Sedgwick County will use $1.28 million in contingency money to pay people left hanging after an online auction company failed to pay money owed from October tax foreclosure sales.
Commissioners said it’s the first step in not only making right with those who participated in property foreclosure sales but also in potentially reforming the process that allowed the county treasurer to approve the contract CivicSource without getting commissioner approval, using the county’s competitive bidding process or consulting the county’s legal counsel.
“To all the creditors out there that would have received some of these funds … They did nothing wrong. They deserve their money through this process,” Commissioner Jim Howell said. “ … We trusted this company, and unfortunately, we didn’t have everything in place maybe as good as we maybe could or should have.”…