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INDOT temporarily
closing road
The Indiana Department
of Transportation will be
closing County Road 1050
South at the bridge over
I-69 for two days for construction beginning on or
after Wednesday, July 15.
Construction will be on
the expansion/contraction
joints on the roadway.
Rain could postpone
construction and change
the scheduled completion
date of July 17.
INDOT says keeping the
expansion/contraction
joints in good shape helps
reduce repair costs and
extend the life expectancy
of bridges.
Marion debt at $173 million

Each individual
now responsible
for a tax burden
of $5,797.70
BY BEN QUIGGLE
bquiggle@chronicle-tribune.com
The city of Marion now

owes $173 million, including interest, according to figures released by the Indiana
Department of Local Government Finance (DLGF).
That means Marion now
ranks behind only Fort
Wayne, Carmel, Evansville, Noblesville, South
Bend, Fishers, Plainfield,

Lafayette,
Jeffersonville
and Bloomington for total current obligations outstanding, according to the
DLGF. Data for Indianapolis was unavailable.
The figures are not good
for Marion taxpayers; each
individual is now responsible for a tax burden of
$5,797.70. That ranks third
in the state behind Carmel
and Evansville for cities
with more than 29,000 people, according to the DLGF.
Tax payers in Carmel have
an individual tax burden of
$11,475.99, while in Evansville they have a tax burden
of $6,277.41.
Most of Marions debt

is tied into Tax Increment
Financing (TIF) districts,
which are designed to spur
economic
development
within the City of Marion.
The total TIF debt is about
$150 million. According to
Marion Mayor Wayne Seybold, those districts are not
actually a tax burden on the
citizens of Marion because
the bonds associated with
those districts are paid with
incremental property tax
funds.
The DLGF disagrees.
Some of these bonds may
have property tax backups,
See DEBT / Page A8
Marion TIF debt

affects taxpayers
BY BEN QUIGGLE
The city of Marion has

a large amount of debt, and
that means a larger burden
for Marion taxpayers.
According to figures
presented to the Indiana
Department of Local Government Finance (DLGF)
by the City, Marion has a
debt of about $173 million,
including interest. Tax In-
Sand sculptors raise funds for CASA
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THE WEEK
AHEAD
Marion High
School
to host
blood drive
From staff reports
Grant County
Farmers Market
open for the season
The Grant County
Farmers Market season
is underway in Marion.
The market is held on the
north courthouse square
downtown every Saturday
from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The
Farmers Market in Gas
City will be at East Main
St. beside McDonalds
restaurant from 9 a.m. to
2 p.m. every Wednesday.
The afternoon market in
Upland begins will be from
3 to 7 p.m., at Depot Park
off Main St.
Vendor fees are $5 weekly per market, capping at
$25 for the entire season
for all three markets.
crement Financing (TIF)

District debt accounts for
about $150 million of the
total debt, according to the
DLGF.
Both figures represent a
growing problem for Marion taxpayers both now and
in the future. While Grant
County as a whole has 14
TIF Districts, Marion alone
Photos by Tyler Juranovich / tjuranovich@chronicle-tribune.com
SHARK: A group of voters stand near the winning Peoples Choice sand sculpture.
BY TYLER JURANOVICH
tjuranovich@chronicle-tribune.com
Community organizations sent their finest sand

sculptors to the sand volleyball field at the Marion
Splash House Saturday
morning for the countys
Court Appointed Special
Advocates (CASA) seventh annual Sand Sculpture Artfest.
Executive Director of
CASA Leslie Hendricks
said the event is the organizations only fundraiser
of the year with each year
grossing more money
than the last. Hendricks
said the fundraiser was
on target to meet their
goal of $20,000, which is
the largest amount in the
dricks said.
Participants were given
five hours to sculpt their
masterpiece, using sand,
spray paint if desired and
any other props needed.
Sculptures were diverse.
One group built a replica of the Grant County
Courthouse. Another built
Olaf from the movie Frozen. And another built a
scene from the story of
Noahs Ark. About 20 total sculptures were built.
NOAHS ARK: The Golden Pail Award went to St. Paul
The event was a fundCatholic Parish for this sculpture of the boarding of No- raiser, but it also had a
ahs Ark.
competitive aspect. Four
awards, in the form of
events history.
positively overwhelming. plastic sand castle troHendricks said the supI think this has been phies, were given out.
port of the organizations successful because of
See SAND/ Page A3
and community has been how unique it is, Hen-
County amateur tradition continues

BY CHUCK LANDIS
clandis@chronicle-tribune.com
A Grant County golfing

institution will continue Saturday and Sunday when the
Grant County Amateur Mens
Tournament is played for
the 84th time, wheezing and
coughing perhaps but still registering a pulse.
It appeared the County
Amateur was on life support
through early June, but it was
revived in the nick of time and
with some significant changes.
This years event was short-
The Marion High School

football team is out for blood.
Donated blood that is.
The team is participating in the Colts Leadership Challenge by hosting
a blood drive from 4-8 p.m.
Wednesday in the school
parking lot, 750 W. 26th St.
The Colts Leadership Challenge is a collaboration between the Colts and Indiana
Blood Center in which high
school teams across the state
demonstrate school spirit
and leadership by recruiting
members in the community
to participate in the blood
drive.
Winners will be based on
the largest blood drive and
largest percentage participation relative to school size.
Teams that recruit a minimum of 30 community participants will be entered in a
drawing with an opportunity
to win $2,500 for athletic
equipment.
Each of the winning teams
will receive a Colts Leadership Challenge trophy, a pep
rally, which will include a
presentation from a Colts
spokesperson, photo opportunity with the Lombardi
Trophy and autograph session with Colts cheerleaders,
See WEEK / Page A5
Changes made to 84-year-old golf event
ened from 72 to 36 holes, and

seniors divisions were added
SPECTATORS: line up
to the mens and womens
to watch as Andy Vartournaments. The two counner putts on the 15th
try clubs, Meshingomesia and
green in 2009 during the
Elks, are not part of the fivechampionship round of
course rotation this year due to
the Chronicle-Tribune
scheduling conflicts.
Amateur Golf tournament
Im just glad they are keepat the Meshingomesia
ing it going, said Doug Carey,
Country Club.
Chronicle-Tribune file photo
a 35-year veteran of the tournament. It was pretty exciting
back in the 1980s and 90s and
When I started there were when you think about it.
a downward spiral that Arbor
there was a lot of competition. 200 men and 30 women and
Last years amateur field Trace owner Jack Hart said acThat was the height of Grant that was a normal field, Carey with 35 men and five women
County golf in my opinion.
said. Thats pretty incredible in the final round continued
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Sunday, July 12, 2015
TIF
Continued from A1
owns 12 of them, according

to the DLGF, and the Marion Redevelopment Commission. TIF districts, while
sold to taxpayers as a way to
raise risk-free funds to spur
economic development, can
also lead to increased debt.
TIFs are generally used by
cities to finance projects that
may have been out of their
reach financially without the
extra help. Justin Ross, Indiana University professor of
public policy and economics, says TIFs are not the
most transparent way of financing a project.
Citizens want to know
what is going on in their
city, and they want to know
where all the money is going, said Ross.
How a TIF works:

Property tax revenues given out to governmental entities from a TIF are frozen
for 20 to 30 years, which is
called a base amount. For
example, if agencies who
received tax dollars from
that district split $1 before
the TIF, the base amount of
property taxes they would
receive during the life of the
TIF would remain $1.
Assuming economic development occurs in the
TIF, and businesses are
built with issued TIF bonds,
property taxes would naturally rise. If the district is
reassessed to have a property tax value of $2 then the
governmental bodies would
continue to split the $1 base
figure, and the remaining $1
would go to a local redevelopment commission, which
would use the money to create bonds to hopefully spur
economic development. The
bonds are then paid back
through some of the excess
property taxes created by
the funded project.
The state dictates that cities establish a redevelopment commission in order to
create and issue TIF bonds.
Marions Redevelopment
Commission has the task
of locating potential development opportunities and
dispersing the TIF funds accordingly.
Marions Redevelopment
Commission disbursed more
than $4.6 million in 2013 to
pay off TIF bond debt, according to their 2013 annual
report released to the Marion
debt
Continued from A1
which means the property

owners in the district would
pick up the tab, said DLGF
Commissioner
Courtney
Schaafsma. However the
City does it, in the end the
City would be responsible
for anything left over, and
if they dont pay it they risk
default, which could impact
their ability to receive financing from the state later
on.
Marion has a much larger
portion of TIF debt than
other cities that are larger or
around the same size. The
comparisons are below:
n Marion, Pop. 29,948
(2010 Census), has 12 TIF
districts and owes $150 million
nCarmel, Pop. 85,927
(2010 Census), 30 TIF Districts and owes $144 million
nElkhart, Pop. 51,265
(2010 Census), 8 TIF districts
and owes $3.2 million
nLogansport, Pop. 18,043
and has no TIF debt
nMishawaka, Pop. 48,252
and owes $1 million
nMuncie, Pop. 70,316
and owes $23.3 million
nRichmond, Pop. 36,345
and owes $2.2 million on TIF
debt leases
Marions actual amount
of non-TIF related debt is
significant given the current
state of property tax caps.
Marions general budget has
a debt of about $20 million,
according to numbers from
the DLGF. Local officials,
however, are struggling to
come up with ways of increasing revenue.
Our income is stagnating,
property tax revenue isnt
going up, said Marion City
Councilmember Madonna
French. Obviously something has to be done because
we cant keep operating with
these types of deficits.
Marion is facing a 10 per-
chronicle-tribune, marion, ind.
Common Council last July.

At that rate it would take the
City over 32 years to pay
off all of the TIF debt. The
longest TIF bond they owe
extends to 2038, which is
only 23 years away. Property tax values within the TIFs
would need to maintain a
revenue stream of over $6
million in order to pay off
the debt in time.
TIFs rely on property tax
values rising in order to pay
off bond debt, and due to
property tax caps, Marion,
like most cities, is struggling to see a good return
on property tax values. According to the Indiana Fiscal Policy Institute, Marion
is facing a 10-percent loss
in property tax levy due to
property caps.
TIF funds are not protected from property tax caps,
said Ross. This means if
a city sees a drop in their
property tax income they are
then going to have to find
other ways to get the funds
they need to pay the debt.
How this
affects taxpayers:
According to the DLGF, if
any of the bonds associated
with the TIFs cannot be paid
off by their maturity date the
City would have to come up
with some way to pay it, or
risk default.
Some of these bonds may
have property tax backups,
which means the property
owners in the district would
pick up the tab, said DLGF
Commissioner
Courtney
Schaafsma. However the
City does it, in the end the
City would be responsible
for anything left over, and
if they dont pay it they risk
default which could impact
their ability to receive financing from the state later
on.
Marion Mayor Wayne
Seybold and bond lawyer,
Bruce Donaldson, of the law
firm Barnes & Thornburg,
disagree with the states assessment, and say that TIF
debt is never going to impact the taxpaying citizens
of Marion.
We have specific language in the bond contracts
that protects the City from
having to pay if the bonds
are defaulted on, said Seybold.
According to Larry DeBoer, professor of agricultural economics at Purdue
University, the State of Incent or more loss in property
tax levy due to caps instituted by the state, according
to the Indiana Fiscal Policy
Institute.
It isnt entirely the
Citys fault that we are in
this situation, said Marion
City Councilmember Paul
Thompson. The county is
putting a burden on us by
transferring homes into the
city that we have to pay to
take care of, the state instituted property tax caps have
put quite a damper on our
revenue stream, and people
are using less gasoline now,
so we even lose out on the
gas tax revenue.
On top of all that, Marion is dealing with a loss
in population, a quarter of
its population being below
the poverty line and a median income well below the
state average. According to
U.S. Census Bureau statistics, Marions population
dropped 1.2 percent from
2010-2013, while the state
population rose 1.3 percent. Twenty-six percent of
Marion citizens live below
the poverty line, compared
to the state average of just
above 15 percent. Finally,
Marion households have a
median income of $31,391,
while the state average sits
at $48,248.
That means that while the
citys population is dropping, and the median income
remains stagnate, Marion
taxpayers are looking at a
future of increasing tax obligations.
Thompson says Marion is
losing a lot of money from
just the way City government is operating.
We spend a lot of money
providing services for businesses or people that dont
even pay property taxes
to help fund the services,
said Thompson. That has
to stop if we are going to
see changes in our financial
situation.
All figures are estimates derived
from information submitted by Marion to the Indiana Department of Local Government Finance.
diana says the bondholders

would always come first in
a situation where the bonds
might not get paid in time.
The city has a responsibility to pay that debt off
according to the state, said
DeBoer.
Marion is also facing the
reality that lower property
tax dollars are impacting
government services, and
that is where TIF can also
negatively affect taxpayers.
Central Indiana Ethanol
(CIE) President and CEO
Gary Drook gave $110,000
to Oak Hill in 2008 because of concerns that local
schools were not benefiting
from TIF revenue. CIE operates in a TIF district and
according to documents obtained from the Grant County Treasurers Office, that
TIF, which saw a property
tax income of $805,619.40
for 2014, provides no tax
revenue towards government services.
The
Chronicle-Tribune
evaluated all 12 TIFs authorized by the City and
found that most of the business properties within these
districts are not contributing property taxes towards
government services. The
base amount of tax dollars
established before the TIF
was created is now gone,

and most of the money generated from the TIF is now
going to pay debt service on
TIF bonds.
According to Ross, when
things go south the base
property taxes dedicated to
government services within
a TIF will slowly evaporate
as a means of covering the
cost of any bonds.
The University Marketplace TIF, which includesMeijer and other
businesses by Meijer, saw
a property tax income of
$492,546 for the year 2014.
Due to a low property tax
base to begin with, no government services receive
any of those tax dollars, according to documents obtained from the Grant County Treasurers Office.
The same goes for the
Five Points Mall TIF, established in 2011. According to treasurer documents,
Marions Pleasant Township
brought in over $500,000 in
property tax income every
year from the mall area until 2011. Once the TIF was
established property taxes
dropped substantially; the
TIF will see an income of
$105,433 for 2014. Pleasant Township will see no tax
dollars from the TIF to help
fund government services.

