The Jeanerette Board of Aldermen voted to sell two plots of adjudicated property to interested bidders while denying a bid for a third one at Monday’s regular meeting.

Properties located at 1715 Peach St., 520 Peach St. and 827 Morris Charles St. were listed for sale by the city after a lien was put on each of the properties following unpaid taxes.

“As we collect these funds they are going to be put in a separate account to help build some money for the city to address our blighted and abandoned properties in the city,” Mayor Carol Bourgeois Jr. said.

The 1715 Peach St. address had a minimum bid for $9,000, and after being listed there were two bids that came in from the property. Bourgeois said the top bidder for the property was Florida Johnson, who came in with a bid of $10,000.

The property located at 827 Morris Charles St. also came in with two bidders and had a minimum bid of $11,600. The two bids were $8,000 and $12,500 with the top bid also going to Florida Johnson.

The third property at 520 Peach Street had a minimum bid of $15,600 and only came in with a single bid of $4,000.

“That’s too low,” Alderman Butch Bourgeois said. “If it was $12,000 that would be something else, but they only gave $4,000.”

After discussion on the agenda item, the board unanimously voted not to accept the bid and rebid the property at a later date.

In other business, Bourgeois announced that a grant for the Iberia Parish Parks and Recreation Department would be benefitting Jeanerette in the near future with renovations to several local parks.

Bourgeois said $400,000 was awarded during an application process for a recreational grant, and will be used for several Jeanerette parks. That includes $200,000 for Jeanerette City Park, $200,000 for King Joseph Park and an additional $50,000 for Burleigh Park in Jeanerette coming from Parks and Recreation.

The mayor said he had already met with engineers for preliminary talks on the projects, and planning was already in the works.

“We’re trying to facilitate something better for the community,” Bourgeois said. “We want to get this going.”