Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
Turns out that the city council, acting as the HRA board, has allocated “$35,825 to settle costs related to the site. The HRA acquired the property from the Selby Area Community Development Corporation (SACDC) in December in exchange for $50,000.00 that the corporation owed the city. Since then, city staff learned there were delinquent taxes on the property.”<\/p>\n
Why is it that the government can’t get a budget to balance? Could it be incompetence like this? They accept a pig in a poke, in payment of the last pig in a poke? They took a property in payment of a debt without first checking to see if it’s encumbered? Morons. I could see that with granny who takes the neighbor’s lot not knowing better. But this is the city, with it’s nearly limitless resources and unlimited access to the property records.<\/p>\n
Bet you a nickel some of those delinquent taxes were special assessments for sidewalk shoveling levied by . . . the city itself!<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes, Como Park<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It’s Saint Paul. \u00a0The left hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing. \u00a0This is no right hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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