By Stu Salkeld
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Your West Central Voice
KINDERSLEY – The Town of Kindersley council approved a list of tax arrears properties and thus began the process to recover the money owing. The resolution was passed at the Nov. 9 regular meeting of council.
Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) Marty Baroni presented councillors with the tax enforcement – list of land in arrears, noting as he did so this list is usually presented to councillors at roughly this time of year.
Baroni stated the list has been updated to November 2026 and applies to outstanding debt from the 2025 tax year.
The CAO stated that the list presented to councillors was the entire list of taxes owing from the 2025 year but noted that the motion recommended to council would exclude from the forthcoming newspaper notice certain outstanding taxes that were below a specific threshold.
Hence, Baroni observed that the list of properties with outstanding property taxes will appear shorter in a newspaper advertisement than it did in the council agenda.
Baroni noted once council passes a resolution and the newspaper notice is authorized, this marks the beginning of the tax enforcement process, adding that the notice will advise that the amounts listed must be paid by a certain date in January 2027 or a lien will be registered by the Town of Kindersley on a property.
The staff report given to councillors with the tax arrears list noted that the newspaper notice is required by provincial law for municipalities to recover unpaid property taxes.
The list included no personal or business names, only legal addresses. The total amount owing for the entire list was about $235,000, with some amounts as small as $15.35.
However, the largest outstanding debt was $135,128.55 described as title number 149998426 with the address block 92 plan 81-S-07063.
Councillors unanimously passed a resolution that the town accept the list of tax arrears as presented and that any property on that list as of November 2026 with an amount owing of less than half of the immediately preceding year’s tax levy be omitted from said list before further proceeding.