At last Tuesday’s Bargersville Town Council meeting Township Trustee Jay Marks presented his plan for the township to pay for three storm warning sirens in the southwestern portion of the township which is now within the Bargersville town limits. Although the township will pick up cost of the sirens the town will pay for installation and [...]
The evening began with the new residents of Bargersville attending a meeting of the town’s Storm Water Board armed with verbal pitchforks and torches. The board did not appear ready for the residents’ stand that you call the storm water bill a “fee” but it is still viewed as a tax when it arrives in [...]
On January 1st of this year a large portion of southwest White River Township was voluntarily annexed into Bargersville. The resident, fearing a merger with Greenwood, went to Bargersville and were promised no tax increases for ten years if they voluntarily became part of Bargersville’s annexation plans for growth. Someone forgot to read the fine [...]
If you want to understand Indiana township government you have to watch this three minute and some seconds video. It is a little slow going but nothing is a better example of what the 2007 “Shepard-Kernan” report on local government meant when it stated “We’ve got to stop governing like this”. Here is the meeting [...]
I don’t know of anyone who really expects government projections of costs, expenses or taxes to be accurate. I would assume that we all know that the reorganization plan for White River Township and Greenwood budget and tax projections are not what they would turn out to be. However it was interesting in the “Summit [...]
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