This often leads to higher
property taxes for people
living outside of a TIF district to help make up for the
revenue loss; cities may also
start paying for credit with
even more credit, according to DeBoer. This leads
to questions about the TIF
process, and whether this
solution was really the best
choice for Marion.
Seybold said that since the
money generated by a TIF
district wasnt there to begin with, it isnt a huge loss
for government entities that
rely on property tax income
to fund programs. This may
be true for cities like Marion who are struggling to
bring new developments in,
however if the TIF does not
perform well then the city
could find itself with even
more debt.
A lot of times city leaders
will tell the taxpayers that
the TIF is needed in order to
bring in development, said
DeBoer. However, TIF is
not the actual infrastructure,
it is just the financing, and
city leaders have other options.
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TIF revenue use questioned

City charged TIF Allocation Fund
for prescription drug expenses
BY BEN QUIGGLE
A State of Indiana audit

from 2013 shows at least two
instances where the State has
told the City of Marion that
they are using Tax Increment

Financing (TIF) revenue on
sources not approved by State
law.
The audit, filed on Aug. 1,
2014, shows that the City of
Marion disbursed $47,111

from the TIF Allocation Fund
for professional fees incurred
in the issuance of 2013 tax anticipation warrants. The State
warned the City that these disbursements should have been
made from the General Fund,
or allocated among the various funds that received tax anticipation warrant proceeds.
Along with the $47,111

spent on tax anticipation warrants, the City also charged
$14,111 to the TIF Allocation
Fund for prescription drug
expenses. The state again
warned the City that these
charges should have been
made to the Health Insurance
Reserve Fund. According to
the audit, the State was able to
Fans remember James Dean
Easter Pageant
returning dates set:
Church to host
womens
empowerment event:
BY TYLER JURANOVICH
When Bert Bretherton

saw James Dean act in the
1956 movie East of Eden,
he knew his life was would
forever be affected.
He made me feel like I
wasnt alone, Bretherton, a
native of Manchester, England, said of the man who
came to be known as The
Rebel. Great Britain at
the time was still recovering from the Second World
War, and I was searching for
something better. His acting
portrayed all the things I
felt.
Running back home from
the movie theater, Bretherton soon realized Dean had
already died from a car accident in California months
earlier. Bretherton didnt let
the actors death get him too
down for long, though.
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DEAN FANS: James Dean fans from near and far gather
to talk during the James Dean Fans Weekend Meet and
Greet event Friday at Paynes.
in the evening is the James

Dean Film Festival and
Banquet at Grains and Grill
Restaurant, 407 W. Washington St., Fairmount.
Mark Kinnaman, vice
president of the James Dean
Remembered Club, said the
Indiana Michigan Power,

a subsidiary of American
Electrical Power, broke
ground on the companys
first solar energy facility in
Marion.
The project will include
construction of about 10,000
solar panels covering about
17 acres on the south side
of Marion, adjacent to the
I&M service center on the
400 block of South Lincoln
Blvd. The project will cost
about $5 million and was
designed and will be built
by Inovateus Solar, a solar
energy equipment supplier
headquartered in South
Bend.
Marion Mayor Wayne
Seybold praised the investment at Fridays groundbreaking.
This is going to make
Marion and Grant County
look like were with it and
looking toward the future,
Seybold said.
Construction on the project is expected to begin
soon and is expected to be
completed and start generating energy by the end of the
year. The facility will have
the capacity to generate 2.5
fan weekend is a precursor

to the James Dean Festival
in September.
Its just a nice time for
the hardcore Deaners to relax, Kinnaman said.
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Burns
trial set
for Aug. 3
An Elwood man accused
of murder appeared in court
Friday and his trial is scheduled to begin Aug. 3.
Donald Burns, 50, is facing charges of murder, two
counts of forgery, two counts
of theft and receiving stolen
property in connection to
the death of his 74-year-old
aunt, Dorothy Heard of Noblesville.
During the hearing defense
attorney David Marlin argued that the coincidence of
another family member going missing around the same
time should be brought up
during the trial.
It is very coincidental that
a step-daughter disappeared
on the same day, argued
Marlin. If the facts are discovered to be unrelated the
jury can be instructed on
what to do.
See TRIAL / Page A6
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A few days later I and

a few friends went to the
barbershop with a picture
of James Dean and asked
him to have our hair cut like
Dean, he said. Every once
in a while someone comes
along and sparks the imagination and fascination of
the youth, and Dean did and
still does that.
Nearly 60 years later
Bretherton and 19 other
Deaners have come to
Grant County for the 18th
annual James Dean Fan
Weekend, put on by the
James Dean Gallery, to socialize with other fans and
share how the actor affected
them.
Friday, the fan club met at
Paynes Restaurant in Gas
City. Today the group will
be at the Fairmount Lions
Club for a game of James
Dean Jeopardy, and later
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Thomas St. Myer
From staff reports
show that at the end of 2013

the Insurance Reserve Fund
was overdrawn by $2,017,671.
The City was then told by the
State that sources and uses
of funds should be limited to
those authorized by the enabling statute, ordinance, resolution, or grant agreement.
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The Marion Easter Pageant will return in 2016

after taking this year off.
Spokesman Mark Fauser
announced the dates will
be March 21-22. Marion
Community Schools will
be on spring break during
that time. Fauser said
he decided to announce
the dates at this early
juncture so families could
plan accordingly.
In light of national attention around human

trafficking, womens
empowerment and the
death of AME member and
activist Sandra Bland, the
Marion Allen Temple AME
Church at 3432 S. Nebrask
Street is hosting a series of
free events today to help
empower girls and women
in the community to be
their best selves.
Starting at 9 a.m. today
the church will have a
prayer breakfast. From
10 a.m. to 3 p.m. the
event will feature various
workshops for females of
all ages.
The goal of the event is
to provide a safe place for
women to empower one
another and talk about
challenges such as unemployement and systematic
poverty among women.
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BY TYLER JURANOVICH
Richard B. Thomas, 90, a

former Chronicle-Tribune
publisher, died Saturday,
July 18.
Thomas was born and
raised in Marion, spending most of his life in the
newspaper business up until
his retirement in 1986. He
took over as publisher of the
Chronicle-Tribune after his
grandfather and father both
held roles as publisher.
One of his two sons, Richard Fritz B. Thomas Jr.
worked in the advertising
department for the Chronicle-Tribune with his father.
He said his father ran the
paper with integrity.
The paper was everything
we had, Thomas Jr. said.
We believed in the community and reporting the
truth.
Politics controls much of
the media now, but we believed in unbiased opinion,
he added. The paper is the
community, and it should
stay that way.
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Herbst UMC to host
tenderloin dinner
vaccinations or the clinic will

give them for an additional
$32. To schedule please call
Herbst UMC will be host- the Rescue Resale shop at
ing a tenderloin dinner today 765-251-1722 or stop by 2225
from 4 to 7:30 p.m. at 2561 S. Westwood Square.
600 W., Marion. Adult tickets
are $8.50 in advance, $9 at the Grant County Players to
door. Tickets for children ages
6-12 are $5 in advance, $5.50 host meeting July 30
at the door. Children 5 and
The Grant County Playyounger free. Proceeds from ers will be hosting a second
the dinner will go to Vada organizational meeting at
Hornocker to help with medi- 7 p.m. Thursday, July 30
cal expenses.
at First United Methodist Church, 624 S. Adams,
Grant County Humane Marion. The meeting, open
to all in the community, will
Society offering
include open auditions for
some of Grant County Playcat transport
ers upcoming events, a full
The Marion Grant County length production for preHumane Society is offering sentation in November and
a cat only transport July 28. several short plays that will
The cost to spay or neuter is be prepared for presentation
$65. You must show proof of at special events for area
publisher
clubs and organizations by

contract. Anyone interested
in participating in the theater
arts, those with special interests such as acting, directing,
producing, stage construction, costuming, makeup, or
those who just have an interest in finding out what the
organization is about, should
plan to attend. Community
organizations that hold general meetings where they
periodically book entertainment for their activities are
encouraged to send at least
one representative. Prospective authors with workable
scripts are encouraged to
attend and submit them for
consideration. Those interested in further information
may call George Dicken at
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in Marion. He was also an
avid golfer, playing many
Thomas was also in- rounds at Meshingomesia
volved in the Marion-Grant and Tippecanoe County
County Chamber of Com- Clubs.
After retirement, Thomas

and his wife Roberta moved
to Sarasota, Florida, but every summer he came back to
Indiana to spend time with
their family and grandchildren at Lake Tippecanoe.
Trial
coincidental nature of the

two events.
Evidence that Burns fled
from police as an admission
of guilt will be presented, as
well as details pertaining to
why he was initially held in
the Madison County jail.
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Prosecutor Jim Luttrull

argued that while it was
odd, there is no evidence
that the two disappearances
tif revenue
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Figures submitted by Marion to the Indiana Department

of Local Government Finance
(DLGF) show that the City
now has a debt of more than
$173 million. TIF debt accounts for about $150 million
of the overall debt. The City
also ranks third in Indiana,
for cities with a population
of more than 29,000, behind
Carmel and Evansville with
an individual tax burden of
$5,797.70, according to the
DLGF.
Members of TIF areas in
Marion received letters last
week that detailed how their
taxes were going to be used
for the coming year.
The Redevelopment Commission of Marion sent out
the notices stating, the Commission has determined that
for budget year 2016, the
Commission will need to
capture all of the incremental
assessed value from the TIF
Allocation Areas to generate
TIF Revenues sufficient to
meet the Commissions outstanding debt service obligations, to pay for projects that
are located in or directly serve
and benefit the TIF Allocation
Area, and meet other purposes
described in IC 36-7-14-39(b)
(3).
are connected.
There was no demand for
money, and she was discovered safely at a restaurant
in Hamilton County, said
Luttrull.
The judge decided not to
allow evidence showing the
The commission also told

the members there was going
to be no TIF revenue spent on
taxing units.
There is no excess assessed
value from the TIF Allocation
Areas that may be allocated to
the respective taxing units for
budget year 2016, stated the
letter.
TIF revenue amounted to
more than $4.8 million dollars
in 2013, according to an annual report put together by the
Commission. According to
Purdue University Agricultural Economist Larry DeBoer,
this letter indicates that there
has been no excess growth,
and therefore no revenue has
been generated beyond what
is needed for bond debt service or other projects located
within the TIF.
Basically, its the Commission saying we are going
to use all the tax revenue ourselves, schools, libraries and
the county should not be expecting any tax revenue from
those districts, said DeBoer.
Grant County Auditor
Roger Bainbridge expressed
concerns about transparency
in the way the additional revenue would be spent by the
Commission.
TIF money tends to be
watched by bank trusties,
Bainbridge said. Even though
it is technically public money,
those trusties handle it like it
is private money. That means

it is really tough for taxpayers
to know where that money is
going to be spent.
Sixteen TIF areas for the
budget year 2016 will provide
no property tax dollars toward
city services. The TIF areas
impacted by this decision include:
n 2005 TIF Expansion Allocation Area (JSG Project)
n 2005 TIF Expansion Allocation Area (Winterfield Project)
n 2015 I-69 Allocation Area
n I-69/Ind. 18 Intersection
Allocation Area
n Dollar General Economic
Development Allocation Area
n East number one Economic
Development Allocation Area
n Emily Flinn Allocation
Area
n Five Points Mall Allocation
Area
n General Motors Allocation
Area
n Kings Group Allocation
Area
n Marion Consolidated Allocation Area
n Ind. 18 West Allocation
The Blackwood
Brothers Quartet to
perform July 30
on Friday, July 31. The luncheon will be from 12-1:30

p.m. and will include a free
lunch, door prizes, and brief
speaker/entertainer. Sweetser
Wesleyan Church is located
next to the fire station on Ind.
18. For more information
call 765-384-7232 or email
sweetserwesleyan@gmail.
com.
Epworth United Methodist

Church, 105 W 8th St, Matthews, Indiana, is pleased to
announce The Blackwood
Brothers Quartet in Concert
on July 30 at 7 p.m. (doors
will open at 6 p.m.) Admission is $10 at the door. Also, a St. James Lutheran to
love offering will be received.
After the concert, there will host day camp Aug. 1
be a meet and greet time with
St. James Lutheran Church is
refreshments served.
hosting a day camp, The Joy
of Music, for kids of all ages
on Saturday, Aug. 1 from 10
Sweetser
a.m. to 2 p.m. Guest host will be
Wesleyan Church
Dave Britton. Participants will
be involved in making musical
hosting free lunch
instruments from household
Sweetser Wesleyan Church items while learning different
is hosting a free lunch for all aspects of music. Please call the
community seniors/retirees church office at 765-662-3092
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megawatts, which is enough

energy to power 350 to 500
homes annually.
Marc Lewis, vice president of regulatory and external affairs for I&M, said
the new facility came about
after five years of discussions and planning with
solar businesses like Inovateus.
He added having I&Ms
first solar facility in Marion
was an easy decision.
Area
n South Marion Allocation
Area
n University Marketplace
Economic Development Allocation Area
n Vela Gear Allocation Area
n Washington Street Economic Development Allocation
Area
According to Bainbridge,
the City has seen some TIF
areas turn into success stories,
while other have failed, putting a strain on being able to
pay outstanding bonds back.
A third have been solid
successes, a third have been
abysmal failures, and a third
are so-so right now, said
Bainbridge.
Bainbridge also says that
there have been indications
that the City is accepting deals
that should not have been
made.
There are lots of little things
being done that give the perception that they are accepting
deals that are highly questionable, said Bainbridge. You
have to ask yourself, Would
I invest in this personally?
for more information.
Oak Hill to host

