The Starke County Council members will consider several budget transfer requests when they meet tonight.
Starke County Commissioners Discuss Requests for Annex Keys
Two requests for the possession of Starke County Annex keys were brought before the Starke County Commissioners this week.
Auditor Kay Chaffins explained that Deb Mix asked for a key as she is working for Purdue, but she is not classified as a county employee. Chaffins said that Purdue is paying her wages.
Starke County Annex Meeting Room Gets Facelift
Many of the visitors to the Commissioners’ Meeting Room in the Starke County Annex have been pleasantly surprised to see the different configuration of the room and new furniture. EMS Director Ted Bombagetti discussed the way the new furniture for the room was secured.
“A year or so ago the commissioners allowed me to use this room as my Emergency Operations Center. Through District Two I was allowed to purchase furniture to support my center. Therefore this is some of the equipment you see in front of you today,” Bombagetti said.
Bombagetti said he would need to use the room as a command center in time of a county-wide emergency.
“I do have the authority to use the room as I see fit. I just have to have the room set up within two hours after I call for an opening. We set the room up just the same as if we had an active emergency,” Bombagetti said.
The commmissioners and council members thanked Bombagetti for the effort to get the new furniture.
Starke County Annex Re-Dedicated on This Date in 1999 after a June 1998 Fire
March 1st, 1999 was a happy day for workers in the Starke County Government Building. In June of 1998, a fire gutted the Annex building. On March 1st of 1999, a re-dedication ceremony was held. That re-dedication acknowledged the formal opening of the building.
Then-County Commissioner, Dan Bau, presided over the ceremony in which firefighters, County employees and the design team that oversaw the renovation of the Annex was honored.
Other Commissioners at the re-dedication ceremony were Kevin Kroft and Michaelene Houston.
Everybody involved lived through a trying time before the building was brought back to life on this date in 1999.
Starke County Officials Hold Successful Tax Sale
Totals are in from last week’s tax sale held in the Starke County Annex. Two separate sales were conducted. One was a certificate sale and the other was a deed sale. The certificate sale is one in which the original owners might redeem the property by paying the back taxes. A deed sale is one in which the deed is held by the County where the County is attempting to get the property back on the tax rolls.
38 parcels were sold in the certificate sale for $11,400 and 24 parcels were sold on the deed sale for $2,400.
