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BALL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

Dear Residents of Delaware County,

Ball Memorial Hospital has been accused by Delaware County officials of not filing an application for property tax exemption in 1995. Based on that opinion, the County Auditor’s office claims there will be a budget shortfall of $3.5 million in revenue for local taxing units. We do pay taxes on some of our properties but, because of our mis-

sion of service, the main hospital buildings have always been tax

exempt

As a community hospital with a long-standing interest in the welfare of the residents of Delaware County and East Central Indiana, we feel you should know the facts in this case: • We did file the necessary paperwork on May 4, 1995. • We have produced copies of the exemption application file stamped by the Auditor and have given them to the Auditor’s office and to The Star Press reporter covering this issue. • Our application for tax exemption covers both real and personal property and is the same one that has been filed in previous years. • If the Auditor believed we had not filed a tax exemption, the County Auditor was required by law (IC6-1.1-11-5) to notify us. • We were not notified. • Again, by law (IC 6-1.1-11-5), if we were not notified by the Auditor’s office of our failure to file a tax exemption, we would have until November 1 of the following year j WHEELING AYE. STATION, MANPOWER WAS STRETCHED EVEN FURTHER. IN 1980 POLICE MANPOWER WAS REDUCED FROM 127 TO 120. FOR A CITY THE SIZE OF MUNCTF NATTOmat ctamtaa■dt^c

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2. The ffllng deadline is May 1$. An application must be filed in I96d and m every fourth year thereafter. However, an application

must be filed in any other year if the property was not exempted in the immediately preceding year. An application shouin filed in any year in which an appeal to the State Board of Tax Commissioners or to a court of ** —

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