Please see the link for details on the Bass Lake Beach and Campground Inspection.

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It’s that time of year again Real Estate Taxes Are due May 10!!

******Bills mailed 4/19**********

• The option for e-notices is now going to be an option with your bill.

• Please bring your statements with you for faster service.
• If you have not received your bill by please come into the office and see if it has been returned. Please if you have an address change please come in and change it.
• If you have questions about your assessed value please call the Assessor’s office (574) 772-9107
• If you have questions regarding your age exemption, disability exemption, veterans exemption, homestead exemption, or mortgage exemption please contact the Auditor’s office (574) 772-9101.
• Remember Personal property forms are due to the Assessor’s office May 15! (Business owners and Farmers)

TAX PAYMENT DROP OFF LOCATIONS: Bank of Monterey– North Judson and Monterey Locations, 1^st Farmers Bank North Judson & Knox, Demotte St Bank-Knox,    1^st Source Bank-Knox and there is also a drop box outside the Treasurer’s office in Knox

Payments can be dropped off there with a self-addressed stamped envelope so a Receipt can be sent.

Also payments can still be mailed to our 1^st Source Bank in South Bend for processing also.

If any question please call our office (574) 772-9111 push 3.

Click on the link below to pay your taxes online or call this toll free number to pay over the phone. 1-877-690-3729 – Jurisdiction Code 2445

Payment Arrangement Policy

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Starke County Justice Center has opened the first non-prison Therapeutic Community in Indiana.

“Everyone deserves a second chance, as individuals we undoubtedly will make mistakes” Sheriff Bill Dulin stated in his opening remarks. Watch the full video on our home page.

What is CASA?

CASA of Starke County is a non-profit organization committed to speaking in the best interest of children who are at risk for abuse and neglect. CASA recruits, trains, and supports volunteers to serve at-risk children in the family court system.

Check out their new page here.

Please take a look around and let us know how we did! Keep in mind with every new deployment there are “bugs” to work out and would greatly appreciate your feedback. Keep coming back for new content and features.

The Starke County Sheriff’s Office can keep a better budgetary handle on overtime for sheriff’s deputies, investigators and correctional officers thanks to action this week by the county commissioners. They adopted an ordinance to modify their pay periods for the purpose of overtime to 48 hours instead of 40. County attorney Marty Lucas says federal law provides a partial overtime exemption for uniformed, plainclothes and corrections officers because of the way their hours are typically structured.

They work four, 12-hour days and are off for another 12 hours, which means overtime during one 14-day pay period, followed by another that is significantly less than that threshold. Lucas says federal law allows employees to work up to 171 hours prior to incurring overtime during an aggregate 28 day period.

The policy also specifies how time is paid out. Instead of paying time-and-a-half wages, they will earn 1.5 hours of compensatory time for each extra hour worked. Sheriff’s office employees will be able to take it when they earn a full comp day and give adequate notice to the sheriff.

The policy also allows the sheriff to set blackout dates for comp time based on scheduled vacations.

Lucas adds the change will not remove overtime, but will reduce it significantly. By paying it in comp time instead it will also allow the sheriff to better control his budget.

The new policy will take effect with the May 15 pay period after receiving unanimous approval from the Starke County Commissioners.

The Starke County Commissioners will review the final draft of plans for renovations at the old jail and courthouse when they meet tonight. The architect and contractor who designed and built the new jail east of Knox are on the agenda to provide details. The former jail will become office space for Starke County Community Corrections, the probation department and Purdue Extension, according to discussion at previous meetings. The prosecutor’s office will move into the courthouse, and the clerk’s office space will be reconfigured.

Other items on tonight’s commissioner agenda include an update from Veteran’s Service Officer Mark Gourley about Memorial Day flags and grave markers for cemeteries throughout the county, discussion with Sheriff Bill Dulin about comp time versus overtime and Highway Superintendent Rik Ritzler for final approval of the county road inventory.

Ritzler is also on the council’s agenda, along with Starke County Economic Development Foundation Executive Director Charlie Weaver. They will be discussing truck routes in Knox and North Judson prior to submitting information to the various companies that offer GPS mapping services and whether the intersection of County Road 300 East and Toto Road should be included in the route at this time. The council will also consider lowering the mileage reimbursement rate for Starke County employees from .40 to .36.