own Collector Michelle L. Hill will file tax liens against 46 properties in an effort to guarantee that the town eventually collects more than $120,000 worth of back property taxes, fees, and penalties.
The liens were filed with the Hampden County registrar of deeds on Jan. 3, Hill said last week.
She had planned to file attachments to the deeds of 52 properties, but the owners either paid outstanding taxes or made arrangements for payment before Jan. 3, she said.
Hill published a list of property owners and the amounts owed last month.
The largest account is $9,835.07 owed by Roy and Fernande Wilfred at 32 Lakeview St.. Taxes on that property date back to 1997.
The smallest amount owed on the published list is $1.18 for a parcel on Cooley Road. It represents a balance on current property taxes.
Some of the 52 open tax accounts were approved for payments, but the owners failed to comply with the arrangements.
Hill has recovered just over $500,000 worth of outstanding taxes and fees since becoming town clerk and collector-treasurer in 2006. Last year, she filed tax liens on 25 parcels, and since July nine of the accounts have been paid.
Last August, the town received $180,000 worth of back taxes and fees on several parcels previously tagged for foreclosure. It represented taxes and fees dating back to 1992 on several building-type lots along Hillside Road, previously owned by Bruce W. Sikes.
Hill has said that the placement of liens is a process that guarantees Southwick will eventually receive property taxes owed before a property can be sold.
The Jan. 3 liens were filed against property owners Paula Bruno, with property on College Highway; Rebecca Burnell, for properties on Will Palmer and Hillside roads; Louis Casale, a Granville Road parcel; Rocco and Barbara Cianfarani, for several parcels on Cooley Road; Roy Circosta, Tannery Road; Cirillo Realty, Feeding Hills road; Merrill Clark, Mort Vining Road property; DT Enterprises, parcels on Stoneybrook; Frank Duncan, College Highway; Donald and Dorothy Elton, parcels on North Loomis Street; Anthony Grochowski, Southwick Hill property; William and Wendy Hauser, two parcels on North Lake Road; William and Keith Howard, Pineywood Road parcel; JP Builders Inc., a parcel on Sunnyside Road; Joseph Priscilla, Granville Road; Michelle Leblanc, Fernwood Road; Lexington Circle Development Inc., parcel on Lexington Circle; James Oleksak, at Sam West Road; Steven Palazzi, Hunters Ridge Circle parcel; Patriot Woods Home Owners Association, Lexington Circle; Mark Poulin, property on Klaus Anderson Road; Bradley Quirk, parcel on Congamond
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