25 - KENNY KAMMER TAXItem No. 25
memorandum
TO: Mayor & City Council
FROM: John Godwin, City Manager
SUBJECT: KENNY KAMMER TAX
DATE: February 2, 2015
BACKGROUND: Mr. Kenny Kammer appeared at the January 26 council meeting to express
concerns about back taxes owed on property he purchased form the city in a public bid, and Dr.
Hashmi ask that an item be added to the February 9 agenda. Mr. Kammer had previously met
with the city attorney and the finance director
STATUS OF ISSUE: Mr. Kammer's property was not acquired as part of a delinquent tax sale,
as some may have thought. Instead, this was a lot that we owned outright after acquiring it in
2002. The lot was later declared surplus property; the city council authorized it to be sold at
public auction, as is, and Mr. Kammer was the high bidder. The property was subsequently
conveyed to him by a warranty deed. Back taxes from 2002 were owed to PJC, PISD, and
Lamar County prior to the city acquiring it. We did not owe those taxes, and are generally
prohibited from paying property taxes. None of the back taxes are owed to the city, so we have
no authority to forgive them; only the other three jurisdictions can do that.
BUDGET: NA.
RECOMMENDATION: Take no action.