PUBLIC NOTICE ON JUNE 23, 2025, A PETITION, TOGETHER WITH ACCOMPANYING RULE NISI, NOTICE TO RESPONDENTS AND INTERESTED PARTIES, AND LIS PENDENS, WAS FILED IN Bibb County Superior Court seeking foreclosure of the ad valorem tax lien(s) for the year(s) shown below: This Petition serves as notice to the Respondent(s) and all Interested Parties that (1) each party is presumed to own or have a legal interest in one or more of the Subject Properties, (2) that foreclosure proceedings have been commenced because of the failure to pay the real property taxes cited above, and (3) foreclosure will result in the loss of ownership of the Properties and all rights or interests of all Interested Parties. To avoid loss of ownership or any interest in the Property, payment of the full amount of taxes, penalties, interest, and costs must be paid to the Petitioner's office located at 188 Third Street, Macon, Georgia 31201 prior to any Court-ordered sale of the Property. An owner of the Property may redeem the Property within 60 days after the sale date by paying the full amount of taxes, penalties, interest and costs to the Bibb County Superior Court. A hearing on the above matter shall take place on the 5th day of August, 2025, at 9:30 a.m., Courtroom C, at the Bibb County Courthouse, 601 Mulberry Street, Macon, Georgia 31201. The petition was filed by Samuel Wade McCord Macon-Bibb County Tax Commissioner. For further information, contact the Tax Commissioner's counsel of record's office at (478) 336-5500, or at James Bates Brannan Groover, LLP, 231 Riverside Drive, Suite 100, Macon, Georgia 31201. Civil Action No.: 2025-CV-083190 Respondents and Interested Parties: Occupant, Michael F. Payne, Attorney General of Georgia Office of the Attorney General, Robyn Crittenden, Georgia State Revenue Commissioner Department of Revenue, Georgia Department of Revenue, Attn: Accounts Receivable Collections-Liens, Georgia Department of Revenue, Attn: Office of General Counsel, Ally Bank, CT Corporation System, c/o Ally Bank and Richard A. Russell, c/o Ally Bank Tax Parcel ID No.: O082-0730 Property Address: 221 May Avenue, Macon, Georgia Record Title vested in: Michael F. Payne Tax Payer: (Current Taxpayer) Michael F. Payne Tax Years being foreclosed: 2017-2022 Amount of taxes owed (including any interest and penalties which have accrued through (latest year of delinquent taxes): $3,547.18. (Opening Bid/Total Amount Owed including principal, penalties, interest and legal fees) Legal Description: All that lot or parcel of land situated and being in the County of Bibb, Macon, Georgia, and the Godfrey District and being the south one-half of Lot 9, according to plat of the Baer Property recorded in the Clerk's Office of the Bibb Superior Court in Plat Book 10, Page 64. Said lot being rectangular in shape having a frontage of 20 feet, more or less, on May Street, extending in a southwesterly direction 88 feet, more or less. This is the same property conveyed to Michael F. Payne in deed dated July 7, 1989, filed for record September 21, 1989, in Deed Book 1786, Page 215, Superior Court Clerk's Office, Bibb County, Georgia deed records. IPL0254689 Jul 23,30 2025