Archive for December, 2008

What does White River Township want?

by: Dann Veldkamp December 15, 2008

The question no one seems willing or able to answer This question keeps coming up, most recently as an editorial in the Daily Journal. But it’s been asked at “town hall meetings”, council and board meetings, discussions with neighbors and emails from White River Township (WRT) residents and area elected officials. After attending as many [...]

Why government doesn’t have to be expensive to be effective

by: Dann Veldkamp December 13, 2008

There are fresh approaches to quickly forming a city of 40,000+ residents We can establish a viable long-term municipal government with a year, if we follow the right process and have the right people on the merger/consolidation committee. First, the White River Township (WRT) Board needs to make sure the right parties are participating in [...]

An open letter to the WRT Board and Bargersville Town Council

by: Jody Veldkamp December 11, 2008

What does White River Township want? This seems to be the question that keeps coming up be it at “town hall meetings”, articles in the local papers, council and board meetings, discussions with my neighbors and emails from WRT residents and area elected officials. After attending as many meetings as I can on this subject, [...]

A lot to learn

by: Dann Veldkamp December 9, 2008

“Don’t know much about . . . ” I once knew a school teacher who told her students that anyone who wrote “a lot” as one word would automatically receive an “F” on that paper. I must say that based on what I saw Monday at the White River Township board meeting that WRT residents [...]

WRT Board defies resident comments

by: Jody Veldkamp December 8, 2008

Only Acts on Greenwood Merger Proposal In a packed White River Township Board meeting the crowd, unruly at times, made its opinion clear “We want options” and that taking action to only respond to the Greenwood merger proposal is not what they wanted. Despite the repeated comments requesting to leave all options on the table [...]