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Feb
12
Auditor: Cutting Back & Improving Service
Filed Under good government, government spending, Lake County, Lake County auditor, Peggy Katona, property tax crisis, property tax reform, taxes | 2 Comments
The Lake County auditor’s office is cutting back and improving taxpayer service — following the suggestions of the Good Government report.
Cutting back and improving service!
The Lake County Auditor shows that cutting government spending can work if technology and cross training is used to improve effectiveness.
Reports Christin Nance Lazerus in the Post-Tribune:
The Lake County Auditor’s Office is undergoing changes, including job cuts, in response to the Good Government Initiative.
Six part-time positions were eliminated in 2007.
Six full-time positions are being phased out this year.
Better technology will help increase office efficiency, as both the tax sale and property records will soon be available online.
Dec
12
Times’ Kiesling: Blow Up System!
Filed Under good government, government reform, government waste, property tax crisis | Comments Off
You know there is something wrong in local government when an employee of a mainstream institution — such as a local newspaper columnist — calls for blowing up the current system and starting from new.
Writes the Northwest Indiana Times’ Mark Kiesling:
Indiana is ready for reform. If it does not reform, it can continue to expect the brain drain that now saps so much of the home-grown talent that is driven elsewhere by Indiana’s unwillingness to change due to selfish political considerations. …
I predict squealing like that of a thousand stuck pigs and righteous indignation that this removes the voter from the “public servant.” That is bull. How much farther removed from the voter can our elected officials be, the ones who fill their own cars at county gas troughs and cry like babies when they can’t get a county-owned car to drive?
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