ANDERSON — People are wondering where Bishop Robert Scott is. The Anderson Community Schools board member owes hundreds of thousands of dollars to various individuals and banks, and his church, The Resurrection Temple, will go on the auction block next month after its mortgage was foreclosed.
A Madison County Sheriff’s Department sale scheduled for May 16 is asking $442,100 for the church property, located at 335 W. 14th St.
Five other civil lawsuits have ordered Scott to pay more than $250,000, according to court documents.
Scott, who has led the church since 2003, is a former vice president for the Madison County NAACP. His phone was not accepting calls Friday, and he did not respond to a handwritten message from The Herald Bulletin left at his most recent address, an apartment on West Eighth Street.
Keith Collins said he loaned Scott more than $14,000 in 2004 to help with work on the church. It was meant to be a two-month, no-interest loan, Collins said, but in August 2006, he filed a civil lawsuit in Madison Superior Court 1 seeking repayment from Scott. Collins, of Anderson, said he has not had contact with Scott for more than two years.
“I feel real embarrassed about it,” said Collins, a car salesman. “You try to help a church and then get blown off for payments.”
In November 2006, the court ruled in favor of Collins, but he said he has not seen any of his money returned because Scott owes larger amounts in other cases.
In May 2006, Madison Circuit Court ordered Scott to pay nearly $11,000 to Communitywide FCU. Then in October 2006, Madison Superior Court 2 ordered Scott to pay more than $110,146 to Old National Bank and, in a separate case, Superior Court 1 ordered Scott to pay more than $10,500 to Timothy and Victoria Hobbs, neither of whom could be reached for comment Friday.
In February, Superior Court 2 ruled Scott to pay more than $107,313 to Mainsource Bank.
Scott last attended an Anderson school board meeting on Feb. 12 when he spoke out in support of retaining JoDean Washington, the school corporation’s director of community development.
ACS superintendent Mikella Lowe said she last spoke with Scott in March, shortly before spring break.
School board president Tobi Jones said Scott has not contacted the board about resigning from his seat, even though she said she has been hearing such rumors since he became a board member in 2006.
“Recently, I’ve heard more. I’ve heard he’s moved out of town,” she said.
In February, Scott addressed rumors that he planned to leave Anderson and step down from the school board.
“I’m going to serve my full term,” he said at the time. “If there is a major event in my life, God forbid, that changes things.”
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