Archive for Reorganization Effort
A newsletter preview of tomorrow’s Daily Journal says… Bargersville wants a new merger study. A missed deadline to get the merger plan on the fall ballot presents an opportunity to start a new merger study, town attorney Nicholas Kile said. If the board doesn’t agree, Bargersville will give all township residents who live south of [...]
In an interesting twist the White River Township Board has filed the paperwork to put the reorganization plan on the November 2010, yes 2010 is correct, ballot. According to the reorganization law the paperwork needs to be filed 60 days before the election even though election laws says August 1st. When the legislature changed the [...]
Is it really over? Is White River Township once again the wild west of annexation and potentially residents without a town? The township attorney appears to think so based on comments in today’s Daily Journal. White River Township board member Mark Messick isn’t so sure but he also didn’t say that the reorganization issue can [...]
It’s the dog days of summer and the dog just bit us in the… In an incredible turn of events, the citizen’s vote on the Greenwood/White River Township merger will be delayed until 2012!
There have been at least six public hearings on the various permutations of the reorganization proposal between Greenwood and White River Township (WRT). But, I have yet been to a single meeting where the proposal was actually distributed. Both Greenwood and WRT leaders rather rely on sites such as this one and their official site [...]