The Board of Mayor and Aldermen are expected Nov. 10 to put a lien on a piece of property that was once the site of an abandoned 12-unit apartment building condemned and razed in 2014 by the city.

City Attorney Nancy Thomas said the board Monday set a Nov. 10 hearing on the property to receive any objections on the lien, which Community Development Director Gray-Lewis estimated in April 2014 would total $23,186, which included a 25 percent penalty and fees.

Thomas said the hearing is required under the city’s subdivision ordinance, which the city used to condemn and demolish the building.

According to county tax records, the property is valued at $17,980.

Once the lien is placed on the property, it must be paid off when the property is sold for the city to recover its money.

Built in 1969, the two-story Oak Street apartments near the intersection of Oak and Speed streets was condemned Oct. 14, 2014, after city utility department employees pulled the complex’s water and gas meters because owner Alan Osborne had not paid the utility bills.

The apartments were later placed under the city’s slum clearance ordinance after neither Osborne nor a representative for him appeared at a Dec. 12 hearing to discuss the building and plans to repair it. The building was then placed on the city’s demolition list.

Osborne, Community Development Director Victor Gray-Lewis said, told city officials he was “walking away from the property.”

The board on June 13, 2014, hired Jackson-based Anderson Environmental Services Inc. for $9,550 contract with to remove 6,480 square feet of asbestos floor tile and adhesive from the apartments in the two-story building before it was taken down.