Kindergarten
Round-Up
Oak Hill United School
Corporation is now accepting information for kindergarten students attending the
2015-2016 school year. For
those with children that will
be five years old on or before
Aug. 1, 2015, please contact
Converse Elementary at (765)
395-3560. Important upcoming dates: April 4-10 we will
begin online registration for
the class of 2015 Kindergarten and on April 21 and April
23 we will be hosting Kindergarten Round-up. Please call
the school to receive additional information about both
events.
Being right next to a facility saves money that we

wouldve spent on transmission lines, Lewis said. It
also helps that we own the
property.
Despite the savings, Lewis
said the effect on a customers monthly electric bill
will be hardly noticeable at
maybe only a penny in savings each month.
However, he did say this
facility and the three other
planned in Mishawaka,
South Bend and Watervliet were direct responses
to I&M customers being in-
creasingly interested in solar

energy and its development.
I&M is going to harness
the sun and give it to our
customers, Lewis said.
Lewis cited the decreasing cost of solar energy and
the increasing cost of fossil
fuels as a major reason why
I&M is beginning to diversify how it produces electricity for its nearly 600,000
customers.
Each type of energy has
its pros and cons, Lewis
said. Diversifying offsets
some of the cons for each
source.
and for some of these projects

you would answer no. The
Vela Gear project is a good
example of that. You have to
do the in-depth research on
some of these deals, and it appears they only looked at the
face value. It doesnt matter
if it doesnt make sense; they
are using the TIF to make it
viable when it should be the
other way around. Now since
they have so much tied up in

bad TIFs, they are finding it
difficult to use TIFs for good
projects.
The Chronicle-Tribune contacted Marion Mayor Wayne
Seybold, but he declined to
comment.
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story is part of the public record and can be found at
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Authority will re-open
the Section 8 waiting
list on Tuesday, September 15, 2015. Applications will be accepted
from 8:30am to 5:00pm
at the main office, 601
S. Adams Street. Applications may be picked
up in advance Monday
through Thursday 8:3012:00 and 1:00 to 5:30
but will only be accepted from appli-cants
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Marion schools struggle

Declining
enrollment
and State funds
impact district
Assistant Superintendant Dr.

Robert Schultz said many
factors have contributed to
the decline of state funding
and enrollment.
We are expecting the decline to continue to happen
into the future, said Schultz.
Housing is not getting any
better, the population is aging, and with increased competition from charter schools
and out of district schools
our student population has
been declining.
For the year 2016 each
student that Marion can attract will add a foundation
of $4,957 of State funding,
that number is expected to
BY BEN QUIGGLE
With declining enrollment,

and less state funding, the
Marion Community Schools
are facing tough decisions
on what to do for the future.
In 2014, the school district
ran with a little more than
a $4 million deficit, and in
2015 the student population
has dropped by 97 students.
increase in 2017 to $5,088.

Schultz said the school also
gets additional funds from
special categories as well.
If students are in the honors program we get a little
extra money for that, said
Schultz. If they are in vocational programs or use our
special education department we can get money for
that as well, but the State is
changing how they measure
some of those categories and
that is even impacting us to
the tune of about $1 million
for the 2016 budget.
Schultz said he is also
concerned about the loss of
money they may be experi-
encing from Tax Incremental

Finance (TIF) districts that
are not operating properly,
and from property tax caps.
I am concerned about
the length of some of these
TIF districts, said Schultz.
What those do is freeze
property tax income in those
districts for up to 30 years;
that caps the amount of
money we can expect. If it
attracts more people that is
great, if not the school wont
really reap any benefit. They
also have the impact of making people outside of the TIF
district pay a higher tax rate,
which means the city will hit
its property tax cap faster.
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circuit breakers from property tax caps. I have seen
them work well in other districts, the city just needs to
make sure they balance how
many they have, that they
arent in affect for too long,
and that they are functioning
properly.
Other school districts
in Grant County have not
felt the type of impact that
Marion has felt financially
or in school enrollment
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Sunnycrest
UMC
celebrates
110 years
BY TYLER JURANOVICH
positive.
We all family here,
he said. Ive just loved it
here.
Saturday featured a lot
programs for parents, including a Q&A, information sessions and as special
prayer time. Students start
Not too many things in

life last for 110 years, but
Sunnycrest United Methodist Church on West Bradford
Street in Marion has.
The church and about 50
members celebrated the
churchs 110th birthday Saturday with cake, music and
good conversation.
Weve been very blessed.
Jim Hensley, church historian and member since 1938
said. The community has
been good to us.
The church began in 1905
as the United Brethren
church located at the corner
of Spencer and Butler avenues with 19 charter members. In 1958, the church, at
the time apart of the Evangelical United Brethren Denomination, moved to its
current location.
Ten years later, after a
merger between the Methodist and E.U.B. denominations, the church became
part of the United Methodist
denomination. Throughout
the past 50 years, the church
has expanded, first with a
fellowship hall and then
acquiring the nearby playground.
The church now has
around 100 members from
all age groups.
The people are the reason why I stay, John Brice,
church choir director, said.
We have a strong youth
program, which is very important, camping trips and
other get-togethers. It is
typical church stuff, but its
the things that keep you together.
Its up to Hensley to record
and gather all the churchs
history, which was shown
by a total of nearly 1,000
pictures either on the wall
of the churchs fellowship
hall or in photo albums on a
table, showcasing the various members and trips the
church has done over the last
115 years.
Much of the afternoon
at the church was spent remembering the past. A tree
was built in the front of the
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Swayzee Juniors
Womens Club
to hold Nut Sale
The Swayzee Junior
Womens Club has
started taking orders for
their annual nut sales.
The following are available: black walnuts, pecan halves, light walnut
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All nuts are in one
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DORM: Students at Taylor University relax in a dorm room in Samuel Morris Hall after spending most of the morning
and afternoon moving in.
BY TYLER JURANOVICH
The campuses of Grant

Countys two largest universities are busy again as
summer winds down to an
end and students return for
the new school year.
Both Taylor University
and Indiana Wesleyan University were bustling with
students Saturday as parents helped their sons and
daughters unpack and move
into their residence hall.
Nearly 800 new students
spent the better half of the
morning and afternoon
moving into their new home
at Indiana Wesleyan University, setting up their dorm
room and saying goodbye
to their parents.
For freshman, pre-med
major and baseball player
for the university Andrew
Breytonback, the whole
move-in experience was
both scary and exciting.
I was a little nervous at
first, but Im excited to start
a new chapter in my life,
Breytonback said.
Freshman and exercise
science major Adam Bowman also shared Breytonbacks excitement on starting something new.
This is a fresh start and
something new that Im curious to see how it goes.
Bowman said.
Bowman said he experience a variety of emotions

on the nearly three hour
drive from Cincinnati to
Marion.
Initially I was very nervous about moving far away
from home and leaving my
friends and didnt know
what to expect, but move-in
has been smooth, and now
I can say Im more excited
than nervous, he said.
Classes dont start for Indiana Weseylan students
until Sept. 7.
Across the interstate,
undergraduates at Taylor
University were also experiencing a wide variety of
emotions.
Its a change thats been
scary but when I stopped
and thought about what I am
doing and going to do here,
then I knew I was in the right
spot, freshman education
major Gabe Helmuth said.
Now Im having fun.
Helmuth is one of the 566
new students at Taylor University, which is the largest incoming class in the
schools history.
Jim Garringer, director of
media relations, has said the
college consistently being
named one of the best Midwestern colleges by the U.S.
News and Report is a major
reason as to why theyre
seen an increase in enroll-
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We have a world class
faculty and program here
that display to students that
theyre going to get a top
education here at Taylor,
Garringer said.
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Dozens bike to support Cardinal Greenway extension

BY TYLER JURANOVICH
Nearly four dozen riders

in support of the Upland
Area Greenway Association took part in a nearly
two hour, 13 mile bike
ride Saturday to promote
health, exercise and an
expansion of the Cardinal
Greenway.
Currently, the Cardinal
Greenway ends within five
miles south and six miles
east of Upland before
picking back up in Jonesboro. The organization
hopes to change that in the
future, closing the 11 mile
gap and extending the trail
from Gaston to Jonesboro
by way of Upland.
With help from Bob Davenport, founder and director of Wandering Wheels
and cyclist, the organization believes they can accomplish their goal.
LaRea Slater, a member
of Upland Area Greenway
Association, said safety
for current bike riders and
walkers in the Upland and

Matthews area is one of the
major reasons she wants to
see the extension.
There are already some
good trails in Upland near
Ind. 22 and Ind. 26, but
that street has become
pretty busy and so an official trail would help with
safety, Slater said.
Joe Pearson, president
of the Upland Area Greenway Association, also said
he sees safety as a major
issue, but he also sees the
extension serving as an
economic and forwardlooking project for Upland.
When asked the millennial generations say they
want to live in towns where
they can walk or ride a
bike to places, Pearson
said. Older folks have a
hard time understanding
this since were used to
just getting in our car, but
if we want to make Upland
for the future and to attract
younger people, we need
trails.
The organization has
tried for eight years to extend the greenway.
Within the last four
years, the organization
has applied to become a
501(c) non-profit, worked
with the town of Upland
to receive property from
the Indian Department of
Natural Resources for use
as a future trailhead, hired
a consultant to help develop a trail plan and received
support from Taylor University.
Steve Phillips, one of the
riders on Saturdays trip,
said an extension of the
greenway through Upland
would make bike riding in
the area easier.
I already enjoy the existing trails in Upland, but
a connection would save
time and attract new people to the town, Phillips
said.
Sometime in the fall, the
organization would like
to take a bike trip from
observed two black males

and a black female remove
items from the store without
paying for them.
12:06 p.m. Friday, 1000
block of N. Washington
Street, theft. A man advised
someone stole his identity
and opened a phone account with AT&T.
1:11 p.m. Friday. 1500
block of S. Western Avenue, theft. A man stated
he observed a woman leave
the store without paying for
items.
1:20 p.m. Friday, 600 block
of D. Street, theft. A woman
reported someone came
onto her porch and stole her
wheelchair.
of S. Branson Street, theft.
A woman stated she left
money in her shopping cart
at Wal-Mart and when she
came back, the money was
missing.
of N. Butler Avenue, warrant
service and narcotics. A
man was arrested on a warrant and also for unlawful
possession of a syringe.
6:10 p.m. Friday, 3800
block of S. Western Avenue,
theft. A woman was arrested
for strealing meat from
Meijer.
11:53 p.m. Friday, 3200
of transfer students from

other districts.
We have about 20 percent of students in our district that are not residents
of this district, said Martin. We routinely see more
non-resident students in
Kindergarten every year,
and that has slowly expanded to the other grades
as well. We havent seen a
large increase of students in
the high school yet, but we
are expecting that to grow
as the cycle of increased elementary students hits that
high school age.
After a decade of student population growth the
Mississinewa Community
School District has now
seen their number level off
this year. Superintendant
Tab McKenzie said the
economy and job situation
in Grant County hold some
responsibility for that shift.
I think we might be
reaching that saturation
point, said McKenzie. We
are content with where we
are at now, but we are also
focused on holding onto the
students we do have.
Students from outside the
district do make up a significant portion of the student
population in the Mississinewa district, according to
McKenzie.
I think we have done a
good job at maintaining
the facilities we have, said
McKenzie. I think first impressions are important and
when people come to see our
schools they are impressed
with what we offer.
Property tax caps are going to affect every school
at some point however, and
some districts are definitely
beginning to see some signs
of future issues.
The caps do have an impact, said Martin. We are
fortunate though that we
have not hit a point where
we are experiencing a significant impact from those
caps yet.
McKenzie said the past
decade of student population increases have helped
shield them from some of
the effects of the property
tax caps, but now that the
population has evened out
there is some concern.
The caps could create
complications, said McKenzie. We just need to continue to manage our money
well, look at what positions
we really need to replace
before we replace them,
and maintain a conservative
position when it comes to
spending money.
BIKE RIDE: Over 40 people participated Saturday in the Upland Area Greenway Associations second bike ride from Jonesboro to Sweetser.
Gaston to Muncie to raise

awareness for that portion
of their desired extension.
It will take a lot of work
for the organization to get

Trails are not easy to do,
what they want, but Pear- but its worth it for the
son said the group is ready health and other benefits,
for the job.
Pearson said.
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5:54 a.m. Friday, 3600
block of S. Houck Street, attempted burglary. Unknown
suspects removed screws
from a residencys storm
door. The residence was not
entered, though. 9:09 a.m.
9:09 a.m. Friday, 1300
block of W. Fifth Street Unit
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11:35 a.m. Friday, 1500
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school has been very fortunate this year.

