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NOES, TRUSTEES: Nene ABSENT, TRUSTEES: Fred C. Rowland. E,~ L' Ve~ely City Clerk PLAN NO. PLAN OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA COVERING THE THIRD PURCHASE OF TAX DELINQUENT LOTS Plan of the City of Santa Aha, Orange County, California, to return to the City Tax rolls and to the County Tax rolls, 1S9 lots all within the City limits of the said City of Santa Aha, and being the property as listed on Exhibit "A" as attached to a proposed agreement dated , 1958, between the Board of Supervisors of Orange County, California, and ~he City Council of said City of Santa Aua, California. At the present time all such lots or parcels of' property as shown on said Exhibit "A" have been deeded to the State of California, and are at present completely off of the assessment rolls of the City of Santa Ana and the County of Orange, and will produce ~0 TAX revenue until some effective plan is worked out to get the taxes and assessments brought up to date and the property back into the hands of private owners, who will pay the current taxes and assessments as they become due. 5 The group of l~s included in this plan are scattered ~hrough out the City and are all encumbered with 1918 Act Bonds, for Paving, Street Lights, Sewers, etc., It has been necessary to levy annually a rate of ten cents per hundred, assessed value, on ALL property within the City Limits, to pay the amounts due under the various l~l'g Act Bonds of the City of Santa Aha now in default. The successful working of this plan will place these lots back on the assessment rolls of both the City and the County and will help eliminate the ten cent levy now required to service the delinquent 1915 Act Bonds. This plan in general is as follows: (a) The City of Santa Aha will purchase from the County of Orange, under Section 3897d of the Political Code and m~endments thereto, the tax title now held by the State of California, subject, however, to the approval of the State Controller. At this point the state tax title and the city tax lien will both be vested in the City of Santa Ans. (b) The City of Santa Aha will then offer to the record owner of each lot so purchased from the County, a small sum of money in cash for a quitclaim deed to such lots. At this point the city will have a good and marketable title to any such lots for which it holds quitclaim deeds, thereupon the City will cancel all city taxes and penalties, to date, against such lots. (c) Where quitclaim deeds to the lots involved in this sale are not secured quickly and at a very small c cst, the City will immediately institute a court action to quiet its title to such lots as are secured under tax deed. (d) Upon the Court decree, granting title to the City (it is expected that most parties will default, by failing to answer the City's Complaint), the City will then hold good title and will then cancel all taxes and penalties out- standing against such lots and will then sell such lots to the best advantage of the City. (e) If it is found that some of these lots cannot be sold for the full amount of the improvement bonds outstanding against them, then it is the intent- ion of the City of Santa Ana to make such sales at the best price obtainable on the present market, so as to get this property back on the assessment rolls. (f) It is not too early to start now to have this group of lots ready for sale to the public during the next spring and Sl~W~r. A~y and all lots to which the City has perfected its title, will be offered for sale in groups of fifty to one-hundred lots, for cash to ~e highest and best;bidder. It is ®xpect®d that a sale in groups of around one-hundred lots will compel the success- ful bidder to support the real estate market. Section 4 of Assembly Bill 1129, being Chapter No. 396 of the Statutes of 1935 is pertinent to this plan and reads as follows: