With its small size, Wabash Township spends more per person than any of the 1,005 township offices in the state of Indiana.ĭorothy Jaquemai is the trustee in charge of it all. It’s sparsely populated with fewer than 36 homes and a pair of river camps along the White River. Wabash Township is in southwestern Gibson County.
Part 3: Township runs taxpayer-funded sports parkĭatabase: How all Indiana townships spent their money last year ‘THERE’S NO ONE ELSE’ Part 2: Townships ready to pay your Vectren bill State law creates an environment in which trustees and their relatives in low-population townships have free reign in the office.Ī Courier & Press investigation found that more than half of the 38 townships in Vanderburgh, Warrick, Posey and Gibson counties employ relatives, award contracts to relatives or have a trustee’s relative on the advisory board that oversees the office. Township government has more offices and elected officials than any other form of government in Indiana.
What kind of job doesn’t have any competition to apply, lets a person keep their brother employed, gives their husband (who helps approve the budget) a mowing contract, gets paid to use their house as a seldom-used office and have part of their phone paid for? And, oh yeah, it’s all on the taxpayer’s dime? Watch Video: Indiana township trustees allowed to use homes as offices
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