So far it looks like we
have gained 70 students,
said Garrett. This is the
first increase we have experienced since 2008, and with
this increase we have had to
hire two additional teachers
since the beginning of the
school year.
Garrett contributes his
school districts growth to
multiple factors.
We are good stewards
with the money that we
have, and we have always
strived to not compromise
on the educational setting
we provide to the student,
said Garrett.
Oak Hill United School
Corporation
Superintendent Joel Martin said their
school has also noticed an
uptick in the school population this year.
We currently have a 21
student increase since February 2015, said Martin.
We are very pleased with
the upward trend we have
experienced over the last
few years.
Martin said increase does
contain a significant amount
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TIF liability remains high

Marion debt now
at $166,984,189,
use of TIFs
questioned
BY BEN QUIGGLE
State numbers still sayf

Marion is deep in debt..
According to the Department of Local Government
Finance, the citys indebtedness now sits at $167 million, including interest.
In July the published
amount on the DLGF website sat at $173 million, including interest, but recent
updates have lowered the

figure by close to $6 million because of continued
payments by the city on
that debt. The city reports
each year the amount of total debt it has accrued to the
DLGF. The interest alone on
the total outstanding debt is
$56 million, according to the
DLGF.
Most of that debt is related to Tax Increment Financing districts, which are
supposed to fund development through the growth
of property taxes within
the TIF districts. Marions
non-TIF related debt, including interest, is about $20
million according to figures
submitted by the city to the

DLGF. That number is derived from debt being repaid
by property tax revenues,
County Option Income Taxes (COIT), CReED funding,
or other types of revenue
sources, according to the
DLGF.
Bonds issued through these
TIF districts fund economic
development projects within
the district. A letter sent out
Wednesday by Bruce Donaldson, a bond lawyer with
the firm Barnes & Thornburg in Indianapolis who
has worked on a number of
bonds with the city, attempts
to mitigate the responsibility the city has in paying
these debts if they are defaulted on. The letter sent

to the Marion-Grant County
Chamber of Commerce, and
the Grant County Economic
Growth Council, states that
the taxpayers have no liability to the bondholders on
these bonds. He also states
that the total outstanding
principal amount of debt
that Marion owes sits at
$27,292,693.
Growth Council President
Tim Eckerle says it is challenging to understand where
all the money goes, and how
much debt is actually obligated to the City.
I think the letter was a
more accurate picture of the
Taylor students volunteer in Upland area
debt, said Eckerle. The

challenge with the media is
that they have to condense
things down, and I think the
letter was able to explain
more thoroughly what the
taxpayers are responsible
for.
Marion Mayor Wayne Seybold said that the city has always been responsible in the
way it has used TIFs to fund
redevelopment.
We have solid legal documentation protecting the
taxpayers of Marion said
Seybold. I have heard of
other cities using their money to fund public projects,
See TIF / Page A8
County EMS
asks for pay
increase for
3 employees
BY TYLER JURANOVICH
throw all of the bags into

the same tote and everything will be separated at
the waste facility.
Hopefully this system
encourages people to recycle more and it also saves
money on transportation,
employees, and wear and
tear on the roads, he said.
Member of the board,
Alan Miller, asked Binkerd
whether or not people will
be able to acquire a second
tote from the waste facility
if necessary.
If it is necessary to
The Grant County Council

ran into a minor bump in an
otherwise quick, questionfree final day of budget hearings Thursday evening after
Grant County Emergency
Medical Services Director
Duaine Ashcraft requested
a $3 per hour pay raise for
three employees.
Due to a change in how
billing patients works that
would make the process
more complicated, Ashcraft
requested pay raises for
three employees who are
newly billing-certified from
$10.25 per hour to $13.25
per hour so the employees
would be paid for the billing work they do on top of
working in the ambulances
during calls.
The change in wage, Ashcraft said, would still be less
than if the department were
to hire another full-time employee with benefits.
Ashcraft added the raise
and increase from only one
employee handling billing
to four would cut down on
a potentially costly mistake
when the department is audited by the state.
We have to be very careful because if the state was
to audit us and we make
mistakes, they can require
us to offer refunds for the
percentage we got wrong for
up to seven years, Ashcraft
said. We now have a group
of people that can really expedite the whole process.
In an earlier budget hearing
on Aug. 26, County Council President Jim McWhirt
made it clear the 2016 budget would be tight and
made it clear to departments
that fiscal responsibility
would be needed. Because
of that situation, McWhirt
was a little taken aback by
the request.
Im going to have a hard
time increasing it that much
when theyre just doing the
billing when we need it,
McWhirt said. We already
have one person whose job
is to do that. Im just trying
to figure out why we need
give them such a high percent increase.
See EQUIPMENT / Page A4
See EMS / Page A6
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COMMUNITY PLUNGE: Taylor University freshmen weed landscaping and do other tasks at Depot Park during the universitys annual Community Plunge event in Upland.
BY TYLER JURANOVICH
UPLAND Hundreds
of Taylor University freshmen, faculty and Upland
community members spent
their Thursday morning
and afternoon in the streets,
parks and businesses of Upland, Van Buren and Matthews for the 23rd annual
Community Plunge.
From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.,
about 600 took part in a
variety of service projects,
such as weed-picking,
painting and general upkeep to show students the
importance of service and
to get the Upland area ready

for the Labor Day Festival
this weekend. Filled buses left from Taylor every
hour, sending students on
two-hour shifts from the
campus to various places
in Upland and surrounding
areas.
The event, organized by
Taylor World Outreach, is
a tradition for Taylor, not
only attracting students but
also local citizens.
Jim Slater, a county
citizen, was one of the
community members who
See VOLUNTEER / Page A6
WATER SEALING: Taylor University freshmen Seth Lugibihl, left, and Harrison VanDerNoord brush water sealant
on a picnic table in Upland Park.
Utility board to lease solid waste equipment

BY ALICIA KELLY
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The Marion Utilities Service Board approved to

lease solid waste equipment
at the meeting on Thursday
for the implementation of
the solid waste utility in
Marion starting on Dec. 1.
Stemming from an ordinance passed by the city
council one year ago, Marion Utilities will be overseeing operations to maintain
solid waste in the community.
Chuck Binkerd, Marion
Utilities utility director,
says the board studied the
figures comparing the costs

of contracting an outside
resource to take care of the
issue versus Marion Utilities purchasing equipment
and operating the solid
waste utility.
We found that taking
charge of the solid waste
utility in the community
was more cost-effective and
all-around a good project
to take on independently,
Binkerd said.
According to Binkerd, the
ordinance included an emphasis on the importance
of recycling in the community. He told the board
what options Marion has to

tackle recycling.
We are leaning towards
what Muncie and Kokomo
has done with their recycling efforts, which is a
system that involves putting
recyclables and waste into
one tote, or trash can, separated by different colored
bags, he said. Muncie
has blue plastic bags that
are distributed throughout
their local grocery stores
to community members for
free.
Binkerd explained to the
board that the community
members will be able to
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we have stayed away from

that and just used the money
to pay back the bonds. We
have done this in the most
secure way possible by basing the bonds on the property tax revenue and not the
business, which means if a
business leaves and a new
one comes in the property
taxes that the new company
pays would continue to go
towards the bond associated
with that property. If you do
TIF right it is safe for the
taxpayers.
How this affects

taxpayers
TIF debt can impact taxpayers either directly or indirectly. The principal amount
of this debt is $101 million;
add interest and the figure
goes up to around $155
million. The interest alone
is $53 million; over half
of what the total principal
amount is. The City is either
responsible for anydebtleft
unpaid, or the bond holders
themselves have assumed all
of the risk.
DLGF
Commissioner
Courtney Schaafsmas said
There are financing structures available forTIFbonds
which would eliminate or reduce the risk to a city. The
financing structure of a specific bond must be evaluated
before determining the risk
to taxpayers.
That means Donaldson and
Seybold could be correct,
but some still carry concerns
that the city might be held liable for that debt.
The city has a responsibility to pay thatdebtoff according to the state, Larry
DeBoer, Purdue University
professor of agricultural
economics, said earlier this
summer. DeBoer serves as
an advisor to municipalities
on state tax issues.
Ball State Professor of
Economics Michael Hicks,
said that attorneys for the
city can say taxpayers are
not on the hook but that is
actually something a court
would have to decide.
Potential economic development could be hurt,
whether the city is liable or
not for repayment. According to Seybold, Marion enjoys an A-plus bond rating
from Standard and Poor, but

that wouldnt be the case
anymore if bonds start going
into default, according to
Grant County Auditor Roger
Bainbridge.
If the underwriter of a
bond lost a chunk of money from us in the past, why
would they want to work
with us in the future? Bainbridge said last month.
The city has already felt
the fiscal pain of property
tax caps.One problem with
TIF districts is they direct resources away from
government services, like
schools, that rely on property tax income.
Central Indiana Ethanol
President and CEO Gary
Drook gave $110,000 to
Oak Hill in 2008 because of
concerns local schools were
not benefiting from TIF revenue. CIE operates in a TIF
district and according to
documents from the Grant
County Treasurers Office, that district delivered
$805,619.40 in property tax
revenue for 2014 but none
of it went to the schools or
government agencies.
TIF districts are an issue
that may be causing problems for local school funding.
I am concerned about
the length of some of these
TIF districts, said Assistant
Superintendant Dr. Robert
Schultz last week. What
those do is freeze property
tax income in those districts
for up to 30 years; that caps
the amount of money we can
expect. If it attracts more
people that is great, if not
the school wont really reap
any benefit. They also have
the impact of making people
outside of the TIF district
pay a higher tax rate, which
means the city will hit its
property tax cap faster. We
lose $1 million due to circuit breakers from property
tax caps. I have seen them
work well in other districts,
the city just needs to make
sure they balance how many
they have, that they arent in
effect for too long, and that
they are functioning properly.
Was tif right for marion?

The city also has a documented history of using TIF
revenue on things that the
State has told the city were
illegal. A State audit, filed
on Aug. 1, 2014, shows that
the City of Marion disbursed

$47,111 from theTIFAllocation Fund for professional
fees incurred in the issuance
of 2013 tax anticipation warrants. They also were cited
by the State for charging
$14,111 to theTIF Allocation Fund for prescription
drug expenses. Both times
the state warned the city
that the sources and uses
of funds should be limited
to those authorized by the
enabling statute, ordinance,
resolution, or grant agreement.
According to Bainbridge,
the city has seen some TIF
areas turn into success
stories, while others have
failed, putting a strain on
being able to pay back outstanding bond debt. Questions then arise on why
some of the TIF deals were
accepted in the first place.
You have to question if
you would invest in these
projects personally, said
Bainbridge. You have to
do the in-depth research
on some of these deals,
and it appears they only
looked at the face value. It
doesnt matter if it doesnt
make sense; they are using
theTIF to make it viable
when it should be the other
way around. Now since they
have so much tied up in bad
TIFs, they are finding it difficult to use TIFs for good
projects.
With Marion taxpayers
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infrastructure, it is just the
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Options that could have
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and municipal budgets,
which are seeing increasingly tighter budgets. According
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adding to economic growth
but a lot of the times there is
no economic growth after a
TIF district is instituted because businesses or homes
outside of the district see
higher tax rates to pay for
Rules on Indiana school

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city services.
In almost all the areas we
studied tax rates outside of a
TIF district were higher because those districts arent
providing any money toward
city services, said Hicks.
While debate still persist
over how much Marion is liable for, State figures show
a picture that raises concern
among economists.
A legislative study group
has been investigating the
value of TIFs, said Hicks,
who added the impact on
communities should be better known when their work
is done in about a month.
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State study slams TIFs

No significant job growth
and economic development
found in average districts
tion, was conducted by the
Office of Fiscal and Management Analysis, and the
Indiana Legislative Services
Agency. Sold as a way to induce economic growth, the
study released in October
shows TIF districts experience little growth after the
initial impact of creating the
BY BEN QUIGGLE
An Indiana Legislative
Study has come down hard
on the overall economic and
job creation impact of Tax
Incremental Finance districts.
The study, titled 2015 Indiana Tax Incentive Evalua-
TIF district.
TIF parcels grew by only
.03 percent more than their
non-TIF counterparts, said
the study. This difference is
economically small and suggests that while TIF parcels
exhibit higher growth, they
tend to grow only marginally over time compared to
non-TIF parcels.
The study also mentions
that job growth in TIF establishments is not significant.
TIF establishments tend to
create 0.7 percent more jobs
than their non-TIF counterparts.
We find that property values are higher in TIF areas

than in other similarly situated non-TIF areas, said the
study. However, our findings suggest the presence of
TIF does not have a meaningful impact on employment growth.
Marions TIF districts
brought in almost $5 million in 2013, according to
a Marion Redevelopment
Commission report, all of
that money was used to fund
some development in the TIF
districts or pay off TIF bond
debt. Currently Marion owes
Halloween at the show
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MPO: The Marion Philharmonic peform Night on Bald Mountain Saturday at the F. Ritchie Walton Center. Most orchestra members were in costume for Halloween.
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Obituaries, A4
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Show: 9-4 p.m. at the Beech
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Grove, Ind. 46107.
Nov. 11 at Ivy tech Conference Center, 261 Commerce Dr., Marion, from
8:30-1:45. Bring PARP
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The 11th annual VA Veterans parade at the Marion

VA: begins at 1 p.m. on
Saturday. This is all part of
the kickoff to Grant County
Veterans Appreciation Week
beginning on Nov. 8.
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The Community Foundation of Grant County is

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school in Grant County.
Students of all ages who
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$101 million in TIF debt;

add interest and the figure
goes up to $155 million.
A majority of Marions TIF
districts provide no property
tax dollars for government
services like fire and police
service, public schools, public libraries, and other government services, leaving
some to wonder if TIF has
been the wrong method to
advance Marion.
These TIF districts can go
on for as long as a city needs
money for development,
It was a Halloween night

filled with music, candy and
fun at the Marion Philharmonic Orchestras second
show of the season.
Entitled Halloween with
the MPO and Friends and
held at Marion High Schools
F. Ritchie Walton Center,
the show featured dark, yet
popular and recognizable,
music performed by a full
orchestra.
Arrangements
included
Night on Bald Mountain,
songs from Harry Potter and
the Prisoner of Azkaban,
Phantom of the Opera, Star
Wars and more.
The concerts in this years

season are parts of a much
larger theme that hopes to
give audiences a variety of
reactions to the music. For
Saturdays concert, the fact
audience members and performers were encouraged to
come to the show in costume,
was enough to call the night a
special one, Lloyd Figgs said.
Theres music, theres
candy and theres fun, he
said. Its a nice night. It feels
more than just a concert.
Before the show, a facepainting stand, tables passing out treat bags to trick-ortreaters and balloon animal BALLOONS: The lobby of the F. Ritchie Walton Center was
See SHOW / Page A3
home to a Hawlloween balloon structure Saturday night.

