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Saturday, December 02, 2006
Ind. Courts - "County officials don’t want to fund Goshen Court"
On Oct. 18th the Elkhart Truth reported "There are "pretty good" odds Goshen City Court will close at the end of 2007 if it doesn't receive a county subsidy, Mayor Allan Kauffman said Friday."
Today the Goshen News reports, in a story headlined "County officials don’t want to fund Goshen Court," that:
The future of Goshen City Court is looking bleak.Goshen Mayor Allan Kauffman received a letter this week from the Elkhart County Commissioners stating they will not recommend to the Elkhart County Council that the county provide financial support to continue the Court.
“Until receiving the letter, I was cautiously optimistic that the decision would be favorable,” Kauffman said in a memo to Goshen City Council members. “It seemed to me it would be less costly and more efficient to support an existing operation than to absorb the workload in county government.”
The Goshen City Council members are expected to take a vote during their Tuesday meeting on whether to continue the court after 2007. The mayor said recently that he is not willing to approve a budget that includes a large property tax subsidy for City Court.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on December 2, 2006 03:06 PM
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