Allen County Assessor and Auditor's Second Chance to try and fool the Indiana Department of Local Government Finance

Is this the same as busy work? If I just send Musgrave something over there at the Indiana Department of Local Government Finance, Allen County just might get a DO PASS. Instead they have received this loving letter

Thank you for your hard work over the last month regarding compliance with the Department of Local Government Finance’s (“Department”) July 20, 2007, letter. I particularly want to thank Stacey O'Day, County Assessor and/or Lisbeth A. Blosser, County Auditor for Allen County’s recent submission of a full, but noncompliant, data submission to the Department in response to this letter.

These officials should be commended on their hard work.


While I appreciate the efforts of all of the Allen County officials who are working towards achieving data compliance, the recent submission does not bring Allen County into full compliance regarding the datasets requested in the July 20, 2007, letter.

The datasets mentioned in that letter that are still noncompliant include: DATA SET


OFFICIAL RESPONSIBLE ORIGINAL DUE DATEPay 2007 Auditor County Auditor March 1, 2007 2006 Sales County Assessor March 1, 2007

I am requesting that Allen County achieve compliance with the datasets mentioned above by October 15, 2007.


Due to the significance of these datasets, the Department will neither review nor approve any unit’s 2007 or 2008 budget or pending debt issues in Allen County until compliance is achieved.

Also, if Allen County has not submitted compliant data for the datasets mentioned above by October 15, the Department may withhold Allen County’s PTRC distributions until the datasets are compliant. Once these top-priority datasets are compliant, the Department will release Allen County’s 2007 budget order, if held, and continue processing the pending 2007 debt issues.


In addition, the Department will release Allen County’s PTRC distributions, subject to the provisions below regarding 2008 PTRC distributions.

No surprise on Allen County noncompliance, when someone is looking over their shoulders. What gets me is why isn't IDLGF not issuing a resolution to the Governor for an order to reassess property in Allen County? Is IDLGF going to sue the county assessor and auditor as promised in the July 20 letter?


Hey the IDLGF is going back to 2002-2003, this should get ugly.