By Your Leave
Last month I worte about the new Center Township Assessor Eugene Akers who decided he was going to keep his job as an IPS administrator while serving as Assessor. I speculated this would be a conflct of interest. Mr. Akers didn’t think so then, but apprently he’s found Jesus since then.
Akers is taking a leave of absence from IPS. It’s unclear how long the leave will be, but it took him long enough.
He tells the Indianapolis Star there was no conflict because the “school district didn’t pay taxes.” That was the point of my argument. The district didn’t pay taxes, it was a taxing body. A taxing body that Ackers would have got a paycheck from. A taxing body that could potentially lose money based his assessments of Center Township Property.
If Mr. Ackers’ didn’t see a potential conflict for something this obvious, if I were a Center Township property taxpayer, I’d take a close look at my bill when it comes later this year. Who knows what else he would miss.
