CHICKASHA – A Grady County resident who owns or leases three sites where large quantities of hand sanitizer and hand lotion were destroyed in fires last year owes more than $100,000 in overdue property taxes, online records of the Grady County Treasurer’s Office show.
Brannan Bordwine, Bordwine Development Inc., Bordwine Urban and Rural Development, and Bordwine Farms owed$109,913.85 in unpaid ad valorem taxes on at least 36 pieces of property in the county as of March 23, ledgers reflect.
Almost all of the property is in Chickasha, and Bordwine has paid a lot of property taxes on his properties during the past seven years, records show. However, Bordwine has not paid ad valorem taxes on at least six of his properties for the last four years, and taxes have not been paid for at least two years on several other parcels, records show.
The least amount due on any piece of property in any of the last seven years is $3.14 unpaid for tax year 2022 on 1.8 acres of land that Brannan and Christal Bordwine own in the Ninnekah School District.
The most owed on any single parcel is $9,679 unpaid for tax years 2021 and 2022 on Bordwine Development’s principal headquarters at 1102 Pikes Peak Road in Chickasha.
In a lawsuit filed against Brannan Bordwine last year, Grady County Assistant District Attorney Charles Sifers wrote that unpaid ad valorem taxes on Bordwine’s property “will constitute a first lien” against the property, and if the property is sold the proceeds will be used to pay the costs of the sale, “including unpaid real property taxes of Grady County…”
Southwest Ledger left a message for Grady County Treasurer Robin Burton at 9:01 a.m. March 24, but she never returned the call.
Bordwine’s financial troubles have involved more than taxes and extend back at least five years, court records show.
• Equity Bank filed a foreclosure petition in Grady County District Court against Brannan Bordwine and his Bordwine Development Inc. on March 7, 2022.
As of Feb. 14, 2022, Bordwine Development owed $476,085 on an $870,000 promissory note negotiated with Equity Bank of Tulsa on Oct. 20, 2020, a document shows.
“The Note is now in default,” Equity Bank advised the court.
Bordwine mortgaged five pieces of property in Chickasha to secure the loan with Equity Bank, the petition showed. The lawsuit was dismissed Aug. 12, 2022. No explanation was provided in court records.
• Sarah White and Inspections Plus of Norman filed suit against Bordwine Farms in Cleveland County District Court on Nov. 26, 2019, over a $3,197.50 unpaid debt for installation of a fire alarm system. The lawsuit was “dismissed/settled” three weeks later, on Dec. 9, 2019, court records show.
• Diamond Ethanol LLC of Levelland, Texas, filed an affidavit of judgment in Grady County District Court against Brannan Bordwine and Bordwine Development Inc. on March 1, 2018.
The affidavit reported that two months earlier, Diamond Ethanol was awarded a judgment of $45,417 in Hockley County, Texas, against Bordwine and his development company over construction of a building and concrete slab in Levelland.
Diamond Ethanol “paid the entirety” of a $711,073 contract on the project in November 2016 and requested a lien waiver from the defendants. Bordwine assured Diamond Ethanol “that all subcontractors were paid.” However, a short time later,Diamond Ethanol received a mechanics lien from one subcontractor and subsequently discovered several more.
The judgment was released in full on June 15, 2018, court records show. No explanation was provided.