For a couple years there has been no plan in Porter County for use of the hospital sale funds. Porter County actually sits on roughly $265 million dollars in cash right now, much of that obtained when the county hospital was sold to Community.
That's a quarter billion dollars ... should it be used for "stimulus"? Commissioner Harper seems at the end of this article to be suggesting that possibility but only for a really large opportunity. What kind of opportunity would that be? An employer? But that's growth and we know growth is a bad word in our county right now.
Should the money be returned to the property tax payers, as councilman Poporad has suggested in the past? Or, should the money be used to fund health care, since it was created using health care expenditures by the citizens?
I know many of our readers fancy themselves conservatives, with democrats in Porter County commenting regularly that they are acting more conservative than Republicans ... ok, then what should be done with a quarter billion in cash?
