The Mail-Journal, Volume 16, Number 41, Milford, Kosciusko County, 31 October 1979 — Page 18

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THE MAIL-JOURNAL —Wed., October 31,1979

Examiners claim it may be January before rates are set

The Indiana State Tax Commissioners examined area budgets at a hearing on Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 22 and 23, in the Kosciusko County Courthouse. Reductions in several of the budgets were recommended to stay inside the frozen levy boundaries established by law. But the examiners pointed out quickly that rates need to be established before the certification of the budgets. Examiners said it could be next January before the tax rates are established due to the recent Mindr damage in fender bender Two fender benders occurred in Syracuse last week, both resulting in relatively minor damage to the vehicles involved. Mary A. Beer, 53, r 1 Milford, driving a 1977 Ford, was pulling away from the curb on Main Street, Monday morning and did not see the 1979 Ford driven by Kenneth Misenar, 53130 Twychenham Drive, South Bend, because of a semi truck making a turn. Damage to the Beer auto was limited to the left front bumper and was estimated at $l4O. The Misenar vehicle sustained damage to the right rear fender, estimated at $125. Two cars, both attempting to exit the parking lot at Thornburg Drug Store parking lot, collided Saturday morning. The 1979 Chevy driven by Juanita L. Hughes, 54, r 4, 47 North Shore Drive was damaged in the right rear door area. The damage was approximately SBOO. The other auto, a 1979 Chevy, was driven by Theda M. Cutter, 56, 706 N. Huntington St., was damaged in the left front fender and left front headlight. Damage to the Chevy was approximately $350.

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completion of a statewide reassessment program. Below is a list of area towns, library and school budgets tentatively approved by the state commissions. A total budget of $44,288 was approved for Leesburg and the examiner cut the amount of general funds to be raised by a tax levy from $17,673 to $14,624. The county tax board had earlier cut the amount to the frozen levy of $14,398. Milford received an approved budget of $138,810. The amount of general funds which are to be raised through local taxes was cut from the advertised amount of $70,583 to $62,878. Earlier the county tax board cut the total amount from $105,920 to the frozen levy of $92,785. The only cut in the $189,078 budget approved for North Webster was in federal revenue sharing. This was trimmed from $10.150 to $8,385. The general fund to be raised through local taxes County receives *997,096 in replacement funds A check for $997,096.20 was received in Kosciusko County as part of the Property Tax Replacement Fund monies which were distributed to 92 Indiana counties last week. The total amount distributed was $109,891,461.68. This was the third and final payment from the fund this fall, bringing to $150,680,421.02 the amount distributed by the Department of Revenue to the counties for property tax replacement. The $150.6-million figure represents the fall portion of 20 per cent property tax replacement based upon tax rate figures provided by the State Board of Tax Commissioners. This reduction will be apparent to local property taxpayers on their 1979 property tax bills which are payable in November. Minor accident involves youth from Leesburg Michele Minear, 15, r 2 Leesburg, was involved in a twocar accident, Friday, Oct. 26, on US 30 two miles east of Warsaw. Minear was attempting to change lanes when she struck the side of an auto operated by Barbara A. Dennis, 41, Hammond, which was passing at the time. Police estimated the damage to the Dennis vehicle at $375 and $75 to the van driven by Minear. The van was owned by Minear’s Flower Shop, 2220 East Winona Ave., Warsaw.

was approved at the advertised amount of $81,884. As in the other towns, the county tax board had cut the total amount of $100,304 to the frozen levy of $92,785. The total 1980 budget for Syracuse will be $562,434. Out of that total $329,480 is earmarked for the general fund. The cuts which were made were in the criminal justice fund from $1,500 to $278 and from $29,013 to $27,256 in the federal revenue sharing trust fund. Officials from Syracuse were proposing to raise $205,966 by the general fund tax levy, but that figure was reduced to the recommended figure of $196,215. Earlier the county tax adjustment board reduced the entire tax levy from $288,432 to the state frozen mark set at $270,648. Library and School The budget approved for the Milford Library was $20,800. The general fund was cut from the advertised amount of $17,805 to $15,928, the same as the frozen levy on the total amount raised. For the Lakeland Community Schools the total budget of $5,520,490 was approved. But the general funds was cut from the advertised amount of $2,717,479 to $2,382,153.

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$20,000 DAMAGE — An electrical malfunction caused $20,000 damage to the home of Sharon Carmack on Pickwick Dr., Wawasee Heights, at 3:54 a.m. Monday morning, Oct. 29. When firemen arrived the master bedroom of the home was engulfed in flames. No one was home at the time of the fire, but Mrs. Carmack arrived later at the scene and advised she had been gone since 9 p.m. the previous evening. Syracuse Firemen remained at the scene for approximately two hours and used, 1,250 gallons of water. Fire officials believe the fire started around the circuit breaker. The fire was reported by a Syracuse police officer.

Another arrested in mass drug bust

A Warsaw man has been arrested by county and Warsaw police officers in connection with the massive drug bust last Wednesday, Oct. 24. Paul Michael Mirek, 27, 1404 East Center Street, Warsaw, was booked on a charge of possession of marijuana (Class A Misdemeanor) at the county jail Saturday, Oct. 27.

A huge drug undercover operation, conducted by the State Police Drug Enforcement Section in Kosciusko County, resulted in the arrests of 31 persons early Wednesday morning, Oct. 24. The charges range from sale of Cocaine, LSD and methaqualone to misdemeanor counts of possession of marijuana. Authorities have warrants out for

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