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LaPorte County Council adopts modified 2026 budget, reverts many line items to 2025 levels
Summary
LaPorte County Council on Oct. 27 voted to adopt a modified 2026 budget that reverts many departmental spending lines to their 2025 amounts while allowing contractual increases and leaving the advertised 2026 levy in place; the motion passed 4'2.
LaPorte County Council on Oct. 27 voted to adopt a modified 2026 budget that reverts many line items to the 2025 levels while allowing contractual increases and keeping certain 100-series payroll withholdings at the updated levels. The motion passed 4'2 on a roll call vote and the auditor's office was directed to prepare a revised, line'by'line budget for submission to the state.
The council's action came after more than an hour of debate about revenue assumptions, rising personnel and insurance costs and the previously proposed EMS local income tax (LIT), which had been removed from the agenda earlier in the meeting. "Simply put, it's not sustainable," Councilman Justin Kiel said about the county's current fiscal…
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