{"id":2890,"date":"2009-02-06T17:58:55","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T22:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/?p=2890"},"modified":"2009-02-06T17:58:55","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T22:58:55","slug":"wayne-township-bloated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/2009\/02\/06\/wayne-township-bloated\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Township bloated?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an Op-Ed piece in today&#8217;s <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"https:\/\/www.journalgazette.net\/article\/20090206\/EDIT05\/302069998\/-1\/EDIT01\">Journal Gazette<\/span> as written by\u00c2\u00a0Marilyn Moran-Townsend who\u00c2\u00a0is the chief operating officer of CVC Communications and co-chair of the Local Government Efficiency Study Committee.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[&#8230;] Nowhere is the need to overhaul poor relief more evident than in Wayne Township, where the trustee&#8217;s office distributed more than $1.8 million in emergency assistance in 2007 but spent more than $3.6 million to administer it. That means that $2 was spent on overhead for every $1 distributed in poor relief. That&#8217;s unconscionable.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Subjective decisions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s also unconscionable is the lack of fairness in the current form of poor relief. First, the decisions about who gets relief are subjective, varying from township to township.<\/p>\n<p>Second, the very Wayne Township residents to whom Stevenson refers &#8211; the 17 percent who live below the poverty line and their neighbors &#8211; are bearing a relatively higher tax burden to pay for poor relief than residents of most neighboring townships.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]\u00c2\u00a0The truth is that township government, with its 4,000 elected trustees and board members in Indiana, has outlived its usefulness.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]\u00c2\u00a0The boundaries for Indiana&#8217;s 1,008 townships were laid out in the 1790s, a quarter-century before Indiana became a state. They were drawn to accommodate the technology and culture of that time.<\/p>\n<p>More than 200 years later, it&#8217;s long past time to recognize that our world has changed and so have the needs of our citizens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3><div class=\"ngg-related-gallery\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/fort-wayne-city-council-1\/147462.jpg\"\n\t\t\ttitle=\"Wayne Township Trustee Rick Stevenson during the State of the 6th District event on March 19, 2011.\"\n\t\t\tclass='thickbox' rel='672769dc2921a20976aecb0c66a91746' data-image-id=\"10512\" data-src=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/fort-wayne-city-council-1\/147462.jpg\" data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/fort-wayne-city-council-1\/thumbs\/thumbs_147462.jpg\" data-title=\"2011\/03\/19: State of the 6th: Rick Stevenson\" data-description=\"Wayne Township Trustee Rick Stevenson during the State of the 6th District event on March 19, 2011.\">\n\t\t\t<img title=\"2011\/03\/19: State of the 6th: Rick Stevenson\"\n\t\t\t\talt=\"2011\/03\/19: State of the 6th: Rick Stevenson\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-image-id=\"10512\"\n\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/fort-wayne-city-council-1\/thumbs\/thumbs_147462.jpg\"\/>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an Op-Ed piece in today&#8217;s Journal Gazette as written by\u00c2\u00a0Marilyn Moran-Townsend who\u00c2\u00a0is the chief operating officer of CVC Communications and co-chair of the Local Government Efficiency Study Committee.\u00c2\u00a0 [&#8230;] Nowhere is the need to overhaul poor relief more evident than in Wayne Township, where the trustee&#8217;s office distributed more than $1.8 million in emergency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[904,1000],"class_list":["post-2890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-indiana-commission-on-local-government-reform","tag-wayne-township-trustee"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wayne Township bloated? 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