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Poll book purchases to be debated at County Council budget hearing Monday

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The Porter County Council enters its last week of budget hearings starting on Monday with the last round of second readings.

The Council will meet at 5 p.m. in the Commissioners’ Chambers of the County Administration Building, 155 Indiana Ave. in Valparaiso, to review the proposed budgets for the highway department, County Council, Planning Commission, Animal Shelter, Expo Center, Emergency Management Agency, Hazardous Waste, the Porter County Regional Airport, the Recycling and Waste Reduction District, Voters Registration and the County Election Board.

The latter concerns the purchase of electronic poll books which Council President Dan Whitten, D-at large, mentioned he had questions about at the start of budget hearings last month.

The Election Board purchased e-poll books from vendor Electronic Systems and Software and has taken flak from Council members for executing the deal without first going to them or the County Board of Commissioners for approval.

Subsequent efforts by the board to transfer funding in its budget this year to pay for the poll books have been rejected by the Council and the contract with ES&S remains currently unpaid.

Whitten said the issue would be discussed again at budget hearings.

Next Thursday at 5 p.m. Council intends to adopt all of the county budgets on final reading.

That will include the Porter County Convention, Recreation and Visitors Commission budget. Area residents called for budget reforms at the PCCRVC in the wake of the tourism board’s decision to support the Pavilion Partners’s banquet center in the Indiana Dunes State Park.

 

 

Posted 10/23/2015

 
 
 
 

 

 

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