About 1,400 balloons make up the display.
Grant County Board of

Zoning Appeals: Public
meeting, 7 p.m., Willis Van
Devanter Grant County Office
Complex (council chambers),
401 S. Adams St., Marion
Grant County Area Plan
Commission: Public meeting, 7 p.m., Willis Van Devanter Grant County Office
Complex (council chambers),
401 S. Adams St., Marion
HeartSong Show Chorus:
open rehearsals for female
singers 12 and up, all voice
ranges, interested in singing
with the chorus; 6:30 - 9:30
p.m., Church of the Brethren,
2302 S. Geneva, Marion; Call
765-677-SING\
Senior Monday Carry-in
Luncheon: Salamonie Interpretive Center in Lost Bridge
West State Recreation Area,
Andrews. To register, or for
more information, call (260)
468-2127.
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Professor: Faith and science can coexist

BY TYLER JURANOVICH
UPLAND Christianity
and the Bibles take on human
origins and what modern science says about the topic can
coexist, according to a professor of Old Testament.
John H. Walton, a Old Testament professor at Wheaton
College in Illinois and author
of nine books on the topic of
human origins and the ancient
near east, gave a lecture at
Taylor University Saturday on
why he believes what both sci-
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ence and the Bible have to say

on human origins dont have
to be mutually exclusive.
Using the Hebrew Bible and
looking at Genesis and other
Biblical passages, Walton explained to a mostly collegeaged audience that he saw
the story of Adam and Eve
as an archetype for human
identity rather than an historical account of human origins,
though he does believe the
two were real people.
Walton explained he sees
Chapter one and two of Gen-
esis as a type of series with

chapter one highlighting
Gods creation of a sacred
space and chapter two highlighting the twos role in that
sacred space. He added
people mistake the Bible as a
scientific document because
they fail to take into consideration the time and culture it
was written in and the fact that
God chose to explain human
Tyler Juranovich/ tjuranovich@chronicle-tribune.com
origins and the surrounding FAITH AND SCIENCE: John Walton, a professor of Old
world in ways the authors at Testament at Wheaton College, explains to an audience in
See COEXIST / Page A8
Taylor Universitys Euler Science Complex why he believes

Genesis is not an historical account of human origins.
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Kenneth Ken Toy
Continued from A1
Feb. 13, 1960 Oct. 30, 2015
Kenneth Ken Toy,

55, Sims, died at 1:08
p.m. on Friday, October 30, 2015 in the Indiana University Hospital, Indianapolis. He
was born in Lexington,
Kentucky to the late Jack Toy
and Margaret Toy-Smith and
was a 1978 graduate of Marion High School. He married
Donna Hughes on March 5,
1983. She survives.
Ken was a tool and die
maker for Lorentson Manufacturing in Kokomo. He
previously worked for Hartson Kennedy for 20 years.
Ken enjoyed hunting, fishing and camping. He was
an avid Colts fan and liked
watching football. He liked
music and listened to just
about everything. Ken loved
spending time with his family, especially his grandchildren.
Survivors include his wife,
Donna; children, Kelsey
(Megan) Toy and Kiley Toy,
both of Sims; mother, Margaret Toy-Smith; grandchil-
said Grant County Auditor

Roger Bainbridge. They
basically create slush funds
that cities can use at their
own disposal.
Bainbridge said you can
see massive job growth in
a TIF district at first, but
that it doesnt translate to
more job creation down
the line.
You want to envision
the use of TIF as a financing tool for stage one of a
project, said Bainbridge.
Then the business grows
and future stages are not
part of the TIF so that the
community can reap the
benefits of the redevelopment. The problem is we
are seeing the other stages
dren, Alexis and Chloe

Toy; brothers, Bill,
Rick and Dennis; sisters, Marlene, Connie
and Lori; several inlaws, nieces, nephews
and friends; and hunting dog, Avery.
In addition to this father,
Ken was preceded in death
by his father and motherin-law, Raymond (Rita)
Hughes.
A funeral service for Ken
will be held at 1:00 p.m. on
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
in the NeedhamStorey-Wampner Funeral
Service, Rybolt Chapel,
314 North Washington St,
Swayzee, IN, with Rev.
Brian Williams officiating.
Burial will be in the Converse Cemetery.
The family will receive
visitors from 11:00 to 1:00
p.m. prior to the service on
Tuesday at the funeral
home.
Online condolences may
be made at www.nswcares.
com
Coexist
Continued from A1
the time would understand.

The Israelites dont care
about biology, Walton said.
They arent thinking about
origins. There is no distinction of natural and supernatural to them. Thats us reading
our current understanding
into the text. What the Israelites were mainly focused on
was human identity. If evolu-
Shirley J. (Hale) Gross

Oct. 17, 1945 Oct. 30, 2015
Shirley J. (Hale)
Gross, Marion, 70, died
at 2:55 a.m. on Friday,
Oct. 30, 2015 in Allisonville Meadows,
Fishers, Ind. She was
born in Marion, Ind.
to the late James and Mary
(Nelson) Hale and married
Everett Gross on March 24,
1972. He survives.
Shirley was a traffic manager for Anaconda Wire and
Cable. She was a member
of Eastern Star and Jobs
Daughters. Shirley liked
to fish, dance and listen
to country music, enjoyed
swinging on her patio swing
and loved spending time
with her grandchildren.
Shirley is survived by her
husband, Everett and daughter, Angie (Mike) Leming,
Noblesville; grandchildren,
Cameron Leming, Emma
Leming and Collins Leming.; stepsons, Jeff Gross and
Eric Gross, Florida; brother,
Steve (Diane) Hale, Florida;
sisters, Pat Moerke, North
Carolina and Carol

Simpkins, Anderson,
Indiana.
In addition to her
parents, Shirley was
preceded in death by
her stepson, Danny
Gross.
A funeral service for Shirley will be held at 11:00 a.m.
on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015 at
NeedhamStorey-Wampner Funeral
Service, North Chapel, 1341
N. Baldwin Avenue, Marion,
Ind. with
Pastor Chris Hubler officiating. Burial will be in Grant
Memorial Park, Marion,
Ind.
Visitation will be on Monday, November 2, 2015 from
4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the funeral home.
Memorial
contributions
may be made to the New
Day Baptist Church in Alexandria, Ind.
com.
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RCA-Thomson Ladies
Retirees: 9 a.m. 9th St.
Caf. Everyone welcome.
Marion Coin Club: Marion
Public Library from 6 to 8
p.m. The meeting will feature
a short business session,
educational program and a
member auction.
Tuesday
Matthews Town Council:
Public meeting, 7 p.m., town
hall, 816 S. Wisconsin Ave.
Mississinewa Valley
Band: 7:30 p.m., Mississinewa Valley Band rehearsal
at Marion High School,
building 6, entrance 17, for
the next event: December 8
Christmas Concert, at IWU
Phillippe Performing Arts
Center. For further information call 934-2076.
Thursday
Mississinewa Valley
Obedience Training Club
(MVOTC): Puppy, Basic and
Novice training, 6:30 - 8:30
p.m. at Lakeview Wesleyan
Preschool Gym - 5316 S
Western Ave - Marion. For
more info - 765-677-7516 www.MVOTC.com.
Book Fair: The Marion
General Hospital Auxiliary
will host a Books Are Fun
book & gift fair from 8:30 to
3:30 p.m. at the 330 Building.
Edward A. Reasoner
July 5, 1947 Oct. 29, 2015
Edward Alan Reasoner, 68

of Jonesboro, IN died expectantly Thursday October 29,
2015 at his home. Alan was
born July 5, 1947 to the late
Howard and the late Bonnie
(Vardaman) Reasoner. He
graduate from Fairmount
High School Class of 1965.
Alan was married to Anita
(Piper), she survives. Also
surviving is a daughter;
Shannon (Mark) Conliff and
son Chad (Lisa) Reasoner
both of Fairmount. Sister;
Janet Newby, Fairmount
and brother Ted (Carole)
Reasoner, Granit Bay, CA.
3 Grandchildren: Taylor,
Cami, and Morgan Conliff.

Alan retired from Amcast
Corporation in 2006.
Alans care has been entrusted to the Fairmount
Chapel, Armes-Hunt Funeral Home and Cremation
Services, 415 S. Main St..,
Fairmount, IN According to
Alans wishes there will be
no services.
Memorial
contributions
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Ave, Marion, IN 46953
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students, Regier said. A
few biology professors read
Waltons newest book and
thought it was an example
that showed that doesnt have
to be the case.
Peter Khosla, a graduate
student at Indiana Wesleyan
University, said Waltons lecture was helpful for him.
He showed you dont have
to turn your brain off to be a
Christian, he said. I thought
it was good for people who
struggle science acceptance

and their faith.
The idea of the lecture
wasnt to force an interpretation of the Bible onto anyone, Walton and Regier both
said, but to show students the
importance of asking good
questions.
If were not asking good
questions, were not doing
our job, Walton said.
*To watch one of Waltons lectures
on the topic for free, visit www.the3rd
choice.org/podcasts
music, casual service and

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casual attire beginning at 6
Fairmount.
p.m. at Grace Community
HeartSong Show Chorus:
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Marion.
singers 12 and up, all voice
Fall Festival: First United
ranges, interested in singMethodist Church, 624 S.
ing with the chorus; 6:30
Saturday
Adams St., Marion, Ind. from - 9:30 p.m., Church of the
11th annual VA Veterans 12-7 p.m. Craft show with
Brethren, 2302 S. Geneva,
parade: at the Marion VA
8 plus vendors, a hot dog
Marion; Call 765-677-SING
beginning at 1 p.m.
lunch from 12-3 p.m. for
Arts & Eatz Trail: Marylou
Chicken Dinner: 11-7
$1.50, and chicken noodle
Habecker will be present for
p.m. at the Herbst United
dinner from 4-7 p.m. Dinner
an opening reception on FriMethodist Church, 2561
is $8 for adults, 44 for kids
day, October 9, from 11 a.m.
S. 600 W., Marion. Adult
5-12. Dessert by donation.
to 1 p.m. at the Bridge Cafe.
tickets are $8.50 in
She will greet restaurant
Monday
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guests and talk about her
Children, ages 6-12, costs
Fairmount Town Council: art. Her art will be exhibited
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Madison-Grant school
The Grant County Tea
available.
board: Meeting at 7 p.m.
Party: will meet at the Sirloin
Chili Cook-Off: 4-7 p.m.
at the administration office,
Stockade at 6 p.m.
at the Gethsemane Episcopal Church Parish Hall,
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Dr. Jeff Regier, biology
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thing at odds with the idea

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TIF is supposed to be
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It is not meant to start a new
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For now Marion will have
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At some point the State is
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Schools are also left with
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approval of a consolidation
plan just this last week. The
city is not alone facing issues of gathering money for
development. The county
has seen its income stagnate
as well.
Property tax caps are affecting our income, and so
is our stagnating income
tax revenue, said Grant
County Council President
Jim McWhirt. The population in Grant County is declining, and we need higher
paying jobs. Once those
things happen then we can
begin to see more growth in
our income tax revenue.
Bainbridge says he is also
seeing cities using TIF for
new development instead
of redevelopment, some-
Friday
2015 World Community
Day: Presbyterian of Grant
County, 601 S. Main St.,
Jonesboro. Registration
at 9:30 with continental
breakfast, worship begins
at 10 a.m. A freewill offering will be taken. Church
contact is Marion Shirar
at 765-573-5080. Please
bring your canceled
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11th Annual Marion VA
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of the project are being

folded into that TIF meaning the community is seeing no benefit from the
growth.
Ball State Professor of
Economics Michael Hicks
said that the study shows
that in most cases the job
growth created would have
occurred anyway.
What you are doing is
taking jobs from non-TIF
districts and moving them
over to TIF districts, said
Hicks. This is all so that
the city can capture that
money for its own uses.
They arent sharing it with
tax supported government
units at that point.
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Absentee voting
in the primary
Grant County voters
can start voting absentee
as of yesterday, Tuesday, April 5. According
to Grant County Clerk
Carolyn Mowery, there
are three absentee voting
machines in the election
office of the Grant County
Courthouse. If it is required, another absentee
voting machine will be
added to accommodate
the voters. Absentee voters can also vote by mail
in the primary election.
The deadline for the clerk
to receive an absentee
ballot application to
vote by mail is April 25
by 11:59 p.m. Confined
voters can request an
absentee traveling board
to come to their place of
residence to assist them
in voting. A person can
vote at the correct polling
location based on their
residency on primary
Election Day, Tuesday,
May 3 from 6 a.m. until 6
p.m.
Staff reports
Fairmount man
arrested on child
molesting charges
A Fairmount man was
arrested on several
charges Monday including child molesting.
William Elzie Allgood,
29, last known address
9308 S. 700 W., Fairmount, was arrested on
charges of child molesting, violation of probation and a warrant out of
Madison County for fugitive from justice. Allgood
was being held at the
Grant County Jail Monday on $150,010 bond.
Staff reports
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Echelon CFO guilty of fraud

Former executive takes plea
agreement on charges he defrauded
Gas City and New York bank
New Jersey-based furniture

company affiliated with
Echelon, pleaded guilty to
one count of conspiracy to
commit bank fraud and one
count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud Friday.
According to the United States Attorney for
the Southern District of
New York, DSouza made
an agreement in return for
BY TYLER JURANOVICH
GAS CITY Gas City

was defrauded in a deal that
resulted ina $1 million loan
to Echelon Furniture Inc.,
according to federal court
documents.
Norman DSouza, the
former chief financial office and vice president of
Munire Furniture Inc., a
ECHELON:Munir Hussain,
president of Munire Furniture, speaks in at the 2010
announcement that Munire
Furniture Inc.s Echelon
Furniture division will be located in the former Amcast
building near the Gas City
I-69 exit. In less than five
years after that, the company would file for Chapter
Seven bankruptcy.
Chronicle-Tribune file photo
a guilty pleafor his role in City bank and Gas City.

