Porter County officials again

In what seems to be an every week occurrence once again there's an article in our local news about our county officials pretending to know what they are doing, but no.

The Times article today: Tax Payments Go Uncashed

Let's review briefly:

• The Assessor was unable to assess correctly, following the laws of the State of Indiana, and instead cherry picked a few areas to assign trending. This means that next year when residents of Shorewood actually get trended for the first time, there will be riots on US 30.
• The Auditor has been unable to certify, perhaps due to the assessors inabilities, or as we're often told "the software made me do it" and therefore our local communities are borrowing money while the county sits on a quarter billion dollars in cash in its accounts.
• When we were finally billed last year we became aware that our assessors were not good at commercial assessments, and after public flogging they had to ask the state to come in to explain and help, and eventually do the trending themselves.
• Oh, by the way, we still haven't been billed this year and when we do get billed it will be one tax bill for the whole year ... a solution that may seem easier to those in the white building but will actually cause roughly 1/3 of our homeowners to get increases in their escrows because mortgage companies will think it is a half year bill.
  
• Now we find that checks written to the county for taxes, some written in blood due to the massive size of tax increase, weren't cashed "the software made me do it" again.

This post will be an equal opportunity slap ... it's time to clean out the entire building of leaders. The assessor and auditor would be a great start, but frankly the administration is problematic to the core and the commissioners and council need to go too. Here's the rub, who's willing to put their name up and fight to help clean up our county?

Calling Nancy Adams, at least she seems to have an uncanny ability to see the problems.