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Resident questions appraisal fees for police training property, flags two large vendor claims
Summary
During public comment Ken Kingshill asked about two appraisal invoices to Integra Realty Resources tied to police training grounds and highlighted large claims to Taft and Pearson Ford in the town’s claims list.
At the June 11 Town of Whitestown meeting, resident Ken Kingshill asked for clarification about two payments to Integra Realty Resources that he believed were appraisals for property being considered for police training grounds.
Kingshill said the claims list showed two Integra payments — $3,200 and $2,200 — and asked why the amounts differed. Sri, identified in the meeting as the town engineer, explained the larger fee covered a roughly 30- to 40-acre parcel and the smaller fee covered an additional 5-acre piece the owner later offered to sell. “So that is a smaller amount. So this was two different appraisals for two parts of the parcel,” Sri said.
Kingshill also drew the council’s attention to a May claims list entry for Taft totaling $103,204.05 and a claim to Pearson Ford listed as $5,053,779.25. He asked that those payments be “highlighted on the record.” The transcript records the resident’s questions; council staff provided the appraisal explanation but did not provide additional detail about the two large claims during the meeting.
No formal action followed from these questions; the items were raised during the consent-agenda discussion and flagged for record.
