Archive for White River Township

A Board of budget hawks

by: Dann Veldkamp September 11, 2011

The White River Township (WRT) Board met on August 30 for one of the few meetings it has held this year. It was clear the Board is populated by budgets hawks. They had reviewed each line of the Trustee’s proposed 2012 budget closer than a Red Tail hawk tracking a field mouse. The total proposed [...]

Board questions merger bill

by: Jody Veldkamp September 11, 2011

When White River Township entered into a reorganization study with Greenwood the Indiana statute required that the expenses be divided based on each areas population. Now the bill has arrived and the WRT Board has questions. Greenwood submitted a number of invoices for services such as accounting and legal services utilized by the reorganization committee. [...]

WRT Board Meets to Review Budget

by: Jody Veldkamp August 30, 2011

Two weeks ago the White River Township board got a look at Trustee Mark Messick’s budget for 2012. The budget was very different from past years. It was split into more detail as recommended by the state trustee association recommended. Expenses were divided by what they were actually spent on, rather than lumped together. For [...]

Greenwood wins in Supreme Court

by: Dann Veldkamp February 1, 2011

The Daily Journal is reporting that the Indiana Supreme Court, in a split decision, has sided with Greenwood in its battle with Bargersville over land along SR 135. Two earlier court rulings had also split between the two parties. The first ruling favored Bargersville. This drove Greenwood to appeal to a higher court, which in [...]

And the Chairman stands alone

by: Dann Veldkamp January 23, 2011

It appears that the only official who continues to support putting the reorganization proposal on the November 2012 ballot is study Chairman Pat Sherman. As quoted in Saturday’s Daily Journal, Sherman said “We wouldn’t want to see something that so many people worked so hard on orphaned. We still want people to have a chance [...]