Dear Editor, In response to Mr. Fussle’s public comments of June 23, 2014: The unpleasant reality of life, government and economics is that we are all subject to someone else. We all must endure taxes, adjust to inflation and do the best we can with what we have. The federal government has taken more from …read more.

Who wants to pay more taxes?! (silence.) Ok, more taxes for everyone! That was last night’s Times Union lead story. It wasn’t worded that way, it said “there were no public comments” and so the County Commissioners increased your property taxes to the maximum rate to generate money for road repairs and “general purposes….” Did …read more.

At a special meeting of the Kosciusko County Council on June 19, the council passed a wheel tax ordinance with a vote of 5-1. Attendance at the meeting must have been an all-time high. The courtroom chambers were standing room only. People from all over the county came out to voice their opinion on the …read more.

Kosciusko County Commissioners this morning approved the adoption of an ordinance increasing the rate of the Cumulative Capital Development fund. The fund will not exceed $0.0333 per $100 of assessed valuation. The new tax rate, which is the maximum allowed by the state, will be levied beginning with taxes due and payable in 2015. The …read more.

Kosciusko County Council will meet in a special public meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 19, for a final vote on a new wheel tax and surtax ordinance. If enacted, the taxes would cost county motorists an additional $25 per year for every registered vehicle under 11,000 pounds – such as passenger vehicles and motorcycles. …read more.

Jon Fussle was the lone nay vote for a new wheel tax for Kosciusko County. The vote was taken during Thursday night’s meeting of the Kosciusko County Council. Last month, county leaders proposed the implementation of a wheel tax to help offset the county’s disbursements of operating funds that far exceeded receipts. During last night’s meeting, …read more.

At the Kosciusko County Council meeting on Thursday, May 8, Kosciusko County Commissioner Ron Truex came before the council to express that Kosciusko County was in dire straits financially. Umbaugh, a financial advisory firm out of Indianapolis, has been working with the county to identify problem areas in the budget and recommend strategies to rectify …read more.