and willingly falsely inmisrepresenting the furniCourt documents stated flated sales to receive a
ture companys financial DSouza and others in
condition to a New York the company knowingly
See FRAUD / Page A5
Revving up for the last lap
Council
OKs
closure
of Cherry
Street
Hospital
administrators say
the closure will
give hospital a
campus feel
BY TYLER JURANOVICH
former winners of the races

to come back to compete in
a final victory lap, Morgan
said. Every dollar we raise
goes straight to the students
and we are hoping to raise
over $25,000.
Zaca Rogers is a student at CSA and said being a part of the school has
helped him in several areas
in his life.
The Marion Common

Council voted 5-4 Tuesday
night to vacate a portion of
Cherry Street for Marion
General Hospital.
The vote allows MGH to
close a portion of the street
off from the public and allow the hospital to eventually make the two parking
lots located both north and
south of Cherry Street into
one bigger parking lot,
creating a campus feel.
Under the proposal, traffic wanting to get to River
Road from North Wabash
Avenue would be rerouted
to Mulberry Street.
Voting no were council
members Steve Henderson,
Lynn Johnson, Don Batchelor and Brad Luzadder.
The proposal by the hospital has been approved by
the Marion Traffic Commission, and Ann Vermilion, administrative director
of medical staff services
and community outreach
at Marion General Hospital, said the hospital and
the commission dont expect the traffic at the intersection of West Mulberry
Street and North Wabash
Avenue to increase to the
point where a stoplight
would be needed, though
Vermilion said the hospital
would be open to paying
for one if it does become
necessary.
To hopefully increase
safety by encouraging cars
to slow down on North
Wabash Avenue, the hospital currently has plans to
install lighted pedestrian
crosswalk signs on North
Wabash Avenue near the
See LAST LAP / Page A3
See COUNCIL / Page A5
POLE: From left, CSA board members Iris Brunner and Bobby Browder watch as Executive Director Katie Morgan calls
on Cale Korporal to come up for his past champion flag during the Go Arts! Go Karts! Pole Night fund-raiser Tuesday
evening at Community School of the Arts. Powell and Belcher were first to arrive, so Belcher will have the pole position
in the first heat of racing on May 27.
Final Go
Arts! Go Karts!
race is May 27
BY ALICIA KELLY
Community
members
were lined up at the Community School of the Arts
Tuesday night to get their
pole positions in the final
Go Arts! Go Karts! race.
The Go Arts! Go Karts!
fundraiser is CSAs largest
of the year. Money raised
from the event goes directly
toward CSA scholarships
to help low-income families pay for arts programs.
The event generally brings
in about $21,000 in scholarships for CSA students.
CSA Executive Director Katie Morgan said the
decision to discontinue Go
Arts! Go Karts! is due to
the organization moving
into a different direction
for fundraising.
The largest funding we
received from this event
was early on, Morgan
said. For the last five to
seven years we have seen
those funds declining. I
think fundraisers have a
shelf life and thats just
what happens.
Morgan said the organi-
CSA: Michael Belcher, left, and Tade Powell, both of First Farmers Bank and Trust, talk
during the Go Arts! Go Karts! Pole Night fund-raiser Tuesday evening at Community
School of the Arts. Powell and Belcher were first to arrive, so Belcher will have the pole
position in the first heat of racing on May 27.
zation has not decided what

to do in place of the Go
Arts! Go Karts! race, but
they are going out with a
bang.
It has been a successful fundraiser for the last
13 years and the City of
Marion has been very cooperative in letting us use
their property for the race,
she said.
Some prospective go kart
drivers were at CSA as ear-
Marions
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ly as 9 a.m. Tuesday morning waiting in line to register when Pole Night started
at 5 p.m.
CSA Artistic Director
Shelly Inskeep said around
18 drivers had signed up
for the race by 5:30 p.m.,
with some of those including pre-registrations.
Morgan said the event in
May will include a champions of champions race.
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Teresa L. Newsom
Marion Police
Department
March 27, 1953 April 1, 2016
Teresa L. Newsom, 63,

Marion, passed away at
Marion General Hospital at
4:38 a.m. on Friday, April
1, 2016. She was born in
Marion to the late Leon and
Marian (Oswalt) Shugart.
On February 14, 1998, Teresa married Gabriel Newsom,
and he survives.
Teresa received her GED,
and then earned a Certificate
of Electronics from Concho
Career Institute in Lubbock,
Texas. She was a member
at Brookhaven Wesleyan
Church, and attended Lakeview Wesleyan Church.
Teresa loved having cookouts with her family and
canning. She also enjoyed
fishing, Bingo, traveling,
and spending time with her
dog, Cisco.
In addition to her husband of 18 years, Teresa
is survived by her children, Funico Vargas; sister,
Norma Miller, FL; uncle
and aunt, Lee (Lois) Schipper, AZ; grandson, Gabriel
Vargas, LA; several nieces
and nephews, brothers- and
sisters-in law, and cousins; special friends, Cindy,
Vicki, Roxanne, Jackie,
Janet, Connie, Patsy, and
Keri; and many other
friends.
Also preceding Teresa in
death were her sister, Anita
Kennedy, and a son, Gabriel

(Gibby) Vargas.
Friends and family may
call from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
on Friday, April 8, 2016, at
Lakeview Wesleyan Church,
5316 S. Western Ave., Marion, Ind. Services for Teresa
will begin at 1 p.m. with
Pastor Tim McClellan officiating. Burial will follow
at Gardens of Memory in
Marion.
Memorials may be made to
Lakeview Wesleyan Church,
5316 S. Western Ave., Marion, Ind., 46953.
Arrangements are being
handled by Needham-Storey-Wampner Funeral Service, North Chapel, 1341 N.
Baldwin Ave., Marion, Ind.
com.
Karleigh E. Hall
Infant Karleigh E. Hall
was stillborn at 9:46 a.m.
Saturday (April 2, 2015) at
Parkview Huntington Hospital.
She was born to Michelle
L. Morris and Mike L. Hall;
they survive in LaFontaine,
Ind.
Graveside services will be
held at 2 p.m. Wednesday

(April 6, 2016) in Gardens
of Memory in Huntington
County.
Please sign the online
guestbook at www.bailey
love.com. Bailey-Love Mortuary is honored to serve the
family of infant Karleigh E.
Hall.
Pending services
Steven Andrew Chenoweth: 54, Marion, died
in his home at 7:55 p.m. on
Monday, April 4, 2016. Arrangements are pending with
Integrity Funeral Care, 2901
S. Washington St., Marion,
Ind., 46953.
Jack Norman Howell: 88,
formerly of Fairmount, Ind.,
died Tuesday, April 5, 2016
at Marion General Hospital.
Arrangements are pending at
Armes-Hunt Funeral Home

and Cremation Service, 415
S. Main St., Fairmount, Ind.,
46928.
Kevin Lee Lomely II: 21,
of Fort Wayne, Ind., born on
March 23, 1995, passed away
in his residence on April 4,
2016. Funeral services are
pending at Needham-StoreyWampner Funeral Service,
North Chapel, 1341 N. Baldwin Ave., Marion, Ind.
Obituary policy
The Chronicle-Tribune will
publish basic death notices
free of charge. There is a
fee for extended obituaries. If there is an error in the
obituary because of a mistake
made by the newspaper, the
obituary will be reprinted at
no charge.
If the error is the fault of the

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EMERGENCIES
Marion Fire Department
Ross, 21, Marion; no injuries.

2:53 p.m. Monday, 1224 S.
12:41 p.m. Monday, 8160
Baldwin Ave., two-vehicle
W. 700 N., investigation. Units
accident involving Jenaca
were clear at 1:04 p.m.
R. Howell, 25, Marion; no
4:02 p.m. Monday, 14th and
injuries.
Washington streets, accident
3:58 p.m. Monday, 14th
with injury. Units were clear at
and Washington streets,
4:31 p.m.
two-vehicle accident involv6:19 p.m. Monday, 2928 S.
ing Jenny L. Fuller, 39,
Adams St., ambulance assist.
Upland, and Anthony W.
Units were clear at 6:23 p.m.
Morrell Jr., 30, Marion; two
10:15 p.m. Monday, 911 E.
injuries.
Montpelier Pike, car fire. Units
were clear at 10:44 p.m.
Center Twp. Volunteer
5:04 a.m. Tuesday, 720 N.
Fire Department
Western Ave., ambulance as7:31 p.m. Monday, 5276
sist. Units were clear at 5:05
E. 200 S., ambulance assist.
a.m.
Marion Police
10:14 p.m. Monday, 911
E. Montpelier Pike, accident
Department
type unknown. Units were
6:21 a.m. Monday, 16th and
clear at 10:24 p.m.
Ind. 9, two-vehicle accident
involving William R. BlackPleasant Twp. Volunteer
burn, 35, Peru, and Elmonie
Fire Department
M. Martin, 34, Kokomo; no
7:54 p.m. Monday, ambuinjuries.
lance assist. 102 Eagle Drive,
1:56 p.m. Monday, 253 N.
Tippy Ditch Drive, two-vehicle Sweetser, ambulance assist.
accident; no injuries.
11:10 p.m. Monday, 2969
2:45 p.m. Monday, 101
W. 9th St., ambulance assist.
N. Washington St., vehicle
accident involving Jeremy D. Units were clear at 11:36 p.m.
DUMPSTERS
Avenue, theft. A person told

police his or her trash tote
was missing.
12:26 a.m. Monday, 3300
9:23 p.m. Monday, 1000
block of South Selby Street,
block of South McClure
residential entry and battery. Street, theft. A woman told
A man told police a man
police a man stole $33 from
broke into his house and bat- her wallet.
tered him and his girlfriend.
Arrests
9:55 a.m. Monday, 4700
block of South Colonial Oaks
William Elzie Allgood, 29,
Drive, threats of harm. A
last known address 9308
woman told police an emS. 700 W., Fairmount, child
ployees husband called and molesting, violation of probawas upset about his wifes
tion and fugitive from justice.
schedule.
He was being held at the
2:16 p.m. Monday, 1000
Grant County Jail Monday on
block of North Forest Avenue, $150,010 bond.
theft and reckless driving.
Sonny Blue Boller, 31, last
A woman was arrested on
known address 620 W. 3rd
charges of theft and reckless St., failure to register as a
driving.
sexual offender. He was be4:21 p.m. Monday, 900
ing held at the Grant County
block of West 6th Street,
Jail Monday without bond.
invasion of privacy, battery
Curtis Lee Flowers Jr.,
and possession of marijuana. 21, last known address 210
A woman told police she was W. 13th St., possession of
battered by her boyfriend.
marijuana or hashish, battery
7:10 p.m. Monday, 500
and invasion of privacy. He
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Grant County Jail Count

Male: 241
Female: 35
As of 10:03 a.m. Tuesday.
Juvenile Detention
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Male: 9
Female: 4
As of 11:30 a.m. Tuesday.
All arrest entries reflect preliminary
police charges.
emails between Republican

Rep. Eric Koch of Bedford
and utility companies about
his unsuccessful bill last
year to cut payments for
excess electricity generated
by home solar power systems.
Republican House Speaker Brian Bosma hired the
Indianapolis law firm Taft
Stettinius & Hollister to defend the lawsuit rather than
using the state attorney generals office.
Bosma said he didnt
know how much the case
might end up costing, but
believed it was important
to protect the privacy of
emails and other communications between lawmakers
and their constituents.
We are defending a lawsuit brought by an out-ofstate interest group that

wants to change that, he
said. No one likes to spend
money but confidentiality
of Hoosiers communications with their elected officials is paramount.
The costs for the case are
being split with the Indiana Senate and paid from
the Legislatures general
budget. So far the billing
figures from the state auditors office include from
May 2015 through February 2016. The contract
calls for a rate of $440 an
hour to attorney Geoffrey
Slaughter who is one of
three finalists for a seat on
the Supreme Court and a
second lawyer assisting at a

$345-per-hour rate.
An attorney for the consumer advocacy groups
argued last month that legislators should be covered
by the states public access
laws in asking the Supreme
Court to overturn a Marion
County judges ruling that
he could not interfere in
operations of the legislative
branch.
Kerwin Olson, executive director of the Citizens
Action Coalition, said the
groups hope the judge is directed to consider whether
the emails they requested
should be released.
It would have been a lot
cheaper just to honor the
public records law, he said.
COUNCIL
struction.
The passage allows MGH
to look and act like a campus and continue the pathway of growth in the future, Vermilion said.
We want to look towards the future, she said.
Change is hard, and this
will change traffic patterns, but Marion General
has been nothing but transparent. Theres nothing
more to this than us wanting to move and secure us
as a campus.
Some council members,
however, did not think the
hospital had provided a detailed enough plan for what
the hospital would do now
that they can vacate a por-
tion of Cherry Street.

