Assess This
It looks like the Marion County Township Assessors will get a few more months to hold on to their jobs. City-Council President Bob Cockrum told me tonight that funding for the township assessors will be restored.
Mayor Greg Ballard had hoped to save $3 million by eliminating the funding to the offices, however Cockrum said many Councilors wanted to wait until after the November referendum on whether the the offices should be eliminated.
Funding will be restored to about 95 percent of last year’s budgets, just like other city and county agencies. That would reduce the city’s projected fund balance from $4 million to about $1 million. Cockrum added though he would not rule out possible budget cuts which force the township assessors to engage in a “functional” consolidation by being forced to share resources.
