To every voter who voted against the reorganization of Evansville/Vanderburgh County, this is a day to rejoice.  The CORE group did not stop with the defeat of reorganization, but worked continually behind the scenes with our local legislators

On Sunday April 7, our own Evansville Courier & Press ran a printed editorial.  Since it was unsigned, we assume it was written by the paper’s editors.  In it, the paper attacks the idea of a “rejection threshold” applied to

We have been quietly working with legislators both local and statewide, hoping to put some teeth into the Government Modernization Act, IC36-1.5, IC 36-4, and IC36-7 to prevent other communities from going through the hostile takeover attempt by  politicians. ON

SB343 passed the full House 94 – 1, and now goes back to the Senate.  Author Randy Head has concurred with the amendments.  The next step is a vote by the full Senate, and if approved, the bill goes to

The committee on Government and Regulatory Reform unanimously passed SB343, and all the amendments. CORE was well represented by Bruce Ungethiem, Jayne Buthod, Cynthia Maasberg and John Bittner.  Bruce talked about the experience in Evansville, and how outside special interest

Senate Bill 343 is a bill written to do away with some of the inequities contained in the original statute permitting a merger of city and county governments.  SB343 requires a separate block of votes for for each entity, and

This report is taken from the Chambers newsletter: http://www.indianachamber.com/media/website/LR%202-1-13%20LocalGov.pdf Mission Impossible: Getting Local Government Reorganized at the Local Level Indiana Chamber Legislative Report Bill # and Title: SB 343 – Local Government Reorganization Author: Sen. Randy Head (R-Logansport) Summary: Removes

The CORE group have been quietly working with legislators to make changes to the Government Modernization Act (reorganization) so we and other communities will not be faced with a hostile take-over like we just experienced. Currently Senate Bill 343 and

A recent poll by the City-County Observer ask “If you had it to do over, would you support consolidation now?”  The results are even better than last November’s final referendum vote tally – 20 FOR, and 109 AGAINST, a whopping

  Volume 18, Issue 7, January 18, 2013 SENATE LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE HEARS ASSESSOR QUALIFICATION AND GOVERNMENT MERGER BILLS  SB 19, dealing with local government reorganization and authored by Sen. Jim Tomes (R-Wadesville), was heard on Wednesday.  Katrina Hall testified