If you had an immediate plan for closing Cherry
Street, I could support it,
but as it stands right now, I
cant support it, Batchelor
said, adding that he doesnt
consider simply turning
two parking lots into one
as a plan.
Other council members
disagreed and hoped the
council would support
growth of businesses in the
future.
They might not have
plans for that exact property, but making it a campus is
a vision for the future five,
10, 15 years from now,
Council Member Deborah
Cain said. Wouldnt it be
great if you {MGH] could

grow and expand and become a regional hospital? I
hope that we are not a city
council that lacks vision
and opportunity to help
Marion grow.
In other news, the council also unanimously voted
to suspend the rules and
move the ordinance to vacate a portion of an alleyway between S. Nebraska
and S. Gallatin St., just
east of the offices of Trio
Development, LLC, owned
by James Swan, to a third
reading and final vote. The
ordinance was then passed
on a 9-0 vote. Swan plans
on repaving the portion of
the alleyway.
Council.
Echelons original 2010
incentive package included
$2.4 million bond backed
by TIF revenue by Gas City
and a $200,000 grant from
the Grant County Economic
Growth Council paid with
funds the Growth Council
received from CEDIT monies. In the spring of 2012,
the Gas City Council approved a five year, $3.6
million tax abatement for
Echelon and then, in July
of the same year, the Gas
City Economic Redevelopment Committee loaned
the furniture company $1
million in TIF funds so the
company could refinance
equipment.
Leach said Tuesday the
guilty plea of DSouza and
his and the companys dishonesty was disappointing.
Its sad, really sad when
someone pulls something
like that, Leach said.
Tim Eckerle, executive director for the
Grant County Economic
Growth, said the company
not only fooled Gas City,
the Growth Council, the
bank, but also the state,
which offered Echelon up
to $1.35 million in performance-based tax credits
and up to $20,00 in training grants in 2010, adding

that the Growth Council
has been nothing but cooperative with the FBIs investigation of the furniture
company.
Eckerle said the whole
situation was surprising,
but added that risk is part
of economic development.
Youre always going to
be exposed, he said.
The companys arrival in
2010 to Grant County was
met with fanfare and excitement. The investment
was a joint effort between
Gas City Mayor Larry
Leach, then Marion Mayor
Wayne Seybold and Eckerle. The three flew to New
Jersey in January of 2010
to meet with then President
of Munire Furniture Munir Hussain, who then returned the favor and visited
Grant County. He bought
the old Amcast factory in
Gas City, nearI-69 and Ind.
22, promising 350 to 450
jobs with wages ranging
from $8.50 to $15 per hour,
though at its peak the company only employed about
150 employees.
After the companys departure and subsequent
bankruptcy, Leach said
in 2015 that he stood by

his decision to loan Echelon the $1 million the city
never got back because
it maintained about 100
good-paying jobs for four
and half years for local residents. On Tuesday, Leach
said he wouldnt have given $1 million to Echelon
if he knew what is known
now, but did say if another
company wanted to bring
100 good-paying jobs to
Gas City, he would be open
to helping that come to fruition in anyway possible.
Were going to have to
be more careful with people we deal with in the future now, but I would do it
over again if the company
guaranteed me 300 goodpaying jobs, Leach said.
Sometimes you have to
take a step of faith, and this
just came to bite us back,
but well replace it with
something better.
Dawn Dearden, a spokesperson for United States
Attorneys Office for the
Southern District of New
York, declined to comment
on whether or not charges
were being sought for Hussain or any other present or
former executive atMunire
Furniture Inc.
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ER entrance, as well as on
North Wabash Avenue near
both Spencer Avenue and
Mulberry Street.
When the hospital plans
on beginning construction
on Cherry Street and North
Wabash Avenue has not
been decided, but Vermilion said the hospital would
likely start by the end of
the year. In the meantime,
Vermilion said she would
be willing to bring the idea
to hospital administrators
of keeping Cherry Street
open to public traffic until
the hospital begins con-
FRAUD
Continued from A1
$1 million loan from Gas

City in July of 2012 and
$17 million in loans from
Bank Leumi USA so that
the company could survive
a difficult period, loans the
company never paid back.
Echelon closed in September of 2014 and then filed
for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in
the following October.
The plea agreement, according to the Associated
Press, calls for DSouza
to be sentenced to four or
five years of prison and
that he return any assests
he obtained as a result of
the crime. Without the plea,
DSouza could have faced
up to 50 years in prison,
according to a release from
the U.S. Attorneys Office.
Hes scheduled for sentencing July 22.
The $1 million loan
wasnt the only incentive
the company received from
the city. Across its four
years in Gas City, the company received more than $7
million in loans, incentives,
grants and abatements from
the city, state and the Grant
County Economic Growth
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The legal fight to shield
Indiana lawmakers from
having to release email correspondence with lobbying
groups has cost taxpayers at
least $160,000.
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Umbaugh studying city finances

Firm to provide analysis of TIF and
other spending in past administration
BY TYLER JURANOVICH
The third-party analysis of

city finances has officially
begun.
After weeks of negotiations
and hammering out details,
Marionofficials said Monday
employees of Indianapolisbased H.J. Umbaugh and Associates have officially begun
their analysis of the citys

finances, citys TIF districts
and the finances behind the
failed redevelopment of the
old YMCA.
The third-party, independent analysis of the citys
finances was a major part of
Marion Mayor Jess Alumbaughs platform when he
was running for the office
late last year. Alumbaugh said

Monday that he was ready
to have the analysis done and
deal with what its conclusions
are.
We know its probably
going to be bad, but we just
dont know how bad, Alumbaugh said about the citys
finances. I need another
opinion on where we stand.
Umbaugh will be paid anywhere from $135 to $450 an
hour, depending on who a
principal, partner or support staff at the company
is working on the analysis at

any given time. The analysis
is not an full audit and its
expected to last four weeks
but could last longer.
Umbaugh will be looking at the citys 12 TIF
districts, including the
General Motors TIF district, as well as try to find
out where the money went
connected to $2.5 million
bond issued by the city
for development of the old
YMCA. The company will
also evaluate the general
Little Giants prep for preschool

Ind. dune that
swallowed boy
to remain closed
SOUTH BEND (AP) A
popular sand dune along
Lake Michigan in Indiana will remain closed
this summer as scientists try to determine
why a 6-year-old boy
was nearly buried alive
there three years ago, an
Indiana Dunes National
Lakeshore spokesman
said Monday.
Scientists have been
studying Mount Baldy, a
120-foot-tall dune near
Michigan City, since July
12, 2013, when Nathan
Woessner was buried
alive for more than three
hours under 11 feet of
sand. Nathan, of Sterling,
Illinois, was hospitalized
for about two weeks, but
recovered.
Park spokesman Bruce
Rowe said he hasnt
received a preliminary report on possible causes
and that the park service
would wait until the studies are complete before
releasing any information. He expects the work
to continue until fall.
So whatever we say
will turn out to be accurate, or as accurate as
science can tell us, he
said.
Scientists have been
using ground-penetrating radar to determine
whether rotting trees or
structures that had been
covered by the moving
dune were to blame.
Rowe said even if the
scientists finish their
work early, park officials will need time to
determine what steps
must be taken to ensure
visitor safety. The rest
of the 15,000 acres that
stretch across 15 miles
of Lake Michigan remain
open.
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financial health of the city,

but Alumbaugh didnt rule
out adding to Umbaughs
responsibilities.
Marion City Controller Julie Flores said she has had
trouble trying to follow the
money of some of the TIF
bonds the city consolidated in
the past and would like Umbaugh to look atthat and try
and find out if the consolidations of those bonds were
done correctly or not.
See FINANCES / Page A4
Man
arrested on
child molest
charges
BY ALICIA KELLY
ENROLL: Cynthia Udolisa, Head Start community partnership coordinator, left, helps Virginia Vanlandingham enroll twin
granddaughters Jaycee and Kaylee, both 3, during the Little Giants Preschool roundup Monday at Frances Slocum
Elementary School.
BY ALICIA KELLY
PRESCHOOL: Head Start intern Carrin Zirkle, at right,

helps Kenyette Adkins enroll her son, Maurice, 3, during
the Little Giants Preschool roundup Monday at Frances
Slocum Elementary School.
Parents are applying to

enroll their children in the
Little Giants Preschool program this week.
For the 2016-17 school
year the Little Giants Preschool classrooms will no
longer be at the Tucker Career and Technology Center as it has been for several
years, according to Little Giants Enrollment Coordinator
Deb Wuertley.
Wuertley said because the
Tucker Career and Technology Center is closing after the
2015-16 school year, the Little Giants classrooms will be

dispersed in all of the Marion
Community Schools elementary schools, as well as the
preschool wing on the Justice
Intermediate School campus.
In March, The Little Giants Preschool program was
chosen to receive $550,000
over the next two years in
the states Early Education
Matching Grant. The grant
allows the districts free preschool program to add five
new classrooms and 155
four-year-old students each
A local man was arrested Saturday night on

a Grant County warrant
charging him with child
molesting.
According to Deputy
Chief Stephen Dorsey of
the Marion Police Department, Michael T. Vandiver, 61, last
known
address 2512
W. 10th St.,
was arrested
on charges of
child molesting, a level 4
VANDIVER
felony, stemming from an
investigation that started in
November 2015.
Dorsey said Vandiver
was interviewed by police
on March 17 regarding the
report of child molest and
admitted to having sexual
contact with a 12-yearold female, of Marion, at
which point a warrant was
requested.
According to Capt. Robin
See CHARGES / Page A5
Oak Hill to
request bus
exchange
See PRESCHOOL / Page A4

BY ALICIA KELLY
Motor home catches

fire driving on I-69
BY ALICIA KELLY
A motor home caught fire

while driving north on I-69
Monday morning.
According to Upland Volunteer Fire Chief Mike Howard, Langdon MacDonald of
Michigan was driving a large
motor home northbound on
I-69 around 10 a.m. when
the engine compartment of
the vehicle caught fire.
According to Howard,
MacDonald said the gauges
on the vehicle had been
fluctuating recently and that
there might be a problem
with the engine.
Firefighters from multiple

departments, including Upland, Matthews and Gas
City, worked to extinguish
the fire in the northbound
lane of Exit 259 near Ind. 22.
Units were cleared about one
hour after the fire started.
The fire was mainly in the
engine compartment of the
RV, but it started to get into
the rest of it, Howard said.
Most motor home fires are
a total loss, but that will be
up to the insurance company.
Howard said the vehicle
most likely had an engine
problem.
JEFF MOREHEAD / jmorehead@chronicle-tribune.com
FIRE: Firefighters from multiple departments, including

Upland, Matthews and Gas City, work to put out a fire in a
motor home on the northbound off-ramp at I-69 and Ind.
22 on Monday. According to Upland Volunteer Fire Chief
Mike Howard, Langdon MacDonald, Michigan, was northbound on I-69 when a fire began in the engine compartment. No one was injured.
None of the passengers injured. Units cleared the

of the motor home were scene at 11:03 a.m.
The Oak Hill school board

approved a recommendation
Monday night to request a
school bus exchange due to
increasing student enrollment and existing bus mechanical issues.
Over the past few years
we have gained students,
Oak Hill Superintendent Joel
Martin said. We have been
watching it closely because
we have some group pick up
places that nonresidents use
as bus stops in our district.
As our nonresident numbers
increase, we are realizing we
need to send another bus out
there.
According to Business
Manager Deb Smith, the
original bus replacement
plan was to trade in three
buses for new ones because
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Obituaries & Record

M A R I O N C H R O N I C L E - T R I B U N E / T U E S D AY, A P R I L 1 2 , 2 0 1 6 / A 4
Daniel Dan Lewis Ludlow
Janet A. (Adams) Wright
Jan. 5, 1937 April 9, 2016
Dec. 28, 1933 April 8, 2016
Daniel Dan Lewis Ludlow, 79, lifelong resident of

Gas City, Ind., died in his
home at 5:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 9, 2016. He
was born in Gas City to the
late Earl Ludlow and Addie (Owen) Ludlow-Liston.
On November 2, 1957, Dan
married Judith Tolle, and she
survives.
Dan graduated from Mississinewa High School in
1955, and he attended Furman University in South
Carolina. He worked as a
supervisor for 36 years with
Owens-Illinois until his retirement in 1992 and was
past President of the GBBA
Union. Dan was a member
of First Christian Church in
Gas City and served as an elder for several years.
Sports were always very
important to Dan, with his
favorite baseball team being the St. Louis Cardinals.
While in high school, he
ran track and played football and basketball. He was
later inducted into the Mississinewa Basketball Hall of
Fame. Throughout his life,
Dan continued to be an avid
fan and supporter of Mississinewa Community Schools.
One of the highlights of
his life was coaching little
league baseball and girls
softball, as well as boys basketball for his children and
grandchildren. Hunting and
fishing were additional hobbies of Dans. He also raised
greyhounds and enjoyed the
races at the horse track.
Dan leaves behind his
loving wife, Judith, of
58 years; 4 children, Gay
McPherson,
Fowlerton,
Traci (Mike) Nash, Kelly
(Stacey)
Watkins-Davis,
and Scott Ludlow, all from

Gas City; 8 grandchildren,
Jeremy (Stacie) Nash, Elizabeth McPherson, Erin (Josh)
Timmons, Wesley McPherson, Daniel Watkins, Ashlea
Nash, Nicollette Watkins,
and Taylor Ludlow; 5 greatgrandchildren; brother-inlaw, Jerry (Linda) Tolle;
sister-in-law, Jan Tolle; and
several nieces, nephews, and
cousins.
In addition to his parents,
his brother, Dennis Ludlow,
preceded him in death.
Family
and
friends
may call from 4-6 p.m.
on Wednesday, April 13,
2016, at Needham-StoreyWampner Funeral Service,
Storey Chapel, 400 E. Main
St., Gas City, Ind. Services
for Dan will begin at 6 p.m.
with Pastor Dave Shephard
officiating.
Memorial
contributions
may be directed to First
Christian Church, 401 E.
N. D St., Gas City, Ind.
46933 or to Mississinewa
High School Activity Fund,
205 E. N. H St., Gas City,
Ind. 46933.
com.
James Jim Ray Turner

May 20, 1954 April 9, 2016
James Jim Ray Turner,

61, passed away at 10 a.m.
Saturday, April 9, 2016 at
his residence.
Funeral service will be at
6 p.m. Thursday, April 14,
2016 at Keplinger Funeral
Home, 509 N. High St. Hartford City with Rev. Bobby
Thomas officiating.
Visitation will be from 2 to
6 p.m. Thursday, April 14,
2016 at Keplinger Funeral
Home.
Jim will be cremated.
Memorials may be made to
Wheels in Motion, P.O. Box
406, Matthews, Ind. 46957
Janet A. (Adams) Wright,

