Self-incorporation put on back burner

by: Dann Veldkamp Monday, August 3rd, 2009
The effort to incorporate has been dialed back, but not turned off. Citing a lack of volunteers for the various committees, Ryan Rhoten says he doesn’t expect to form the committees outlined about a month ago. Despite the ease of collecting the needed 50 signatures and hundreds who expressed support through his web site, CenterGroveTown.org, few actually signed up to be on the committees. There still seems to be a widespread lack of understanding of what is going on among the various local governments.

The purpose of Rhoten’s effort was to provide the citizens of White River Township with an alternative to merging with Greenwood or being annexed by Bargersville or Greenwood. Rhoten says he will be following the actions of the Reorganization Committee closely and possibly commenting on their recommendations on his web site.

Rhoten also expects to take small steps in the incorporation process, such as determining the potential town borders and conducting financial analysis on the viability of a Town of Center Grove. By the time of the elections in May, Rhoten expects that awareness will be at it’s peak and should any party turn down the reorganization, he wants to be ready to file for incorporation in as short at time as possible. As he has said many times, he is not opposed to reorganization, but does think it is important to have other options should the merger fail.

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2 Responses to “Self-incorporation put on back burner”

Scott Wilson Said:

This is not really a big surprise. The surprise is that someone actully had the where-with-all to actually move the ball toward incorporation. Evidently all the hullaballoo about the merger committee not “investigating all the options” was just rhetoric, as expected.

Comment made on August 5th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
Dann Veldkamp Said:

Yes, Scott, there is significant disappointment at the apathy demonstrated by the citizens. Sure, we are all busy, but it would be nice if more took a longer view and became involved. Even making a comment in a blog, as you did, shows an involvement and can impact the future.

Comment made on August 6th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
 

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