NEWRY — Residents voted 9-3 Tuesday to allow selectmen to sell 38 timeshares at Sunday River ski resort hotels because of overdue property taxes, some lapsed for more than 10 years.
Twenty-six are at Grand Summit Hotel and 12 at Jordan Hotel.
Last month, the treasurer of the Jordan Hotel Homeowners Association asked Town Manager Amy Bernard about foreclosing on the units so they could be turned over to people willing to pay the required taxes and fees.
Bernard said Tuesday that once the properties have been paid for, the town can issue quitclaim deeds for them.
“We can possibly get someone to own these units who’s going to pay their taxes and that will work in the benefit of the town,” she said.
Selectman Jim Largess said he was in favor of selling the timeshares to avoid the town paying the Hotel Homeowners Association fees.
One option is to solicit bids for them.
Bernard said she thinks they will be sold before the annual town meeting in May.
Town Code Enforcement Officer Dave Bonney was elected moderator of the meeting.
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