82, Marion, died at 4 a.m.
on Friday, April 8, 2016, at
Summit City Nursing and
Rehabilitation, Fort Wayne.
She was the daughter of the
late L.L. and Anna M. (Reel)
Adams. She was a 1952
graduate of Mississinewa
High School, a student in the
first class to graduate from
that school. Janet married
William A. Wright in 1952,
and he preceded her in death
on March 1, 2005.
Janet retired from Twin
City Health Care after 15
years of service and had
previously worked for Owens-Illinois for 30 years.
She was a member of the
Women of the Moose in Gas
City, and she enjoyed solving crossword and word
search puzzles. More than
anything, Janet loved time
spent watching birds, and especially cherished attending
her grandchildrens sporting
events.
Janet is survived by her
children, Michael L. (Lisa)
Rachel Geraldine
(Hardin) Alexander
May 7, 1939 April 8, 2016
Rachel Geraldine (Hardin) Alexander, 76, passed

away on Friday, April 8,
2016 in Marion General
Hospital surrounded by her
family.
Geraldine was born in
Bebee, Arkansas on May 7,
1939 to the late Milburn and
Vadie LaRue Hardin.
Geraldine worked at Lo
Bobs. She loved to work
jigsaw and crossword puzzles.
She loved to surf the internet, where she played many
games. She also was an avid
Colts fan.
Geraldine is survived by
daughters Elaine Phelps,
Chicago, Leona (Danny)
Alexander, Marion, Tracy
Frieszell, Marion, sons William (Carol) Frieszell, Marion, Joe Frieszell, Marion,
bropthers Alton (Sharon)
David A. Goodman: age

68, of Marion, passed away
on Friday, April 8, 2016 in
April 14, 1925 April 9, 2016
Marion General Hospital.
Dorothy
Rose
ter and Paul Catholic Arrangements are pending at
Laughlin, age 90, of
Church with Father Raven-Choate Funeral Home,
Wabash, formerly of
Ron Reider officiat- 1202 Kem Road, Marion, Ind.
ing. Burial will be in

Cedar Grove Cemetery in Notre Dame,
Indiana at a later
date.
Dorothy was born on
April 14, 1925 in South
Bend, the daughter of Martin and Hedwig Hattie
(Kostielny) Koches.
Please sign the online
guestbook at www.bailey
love.com.
Ida M. Logan
Sept. 6, 1924 April 9, 2016
Ida M. Logan, 91,

of North Manchester,
died April 9, 2016 at
Timbercrest Healthcare Center in North
Manchester,Ind. She
was born on Sept. 6,
1924 to parents Charles E.
Kanarr and Hannah (Hill).
Both preceded Logan in
death.
Logan was a homemaker and employed with
Parkview Hospital, Plymouth, Ind., in the Dietary
Department for 10 years,
retiring in 1979.
She married twice, first
to Noble E. Holderead on
Jan. 23, 1945. He died Sept.
3, 1983 and then to Harold
Logan on Oct. 26, 1985. He
died Feb. 14, 1997.
She is survived by son
Jerry (Jeanine) Holderead,
of Marion, Ind., step-sons
Lee (Opal) Logan and Elwood Logan, both of Harod, Ohio, daughter Susan
(Garen) Bushong, of North
Manchester, grandchildren Lisa (James)

Proctor, Marc (Ashley) Holderead, Rachel (Chris) Pyle
and Andy Bushong
and great-grandchild
Lena Holderead.
Funeral will be held Friday
April 15, 2016 at 10 a.m. at
Timbercrest Chapel, 2201
East St., North Manchester
with Pastor Ron Burns officiating. Calling hours are
2:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., Thursday April 14, 2016.
Burial will take place at
Oak Hill Cemetary in Plymouth, Ind.
Send memorials to Timbercrest Senior Living Community, P. O. Box 501, North
Manchester, Ind. 46962 or
American Diabetes Association, 8604 Allisonville Rd.,
Suite 140, Indianapolis, Ind.
46250.
Condolences may be
emailed to mckeemortuary.
com.
Hardin, Marion, Edward

(Nancy) Hardin, Marion,
sisters Imogene (Bill) Hochstedler, Converse, Yolanda
(Mike) Haley, Marion, Peggy Hill, Fla.,18 grandchildren and several great and
great-great grandchildren.
She is preceded in death
by son Martin Phelps, Jr.
Friends may visit on Wed.,
April 13, 2016 at 11a.m.
until time of service in the
Owen-Weilert-Duncan Funeral Home, Marion Chapel, 2722 S. Washington St.,
Marion, Ind.
Funeral will be held at
1p.m., Wed., April 13, 2016
with Pastor Ron Forsythe
officiating.
Burial is at Converse
Cemetery, in Converse, Ind.
be made to owenweilert
duncan@sbcglobal.net.
Pending services
Dorothy Rose Laughlin
Huntington, died at
5:06 a.m. Saturday
(April 9, 2016) at
Wellbrooke of Wabash.
Visitation will be from 9
10 a.m. Wednesday (April
13, 2016) at SS Peter and
Paul Catholic Church, 860
Cherry Street, Huntington,
Ind. Funeral services will
immediately follow at 10
a.m. Wednesday at SS Pe-
Wright, Marion, Mitchell

L. Wright, Marion, Tina L.
(Mike) Havens, Fairmount,
Bill Wright, Jr., Marion, and
Terri L. (Kevin) Nash, Fairmount; grandchildren, Lan,
Kelli, Thomas, Christopher,
Suzanne, Ian, Staci, Mina,
Travis, Dallas, T.J., Alesia,
Amber, and Sheila; 36 greatgrandchildren; several nieces, nephews, and friends; and
her dog, Dach.
In addition to her loving
husband and parents, Janet
was preceded in death by
her great-grandchild, Maggie
Mae Craw, as well as 2 brothers and a sister.
Friends and family may call
from 4-8 p.m. on Tuesday,
April 12, 2016, at NeedhamStorey-Wampner
Funeral
Service, Storey Chapel, 400
E. Main St., Gas City, Ind.
Funeral services will be at
11:30 a.m. on Wednesday,
April 13, 2016, at the funeral
home. Burial will follow at
Riverside Cemetery.
Online condolences may be
made at www.nswcares.com.
Marcia M. Rush: 46 Sweetser, Ind. died Sunday April

10, 2016 at her residence.
Arrangements are pending at
College Park Chapel, ArmesHunt Funeral Home 4601 S.
Western Ave., Marion, Ind.
Cole Porters birthplace in

northern Ind. needs facelift
PERU (AP) Efforts are
underway in the northern Indiana city of Peru to spruce
up the two-story wooden
house where composer Cole
Porter was born in 1891.
A renovation project started in 2004 to transform the
house into a three-room inn
and museum dedicated to
Porters life. It currently attracts about 10 visitors a
month and houses memorabilia from the man who
wrote songs like Anything
Goes and Night and Day.
If youre a fan of Cole
Porter, this is a no brainer.
You want to keep this place
going, said John Kirk, who
has leased the home from
Ole Olsen Memorial Theater
since 2013. If you like Cole
Porter, you want this house
to be here for a long time.
But the houses exterior
needs additional work, especially the peeling 10-yearold coat of yellow paint,
which gives it a shabby appearance, the Kokomo Tribune reported.
The inside looks great.
Its held up nicely since the
renovations, Kirk said. But
JoAnne Creech
July 6, 1948 April 5, 2016
JoAnne Creech, 67, went

to be with her Lord and
Savior surrounded by family and friends at 4:05 p.m.
Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at her
residence.
She was born in Richmond
on July 6, 1948 to Ernest
Leon Faddis and Alice Marie (Evans) Faddis. Both parents precede her in death.
JoAnne will be cremated.
A memorial service will

be at 2 p.m. April 16, 2016
at Webster United Methodist
Church, 3195 Webster Road,
Webster, Ind. 47392.
A memorial visitation will
be from 1 to 2 p.m. Saturday,
April 16, 2016 at Webster
United Methodist Church.
be sent to www.keplinger
funeralhome.com
the outside needs some help.

When you drive by, you
wonder if the rooms look
like what the outside looks
like. Its just not reflective
of what we have going on
inside the walls.
An online fundraising
campaign was launched last
month to raise money for
work on the home.
The first phase seeks to
raise about $12,000 for a
new paint job. The second
phase aims to raise $5,300
to transform the outdoor patio into a dining area and to
install showers in each of the
three guest rooms.
One of Kirks long-term
goals is to turn one of the
homes rooms into a tap parlor where beer brewed by
Kirk Bros. Brewery, which
is run by himself and his
brother, could be served.
He said the tap room
would fit well with the house
because Porters grandfather
owned and operated a brewery in the early 1800s.
Kirk noted that keeping
Cole Porters birthplace
looking nice is mostly about
maintaining one of the citys
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They have more knowledge on TIFs then I would

ever claim to know, Flores
said.
In the past, Umbaugh has
worked with Grant County
government and local school
districts in regards to bonds,
TIF districts and impact
analyses . It has also worked
extensively in the past with
Gas City with its various city
and TIF projects. That familairtywith Umbaugh was the
reason Flores recommended
the company to Alumbaugh
to do the analysis of Marions finances.
They do a pretty good
job, Flores said about Umbaugh.
Umbaugh makes money
helping cities issue TIF
bonds and creating TIF districts and one if its employeesis Matthew Eckerle, son
of Tim Eckerle, executive
director of the Grant County
Economic Growth Council.
PRESCHOOL
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year over the next two school

years, more than doubling
the number of four-year-old
students (185) the districts
Title I and Head Start programs currently serve.
We are going to have
more enrollment slots for
preschool and we have more
families enrolling, Wuertley said. The word is getting out about Little Giants
Preschool in the community,
especially with having additional funding sources and
having options for families
of all income levels.
Wuertley said parents have
been asking her which district their child will go to preschool in and what the start
times will be for school.
Some of those decisions
are in the process of being
made, but we are still in the
middle of the transition process and there are still some
things that need to be decided, she said. Its not a
requirement for children to
go to school in their home
district, but we are encouraging that.
Wuertley said there are
several advantages for parents with preschool being
indifferent schools throughout the district.
Its going to be convenient
for parents who have children at an elementary school
because they can drop off
their children at one school,
she said. Getting families
into the elementary buildings
will also make a smoother
transition from preschool to
kindergarten because those
families will already feel
comfortable with their home
building and they have had a
chance to meet the principal
and teachers.
Wuertly said the start times
for preschool will be offset
slightly to avoid congested
hallways in the morning and
Alumbaugh saidthe analysis

would be truly independent
and without bias.
To assure that, Alumbaugh
said he told Umbaugh he
didnt want Matthew Eckerle
involved in any way withthe
analysis, as well as tellingthat directly to Matthew
Eckerle. As for Umbaughs
involvement in TIFs and
their creation, Alumbaugh
said he was putting his trust
in the company and Flores
recommendation.
Ive been told by Julie
[Flores] and other people
Ive talked to that they are
a high-integrity, straightshooting company, he said.
We were assured they [Umbaugh] would alert us of any
red flags that come up.
Alumbaugh said he hopes
the analysis will prove to be
a positive for the city.
When I, for a short time,
said I wasnt going to have
the third-party audit, I had a
hard time sleeping, he said.
I know I will feel better, and
I think the city will feel better to have this done.
afternoon.
We are Hoping that the
elementary traffic has left by
the time they start so when our
preschoolers come in it wont
be as congested, she said.
We might offset the times
about 10 or 15 minutes.
Kenyette Adkins enrolled
her 3-year-old son into the
Little Giants Preschool program Monday and said she
is looking forward to having
more free time at home and
more availability to work.
I am ready to get him into
school so I can have more
time to work and have more
free time while Im at home,
Adkins said. He has been
excited and keeps telling me
he wants to go to school.
Adkins said her son is good
with the alphabet, but she is
looking forward to him getting help with his numbers
while in preschool.
Wuertley said the enrollment process generally takes
about 10 to 15 minutes.
To apply for enrollment,
families should bring verification of income, such as a
1040 tax form, unemployment verification, proof of
residence, childs birth certificate, childs immunization
records, childs Medicaid or
private insurance card and
the childs social security
card or number.
Applications will be taken at
elementary buildings from
7:10 a.m. - 9 a.m. and from 2
p.m. - 3:15 p.m. this week.
Today, applications will be
taken at Riverview Elementary, on Wednesday applications will be taken at Allen
Elementary and on Thursday, applications will be
taken at Kendall Elementary.
After this week, applications for enrollment or waiting list placement will be
taken by appointment only
on an individual basis. For
more information, please
contact the Little Giants office at 765-651-2080.
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ATHLETE OF THE YEAR

Chronicle-Tribune names its Athlete of the Year.

Marion debt at $173 million

The city of Marion now

Bend, Fishers, Plainfield,

Most of Marions debt

Marion TIF debt

The city of Marion has

Sand sculptors raise funds for CASA

From staff reports

See TIF / Page A8

crement Financing (TIF)

Photos by Tyler Juranovich / tjuranovich@chronicle-tribune.com

Community organizations sent their finest sand

County amateur tradition continues

A Grant County golfing

The Marion High School

Changes made to 84-year-old golf event

ened from 72 to 36 holes, and

Sunday, July 12, 2015

owns 12 of them, according

How a TIF works:

which means the property

chronicle-tribune, marion, ind.

Common Council last July.

diana says the bondholders

was created is now gone,

fund government services.

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FINAL DAY OF CAMP

Good numbers turn out for tennis at Indiana Wesleyan.

Serving Grant County since 1867.

TIF revenue use questioned

A State of Indiana audit

they are using Tax Increment

Marion disbursed $47,111

Along with the $47,111

Fans remember James Dean

When Bert Bretherton

in the evening is the James

Indiana Michigan Power,

fan weekend is a precursor

Formerly Marion Tire

FREE Brake inspection, Tire Rotation.

See SOLAR / Page A6

TYLER JURANOVICH / tjuranovich@chroncile-tribune.com

SOLAR ENERGY: Mayor Wayne Seybold, Inovateus Solar

I&M breaks ground on solar facility

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