned for commissioner in the May Primary election, opposed them. The sales were to have been approved last Wednesday, but were tabled after Palo Alto resident Jeffrey J. Repository sales are held after tax delinquent properties have failed to be bought at the first two sales, upset and judicial sales. The Lake Wynonah properties were sold to JMAC Realty for $500 each the Coaldale property went to Anthony Frias Nunez for $1,355. Four are in Lake Wynona, Wayne Township, and one is in Coaldale. The kerfuffle was triggered by commissioners’ approval of the repository sale of five long-delinquent properties. Typically calm, Thursday’s Schuylkill County commissioners’ meeting briefly erupted as officials expelled a frequent critic after he used a vulgarity to describe a dispute with one of them.

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