About a dozen properties will go back on the tax roles after McKean County Commissioners Tuesday approved their sale from the County repository.

The properties had all been seized  for unpaid taxes and had not been bought at two previous tax sales.

Richard Smith bought one located at 1350 Looker Mountain Trail for $50.

The fourth mobile home, at 716 Main Street, Duke Center, was purchased by Eric Johnston for $2,850; the lot it sits on was bought by Otto Township for $250.

In other properties, a house and lot at 138 South Main Street, Bradford, went to Richard Middaugh for  $1,625 and a house and land at 23 Leland Street, Bradford, was bought for $511 by the McKean 8 Property Trust.

That Trust also purchased a commercial building and lot on Main Street in Mt Jewett for $251.

A piece of land at 100 Maplewood Avenue, Bradford, went to Judith Tierson  for $250 and a vacant lot at 30 East Avenue in Bradford was bought by Valerie Mark for $262.

Bradford OECD paid $250 for a property at 22 East Washington Street.

In Smethport, Martin Montgomery purchased a house and land on Route 6 for $3,277 and in Port Allegany Troy Glasgow gave $350 for a building at 68 South Main Street.

Commissioner Al Pingie noted that the listed properties had not been generating any revenue for the county or municipalities, but now they would go back on the tax roles.

A real estate tax exemption was granted to the City of Bradford for  Lot it owns at 82 N. Bennett Street.

Commissioners approved payment of Liquid Fuels Fund money to Lewis Run Borough and Lafayette Township for projects completed in 2008, and accepted Liquid Fuels Funds applications from Annin and Hamlin Townships.

Also approved were three contracts with Karpinski’s Office Systems for maintenance on copiers and fax machines.

Hamilton Township was authorized to use $1,248.99 left over from its 2004 Community Development Block Grant to assist with its 2007 CBDG funding for a thermal imaging camera for the Ludlow Fire Department.

Bids were approved for six stream restoration projects through the Conservation District, with finding from the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.

Meadville Land Service got four of the contracts, on Upper Portage Road, Port Allegany; Gregory Avenue and West Washington Street, Bradford; and Creek, in Duke Center.

 Solveson  Contracting, Emporium, was low bidder on the other two, one at South Avenue in Lewis Run and the other at Bolivar Drive, Bradford.  

Commissioners approved the advertising of approval of distribution of  federal funds received from timber sales in the Allegheny National Forest amounted to $262,377, but Chairman of Commissioners Joe DeMott said the total of the requests was more than $400,000.

That meant that most of the organizations that requested money got only a portion of what they had asked for.

Three were funded fully: $25,944 went to the 911 Center, $26,000 to the McKean County Conservation District and $62,993 to Penn State Extension Education.

The Allegheny National Forest Vacation Bureau got $66,773.

Corydon Township Volunteer Fire Department will get $16,901; McKean County Biodynamics, $10,0000, and $33,765 will go the McKean County Sheriff’s Dive and Rescue team, and  the   McKean  County Historic Society will receive  $10,000.

Money from the timber sales must be distributed to municipalities or organizations that have a connection with the ANF.