Banner Graphic, Volume 21, Number 25, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 October 1990 — Page 12

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October 2,1990

10-cent township tax to aid future fire protection

By LISA MEYER Banner-Graphic Staff Writer Greencastle Township volunteer firemen will be in a position to buy more equipment and could one day set up their own department with the levying of a new 10-cent tax in 1991. A Cumulative Fire Fund was set up Tuesday that will raise 10 cents per SIOO of assessed valuation from residents of Greencastle Township living outside corporate limits of Greencastle. BASED ON AN assessed valuation of $20,450,000 for the township’s fire protection, that additional levy will raise about $20,000 extra for equipment to improve the volunteers, Greencastle Township Trustee Thelma Bumgardner said at a hearing on the fund. But the additional tax will not raise the tax rate of township taxpayers. “I wouldn’t have (tone it if I had known it was going to raise someone’s taxes,” Bumgardner stressed. THE TOWNSHIP’S general fund has been accumulating so much money, she said, that she did not figure a tax levy on that fund for 1991.

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That will allow the total township tax rate to remain at 15 cents per SIOO of assessed valuation with the new 10-cent tax already figured into the 1991 budget The County Tax Review Board has already approved the township budget It must now be approved by the State Board of Tax Commissioners in October. The township has already been paying $25,000 per year to the city, which has gone for payments on the aerial ladder truck housed at the Greencastle Fire Department, Bumgardner said. Since the aerial truck will be paid off in 1991, she said, more funds can be raised to buy equipment for the township volunteer firemen. THAT IS WHERE the Cumulative Fire Fund comes in. Indiana law allows townships to set up such funds solely for the purpose of fire equipment, with a maximum levy of 10 cents. Bungardner said she is not certain that the township will continue to collect the $25,000 that now goes toward the aerial ladder after 1991, but it probably will. THAT MONEY would still go toward the volunteer department, she said. Add to that the additional

$20,000 to be raised with the new tax, and the volunteers will have almost twice as much funding. Bumgardner said the township was lucky this year that the she has not received a lot of claims for assistance and poor relief. She said she had only one person ask for assistance due to damage from the Aug. 29 wind storm that blew down trees, power lines and damaged houses. “That could have been a disaster,” Bumgardner said of the storm. “We’re lucky the storm didn’t do something to get people hurt or lose housing.” OFFICIALS WITH the State Board of Accounts and State Board of Tax Commissioners both told the trustee that residents inside Greencastle’s corporate limits (who also reside within the township) will not be affected by the 10-cent tax. Also attending Tuesday’s meeting at the township trustee’s office were Greencastle Building Inspector and Board of Works member Bill Lawrence and Greencastle Deputy Clerk-Treasurer Deanne Gaston.

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Steve Cash elected to head Fair Board

By DAVID BARR Banner-Graphic Civic Editor Steve Cash of Marion Township was elected president of the Putnam County Fair Board during its annual dinner meeting Monday night at the Community Building on the Putnam County Fairgrounds. In the top office, Cash succeeds David Ferrand, who had completed his two-year term as specified in association bylaws. OTHERS WHO WILL become officers of the Fair Board include: Dale Jessup, vice president, and Jeanne Albright, secretary.

New Greencastle location for Teachers Credit Union office

Richard J. Rice, president and CEO of Teachers Credit Union, announces the grand opening of a new Crawfordsville facility and a new Greencastle location. “TCU was originally invited to serve R.R. Donnelley employees of Crawfordsville in March of 1989. Our popularity among Donnelley employees and their families led to the opening of our Greencastle office in June, and the addition of several school districts and many businesses to our field of membership. Because of this enthusiastic support, we will open a new office in Crawfordsville on Sept. 24,” Rice explained. THE NEW OFFICE, located at 1408-C Darlington Road is TC’U’s 17th Service Center. TCU’s Greencastle Service Center opened for business at its new

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With City Police Chief Jack Hanlon looking over her shoulder, Greencastle’s new meter officer, Kim Sheldon, writes a parking ticket on the east side of the square Thursday morning. Miss Sheldon, 23, started officially as meter officer Wednesday, being selected for the position from some 20 applicants. A 1985 Greencastle High School graduate, she was graduated from Franklin College in 1989. A physical education major, she played basketball and volleyball for Franklin and is currently serving as an assistant volleyball coach at GHS. Miss Sheldon replaces Marsha Costin, who resigned in August to continued her education. With the hiring of a new meter officer, tires will again be chalked and the two-hour parking limit enforced, Chief Hanlon stressed. Miss Sheldon will also patrol the parking lot on North Jackson Street to look for meter violations. (Banner-Graphic photo by Gary Goodman).

Directors elected to two-year terms are: Clair Winings, Jackson Township; Steve Thomas, Madison Township; Rita Berry, Warren Township; Pat Mann, Cloverdale; Jessup, Monroe Township; Cash, Marion, and Joel Brookshire, Franklin Township. Directors-at-large will be George McDermit, Linda York, Ron Birt and Ty Sutherlin. THROUGHOUT the year, Fair Board meetings are held the fourth Monday of each month in the Community Building. The sessions are open to the public.

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