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Votes at a glance: La Porte County Council approves engineer pay, park truck spending and several appropriations
Summary
At its April 27 meeting the La Porte County Council approved raising the advertised county engineer salary to $108,000, authorized spending and additional appropriations for a parks truck, approved payment for emergency courthouse heating and other personnel/pay-schedule corrections.
The La Porte County Council took a series of budgetary and personnel votes on April 27, approving an advertised salary increase for the county engineer, multiple appropriations for equipment and maintenance, and corrections to probation pay scales.
Key votes and outcomes
- County engineer salary: Council approved advertising the open county engineer position at $108,000 to attract candidates with Professional Engineer licensure and to enable the county to seek a $40,000 state stipend if a qualified PE is hired. Council members said existing appropriations within the account can cover the remainder of the year; the salary-ordinance amendment will be handled in a future meeting.
- Parks truck: Council approved spending $30,000 from a parks nonreverting/donation account toward a truck and approved an additional appropriation of $34,004.55 for the truck, choosing Local Income Tax (LIT) economic development as the funding source.
- Larson Danielson invoice and change order: Council approved payment of $23,468.90 to Larson Danielson for temporary courthouse heating equipment rental (CCD account) and authorized a $33,666.38 change order for the courthouse bathroom project.
- Probation salary corrections and appropriations: Council approved corrections to the salary ordinance for adult probation officers (funded by grant money) and additional appropriations for juvenile probation from the general fund; recorded roll-call votes indicated passage where stated on the record.
- Clerk hiring permission and court clerical reclassification: County Clerk Heather Stevens received permission to begin recruitment for a deputy clerk; the council also approved reclassifying a court clerical position (Comet 4 to Comet 5) following a job-evaluation committee review.
What this means: Collectively these votes adjust staffing pay scales, authorize near-term vehicle and maintenance spending, and allocate funding sources (including grant, CCD and LIT funds) for county operations. Several items will be reflected in forthcoming salary-ordinance amendments and appropriation paperwork; council staff indicated they will prepare the necessary forms.
Source: Actions and roll-call votes recorded in the La Porte County Council transcript of the April 27, 2026 meeting.
