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Public commenters urge accounting of protest costs; council member questions county legal payouts
Summary
During public comment, resident Frank Hannon presented itemized protest-related costs to the county and urged budgeting for those expenses; County Council member John Basham said the county paid about $323,000 to defend a lost lawsuit and urged review of who bears legal-defense costs.
Several members of the public used the council's public-comment period to press the county on expense transparency.
Frank Hannon of West Lafayette and Wabash Township thanked law-enforcement and urged the council to track both direct and indirect costs of protests, providing itemized figures: he said the direct cost of a protest on April 14 last year was…
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